Dropping all this money on coffee and still has enough to pay the 1. Sounds like this coffee is a real Game Changer. Thanks for the awesome write up.

We do respect that. Because the people they're competing against aren't male. They're female. But because people like you love to look at things in black and white and give creedence to every jackass who says "durrr I'm gonna say I'm a woman and dominate them" or "I identify as a patriot" and thinks that's some sort of gotcha moment instead of being willing to use any sort of brain power.

Maybe my rights should be respected and I shouldn't have to compete against Lebron James.

The irony in claiming people don't want to use logic when one side wants things as un-nuanced as possible and caters to trolls and scam artists says all that needs to be said about the "logic" in this.

How bout dem apples.

Just as a follow up, I got home and could check. It's the Tina2 Basic. None of my paperwork or anything mentions an app or AI. Again, not the best. Certainly can't argue for or against it really. The only thing I'll add is that I dont use it for much either but it's been fine. I wouldn't have a 3d printer if it wasn't given to me as a gift. So I really have only printed a few models from it. The biggest annoyance I had was that it didn't hold on to big spools so I printed something that would hold them and that's been nice.

I can't answer your question fully but I'll try to be helpful. I got an Entina as a gift last year, my first printer as well and it works fine. I'm not sure what model it is but I've never used a phone app with it or any of the other picture taking things that they seem to list. I find a file I want online, slice it on my computer, then put the sd card in and print it. The printer is a bit slower than what the slicer says but not significantly so. The filament that came with it lasted me a couple of prints and then I got a different brand and that works just as well.

Hope that helps.

Yes very true. We're all happy to have Hoopla in my system it's just so hard to plan around because it's not a flat cost and we know there are though choices to make because we'd love to be able to offer more and better items through them but that only drives higher costs. I just wish they stopped the silliness of needing to purchase "new copies" so often. It might not be all on them, i know distributers are still very weird with all of the e-resources but it's still silly.

I don't have the same level of knowledge on the costs of Kanopy mostly because it doesn't garner the same level of attention in our system so it isn't a topic that's come up. But I'll check in on that. Hoopla came up cause we have cut the borrows down from 10 a month to 6 and it's now only for county residents not reciprocal borrowers as well. And we often don't have some of the best items available because of the additional costs.

Hoopla doesn't have a wait for their items but your library might not have the best items. Ours just made things like the Lord of the Rings books available for the next 3 months since we have some budget available and chose to use it that way. But those popular items cost a lot with Hoopla so most libraries probably don't carry them.

As a Librarian, Hoopla is great except for the fact that the company running it charges crazy prices and it's starting to become a real problem for library systems. Every thing you check out has a rental fee and then they make us repurchase the item after every 20-30 borrows. Compare that to regular books which can have 100+ borrows before needing to even be mended.

It's wonderful and I'm glad it exists but it's getting very costly.

I had so many experiences just like yours (including at the goblin camp) that I ultimately soured on the game altogether and haven't gone back (not sure if I will). I really wanted it to be more role-playing based but anything I see or experience just makes it look way too tactical and meta gaming for me to sink into.

But it's a beloved game so I know that it's mostly just me it doesn't work for. I hope you find whatever enjoyment you can from it.

I agree. I enjoyed it so much I got it after the first post

I prefer my Dickens to be as dour and melancholy as possible. Which is why I've always liked the George C. Scott version the best myself. Other than sound volume issues with the blaring horns of doom I think it's great. But that's just me.