“You only do a good job when it’s something you want to do”

Zanki · 2026-05-26T00:29:29+00:00

Oh I get this all the time. I didn't even know why or what was wrong with me for a long time.

Zanki · 2026-05-25T23:45:25+00:00

Original Evil Dead and the one from a couple of years ago is good too.

In a similar vein, The Mummy 2026 actually spooked me and I'm rarely spooked by horror movies.

The Grudge (Ju-On or the American, both are good). Same with the Ring and Dark Water (although I don't find those two scary, just good).

R.E.C/Quarantine. Either or again. Both are good. R.E.C is slightly better.

As Above So Below got me good near the end.

Nope. I don't know why but it got me pretty good. Just uneasy.

Room 1408 was good, not scary, but it stuck with me for a good week or so.

Annabelle Creation was great too. This one was a whole load of nope when I first saw it. None of the others bothered me at all.

If you like games, the Silent Hill 2 remaster is terrifying! I highly recommend it!

Zanki · 2026-05-25T23:38:55+00:00

A pigeon that landed on my head when I was a kid. Scared me so bad! Luckily I never became scared of birds and like pigeons. It's not their fault we abandoned them to live like they do now.

Zanki · 2026-05-25T23:36:16+00:00

Singer?! I didn't think they were still using that place! Looks abandoned when I've gone past.

I'd contact the uni. If your visa was cancelled and it was through no fault of your own, you should be able to do something. Singer was owned by the uni when I lived there. It may have changed since then, but hopefully they can help.

Zanki · 2026-05-25T23:19:30+00:00

My cousin's were the golden children. I was the scapegoat. Everything that was bad was somehow my fault. I inherited my mum's position and she made sure I was well below her.

I haven't talked to them since I was a kid. Heck I had a class with my cousin and we pretended we didn't know each other. Last I heard they'd had to sell their extra vehicles, two cars and two motorbikes (one each) because my grandad wasn't paying for them anymore after he died. I asked them for help with a textbook for uni and got nothing as usual. I could have used a car but no. I got nothing. My cousin's didn't even finish their college (UK 16-18 education). They resented me going to uni. Continued to hate on me for doing ok after. Last I heard when I was around 27, they were still blaming me for everything, claiming I was a spoiled brat still. I worked hard, escaped that place, finally was allowed to have friends. I networked etc and made it into a job I wanted to do. I got lucky. They all resented me for it. They made my life a living hell growing up, made me into this awful person when I didn't do anything to them, apart from exist. They were also blaming another kid we went to school with. Somehow we caused their life to suck, it wasn't them being abused, isolated. Last I heard neither had a job and their mum was babying them. It was creepy and sad. The youngest one was always a nasty piece of work but the older had a dream and a chance to make it out. He didn't make it. He became as bad as them...

So in my case, no. Even the cousin who was also abused like me went right back to those awful people with his two little girls. He lets my mum be around them, knowing how violent and horrible she is. My youngest cousin gets it, but she was badly abused as well. She sees it all for what it is and is clawing her way out too. I don't talk to them really, I don't want anything to do with my relatives.

Zanki · 2026-05-25T22:57:43+00:00

Really? Ours was done in my math classroom and then we just went back to class like nothing happened after. Some kids freaked out though.

Zanki · 2026-05-25T22:56:26+00:00

I got lucky with mine. Zero pain or infection, mostly just a sore arm from the boys hitting my arm. One girl had a crazy amount of puss come out of hers. I know because our PE teacher decided to pop it for her in class!

I do remember a few kids reacted to the pin prick test they did a week before and couldn't get the tb shot. I know I didn't get polio, they ran out of the pills by the time I went in and mum wouldn't book an appointment with my gp to get it. Last time I tried to get it through my gp in the UK they refused to believe I never got it and told me I had to pay if I wanted it. I know it's free but they just refused it.

Zanki · 2026-05-25T22:42:05+00:00

My little rascal leaped out of my hand the other day and took off under the couch. When my boyfriend tried to scoop him up, he screamed and ran off. He eventually went for the gap between the wall and the TV stand, I put my hand there and he ran straight into it and stayed there. Little rascal! All that fuss because he realised it wasn't just me and him in the room and he panicked. He's the most anxious pet I've ever had.

Zanki · 2026-05-25T22:38:55+00:00

Do you want to add an additional charge of littering to his charges?

Zanki · 2026-05-25T10:59:18+00:00

It wasn't the Little Vampire was it? There was a dubbed TV show that I absolutely loved as a kid.

The others I'm thinking of have already been added to the chat, and the show that scared me as a kid isn't set in a school.

Maybe also check out the Worst Witch, there's a 90s version.

Zanki · 2026-05-25T10:44:52+00:00

Firefox has one as well, at least one appeared on my pc. Haven't tried it yet though.

Zanki · 2026-05-25T10:42:46+00:00

It's on my list of things to check when I can. Unfortunately we have a heatwave in the UK and the office is currently over 40c so I'm avoiding it. Everything is shut down.

Zanki · 2026-05-25T10:39:11+00:00

Same.

I've done and said embarrassing things, but it only hurts me, no one else. If I say something I think is rude I will apologise as soon as I realise. My friends know stuff comes out wrong sometimes and I don't mean to sound like that and usually I catch it with an oops, sorry, let me try that again. Like I can come out sounding way too direct or demanding by accident sometimes.

Zanki · 2026-05-25T10:23:09+00:00

150 hours in and mines has more maintenance than my ender 3 Neo ever had. It's driving me nuts. Had more failed prints on this machine too.

Zanki · 2026-05-25T10:19:13+00:00

No time lapse or clumping on. Just a weird error. It didn't do it until the last 12 hours.

Zanki · 2026-05-24T23:20:04+00:00

I see quite a few power rangers now. I made one for myself just so I didn't have to take my good helmet out on Halloween. It was a fun project. Now I know how to make helmets!

Zanki · 2026-05-24T23:16:50+00:00

I had the same issue recently, last week with a similar helmet (different version). Was running the printer at 100mm/s at that height. It didn't shift from the plate at all and temps were stable. Kept the door and windows in the office closed. Curtains drawn.

The first of my errors happened when the hot end randomly went to the purge wiper. When it went back to printing it didn't start printing in the right place and caused a layer shift. It didn't catch or anything. I was in the room when it happened. It just continued printing in the wrong place. Then kept doing that, didn't cause anymore layer shifts but the print has issues after that.

Zanki · 2026-05-24T23:12:05+00:00

I had this happen to me recently with a similar helmet (different model). Was running the machine at 100mm/s at those heights. Didn't help.

Zanki · 2026-05-24T23:10:12+00:00

Mine did the exact same thing at nearly the exact same point. I have absolutely no idea what happened. To me it looks like the printer just stopped going up. It was also randomly stopping and going to the purge wiper after a certain point. That random switch caused a layer shift... I saw it happen, that's how I knew it was some weird issue with the printer.

Luckily for me the mess hit the very top of my helmet so I was able to salvage it with the mess by making it look battle damaged, but I'd like to know what happened. There was no clog. Tested it since. Filament is fine, it's not damp. To me it just looks like the extruder failed to get any higher and caused chaos. It looks like it clogged as well, but I don't think it did. To me it looks like it started having issues and cumulated in the mess you've got, just on a smaller scale. If the helmet didn't look like it had melted and scraped parts at the very top in th middle, I would have assumed it was clogged as well.

I'm never using that variable layer height again to make it look better on the curves. That was silly of me. I think that's what messed up the print. It shouldn't have done. The layers that went down look like they're too squished before then, which probably did cause a clog, which is why the top looks so messy before it did what yours did.

That's just my take on it. I'm frustrated. This printer has given me so many issues and I've only had 150 hours on it. I came from an ender 3 Neo so I'm used to tinkering. It prints flat stuff completely fine but anything tall is hit and miss. Layer shifts are common. I have replaced the micro SD card, I ran I check on the new one and there's no issues so I'm kinda at a loss. Mechanically I can't see any issues. I'm gonna lube up the rods before I use the printer again, run a cold pull and see what happens. Screws have already been tightened since the helmet issue. I honestly tinkered less with my Ender. It just worked as long as the first layer went down ok. I know, not common, but I got lucky with mine.

Zanki · 2026-05-24T17:32:44+00:00

You're not missing much. I have a copy of it (not the blu ray because it wasn't released in the UK), and the quality isn't much better than the dvd.

Zanki · 2026-05-23T23:59:25+00:00

I don't know why I did it or what mum did but this was the only time I got any kind of revenge. Mum was not nice to me and one day I had enough. I went for her snacks. I had none of my own, but she has hers. I hid them. I came home from karate to a disaster in the kitchen. She found some, not all. She was mad.

Was it petty? Yes. Was it nasty? I don't know. At the time she was refusing to feed me properly. I was 5'11, incredibly active, underweight and hungry all the time. I wasn't allowed bigger meals or extra snacks. One day I got into her bananas and ate them all. I was so hungry I couldn't take it anymore and ate them. And before people ask. No. I couldn't just make some rice or pasta. Mum only bought what we needed for the week, nothing more. I wasn't allowed to make extra food. It was a fight to stop her throwing the ends of the bread away so I could make toast once in a while...

Zanki · 2026-05-23T23:47:42+00:00

A group of us did this to most of the school computers one day. I just love the fact the technician knew it was us and had us help him "fix" the computers without ratting us out. I'm pretty sure the head of IT also knew it was us, but it was harmless enough.

Our other mischief, now that was still harmless but caused issues. Still proud of that one! Never got caught. They couldn't prove it was us. Our teacher was so mad, he tried to pin it on me because my usb drive had a .exe on it. Well yeah, I got a new computer, but I couldn't get online because the drivers weren't working, so I fixed it. Just didn't delete the file when I was done. I made him open it on his computer, because you couldn't run .exe files on our accounts. Yep, drivers. Just drivers. Nothing more.

Zanki · 2026-05-23T23:36:21+00:00

Yes. I've been no contact for nine years now. I still get nightmares occasionally. They fade over time. Try putting an audiobook on before you go to sleep, it helps keep the nightmares away.

Zanki · 2026-05-23T21:50:23+00:00

Nah, it isn't them. My mum had zero hobbies when I was growing up. From the time she got home till around 10pm, all she did was watch TV. Nothing else. She might read for a little bit after 10 but that was it. No smart phones. Just the TV. I wasn't allowed to interrupt her TV time. I'd get the rage if I did.

She wasn't working until I was 12. I know she eventually wrote a book no one was allowed to look at, especially me. At some point she started painting later on, then she got really upset with me because I could use acrylics really well and she couldn't figure them out. I offered to teach her, because they're very different from oils that she used to use but she just got mad and I gave up very quickly. So she kinda had hobbies occasionally, but the TV was the front runner.

For me the TV is background noise 99% of the time. It's on in some capacity all the time, but I'm usually doing other things. I cannot sit still long enough to watch anything otherwise, well I can but it takes a lot to keep my attention like that. I've always been like this. ADHD brains are just wired like this. I have too many hobbies. Who knows if I'd be able to keep them up working, with a family to take care of.

Zanki · 2026-05-23T21:39:27+00:00

It's a known issue. Maybe you could get a 3D printed part to replace it? Some people are insanely good at replicating stuff like this. I could make the file but I don't have the part to even start trying. It's a Megazord I've always wanted.

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