It seems like a pretty obvious lawsuit to me. They announced his promotion, and then never gave it to him, despite making him do the job for months. That alone is an easy win, IMO.

But then there was also a contract he signed? That super easy lawsuit time.

I tried Prusa Slicer and didn’t care for the UI. I ended up with Orca Slicer instead.

I could see it maybe being useful for certain large games that you only play occasionally, but…

That’d mean redownloading right when you actually want to play, which is a pain. Also, in ability to tell it to archive or un-archive something manually makes that situation even worse.

It feels like those “ram doublers” back in the day… Neat in theory, but just painful in reality. It puts a check mark on a sales pitch, but doesn’t actually help anyone.

From what I understand, the more you NG+, the wilder it gets.

The whole game feels like it was based around this concept, but you don’t get there until you’ve played a lot of hours, and then it resets almost everything, meaning that your choices and bases are pretty pointless in short order since you’ll be going NG+ more and more.

And that would be fine, if the rest of the game was great. But it isn’t.

I didn’t play more than a few loops. I keep thinking I’ll go back and play more, but I just never feel like it. It’s such a shame because I’ve got 100+ hours in all the 3D Fallout and Elder Scrolls games, and 200+ in some of them.

I’ve been into Progression Fantasy lately. Everyone I know who read Naomi Navik’s Scholomance series loved it. I also really enjoyed Cradle, Menocht Loop, and … hm, others, but nothing is popping into my head.

I replied about this on your comment to another user already.

I “fled Reddit” because they started making really stupid managerial decisions and screwing over the user base. They changed how they do things, and I no longer agreed to it. The same thing happened to me on Lemmy. I initially joined a server that decided that majority vote was the way to run things, and I left. Then I joined a server that died. I finally found my current one and like it.

Though in reality, I now frequent both sites and enjoy them for different reasons.

Gacha games, though… They tell you up front what to expect, and they do that. (Except certain illegal cases that actually got in legal trouble for it.) Yes, they’re predatory and manipulative, and they ruin the lives of some people who have certain tendencies. That really sucks.

But they’re fun and satisfy an urge that many people have that isn’t getting satisfied otherwise.

I think spending hundreds of dollars on a game is stupid (I’ve done it, over a couple years on 1 game) and I think spending thousands is insane, even if you have more money than you can ever use. But I can and do play them for free (or close to it) now if they are fun and don’t waste my time.

I don’t think these positions are hypocritical. I’m not on Lemmy because I’m a zealot. I’m on here because I enjoy it.

Like Genshin Impact, Star Rail has a decent base game that does well with its characters and combat. Notice I didn’t say “great”.

However, after you get through the intro and the first world, they start adding on to the game. There’s a whole bunch of 1-off mini-games that are fun in their own right and have nothing to do with the Gacha.

The first one is a museum administration mini game where you’re responsible for “hiring” people that have 3 stats, and then balancing those stats to make money for the museum, then using the money to upgrade the museum, run mini-quests to restore the museum, and hire more staff. And expand the museum.

Each of these little mini-games is a few days of fun, and I think I’ve found 4 so far IIRC in Star Rail. Genshin Impact has had similar things, but tend to not be permanent, and to be less involved than Star Rail’s.

The gacha is generous enough that you can generally play without paying anything. I don’t think I’ve given any money to Star Rail, though I have paid the monthly $5 to Genshin Impact for a few months now. And I’ll admit, I started thinking about paying it to Star Rail, too. It’s definitely a gacha game, but on the actually-playable side if you’re playing free.

That said, if gacha games are something that just stick in your craw, it’s unlikely that any game will change that, and I’d argue that you’re better off never finding out.

In the end, I’d say you’re best just accepting that for what it is, it’s one of the best, and letting it go. There’s no point in being upset that people enjoy a game that you can’t. Let them have their fun, and go have your own instead.

I’m not real happy with how scary the warnings are for sideloading apps, but I think this is different. In this case, it was installed from 1 place, then updated from another. I think the user needs to know that, and that it might be undesirable. And it doesn’t keep warning you about that app afterwards, either.

They’re similar, but not the same. The analog stick is swapped with the d-pad. They didn’t just buy the molds and use them.

I guess I should put it in perspective by saying I like Clicker (incremental) games. The good ones, anyhow. Yeah, every game is a loop of the same general thing. It’s how to you iterate on that thing as the player progresses that makes it good or bad. There isn’t enough change here as the level goes up.

I looked into this, and it turned out to be a lot harder to do than I expected. I thought it should be pretty easy to stand up a simple web server and reply with that info, but … No.

I think if this were my project, I would instead make an app that always runs in the background and updates an MQTT server periodically, and I’d have my other system check that server instead. Alternatively, that app could just hit a web endpoint somewhere and POST the data to it, and that server could do whatever you want.

But as far as existing apps, I don’t see anything that does what you want.

I think you’re overestimating the amount of effort that it takes to find someone’s email or Twitter account and send them a message. And I pretty much guarantee that the kind of person that sends them has already been spewing that kind of hatred verbally, at a drop of a hat, for quite some time. It’s not a creative process, it’s just anger given a voice.

Plus, it’s far from my “second or third” and I still enjoy them. Pokemon games are what they are, and I like them.

I’m not saying they couldn’t be improved, but I don’t pass on a game just because it doesn’t max out its potential. I buy fun games, and no game is perfect.

I’ve played it on PC Game Pass, and IMO, it’s mostly shock and hype. After a short while, it becomes the same thing over and over. Capture or kill a lot of pals to level up and improve your strength. Then do it again on new pals for more strength. The base stuff changes a little, but it’s still basically the same.

Initially I was into it, but then at about level 20 I realized it wasn’t going anywhere. After a few levels, it’s literally the same thing over and over again, but you upgrade the equipment. Nothing really makes a huge difference after you get them farming basic materials.

There’s NO plot after you complete the tutorial. What it says about taking down the bad guys in the description? It’s all in your head. You kill plenty of them. You make zero difference to the world that lasts more than a hour.

If you aren’t sure, wait for a big sale. I quite enjoyed the game, but other than being a massively-popular IP, I’m not sure why it’s getting so much acclaim. It’s big, it’s Harry Potter (with all the attention to detail that usually gets), and it’s an RPG. If it wasn’t HP, it’d be another good indie game, and that’s it.

There’s no way a company is going to attempt to release all that information and potentially fail to release all details and set themselves up for a lawsuit. I think it’s more likely that these laws would kill server-based games if they were implemented as suggested.

Instead, I could see that there might be a minimum server support length after the last sale of the product. Even then, service would be spotty for that time and there’d be no uptime guarantee. Fixes for problems and hacks would be incredibly slow and the game would basically be unplayable in short order, unless that guaranteed time was short, like 1 year.

In addition to what TheYang said, I wanted to note that the spec for 3d printed parts for Voron printers is:

4 walls 5 top/bottom layers 40% infill

These are parts designed for 3d printers, so they have to be pretty good. They recommend ASA or ABS because of the temperatures that the printers get up to. Most plastic parts you’re used to are ABS or something like it. Water bottles are PET which is similar to PETG, though of course they’re really thin so they’re super flimsy that way. Your part wouldn’t be flimsy, but the plastic would feel like strong PET. That’s not necessarily bad, just different.

Personally, I would recommend trying to find someone locally, and buying them a roll of a filament to print the parts for you. I’d budget $15-30 for each roll, and each roll will print 2.2 lbs of plastic parts, which should be more than enough for your stuff and some failures, and probably leave them some extra for their effort.

I think you can probably find someone who is also excited to see that keyboard come together and wants to be part of the build. And I think trying to print it online is going to be frustrating because there could be little mistakes that make the parts unusable that you won’t know to predict because you haven’t done it before. Or maybe not. It’s a gamble, IMO.

As long as there are decent minimums, I think that sounds like the best contract that could be negotiated. Completely disallowing it was never going to happen. The concern was that they’d be paid once and they out of a job forever, also preventing others from getting jobs as well. Instead, there are ongoing fees that support them instead. I think that’s perfectly reasonable, unless there’s no minimum fees for those things, and then it’s a race to the bottom, and virtually no different than not getting fees at all.

Saying they deserve to lose their work is too much, though.