“I can’t say why I really don’t like him because people will judge me.”

Have you considered trading your first born?

Yeah, all the places around here also have nice recliners and heated seats. Movie going isn’t cheap, but the experience is about as good or better than it’s ever been around here. And of course if we want to splurge and drive a bit farther or take the El train into the city there are a few nice dinner and a movie options. Even all the normal theaters around here serve some amount of regular food and alcohol.

Man, it’s always wild to hear the varying experiences

We have a smaller chain of cinemas here that we prefer. But the larger chains in the area aren’t absurdly more expensive. We mostly go to matinee performances because we’re trying to avoid crowds, it’s something we took up during the COVID aftermath and have just enjoyed it as a family. That definitely helps with both the cost and overall experience.

Most films are less than $10 a ticket because of matinee pricing, we’re a family of 3. At this chain concessions are seriously not much more expensive if at all than when I was a teenager 30+ years ago. We buy one big tub of refillable popcorn and a couple drinks. We don’t buy candy at the theater. If we do want candy we tend to bring some that we pick up at dollar stores or 5 below and keep at home for movie nights. We end up spending $45-60 US for a family movie. At most we go probably 6 times in a year, and that would be a pretty blockbuster year of movies. When I was a kid we we never went to movies monthly, going to the theater was an event so it’s not really a change for me.

To those complaining about the ads, I say try to find a theater that offers reserved seating if possible. We do pay an extra fee per ticket to buy them online, but buying seats days or hours in advance means we don’t have to be there at the “start” time when the ads play and we still get a great spot. It’s worth the extra dollar or $1.25 a ticket our local places charge.

It sounds to me like people are probably living where there’s not much competition and so the experience has really degraded because there’s no alternative.

We’re in a wealthy but still mixed income suburb of Chicago so there are 3 theatres within 15 minutes of us. Going out here can be expensive, but the movies are still not that crazy for a whole family experience. If I was single I’d probably be hitting the theater monthly since my costs would be so much lower.

“I went up and down areas with a cosh, hoping I’d be approached by somebody - I’m ashamed to say that - and I did it for maybe a week, hoping some [uses air quotes with fingers] ‘black bastard’ would come out of a pub and have a go at me about something, you know? So that I could kill him.” - Liam Nelson

Lol

“Brazil’s 10% tariffs are the lowest of all the countries we considered doing business in – even more advantageous than printing in the USA due to the fact that raw materials and components are currently subject to high tariffs.”

Trump is a genius. /s

Karakeep. It will throw an error if a website is down and you won’t get tags.

Yeah give me Ublock or give me death.

Best Trek Season 1 episode of any series? I think there’s an argument to be made. This is the episode I think hooked my kid on Trek.

Frog in pot is my guess. I haven’t watched ad supported television for like 20 years now and it is so jarring when I’m in someone’s house and an ad comes on.

I’m guessing the angles are not playing nice with the mechanisms. It was designed down the the penny so there’s probably not a lot of extra torque in the system to compensate for new angles and friction when you mess with the layout.

Suspend your AMS from the top of the enclosure after putting it back together.

I hate to tell you, but it would be a miracle if Brooks himself saw a dime. He’s 98.

Every time I see him, my genuine reaction is “holy shit, Mel Brooks is still alive?”

If you don’t have a safe space for resin you don’t have a space for printing ASA or vapour smoothing either.

If you’re printing miniatures on FDM you should check out

https://youtube.com/@tombof3dprintedhorrors

and

https://youtube.com/@onceinasixside

The first, Fat Dragon Games, has many years of experience printing, designing, and selling models for FDM miniatures. He’s got opinions on filaments.

The second channel is more recent to FDM printing but made the jump from printing exclusively in resin and is now enjoying a journey into FDM. He talks about his preferred filaments in his videos.

I highly suggest you follow both of them. Also Fat Dragon minis aren’t the greatest detail or have very expressive poses, but they are design specifically to print in FDM without support. So I suggest checking them out. Brite Minis is another FDM exclusive miniature model seller.

I haven’t done FDM minis in a while so I’m not sure what filament brand to recommend specifically for that. But definitely stick with PLA. I know I used to use E-Sun and I believe that’s what fat dragon used to recommend as well.

DO NOT use white filament to print minis. Pigments in the filaments affect their properties and there’s a LOT of white pigment in white filament and it makes it more brittle. Black tends to have the least pigment, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that makes the best filament for minis. Fat dragon usually recommends grey but I think that’s more for aesthetic reasons.

At least it wasn’t chicken jockey.

Correlation is not causation.

It does if they make a settlement offer to keep it out of court a second time.

You’re assuming it wasn’t his insurance company that pushed to settle to avoid the costs of another trial.