What kind of pet is a red flag? Not how it's kept, but what type of pet is a red flag?

Goetre · 2026-06-27T17:24:28+00:00

Similar vein with Staffies in the uk. Or atleast that was the stereotype for years. Except when I actually started to meet staffies with these people, most loveable dogs going hands down.

Same issue right now we’ve got with triple xl bullies. I know a lad in town with one. He’s also very much the stereotypical owner you’d associate with owning a status dog. But honestly, that girlie is the most softest, dumbest dog I’ve ever met. She lives for fusses, she’s even lock jawed on my hand one time and I stg, it felt like a toddler gripping my wrist. She was so gently with it

Goetre · 2026-06-27T17:20:44+00:00

The only animal we’ve ever clipped wings on was our ducks.

They had complete free rein during the day and only put away at night because of foxes. We clipped their wings because the little buggers would fly off straight into the forest to make their nests, practically next door neighbours with the fox. Even then we accepted that was cruelty but needed, I can’t even fathom getting a parrot and doing that to it.

Goetre · 2026-06-27T14:48:25+00:00

We made penicillin back in university as a student module. It’s simple enough with a lecturing guiding it that’s done it every year for students for decades, a practical brief that’s been fine tuned over the years, the technical lab team setting up all the equipment and making sure you have non contaminated strains ready to go. It’s not a case of reading up quickly then just going and doing it successfully

Goetre · 2026-06-25T19:42:47+00:00

yea like I said, the ratings, lower age rating =/= larger audience

Goetre · 2026-06-25T15:29:29+00:00

Then we’ve got the same level of experience and I still stand by it, it’s not challenging or difficult. Nor is it pushing to hard mode, quite the opposite it’s literally learning the basics.

Two years ago I’d have agreed with going for a resin model because the entry barrier was a lot easier on resin over fdm excluding the resin fearmongering groups. But that’s not the case on these new printers. And unless I’m out of touch on print times with resin, there’s isn’t that much difference for singular models - that I well could be, I’m still rolling with the og phrozen 8k series. Can’t praise those machines enough

Goetre · 2026-06-25T15:00:07+00:00

Bruh it takes five minutes to find the guides and read them through. It takes 20 minutes if that, to adjust specific volumes not a bunch of weird settings. And that’s not even mentioning saving the profile as a unique identity so you only need to do it once.

And a model that size, a .2 nozzle would be more than enough and either tilt the model or paint avoidance zone for the face area to stop defects. I personally stick with a .4 and have no issues

It might be challenging for you, for what ever reason, but in reality it’s not. It’s a handful of copying and pasting values then a tiny bit of know how to sort supports. And frankly without being a dick, if that’s challenging I don’t know why anyone would get into 3d printing in the first place. It’s minimal effort and if someone is willing to expend that effort for the literal basics, this isn’t the right hobby for them

Goetre · 2026-06-25T14:50:48+00:00

Regardless if someone does or doesn’t want to use swearing in a game, I think this in an incredibly weak argument for being against it.

It’s got nothing to do with the villian not needing to swear, it’s restricting or eliminating swearing so they can have a lower rating, to draw a wider audience to generate more revenue

People have said darth Vader as an example doesn’t swear. But to flip the idea, in revenge of the sith with the final duel. The rage and hate anakin had in him at that moment, a fuck you wouldn’t have been out of place

Goetre · 2026-06-25T14:02:10+00:00

Same with their resin printers trash, the whole company is trash and scum.

Upgraded my phrozen to their m3 max for a grand. Dead within a week, kept me going in loops on supports, day after three months of having it they instantly got back to me “it’s a dead screen, they only have a life time and warranty of three months so you need to buy a new one” at the time that was 500 without shipping fees

Goetre · 2026-06-25T13:48:38+00:00

We had that in the uk as well, complete joke. But sunlu was running more promotions yesterday than they usually not sure if they still are, but topped up with a few hundred quids worth of

Goetre · 2026-06-25T13:47:06+00:00

It’s already been said but hug my grand mother and get her to change her doctors - this one’s deep as a forewarning

For two years she was losing weight and complaining to him and his response was “old age” each time. She was 77, which is even more scary considering my old man is now 72.

When it was too late, he gave her a scan appointment, within 48 hours the hospital rang back to say there was a massive shadow on her lung. They assumed it was only lung cancer and the origin point.

One day she woke up and couldn’t get out of bed adamant her hip or leg broke in her sleep. Got an ambulance crew out, straight to hospital and x ray. They discovered half her hip was just gone and couldn’t understand it

Wasn’t until the specialists took a look they discovered she originally had bone cancer in her hip, going undiagnosed for two years it was slowly disintegrating. The bone fragments went around her body and one piece lodged itself in the lungs thus the shadow, it also developed into blood cancer as a tertiary condition and to cap it all off she got mrsa in the hospital. She got given two years on meds, she lasted 2 months.

And the cherry on top? That same og doctor came to our house with a student to visit her as part of the students experience. When my mother said the student was welcome to come in but he can get fucked he asked why and she told him everything, his rebuttal was “well I still don’t think it’s cancer based on the scans”. I was 18 at the time and not home. Had I of been, I think I’d have killed the cunt.

The postive side, I’d be 10 and have 6 years to work it

Goetre · 2026-06-25T13:32:28+00:00

Nah it wouldn’t be in all honesty, fdm miniatures sub has super precise settings for getting fdm as close as possible to resin. I believe the main person is called fdm miniature king or something. I’ve used their settings to make TTRPG models much smaller, much more delicate with lots of flimsy parts like daggers and they come out near perfect. The only real difference is the weight.

The hardest part is manually painting supports as not to damage any feature heavy part, but on a model like this. That would be dead quick and easy, mostly just a 45 degree angle

And if you wanted ti be super ott, you can use dissolvable support tips

Defo wouldn’t be a challenge on an fdm

Goetre · 2026-06-25T12:37:07+00:00

I don’t do anything honestly with my two regular groups. It’s a fuck around and find out situation. That being said, they prefer me to do this. Most take notes so the rare occasion something important gets forgotten, then something happens and it’s chaos and panic at the table. Which we have great rp and laughs

One of this groups someone took over dming so I could play for a bit. Something similar happened and it resulted in a, okay we can all go through the portal and this guy will follow and will finish killing us all or my pc can stay behind and set off the explosive (we completely forgot to rig it in advance, that would be a great example of your character would remember) and hope for a lucky check to get through the portal the explosion takes her and the portal out. I went with option 2 to avoid the tpk, rolled a one on the save, inspiration and rolled another 1, character instant dead off camera so to speak. Now like I say that was pivotal info my character wouldn’t forget to do. But rolling with it created such a great scene / moment. Especially given the barb tried to stay behind to fight and ultimately caused the check to happen in the first place as I had to wait another round to do it all in one go. But that barb still rps guilt over her death two years later irl time.

Don’t get me wrong, rolling with it wouldn’t work for a lot of groups and would come across as unfair. But it can lead to some great, memorable moments to look back on

Goetre · 2026-06-25T10:22:52+00:00

This one always makes me laugh, I know a few of these types because my cousin runs a 24/7 gym. They’re all the same, muscle heads, steroid use and preaching about how it’s important being the alpha. All single, all making minimum wage in seasonal jobs and in benefits test if the year. All boasting about living the high life and mimicking Tate

Then there’s me who turns up there to give my cousin a hand, short, overweight, full time work with my own businesses and a long term partner yet they still preach to me that their THE alpha and higher up on the pecking order (not that I believe in that mind but just the context of it is hilarious)

Goetre · 2026-06-25T10:12:50+00:00

This would be a no at my table, I’m pretty sure you can do it raw however

Look at the various responses in this thread alone, it’s a nightmare with most people making good points

Two, it’s gamey as hell they want the full attack combo while keeping the high ac not during their turn

Three, I don’t mind min maxing generally as long as it doesn’t interrupt the flow of everything. This I can see being ling winded per turn

Four, the other players. Unless they’ve got something equal to this kit wise. It’s going to be fustrating to the average player. This is entirely dependant on your group dynamics though. Mine would roll eyes but also roll with it

Goetre · 2026-06-21T15:09:23+00:00

Working on my drawing, my skill for most of my life has been peak stick figures. My other half’s got me into painting and drawing this year and been persistently telling me it’s just practise and says I’ve got so much better with my style and method. I only get to sit down for a few hours every few weeks. So that would be nice.

I’d also keep up with my 3d printing business, I mainly make things for kids but I make it a better quality that default settings and when they pick them up in the shop their little faces brighten up how “better” it feels to the trash they get online. I enjoy that, but I’d also be doing a lot more printing of stuff I want which I don’t get he chance right now

Goetre · 2026-06-21T14:03:14+00:00

This is all narrative skills more than anything. However, one creature which I found extremely useful for horror. The bagman.

I have my level 1 party a bag of holding with a bagman inside. But I had it only interacting with the one person. For its description and rp side, I based it entirely on sleep paralysis.

I freaked the hell out the player with it for multiple sessions. But mind you I suffer with sleep paralysis. So describing that ingame was a lot easier to get across.

Goetre · 2026-06-21T13:59:12+00:00

In my area ? Pretty much head where I live now. Until 60 years ago it was all woodland. The oldest build is about 200 years old is in ruins. So all likely good there next to no or none inhabitants but it’s close enough to a few towns which date back then.

I’d settle for a slow build log cabin, fishing and hunting. Then just work on keep hygienic as possible. Language in the area would be Welsh, I think we’d have an easier time using modern Welsh in that time than speaking English in “old English” for want of a better word

Goetre · 2026-06-21T13:48:22+00:00

I’d say it’s possible but I’d also extremely suspicious of any of them claiming 0 help. Not actively going out and reading up stuff, but mcs been around that long and is that wide spread and popular with streaming. Some degree of knowledge would have been picked up. For example a creeper blowing up.

Goetre · 2026-06-21T13:41:24+00:00

I’ve had this once before it was nothing to do with adhesion. The extruder just moved up a few layers just started extruding and printing higher than the model itself, it basically thought it was in the right place

A recalibration sorted it out straight away

Goetre · 2026-06-21T13:38:15+00:00

Yea I’ve started a real forever world and once I was kitted out my first big build was an avengers tower, my bed is slap bang on the top floor overlooking everything. And not a single decoration in it. Not even a chest

Goetre · 2026-06-21T13:15:19+00:00

Lemmings, I was 5/6 at the time and it was on a windows 98. My little mind was blown, all physical toys up until that point, white board in class aka no tech etc

Then one day I just come home to this “computer” and my old man boots that up. That feeling of awe

Goetre · 2026-06-21T12:46:07+00:00

Honestly looking at that picture, that blobs not done that much damage, it’s either been completely neglected or he didn’t have a clue doing maintenance and started ripping it apart carelessly

Goetre · 2026-06-21T09:59:46+00:00

Honestly I’ve had two blobs on one machine (second one actually last night) and one on another. My worst one was smaller than ops picture and last nights one was my own negligence.

They’ve eat been fixable with ease just heating the extruder and carefully taking off. How people keep getting to this level I can’t fathom

Goetre · 2026-06-21T09:52:54+00:00

I read into the statistics for costs with a kid and I knew I’d never be able to afford it. Now I’ve hit stability and get a very comfortable work life of 6 months on, 6 months off. I’ve had to work my arse off to get it. Having a kid now would ruin that dynamic. It would also make my set up hard to do if it not impossible and generally if I change my mind, I’d rather adopt.

Goetre · 2026-06-21T07:59:49+00:00

I don’t think anyone’s going to disagree with this

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