You can put mad Infront of all the cunts that don’t have adjectives already to make them even more extreme.

“This mad cunt” for when your mate’s done something really out there while “mad dog cunt” is real fucking bad for example

Rival developer? Please, I’m pretty sure the call is coming from within the house here - this is exactly the sort of thing 4chan would do because a game asked them pronouns or gave them a wetsuit skin instead of a bikini one

Hey as someone who kinda grew up in that scenario, I really reccomend you show your kid what a windows dual boot is

Your kid doesn’t exist in a vacuum. They have friends and inevitably your kid’s going to be in a situation where their friends are like “hey, want to play this game with us?” And they can’t because it’s got a kernel anti-cheat that doesn’t work with Linux. They’re going to try and get into a hobby, only to find that the software everyone uses doesn’t work on Linux and the alternatives that do are badly maintained and frustrating to work with. They’re going to encounter a programme they need for school that just straight up does not work on Linux.

Sure you might be able to find a work around to all these things but like, can your kid? Because I speak from experience when I say that feeling like you have to be constantly running to your dad every time something doesn’t work doesn’t foster a sense of mastery, it makes you feel like you can’t do anything on your computer because you’re too small and dumb.

The teacher probably isn’t “afraid” of the Linux box, they’re probably frustrated that they don’t know what’s going on and can’t help if something goes wrong. The programmes they’ll probably teach your kid aren’t a perfect 1-to-1 match to their Linux alternatives and they’ll be left sitting in the back confused and upset while everyone else is learning about stuff in word and excel that you can’t do in libre Office. You’re not going to be known as the cool hacker dad, you’re going to be put in the same category as the crunchy mum who doesn’t let their kid eat sugar and needlessly restricts something that’s just so petty to the layman.

Does guillotine count as a loanword when it’s actually named after someone? That’s like saying pasteurise is a loanword because Louis Pasteur was French, even though the word is clearly just his name

I feel like if we’re talking realistically here, people are forgetting you have to also source the Pokemon in question. Most people aren’t globe trotting ace trainers, they’re limited to what’s around them and what they can realistically raise. As much as I’d love a goodra or a sigilyph or a volcorona, I don’t live anywhere where they’d realistically show up and they take a lot of attention to level up. Also like, most people tend to have only two or three Pokemon, because looking an entire team of 6 is a full time job.

I think I’d have a galvantula (or maybe more realistically a joltik) and a garganacl line Pokemon. Ones a common household pest that hangs around electronics and the other’s a giant guy made of salt who helps people and heals them. An electric type would probably actually help with my job and I’ve lived near salt mines before and an obedient Pokemon that can heal you and is big enough to assist with tasks sounds like a good choice for an assistance Pokemon. If I got to choose a third, it would probably be some sort of region bird because I like birds man. Maybe like a regional form of pidove. Spiders can catch their own food (and if not, bugs aren’t that hard to get ahold of), I already have plenty of bird feed, and like, does garganacl even eat? I guess it’d probably need salt? I mean I’ve got lots of that.

I’d love some sort of sea dwelling Pokemon, but unfortunately I don’t think they’re very easy to look after if you spend a lot of time on land. Omanyte would be great, but I don’t think fossil Pokemon are very easily accessible to the public

I’m just using good ol’ fusion 360. I’ve tried learning like openCAD but tbh I’m not the biggest fan of it. I haven’t really thought about the cart connection interface because I’ve been using schmidt nib units (just because I have a few lying around) and the interface is built into the unit itself and like, why reinvent the wheel? I’m more aiming to design a pen body rather than simply make a 3d printed pen just because I can

I’ve actually been trying to figure out if I could print out an entire pen, sans the nib and feed (and convertor - I want to make something that’s accessible, not something that’ll drive people mad trying to make it fully watertight or that’ll get me sued by TWSBI lol). I’m pretty confident in my TPU skills for gaskets and this is also a project to test out how robust my CAD skills are, because I want to make something that other people can alter. Like want a pen with an unusual grip for accessibility reasons? Or want to make your own knockoff Additive Pens with resin? Or just want to muck around with designs? Go ahead!

…also ngl this is kinda fuelled by how bloody fugly every kit pen I’ve seen is

Sounds like you’re kinda more after something a little less hard? Asimov is very much the quintessential “this could’ve been an essay” hard sci-fi author (though I will say, imo The Mule is a great character)…but then again I’d argue most hard hard sci-fi is like that. It’s either an ethics or a speculative engineering/biology essay under the veneer of a story. It doesn’t matter much in a short story because you don’t have to set up anything beyond your core theme but stretching out into something more than 50 pages long can be a bit much for some people.

If you’re after something longform from him that’s not so…jargony, have you tried Caves of Steel? it’s his attempt at writing genre fiction and at least I think it’s pretty good. It’s a murder mystery set in his general universe (though way before the Empire and everything) and tries to tackle the more social aspects and themes behind robotics.

If you’re looking for watertightness and optical clarity, have you considered looking at Taulman T-glase? One of it’s advertised features is that it has very little thermal shrinkage and can be tuned to be watertight for FDA approved food purposes. It’s PETT not PETG but that’s not too different from PETG IIRC. I’ve personally been looking to get a hold of some for my own 3d printed fountain pen experiments

Also there’s a chance it might be an issue with the sliced model itself, not your filament settings. Cura can do some funky things sometimes with holes

You get the benefit of having a rock with cool optical properties! It’s clear! It’s chatoyant! it’s like a natural fibre optic cable!