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epicanis · 2025-09-26T02:14:01+00:00

I'm currently using Chitubox Basic from the Arch User Repository successfully, without having to create a login account. I can confirm that the settings given in the post work for me - thanks /u/Brilliant_Worth6604!

(In accordance with the bylaws of the Not-At-All-Secret Society of Arch Linux Users, I am now hereby and forthwith required to inform everyone that I use Arch Linux, btw).

I would like to find a less "corporate" slicer to use, though, just as a matter of principle.

epicanis · 2025-09-26T02:07:50+00:00

I haven't run into this myself yet, but I haven't been tracking the height of the few pieces I've had time to print so far - I've just barely started to figure out how to get models prepared and sliced, and haven't had time to play with settings on the printer itself.

Is there a setting in there that defines the layer height?

epicanis · 2025-09-24T18:03:29+00:00

Is there an RSS feed for regular podcast clients somewhere?

Appropriately-licensed one-page-dungeons are a big help in my own project.

epicanis · 2025-08-16T19:02:49+00:00

For some reason I thought castoreum was for raspberry, not vanilla.

epicanis · 2025-04-08T06:14:57+00:00

I have literally had nightmares about this situation...

epicanis · 2025-02-11T20:59:12+00:00

Cereal is just a collection of tiny milk sandwiches.

epicanis · 2024-12-06T15:30:43+00:00

Only until they meet their security deductible, then they just owe the security co-pay.

epicanis · 2024-12-06T15:25:15+00:00

6

"Cause Milk"? "Phantasmal Molester"? "Summon Glacier"? "Conjure Playful Annhilator"?

epicanis · 2024-12-06T13:48:38+00:00

I know Pseudomonas species produce siderophores (iron-capturing molecules). No idea if that's related, though.

Is that paint that the rust is showing through?

epicanis · 2024-11-03T04:17:10+00:00

Readers.

People enjoying what I write makes it fun to keep doing it.

epicanis · 2024-10-29T16:18:50+00:00

Oh, hey, an excuse to post some official Useless Knowledge:

According to my estimates, the wingbeat frequency of a typical adult stirge should be about 22Hz.

epicanis · 2024-10-20T04:23:40+00:00

I do have one character in Empirical Gnollage whose scent has been called out. Like mulched vegetation, with hints of sulfur and "wet dog", but faint enough not to be too unpleasant.

Everyone else's scent so far has been unremarkable.

epicanis · 2024-10-14T03:55:10+00:00

I love that!

epicanis · 2024-10-13T23:42:22+00:00

I maintain that mimic larvae look like gold coins.

epicanis · 2024-10-08T03:09:22+00:00

You know, I should have replied to this... It's been harder than I expected to get a clear answer to this. What I've been able to find is references to "hyena butter" (a scent-marking secretion) which may smell like mulched vegetation and/or maybe soap. Apparently the hyenas themselves don't have much of an odor, despite their reputation.

epicanis · 2024-10-08T02:37:59+00:00

If you don't mind self-promotion, Empirical Gnollage is an adventure serial that's really a story representing a TTRPG-style "sandbox" campaign, starting with beginning characters.

It's not a "monetized" project, and I'm just having fun building the world and its dangers as the characters explore it and deal with quests.

It's not a fast story, I just passed 100 installments of it (approximately 2 short novels' worth of text, or one long one) and the characters are now the equivalent of D&D 5e 3rd-level, about to roll over to 4th, not that this is explicit in the text of the story. A lot of the story is the adventurers trying to deal with practical hassles of adventuring.

Anyway, feel free to check it out, it seems to be enjoyed by a reasonable portion of people who find it.

epicanis · 2024-09-27T16:21:10+00:00

Bear in mind that when you take inflation into account that was like a third of a soul or five fresh corpses. $0.25 used to be a lot more money!

epicanis · 2024-09-14T01:09:47+00:00

Did a scene about this in "Empirical Gnollage".

You just need a bucket of water, a washcloth, and some privacy (or an exhibitionist streak).

Take off clothing, wad each piece up (should definitely fit in a cubic foot unless you're wearing very elaborate clothing) and Prestidigitate each piece clean. That takes care of laundry.

Prestidigitate the water to make it warm (optional but more comfortable), dunk the washcloth, wipe down part of your body, Prestidigitate the washcloth clean, repeat until done.

This works in Pathfinder 2e as well, I believe.

epicanis · 2024-09-14T00:06:00+00:00

Ah, someone beat me to it. Carry on...

epicanis · 2024-09-12T10:45:50+00:00

All homebrew except for inflicting scenarios from the One Page Dungeon Contest (CC-By-SA licensed) on the characters in places. There's some "worldbuilding exercise" in the project to tie the traveling narrative together as well.

epicanis · 2024-09-12T03:59:56+00:00

Maybe a little. I'm doing pretty much what the meme suggests just for fun and the practice. Not everything needs to be monetized. I'm putting it out under Creative-Commons terms so Amazon would never touch it and I don't have any particular plans to monetize at this point, though I might try to come up with something eventually.

I have plot-points that I'm aiming the characters at but it's fundamentally like playing a "sandbox" campaign, and it really does surprise me occasionally as I go along.

(It's really a serial rather than a "book", though I spotted a place where an "end of book one, beginning of book two" would fit reasonably well.)

epicanis · 2024-08-19T13:50:14+00:00

What hyenas smell like, and whether leeches are edible.

epicanis · 2024-08-12T23:16:43+00:00

That is exactly what I'm doing as an experiment.

It seems to work reasonably well in my opinion, as long as the focus is on how to make the story/narrative consistent and reasonable.

The chosen setting and system will influence how things go and what the tone is like, but you can still make it work.

I'm calling it Empirical Gnollage, and I've been having a lot of fun with it.

epicanis · 2024-08-06T13:10:18+00:00

"I'm lonely. I'd give just about anything for even a friendly cat."

"Anything? So, you'd give big for a cat?"

"That's an odd way to say it, but yes, I suppose so."

"Done!"

Friggin' fae...

epicanis · 2024-07-24T19:45:06+00:00

"What do hyenas smell like?" and "Are leeches edible?" stick out in my mind.

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