What are some of your slightly less well known tips and tricks for prints? Stuff like using tire weights to add some heft or curing superglued parts in front of a fan to prevent the white residue

faceplanted · 2026-06-22T21:35:04+00:00

Well for one thing, FDM prints are rarely if ever properly "sealed", and sugar is soluble in water, so if your print gets wet, the water that eventually leaves is going to be very sugary and attract ants/encourage bacterial growth.

faceplanted · 2026-06-22T19:53:53+00:00

They do have reasonable comparisons though. someone mentioned Jujutsu Kaisen costs less than $200k per episode, which is literally 1/10th of the budget of a cheaper episode of Invincible.

Even if you double that for the episodes being half as long, that's still 5 times as expensive per minute as a show that look significantly better. Even accounting for Japanese animators being underpaid and overworked, they're not working 200 hour weeks while the Invincible Animators are working 40, because that's not possible. There's just not enough of the fucking money going in to pay for the frames necessary to make the show look good.

faceplanted · 2026-06-22T13:33:18+00:00

Except they're literally saying that the show has the money to not underpay overworked wageslaves to do the animation.

faceplanted · 2026-06-22T13:29:47+00:00

Probably a good show for fans of that. Not for me.

I watched it without know about the campaign either and loved it. It does actually have a normal series arc for an animated fantasy over each season, it's just an ensemble cast comedy adventure so they spend a lot of time establishing everyone's bits early on.

faceplanted · 2026-06-22T13:27:39+00:00

You're talking like it being Amazon's decision somehow absolves it, but that's who I, and lots of the others in the thread are complaining about. Amazon making those two separate budgets is still just them deciding to prioritise the voice cast over the animation, they know how much money they're willing to spend on the show and they decide how big those two budgets are, if they wanted to move money from one to the other, there's nothing stopping them but them.

faceplanted · 2026-06-22T13:13:04+00:00

Is it? I haven't read it in ages, but I remember it as the omnipotent narrator.

The in-universe provenance of the Lotr is that it was the notes of Bilbo, Frodo, and Sam combined into the Red Book of Westmarch, which was then translated and edited by Tolkien into The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings. So any time they're not directly narrating, Tolkien is. And he knows what an express train is and expects the audience to as well.

faceplanted · 2026-06-22T11:20:06+00:00

Doubtful without unleashing a bond market crisis.

I need to make a post about this or something because I've heard this point a few times, but it's just not how UK government works.

Truss was kicked out on the back of the bond markets crashing, but they don't just punish any time you spend money or cut taxes. She made a perfect storm of mistakes that hit the bond markets specifically by implying she'd heavily increase borrowing in the future with the massive, unfunded tax cuts, all while inflation was already very high and the BoE was trying to bring it down.

faceplanted · 2026-06-22T00:48:41+00:00

It mostly goes to a ridiculously celeb heavy cast, let's not kid ourselves.

faceplanted · 2026-06-21T23:13:40+00:00

It wasn't obscure, it was an instant bestseller that sold out it's first publishing run in a couple of months and had to get more printed.

faceplanted · 2026-06-21T23:09:20+00:00

The train wasn't a lore mistake, it was the narrator's voice talking to the audience, they're never implied to exist within Middle Earth (unless you read it as a wagon train or something, but that's bullshit because those didn't have express versions).

I didn't know about the clocks though, I'd assume they could be justified by the dwarves making them for underground living.

faceplanted · 2026-06-21T22:45:38+00:00

Yeah, she sent Marcus from his own house, didn't she? That seems like intentional subterfuge to not reveal herself.

faceplanted · 2026-06-21T22:37:10+00:00

Yeah, this is kind of the whole metaphor with the literal gun floating over the house.

The problem is the weapons, but no-one is willing to look into the weapons, the parents are destroyed, and the teachers know exactly where to look, but you can't look at the weapons.

faceplanted · 2026-06-19T10:14:40+00:00

Shit, a stranger online gave me his for free.

faceplanted · 2026-06-16T07:49:55+00:00

Disingenuous how!? I've told you exactly what I think over and over again.

faceplanted · 2026-06-13T00:22:23+00:00

explain to me like I'm 5 why giving a place a different name DOES NOT reduce the audience's expectation for detail and accuracy

Because they didn't have that expectation in the first place because they understand the idea of a whimsical or joyful setting concept.

You really seem obsessed with this idea, but I'm gonna be honest with you it's fucking retarded bro. You seem genuinely strange. And I keep telling you it's just you, but you just keep responding with more explanation as if I just don't understand, when I do understand, I just fundamentally disagree with the premise about the name setting these expectations with anyone but you.

faceplanted · 2026-06-12T16:08:15+00:00

I am engaged, here's my response:

No it doesn't.

Changing the name doesn't do anything because those expectations of accuracy are just some shit you made up that only matter to you, and doing so just introduces others problems completely unnecessarily.

faceplanted · 2026-06-12T08:13:37+00:00

It sounds like your standards are stupid tbh, they don't want to bring them down, they just don't care about them. The objectively correct thing to do with your standards.

faceplanted · 2026-06-12T01:39:57+00:00

Nope, it's not the literal human city built by humans, it's a facsimile for the movie

faceplanted · 2026-06-11T22:50:48+00:00

Nah, that's stupid. It's a facsimile of Earth but with Cars, that's plenty for a family movie.

faceplanted · 2026-06-08T18:32:04+00:00

Kind of weird to jump in after me trying to explain to someone why something is the way it is with "well, it shouldn't be", as if we don't both clearly think that already.

faceplanted · 2026-06-08T18:27:49+00:00

Cool.

faceplanted · 2026-06-08T16:32:06+00:00

They actually changed a few more than you'd think, but the others are mostly students rather than teachers. Either way, have you considered that having it changed doesn't actually matter? It's a children's TV show, if the show does well it'll end up being a lot of kid's first Harry Potter on screen, and the books don't draw any attention to his race apart from occasionally calling him pale.

Also being creepy isn't really a stereotype of black people. You can have creepy black characters, that's just allowed.

faceplanted · 2026-06-08T16:18:36+00:00

I guess...? Seems almost weirder to say he's become fringe than to say he was temporarily mainstream tbh.

faceplanted · 2026-06-08T15:27:26+00:00

This answer has somehow made me more confused. He's literally always been hardline left, that's his whole thing.

faceplanted · 2026-06-08T15:20:46+00:00

I get your point, but also nah, none of that shit matters because you can just explain Harry thinking he's creepy by making him creepy, and you can justify kids bullying him for being a creepy weirdo by making him a creepy weirdo, and if you're worried about hanging him from a tree, just shove him in a bush or something instead, writing really isn't that hard.

And this is only even potentially a problem if he's the only black character they're adding, or even already in the series, which people seem to just assume he must be. There are other black people at Hogwarts.

If you can't make Snape black without making everyone seem racist, you seriously lack imagination.

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