Notices by adiwan (adiwan), page 10

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Feels good to continue 3D-printing more Gridfinity bins for my tools, screws, and other things for my workbench. My metal shelving units are only filled up to half the capacity and there are many little things that need a new home.

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Waking up because my arm fell asleep (and hurting because of it) in the middle of the night is the worst. I want to sleep and not my arm.

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I have finally a working 3D printer! I bought a used Prusa MK3S for 250€. It's about the current price it goes for but for me it's a bargain, as it is the start of the end of many of my printer problems. I want a work horse, reliable, not super fancy, but it does the work, neither exceptionally but competently. Also it's my first direct-drive extruder which will enable me to print with flexible material like TPU at 95 shore hardness.

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Almost 150 hours and I have beaten the final boss. The last strike was with Shadowheart's Divine Intervention that has dealt the killing blow. I thought it was quite fitting, not really necessary and could have done it with my character but it would have been risky. I saved it up to the end like an elixir in any other RPG game that is saved up until the end or not used at all. I would play the game again but at least the urge to play it is driven out of my body. With a big pause I'd like to play it again with a different character and class and try to gather the party members I have missed or not used at all.

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I'm close to the end of BG3. The castle fight was easier than anticipated but only because I used a potion of flight on the whole party and flew around on the castle wall to a choke point. It gave me time to single out enemies and it triggered multiple waves of enemies instead of one big chonker of a initiative list. Also I gave Shadowheart the "Planar Ally" spell to get a Djinni with "Thunderwave" to push enemies further back, squash the squishy minion enemies, and push them off the wall. The teleport movement with its high range is also very useful in that situation to kill off enemies with few HP while I focus the characters with higher damage output on bigger monsters. I had some "Winged Horror" enemies stuck in the corner of the map that did literally nothing until the end and prevented me going out of TB-mode. Not going to finish the game today as it is already late. I don't want to go to bed at 3AM like a days ago fighting Gortash.

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Nothing is better than surprising a beholder and killing it in the first turn before it can even react.

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I'm at the end of Act 2 of Baldur's Gate 3. WHO DESIGNED THIS PIECE OF CRAP ENCOUNTER?!?!?! It is impossible.

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I'm the weirdo blasting orchestral soundtracks out of the rolled down car window next to the guy with the mega subwoofer in the other lane.

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What are the natural forces in video games that reset a room upon exiting and entering it again? Why aren't these forces resetting the puzzle upon entering? Is it related to infinitely spawning enemies and why is the law of conservation of energy and mass violated? Why are some people/creatures fading out of existence upon death and some need to be buried? It'd be interesting if a piece of media told a story that tries to explain odd and common video game stuff.

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It is wild that in Germany the dingy shop that sells everything from food, garden stuff, to the chintziest decoration imaginable, also sells specialty fertilizer for cannabis. I bought myself a pack for my tomatoes as it was close to what they need. Also it is a soluble powder and more convenient for me to measure the amount. Also it is 100 times cheaper by weight than concentrated liquid fertilizer from the garden section of the home improvement store.

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Tomato fruit count is almost at 300. I already ate some ripened tomatoes and were quite good, they were "Harzfeuer" tomatoes and are as basic in taste as a prototypical tomato can taste. In a few weeks more fruits will ripen than I can eat. Right now there are approximately the same amount is in unfertilized blossoms. Mid- to end of September will be insane.

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TIL that growing salad isn't worth the effort. I had some and it grew way too big and was too old. It went so bitter I made funny faces. Biting into a lemon is more enjoyable by a factor of 10

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K-Pop Demon Hunters had pretty good animation. The outstanding part of it is how the movements felt smooth and snappy with a lot of energy. On the other hand the story is meh and the music is not my style but I can appreciate it as a whole. It's a harmless watch in my book.

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I wanted to water my plants with the rain water I collected last week in my 100 liter barrels. However due to extreme temperatures, and closed lid on the barrel, and the barrel being black, the water went extremely nasty with the organic material that was collected with the water. It smelled like a vile swamp full of dead bodies. I flipped the barrels over and my barely growing lawn was flooded with that. I don't think the water can do any more damage than it already received from the unrelenting heat and sun exposure.

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Horror of the day: two dozens of flies in the kitchen. Over the night I had my window open in the kitchen to get cool air into the house but that opportunity was taken by those little buggers.

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I got myself spiky and hollow cones made out of terracotta with open pores (no glazing) for watering my tomato plants. Due to the open surface of the terracotta it can release water slowly into the soil. In addition to that I put a bottle of water into the opening of the cone upside-down as a bigger water reservoir. This week will be extremely hot and I don't want my plants die due to too much evaporation.

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Tomato plant count raised from 38 to 41. My mother kept some of the stragglers (3 Black Krim) that didn't grow that well and finally decided to get a grow spurt in the last week. She had a few more (also Black Krim) but I told her to gift them away to some of her work colleagues. I put the new additions in some 5l buckets for the mean time as the planters were way too small. I gonna have to find a solution (and place!) for when they outgrow that.

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HAHAHA. That is what I need right now. Another 3D printer failure. I had a 28 hour print and while I was sleeping it decided to crap out at 80%. The screen went blank, the print head was not moving and embedded in the object, the power supply made a high-pitched noise.
I am so fed up with my army of Ender 3. I just want to have something reliable that is just good. Not excellent. Just good. I just don't have the money to buy a new printer.

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Yesterday I was using single use nitrile gloves to prune my tomato plants because the juices are very smelly and sticky. 30 minutes of use and they were full of water. I love summer.

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Bad news: I am out of the project.
Good news: I have more time to prepare my D&D campaign.
Bad news: I have to look for a new project with my manager.
Good news: I am still being paid.

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I could swear on my life 40 was spelled fourty and not forty. I have known English for the majority of my life and for some reason I Mandela-effected myself into believing that it was written with a *u*. It made more sense because of the *u* in fo*u*r. Without the *u* it looks like an adjective to the word "fort", like "Your forty house is well-secured against a horde of zombies."

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Last week I was near a comic store and saw that Final Fantasy MTG boosters cost 7€ per pack. WTF! This is the cost of a ESP32 micro controller!