Printables added incentives. They’ve gamified it, there’s badges and ranks and you can earn Prusa Points to redeem for filament or, if you collect enough, 3D printers! They have a marketplace where you can sell your STLs for actual money.

It’s also full of slop. They ran a “Valentine’s Day” contest, so it became impossible to browse through pages and pages of red benchies with hearts added or flexi dragons with hearts added or any other stereotypical 3D printer shit printed in red with hearts added. Scroll past that, through the 67 memes and anime titties and you hit the thick layer of random geometric shapes.

yeah they backtracked. They had something TO backtrack.

Most of the Chinese brands are doing that; I’ve seen 3D printing youtubers talk about Bambu, Creality and Elegoo leaning on them for good reviews as if they’re employed on their marketing team rather than independent journalists.

I’ve heard a lot of stuff about their platform hosting stolen models.

Bambu tipped their hand a little over a year ago, they have every intention to lock down their platform, requiring their filament, their software and likely their cloud platform to run.

And I’ll pit my Prusa MK4S against your Bambu A1 in print quality any time.

They are no longer as open source as can be. The Buddy Board, Nextruder, their nozzles, all closed source.

That’s been around for a long time now. Remember Dollar Shave Club?

Look for a used Prusa.

New tit ion battery generates fifteen times the power and shits butter pecan ice cream. And, like every other battery chemistry there’s ever been a news article for, isn’t real and will never enter production.

The “not male, but outwardly pro male” angle tells me it’s fake.

The poop deck wasn’t used to poop from. That was done at the head. Because on a sailing ship, most if not all of the time the front of the ship is downwind.

Cat ears are more sensitive and more directional than ours; their little dorito ears have more gain, and they can swivel them around. If you ever see a cat staring at apparently nothing, she’s probably not looking, she’s probably listening, and depending on how her ears are configured maybe not in the direction her face is pointed.

A cat is staring at a wall outlet? The wires might be loose and arcing, causing a ticking sound that pushes the “rodent detected” button in kitty’s head.

I thought that was an established fact.

When I lived in Daytona Beach you could count on the 3PM rainstorm.

With a radio control drone you, your face and your smart phone can be a quarter mile away. Plus, have you been in aerial combat? I haven’t. Yet.

Thanks for the warning.

especially when spelled with quotes.

Wasn’t there a guy who built an AK-47 out of a shovel?

Is there a common quadcopter on the market capable of carrying a paintball gun or something else that can splatter lenses?

By “blue collar work” do you mean that done by mechanics, carpenters, masons, plumbers, electricians, machinists, tool operators and repairmen? because yes I do.

It’s absolutely real; there’s a joke about it in The Naked Gun.

It’s not that there used to be a red variety of pistashio, they were sold coated in this oily red gunk that would stain your fingers pink. That stopped at some point in the late 90’s early 2000s.

No, pistachio flavored ice cream and puddings and such have always been green.