You don’t always need to replace the part with something the manufacturer offers as a replacement. Something like a screen board might be hard/ impossible to find an alternative for, but things like buttons or sensors inside of mice are rarely something made specifically by the mouse manufacturer. They can almost always be replaced by an equivalent generic part. Hell, my 3D printer motherboard took a shit on me a couple years ago, and I bought an aftermarket board and installed 3rd party firmware on it to get it up and running again.

Like you said it’d be great if it were just easy for everyone to do these things, but as devices get more advanced they’re gonna require more advanced knowledge to work on, and not everyone has the time, interest, or resources to learn how to diagnose and repair stuff.

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They have a specific aesthetic in mind it seems.

Just found out that people without disabilities have complete control of their body, like you can just fly whenever you want? How

I’m trying a new system of DM’ing in-person DnD games where I’ve got my laptop plugged in to a TV everyone can see, and my players pass around a wireless KB+M to move their tokens around.

It works well enough, but I have to remember to “give them the cursor back” when I’m done doing things on the laptop screen, otherwise they can’t find it, haha

It is one of my favorite quotes from the entire series. Never before has a man painted a picture of himself as vivid as Jamie did when he delivered this line.

My bad, I forgot there were two episodes on this, I think maybe you only saw the first one or parts of it. There was a huge wooden structure with hundreds of mirrors arranged in a concave shape that almost perfectly aligned all mirrors’ reflections into one spot and absolutely nothing happened. Even with perfect mirrors and modern construction tools and techniques we couldn’t recreate it.

Look up “mythbusters solar death ray” I think you’ll enjoy it

The Tolkien Estate (namely Christopher) is incredibly protective of J. R. R.'s works and their integrity. Anything that is produced, they want produced true to his image. That being said they were very much not fans of the theatrical LotR films we know and love by New Line Cinema. Also worth noting that when J. R. R. sold the movie rights back in the 60s, he only sold the movie rights to the LotR trilogy and the Hobbit, but there was an additional clause that stated that if the Silmarillion were to be sold, the company that bought the rights to the LotR/Hobbit would get first dibs on it. So, if they want a Silmarillion movie, they have to offer it to the parent company of New Line Cinema, meaning they’d likely purchase it and produce the movies, which the Tolkien Estate does not want. So, the chances of the rights being sold, at least while New Line Cinema and it’s affiliates exist, are practically zero.

So, why not make it themselves? Very much for the same reason. I don’t know your familiarity with the Silmarillion, but… it’s very heavy reading. Not to say that it isn’t a good read, or that the story isn’t there, but the first section of the book is a bunch of shapeless angels singing songs about life and accidentally creating the universe, and the remainder of the book has 500 characters with a total of 17 different names that get altered, swapped, and outright changed halfway through the story. A true 1:1 adaption of the book would probably be longer than the original extended trilogy, but be way harder to follow for the average audience. So, major changes would be needed to make it financially viable, which are the exact things the Tolkien Estate does not want New Line Cinema making them.

TL;DR: The Tolkien Estate has to sell the Silmarillion rights to New Line Cinema before anyone else can buy it, and the Estate didn’t like the other movies so they aren’t going to sell it to them (and thus to anyone). They didn’t like the movies because the movies made too many changes to get the books to work for film, so they certainly will not be the ones to make the major changes that would be necessary to turn J. R. R.'s Bible fanfic into a Hollywood blockbuster.

I’m a huge LotR fan (probably going to go see Two Towers in theatre tonight!) and am very much not looking forward to this movie, lol. I was reading Fellowship a few months ago and got to the part of the book that talks about what the plot of Hunt for Gollum is about… Aragorn pretty much summarizes the entire thing in less than a paragraph. It’s pretty wild.

Viggo is playing Aragorn!

Viggo is now older than Ian McKellen was when he first played gandalf…!

Nobody is allowed to make content based off the Silmarillion. The Tolkien Estate has exclusive publishing rights for everything 1st and 2nd Age. That’s why Rings of Power is so bad, they’re basically trying to rewrite the lore to tell the same story and set everything up the way it already is without being able to use any source material.

It’s like, just tell a different story at that point bro.

The corner is laying down. The would be no supports in either case, and the fillet avoids hard turns while the chamfer still has two (less sharp) angles.

Like 99% of things in 3D printing, “Xs are to be preferred over Ys” is an entirely circumstantial statement that is never going to be true all of the time.

You might try adding a small fillet or chamfer to the inside corners of the model. 3D printers don’t like making sharp, pointed turns; rounded edges (or wider angled turns) tend to print much better.

The rounded (fillet) corners will probably be less visible, and will prevent the start / stopping point where the problem is occurring

In Germany we have organic waste bins.

Sounds like some liberal commie alarmist woke propaganda to me. Here in God’s country, we put our organic waste directly into the coal plants 🇺🇸🦅

You’re supposed to put a third forklift (using a fourth forklift) on top of the first two

“your tactics” is still like, several notches above a sane take on what OP actually posted. This is not a remotely problematic post, at least not in the sense you guys are implying.

And videos with still images of text with an animated clip-art border and sound use even more!

Hey, nice fix.

Only thing I’d look at is maybe adding a slope to the little protruding rectangle, so the model can be printed on its front/ back side without supports or losing quality on the first few layers of the notch. Based on the complete photo, it looks like only the lower side of the rectangle that’s resting on the monitor needs to be there, you can make that a small angled lip instead of the block.

I went on a canyon drive one time. We started with 7 cars, when we got to the end of our route, we had 8. Hopped right out of his car and stood around in the circle with the rest of us, didn’t even register for a second that it was just some random guy. He thought it looked fun so he kept up with us. Cool dude.

What if the aggressor misses, and stabs the wrong one?