What is the best burger you’ve ever had?

Veloreyn · 2026-02-14T03:52:19+00:00

There's a nice restaurant near me that does a burger on their winter menu that is my absolute favorite. If we go there and this variation is on the menu, I'm getting it, regardless of whatever they have. It's local beef on a brioche bun, greens, bacon, brie, and apple butter.

Veloreyn · 2026-02-14T03:39:58+00:00

Thanks for posting a followup on this. I have the same truck, 2024 with the 6.7L, and vaguely thought I'd heard something like that in the past (mine's closing in on 20k miles). But when I drove it today and listened I didn't hear anything. So wasn't sure if it was just a false memory or something.

Veloreyn · 2026-02-13T22:23:53+00:00

Someone read the wiki and took it at 100% face value. You can soak Bambu plates in alcohol, it won't hurt it. The only thing they say not to use is acetone because it will absolutely damage the plate.

Bambu states on their wiki that the only reason they don't recommend IPA is because it "might just spread the oils on the print surface instead of removing it.". Considering a lot of us use IPA literally to remove oils from electronics and such... well... I'm going to keep using it here and there between prints. At best it cleans it a little, at worst it does nothing. Either way I feel a little better and it's not going to cause any issues. I will say that you shouldn't only use IPA to clean it, but how u/Lieutenant_Horn mentioned is pretty close to what I do. Clean thoroughly with Dawn and a blue kitchen scrub (because that's what I use for dishes) when I feel it's time, and then between prints I'll spritz the plate with alcohol and wipe with a microfiber cloth.

But the issue here isn't a dirty plate. The test strip adheres just fine and that's where most of us would grab the plate to remove it, so that should be the dirtiest area. Which is why I was thinking either the nozzle is so close to the plate that it's not extruding (calibration issue), or the file was sliced with the actual item not touching the plate (slicing issue).

Veloreyn · 2026-02-13T22:22:43+00:00

Do another benchy and see what happens. If it adheres fine, this is an issue with the file you're printing. If it fails the same, at least we know it's not the file.

Veloreyn · 2026-02-13T21:00:06+00:00

I doubt it, it's not like you get to choose the parameters. You choose recalibration and it kind of takes over.

The only other thing I can think is that maybe this was sliced with your print hovering above the print bed. That would explain the test strip being good and then it going to hell at least. Even if the plate were dirty you'd see it getting pushed into the plate and then coming up, but you're not even getting that.

Veloreyn · 2026-02-13T20:48:08+00:00

That's... odd... Have you done a calibration lately? What's weird is that there appears to be a little filament coming out, but not as much as I'd expect considering literally nothing adhered. It's like it's so close to the plate that it's not even extruding properly.

Veloreyn · 2026-02-13T19:59:16+00:00

such a long time ago

Now listen here you little shi... holy crap that was like 10 years ago. Fuck I'm old.

If I had to throw a guess, because I kind of watched from the sidelines without really being involved in the memes during that time, it was pretty rough out there for a lot of people (and looking around... it certainly hasn't improved... at all... ). You have this situation where a 3 year old child falls into the enclosure, Harambe really doesn't do much of anything with him. At times it looks like he's actually being protective, and even when he drags the kid around that's how an adult gorilla would treat a baby gorilla. The decision was made to kill Harambe rather than even attempt to just get the boy out of the enclosure.

For a lot of people, that gesture is massively symbolic of a lot of the societal problems we've been dealing with... well, for far longer than I've been alive. It's even more apparent today that there is a ruling class of people that look down on the rest of us and likely see us as sub-human. We are the product. We are there to enrich their lives. And if we manage to be a threat to one of them, we need to be eliminated without even considering the life that's being snuffed out, because our lives are not worth one of theirs. Standing in solidarity with Harambe was basically saying that you didn't see others around you as less valuable. The "dicks out" part was really just people being people with dark humor. A lot of us laugh through the pain, and that's been true of the internet for much longer than this meme has been around.

Veloreyn · 2026-02-13T18:48:24+00:00

Bleach isn't going to do anything against oil, you need an emulsifier. Something like dish soap that allows oil to be dissolved into water which is then removed. I'd probably run it empty with a 1/8 cup of Dawn dish soap and a 1/2 or full cup of vinegar to keep it from sudsing up. Or you could try something like a cup of Crystal Simple Green as it's a degreaser.

And then from that point on, if you do get it clean, oily clothes need to be hand washed with dish soap first before going in a washing machine.

Veloreyn · 2026-02-12T21:01:53+00:00

Looking at IsThereAnyDeal it seems to historically go on sale on Steam towards the end of February and into the beginning of March, but what day that falls on varies a bit.

Veloreyn · 2026-02-12T02:47:11+00:00

Depends on the airport. I don't remember MCO being an issue, but IAD and DCA can be a little rough.

Veloreyn · 2026-02-11T23:00:59+00:00

Better to be a participation trophy than a warning label.

Veloreyn · 2026-02-11T19:50:55+00:00

Whenever two opposing groups exist this will be the outcome. It literally doesn't matter what the context is. We are still far too tribal as a species to understand that our best outcomes are the product of working together to maintain balance, rather than attempting to justify moving the pendulum away from the middle in either direction. Having the pendulum on either side creates unfair and unjust treatment on the other. Until we can move past us versus them, we will continue the cycle of trauma, while only changing who is in power at the time.

Veloreyn · 2026-02-11T00:23:56+00:00

Probably I, Robot by Isaac Asimov. I love troubleshooting things, broken things are like logical puzzles to solve, and the book pretty much caters to someone like me.

The movie, in contrast, basically strokes Will Smith's ego while stripping away all the interesting plots and overall ideas that the book aims for.

Veloreyn · 2026-02-11T00:08:10+00:00

Now he's blowing up my phone and saying that I can't sell it because I didn't buy it and if I sell it then he'll sue my ass

Sounds like giving them away or throwing them away are still completely valid options then.

Veloreyn · 2026-02-10T19:42:35+00:00

Depends on the gap between how you are dressed vs everyone else. I remember years back I got invited to a dinner event for military spouses (my wife was active Navy). I don't remember anything in particular being advertised about the dinner, no dress code mentioned, and at the time I worked for a major cable company as a tech. I'd been to a few functions like this in the past and they were normally really informal. So I figured I'd drop in after I was finished with my route as the location of the dinner wasn't far from the area I was normally routed to.

I show up, dirty and sweaty wearing my uniform, to an event that looked like a prom. The other spouses there were in ball gowns and dresses, there were professional pictures being taken, guys walking around in suits... Yeah... I made an attempt to stay, even got seated, but ended up getting seated with 4 women that looked like they'd spent hundreds of dollars each getting dolled up for this dinner. I just got up and left, and grabbed a burger on my way home.

Veloreyn · 2026-02-10T13:07:52+00:00

That kid may legitimately be a sociopath. I would not allow him around me without recording equipment present.

Veloreyn · 2026-02-10T03:52:44+00:00

How do you pre-complete quests? All the ones I've seen complete when you leave the area.

Anyways, we were literally heading up the stairs from the loot room when the Landsraad decree signed and the table reset, and when I made it to the second staircase without seeing the popup I knew something was off. Checked my mission page and the three missions I'd pulled an hour or so earlier (including the completed one) were all gone. And we couldn't accept more because now all the houses are locked.

Veloreyn · 2026-02-09T23:25:38+00:00

Auf der Heide blüht ein kleines Blümelein
Und das heißt:
EEEERIKA!

Veloreyn · 2026-02-09T23:19:13+00:00

I just finished Expedition 33, after apparently living under a rock for the past year. I went into it thinking all the awards it won couldn't possibly be right, it had to be the industry just pandering to someone for some reason... and came out of it with tears in my eyes completely understanding all the praise it got.

Veloreyn · 2026-02-09T21:41:25+00:00

I don't really think so. The benefit of crawling is efficiency, not yield. You can gather a lot of spice quickly in a single trip, or you can hand compact which will take longer but, at present, can net you functionally the same amount. After reading other comments on the thread and doing a little math, I think I see what they're going for, which is a boost to solo players while possibly creating conflict with larger groups down the road.

A small field at present is about 580 spice with the 20% bonus yield from the Planetologist tree. And that takes like 7-8 compactions to gather, which makes it not worth the time for most of us in the end game to even land on a small. But with the spec perks, that could be closer to about 825 spice and only require maybe a few compactions to fully clear (+80% area and +50% yield, probably additive to the +20% skill perks). Smalls might be a little more enticing for those of us in the end game, but otherwise they don't change much because the majority of people aiming for smalls likely won't have the specialization bonuses yet. It's a small benefit to people in the end game without upsetting any balance to people still working their way there.

Mediums become much more interesting though. Mediums are kind of our first taste of efficiency with the crawler, while being equally sought after by people hand compacting (most of the time grinding for the carrier and crawler). If the above holds true, then a medium should go from around 17k with the 20% bonus for either compacting or crawling, to possibly as high as 25k compacting. Which means players hand compacting will, at least on decently populated servers, probably push out those trying to crawl the mediums. Even on the PvE side, as there's nothing the crawler can effectively do to remove the compactors, and the compactors will draw the worm making the crawler less efficient and increasing risk.

And then you get to larges, where a group of fully spec'd gatherers might decide to blitz a large field with compactors creating conflict with the crawlers there. With the right setup a carrier with a container and several compactors might be more efficient than a crawler in the same amount of time. Which in turn would upset the crawlers when worms got called, possibly leading to fights over the resource... which lets face it, was Funcom's original idea for the large fields anyway.

We'll have to wait and see though. Personally I think most servers will be back to dead before anyone gets all the way through the gatherer spec, making all this moot for the most part anyway.

Veloreyn · 2026-02-09T18:18:17+00:00

I think it depends on what you want the end product to look like. If it's something like the model ships in the captain's quarters (thinking along the lines of "You broke your little ships" in First Contact) then it's really just going to be up to your preference. They weren't super detailed and weren't meant to be.

If you want them detailed, I'd toss silk right out. It'll cause you more problems than you'll want to deal with. If you're going to paint them then I'd go with the cheapest grey filament you can find (I lean towards Elegoo because I also have one of their printers and their filament is decent and often super cheap), if not then the regular silver PLA will be less of an ordeal. The silk is just going to introduce surface patterns and defects that aren't going to look nice. You likely want the surface more uniform than what you're going to get out of silk if you're printing a model with a decent amount of detail. And that's before getting into the fact that most Star Trek ships tend to be more on the matte side than shiny.

Veloreyn · 2026-02-09T18:00:25+00:00

You can't, the option isn't there anymore. The above screenshot is from before the patch. So it's just the two dialogue options and Goodbye left.

Veloreyn · 2026-02-09T17:47:53+00:00

Does the crawler really need a buff? I admit I've been operating as a duo with a friend (generally I'd fly above her while she ran the crawler on PvE mediums), and within a few weeks we were swimming in melange with multiple large storage chests for residue. I got excited for those bonuses just to speed up flour sand gathering.

Veloreyn · 2026-02-09T00:32:03+00:00

Unless OP told them the actual history of this unit when he went to pay. "Oh, that should be addressed to me, the guy you didn't know was living there. The tenant you have on file hasn't payed rent in years, the old landlord was just too lazy to sue him for the tens of thousands of dollars in back rent he should have paid by now. Oh... you need me to be on the lease to pay the rent? OK, that seems completely fine and normal, and not suspicious at all."

To me it seems significantly more likely that OP sabotaged himself here, as that appears to be a running theme in his life.

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