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I only gave it a quick link when it came out back in June, but it was a fun watch.
-j
Posted by: J Greely at December 29, 2021 08:23 AM (ZlYZd)
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Hmmm, must have been an indexing glitch at House Pixy, since this briefly showed up as a new post, and I didn't check the date on it...
-j
Posted by: J Greely at December 29, 2021 08:05 PM (ZlYZd)
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I dunno. I had to patch a couple of other entries because I discovered that it worked correctly with images that lacked extensions, except when you linked to the full size copies.... Dunno how I ended up uploading files without extensions.
Posted by: Mauser at January 05, 2022 09:14 PM (Ix1l6)
Been toying with the idea of adding a resin printer to my arsenal. I don't know why, since I've only really been interested in practical prints with my FDM printer. The one time I tried printing the Liru figure I found on Thingiverse, the results were disappointing.
A brief search last night turned up an article about the 11 best low cost resin printers. And nearest the cheap end were two I was slightly familiar with, the ELEGOO Mars, and Creality LD-002H. At the time the list was made, the Mars was slightly cheaper, and on Amazon it was $239 with a $35 coupon. But then I went to Creality, and the LD-002H was on sale for $189. Moving it up on the list, but then I checked the ELEGOO site, and my choice was made, because the base Mars model was on sale for $149.99! Also, although most of it was sold out, the Resin was cheaper there than on Amazon as well, ($19.99 for 500 g vs $21.99) (They don't include a sample with the machine). So the total was $169.98 for the printer and resin, and the shipping was free (they also didn't charge me tax, which Creality did on my Ender 3. Very naughty. :-)
Getting back to Thingiverse, I put up my first thing back on Monday. However, for some reason, even though I did hit Publish, it is not showing up in my profile. I was able to add it to one of my collections. And my Analytics shows that scrapers, I assume, immediately downloaded it 464 times in the first hour, and nothing since. I'd heard the site is kinda broken and running on autopilot, but I had no idea it was that bad. Support has been unresponsive.
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I had a similar experience with my first upload. It looks like there's a human review step before it gets indexed, which probably stops a lot of random porn, scam, and malware uploads. My subsequent uploads have been indexed faster.
-j
Posted by: J Greely at June 05, 2021 08:21 PM (ZlYZd)
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I added a like to it, in case it helps kick the automation.
-j
Posted by: J Greely at June 05, 2021 08:50 PM (ZlYZd)
Analytics says 4 more downloads today. (And now up to two likes.).
I wonder, if I add a second thing that might so up, some kind of counting from 0 error they have....
Posted by: Mauser at June 05, 2021 11:04 PM (Ix1l6)
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I see you have a similar problem. It says 4 designs, but only shows me 2.
Posted by: Mauser at June 05, 2021 11:06 PM (Ix1l6)
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at June 09, 2021 03:37 PM (LZ7Bg)
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I tried adding a second thing, a lid for the tool tray - first thing I ever designed to print, which showed up as the first. (Designs: 2, displayed: 1).
So I just uploaded the first thing, the notepad sleeve, again. (Designs: 3, Displayed: 2).
Haven't decided yet if I'm going to delete the first and see if the lid disappears, or if it's only your first upload that never shows up. Since after all, it's the invisible one that I've posted as a link all over.
Posted by: Mauser at June 11, 2021 07:03 PM (Ix1l6)
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Deleting the first item seems to have fixed my designs count. Sorry to anyone who collected it.
I printed Liru on the Mars, and while the detail and smoothness is fantastic, the supports really mess her up. Cutting them off either leaves a blob or a divot. And I broke three pieces of her boot fringe.
Posted by: Mauser at June 13, 2021 08:55 PM (Ix1l6)
Super Cub
So I've just started watching this, and I have to say, it's really beautifully animated. Especially the subtle shifts of the color when she first gets on the bike.
I was left with two questions: What happened to her bicycle? And did she remember to turn the fuel petcock back to ON when the filled the tank? If she didn't, she's going to be in for a worse surprise.
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Oh there's going to be a lot more of the same questions, such as where did the used oil go from that plastic bag.
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at May 19, 2021 11:23 AM (LZ7Bg)
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The thing I'm wondering about is just how many high schoolers are living alone in apartments (or cool log cabins) without parents. Not only the two in this series, but I've noticed a number of them in other series. Apparently she has a "Scholarship", which is the first I've heard of any arrangement like that.
Also, as I've been saying on Twitter, it would be a MUCH different series if it were a Piper instead of a Honda.
Posted by: Mauser at May 22, 2021 07:59 AM (Ix1l6)
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It's interesting noticing some of the subtle changes. In episode 7 (Still watching it ATM) she now pulls directly into the bike shelter at school instead of stopping outside it and walking it in to park.
Posted by: Mauser at May 22, 2021 08:32 AM (Ix1l6)
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News: "Kadokawa Comments on Illegal Motorcycle Riding Depiction in Super Cub Anime"
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at May 29, 2021 07:29 PM (LZ7Bg)
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at June 04, 2021 12:47 PM (LZ7Bg)
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They're growing up into bad-ass biker babes.
Guess that's what happens when they grow up without parental supervision. Amazing number of kids living alone in Anime.
Posted by: Mauser at June 05, 2021 04:28 PM (Ix1l6)
Spring SeasonSentouin, Hakenshimasu! is funny, two episodes in.
How Not to Summon a Demon Lord is back for another season. Need to check that out.
Odd Taxi Is definitely Odd. Aside from the strange background style, and the childish anthro characters, there seems to be a serious mystery about a missing girl going on.
Not really sure about anything else. I'm open to suggestions.
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I thought Saintess thing was pretty good. I did not read the LN, but I follow the manga. Not sure where it's going, unfortunately. Could be open-ended like many LN-based series. But I liked how Sei was realized in the anime.
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at April 20, 2021 09:53 AM (LZ7Bg)
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One problem I'm having with a lot of anime, but particularly Demon Lord is that when they're throwing spells around, the whole screen gets a lot darker. I'm at a loss as to what's causing it.
Posted by: Mauser at April 25, 2021 02:58 PM (Ix1l6)
...when they're throwing spells around, the whole screen gets a lot darker. I'm at a loss as to what's causing it.
Magic probably.
Posted by: The Brickmuppet at April 29, 2021 01:48 AM (5iiQK)
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I saw a phenomena at Crunchy where faces turn green over time. Yes that description is accurate. However, if I pause the video to capture that effect, it clears. I tried to capture it with digital camera, and got middling success. If I pirate the same video and watch it with VLC, there's no greening. It was a thing for as long as three years, and looks like it went away after an app update just in 2021.
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at April 29, 2021 11:04 AM (LZ7Bg)
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Maybe it's just something with MPC-HC and the CCCP codec pack. Actually, no it happens watching MHA on CR. And I am able to successfully screencap it.
I've been calling it a "Gamma Crash" because it does look like the gamma on the video has been turned way down. What's particularly odd is it doesn't necessarily affect say, white subtitle text.
I'll do a post to include pictures.
Posted by: Mauser at April 29, 2021 09:10 PM (Ix1l6)
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I saw an episode of Super Cub and I liked what I saw. The direction is outstanding, Fujii beats Shinkai and Shinbo like kids. And he came out of nowhere, like Izubuchi, who directed RahXephon on an inebriated bet -- he wanted to be its character designer, but things happened.
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at May 11, 2021 09:35 PM (LZ7Bg)
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I'd actually been considering it after Peter Payne (J-List) recommended it. Haven't started downloading it yet.
Posted by: Mauser at May 14, 2021 09:58 PM (Ix1l6)
Digging
So I went into one of the lesser-accessed labels in my archives, "Batch" and grabbed Yozakura Quartet. Apparently it came out in 2014, and I got the batch in 2018, and I can't seem to recall why. Someone suggested it? So far it's just okay, but at least it doesn't take place in a high school.
(I don't go through the batches as much because it's harder to keep my place within them. As opposed to changing the label on each episode to "Watched".)
Free fun fuse
So my first spool (or is it reel, or roll?) of black SunLu PLA came with a coupon that said join the FB group, and get a $5/20% off coupon for Amazon. So what the heck, I did. Of course, the coupon code is actually a pretty narrow offer, and as a result it knocked about $8.40 off the cost of a spindle (or is it spool, or reel?) of their other brand, JAYO's Black PLA, which suits me fine. Amazon seems to have adjusted the price in the interim, so it's hard to say. It was supposed to get me down to $13, but it was more like $15. Of course, to get free Amazon shipping, I had to buy something else, so I got some Red PLA.
But when I joined the FB group, I also discovered there was a giveaway going on, and I got on the tail end of it. So while I was chatting with the SunLu/JAYO rep, I got in on the deal for a couple free reels (or is it roll, or spindle?) of black ABS, which should be a challenge to print, from what I've heard.
All ten rolls of it! Holy Crow!
(Or is that spool, or reel?)
Yeah, it was a multicolor ten pack they sent me. This has tripled my inventory of filament. And vastly expanded the palette, which I never really depended on.
Posted by: Mauser at March 11, 2021 06:45 PM (Ix1l6)
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Really, you bought 10 kg at a go? That is enough to make 20 Plastikov receivers :-)
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at April 02, 2021 11:52 AM (LZ7Bg)
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No, I didn't buy it, I got it for Free! It was a give-away on their FB group!
Posted by: Mauser at April 02, 2021 02:26 PM (Ix1l6)
Feh
Printing that Liru model was pretty disappointing. She's definitely meant for Resin. Tree supports ended up more like Kudzu. Only her ears were sticking out just about. And even with all that support, she had a lot of drooped fibers. Getting her out of it all was a PITA, and well, it just didn't look very good. Maybe with a really small nozzle and tight printing or Something. It was an 8-hour print at standard settings.
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Sadly, after slicing her a few different ways, I kind of expected that result. I think you could get decent results if you were able to cleanly dismember her and add alignment pins for re-assembly, but I haven't found a good tool for making bounded cuts (although this one implements an algorithm that tries to auto-partition models).
-j
Posted by: J Greely at February 16, 2021 07:34 PM (ZlYZd)
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There was one layer in her left arm that didn't bond, so I had to glue that. But the fine detail of her boot fringes was the worst. Aside from her chin and inside her mouth. It's one of my worst prints that didn't fail (and I really haven't had a lot of failures, The test dog ran out of filament, and two calibration cubes broke free.)
Posted by: Mauser at February 16, 2021 09:48 PM (Ix1l6)
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