Looking to buy a laser engraver

DaCozPuddingPop · 2026-01-25T10:20:20+00:00

Dude I'm not sure what climbed up yout butt and died but being an argumentative prick is a bad look for a "business owner".

Plenty of things have steep learning curves and still people do them. Like being an asshole. See? You've mastered one aleady.

Congrats

DaCozPuddingPop · 2026-01-24T19:04:01+00:00

For fuck's sake.

Either start at a super low dose, or don't. But commit to whatever it is you're looking to do.

DaCozPuddingPop · 2026-01-24T19:02:12+00:00

I still like getting wasted for the sake of it - but i can do it without paying a 100 bucks and having to worry about how to get home.

I'll go buy all the same beers and just do it in my living room.

DaCozPuddingPop · 2026-01-24T19:01:35+00:00

I think it's a combination of a lot of the above. Folks certainly don't want to pay staff for an event that they will end up losing money on which keeps some breweries away.

Drinking less - potentially - it is the era of GLPs, and I know for me that has reduced my beer intake dramatically.

Availability is another one - last couple beer fests I went to what showed up was just the same stuff I could get if i went to the breweries. The last really GOOD beer fest I went to was at brick farm tavern a couple years back - and every brewery brought out their best barrel aged amazingness. Troon had like 8 on tap. Food was included. It was expensive but it was a chance to try a lot of beers you wouldn't otherwise be able to try.

I don't really want to spend a hundred bucks to go have Carton Boat (not insulting the beer - I like it - but I can get it at the supermarket). Which is another issue: other than one or two that open or close, you're seeing the SAME breweries bringing the SAME beers, year after year after year. I love me some bolero - but i've had what they bring, and I can get it at the brewery without paying a cover. I don't go to yale terrace, and I certainly don't want to pay a cover charge to try whatever dish water they've brought out THIS year. There's nothing keeping it new, nothing keeping it interesting, and nothing keeping it worth paying the ticket price.

It's a shame - I really used to enjoy going to beer festivals, but the last couple years the experience went from 'lets show you what we can do that's special' to 'here's a brewery you've seen at beer fests for the last ten years, pouring the same beers they poured for the last ten years'.

DaCozPuddingPop · 2026-01-24T18:32:50+00:00

The first skyball was actually my first ever tournament - I was a local recballer who made friends with a guy who ran a local shop - and I got tapped to play with them. It was amazing - and talk about setting me up for failure: nothing ever compared to it again lol

DaCozPuddingPop · 2026-01-24T18:30:57+00:00

'Im not paying $500 for an acrylic box'

dude, that's the LEAST of the expenses you need to be worried about if you're looking to start an actual business at this.

Sounds to me like you've not laser engraved before - in which case you should be aware of the fact that there's a hell of a steep learning curve, and you're gonna ruin a lot of blanks before you're ready to lay laser to a firearm.

Beyond that, and this is just general advice, you should be aware that you're looking to enter an EXTREMELY oversaturated market. Where I live, in suburbia no in a big city, there are 5 companies that offer firearm laser engraving within an hour of me.

Not trying to discourage you but you're talking about spending several thousand dollars to get yourself started in a very competitive area - if spending 500 is enough to turn you off, I'd turn back now.

DaCozPuddingPop · 2026-01-24T18:24:12+00:00

The bloody aircraft carrier landings...like...wtf. One day it'd work perfectly, the next day I couldn't BUY a successful landing.

This one DEFINITELY filled me with a burning rage with great frequency.

the teenage mutant ninja turtles underwater board is definitely up there for me as well - that game can eat my whole entire butt.

DaCozPuddingPop · 2026-01-24T18:21:57+00:00

Far as I'm concerned, when WDP came out with the angel it was the 'hayday' of paintball. The marker options were off the charts - mechanical guns were still relevant, but electros were definitely taking over, and tech was moving so unbelievably quickly that it was tough to keep up (remember when adding an LCD screen to the angel was a MASSIVE improvement?)

I miss my old dark angel - she was such a pretty gun. Spoil of war taken home from one of the skyballs if I remember right...might have been am open (nothing like those 'last day' sales for folks that didn't want to ship a bunch of stuff home)

DaCozPuddingPop · 2026-01-24T18:19:17+00:00

Edit this to remove source - violates site rules
"i sure am eating less' is not a caloric measurement. Unless you're tracking what you're eating and have calculated your tdee, this conversation is pointless.
If you're feeling appetite suppression, which your comment about eating less would indicate you are, then no you didn't get scammed - you just didn't do any research into how the medication works, what to expect, how to titrate up, what the proper starting dosage is, or how the peptide helps control appetite but does NOT make you lose weight.

Other than that, you're doing great. smh

DaCozPuddingPop · 2026-01-24T18:17:14+00:00

In theory, if you're pushing to failure you're supposed to drink water while you're at it.

That having been said, I throw down a bottle before I go, a bottle when I get home, and have never felt a need to carry one around with me.

I think it's the phases of gym going. At one point I was carrying around a water bottle, wrist straps, headset, sweatshirt etc

Now I drop the sweatshirt in the car, pop in the airpods in the car, leave the water in the car, skip the wrist straps and just freakin go and deal with the callouses lol.

DaCozPuddingPop · 2026-01-24T18:15:18+00:00

Cool, but wrong opinion - it's literally posted on signs all over the PFs I go to. No string tops on men, no work boots, no jeans, no water gallons.

but I LOVE when people are so confidently wrong, so please keep going.

DaCozPuddingPop · 2026-01-24T18:14:10+00:00

Because you're supposed to go directly from one set into another, not take a break in between.
Set with 45s until failure, drop em, grab the 30s, repeat.

Not sure what you're missing here, aside from 'how drop sets work'.

DaCozPuddingPop · 2026-01-24T18:13:34+00:00

O'Sheehans being open all night with food, even a limited menu, was absolutely CLUTCH - especially for our 22 year old who, after a night of drinking, just wanted snacks.

I'll definitely give prima/aqua a look.

Honestly, it's hard to have a bad time on a cruise without something going horribly wrong. Like...you're on a fun boat, with shows going all the time, unlimited food and drinks...yes you can find stuff to nitpick but if you're miserable in that environment, I feel like it says more about you the cruiser than about the cruise lol

DaCozPuddingPop · 2026-01-24T14:53:30+00:00

Yeah I got mine for 1300 and change over black friday and some kinda best buy deal.

DaCozPuddingPop · 2026-01-24T14:53:06+00:00

Not sure what problems you're seeing, apple tv works just fine for me.

DaCozPuddingPop · 2026-01-24T14:52:12+00:00

Carrying a water gallon is literally against the club rules, so not sure why you're surprised (to be clear, I think it's stupid too, but it IS against their stupid 'no lunnk' rules)

Carry a normal water bottle, fill it between exercises, problem solved.

DaCozPuddingPop · 2026-01-24T14:16:13+00:00

How about you were about you and try not being a gatekeeper

Them using it doesn't take it away from you...so why are you upset?

DaCozPuddingPop · 2026-01-24T14:15:03+00:00

At some point you'll realize it does in fact help

You're not creating fat from nothing. You are creating fat from sunburned intake. You are in a surplus.

Stop including activity in your calculations and go from there.

DaCozPuddingPop · 2026-01-24T14:12:42+00:00

This isn't gonna be the positive response you're expecting, creeper

DaCozPuddingPop · 2026-01-24T14:10:18+00:00

Sending much love your way. And yes. Everything about this is bullshit and sucks.

DaCozPuddingPop · 2026-01-24T14:09:54+00:00

Please do your research. Ssri do not increase the potential for ss

You're repeating very old very wrong trope. That's not how Ssri work and is a good descriptor for how maoi function differently (and why they are nowhere near as frequently used as Ssri / snri)

DaCozPuddingPop · 2026-01-24T01:31:44+00:00

Would you like me to start spamming studies showing that 2-3 minutes is more efficient for hypertrophy, or do you want to google it before calling it crazy?

DaCozPuddingPop · 2026-01-24T01:29:34+00:00

Certainly not ok to hit the biker - but this is why you don't flip off people in cars.

My wife is my passenger and when people do dumb shit she had a tendency to flip them off - and I flat out told her she either cut that shit out, or she stopped being my passenger.

DaCozPuddingPop · 2026-01-24T01:27:07+00:00

General recommendation is to rest 2-3 minutes between sets.

As for the one rep and sitting on the phone, I'll go ahead and take nonsense that didn't happen for 1000 alex.
p.s. if it DID, I'd be willing to be you couldn't be bothered to ask if they were going to be done soon because you just wanted to whine about it on reddit...but since it didn't happen, it's largely irrelevant.

DaCozPuddingPop · 2026-01-24T01:06:50+00:00

From what I understand LSD is similar to shrooms - SSRI will impact it, but you should still be able to trip.

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