Notices by adiwan (adiwan), page 14

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I think communities die because there are more people who expect others to act first so they can react in turn (or just lurk). Because people eventually go on with their lives the momentum of the actors slow down and in turn the attraction of new people who keep up the critical mass of actors also dwindles. The internet landscape is equally fractured and concentrated. Small forums are cozy and fun but it's very noticeable when there is a lack of activity. Easier to find communities (facebook, twitter, reddit...) are also a double-edged sword. Bigger communities get toxic and can also shrink to non-existence. There are always exceptions.

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I love it when my nozzle is clogged for no good reason. 3D printing should be outlawed. I started a big print over night and after roughly an hour it stopped extruding any plastic because of a clog. I had to exchange the nozzle and it works again. I should look into buying a small torch to clean my nozzles. I recently bought some hardened steel nozzles (for abrasive filaments like with carbon fiber or chemically abrasive like glow-in-the dark filaments) and I don't want to buy more of them as they aren't that cheap as stupid brass nozzles.

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My Black Krim tomatoes are developing quite well https://i.imgur.com/hfyJOLp.jpeg

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This D&D session we made our encounter way harder than it should have been because we haven't read a spell text well enough. A creature has cast the spell **Sickening Radiance** and it was banished by one our players. The Sickening Radiance is a spell that requires concentration, has a duration of 1 minute, and applied damage but also one level of exhaustion to our players. The misconception was that that spell would continue while banished as the creature could concentrate while banished. In reality the spell would end as the banished creature gets incapacitated while in banishment, which in turn ends concentration and thus the effect of the spell.

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Amazon is the worst. I preordered that book as a hard cover over half a year ago and they cancelled my order out of nowhere saying they don't have it in stock. I PREORDERED YOU DUMBmangoS SO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH TO ORDER! I bought the cheaper soft-cover instead.

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I bought the graphic novel "The New Girl" by Cassandra Calin https://www.amazon.com/New-Girl-Graphic-Novel/dp/1338762451/ . I know her art from her webcomic https://tapas.io/series/CassandraComics/info . Good thing I had French in school as it spared me to look up the "translations" on the back. I mean it was very loosely translated to match the approximate meaning at the time when it was spoken. It lacked some nuance and further definition. I don't want to bash that, just noting.
For all it's worth it is a great book. I was greatly entertained although I am not a 12 year old Romanian girl suffering menstrual cramps and having a crush on a boy. I mean despite of all I can empathize with her very well despite me being a straight man. It impressed me that for its price it's fully colored and being full of detail in every panel.

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Tomato update: So far the current count of growing tomato fruits is at 14: 3 Black Krim, 3 Marmande, 8 Chocolate. The rest of my plants are late bloomers in comparison, like my Jolie Coeur plants that are just developing blossoms.

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While some of my tomato plants have recovered from a lack of some elements in the soil a few of my jalapeño just dwindled to death. I'm not sad just confused because the exact same earth was used on some that are still prospering. Also I didn't want that many of those plants in the first place and have a bit more than I wanted. In addition to that I was also gifted a cayenne pepper plant. I'm good.

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No matter how much earth I buy it gets used up faster than imagined. The earth of my raised beds settled and I wanted to top off.

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People tend to forget the genius that was The Wand of Gamelon when proclaiming that there exists *now* a game with Zelda as the protagonist.

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Hmm... 3D-printing a NES/SNES/MegaDrive cartridge and putting a harmonica into it.

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The mushrooms in my raised beds grow better than my tomatoes. I know they are a sign of healthy soil and do not impede the tomato growth but there is a part of me that find them icky growing there, especially because they aren't edible.

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I forgot to make some nice pictures. I was 3d-printing a flame frame for a "neon" LED strip. I modeled it myself. A family member wanted one and paid for it with filament https://i.imgur.com/jseJK3i.jpeg

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It's fascinating how strong the odor is that sticks to the fingers when handling a tomato plant.

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I bought myself a cheap-ish gas grill. 180€ is nothing to scoff at but in the realm of grills it seems to be cheap. Yesterday I test-drove it with a bunch of pork steaks. It worked fine. It hat some questionable design decisions. There are ventilation holes at the bottom of the grill but the fat was dropping through them instead of the designated low spot where it should drop into a small cup. It's fixable with not much effort I think, like getting the whole grill level or putting a tray below . Other than that it worked well.

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Minor pet-peeve: Whenever an English-speaker uses the word roof when meaning ceiling.

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5-minute epoxy glue is awful. I have to use it as the pieces I'm gluing aren't fitting 100% and there are small gaps to fill and the bond has to be strong and a little bit flexible. It doesn't cure fast enough. I had to hold the pieces together for 10 minutes!. I could use thick cyanoacrylate (super glue) but it'd be too brittle and set too fast. I thought about using cyanoacrylate on small spots so the epoxy could harden without me standing and clamping the pieces by hand, but the gluing area is too small and uneven.

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I guess people like to complain. I watched all the "The Acolyte" episodes and I thought it was not bad. The show is about slowly revealing the truth of a story from different perspectives with misdirections that are confusing without more information. Some people are stuck in a narrow mindset of what they expect from Star Wars that cannot be achieved. I get it that mystery plots can be very frustrating but I think it's not warranted yet to completely lose one's papaya. So far "Book of Boba Fett" has done more wrong in three episodes than this.

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Some of my tomatoes developed yellow or purple leaves. I bought some fertilizer because I read that these could be the signs of lacking nitrogen and phosphate in the soil, or potentially as well of some other elements.

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Tried vegan vanilla pudding. According to the packaging it's based on coconut. It's not bad but the hints of coconut that come through ain't my taste (could have seen that coming) and the texture is passable. More creamy than I prefer. The price was reduced because of the best-before-date (not expired!) to only 1€ instead of 2€. Enough for trying out but I won't get more of that.