Or just acetone/MEK/whatever smoothing your parts?

It’s looking like I’m going to have to dust off my CD burner.

All of the updates and content expansions and so on and so forth have really made Isaac unmanageable in that regard. Throw in the fact that there are quite a few item drops that are objectively detrimental in basically every situation so that a not insignificant fraction of the item pool is just trash drops that nobody in their right mind would ever pick up, and it gets ridiculous quickly. Once you have enough unlocked that you’re regularly getting runs down into the lower sub-basements of hell, unless you’re an absolute guru the meta is literally just to meta. Know a couple of the game-breaking combinations off the top of your head and cross your fingers that you’ll run across all of the components. Ignore all other risks.

This is in stark contrast to e.g. Dead Cells, which is why I’ve got such an immense respect for the latter. If you’re willing to adjust your play style slightly, every single drop in Dead Cells is a viable weapon that can be deadly in the right hands. You could be wielding a legendary golden abyssal trident, sure, but you can also just as well beat the shit out of all the boss monsters with a pair of frying pans tied together with some rope. It must have taken an immense amount of work to get all of that even vaguely balanced and ensure that there were no duds, wheras Isaac’s strategy seems to be more just throwing shit at the wall (probably literally…) to see what sticks, with a garnishing of deliberately adding things to troll the player for the lulz.

A bug which was later fixed by Raymond Chen.

The pinball game itself was licensed from Cinematronics/Maxis Full Tilt! Pinball, which had two additional tables as well as a sequel, both of which I still have on CD somewhere because I am a gigantic nerd.

Binding of Isaac items are explicitly in that vein, in fact, given that its version of potions (pills) are indeed randomized on every run. I haven’t checked out the new update yet but insofar as I’m aware those still are.

I believe initially this was supposed to be part of the appeal. Any item may or may not screw you over if you don’t know what it does which is in keeping with Isaac’s theme of being beat down by your circumstances. Part of gutting gud was intended to be memorizing what the often idiosyncratic items actually did. Except now with years of updates and content expansions there are so many items it’s unrealistic to keep track of it all anymore. In the early days I might have disagreed with this but now it makes sense.

At least according to the patch notes you still have to collect an item the first time to get its full description, and the new descriptions don’t show at all until you beat Mom for the first time (i.e. you clear at least one basic run), so new players still get to experience the Fun and excitement of potentially getting hosed by an unfamiliar pickup.

Just like how Hydrox are just knockoff Oreos!

No crimes should be thought crimes. All crimes should be action crimes. There can be no middle ground as long as freedom of expression exists.

Doing Nazi shit should get you locked up (or beaten up, or whatever). Talking about it should just get you ridiculed by everybody.

Ah, yes. Thoughtcrime and suppression of freedom of speech are totally okay as long as it’s our side doing it. No, no, no, see, when we do it it’s totally different from when other people do it!

I mean, that’s a valid assessment of the yard as well if you’re looking at it from a comedy perspective.

TL;DW: Car drivers are salty about lane splitting motorcycles (and also bicycles, scooters, pedestrians, birds, small dogs, etc.) because of the Crab In A Bucket mentality. They think because their life sucks and they’re suffering in traffic everyone else needs to suffer just as much, therefore splitting is “cutting in line” or “cheating” as if there is some virtue in your transit time being comparable to someone else’s.

(But I did watch it anyway, because F9.)

Anyway, I read someplace several years ago and now conveniently can’t find the source, if 40 or 50% or so of current urban commuters switched to motorcycles from cars, volume based rush hour congestion would be solved in most (possibly all) currently car-centric Western cities.

So go buy a motorcycle.

I’m probably preaching to the choir in this specific community, though.

Hey, hey, hey. Watch the penguin-bashing, bud.

I had a client who wound up with one of those not realizing what it was, which caused him no end of problems until I ultimately figured it out confiscated it from him. He got a regular US inch one in exchange. I had to look it up at the time, too, because the notion of there being a Chinese knockoff inch that’s subtly inaccurate is one of those things that just seems so ridiculous on its face that it simply can’t be true, right? Except it totally is.

None of the above is true, or at least isn’t the full answer for why today a “2x4” is missing an entire half an inch all the way around. The shrinkage due to drying is around 5% (and the real math there is more complicated, as wood shrinks different amounts in different directions relative to the grain), which would only account for 1/10" of difference in the thickness of a 2x4. With some species of pine it’s as low as 2%.

No, the lumber industry has consistently shaved boards in order to fit more into rail cars for transport and make more money and spend less per plank on transportation costs. Various lumber consortiums determined via internal testing that the smaller board sizes are still “sufficient” for their intended purpose vis-a-vis structural integrity of stick framed residential buildings.

Any love for the most sold vehicle in history? Yes. And yours is green. So it goes double.

You can also just use Edge Blocker:

https://www.sordum.org/9312/edge-blocker-v2-0/

…And if you do any of those things that would launch Edge in your face (like ye gods forbid, press F1 in a File Explorer window) it simply won’t work. Depending on the object in question either nothing happens at all, or you get a sad easily dismissable dialog box complaining that Windows couldn’t open Edge. This is also immensely helpful for anyone who has users in their life who kick and scream and tantrum whenever you change their browser for some reason and keep totally “accidentally” pivoting back to Edge in your absence.

You can also block the Edge webview component if e.g. you would like Steam not to work.

I never remove mine from the KLR. Inevitably you find yourself in possession of some damn fool thing that’s otherwise impossible to transport by motorcycle as soon as you do.

And also weed out models that are clearly impossible to print.

FWIW I always make my headline image a printed instance of whatever it is. I figure nobody’s interested in anything else.

Neato. Kudos not only for doing this, but also documenting it so thoroughly!

Re: Lemmings.

How about Magpies?