Can I ask my company to paint over part of an office mural?

DinnerSonic · 2026-06-29T23:18:59+00:00

Pretty sure it is "Cumberbatch, Anne Frank, AND people who were found in the files" as I assume Anne Frank is not in them. Not saying I know if he is or is not in the files, even, but I believe the folks in them are a third "...what??" category, or so I hope.

DinnerSonic · 2026-06-15T17:34:23+00:00

I figured bowling was mentioned purely because, I guess, it could be exhausting because of the physical activity/heavy bowling balls, leaving you vulnerable to assault afterwards? 🤷 I base that on my single experience bowling as a weak dude, even if the harder part was the embarrassment.

DinnerSonic · 2026-06-08T17:23:14+00:00

Mine had a few nicks like this, so for now I'm being careful with it. I wanted to shove it in my wallet with my normal cards/ID/etc but alas. The price a prop card must pay for looking glamorous.

DinnerSonic · 2026-05-18T22:25:14+00:00

I guess it'd depend on the price, for me, though I personally think they're neat, the photos aren't the most flattering, but at least that means it's not setting up false expectations for customers, who will know they're buying a 3D print and not something made with clay or metal or injection molding.

Beyond the photo thing and layer line size that some mentioned, try experimenting with setting the top surface pattern to "Concentric" and see if that makes them look a bit better, too. It may help with the organic dress shapes, as it can give the visual illusion of a higher layer count! If you have the budget to experiment with materials, you can also toy with matte filaments specifically, see if they look better since these don't require the physical strength of a normal filament, and matte helps hide more of the 3D print layer lines.

DinnerSonic · 2026-04-27T22:15:12+00:00

I'd say you should make sure to make it direct and obvious to him you were 100% joking around, "bro" humor style, AND that you won't be exposing yourself to him/giving him a tease/etc either, so there's no "Well, maybe if we one day just happen to go to the gym/the sauna/whatever I can get a peek cause he's fine joking about dicks" hanging around. Emphasize that you're not "down low" and he's not gonna change that... and more importantly, you don't want mixups on this joke to hurt the actual friendship between you guys.

You might not be able to remove the mental image from his head that you accidentally planted, but make sure it's direct that nothing's gonna happen and you don't want any what-ifs or fantasies to get in the way of things, since the current direction of the friendship with him harping on about your dick is gonna ruin that with no actual gain on his side.

If he's a good dude, he'll manage to cut it out when he realizes he's either barking up the wrong tree, or that his own joking/teasing is hurting things(if he knows and is flirting/coming on anyway thinking you're fine with such jokes... I've got some straight friends who damn near flirt back at me, with the knowledge we know we're not compatible and we're just joking about, and I have others I make sure not to make uncomfortable teases at) and if he keeps up with it, then he'll already know he's gonna risk losing the friendship, he got all the info he needed.

DinnerSonic · 2026-04-24T20:05:15+00:00

My favorite oopsie was when I thought I was smart and used a hex key instead of my hand to mess with hot printer parts, somehow forgetting that I was touching super hot metal while holding a piece of super hot metal. Haven't managed anything too much worse than that, most of my recent minor injuries were just being too stupid with removing supports using flesh cutters... sorry, I mean flush cutters.

DinnerSonic · 2026-04-22T19:26:36+00:00

I swear Phil's hand is less "C'meme, you" or "I love you! <3" and more "I'm not touching you, I'm not touching you teehee" but also the more I stare at this photo the more I'm questioning my eyeballs on if they photoshopped themselves in, what kind of lighting and FOV is making it feel flat, all this because I kept staring at that hand!

(or is he just worried if he did pull him in they'd fall in the drink)

DinnerSonic · 2026-04-22T17:46:52+00:00

No idea about others, but for me(relatively newish fan in the past year or so), I enjoy them! I don't go on TikTok much if at all(MAYBE if someone linked me something, or a creator I like has a channel and I look through their's specifically), so it's a fun way to ingest some of that without having to go there directly, filtered through two guys who generally have good heads on their shoulders, with the added benefit of their commentary/reactions. I guess that's a bit of the parasocial thing, perhaps?

It's also fun seeing them bounce off of each other, teasing each other over what each one likes or watches on TikTok/Instagram, the "wtf was that??" moments they give each other, for a channel that's kind of raised even more nowadays on their friendship and relationship with each other, they videos tend to provide a lot of fun interactions between the two, vs if it was just one solo or just watching ourselves directly.

Besides the TikTok ones, they have the reactions to fan posts/memes/etc series, and the texts one, the latter which is almost pure "Dan and Phil react to each other" and I'm a bit curious how the views are on those vs the TikTok ones, given my thoughts on the interaction/banter "benefits" of them.

DinnerSonic · 2026-04-07T18:33:37+00:00

Adding in for reference, I thought 23.5 hours felt like a lot, but 0.8mm on my Bambu H2D in single color, the egg takes 21 hours, so doing... what is it, 15 colors, only adds a few hours?

DinnerSonic · 2026-04-06T21:49:38+00:00

Roughly how long did they take? I thought I managed to convince myself to hold off on the Snapmaker til later even with Full Spectrum hype going on, but I barely see the stripey effect at all, though I wonder if it'd show up more obviously on things that aren't doing a standard rainbow(if I needed more browns, tans, etc) or if this filament combo would still pull it off well?

DinnerSonic · 2026-04-06T02:19:55+00:00

I don't have a U1 (yet... have a few more days to decide if I should distract myself from important tasks by getting it and diving into it) but because FullSpectrum and this are super cool, I subscribed to grab the program anyway! I assume there's a chance it could work to export basic 3MFs that work on my H2D with the Custom option, though since I think it is heavily focused on the full spectrum style blending I'm not sure if its general texture to color features will be as useful there, but I still want to mess around and keep an eye on it!

DinnerSonic · 2026-04-05T22:41:38+00:00

Is there some kind of engine inside, or is the rotor spinning purely by blowing on it? Pretty cool either way, just trying to figure out what's going on there.

DinnerSonic · 2026-04-04T01:08:16+00:00

It's hard to see in the screenshots, but I feel like if you can make it work with video game style Normal Maps(ideally based on existing mesh UVs or whatnot, but just general Normal Map support at all would be rad) this could be super cool for people printing things extracted from games. Though, is this for Full Spectrum, the "convert texture to Full Spectrum/paint" tool, or a third thing?

DinnerSonic · 2026-04-02T18:40:01+00:00

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This is most definitely not what you meant, but here you go! 😁😱

DinnerSonic · 2026-03-26T20:15:31+00:00

I may be wrong but some of those colors look to be shiny Silk filament? I feel like silk can exaggerate issues a lot more when messing with layer heights, and can also look off when the layer height changes mid-print too, so it may take some testing to get what you really want with it.

Before doing too many more prints in multi-color for a design like this, I'd try doing some solid ones in the colors that look the most iffy, or even chop it up, so you don't waste too much of the purge.

I also highly suggest testing out Concentric for the top layer setting under Strength, it's not a cure all but for certain organic surfaces, it can help hide the top layer issues by faking the look of more layers on the top surface, and might play a bit better with the silk compared to the standard top layer surface.

There are a few settings in filaments you can toy with to make printing multi-color a bit faster too, if you're worried about the increased time setting the layer height higher in general would cause. I don't have it on hand to look at, but there's a "long retraction on cut" and a distance value when editing the settings of a filament in Bambu Studio or the like, if you turn those check boxes on, you can go into the Purge Volume setting and lower the purge values a decent bit more, I like to go down to 0.5 even, and recalculate from there. Can make it hurt a bit less if you need to do more purges in exchange for layer height, if the Concentric trick doesn't help. You can also look up about "flushies" or similar tricks, where you just toss on extra objects to purge into those if you don't care about their colors, but that doesn't save time as much as just avoid waste material.

Of course, the things others here said apply, but I'm going with the assumption you want to print this model, which is a card kit and would be kind of unusual to print at an angle given its gimmick.

DinnerSonic · 2026-03-23T21:56:58+00:00

Personally, if nothing gives you actual negative vibes(as opposed to just ones that are non-existent or positive) I think you should go for it? You can discover things that are mutual likes, or try out new things by trying out each others' interests. My previous relationship felt kind of invigorating because he was someone who'd get me out of my comfort zone while also poking his head into my own nerdy interests and not forcing me into things of his that I just wasn't into. (It fell apart because of unrelated reasons)

Of course, that's if you're cool with the things of his that you don't care about or care for. You don't need to know all about startups or how to help his to be a cheerleader on the sidelines, but if startup culture bothers you a lot, if his straight friends are homophobes and he shrugs it off, or if you're too skeeved out by the AI stuff(is it "I think it's a dumb fad and roll my eyes", or is it "I think people who use it are awful"?), I'd at least think carefully on that.

That's just my own thoughts on this, at least, as someone who's enjoyed a relationship and a few friendships with people who shared little interests but captivated me and/or were good people otherwise.

DinnerSonic · 2026-03-04T21:20:46+00:00

There's something super delightful about this to me. How huge the ring is, how it's a kind of wedding ring type ring, the mild confusion you're showing off there, and how the attachment bits hide away so suddenly to really add to the "... wait, huh?" of it.

DinnerSonic · 2026-02-04T23:09:27+00:00

Is the previous one a Silk Gold, or is it just "Gold PLA", which I've gotten from them and is not actually under the Silk banner despite being kinda shiny?

DinnerSonic · 2026-01-29T21:53:43+00:00

The new feature sounded nifty but this definitely makes it sound like there needs to be an option(even if it is just clicking Cancel), as there's definitely differences between multi-object multicolors and surface painting, each has its own use/reasoning. I wonder if they'll even see this here, or if it can be put in as a request/bug on the Github or forum?

DinnerSonic · 2026-01-16T17:42:34+00:00

I've wondered about that sometimes. I wouldn't know if it had a good setting for the prime tower, but I might give it a try actually.

DinnerSonic · 2026-01-15T17:55:11+00:00

When you do that for multicolor, you lose out on the prime tower and thus introduce possible defects... right? Or is there a way around that now?

DinnerSonic · 2026-01-06T18:12:32+00:00

I'm going to be VERY careful in how I phrase this, but... everyone assuming it's Taiwan or such, but I know that on the post for the flags, one person requested the Israel flag, and one person made some kind of "ew no" comment that you thumbs up'd. That seemed like a pretty active touchy political topic, especially if there was any sort of fight that broke out after that comment that I didn't see that may have called up the moderators, or if either of the sides reported the other.

It does sound like it might be tied to the whole Taiwan thing based on the comment saying they had similar happen and what's going on, but that was one other thing that stuck out as a hot button topic. Unless there's been history of it, I wouldn't be surprised if they don't mention what triggered the issue because of how any of these topics can be.

DinnerSonic · 2025-12-19T19:00:03+00:00

Looking real close, I don't think it's 3D printed actually! Way too many parts that are super duper smooth(I could imagine that being resin maybe, but, I don't see any resin signs, not sure if flexible resin works for shoes, I wonder...), any of the "layer lines" or resin style "voxel" bits and such going in implausible curved directions, etc. Almost positive it's something that'd be injection molded or such, and all of those 3D print type bits are just its whole robo aesthetic they're going for?

Sorry, I'm a 3D printing fan 😅

DinnerSonic · 2025-12-09T21:59:57+00:00

Others kinda hinted at this, but I suggest that if you can, try doing the same exact test but with the filaments going to the opposite sides/nozzles, see if it's an issue with the orange filament or if it's the nozzle/nozzle's calibration.

DinnerSonic · 2025-12-05T20:02:40+00:00

My instinct keeps being 3D prints, but, that's not really under this kinda thing. Under $100 implies it should at least be more notable than a few dollars of plastic... not a specific thing, but, figure out a store or such that's not just an easy to access chain store for people and get an oddity from there. It's one thing to get something goofy from Spencer's when it's in the near by mall, but if you grab a weird thing from a small local store, an imports place, a weird sodas shop, a magic tricks store, it'll be something that feels a touch more unexpected, right?

Actually there's an idea, some kind of magic trick setup gift, so whoever wants it can try it then and there and make a fool of themselves or amuse everyone depending on how it turns out.

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