Yep, you’ll never get it perfect, but a smaller layer height will make the steps less noticeable. Adaptive layer height in cura if you use that can help, but adds a mortal age to the length of the print.

Only so far, there’s still time.

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It’s probably under exposed then. Something like this and this will help you tune your slicer settings. You might need to play with other settings if you have other issues, but most of the time the exposure settings will be the problem with new resins.

Is this the first print you’ve done with it? Have you done any exposure calibration with this resin?

Ethanol should be fine to use as far as I know. Do the holes go all the way through? If so your screen might have dead spots. You can visually inspect the screen by setting it to do a test exposure without the resin tank on it to check. Also obviously check that your tank doesn’t have any failed print bits stick to the sheet.

The industry is experiencing historic shrinkage post COVID due to unsustainable growth during COVID.

It’s not an easy transition. My partner works for DDG and I still don’t use it all the time. To their credit they are working to improve things but it’s a small team (comparatively). Their browser has some good features like app tracking protection just from having it installed and quick throwaway email support but isn’t quite up to Firefox’s standard (yet).

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You body begins to die a painful but probably mercifully quick death. Hormones are vital to your bodies continual survival and even if you targeted specific ones, you’d just be creating problems for yourself. Elimated dopamine? Congrats you’ve given yourself ADHD and a host of other personality problems. Melotonin? Oops no more sleep for you, enjoy your sudden weight gain and compromised immune system. We don’t take hormones, we are hormones.

That last bit goes for people too, it’s called Leukocoria can be am early sign of all sorts of eye disease. It’s a common way retinoblastoma (a thankfully relatively rare child eye cancer) gets caught - it shows up as a sort of white sheen in one eye in flash photos.

This guy’s trying to trick us into working out - Get them!

You might also enjoy bitburner which is free on steam. It’s a JavaScript based hacking game with a focus on automation.

End of contract stuff is an issue in the industry, with 15-18% being contractors, but that’s it’s a separate one - if you’re a contractor you’re going to need to find a new job no matter what at the end of the project unless you get lucky enough to snag a permanent role.

Layoffs for salaried employees at the end of a project is a systematic problem in the industry - This is a really good article from 2014 that’s covers a lot of the issues.

That’s not unusual for games studios after shipping a game unfortunately. It likely means that they don’t have another project ramping up after finishing the Callisto Protocol DLC.

I used to play dnd with an astronaught

I’m similar, except I collect rpg books and I’m 30. I haven’t sat down read a paper book properly in years, I just don’t have the attention span (thanks undiagnosed ADD). But I keep collecting because it brings me joy to do so and I enjoy the thrill of the chase going through second hand bookshops looking for deals.

These sort of hobbies are also great for bringing together like minded people, like you and your friend, so there are additional social benefits to them too if you’re looking for that. This is something Ive come to really come to appreciate more as I’ve aged and fallen out of contact with school friends and it gets harder to meet new people outside of your social circle.

Sorry for the ramble but I guess my main point is to ask yourself whether it brings you joy to continue collecting or not and if it doesn’t maybe to hold off for a few months and check back in with yourself then as you may feel different.

It’s hards to say who has the moral high ground here, I can see it from both sides but the main problem seems to be that they didn’t hash out clear IP rights initially. Now that the business/property is valuable neither party is willing to give an inch of what they feel owed.

I’ve been in the patreon for this for a while, it’s going to be a great finished product.