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Cake day: October 30th, 2023

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  • I had to put my Prusa i3 mk3s+ in storage for about a year when I was looking for a bigger place. I tucked it under the couch’s cushions when I moved from the east coast to the Rockies, and literally only had to blow the dust off the build plate before I was able to print again.

    I can’t imagine most other printers going through that without needing at least a recalibration or leveling.

    That reason alone will have me strongly considering Prusa when looking for my next printer.



  • Can a website operator prove I consented to their terms if I block their consent popup?

    If you continue to use their website than that is a you problem. It is no different than actively ignoring the signage at the local kroger saying “no guns allowed”

    If I block consent notices how would I possibly know there was a consent notice governing continued use and how would a company know I never actually saw the consent notice to begin with?

    I also don’t consent to having billboards all around me or ads literally mailed to me in the post.

    Which is a very different mess with very different laws governing it. That said? You would be shocked how easy it is to complain about a billboard ad and get it to go away.

    It’s the same mess. A company makes an ad and partners with another company to distribute that ad. That distributor then partners with several vendors to show that ad. In exactly 0 cases was the recipient of the ad asked for consent. In one case the recipient of that ad has an option to not see it–heaven forbid they actually exercise that option.


  • Can a website operator prove I consented to their terms if I block their consent popup?

    What happens if they can’t but continue to provide the website content regardless?


    I also don’t consent to having billboards all around me or ads literally mailed to me in the post. I wasn’t even asked in those cases, but for some reason, me not being part of that business agreement doesn’t matter.

    Consent doesn’t matter when it comes to advertising, apparently, and if your site delivers content and a side of shit when I ask for content then I’ll just have my robo-butler continue to remove the side of shit before delivering content.


  • Relying on a small child to stay on the ground in order to not accidentally kill themselves is a great way to end up with a dead kid.

    Furniture should be anchored to a wall, guns locked in safes with the safety enabled and ammo removed, drugs in child resistant packaging locked in a cabinet, drawers and cabinets secured, etc.

    Kids climb stuff, get into things, find things they shouldn’t, AND they emulate what they see their parents do. Putting something out of reach is nowhere near secure enough.




  • That was my proposed alternative I encouraged my friends to call about. I don’t know how it wasn’t obvious that if your goal was to increase pedestrian safety and encourage visiting your park in the middle of downtown (which was the public justification in the survey) that the best way to do that would be to get rid of the 2 highways trisecting your park. Grass them over to both remove traffic and increase park space, install meandering leisure paths through a history walk, and have local Coloradoan artists produce for a dedicated Coloradoan history sculpture park.

    Oh, and if you really, really want members of the public to use your public park get rid of the helicopter parent rangers that yell at you for touching the oldest tree in Denver or for falling asleep, get rid of the signs that forbid standing still or loitering (at a fucking park of all places), and don’t close off the grass areas periodically.

    You could even go so far as to install more trash cans or make the bathrooms available 24/7.

    It’s not that the public didn’t care about your fake liberty bell, it’s that your park is kinda a hostile environment with shitty infrastructure.


  • I would recommend starting with an engine–it doesn’t much matter which and follow several tutorials. The exact amount will vary based on your programming experience and game design knowledge. Once you’ve followed some tutorials start trying to connect concepts from different tutorials to make something new that you weren’t explicitly guided to. After you’ve done that a few times, start a new project and try to make something from scratch and use reference materials, documentation, and tutorials to help you when you get stuck.

    Start small. Now even smaller. Tic tac toe is a reasonable first project. It will teach you how to use the UI library, user input, game state, scene transitions, basic AI for a computer opponent, etc.

    Then do some game jams. There’s a lot hosted all the time on itch.io. You don’t have to finish, but it gives you good practice, let’s you see what’s possible in a weekend, and let’s you connect with others that love game dev.

    I’ve seen a lot of comments encouraging you to try out Godot. It’s a great engine, and with its resource library and active community it can be a good choice, but it doesn’t hold your hand. There’s very little logic that is pre-produced and ready for you to tweak. You start with nothing and build what you want rather than starting with a template (though there are templates available in the resource library). I’ve used a lot of engines and Godot is my personal preference, but depending on your experience Scratch or Unreal may be better options for the easy of use and active communities/tutorials.