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Cake day: September 1st, 2023

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  • I, uh, have kinda given up on progressing for the foreseeable future. I’m bad at platforming, and after struggling for probably around half an hour to get through one aection that was particularly difficult for me, I was met with a surprise boss fight. Nearest bench before that section. It’s brutal. It takes me about 5ish minutes to do that section now, but fuck I wish I were exaggerating. None of the other fights have anywhere near as nasty a runback and it honestly feels like they forgot a bench.

    The game is hard and that’s fine, but that instance I feel ok bitching about and don’t feel like I’m a qhiny pathetic fuck for doing so, which is incredibly telling given how easy it is to make me feel like a whiny pathetic fuck.








  • I mean, a refrigerator uses a heat pump to cool itself. An air conditioner is a heat pump, it’s just moving heat from inside to out instead of outside to in. It’s specialized for it’s purpose ofc, I doubt you could just install a window mounted air conditioner backwards and have an efficient heating solution, but they’re atill using the same core process, just turned around

    Sorry to umm akshually you









  • Yep, you’ve got some warping, the longer and skinnier the print the more it wants to warp. Pla isn’t too bad for warping typically, but PLA+ is an alloy of pla and petg and is more finnicky. Not nearly as much as pure petg is but the point of it is you get an improvement of the physical properties for only being a bit more fisdly to print. I’ve found age can affect adherence, but only in the extreme, and I think it’s more to do with not being stored dry than age alone. For prevention, there’s a bunch you can do. Simplest is clean your print bed, rubbing alcohol or just dish soap and water have both worked well for me in the past. Getting a more adherent print bed like textured PEI or just layering it with something your print sticks better to like hairspray, painters tape or a layer of gluestick helps. Upping the bed temp can help, I think because you get less of a temperature differential between the plastic coming out of the nozzle and the first few layers so there’s less force pulling on it. You can also add a brim or less recommend a raft in the slicer. Lastly, you can change the design of the part. Making it leas long and skinny and rounding corners helps. On that subject you should seek advice from others, it’s not something I know a lot about.