ImpossibilityBox @ ImpossibilityBox @lemmy.world

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I do like the grinder a lot. This is the first "serious" grinder that we have had. Before this we usually bought pre-ground or used or ancient bladed grinder. I thought that there wouldn't really be that noticeable of a difference between fresh ground coffee and pre-ground but BOY was I wrong. Also having the ability to dial in the grind size for your brew method and routine makes a significant difference. Our cold brew and moke pot showed the biggest improvement after getting this grinder.

I ended up choosing this one for a couple of reasons. One was that Seattle Coffee Gear had one of these in open box with a pretty significant discount and the other was because of the type of coffee that we drink. We vary between Cold Brew, AeroPress, pour over, and occasionally a moka pot. This grinder seems to cover all these basis very well. As far as I can tell the grind consistency is pretty good through the testing that I have done.

There are a couple of things I don't like from a functionality standpoint. The first was the switch which I have remedied. The second is the catch box for the coffee. It's kind of terribly designed and if you don't mist your coffee with some water then you end up with chaff(?) being thrown outside of the catch container. Also because its a ton of angles and corners its kind of a pain in the butt to clean. The hopper also doesn't seem quite steep enough for the beans to naturally so nearly every time I grind I end up poking some stray beans or a blockage into the grinder. Lastly is the grind adjuster. It does not have any stops on it what so ever so if you don't set a routine to place the dial in the exact same place whenever you are done it can be easy to forget where it has been set. I have accidentally ground coffee at cold-brew setting instead of moka pot a couple of times.

We have yet to splurge on an espresso machine so i wouldn't be able to speak to whether or not the finest grind would be suitable for that.

I can't come up with any reason why not for most people. The Wifi in that corner of the kitchen is unbelievable atrocious so I wouldn't trust the smart plug to stay connected reliably.

oooooh, this will definitely be my next upgrade then. That sounds glorious.

The slight DM pedant in me is torn about how you chose to interpret the size of the sphere.

There is absolutely no reason to not use volume as the thing being modified by the item EXCEPT as far as I am aware the RAW is that the fireball is measured by its radius.

By that reasoning the new fireball should have a radius of 200 ft. Which is obscenely large and also puts the caster within the blast radius.

If I remember correctly in older editions the fireball would also fill up rooms until it's full VOLUME was achieved not necessarily just it's radius.

Meaning a 20ft radius fireball would fill a 5ft x 5ft hallway/tunnel (weird size I know... easy math) for 1,340ft and the new 200ft radius (33,510,300 ft^3) fireball would fill the same hallway for... 1,340,412 FEET OR JUST SHORT OF 254 MILES OF TUNNEL!

If my players were stupid enough cat fireball on a magic enhancing object, personally, I'm using the later object and also multiplying the damage by 100.

Their new party can start by investigating the massive village size crater recently discovered by the locals.

The radius is the size of the sphere as measured from the center of the explosion.

Maybe this analogy helps.

You throw a ball at a wall and it bounces back towards you. If the ball reaches you or passes you then you die.

You can throw a ball (the fireball) 150ft. At the end of your throw it hits a wall (center of explosion). The ball bounces back towards you 92.832ft (explosion radius/edge of explosion). The ball is now 57.168 ft away from you. Ball did not reach you therefore you live.

Ah yes, Baeu Miles quite possibly one of my favorite human beings to have ever existed. Love his stuff.

I fully blame autocorrect for that.

How you are viewing the book is incredibly valid.

The one way that I have come up with to describe a potential reason for the way the story is portrayed is this:

The ENTIRE series is from the perspective of a die hard semi-introverted software engineer and HUGE NERD who has this deep-seated need of just wanting to help and make things better.

Taking that into account everything written kind of states to make sense.

I love the series and it goes to some VERY interesting places.

There is one warning to give. At a certain point the book starts to suffer from scale creep. The characters are already able to do "X" so we need an enemy that can do "X+Y+Z" so now character learns to do "X+Y+Z TIME 10²“. At a certain point it's best to just stop worrying about the explanations and just enjoy the story.

Highly recommend.

There is a caveat here.

In the Larry Niven/Ringworkd/Known Space fan base there is a MASSIVE divide between groups regarding which order you should read the books in.

The two main groups fall into the following:

1: Read in publication order. 2: Read Ringworld then Ringworld Engineers. After that go back to the earlier works which are technically prequels.

The one thing that almost everyone agrees is don't bother with Ringworld Throne.

Here's what I typically suggest for the series:

First, read the Ringworld saga. Ringworld, Ringworld Engineers, Ringworld Throne, Ringworld's Children (maybe skip the last two, read reviews, make your decision based on how much you like the universe, I petrography like all of them)

They are pretty closely linked and serve as a good introduction to Known Space. You don't have to know a lot about the Man-Kzin Wars, Beowulf Shaeffer, puppeteers or any other backstory to understand them.

Next, read all the books that fill out the universe with history and details, back stories, and lore. Crashlander, Protector, Three Books of Known Space, Flatlander, etc.

These give you more background on Earth, the colonies, Beowulf Shaeffer, and so on.

IF (big if) at this point you are still in love with everything Known Space then move on to the Fleet of World's books. They do have a bit of retconning in them but not in a bad way that feels disingenuous, so I don't view this as a negative mark.

One last point: If you are just looking for the "Humans as a superior species" aspect as you originally requested, just go read "Protector", the other commenter is correct. It's a very interesting twist on the subject.

If you want a HUGE universe of books to dive in to with an amazing amount of different intertwining stories and cool universe building: See above.

It took me way to long to figure out you were talking a out the Tau. I have never heard them described like that and will never be able to look at them the same again.

Excellent series. I've listened to it on audio books a couple of times and am currently going through it again with my wife. It's taking forever though because she only listens in 30 minute chunks or so.

Gore Bernelli (sp?) is possibly my favorite character in literature.

I came here specifically hoping this series was already mentioned.

For true inconvenience: only the person has no-clip. Not material objects. If you want to No-clip through a wall you need to be naked.

Garunteed way to fasttrack the invention of true wireless power delivery.

there might be some lost in Translation happening here, it's meant to say that Liam is about to be lapped.

If you zoom out this image JUST a little bit you will find Liam Lawson slightly ahead of Verstappen.

My trouble at the moment is that I am reaching myself 3d modeling and texture skinning for trackmania.

Wanna take a guess where the largest repository of blender/substance painter tutorials and trouble shooting is?

At the time it was worth it for all the exclusives that you would never see on YouTube. Plus my experience was that they served a better video and audio quality than Youtube.

Some artists use numbers in their names and adding numbers will change what the search returns sometimes with odd results.

It's personally a catch 22 for me.

I listen to an absolutely absurd amounts of different artists. A large portion of them simply don't have albums available for purchase and if they did... I would actually go broke buying all the stuff I listen to.

Every single day I type in a Combo of 2 random letters and numbers into spotify and listen to the first artist I don't recognize.

It really sucks that Spotify doesn't pay the artists anything reasonable but I haven't found an alternative that allows me to consume as much different music as I currently do.

This isn't even including the podcasts and audio books into the equation.