Oh weird, I didn’t change any of my settings but it must have flipped off when I tried logging back in.

Thanks! Ill keep my stupid question up for others in case.

Hmmmm yeah I’m torn on this one. Id put stray into a category where visuals are actually important and I much prefer to play it at 4k than on my Steam Deck. Normally Im 100% gameplay over everything.

But it doesn’t look awful they did a great job working with switch hardware.

Overall I’m happy more people get to play Stray, its the first game my non gaming girlfriend saw videos of and wanted me to buy it for her. And like a lot of people, she probably wouldn’t even notice if it was running at 1440 vs 720.

Orange kitty go purrrr

Gaming PC is in the living room for gaming and media center.

Laptop in my office up stairs for programming and I use Steam Remote Play for games that require keybmouse. Its nice because I can just unplug it from my dock and head downstairs with it if I want to browse on the couch.

I have a tablet too, but that’s used solely for movies, YouTube, or when I’m DMing because the footprint is smaller.

Spent time printing last night and I was able to get a first layer that looked extremely similar to this. Was able to successfully print some smaller things (1 hour print time max). Scared to test a longer print honestly, mostly because if it still doesn’t work I’m just at a loss.

Side note, that red is super vibrant looking. Gonna grab some now lmao.

got it, more test runs to follow.

This was the final key, just bringing it WAY closer to the build plate. My first test print turned out much better I see what you mean by smoosh being missing.

Lowering the Z Offset, Cleaning the build plate, using “fresher” filament, adding a brim support layer, and checking the nozle for built up filament seems to be the checklist to follow.

Appriciate the help, Lemmy was a last resort. Hopefully someone else can stumble upon this thread if they’re having issues.

I was a little confused at first but this is a great explanation. Haven’t seen this tip mentioned elsewhere before!

My humidity in my little printing enclosure is sitting at 21%, so it seems like this probably isn’t the major issue. Thanks for the info, the other perspectives definitely help.

Relevant Pictures:

Can you elaborate on the process for using PVA glue? Do you put a thin layer on the future print area? Does it ‘cook’ at all on the bed? How is it better than using a gluestick which I see recommended pretty often?

Good call. I tried the all options, and brim definitely helps get good consistent prints. It didn’t solve my problem outright but definitely helped when I was doing initial research.

Hmm. I don’t have a specific filament dryer. I saw that this was recommended, but I wasn’t having any perceiveable issues with wet filament before this problem.

To troubleshoot I tried ordering ‘fresh’ filament from 3 total brands. Some seemed to print longer than others but still would ruin the print eventually by catching on the base print. This was heartbreaking because I really thought this could have bene the fix.

Will look into improving my storage long term so this can be crossed out as a potential issue.

Thanks for taking the time to reply, and with so many different options to try. It means a lot, I really enjoy printing so this has been bumming me out a lot. I’ll try to get some reference photos up after work.

Look oddly more mature. I digg it.

Ive generally always agreed with the former comment, but I’ve heard this argument a few times and it does demonstrate the disconnect well. I’ve switched it up to a simple y’all.

Okay. I use AI for hobbies, like art and getting D&D campaign ideas, so I was waiiting to see what the S24 could bring. Being able to do it locally on my phone would be amazing instead of zipping it off to DALLE or whatever.

I will almost assuredly not be paying for something that should be able to run on the locally on the hardware.

I could be misinformed but that was the whole selling point of Snapdragon 8 gen 3 was its on board NPU, no?

I actually use the ergo keyboard pictured in the thumbnail and I actually really like it. Not love, but for WHF CAD drafting its fantastic.

Like its all plastic build quality, and the buttons arent fantastic, but man is the built in wrist rest and the endless amount of availible keys It does its job great.

I hope they can maybe introduce higher quality materials, but I wont hold my breath. Overall this is a net positive buts its so weird how willing Microsoft is to cook up full products and axe official support seemingly randomly.

holy shit great point

I use my PC as a media machine in my living room. I absolutely use both. Twitch has the culture, while YouTube has the better video player.

Most importantly, just watch the streamer you want to watch live on the platform they choose.

I pay for YouTube premium so no ads there, and adblock works wonders for me and I don’t see ANY ads on twitch.

Thank you for the source!!