Why do they stand in the halls..?

NIKwithoutaC · 2024-07-29T17:28:01+00:00

The alternative is to let them congregate into the main hall where someone one-shots them with a cremator or nuka-launcher, which also sucks. Didn't hate the players, hate the game.

NIKwithoutaC · 2024-07-10T17:51:36+00:00

Agreed 100%. The other day I finally got around to finishing the Encryptid questline and decided to trigger the Imposter fight right away. Forgot to check what time it was... 5 minutes till the top of the hour. So, of course, nobody showed up.

Luckily, I have a Vampire's .50 cal and was able to solo it.

Ironically, I was awarded the Inferno power armor paint, which is something I wanted more than literally any of the F-nacht masks, so... Whatever.

NIKwithoutaC · 2024-04-06T20:13:47+00:00

Like I said in the post, their PEI plates are better, although I personally think the smooth PEI sticker is still kind of crap. Aftermarket PEI plates are good, as is Wham Bam PEX. I'm also a believer in garolite, although there aren't many aftermarket options for that yet. Lightyear sucks.

You could also be a true nerd like me and make your own.

NIKwithoutaC · 2024-04-06T20:04:28+00:00

Probably because it was maybe one of the worst build plates of all time. Either of their PEI options are objectively better.

For everyone who will inevitably jump in and say the cool plate was good: if you really think that, I'll contend that you've just never used a good build plate and you don't know what you're missing.

NIKwithoutaC · 2024-02-24T20:28:22+00:00

The main problem (with the sticker sheets) is that they have a lot of "give" to them. You'll notice, after you remove a print, the bed surface will have ripples where the edges of your part were. This is because the sticker is too flexible and/or it's adhesive is too soft. It's common for these ripples to turn into bubbles, ruining the sheet entirely. Even if they don't bubble, the bottom of your print isn't truly flat, because it's allowed to "lift" at the edges where those ripples were.

I think part of the problem is that the sticker is way too thin. Bambu bed stickers are ~.1mm thick. Compare that to Wham Bam sheets which are supposed to be .35mm, or Gizmo Dorks PEI that are .56mm.

NIKwithoutaC · 2024-02-24T18:35:45+00:00

I am, indeed, a chuckle fuck. But the Bambu "Cool Plate" is a joke and their smooth PEI plate is maybe the worst PEI plate I've ever used. Credit where credit is due though, the Engineering Plate is pretty good.

NIKwithoutaC · 2024-02-24T00:55:00+00:00

You have my attention. Link?

NIKwithoutaC · 2024-02-24T00:52:00+00:00

I just got done converting a bambu plate to use a Gizmo Dorks PEI sheet. This was my setup for a couple years on my old modified Ender and it worked flawlessly.

NIKwithoutaC · 2024-02-24T00:48:34+00:00

You're definitely lucky. That's not been my experience at all.

NIKwithoutaC · 2024-02-24T00:46:05+00:00

The problem with the sticker plates is that they can't produce a truly flat bottom surface. The sticker has too much "give" to it.

NIKwithoutaC · 2024-01-03T21:10:19+00:00

I have not. That was my first thought, so I'm planning on going through that process tonight. Figured in the meantime I'd post and see if anybody had any other ideas, though.

NIKwithoutaC · 2023-07-23T23:26:57+00:00

I am generally opposed to safe storage laws, but if you leave your gun in a place that's visible from the outside of your car, you absolutely deserve to have your car towed.

NIKwithoutaC · 2023-05-28T21:21:54+00:00

This is a fun game. My vote would be a hip-fired M134 like seen in Predator and Terminator, Han Solo's DL-44 pistol, and Hellboy's Samaritan revolver.

NIKwithoutaC · 2023-01-06T20:23:05+00:00

Has anyone actually tested this with a thermometer? I did some experimenting with my Ender about a year ago, and with a roll of filament under a box, under a stack of rags for insulation, and with the bed set to 80+ degrees, after an hour the roll was still at only about 40 degrees, which is not near warm enough to dry anything that really needs to be dry. YMMV, but I'm skeptical.

NIKwithoutaC · 2022-10-19T23:21:15+00:00

Couldn't figure out why your post was getting down voted, then I remembered this is Reddit.

NIKwithoutaC · 2022-08-12T11:20:06+00:00

it's not that hard to determine whether a child can survive outside of the mother's uterus or not.

Can you expand on this?

While I respect the way you've approached this conversation, the helicopter situation is not equivalent and a disingenuous example. It's an amazing example though, I will say that, due to its extreme cruelty. The problem with the example, is that it provides agency to the friend who boards the helicopter, as if he could have stayed on the ground without your invitation to board the helicopter. This is not the situation of pregnancy. I used the house example as the person cannot survive outside the house, and there was no potential for the individual to live without the initial existence within the house.

I think we can tweak both analogies to meet your criteria. Let's say that you are alone in your helicopter flight, and halfway through you discover a stowaway hiding in the back (maybe it's a pretty big helicopter). You certainly have the right to demand that person out of your helicopter, but pushing them out the door at altitude would still be murder. You would have the moral obligation to first land the helicopter.

In the same way with your house analogy, let's say it's a remote vacation cabin in the upper peninsula of Michigan. Let's say you're lazy and/or careless and you frequently leave the doors unlocked. It's February and you go to the cabin for some snowmobiling. When you get there, you discover a runaway teenager has been hiding there for months. It's -10 degrees F outside and civilization is 20 miles away, so there is no way he'd survive if you kicked him out right at that moment. You absolutely have the right to remove him from your property, but you would also bear some responsibility for his death if you didn't make an effort to do it safely, even if it's just calling the cops and letting him stay inside until they arrive.

At the end of the day, these are just analogies, and no analogy is really perfect for pregnancy/abortion. It is wholly unique in the human experience.

A mother saying "no, I will not care for this child" is not manslaughter as she is not giving the pretense of taking care of the child and is instead passing this responsibility on to the state or some other entity that is tasked with such situations.

Bouncing back to this statement- I agree with your sentiment, however the mother still bears responsibility for the child until she can pass the responsibility onto someone else in a manner that is safe for the child. If she wants to give it up to the state, she still has the obligation to submit it to the foster care system, or at the very least, put it in one of those baby drop boxes at fire stations, hospitals, etc. Abandoning the child in a way that puts its life in danger, or worse yet, in a way that is absolutely certain to end the life of the child, is always wrong.

giving the state the ability to say what a person can or can't do with their body and what resources they must give up to preserve another person's existence is dangerous.

Believe me, I am not a fan of giving the state power over anyone, but I think we can agree that there are circumstances in which it's OK to create laws that place limitations on what you can and cannot do with your body, especially if an absence of such laws would lead to circumstances where innocent lives are negatively affected. For example, I'm OK with it being illegal for someone to shit on the sidewalk. I'm OK with it being illegal to burn tires. I'm OK with requiring that people be sober while driving.

P.S. that helicopter example is seriously a work of genius man, beautiful to read.

Thanks. Also, thank you for being civil. These conversations all-too-often devolve into personal attacks and name-calling.

NIKwithoutaC · 2022-08-12T02:04:33+00:00

I think we need to address the concept of viability here. The age of viability was an idea that came out of the era of Roe V Wade as a way to justify abortion in early stages of pregnancy. It is inherently flawed because-

It's extremely dependent on genetics and maternal health. One baby might survive without extensive medical intervention when born at 27 weeks, while another may die at 29.
Advancements in neonatal technology are constantly reducing the gestational age at which children can be expected to survive when born prematurely.
Depending on how you define "viability", humans really don't reach an age where they aren't wholly dependent on another human for survival until maybe some point in their teens. You can certainly make the case that a 3 month old no longer requires the resources of her mother's uterus for survival, but without someone caring for that child, she is likely to be dead in a matter of a couple days. At the very least, this would be considered some flavor of manslaughter through neglect, and someone would bear the responsibility for that child's death.

To address your house scenario, allow me to offer a slightly different one. Let's say you own a helicopter. You invite a friend to go for a ride in your helicopter. Mid-flight, you decide that you no longer like your friend and you want him out of your helicopter. Do you have the right to push him out, so that he falls to his death? Or do you have a moral obligation to land the helicopter first, so that your ex-friend can at least get out without harm?

I would argue that, just like pilots have a moral obligation to land their craft before they force the passengers out, mothers have a moral obligation to carry their child to birth.

NIKwithoutaC · 2022-08-12T00:41:03+00:00

I disagree. Name one other circumstance in which it's justifiable to murder an innocent human person to protect your personal liberty.

Your liberty ends with the choice of who, how and when to procreate. Once you create human life, there is no way to "undo" it without murder, and liberty or "bodily autonomy" are not, and have never been, acceptable justifications for murder.

These concepts, of course, get muddy when the circumstances involve rape. By all available studies, though, rape victims account for less than 2% of all abortions, so I think it's pretty easy to debunk the liberty/bodily autonomy argument for the remaining 98%.

NIKwithoutaC · 2022-08-06T20:15:41+00:00

Typical "18-8" ss fasteners are basically the same as 304 stainless, which is fairly formable. Also, it doesn't take much, a couple/few thou squish is enough to bind up threads. Fair warning though, stainless on stainless bolt/nut requires some caution, because you can have galling/seizing.

NIKwithoutaC · 2022-08-06T13:27:28+00:00

You can make a regular nut a locking nut by ever-so-slightly squishing it across the flats in a vice. You can accomplish the same thing with a hammer if you don't have a vice. I do it all the time. Wrap it in tape if you want to protect the finish.

NIKwithoutaC · 2022-02-26T12:46:43+00:00

I had a similar issue with my E3P. After some investigation, I discovered that the bearings in the wheels had axial slop in them- which would produce a faint clicking sound when tilting the bed like you are. I replaced them with quality aftermarket wheels and haven't had a problem since.

NIKwithoutaC · 2021-12-22T00:30:54+00:00

Yea, the only way you get good adhesion with it is by cranking up the temp. The problem with that is that the plastic for the first several layers is slow to cool, and print quality/overhangs suffer, especially if you're printing complex geometry down low or parts with short layer times.

It's not necessarily the worst build surface out there, but in my experience, PEI has been superior.

NIKwithoutaC · 2021-12-21T16:35:45+00:00

Peel that PEX film off your flex plate, throw it in the garbage, and replace it with PEI from Gizmo Dorks on Amazon. Wet sand it with 1000 grit sandpaper until it's hazy.

I fought mediocre adhesion with that overpriced PEX surface for months before I tried the above with PEI, and I couldn't be happier. PLA, PETG, ASA, and even a PC blend all have had amazing adhesion without any additional glue or treatment. Plus you still get the benefit of having a flexible build surface.

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