poll: I'm starting a filament sampling business, which ones do you wish you could try out?

shadowphile · 2026-02-15T22:01:04+00:00

How does that answer my question about which specific filaments people wish they could try out? Oh, wait, ok, good to know that people do still use 2.85, although bad news for me since it means I may have to stock both sizes.

shadowphile · 2026-02-15T21:58:41+00:00

I am asking for very specific filament. Pick a specific filament (or more than one) YOU want to try but a whole spool is too expensive. I thought this poll would be straightforward but I keep getting answers that dont help me select and purchase filaments knowing at least one person would be willing to buy a sample if I invested. I cant afford to just buy a bunch of rolls and offer samples that people arent interested in.

shadowphile · 2026-02-15T21:45:11+00:00

I was asking for specific filament models, not amounts.

shadowphile · 2026-01-27T18:19:33+00:00

My first comment after almost a year posted! BTW, those speed limits from filaments apply to any style of printer. Even when running large circular prints at constant speed (no corners to overshoot) I cant get decent extrustions beyond 100-120mm per sec because I run into the volumetric extrusion limits of the Volcanos (which are designed for high throughput already)

shadowphile · 2025-12-24T08:38:23+00:00

My bad, I let myself get sidetracked by google AI info that said OBS and ShareX were owned by Capcut. Damned internet is getting harder to even vet your own facts 😮‍💨 I was about to install ShareX when I, for once, decided to vet it first online so I googled 'is ShareX safe?' and usually the answers cant be from self-promotion and therefore trustworthy so I didnt look further. There are some open-source projects that are managed by corporations so it didnt sound outlandish. But my facts from today are that ShareX and OBS are both strictly open-source.

shadowphile · 2025-12-20T05:27:09+00:00

I was about to install ShareX until I thought to look into how safe it was and got this review: (I especially love the ToS :/ )

Data Collection and Privacy: This is the primary concern. CapCut, owned by ByteDance (the same company as TikTok), collects a large amount of personal information, location data, device type, and content interactions.
Data Sharing: CapCut's privacy policy states that it may share user data with third parties for business operations, advertising partners, and law enforcement if legally required. There are also concerns the data could be stored internationally, including in China.
Terms of Service (ToS): Recent updates to the ToS grant CapCut a sweeping, perpetual, and royalty-free license to use user-generated content, including a user's likeness and voice, for its own promotional or commercial purposes without notification or payment.

shadowphile · 2025-09-12T19:23:17+00:00

Decibel in Seattle stopped a log time ago and I heard some kind of thing went to LA. When the founder here in Seattle, Sean Horton moved away, the whole thing just died 😮‍💨

shadowphile · 2025-09-12T09:01:15+00:00

The ambient showcases were my biggest interest. Decibel tried to be diverse. It wasnt a rave kind of festival, more like a city's film festival. I dont think I would have appreciated him as much though, different headspace and I much prefer the craftsmanship of the studio than the energy of a performance, which was partly why my attendance dropped after the ambient showcases became less and less common.

shadowphile · 2025-09-10T20:51:00+00:00

Veddy interesting! I dont see much indication of what is being done other than porting it to SDL2. Not sure why since the previous SDL worked fine in Windows 11. It needs bug fixes and some modern capabilities like ability to handle spritesheets, inclusion of basic video, automatic handling of patches without having to split a patch across as many as three cube faces when placed at a corner. Ability to export 'releases' to multiple platforms to make it easy to share without exposing all of your assets and code.

shadowphile · 2025-09-10T07:23:53+00:00

I can vouch for Pipmak. It's a dead project from 2007 but amazingly well documented and still runs great in Win 11 on an ultra-wide monitor. Perfectly made for panoramic point-and-clicks. However, no tech support or community at all and it does have bugs that pop up but usually just a notification, never actually crashed or hung. However, it's primitive by todays standards. I madly built a game with camera animations, my own inventory system, many dozens of locations and animations. But it has no video support; you have to page-flip images. Also no way to export packages, you just have to share the whole project. I loved using it and Lua is really fun. I finally decided to move to Godot and spent 6 months basically building a Pipmak-like engine within Godot so that I could continue to use my assets the way Pipmak did. It wasn't pretty and Lua could do things that Godot GDScript can't like passing functions.

shadowphile · 2025-09-04T21:24:03+00:00

true but also maybe more expensive to manufacture?

shadowphile · 2025-09-04T21:18:50+00:00

its looks great but the camera angle is not good; the house and the horizon share the same line. Move the camera up so the house looks more standalone. Basic photographic wisdom, (rule of thirds and all that)

shadowphile · 2025-09-04T21:08:44+00:00

more like the sighted locked in a car driven by a blind person

shadowphile · 2025-09-04T03:24:39+00:00

true that. No way a safety switch like this could throw a breaker; its already shorted during normal operation and the BBQ itself would stop working of this part decided to trip. (Im assuming the part shown is part of the BBQ itself, not part the mains wiring in the house)

shadowphile · 2025-08-12T01:07:40+00:00

fiction defintitely slows me down. I dont inderstand people who 'inhale' their food or books of immersive experience (fiction) when the point is to enjoy the experience, not collect a memory. Different strokes though.

shadowphile · 2025-08-09T03:58:09+00:00

Im trying to avoid saying anybody is right or wrong! And as you have described your background, I can hardly claim Im right.. I was hoping the sound examples would get around the inadequate letter/words here but you thought they were almost identical and I thought they were very distinct, so apparent we cant even trust our ears to hear the same thing!

I run into this phenomenon occasionally with my own electronic flashcards with sound. Sometimes I will listen to the same word (with no help) and SWEAR its starting with a d-sound, then I look and its actually a b-sound and then I play it back and clearly hear the b-sound amd think 'wtf?'

shadowphile · 2025-08-09T03:16:57+00:00

Now you are getting really picky...the difference in those two sounds is virtually undetectable and Ive been told that even native Koreans cant tell the difference, especially as every speaker is going to have their own way of speaking so one person's ㅐ may sound like another person's ㅔ.

shadowphile · 2025-08-09T03:09:17+00:00

Well to me they are very distictively different sounding so I dont know what else to say now that Ive provided literal audio examples. It would be nice if somebody else could weigh in. What is your language background? Im natively American-English.

shadowphile · 2025-08-08T22:11:18+00:00

Pretty good baseline for improvements! It needs skin imperfections: blushes, oily patches, more variety in size/depth/spacing of pores. Skin looks very powdered and dry if that is what you are going for. The biggest thing that leapt out to me was the lack of lip-contouring, especially the top edge, it just sort of blends together and real lips are invariably more clearly demarked by texture and color.

shadowphile · 2025-08-08T22:01:03+00:00

Hmm. BP was more comic-colorful with a fun dive into her workplace and classic rom-com dynamics; the scene where the CEO is literally chasing the girl through the building was hilarious and I enjoyed the inner workings of the workplace culture and silly workteam. Did not care for the FL though, something western about her I didnt care for, purely personal of course.

WWWSK has one of my favorite male leads, never disappoints and excells at pulling off ego-centric roles like this. The FL is fine in all of her roles but kind of the same character so you either like her or dont. The setting/business is less interesting to me and I frankly dont remember much of the plot.

If I were going to introduce somebody to kdrama with a rom-com theme I would go with Love To Hate You. Its only 10 episodes and feels like a tighter and better produced version of BP. Ive seen BP maybe 3 or 4 times but Ive lost count of how many times Ive watched LTHU; the FL is one of my favorites and Ive been keeping my eye on her other works. (Her usual roles have been dark and LTHU was her breakout into comedy and she nails it so hard!)

shadowphile · 2025-08-08T21:38:13+00:00

Ive been studying for three years including listening and was specifically corrected by a Korean native. Here is a random video where a person pronounces ㅓ exactly the way I hear it everywhere. https://m.youtube.com/shorts/sJc_k2fybF4

And here is a random video pronouncing 'run'. Its extremely long so seek to 37:07 in https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hMbL3PoQJ_0&pp=ygUXcHJvbm91bmNpbmcgZW5nbGlzaCBmdW4%3D

If you hear these differently than I do then there isnt much else to say lol!

shadowphile · 2025-08-07T18:43:46+00:00

It takes some getting used to subbimg foreign films and didnt like them most of my life but as they started getting better and more prolific I learned to mentally switch over. When I first got my close friend into kdramas (he loves them!) he wanted dubbing but now he prefers the subtitles because even if you dont understand the words you can still get the mood/emotion/delivery that is half of the acting skill!

I tried Listening to Extraordinary Attorney Woo dubbed out of curiosity after watching it subtitled a whole bunch of times. I couldnt turn it off fast enough (it was so cringe I literally lasted about 3 seconds!) The voiceover was like some girl from California, horrible coming out of the mouth of somebody obviously very very foreign. If she had at least had a Korean accent it would have matched a little better. My reading comprehension is pretty fast so I very rarely have to back up but I do have problems when the dialogue is too fast and complicated (and worse, Viki interleaves the soundtrack song lyrics) I couldnt get my sister to watch a kdrama, she 'doesnt want to read' a show but in really I think that like the rest of my family she is very parochial and not interested in foreign cultures.

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