Oohhh yeah. That game consumed a lot of my childhood! I found a browser-based port of it a year or two ago. Hearing the music again really hit some feels!

Is this a European van? I though minivan was US term (just being “vans” everywhere else, because ‘merica also has even bigger vans), and i cant think of any diesel mini vans in the states…

Appreciate the insight based on the lore! You have a negative score at the time of my reply, but you make good points based the book(s)! Upvote from this agnostic!

So worth it! I got it the same way a long while ago. That one definitely messes with your head!

Awesome! That’s exactly how i got started on my serious grilling/smoking path some 15 years ago. A free roadside offset smoker that just need a little attention….keep it up and enjoy the rewards!

I have an old buddy who’s a pretty accomplished tattoo artist, and as goes is also a pretty good artist in many other ways- pen/ink, paint, etc. We have a few of his hand drawn or painted pieces hanging on our walls.

I saw sometime last year that he was proudly telling everyone about his AI art shop on Etsy…selling art he was just having AI generated and printed via whatever those shops that just print whatever you want on whatever you want and drop shipped to you. …so sad…

Yup, I recognized this space immediately- Frankfurt Airport…been this way for a few years now. Oddly empty and quiet every time I’m there despite how busy and chaotic the main areas are. The bathrooms there are nice…also empty and quiet!

Xbox/consoles?

Yup…id love to have an old 86/87 Honda Goldwing Aspencade Special (or limited?) Edition…it’s fuel injected, but they only made that bike for 2 years before completely redesigning the whole bike and engine to the crazy Space Ship look for the 90s. Parts are literally impossible to get for the fuel system, worse because it’s electrical stuff (sensors, etc). Anyone with this bike has multiple just for parts…i dont have room for multiple goldwings, lol.

Not to scare you here, but just being real. There’s so many new people in the hobby these days with printer prices getting so low, and so many get easily frustrated so easily and just blame the machine without learning the hobby….

This hobby takes a LOT of patience. Things are going to go wrong, prints are going to fail. You will have to try over and over again with different methods and tweaks. (Not 100% of the time, ofc, but it’ll happen!) While specific printers will have their quirks, most print issues are not printer specific, so any guide to “fixing your prints” will be a good starting point. The most common reply you’ll see to an issue is “user error”- which usually is the case involving any of your settings, filament quality/condition, and/or the condition of your print bed. Keep the bed clean! Dish soap and water is the best thing. A lot of people praise Iso. Alcohol, but that doesn’t always work, and in some cases actually ruins bed surfaces.

Calibrate your filaments and keep them dry. There is no “best settings for X”- they will be a good starting point, some might actually work for you without tweaks, but there is literally thousands of combinations of print material, printers and print environments…so, what works amazing for you might just be a pile of spaghetti for me! Learn the slicer software- they are super powerful now. All the settings can be overwhelming, but you’ll get there in time! Printer mfgs love to brag about print speeds, but fast almost never equals clean. In most cases just slowing down your print speeds can significantly clean things up, or even prevent failure.

If you are pulling .3mf files from any of the sites, be aware that they will have the creator’s full print settings in the file when you load it in the slicer, a lot of which probably wont work for you or might even throw errors in your slicer (bambu labs files are bad about this in non-bambu slicers)- so you’ll need to go through and check everything that changed. Some might be on purpose because of the design (top/bottom layer patterns, fuzzy skin, painted supports, etc)

This hobby is super rewarding and it’s really fun to watch things come to life, but you gotta have the patience to work and grow with a very complex machine!

The Annihilatrix! Welcome to you’re Doom!

Also how did she enter the house uninvited?