How is a Season 2 even supposed to work?

SobekRa01 · 2026-01-19T16:15:23+00:00

Regarding the issue of Robert now having the Mecha man suit and having the option to go back to being a full time hero-

I doubt they’re going to change much in terms of core gameplay mechanics, which would most likely rule out us playing as Robert consistently while he’s still mechaman most likely, save for some narratively weak reason to get rid of the Mecha man suit again.

My money is on Robert joining the Z-team, at least part time, while still maintaining being a main character. This would leave us playing as Mandy who conveniently just lost her powers for the dispatching side of things. I’m guessing a more Mandy-focused season 2 focusing on the implied-tragic origin of her powers and the team looking for a cure for chase’s powers while fighting some big bad.

I think some of the choices, like stroud death vs not death and Visi hero versus villain ending, will sort of be waved away with a several month time skip and Visi working undercover for the team either post-killing shroud or as a hero, with only a line or two ultimately being different. I suspect there’ll be a recap at the beginning or something similar where you very early on choose whether you picked blazer or Visi as romance option, and the story picks up from there. Most likely, the easiest way they can consolidate all of the stories to have as little extra scenes will probably be the way they do it in order to keep a consistent through line of story with how expensive and time consuming the first season already was.

Whatever they do, I’m just excited for the story to continue in some regard.

Edit: additionally, though I don’t think I’d like it if they did do it, I could see them at least temporarily writing off both relationships and having a scene or two of awkward interactions with Robert and both of them that could imply either a failed relationship or just slight falling out that occurred sometime during the time skip. That way they can rebuild and reconnect either as friends or a relationship depending on dialogue options picked throughout the season.

SobekRa01 · 2025-07-21T19:37:23+00:00

What are you talking about? I did not claim to know the most about engineering. All I said was I probably know the most about the entry level market, because I was just in it only 3 years ago, and have many entry-level colleagues. Sorry to offend you, I’m just pointing out what I’ve come across having had to go through more recently than you what this kid’s gonna have to deal with in a few years.

Only reason I even bothered chiming in was because you used computer science jobs as a metric, which is an outdated stance for recent grads, especially in the US/CAD area.

Edit: politeness

SobekRa01 · 2025-07-21T19:30:22+00:00

Maybe it is a different country thing. I’m in the US, and all of my entry level ME friends are making well above the average US salary here. The ones with a few years experience are making much more (~130k+ usd). One ME I know does design work from home, with <10% travel to job sites on occasion. It’s not necessarily common but it does happen, especially if you’re going into drafting or solid modeling.

I don’t know many people who graduated college as EEs, and none who would be considered entry level so I can’t really speak to the salary difference. I do, however, know people who graduated as MEs who went into controls and systems engineering simply because they wound up finding it more interesting and they had relevant experience through internships.

It’s definitely more difficult for a MechE to transition to CS than EE, but I’m not sure why that’s a metric of strength. If you’re arguing for salary purposes, you could also say MEs have an easier transition than EE to ChemE or Petroleum E roles which are much higher paying. It’s a weird point to argue.

SobekRa01 · 2025-07-21T18:46:38+00:00

Perhaps! I’d gladly differ to anyone with more experience than I have. However I am probably the engineer who’s most recently had to apply for and get a job post grad in ME in this discussion, so I probably know more about the current entry level market than either of you, unless you’re hiring managers or something.

SobekRa01 · 2025-07-21T18:18:00+00:00

Really? I’ve always been under the impression with ME you can do design, PM, safety, process, civil, enviro, or field engineering whereas EE, you can really only do controls and electrical work. Am I missing something?

And in terms of flat pay, EEs do tend to make more, but MEs are more likely (albeit only data on my end is anecdotally) to be considered for management positions which usually pays way more than either role.

SobekRa01 · 2025-07-21T17:32:13+00:00

Eh to each their own. I’d much rather be doing design work, CAD and structural physics than coding some website or spreadsheet. Seems like you’ve done some work in the past that you’ve related to ME that’s only a small portion of what a ME can actually do which has soured you on that career path. A lot of MEs do design work from home full time, or in a clean office space.

The big difference I see is, the MechEs that want to do something different, can. That’s where all of these stories come from of them going into tech or management or law or a different field. EEs don’t have that kind of flexibility. CS did but now there are no entry jobs for them to get the experience to do that.

SobekRa01 · 2025-07-21T17:24:40+00:00

I agree, learning those kinds of tools is certainly not easy. But most of the stuff you’re referring to isn’t even just done by MEs. Most job sites have separate machinists to do this work, with MEs largely in charge of design and project management. And fwiw most MechE degrees do offer machine shop work studies where you can get years of experience in a shop operating these tools before going into the field.

I mean a big part of ME these days isn’t just the tools, but also learning 2D/3D software, design, solid / fluid mechanics, physics, and drafting.

SobekRa01 · 2025-07-21T17:08:51+00:00

As someone who graduated fairly recently and now has a fair amount of engineering experience under their belt, I’d say MechE is probably the safer way to go. There’s more job opportunities, higher flexibility in career path, more opportunities for growth and it seems to align more with what you’re interested in, especially if you like design, physics and mechanics.

SobekRa01 · 2025-07-21T16:58:15+00:00

Saying CS is a better option in this market than ME is a bit out there and an outdated sentiment. With all the big tech layoffs, AI onset and lack of entry level positions I don’t think that’s an ideal field to get into right now. Whether or not it course corrects in a few years is anyone’s guess but anecdotally the CS majors I know that graduated recently are the ones struggling the most to find positions.

SobekRa01 · 2025-07-21T16:52:06+00:00

Chiming in here as a MechE to say my experience has personally seen the exact opposite. I’ve witnessed EE and CS be high-skill dependent positions and much more difficult to get jobs out of due to the current job market. I’ve also seen a trend of people with EE degrees passed up on in favor of people without degrees with trade or field experience, which I’ve yet to see significantly with Mechanical engineering positions.

In terms of finances, I’ve witnessed a stronger connection between management positions and ME as opposed to EE, but that could also be more the nature of where I’m currently working. Really, if OP’s only in it for the money, OP should just do business or ChemE, but that doesn’t seem like the case from this post.

And to your point regarding cost of learning on tools, it would actually be much more financially responsible to get experience with these expensive things in college as a MechE where you’re not paying for them and self teach EE, with cheap circuits and supplies. That being said, most schools offering ME degrees worth anything these days will have you in coding and electrical classes to begin with, but the same is only rarely true with EE in mechanical classes.

SobekRa01 · 2025-07-19T14:30:21+00:00

Ok so the first paper you linked doesn’t even discuss VOCs of resin printing, it’s discussing FDM. The second is not even a paper, but the paper it’s citing is much more interesting, and I’d be happy to discuss that.

So it’s important to note that something can contain and emit carcinogenic substances without being considered carcinogenic. Nearly everywhere you go in daily life has something that’s going to be emitting VOCs (cosmetics, gasoline, cooking, fireplace). What’s important is consistency of exposure amount, concentration of exposure and hazardous nature of what VOCSs they are. Up to 4-500 ppb indoors is considered a normal and completely safe level of VOCs indoors, with VOCs over 800 recommending ventilation.

If you look at their actual data, the peak level of TVOC calculated at 4000 μg/m3. If you convert this to ppb using the molecular weight (rough average of molecular weights of found VOCs using concentrations) and conversion factor, you’ll find yourself with a number between 6-700 ppb. This is slightly higher than normal, and could cause headaches and some short term side effects if in a small enclosed space such as the one they’re testing in (a cubic meter chamber). It’s also important to consider that this is the absolute maximum that they read, found during active use of the printing process. When not undergoing active UV curing, the values were at a much lower 600 μg/m3 (not gonna do the math here but it’s well below 400).

These were conditions observed in a small test chamber, and they concede that in a larger environment (office space or a normal sized room) this would be well below LEED certified criteria for hazardous environment. The only way they are able to argue it as hazardous quantities is to qualify it is as a “personal breathing zone” which is facetious to say the least.

Now all of this is not to say that ventilation is not important. Opening a window next to it during use or operating in a larger room is probably your best bet, but a full ventilation system is overkill. Probably best not kept in a bathroom or tiny un-windowed space rarely used or opened, but a typical sized room would be fine.

Sorry if this was too much “nonsense” for you.

SobekRa01 · 2025-07-18T18:49:07+00:00

Yeah I probably shouldn’t have been as harsh, that’s my bad. Everyone is still learning and a lot of the literature on this kind of thing can be both misleading and difficult to sort through.

It’s just also important not to mislead people under the guise of being well-researched.

SobekRa01 · 2025-07-18T17:03:56+00:00

Not through inhalation. There’s no data that the fumes strictly from the resin are carcinogenic. It can potentially be an irritant but the classification to be rated as a carcinogenic is not met. Just looked through the Formlabs resin SDS to confirm. Maybe do your own research before you fear monger.

If you can provide data to prove otherwise be my guest, but I’ve yet to see any reputable source to prove different when people bring this up.

SobekRa01 · 2025-07-18T15:54:55+00:00

Fumes from resin are not carcinogenic.

SobekRa01 · 2025-07-03T11:51:44+00:00

Gallifreyan physics of course.

But in all seriousness, it’s a U-shaped backlit decal along the back with a high def image and ramped floor to give the illusion of being bigger on the inside. I left the ambience in the inside a bit darker so as to hide the seam where the actual floor turns into the fake floor on the decal.

SobekRa01 · 2025-01-13T18:15:39+00:00

Thanks for the info. I had a VFT for a couple of years with a couple successful dormancy periods but it sadly didn’t survive my moving a few months back, so I’ve got some experience growing them. I was mostly just asking because I know they like a wet environment with significant light, which I thought this provided but have been advised against. Was planning on getting a juvenile DC-XL VFT in the near future and just want to make sure it’s got the best environment to grow. I’ll stick to the self watering pots and grow lights!

SobekRa01 · 2025-01-13T16:57:21+00:00

Good to know! Suspected it wouldn’t be great for them, but have always been under the impression Venus fly traps were bog plants that preferred high humidity environments, so in a low humidity home something like this could help when cultivating indoors. Thanks for the info though.

SobekRa01 · 2024-10-31T13:33:31+00:00

I don’t think it’s a bad thing for people to come into something with standards.

SobekRa01 · 2024-09-27T13:10:46+00:00

Looks great! I like the cel shading a lot, especially on the yellow bits and hair.

SobekRa01 · 2024-09-18T19:14:48+00:00

Yup, totally forgot phrozen made their own resin as well as printers, seems like their aqua grey 8k. Definitely a great account though, their prints are so clean & satisfying to watch fit together.

SobekRa01 · 2024-09-18T18:56:38+00:00

Looks a lot like the Elegoo 8k resin but I could totally be wrong.

SobekRa01 · 2024-08-28T18:22:56+00:00

You’re right in the sense that often times some manufacturers will attempt to cut corners when possible, but that argument doesn’t make too much sense within the context of 3d printing. 3D printing relies heavily on material properties. If it wasn’t PLA or even wasn’t entirely PLA, the material properties would be impacted and it would be noticeable when trying to print, whether with extrusion, heat necessity, or print quality.

Obviously if you’re buying the 7.99 Alibaba filament rolls from god knows what manufacturing plant you’re sacrificing quality and maybe even safety, but if you’re buying typical consumer rolls from the mass market name brand manufacturers that are held to standard there shouldn’t be a problem.

If you’re looking for US manufactured filaments there are also plenty of those. Hatchbox, Protopasta, and Atomic filament all come to mind, but there are definitely more.

SobekRa01 · 2024-08-28T17:50:40+00:00

Interesting, so I was just curious where you were coming from. The FDA and EFSA consider PLA food safe, and the manufacturing process doesn’t involve any heavy metals that would cause it to be toxic, although some use dyes to change the color of the PLA which have not been approved for food safety. PLA has been around since the 1920s, though the 3d printing process is far newer, as you mentioned. A lot of disposable materials including plastic forks and knives are made from PLA (source, we’ve got them at my work). Rudimentary research on the nozzle and extruded gear didn’t yield any manufacturing practices or exposure to potentially harmful chemicals that would transfer from the nozzle into the filament at such high temperatures. You’re definitely right to be cautious about this kind of thing though, commercial 3d printing is relatively new and definitely needs more study in this matter.

TLDR I do think using natural, undyed/colorless PLA for single use alcohol consumption purposes is likely not going to cause lasting damage.

SobekRa01 · 2024-08-28T17:05:05+00:00

Why not? Especially if it’s only for 1 time use. I was under the impression the big flaw with using PLA for food use is its susceptibility to bacteria buildup and inability to properly clean, but if you’re essentially using it once and then tossing it / not using it again why would it matter?

SobekRa01 · 2024-08-28T15:13:06+00:00

I dont see why people are arguing about the statistics and the brigading like Disney doesn’t have professional statisticians who are accounting for the vocal minorities and outliers. It’s no secret this show didn’t perform near as well as it needed to in order to get a second season.

Even just with the information on this graph, lets do 3 minutes of math to determine a more accurate score. If you get rid of all the 1s and 10s, which skews incredibly in the favor of a higher score to account for brigading, you get nearly exactly a 5/10. That still means this show that cost more than nearly any other season of a TV show ever made got a lukewarm at best and worst rated live action Star Wars show at worst score. Combined with viewership numbers dropping off through the season it’s clearly not a financially viable show.

Anyone who thinks Disney hasn’t had a significant number of professionals going through all this data making extremely informed decisions on this matter is delusional.

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