An accidental find, but I like it. This is hard SF, involving a world past the brink of ecological disaster (with many people unaware or actively ignoring it), the US and China in a kind of military impasse, and Canada hiring itself out as the mercenary pool for the whole world.
I own an AMS-HT, but not all rolls / spools fit. You can, however, also dry your filament inside your printer, using the heated printer bed. It may be slower and less efficient, it looks less sexy and it blocks you from actually using your printer for printing, but hey! It works.
In modern day 3D printers you have a lot of choice in build plates, filaments, temperatures, speeds, making it almost impossible to compare the actual adhesion of the different combinations.
When fooling around with buildplates (see PlateLab) I tried to come up with a way to properly (and objectively) test material / plate adhesion.
Today I saw a commercial for a tool that would auto-generate complete books. Including all chapters, text, graphics, layout, everything.
It was tailored to non-fiction, but it's rather scary - at least to writers. What will be the next step? Will there be 100% written - and readable - novels in our future?
Will there be any writers left? Probably. But - to level the playing field - I think we should be honest about WHO is creating the work...
Not all cold plates are created equal. And many are simply not cold plates at all.
Here's a comparison between several (cheap) cold plates. Note: if you want me to test another plate, drop me a line, and send me that plate 😊
I'm trying my best to stay positive, but sometimes I wonder if this is the moment we see Fermi's Paradox in full action. Why? Well, we're facing global warming, Russia plays the robber baron, China threatens Taiwan, the US has become the most unreliable superpower ever. And now Pakistan and India are going beyond rattling their sabers and have started to bombard one another.
March 21, and life still sucks. Even more so than usual.
Somehow I just don't feel like writing much lately. It's a kind of general slump, partially filled with the inability to get my sorry ass into gear and publish, partially by all the doom and gloom from the orange menace's corner, and there are some private things distracting me and mine.
I would never let an AI write any of my stories. And - had I been a musician - I would never use AI to compose or sing or perform.
Still, even I have to admit AI is getting impressive, though it isn't perfect.
I wrote the lyrics to this song myself, then build a prompt and had an AI generate it. (Frankly, I cannot even remember which one I used, sorry.)
As Dungeon Master / Game Master, you're the heart of any role playing game. As DM / GM you run the world, play all the NPCs, and you decide which rules apply when.
That's a lot of work... sometimes a bit too much. This book tries to address that potential problem, by helping you to only prepare what is necessary.
RPG Book Review + Books + Dutch
Na al het uitzoeken en voorbereiden is het tijd om het resultaat te laten zien: The Lazy Anthology. Oftewel... drie de boeken tesamen in een enkele, full color hardcover.
So, I completed my own 'download edit print' sequence using a POD Provider (Pumbo).
But... how do the different kind of POD products actually look?
Maar daarmee wil het ook :-)
Okay. Ik weet wat ik wil laten afdrukken. Nou hoef ik alleen nog maar te bepalen bij wie...
215 paginas, full color, hardcover. Hmmm... wie zijn de kandidaten?
Mijn test case is The Return of the Lazy Dungeonmaster. Het basis boek is 96 paginas, en de beide aanvullingen zijn 64 en 48 bladzijden. Kant en klaar afgedrukt en verstuurd komen de drie boeken (totaal 208 bladzijden) uit op ca. 75 euro.
Mijn plan is er een enkele, dikke hardcover van te maken.
Vaak is een PDF precies wat je nodig hebt. Een digitaal boek wat je gemakkelijk mee kunt nemen waar en wanneer je maar wilt. Maar soms wil je gewoon door een papieren kopie bladeren. Een echt boek in je handen houden. En da's wat lastig als er niets anders dan een digitale versie beschikbaar is.
(I have some mixed feelings on 5e5 AKA 5e24, the 2024 incarnation of the ruleset. Note that these Basic Rules are based on the 2014 set of rules.)
Once you have a Rakuten Kobo Plus subscription you're going to try to maximize its usage. Let's read / listen to tons of free books - as long as the subscription lasts - right? On top of that, I was investigating the typical romantasy concepts. Free and with a purpose, right?
Well... yeah. Right. Unfortunately, lots of the better stuff isn't free, and lots of the stuff included in Kobo Plus isn't very good... Will Viola Grace change my opinion?
Note to self: don't forget to frequently check your Homematic domotics system for any heating related issues...
2nd note to self: don't forget. But I did. Sigh.
3rd note (to visitor): skip this page. It's just for my own usage. You want to go here and see what else is on offer...
Microsoft / Muckysoft / Micro$oft is rolling out it's Copilot AI assistant... and it doesn't matter if you like it or even agree with it, or not... You'll get it shoved down your throat, no matter what.
Did you know that Notepad (!) has Copilot support? Did you know it's ON by default?!? M$, what the hell is wrong with you?!?!?
(Go into settings and turn it off. Also uninstall the Copilot app. Fuck M$.)
The preceding show Ms Marvel isn’t that bad, except for an overly short season. This one though… yeah, this one didn’t work. It’s a pity because it had some promising elements, but the end result is a hasty mess.
The verdict? Skip it.
