Ayyyyyyy-ch P Sauce.

You made a clerical error.

I’m English, so “Won” rhymes with “un”. “One” rhymes with “on”.

I’m English (northern), and “one” rhymes with “on”, not “un”.

Honestly, I’ve never noticed any British accents that pronounce it differently than that, but I guess it’s not Impossible.

It took me a little time to get this, then it reminded me of something I never really got from the film That Thing You Do.

Does “1” actually sound like “wun” to American ears? As in with a “u” vowel, not an “o” vowel?

Fwiw, I don’t recommend an ender. Admittedly it’s capable of great things, but certainly not out of the box.

Although it’s not a huge selection, the best printer I’ve used in terms of ease and quality is the FLSun Q5. Prints great out of the box, auto-levels, easy to repair, plus it’s a delta (which are just magical to watch).

Weirdly, it’s the opposite for us - my grandad, my dad, me and my daughters even all went to the exact same tiny primary school (obviously over the span of 100 years!). We don’t move very far at all.

That said, my parents now live in France. Maybe it just kicks in later for our family.

Honestly, I think it’s just a matter of Games Workshop doing a Nokia - the company became successful focusing on creating good products then changed to focusing on making money. (Fun fact - a Nokia engineer actually created a prototype smartphone before LG or Apple, but the money guys felt sticking with the old super-profitable ones was the way to win).

The biggest advantage over 40k, from my perspective, is that Grimdark Future uses turns, I.e. ‘my unit, your unit’ instead of ‘my whole army, your whole army’. Each side moves each unit once per round, but you just take turns moving units getting there.

Grimdark Future Firefight is my favourite though - instead of huge battles, you take smaller teams. It feels more cinematic. Units don’t die as easily and you can pin a unit with suppressive fire. If you attack someone on the edge of a platform and knock them down, you can boot them over the edge. And best of all, it’s fast - games can be wrapped up in under an hour easily.

Oh, almost forgot - you don’t actually have to buy anything either. The standard version of the game, with army lists for all armies, is free. The army building app is free. You can buy advanced rules if you want more nitty gritty, but you’re literally good to go right now.

May I recommend trying Grimdark Future, in that case. Particularly Grimdark Future: Firefight.

The 40k lore is fantastic and tons of fun. Unfortunately the rules not so much. The rules of Grimdark Future, by contrast, are very clean and well balanced.

Fortunately, you can map the lore of 40k directly onto Grimdark Future (like I suspect most people do) and end up with the best of both worlds.

Another big advantage of Grimdark Future over 40k is that it is mini agnostic. If you want to use 40k minis, go for it. If you want to use 3rd Party minis, that’s fine too. Lego people, plastic soldiers, pebbles - all good.

By contrast, the official line for playing 40k in Games Workshop Stores and GW Tournaments is that the minis need to be GW, no 3rd Party minis allowed. (It didn’t used to be this way, and many store owners will be happy to turn a blind eye, but that’s the official stance).

If you are interested in this route, Wargames Atlantic do a superb line of very affordable minis that can be used - Death Fields.

Sorry, but they’re the rules of the game.

You’re right, there are many bits about the driving test that are suboptimal, but the aim here isn’t to be 100% optimal, it’s to make it clear to the examiner that you’re doing the checks.

That’s all it is.

I was a mess when I was younger, especially in these kinds of situations - it took me eight attempts to pass my driving test, and my instructor could never understand why I kept failing. As an adult, I’m much happier with there being different rules for variants of situations, but when I was younger it just felt wrong.

I shudder to think what the answer to this will be, but… How do you propose this should be done?

Exactly this. I still use a 0.4 nozzle and the results are more than satisfactory.

These figures were all support-free designs by EC3D, and are a joy to print.

At 0.08mm layers, you can feel the lines with a fingernail, but can't see the from more than a few cm away.

‘Enterstela’ is an anagram of ‘Arse Nettle’, if that helps.

Authenticity.

Totalitarianism is usually easy to identify. A corrupt democracy still has a veneer of legitimacy in a way that an out-and-out totalitarian regime does not.

I feel like the analogy of the camera would be more valid if Nikon designed a camera that was specifically designed to cater to the needs of child molesters.

Almost all guns are designed as weapons first and foremost. That’s it.

Fencing is a sport that allows people to duel each other. The foils are items of sports equipment - they have specifically been designed to not be lethal.

Guns, on the other hand, are not items of sports equipment. They are weapons that some people use for sport.

In the US, gun companies are quite happy to produce these for supply to the untrained, unregulated masses. And actively promote this as totally normal. I’d say they hold some of the blame.

There’s a couple of things to consider when thinking about this.

Firstly, dividing the total by the number of tax payers and concluding that everyone should pay £569 is misleading. Wealthy people pay far more tax than most people (still not enough IMHO!) and as such the per-person cost is wildly different for everyone too.

Secondly, consider your position - your chances of success, and the possible range of success, depends hugely on your parents’ circumstances and those of other close people in your life.

So we have this clear chain of success breeding success - wealthy people can afford to give their children the kind of start in life that us poor spuds can only dream of.

A huge number of wealthy families used slavery to amass and increase their wealth massively. These families are still wealthy, still benefitting from the leg-up they were given on the backs of slaves.

These families are the ones who, ultimately through tax, would end up contributing the most. Us plebs would be paying relatively little.

Even if your family didn’t own slaves, or exploit them directly, they’ll almost certainly have benefited from their existence. I live in a mill town north of Manchester - the very reason for this town’s existence is cotton, ultimately picked by slaves abroad. The money came from businesses and trade that relied on slavery.

One of my many many food rules is that meat can’t remind me that it was part of an animal. If it does, then I just can’t eat it.

So, no bones, no skin, nothing in the same shape as an animal. Turkey dinosaurs are fine.

Maybe people have different reasons. The world is a big place, and the people many and varied.

There’s also the risk of identity theft, people contacting your place of work, and other intrusions into your life.

*M Night Shyamalan taking notes