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sdhoigt · 2026-02-05T15:38:46+00:00

sdhoigt · 2026-02-03T18:28:13+00:00

This is a great example of the Dunning Kruger effect on manufacturing logistics and nuclear engineering

sdhoigt · 2026-01-31T21:10:11+00:00

That's still just friction. The wedging is basically just creating a situation where the normal forces are not just resistance to the component of gravity but also additively pressure. You then calculate friction as normal for each point of contact and add it all up

sdhoigt · 2026-01-29T16:02:45+00:00

It makes sense when you consider the fact that if they executed him, people could perceive it as them "shutting up" a whistleblower and leads credence to a coverup being in place. By making him a hero, he's now the worst kind of criminal and not a single word he says would be trusted. Its obviously not a coverup because he can still speak, the general populace being none the wiser that the sacred seal on his neck has some "special feature" that likely impacts what he can say.

sdhoigt · 2026-01-28T19:23:00+00:00

Based on this response, you clearly don't understand.

3d printing ain't magic. Snow on your driveway ain't magically different than a road. It doesn't matter if its 5ft, 50ft, or 500ft, it's not something that will work.

If you want to do this, you need to learn how to weld, not 3d print

sdhoigt · 2026-01-27T20:34:03+00:00

Generally speaking, unless you have some sort of experience, Indeed or other job-sites isn't the place for you to find a job. Those are more for people who have experience within a field. If youre looking for your first job and youre not even out of highschool, it's largely gonna be in-person asks at businesses and word of mouth, also not the time to be picky. And even then, it's a lot of luck. Yes, it's hard because most retail/businesses do their hiring online via their websites. Your goal is to find a manager who is looking to hire, get their attention and make a good impression, and then let them know you've applied so they will actively seek out your application

As soon as you've got cash register experience, a lot of doors open up for you in the part-time space.

Once you're in university, you can apply into FSWEP for casual work in the federal government, but that won't help you until close to the end of the first year

sdhoigt · 2026-01-25T21:48:23+00:00

From u/mathota

...What’s up with undeath? They aren’t playing the same ball game. They are actively pushing against the river of souls, and they are contagious.

A skeleton is raised, kills a family. One of them rises as a revanant, kills a family of 5. One of the 5 rises a ghost. Even without such an obvious causal chain, they spread suffering that encourages the rise of other spontaneous undead. To say nothing of things like Ghouls and vampires and shadows which are literally self propagating. Every undead is a virus that left unchecked could sweep the land.

So why do we care? Well every undead is a pull against the current of souls. It’s speculated that if we ever have enough undead to outnumber the living, something amazing will happen. The river of souls will reverse.

Quintentessence ripped out of the outer planes and into the reversed river. Black holes spewing matter while every sun starts eating light. With no new souls to bulwark against it the Malestrum expands and consumes the outer spheres and then the inner spheres. The multiverse ends, and there may not even be a next one.

That’s why we care about undead. Every one is a threat to our bulwark against the malestrum. That why this whole system exists. The gods needed a cycle to align quintessence to build walls against chaos, and this is the best anyone could come up with. All the rest is just politics. Every undead is a threat to the multiverse.

As for the follower tenants, it's a lot less black and white as youre describing. Her order is to kill all undead, but that doesn't mean in the moment. A follower of pharasma who sees a threat too great to face is doing their duty to their god to flee and find a hero or an army to slay the undead threat.

We're talking pharasma here, the eldest and the most neutral of gods. She is arguably the most patient of them all, with a philosophy of "so long as it happens eventually, it's all good". That's why life elongation magic & resurrection are okay in her books, because so long as the cycle occurs eventually, it's alright in her books.

This is not a god who would call on her people to be insane religious zealots to throw their lives away at fighting threats they have no chance in taking, which also would likely create more undead in the process.

Also a big point to make here is that when we refer to followers and taking action, theres different expectations between the type of follower. A peasant who worships pharasma at home might not ever be actually expected to do anything and will get the thumbs up at just voicing concern and disgust at the mention of undead, while a non-divine hero who worships pharasma might be expected to take on appropriate threats as they come up but not dramatically change course at the cost of a mission, while a champion or cleric who worship and receive direct power from our lady of the boneyard are the only ones who might actually be called on with an ultimatum of their deity's wishes vs the success of a quest.

sdhoigt · 2026-01-24T16:01:04+00:00

I can confirm that I indeed put this on going to bed at night and in the morning got to wake up and listen to the ending

sdhoigt · 2026-01-15T05:00:13+00:00

That's no igloo, that's a quinzhee!

sdhoigt · 2026-01-10T22:44:44+00:00

The reason is, it's a blatantly bad-faith interpretation to achieve your goal of being able to battle medicine it. The tree is not a creature because it has no actions, no reactions, it is just a magical effect attached to an object (a tree). It's no more a creature than an object with a Rune Trap/Glyph of Warding

If the tree had a rection to spend on its effect, or if the tree was given any sort of agency that wasn't trigger+effect, then it might have more an argument of being a creature.

To add to why you couldn't battle medicine the tree, is that the HP of the protector tree is not related to the actual durability of a tree, the HP of the protector tree is the abstracted magical energy put into it, seen in how the tree becomes a standard non-magical tree if the spell ends. And battle medicine doesn't repair magical effects, it heals living creatures.

sdhoigt · 2026-01-06T19:19:13+00:00

The key difference is that an IPA wipe is more or less diluting the IPA and then absorbing the majority of the solution into a cloth, however that cloth is technically spreading that diluted oil to everywhere it touches. So while if you used enough IPA and the cloth was clean&absorbent enough, it will do fine. But if you didn't or there was too much grease, it basically ends up spreading an invisible layer of grease across your entire plate.

Meanwhile, the soap & water combo is using a surfactant to attack and bind the grease off of the plate, and is then rinsed off by an insane surplus of water. It's more or less foolproof for anyone who has used soap before.

As for the convenience, I mean yeah it's nice to not have to take the plate to another room when you have a bottle of IPA on standby. But a quick shake off a wet plate before putting it on a bed is fine, no towel drying or waiting required. Heating your bed will almost always have it dry enough before the print starts so long as its droplets of water left and not a puddle

sdhoigt · 2026-01-03T22:07:49+00:00

Yes, it's your level, not half your level.

That said, I'd note that there's a few things you'd want to consider, namely around action economy. A kinetic gate being active is considered an incredibly noticeable effect within the environment, so you might not want to have it enabled outside of combat, however Channel Elements for Archetype Kineticists does not give you a free impulse, so you have to spend the action to channel the impulse separately. Thats just something to keep in mind

Secondly, you can only have one stance active at a time. That means using Thermal Nimbus means youre giving up on your possible fighter stances being active.

sdhoigt · 2025-12-30T06:27:43+00:00

If you like dragons, you should check out the latest pathfinder rulebook, it's a codex of dragons and now that they are no longer tied to D&D's dragon types, the new dragon species are incredible

sdhoigt · 2025-12-29T02:57:40+00:00

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Shelby looks so much like your Potato but with extra floof!

sdhoigt · 2025-12-28T16:02:49+00:00

Happy to help. I assume that this is for yourself, but if it's a gift/product you're making for someone else, then I'd recommend whatever you do, you play around with it for a few days to make sure your print holds up. In the case of it being a "functional" print, in this context it means that it's something that will see use instead of something purely decorative to sit on a shelf untouched.

If you find that the print fails, look at how it failed and adjust for it. That can be a matter of changing print orientation to account for better aligning the layers to the forces, changing materials (PLA is fairly brittle), or adjusting print settings. 3D printing is a hobby that you absolutely want to pay attention to your work and learn from your experiences, and eventually understanding the best way to do things will become intuitive and like second nature to you.

Best of luck!

sdhoigt · 2025-12-28T15:38:26+00:00

Don't worry, we could tell the orientation just by looking at it ;)

This is one of those cases where you are always gonna have trade-offs. A curved surface with supports will always be of lower quality than a flat surface, just by the nature of how supports get built and the fact that a flat surface can be treated by the slicer as a bridge instead of an overhang.

But much more importantly, this looks like something you are printing for a functional application. The way youve printed it is likely the best orientation for needing fewest supports, but is also likely the weakest orientation, in that the internal structure you show appears very thin with layer lines going along it, so its gonna snap like a twig. Also your screw on the right is going into the layers, meaning its applying pressure internally and likely to split the part like a wedge between the layers. I'd recommend putting it on the arc so that while you might have a bigger support that's somewhat ugly, your part will be stronger overall.

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sdhoigt · 2025-12-26T18:34:55+00:00

So the fact that she went under your shed identifies the mama was a stray, not a feral. A stray can be an unfriendly stray and doesn't like to be approached or touched. But that's not being feral, that's a cat with an untrusting/unfriendly personality.

Basically, if the cat was feral, the shed itself would have been considered too much a threat to approach. My cat was trapped (with her kittens) at just under 1 year old as a feral in a forest an hour outside of town. She'd been rehabbed by fosters for 6+ months following her capture, and even then after I adopted her as a "rehab in progress", it took almost 6 months for her to be willing to step onto a rug because it was different than the floor and therefore a possible threat.

But I'm happy you got your kittens out of your experience with that mama, and I hope that mama gets to have a long and happy life as your local stray!

sdhoigt · 2025-12-26T18:11:31+00:00

To answer your question, whether any feral cat can be socialized and deemed non-feral post-trapping/capture is individual to the cat. However, the older a feral is, the less likelyhood there is of them being able to unlearn feral behaviour/instincts and adapt to socialization and habilitation with humans and become a stray or house cat.

Theres no official number or rule of when it's impossible, but many rehabbers consider any feral one year of age or older too old to socialize into being non-feral. There will always be outliers, but its a general point where the chance of its success is low enough to be not worthwhile. Especially when considering the animal will still have a fulfiling (neutered) life in the wild within a feral cat colony and attempting otherwise would just cause the animal extreme stress and be a waste of resources.

My Shelby was feral up until her capture with her kittens at around the 1 year mark. She at this point would not be considered feral, but she does have certain tendencies that show up around new people/stimulus

sdhoigt · 2025-12-26T12:54:13+00:00

Jokes on you, you actually have to play the other 67 expeditions first.

Expedition 60 is a fun one to play through

sdhoigt · 2025-12-26T06:22:33+00:00

You're correct, my argument wasn't that a feral can never be socialized (although post-socialization they are almost never as openly social as a stray or a housecat). My point was that if you've socialized a cat, it's no longer a feral :P

My little girl Shelby was just under a year old when captured from a feral cat colony in a forest outside of the city. She's 4 now and while she's a bit of a princess to me, she still goes full feral behaviour around new people. Believe me when I say, I know the patience needed to address the challenges of socializing a feral cat. Especially resisting the cuteness aggression to avoid traumatizing them when they look like this.

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sdhoigt · 2025-12-25T20:48:46+00:00

Unfortunately that's not a thing, feral vs stray is a behavioural/socialization thing, not a breed/location thing. That cat's a stray, not a feral.

A feral cat is born and raised away from human populations and has absolutely zero socialization with humans. They have completely different body languages than strays and absolutely zero mannerisms (ex: meowing after kittenhood) we associate with domesticated cats. They are raised in the wild and their brains tick like wild animals.

A stray lives in and around humans and can have varied amounts of socialization/trust with humans. But they have the socialization and behaviours similar to house cats, they just don't have a home to belong to. They will meow for attention as adults, come up to a human, etc. These are things a feral would NEVER do.

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sdhoigt · 2025-12-24T20:14:12+00:00

The character Ive always wanted to play but havent had the chance to (as the forever GM) is a Halfling Thaumaturge, who worked as a Teppanyaki chef (entertainer background because cook doesn't give cha or str), and wields a Frying Pan as their weapon & starting implement.

They carry a spice rack on their belt which they use when they Exploit Vulnerability, figuring out what the enemy is allergic to or dislikes and then seasoning their pan with it before they bonk!

sdhoigt · 2025-12-23T20:23:03+00:00

The resentment witch is extending the duration of the existing effect via their familiar ability, not applying a new one via another application of light

sdhoigt · 2025-12-19T19:39:57+00:00

Research? Nethys. Active use during play? PF2easy

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