Dredd was good and deserved more attention, and a sequel, but Paul Leonard-Morgan’s Dredd soundtrack was awesome.

I think of solarpunk as post-cyberpunk because it exists as a response to cyberpunk. But cyberpunk continues, so post- as a “hey it’s done, everything afterwards is something else” declaration doesn’t work for me. You can write and direct a film noir movie outside of the film noir time period. The problem with labels is that different eras are marked by different patterns, but also different years. If something is written using the elements of the 1980s cyberpunk but it’s actually written in 2026, is it classic cyberpunk because of the themes or is it post-cyberpunk only because it was written decades later. The labels become less useful if you bind yourself to odd conclusions based on odd taxonomies.

Cyberpunk means different things to different people, so some might consider it over because the things that defined it for them are done. But honestly it’s even more relevant now because so much of the implied criticism in cyberpunk media in the 1980s has continued and arguably gotten worse with corporate hegemony, authoritarianism, surveillance states, etc.

You best start believing in cyberpunk dystopias, because you’re in one. It just is also sometimes a boring dystopia, but that’s just how reality goes. Fiction is expected to be more believable.

I used this Adafruit tutorial for a druid staff for the ren faire last year. The emerald lit up with the click of the button hidden in the handle and the speaker played sounds of the forest and then an angry crow call when it was hit on the ground or shaken. It was pretty easy to get working.

Just a note on the graphic. I’d recommend choosing a thicker font, a better contrasting font color, and not using the shadow effect. It can be difficult to read from an accessibility standpoint for some people.

Definitely consider if you’ll use it enough to justify the purchase, but buying a new one and spending the effort that you would have used trying to mod the old one could be better used on the new machine getting functional prints and advancing your skills.

The same amount of fiddling, accompanied with the uncertainty of the success or practicality of the mod, could be spent assembling a new printer and then printing and assembling new mods for the new printer that aren’t as essential or structural. The appeal just depends on how much focus and patience you have.

In rewatching the movie while planning the terrarium, I kept thinking that I could easily make a Tim the Enchanter costume for the ren faire.

Yeah, it seems to be a name used for multiple species within the Laccaria genus. It might be like a metonym where one species name became the name for related species even if the trait that inspired the name isn’t shared by all related species.

Multiple sources seem to indicate that it’s called the deceiver because its appearance is variable (cap shape, color, et al.), so it can be difficult to identify depending on which variation it presents.

This is one of those “technically true, but missing the bigger picture” pedantic gotchas.

Yes, Hercules is the Roman name not the Greek name. Yes, barbarian as a term originally meant not-Greek or not-Greek-enough for some Greeks.

But it’s not like you’re going for full historical accuracy already (or even could if you wanted to). It’s just a subjective scale of how accurate do you want to be in what ways that you think are important.

You’re not going to speak ancient or koine Greek when playing the game. You’re playing game rules that aren’t based solely on Greek mythological cosmology. Barbarian isn’t a term in DnD for non-Greeks the same way chai tea in English doesn’t mean “tea tea,” but rather “a spiced Indian tea.” Words have multiple meanings. Those meanings can change over time. Those words can have a different meaning in a different language even if adopted from the same source.

I prefer writing short stories because it prevents you from wasting a lot of time with possibly interesting but ultimately superfluous world-building details. There’s a balance to be struck between keeping the story moving and describing enough to let the reader’s imagination take over and fill in their own details, even subconsciously.

I’ve taken to starting stories in media res more often because it keeps the attention long enough to build curiosity and drop in the details as you go along.

The older I get, the more I find I lose patience reading novels that spend too long with excess dialogue that ultimately doesn’t drive the plot anywhere, serving as unfulfilled promises or red herrings at best.

Even some otherwise good writers will let you get halfway or more through a novel before you understand where the plot is going. I wonder how much some novelists add primarily due to expectations for longer word counts, the way broadcast TV shows were constrained by half hour or hour long slots with commercial breaks and that dictated the flow.

It may not encompass all that you’re referring to, but false dilemma is the informal fallacy they’re using when they artificially try to limit the perception of choices.

Yeah, that makes sense for your frustration. I get stabbed under my fingernails trying to take PETG remnants off the textured beds. I typically just deal with it because the solutions I’ve found are more time-consuming, but I guess it might depend on how much.

I’ve had people suggest heating the bed as high as it will go. PETG’s glass transition temperature is usually less than 90° C. I’ve seen some people print over bits to try to merge them to make them pull up easier, but that just seems like a waste of material to me. I generally don’t care for solutions that involve applying liquids or gels to the bed.

What material and what kind of plate? PEI textured plate or smooth plate? PLA, PETG, something else?

I asked the instructor of a lichen class I took a couple months ago and this was her response to the photo:

It’s just moss with some dry spots in it. Mosses don’t lichenize; the photosynthesizer is going to be either an algae, a cyanobacteria, or both.

Not what you’re asking for, but I’d recommend using a laser cutter with a sheet of acrylic if you can get access to one since you’ll get a better quality stencil than 3D printing one. A vinyl cutter like a Cricut or Silhouette machine might also be able to do a better job of it on something like chipboard if you don’t have access to a laser cutter.

“I don’t want to belong to any club that would accept me as one of its members.”

But, you’re just one person. You won’t be present for 99.9999%+ of newer usages of terms, so you’ll be impotent to effect much change on the matter. With the level of illiteracy and the anti-intellectualism that seems rampant these days, even having a widely read column on a popular platform might be insufficient to turn such a tide. Maybe at best you’d be a screenwriter for a Hollywood blockbuster that a decent portion of the population watches and you could hope for the best, but even that seems weak considering we collectively don’t even remember movie lines accurately ten or twenty years later.

You should literally literally when a literally flies straight for your face because those feathered fowl can be as aggressive as gooses.

But the disputes occur because people use the newer, less common meaning until it becomes more common. If you discourage people from using the word “incorrectly” but it eventually evolves in meaning through usage because people ignore your encouragement to return to the original meaning, then you’d just be on the losing side of the battle historically.

I feel like it should be much more nuanced as to whether you encourage or discourage change. People reclaiming or usurping derogatory terms as a big FU to bigotry? Awesome. People twisting words for the purposes of oppressive, deceptive, or marketing purposes? Nope.

The reason behind the change should be preferably be intentional, backed by goodwill, and done in order to increase ease of communication because the old meaning/usage wasn’t sufficient.

But language is a shared medium and a lot of intention falls by the wayside because of random quirks as much by intentional campaigns.