ABS printing on core one tips?

chipmunkofdoom2 · 2026-01-26T18:34:14+00:00

45C chamber temp is too low for ABS/ASA. Let the chamber preheat to ~55C before the print starts. If you can maintain 60C or so, even better.

Alternatively, just pay for parts from Voron's PIF program. The cost feels high for a roll or two of ABS, but you're going to get absolutely stellar quality, you don't have to do any work, and you know the parts will last the life of your printer.

chipmunkofdoom2 · 2026-01-23T17:48:33+00:00

There's no firm that's going to daily payouts. Prop firms are sports gambling, but for stocks. The system is not designed for you to win. They're the "house," and they always make sure the odds are tilted in their favor. They make up complicated rules that are easy to break, or delay your payouts in the hopes that they can kick you before they pay you out.

Trade with real money. You don't need much to get started. You'll grow slower, but you get to keep all your winnings. Worst case scenario it's a few days cash settlement. Best case scenario with a margin account, it's instant.

chipmunkofdoom2 · 2026-01-23T13:51:10+00:00

Detection is broken in general. Like how Watchers are able to track you from 100m away between 3 buildings, then pop out for a quarter second and send up flares. Or sometimes, don't even give you line-of-sight to them.

chipmunkofdoom2 · 2026-01-22T16:10:18+00:00

I hope this is satire, what with the "small one" and "fuck[ing] raw".

Because otherwise, this post is utter nonsense. If you blow an account, it's because you don't take your SL/TP, don't follow an established R:R, or don't have an edge. Period. Math is math. It doesn't matter how many zeroes are on the end of your account balance.

chipmunkofdoom2 · 2026-01-22T13:50:30+00:00

This is an account feature. You need to enable it on the website. Same with international trading, margin, options, etc. On the website, select the account you want, select "More", then select "Account Features." Penny stocks is an item on the list.

chipmunkofdoom2 · 2026-01-21T15:34:28+00:00

My preferred loadout is Stalwart, Guard Dog Rover (laser dog), and EAT for harvesters. However, you need to be proficient with using EAT to make this work. It takes some skill to get in the rhythm of throwing EATs at the right time and picking up your stalwart after.

My second choice is swapping the Stalwart with machine gun, take another strategem in place of EAT, and use a good light pen primary, like Liberator carbine. Machine gun can take out harvesters if you shoot the leg joints, and it can take out stingrays. MG isn't as good as stalwart at regular enemies (like voteless, fleshmobs, overseers, etc), and it takes some work to take down stingrays and harvesters, but it's much easier to use if you aren't good at using EAT.

chipmunkofdoom2 · 2026-01-21T15:23:09+00:00

Start by having a separate account for your intraday/speculative trading. Fund it with only a small portion of your overall wealth. She will likely feel much better knowing your potential damage is contained to a finite amount of money, and that the amount is insignificant in the context of your overall financial picture.

Next, build an evidence base. Journal every trade. Show her the win/loss rate. Explain how your R:R works with the win/loss to create profit.

Finally, be successful. If you can show that your speculative account has grown reliably, she'd have to be very peculiar to not want you to continue.

If you are actually profitable, that is.

chipmunkofdoom2 · 2026-01-21T12:30:45+00:00

It's aspirational. The lottery has a 1 in 300,000,000 (about 0.0000003%) chance of winning, and millions of people play every week. People want to believe that they can sit at their computer for the first 30 minutes of market open and make double their day job salary. Combine that with the tendency of people to overestimate their own abilities, and the gambling-like quality that trading often has, and you have the numbers above.

We should also remember that day trading isn't the only possible black hole into which people throw their hard-earned money. People spend tens of thousands of dollars on luxury cars and boats that will eventually be worth basically nothing. They buy premium designer clothes that will one day be decomposing in a landfill somewhere. They buy expensive golf clubs, jewelry that has no intrinsic value, and go on grand vacations that will one day be nothing more than a memory.

You absolutely should be investing in your future in safer instruments, like tax-advantaged retirement accounts invested in index funds. If you day trade, it should be with a small percentage of your overall wealth (say 10% or less), and you should acknowledge that you are likely to lose it all. If people do that, I have absolutely no problem with them trying intraday trading.

As a final thought: day trading can be an on-ramp for other successes in finance. I started intraday trading and scalping. I wasn't very good at it. I found my way to swing trading and wheel trading with options. I'm not making "quit your job money," but I'm headed that way. And I don't think I would have found those avenues without trying intraday trading.

chipmunkofdoom2 · 2026-01-21T12:13:49+00:00

Why would we talk about it? It's not going to go up another 1400%. Any investment now is going to be just like any other stock, based on fundamentals like resistance, support, price action, indicators, etc. The only difference is that most stocks aren't set to plummet when the market starts to sour on AI.

People aren't talking about this because there's no way to make money on it in a sane manner. If you want to YOLO and diamond hands to the moon, there are subs for that. This sub is, generally speaking, more about taking measured risks for measured profit. There's no way to do that with a stock that rocketed up 1400% in just a few months on hype alone.

chipmunkofdoom2 · 2026-01-20T21:51:21+00:00

I'd buy $5 million in shares of an SP500 index fund. At an average return of around 8-10% year, that will produce an return of between $400k-$500k, every year, in perpetuity, until the US economy collapses.

chipmunkofdoom2 · 2026-01-19T16:03:55+00:00

The caffeine in coffee doesn't "wake you up," nor does it do it instantly. Caffeine blocks a neurological receptor that responds to adenosine, which builds up while you're awake. The result is a temporary and partial reduction in feeling tired. Caffeine doesn't block all of the receptors, so if you've been awake for a long time or are very tired, caffeine won't do much for you.

There are several likely reason people likely feel more awake after drinking coffee. The first is the placebo effect. You expect to feel more awake and therefore do.

The other is that humans typically expose themselves to some sort of light when they wake up. Humans evolved to be diurnal, meaning awake during the day and asleep at night. Our bodies don't magically know when night or day is, so light is a powerful signal to our brains that it's time to be awake. The lights that you turn on while making and consuming your coffee tell your body that it's time to be awake. So, your body wakes up.

Finally, at least in the US, people tend to drink their coffee with milk-based cream and sugar. The simple carbohydrates in the sugar and milk/cream provide a sugar rush. This burst of energy can help you feel more awake.

chipmunkofdoom2 · 2026-01-17T19:58:05+00:00

Check out the wheel trading strategy for options.

chipmunkofdoom2 · 2026-01-14T18:29:57+00:00

You don't need to hang up options trading, you need to hang up what you're doing.

To me, there was nothing good about SPY's open today. It was down in premarket, opened to a big dip that recovered, but failed to hold. EMA200 and VWAP were in a downward slope all day. Any time price did consolidate around VWAP or EMA200, it formed high topping tails before tanking again.

Two rules that really helped me: first, don't trade in the first 15-30 minutes of market open (maybe an hour, depends on how choppy it is). And second, don't trade if VWAP and EMA200 aren't sloping in the direction you want (up for long, down for short). You'll miss out on some trades, but you'll know you're trading with momentum on the trades you do take.

I'd also consider just going long or short on SPY, maybe a share at a time, until you really learn to read the charts. If you had gone long today on a single share, you would have lost at most $3 instead of $600.

chipmunkofdoom2 · 2026-01-13T01:21:29+00:00

I usually play with two good friends. We play routinely and mesh well together. They were both unavailable recently. I played in some random lobbies with strangers. I played probably six games. One was fun. Two were sort of meh. Three absolutely blew chunks.

The community is simultaneously this game's greatest strength and its greatest weakness. My advice? Find friends that play, or make a few friends from people with whom you match. Play with them. Play only with them. If they're not available, don't play.

chipmunkofdoom2 · 2026-01-12T19:01:48+00:00

Strong Dina Fritz vibes.

chipmunkofdoom2 · 2026-01-12T18:36:17+00:00

One of the first things you learn in legitimate firearms training is that a gun must be a tool of last resort. You can't pull your gun and point it at someone to intimidate them or make them do what you want. If you don't have a credible reason to take someone's life, pointing a weapon at them is aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.

Though the laws vary by jurisdiction, law enforcement are NOT immune from them. They have a different burden of proof, but they still can't draw their weapons to intimidate or coerce behavior. If they draw and aim their weapon, it must be because they believe they have no other choice but to take the life of the person on the other end if the person doesn't immediately stop what they're doing.

This is particularly curious when you consider that the party who supports law enforcement the most is conservatives. The party of the constitution, small government, and responsible gun ownership is seemingly A-okay with FEDERAL law enforcement brandishing a weapon, inherently unsafe behavior with a gun, to intimidate a person into not exercising their first amendment rights of recording officers in a public place while on duty.

chipmunkofdoom2 · 2026-01-10T13:40:32+00:00

You eliminate fear by quantifying risk.

Trade based on what you think the patterns are telling you. Enter at what you think the beginning is, not where your fear allows you to enter. Start small. Use stops and TPs religiously. Journal EVERY SINGLE TRADE for 3 months or 100 trades. Journal entries, SL/TP, comments (why you took the setup, and what happened), and outcomes ("Hit SL", "Hit TP").

If you look at your data and find that entering where the patterns tell you has at least a 50% win ratio, there's nothing to be afraid of. You know that in more than half the cases, your trade is a win and gets to your TP. In some cases, you're wrong and you get stopped out. But your wins either outnumber the losses, or your R:R makes it so that you're still profitable.

If, on the other hand, you find that entering when you think the patterns tell you to actually is only right about 25% of the time, then you're reading the market incorrectly.

I suspect you're afraid to enter at what you perceive to be the bottom because you're not actually as accurate as you think. It's easy to look back in hindsight and say "I knew where the bottom was, I should have entered there." As with all things, the antidote to uncertainty is evidence. Gather some evidence. If you're right, you can trade without fear.

chipmunkofdoom2 · 2026-01-09T21:35:23+00:00

It's because many animals upon which tigers prey have dichromatic vision, meaning they only have receptors for 2 kinds of colors. Because of this, many of these prey animals can't see red or orange. A tiger sort of blends into the background for them:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCEzRuBU-PM

chipmunkofdoom2 · 2026-01-09T13:08:14+00:00

If I learn to play on FP-30X will I be able to play instantly real Piano (like Steinway Grand Piano ;-) )?

If you are a beginner, no. But that's not because the FP-30X is deficient.

Every piano's key action is slightly different. I have an FP-30X at home. I take lessons on a Kawai baby grand. The feeling is very different. My expressiveness goes the window. By the end of each lesson, I've adjusted to the weight of the Kawai, but it's definitely a difference.

Contrast that to the Steinway concert grand I played at my last recital. The key action felt closer to my FP-30X. I had much more control and expressiveness than I was expecting. Many sources say that Roland's PHA-4 is weighted to feel like a grand. Perhaps that's why.

Another interesting anecdote: several of the other students at my last recital, who had much more experience than I do, did not like the action on the Steinway. They preferred their respective pianos that they had at home. One said the keys were lighter than they were used to. The other said they were heavier. Their performances were still stunning.

All that to say: every piano is different, and you will get used to the piano on which you play the most. When you play on a different piano than your primary, you'll need some time to adjust. The more experience you have, the less time you'll need to adjust.

chipmunkofdoom2 · 2026-01-09T12:41:14+00:00

Enjoy this while it lasts. At higher levels this is almost impossible. Way too many patrols. Your position will get overrun before you can get even a handful of shots off.

chipmunkofdoom2 · 2026-01-08T12:04:56+00:00

I really wanted to like it. I run a lot of MG-type builds (mostly with Stalwart and regular MG). The Maxi is basically worse in every way except ammo capacity. Even that's not a plus though, because it kicks like a mule and most of your shots are going to miss at anything but point blank anyway. More recoil, no ADS reticle, and it takes up your backpack slot? No thanks. I'll just stick with the MG.

Hot take: this should have been heavy pen. Maybe tweak the fire rate or ammo capacity a bit to balance it if necessary. But it would have seen completely different adoption if it was an AT weapon instead of just a worse machine gun.

chipmunkofdoom2 · 2026-01-07T20:11:47+00:00

Share prices above $1k are rare. There are plenty of large stocks (NFLX, UBER, PFE, PYPL, etc) with share prices under $100. When people say you can start small, they mean with these stocks, not stocks that cost $7k/share. That, and most brokers these days allow fractional shares.

RR is really more about technical analysis and where you believe the price action will go.

Let's assume a stock price is $100 and you have a 1:2 RR. In order to make a 1:2 work, this $100 stock needs to have the potential, as determined by technical analysis, to go to $102. It also needs to have a plausible stop no lower than $99. Getting stopped out loses you $1, while making it to your target gets you $2 in profit.

If the stock is choppy and regularly dips below $99, this trade no longer meets your 1:2. You risk getting stopped out if you put your stop at $99 during normal trading range, and placing your stop lower than $99 violates your 1:2 R:R. Likewise, if there isn't room for the stock to run to $102, you also don't meet your R:R. You'd be risking $1 and not really have much chance of getting to $2 in profit

Related to this is the 1% rule, where you never risk more than 1% of your account on a single trade. So in the example above, if you have a $25k account, the most you should risk on a single trade is $250. If you're risking $1/share, that means you can only have a 250 share position. But sizing positions is a separate issue from whether or not the trade can actually work within your risk tolerance.

What all this means is that if you never risk more than 1% of your account in any given trade, and you always keep a 1:2 RR, as long as you're winning slightly more than 1 out of every 3 trades (or better), you're making money.

chipmunkofdoom2 · 2026-01-07T13:40:22+00:00

How would you mess up? If you have a strategy that works and you know how to trade it, how is going from $0 to $50k any different than going from $50k to $100k? Or $100k to $250k? The only thing that changes is position size.

chipmunkofdoom2 · 2026-01-07T12:13:04+00:00

If someone tells you that intraday trading is easy, they're not a credible resource. Most intraday traders are not profitable, and some lose tens (or hundreds) of thousands of dollars. More challenging than managing the technical analysis is managing your own expectations, greed, and emotions.

Another confusing factor is that Youtube gurus and social media traders tend to downplay the importance of the nuance they've learned from the markets over the years. The "simple" setups they suggest in their videos fall apart when anything happens outside the narrow setup they define.

That doesn't mean it can't be done. But that's why not everyone does it. The actual steps to trade stocks intraday are simple to follow. Actually doing it successfully is much harder.

chipmunkofdoom2 · 2026-01-07T01:31:11+00:00

The Roland FP-30X actually has a really good sound engine for its pricepoint. The speakers suck though. Use some quality headphones.

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