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  • Resin printing slicing software.

    There’s currently two main options, Lychee and ChituBox. I’ve only used Lychee (after giving up with Chitu) so I can only speak on that. Lychee has mostly everything I want in terms of features, but customization is very limited (ie keybinds, default behavior etc), and some aspects of the UI can be VERY clunky. And the best part: 90% of the features that you need to slice somewhat effectively are locked behind a paywall. They do offer a 30 day trial, so I have a backup file of all my settings, and every 30 days I make a new burner account.

    It’s a nightmare compared to the plethora of slicing options available for filament printers.




  • but if the laws are anything like Massachusetts

    Californian here. They’re not. Lol. I mean you can do a private party sale and the guy is welcome to store the rifle in his trunk on his way to the meet, but all firearm sales or transfers have to be done at an FFL (basically a registered gun store) and require a 10 day waiting period, meaning you’d meet with the person at the store, do a shit ton of paperwork, pay a fee to the FFL and the DOJ, go home without the gun. Then come back 10 days (specifically 240 hours) later to meet up again, do some more paperwork, pay the person, and you’re now the proud owner of a gun that cost you 15-25% more and infinitely longer to acquire than if you lived 200 miles to the East.

    Thankfully, making guns so much more expensive and tedious to acquire than damn near everywhere else in the country has rendered it physically impossible for criminals to steal guns or otherwise obtain them illegally. Now, if someone goes on a killing spree in a shopping mall, they may face legal repressions if the paperwork doesn’t come back clean.


  • I’d say no. Small production scale, highly niche target audience, moderately-to-significantly higher than average pricing for Steam/ Valve hardware has pretty much always been their thing.

    Basically, Steam / Valve hardware (and the company in general) have a strong “for gamers, by gamers” reputation. One of their methods of maintaining that reputation is by incorporating, for lack of a better term, “premium quirks” into their things (Steam Link was relatively novel at its release (and kinda sucked), the OG Steam controller with the dual touchpads and gyroscope, finger tracking and grip strength monitoring on the Valve Index controllers). They know that the Average Joe gamer will probably just pick up a Quest headset or an Xbox controller, so rather than try to fight for market share that has a built-in customer base (for example, most people that already own a console will just use the controller they already have rather than buy a new one for their PC), they maintain their “gamers first” reputation by offering a more niche, “premium” option.

    Edit: Also, I’ve never not seen the Deck being touted as a massive success. Like you said, even at higher than normal prices people will buy them. It would be silly for them not to keep that money printer going, they don’t even necessarily need to increase production, people will practically buy them at whatever speed they come off the line.



  • Your argument would hold more water if organized religions encouraged people to say things like “oh my God”. Saying those phrases or otherwise taking the Lord’s name in vain is generally frowned upon, at least in most western religions (no idea if this taboo exists for, say, Hinduism).

    You’re right in saying we don’t think about it when using it in everyday language. Similarly, most westerners aren’t thinking they’re celebrating the birth of Jesus when they are doing their Christmas shopping; obviously the holiday is inherently religious, but the only groups that generally view it as strictly a Christian holiday are devout followers of another faith that forbids them from celebrating, and obnoxious atheists.

    When you encourage people to stop saying “oh my God”, you aren’t sticking it to organized religion in any way; you’re literally policing people to do the same thing they want them to do.


  • when atheists proselytize it’s because organized religion is harmful and they’re trying to limit/remove its power

    That’s what they always claim, but 9 outta 10 times I see an atheist on this website it’s because someone said “oh God, that’s crazy” and they had to reply with “🤓😏 more like oh Flying Spaghetti Monster that’s crazy. Haha! Get it? Cuz God doesn’t exist!!?”







  • Much more chill than I did when I was under the impression that I had a grand scheme laid out for me.

    There’s a metal song by Parkway Drive called “Horizons”. I’m sure the “actual” or intended meaning is different than my takeaway, but my interpretation of its message is that it’s unhealthy or detrimental to believe that life has a meaning, that you’re meant to leave this huge lasting impression (“masochistic / to think this would be remembered / sadistic / perpetuation of stagnation” “the marks I’ve left upon this world / will wash away in time”)

    The lyrics can sound pessimistic or depressing, but as with a lot of metal the tone and melody help set the mood. The song begins sad sounding, but ends with a sound of more blissful acceptance.

    Tl;dr: worrying about what your purpose is in life will only help to assure you live a less meaningful life than we are already all destined to live.