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  • I understand the weird feeling of relief when someone dies. I know that sounds terrible. My situation was not yours, so I'm not directly comparing. One of my parents had long, slow cancer. Watching them waste away, choosing to fight a symptom or not, was draining and difficult. In one sense, I enjoyed all of those final moments and would give anything to have more. I miss them dearly. However, I'm glad they're not suffering. It was difficult at the end. Their quality of life was not good.

  • Anything to do with Pern. Some good high fantasy and tech mixed. Might be a harder sell to the general public. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragonriders_of_Pern

    The Brainship series (The ship who sang). This would go over well with the Star Trek, Star Wars fansbase, I think. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ship_Who_Sang

    The Vorkosigan saga. This would also go well with the Star Trek/Wars fanbases. More political than Brainship series. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorkosigan_Saga

    The Dragearan books about Vlad Taltos by Steven Brust. Especially the first few. High fantasy mystery novels. This would be an easy sell, IMO. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Brust#Vlad_Taltos

    This made me realize I haven't read any new books in a while.

  • I don’t see what making a film or TV series adds to any book, all they ever seem to do is a disservice to the original story in the attempt to squeeze as much money from it as possible.

    It's that last part that effs it up. For example, I really liked Luhrman's Romeo+Juliet. That was a creative interpretation. I enjoyed Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I thought the books were decent, but the movie captured the best bits, IMO. Early seasons of Game of Thrones were good. I like some of the changes made to move the internal dialog to conversations. It gave the side characters more life.

    It's when the artistic vision is cast aside in the name of profit, then the work of art suffers.

  • That's oozing. It's unconnected to the previous section, but dripped out after the movement. The first blob attaches a little outside, the second blob on that one, building a 45 degree spire. (One crappy side effect is that for REALLY long moves, it can cause under extrusion at the restart.)

    I have a Sovol SV06 Plus, also high flow. Same issue. I think it's a weakness in all high flow because there's FAR more filament in the melt zone. Lowering the temperature has helped a ton, but not solved it completely. I added a bigger fan on the hotend cooling section and it helped a lot, but not solved it. I've been told that upping my retraction to unreasonable levels should help, but I've not tried it. As in, I've got a direct drive, which usually has retraction less than 1mm, but to up it to 4mm. It's my next experiment.

    As an aside, if I could go back, I'd not get high flow option. I'd stick with the standard SV06.