TheRealKuni

I liked Friends. It hasn’t aged particularly well, it’s not without its flaws, but it was popular for a reason.

More importantly, its success meant NBC continued to invest heavily in comedies, which gave us a golden age of much better shows. A golden age that eventually included Scrubs, 30 Rock, The Office, My Name is Earl, Parks and Rec, Community, etc.

they’re pushing other platforms constantly. Kurzgesagt already does, heavily.

Do they? They used to be part-owners of Nebula but sold shares and bounced. What platform do they push now?

“Agnostic” is just a more specific kind of atheist. You’re still an atheist.

Some people who call themselves agnostic lean atheist like you say, and might call themselves “agnostic atheists” as a more specific descriptor of their atheism. Some people who are agnostic may lean theist, and call themselves “agnostic theists” (this is usually the label I give myself). Others may not lean one way or the other, or may not care, and may call themselves simply “agnostic.” Or there could be any number of other reasons someone uses the term they prefer.

The differences might be minor or non-existent in your view, but might be important to another individual. Don’t presume to understand what someone else believes simply because of your interpretation of a term.

Fcuk remasters reboots remakes, that’s all scam.

Sometimes. This month however we’ve gotten two pretty good examples of how to redo a game.

1: Black Flag Resynced, despite Ubisoft being as shitty a company as they come, is excellent. Mostly the same gameplay, new graphics, new story content, new worthwhile side missions. I’m really enjoying it.

2: Halo: Campaign Evolved, is also really well done. They moved to Unreal Engine but the game still very much feels like Halo. They’ve included some mechanical upgrades from modern FPSs, including aiming down sights for guns without scopes, sprinting, and the ability to steal vehicles while the enemy is driving them. They also overhauled some of the missions, because level design has come a long way since 2001. So The Library, for example, is no longer as repetitive as before. It’s still a meat grinder of shotgunning Flood, but it’s more varied in encounter and room design. A friend and I are playing through on Legendary and it’s been exactly the right kind of frustrating (for us) to make a game fun when you succeed.

I think this is my favorite:

their end goal is 100% to restrict use to their filament only.

I’ll be shocked if that ends up happening. The RFID tags are a convenience, but their software includes profiles for major filament manufacturers.

Don’t get me wrong, the closed-off stuff is frustrating. But they’d have to be complete idiots to limit to their own materials. Locking to proprietary filaments has killed other 3D printing companies and they’d be no different. They’re assholes, but they’re far from stupid.

And I’m sure they’ll track the use on a given spool so you can’t keep refilling it with filament from other brands.

They do track the use of given spool, but not by individual tag. The tag just had the filament profile on it. Instead, when you load up a spool into the AMS they feed it all the way through to the nozzle and then retract it. During this they track how often the tag passes the RFID reader, which tells it how full the spool is since the circumference gets smaller as the spool empties.

But if you put the tag on a refill from another brand, like I do, it goes back to detecting a full spool. I’ve found that Polyterra works just fine with the Bambu Matte settings, so I order Polymaker’s refill spools. Using the tag means it loads up the color cards data for me, which is convenient.