jesusfuckingchrist. Regurgitate much?

looks at username. Yeah, that tracks. Garbage in, garbage out.

Clarifying purposefully obfuscated phrasing is hardly “warping”, and your assumption of narrative intent on OP’s part is beneath you. How many of those politicians even remotely connected to that certified release above do you suppose even know your name, much less give two soggy shits if you exist? Don’t bootlick, and don’t pontificate. 🤷🏼‍♂️

Who’s hiding behind his chair?

Honoring their CYA phrasing on a mere technicality is a pretty shit take, citizen.

Additionally, it would need to be a holdout/failsafe option, to help with said balance issues. Something along the lines of that CON Save increasing in DC with each successive attempt to cast without slots. A failed save results in a level of Fatigue, lowered Max HP, etc., until they either stop attempting to cast or die from the effects and become a wraith in eternal service to the Patron.

Frankly, OP’s words are closer to a summary of the quotes you provided than you seem to be insinuating…

Brakes* 🥲

They’re not bad machines, per se, but the company’s been pushing the shitty practices envelope in an apparent rush to compete with a shrinking barrier to entry and attempting to create a sub-market for “elite” hobbyist machines (in size only) without increasing the quality of parts but certainly upcharging on them… I currently have 8 Elegoo printers (2 Mini 4Ks, 4 Saturn 8Ks, and 2 Jupiters) as both Phrozen and Anycubic are notably worse in a number of ways. To wit, replacing the Jupiter screens is $250 apiece, whereas the Saturn screens run less than $50 and are not ⅕ the size or value. It’s genuinely disappointing, and I have less than zero confidence that this FDM machine won’t shit the bed right out of the gates.

All this aside, I recommend you look at established brands in the FDM space that are less likely to be making a cash grab outside their comfort zone.

Coral*

Elegoo, hunh? So, you’re into random parts failing and then waiting 6+ weeks for replacements from coastal China? Elegoo barely made a viable resin printer with a similar “bigger = better” inspiration, and people are really that excited to throw their money at the same whore in a different dress? 🤦🏼‍♂️

Good bot.

Yes, yes, I can see your huge guillotine from here, kiddo. So big. What a hero.

That’s exactly where they want you, though, neighbor. Backed into a corner and pressed down by inevitability. The thing is, we only fight each other, instead of those pushing the pawns around the board.

That’s myopic as fuck. Shallow, yes, but shockingly self-centered. Are you in school, still?

Your opening question is naive at best and disingenuous otherwise.

Life is pain. Get a helmet.

“Evidence” is more easily manufactured than found.

See: humanity’s time-honored addiction to religion despite the endless war, rape, child abuse, about myriad other vile acts that it is directly the cause of.

Also, because*

Next.

edit: What a soft-bellied bunch in this little suckhole you’ve found together. I wish you all the best. You’re gonna need it. 🤣

Hopium is one helluva drug, citizen.

She’s “one that got away” that I remember fondly from time to time. A lovely person as well as being nonchalantly hot in such an easy, elegant way. I know she made an effort, sure, but it always seemed like the healthier kind — in that it was more for her own appreciation of herself rather than putting it out there for others’ attention/validation.

Now that I think about it, there was a time years after the scene above when she came into my restaurant as a health inspector (I knew she worked as one, but it’s a big, food-centric county and I’d not run into her on the clock before).

I did everything to play it cool, as if I’d not been low-key wondering for years what it’d be like to make her laugh, spend hours in her company, etc. Even tried the ol’ hypothetical angle of “if I weren’t at work, and you weren’t actively inspecting my business here, what would you say to catching up over a drink later?” She blushed when she replied that she wasn’t too sure [name] would take that very well. I went with “Fair enough, but that’s why I figured it was best to not invite him.”, and we laughed it off.

At the very least, I can safely say that she knew and implied that she appreciated my attention, but it was a non-starter for reasons. Ah well. C’est la guerre. 🤌🏼

NGL, the first time an old friend got dropped off for some random D&D one weekend way back when, the rest of us were waiting on the porch for his always-late ass. A red Ranger turns to roll past the house and I check out the driver, assuming it was just passing through (golden olive skin, so many freckles, long hair in a loose ponytail)… but while I watched, it pulled over across the street from us and said friend hops out to hurry on over.

I called out, clearly having all the game in the world, “Daaayum [name], I didn’t know you had a sister!” and he yelled “STFU, that’s my mom!” and I looked past him to the truck: she was trying to keep from laughing and I barely heard the others around me giving me shit for being such an awkward jackass. I was in love in that instant, and spent the next ten years wondering how I could take my shot.

She’s still a damn knockout, but her son’s now a creepy conspiracy nut/prepper/sov cit, so 🤷🏼‍♂️

I wonder what that would look like if the roles were reversed: ie. the posted job description didn’t match the internal listing, and only after doing some amateur sleuthing did one find that the same corp has been playing a shell game with major contracts, covering up their overseas labor, and they’ve got sympathetic chairs on each “oversight” org in their sector.

That’d just be another day like any other, though. 🤷🏼‍♂️