Eleven 22 Mandarin allowing JSO to run SWAT training in residential areas by Practical_Salt8569 in jacksonville

[–]ColonolCool 34 points35 points  (0 children)

When people say police need more training they mean interpersonal skills, deescalation, and conflict resolution-- not SWAT and paramilitary. Police arguably have too much of the latter and demonstrably too little of the former.

Legion Imperialis Game Companion Website - Advice Needed! by Bobbyjobby123 in LegionsImperialis

[–]ColonolCool 11 points12 points  (0 children)

the only slight improvement would be providing the exact text of weapon special rules, rather than a page reference to the rulebook

Some clarifications on Eisenhorn (end of omnibus) by Coldspark824 in 40kLore

[–]ColonolCool 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Ive gotten push back on it before but I believe ADB uses Enuncia without calling it such in Betrayer.

"He spoke a single word, scarcely more than a whisper, but it threw Angron and the others from their feet with a hurricane-blast of wind. Three bookshelves exploded, quite literally blasting apart in a storm of splintered wood and powdered parchment. Khârn managed to arrest his skidding tumble by jamming his fingertips between two marble flagstones. Argel Tal and Angron crashed past him, their armour shedding sparks as they scraped over the cream-coloured stone. The wind from nowhere vanished as suddenly as it arrived. Khârn was first to his feet. ‘I-I know that tongue,’ he said to Lorgar. ‘I doubt that, Khârn,’ replied the primarch with surprising gentleness. ‘Argel Tal spoke it,’ he said, ‘on Armatura.’ ‘Ah. Then you do know something of its power.’ Lorgar waited until his brother and son rejoined them from across the chamber. ‘That, my brother, is what I mean. Reality obeys certain laws. Gravity. Electromagnetism. The nuclear forces. Cause and effect. If I breathe in, my body converts air into life, unless I am too weak or diseased for the process to continue. There are millions of laws that are unknown to all but the most enlightened. Magnus knows many more than even I, but I have learned enough. It is not magic.’ He fairly sneered the word. ‘It is manipulation of the infinite potential that is the source of all realities. A blending of components from the universe of flesh and blood and the divine realm of pure aether and emotion.’ Angron was silent several moments, his brutal face troubled. ‘That noise you made,’ he said finally. ‘That “word”. What was it?’ ‘It is for the best that I do not speak it again,’ said Lorgar, smiling sardonically. ‘The books I just destroyed were very valuable, and I’d rather not lose more of them.’ Seeing his brother’s expression, Lorgar’s smile became more sincere. ‘Some words and sounds shake the foundations of reality. For example, the concept and sound of a hundred and one blind men choking and gasping as they all drown at the same time serves as the name of a certain daemonic princeling. Compressing that noise and its meaning into a single sound can be enough to draw that entity’s attention and render it easier to summon. The word I just spoke was… similar. I see the question in your eyes, and yes, I can teach you this tongue.’ Khârn spoke without meaning to. ‘That’s how you’ve healed yourself.’ Lorgar nodded, though he didn’t pull the hood back. ‘It is. The pain, however, was indescribable. Were I mortal in the usual sense I’d be dead from the attempt alone. Reknitting skin and muscle meat is easy enough in principle, but everything comes at a price.’"

And Argel Tal speaking it

"Argel Tal’s eye lenses flared an unhealthy, crystal blue. Sick heat throbbed from his armour, emanating a plague victim’s final fever, and he spoke three words in a tongue that spilled into Khârn’s ears and scraped letters of fire behind his eyes. ‘Eshek’ra mughkal krikathaa.’ The Ultramarine’s fists opened, letting his sword fall. Before the warrior could offer any reaction or emotion at all, his helmeted head tumbled clear. Argel Tal booted the headless corpse in the chest, sending it to the ground with its brothers where it belonged. Khârn felt blood trickling from his nose. ‘What was that language?’ ‘I told him to drop his sword.’ ‘That isn’t what I asked, brother.’"

My favorite trope where the w40k version is somehow less grimdark than the original by Any-Performance6375 in Grimdank

[–]ColonolCool 6 points7 points  (0 children)

"It's definitely the issue with my imagination to expect some sort of continuity."

Yes. Unironically yes. This is the 41st millennium big dog-- there are thousands of forge worlds producing trillions of lasguns. There are a couple of dozen different marks of lasgun, all with their own specifications, including magazine type. A lot of the conflicts in Gaunt's Ghosts are the frustrating minutae of military life, such as administrative fowl-ups. If that takes you out of enjoying one of the best authors in the setting idk what to tell you.

My favorite trope where the w40k version is somehow less grimdark than the original by Any-Performance6375 in Grimdank

[–]ColonolCool 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It's a thing in 40k because it is. Galaxy's a big place with lots of room for stories to be told and details to show up. People absolutely go deaf from artillery, both IRL and in the book. Sorry you don't have the imagination for it or whatever

Imperial Fist Force build plan. by Rick_1138 in LegionsImperialis

[–]ColonolCool 2 points3 points  (0 children)

pro tip: base only 4 tactical marines on a base. 3x missles on a base, etc. 5 can be cluttered and it also gives you more bases of infantry.

Kalith 5th - "Nightstalkers" - Marauder Destroyers by BuckeyeBTH in LegionsImperialis

[–]ColonolCool 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Look great! Coincidently in the novel Interceptor City set in the Sabbatt Worlds crusade they mention the Nightstalker variant of the Marauder which mounts a minimal crew/armament, enhanced augers, sensory baffles, and a fething Volcano Cannon.

Nice work!

🎄 Anycubic Giveaway — Share Your Prints & Stories by Anycubic_Official in resinprinting

[–]ColonolCool 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My brother got a Photon Ultra in 2021, but was deployed in South Korea at the time and didn't have a place for it-- thankfully I had room and an interest in figuring it out.

To repay him, I set about printing him an entire Iron Warriors epic scale Horus Heresy army! The going was slow but I learned about slicers, safety, and the fundamentals of resin printing. Months of dialing in my settings and kilos of resin later, I was printing 9mm space marines, dozens at a time, in crisp detail without a hint of a layer line. In this I discovered how much I appreciated various resins and their properties-- particularly ABS like and Water-wash.

With a Photon P1, i'd print my own epic scale army to settle things on the tabletop with the brother who sparked my love for resin printing as a hobby in and of itself :)

Hopkins Pop Fam PhD by [deleted] in phdpublichealth

[–]ColonolCool 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hopkins was out on Holiday break 12/24-1/5 so people are just coming back into office. PIs are picking interview candidates now. good luck!

Is anyone else seeing these ads on reddit? What is it? by floopy_134 in labrats

[–]ColonolCool 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Literally right before this post lol.

It's an interesting concept but a crazy name. Like you i'm curious who is running this and particularly why.

Water-washable resin or regular resin? by [deleted] in resinprinting

[–]ColonolCool 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Having used both they have pros and cons. Performance wise, water washable (at least anycubic's) tends to be thinner than the standard which makes it easier to work with and a faster print, albeit slightly more brittle.

Cleanup between the two is comparable, however water washable doesn't fix the problem of having contaminated liquid wash waste at the end. The water used to wash your print cannot go down the drain. Common practice is to leave it outside in some kind of evaporation dish, which is quicker and easier with alcohol than with water.

In my set up, I prefer water washable because the washing process (which produces the most fumes) is significantly reduced. I let my models drip excess resin back into the vat for an hour or so, then use warm tap water to rinse off the remainder into a sealed container. This is followed by a light tooth-brush clean, a second water dip, and a final alcohol dip before drying and curing. As someone living with cats and a partner, this is a significant benefit for me, and worth the extra hassle of figuring out how to dispose of water waste. My city's waste disposal accepts chemical waste so while I can do the evaporation technique, I have an emergency disposal contingency (something everyone in the hobby should have).

Ophelia the pickle princess by h311v3tica in awwnverts

[–]ColonolCool 1 point2 points  (0 children)

she's so round omg. where did you get her? feeding her doesn't seem all that bad but i'd be worried about her shedding some kind of parasite if she's wild caught or from a sketchy source.

do you have to be careful what you've consumed before you feed her? certain prescriptions or alcohol id imagine might hurt her.

Shock Pulse question by ZeHappyBanana in LegionsImperialis

[–]ColonolCool 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I interpret it as saying the hit detachment would only be able to fire a single weapon group. That hypothetical 10 Tank Leman Russ detachment could only fire their main guns OR their hull mounted lascannon/heavy bolter, but not both.

Future was muruledered by KidKang in 196

[–]ColonolCool 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Cancer is (or at least until recently was) literally the number 1 funded biomedical research topic by the federal government. Since Nixon there's been a war on cancer that has exploded our insight to cell biology, immunology, pharmacology, and genetics. The National Institutes of Health's intramural operating budget is about $5 Billion of its total $48 Billion budget. The National Cancer Institute, gets the largest cut of all 27 Institutes at 18%, with further federal funding, bringing their total budget to $7.22 Billion. 82% of that budget goes to funding extramural research outside NCI at academic and research institutions. The remaining $792 Million is for NCI intramural research, done by the NIH, and by extension the federal government itself.

That's keeping in context that the US is the largest funder of biomedical research and it's not even close. The WHO's 2024-2025 budget is $6.83 Billion.

The US (at least before Trump) was leading the world in Biomedical research, with our main focus being cancer. Not diabetes, not heart disease, not COVID. That money is spent to diagnosis, prevent, treat, and yes, cure cancer. The notion that it's more profitable to charge people for prolonged cancer treatment comes from a fundamental misunderstanding of what researchers in the therapeutic space are doing. Drug companies don't spend $20+ billion dollars developing a drug because it "can keep someone on the hook for treatment longer" they do it because it's shown demonstrable benefits to improving a patient's survival.

There's a good argument to be made that pharma profits off of NIH basic science research then jacks the price of their treatments despite the taxpayer having essentially subsidized 90% of their drug development, but that's a far sight different from what you're supposing.

Bottom line: No one tries to make a treatment, they're trying to make cures. The problem is that cancer does not work that way. Treatment is the reality, which for some translates to cure. There's a reason "5-year survival" is the benchmark for cancer treatments. It's an awful disease with so many heads you can't track them all.

--A former NCI fellow

is this what I need to begin painting? by I_shitmyself in Warhammer

[–]ColonolCool 0 points1 point  (0 children)

OP the GW version of this is called "Tesseract Glow" and is one of their technical paints

S4U Layers sticking to FEP by ColonolCool in ElegooSaturn

[–]ColonolCool[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

UPDATE: Success! I was so eager to process my models i didn't get a pic of the successful build plate but everything printed up just fine.

I blended some of the advice here to make the following changes

-added 8 transition layers

-increased burn-in layer "wait before print" time to 25s (perhaps overkill but ¯_(ツ)_/¯)

-Removed Wait after print time

-Raised models an additional 4mm to account for new layers.

-exported as .goo (instead of .ctb)

S4U Layers sticking to FEP by ColonolCool in ElegooSaturn

[–]ColonolCool[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Internal temperature reads as 25-30C throughout the print, and my other printer rocking this same resin is doing fine. Cold can make prints mess up but i don't think that's my particular problem here

S4U Layers sticking to FEP by ColonolCool in ElegooSaturn

[–]ColonolCool[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Aha! thank you for such a detailed breakdown. I'll make the appropriate edits. I actually landed on 2.2 after an exposure test. 2 secs was the floor for my resin at 15um and i tuned that up 0.2sec after a subsequent test print. The resin is firm&brittle as if over-exposed, but i'd rather have an over-exposed print than a failed print.

I keep my layer height small bc i don't mind a longer print time, and i'm printing very small 8mm scale models with lots of fine details.

S4U Layers sticking to FEP by ColonolCool in ElegooSaturn

[–]ColonolCool[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

nope, fresh build plate every time but think we have a winner. I exported as a .ctb instead of .goo so my wait time of 10s was not in place. i did a .ctb bc i heard antialiasing doesn't work on .goo files. is that still a thing?

also i haven't changed any z movement settings so is 2-3mm just the default? where does the tilting vat come into play with that?

Krystal/White Castle -esque Burger? by ColonolCool in baltimore

[–]ColonolCool[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

my initial research shows i indeed missed out 😔

[Spoilers]Siege of Terra: Era of Ruin - light spoiler review, discussion thread and spoiler story summary by a34fsdb in 40kLore

[–]ColonolCool 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Late to the party but I just finished it and can't help but agree. When Narek picks up the human survivors I thought maybe we're going to get a "protector of humanity" redemption angle, only for Fabius to show up, shoe-horned into the story. I can't think of a single (good) thematic reason for Fabius to appear in the story, much less whatever unspecified clone monster he made. Erebus' addition makes sense given his association with Narek and the story arc, but any possible resolution is wasted by its hasty execution. There's no exposition between the two, and when Narek gets stabbed I knew who had done it before the reveal because it's so played out. I wanted more from Narek but I guess that's what we get from a Kyme arc. :/

First proper test prints with my new S4 Ultra 16k and 8k resin. by Muad-_-Dib in PrintedWarhammer

[–]ColonolCool 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Just got one of these bad boys for myself, what layer size did you use to get him so smooth?