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Blizzard cinematics have always been fantastic. The fact that the stupid Warcraft movie was anything other than “let’s give the cinematics team 90 minutes to show off” is a tragedy.
Blizzard cinematics have always been fantastic. The fact that the stupid Warcraft movie was anything other than “let’s give the cinematics team 90 minutes to show off” is a tragedy.
Not sure if this is really what you’re asking about, but there are some laser cutting/engraving add-ons you can get. Basically replaces the hot end with a laser. After I upgraded to a Prusa MK4, I’m thinking about getting one of those for my old E3v2 and turning it into a laser cutter.
“Sounds like something a treasure-hoarding dragon would say.”
-The Party
I knew I’d been playing too much GTA (would have been around the VC/SA days probably) when I was out driving one day, heard sirens, and looked up in the corner of my windshield to see if I had any stars.
I dunno. I changed nothing else at all, updated PIF, rebooted phone, opened Messages, and like, it was immediately in rcs mode. It even received a couple old messages that has apparently been waiting on it to finally connect. Certainly possible that it was something else, maybe updating PIF happened to flush a cache somewhere, I dunno. If it wasn’t PIF directly, it was either a huge coincidence or some other indirect side effect of updating, cuz that was the only thing I touched, and it magically fixed the problem for me. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Play Integrity Fix magisk module fixes it. For now, anyway. I had PIF 15.1 previously and my RCS stopped working a few weeks ago. I just updated to 15.9.2 and now it’s working again. I imagine it’ll be a cat and mouse game like everything else having to do with rooted phones.
Dude, you’re awesome! Yeah I actually just saw that Microcenter has them for $699 rn, matches full retail for the Bambu P1S and $100 cheaper than the Prusa Mk4 self-assembled kit, which are the other two I’ve been looking at. Pretty sure my search is over.
That’s great, thanks so much! Pretty much seals the deal for me.
Thank you! That’s very helpful!
Do you have to use creality slicer or can it still work with Cura or Prusaslicer? And can I still use octoapp to watch/tune from my phone? That seems to be the biggest drawback I was able to sus out of their marketing materials is that it seems to be a lot more locked down to the creality ecosystem than prior models, I’m hoping that’s changed or I was just interpreting it wrong.
Thanks again, appreciate the insight!
How do you like the K1 Max? I’m considering that one for my next purchase, upgrading from a heavily modified E3v2. Any downsides or things you wish you would have known first? Any other recommendations? I am mostly satisfied with my ender, just looking to get some speed and stability gains and maybe higher print quality by moving to CoreXY/Klipper system. Ender was a great, cheap way to teach myself, but now I’m looking to step it up just a bit. Thanks.
This is why I scoff every time Google takes jabs at Apple about iMessage. Pot, meet kettle. Until I can use rcs with Textra, they got no room to talk
I went to school with my Superman pajamas underneath my regular clothes and specifically wore a button up shirt so that I could rip it open and be Superman. If it became necessary, y’know.
Is it possible to hook up with Shadowheart as a sentient cheese wheel? Asking for a friend…
I traded my pixel 6 for a pixel 7 for $20 in last year’s black Friday sale. If they do that again, I’ll upgrade. If not, I’ll stick with what I got and see if next year’s is any better.
I kinda wondered about something like this the other day playing D4 (yeah yeah, I know, I’m getting BG3 when this season’s over). Not even thinking as big as a whole section of the game, but, like, is there still a very well-hidden (non-randomized) chest or statue or something that no one has interacted with yet? If so, I wonder where it is. If not, I wonder how long it took for the very last whatever to be found and clicked on. An hour? Day? Week?
“In like Flynn” is a slang phrase meaning “having quickly or easily achieved a goal or gained access as desired.”
As someone with self-diagnosed mild depression and probably adhd, I’ve struggled with this.
Lots of people have suggested running or walking, can confirm, that does help. I would also add music to that. Throw on headphones, start your favorite playlist, crank it up good and loud, and go for a walk/jog/run. No one is watching you, no one is judging you. Silently lip sync sing with the songs as expressively awesome as you can (or sing out loud for real if you can, but I know this would be hard for me, for whatever reason I’m much less self conscious about my ridiculous facial gymnastics as long as I’m quiet about it). Like for real, pretend this is your song, and you’re performing it live at your band’s concert. Entertain the shit out of your imaginary audience. Belt it out like there’s no tomorrow. To quote Straylight Run’s “Existentialism on Prom Night,” sing like you think no one’s listening. Combined with the physical activity, you’ll feel great when you get back home. For even better effect, find a bunch of songs where the tempo matches your walking speed. Then you can really get into a groove with it.
I also go on walks with my wife most evenings now, no music/headphones, just kinda small talk and enjoying each other’s company, and it’s helped get some things back on track with our marriage too. Better communication. Not both of us sitting on the couch silently doomscrolling and ignoring each other.
I can also suggest 3d printing as another good hobby, though this one will cost you, so it comes with the caveat that you’ll probably want to have at least a bit of discretionary income if you want to pick this one up. There are tons of free, ready-made models on sites like thingiverse.com, thangs.com, or printables.com. Public libraries sometimes have 3d printers available for public use, and any makerspace worth their salt will have some too, if you’re in an area that has something like that. So you can piddle around with it a bit before you really start laying out cash, see if it’s something you’ll like.
Start small, find a dinky little trinket or toy or something that can be printed quickly, and watch that mfer come into existence layer by layer. It’s addicting. When the print bed slides out at the end with a physical object that didn’t exist an hour ago, it’s kind of fantastic.
Once you decide that you like it, you’ll want to get a printer of your very own. You can find very hands-on tinkery printers (creality ender 3 series) for $100 and up, if you’re good getting your hands dirty and buying more parts to “fix” some of the entry-level shortcomings. Good, ready-made “as good as your gonna get” options from Prusa or Bambu are higher priced initially ($500+) but won’t require nearly as much extra money for upgrades and tweaks. Filament usually costs about $20-30/roll depending on how fancy you want. You can do toys. You can do lithophanes (cool 3d printed photographs). You can print replacement parts for random shit in your house that breaks. Guns. Action figures. You can print an entire fucking life sized Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton (Reddit link, warning to anyone who’s avoiding the old site). And all the while, you’ll need to read and research and tweak and change and do all kinds of little mental tasks to engage yourself and pull out of your funk.
Your thing will fail sometimes. You’ll run out of filament. Your settings will be wrong. You’ll end up with a big blob of plastic spaghetti. But that gives you incentive to find and fix what went wrong and try again. It’ll come out right eventually, and it feels great when it does.
Once you’ve gotten your feet wet with models from the Internet, you can get into starting to learn modeling yourself, with Blender or FreeCAD or any number of other apps. And if you thought it felt good when your cheesy little boat or octopus from the Internet finished, let me tell you… When your own model, that you created from absolutely nothing, comes off the printer as a real honest-to-god physical object, looking exactly like it did in your head, it’s sublime!
Anyway. Good luck to you. Good on you for reaching out and looking for ways to improve yourself. I hope you find something that works for you.
I used to use “Bill Wi the Science Fi”
Something like the reset button on the Prusa MK4 screen maybe?