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But I don’t agree with the general perception that it is “bad”, because in all the aspects that actually matter for making an action game fun, it was actually really good. It just got blasted for being lacking (admittedly, very lacking) in production value because somehow we are still giving importance to that in the 2020s…

A slicer is the program that takes a 3D model and “translates it” into the sequence of actions that the printer needs to do to create that model. It is called a slicer because 3D printers build the models in horizontal layers, or in other words, in slices.

Cura is one of the slicer programs available. There are many, divided between slicers for FDM printers (the ones that print from a spool of material) and slicers for resin printers (the ones that print from the disgusting goop that comes in bottles). Your printer tends to be packaged with a suggested one but usually you can use any of the appropriate type.

Slicing is one of the most important parts of 3D printing, and it tends to be the difference between ending up with a pristine figure or a very blurry one. In the most extreme cases, good slicing will be the difference between a successful and unsuccessful print.

Well surely this means that archive.org will be allowed to exist in peace, since it would be ridiculous to make the information and culture produced in the year of our lord 20fucking24 the most ephemeral it has ever been in human history, right?

Right?

The tradeoff kinda made sense at the dawn of streaming, when the transaction was basically trading quality for better pricing and convenience.

Nowadays? Yeaaaaah I don’t know about that chief

Crazy to think that we lost all the advantages that streaming offered, kept all the disadvantages, piled on a few more disadvantages on top of that, and people went “sure that makes sense 24 bucks a month worth it bro”

It sure is fascinating how surges in the usage of pirate platforms tend to coincide with eras of worsening value proposition in entertainment. We should really get some top notch analysts on this to get an explanation.

see I wanna agree but one of my favorite game OSTs, Undertale, does exactly the same thing, so I can’t knock the approach

hey, it also has one of the best boss themes ever made, in which the fucking boss himself does the lyrics, give them some credit

If there was a significant amount of resin inside the printer (which I have to assume since you report strong smell), your boss is either a negligent asshole or somebody irresponsibly ignorant.

And if the printer was working and actively printing something inside an enclosed unventilated environment, then your boss can’t be trusted with crayons or scissors.

That’s fucking insane, that’s like someone putting 50 lit cigarettes in your office, what the fuck

That’s true, I have to imagine a significant amount of the people driving the push for the IPO are only doing so to drive value up, cash out and vanish

I think there are a lot of extreme measures that would theoretically increase its profitability that they have not yet taken, most of which I have to assume are in the cards in the foreseeable future.

Most of them are, of course, measures that would severely impact user experience in a very negative way, but it’s clear at this point that they are drunk on hubris and believe users will stay no matter what.

Lord of the Rings Conquest without the stupid magic, without the stupid fire effects and with combat that doesn’t suck.

Also Lord of the Rings Total War but you can argue that it sort of exists through mods

Hey, it’s technically an auto-fix troubleshooter thingie included with the OS made by Microsoft!

Well, this is very specific, but the Windows 3D Builder repair tool is probably the best error fixer for 3D printing I have encountered, so at least they got that one right… I couldn’t believe it when I saw it actually worked as intended lol

Damn, this is an intriguing time. While in the back of my mind I had assumed this was a likely possibility, the idea that ARM could replace X86 in PC is still hard to accept for me. Can’t wait to see how it changes the landscape of CPUs on PC.

Point after point after point, this is it exactly. The supposed “lowering” attention span is just a natural response to the greater amount of options available in most aspects of modern life, and making the most efficient use of them.

People were already channel surfing their TV in the 90s with a remote flick every other minute, the current situation is just a natural evolution of that when we go from 100 available channels to literally every conceivable content past and present known to man at a press of a button. Extrapolate that to a similar degree of evolution in most aspects.

You are not wrong, but I feel that the way that so many users have stayed active on Twitter despite all the controversies under Musk proves that a non-authoritarian audience can potentially sleepwalk itself into a super-app with a mixture of user complacency, shortsightedness, and unwillingness to deal with even a bit of inconvenience to support a competitor.
It’s a really small chance, but I think that it is there.

The stack of shame of never-played games is real… Everyone ends up defaulting to the same selection of tried and true games of the group because nobody wants to learn a new thing when you can just get to playing immediately, it’s very unfortunate

I swear I’ve tried to enjoy the European expansion but some of the birds require you to pull some Hannibal Barca 4d chess shit to use them properly

But Doctor, I Am The Friend Who Is Very Into 3D Printing