Large 3D Print Project

 I've had a 3d printer for a while now (the FLSUN QQS). Ever since I got it I've wanted to make something big and useful. So I decided to try to print the helmet of a Scout Trooper from Star Wars ep 6.

I of course did a few test prints to work dial in the settings. I was using Cura and doing these tests on a new full roll of white PLA. The manufacturer was Overture and boy oh boy, it sucked! Under extrusion galore. I went looking around online to find out why and I came across an old reddit thread explaining that the user was also experiencing under extrusion with Overture PLA. The user decided to weigh the Overture PLA against a higher quality PLA brand and found out that the Overture stuff weighed less! Apparently this stuff is less dense than other PLA brands. Yuck!
I also tried printing it at .4 mm layer height but it never seems to work. I ended up printing the whole thing at .3 mm layer height and just doing that immediately helped. I turned up the Flow rate to 110% and the extruder temp to 220 C for good measure (the upper rating for overture pla).

After doing the test prints I was ready to print all the parts. I decided to try to print the thing in 4 sections. The Top half of the helmet, the bottom half, the mask and the visor. I cut the helmet in half using blender and removed the built in water marks (the link to the guy who made the model down below). I also cut a small concave area for my ears using the boolean modifier. 

Each of these 4 pieces took more than 8 hours to print. The mask was the fastest at 8 & 1/2. The visor took 9 hours, and the two halves of the helmet took 11 hours each! I had the speed at 60 mm per second for inner walls and infill, 30 mm for outer walls, and the infill as cubic and 12% density. I even scaled the models down by 5% to fit my head better. I knew it was gonna be a long print time but I guess I wasn't expecting 10 hours average per part!

At this point all the big stuff has been printed and I only need to print the details. I'm in the process of sanding and painting all the big stuff right now. Enjoy some pictures!

Yoink this guys Loink: Biker Scout Helmet (Scout Trooper) By SurfinBird132

These pictures are not exactly in order.

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More Telegram Stickers!

 I have a few sticker packs for telegram that I'm making. I have one of the Earl of Lemongrab from the TV show Adventure Time. One of various characters from a couple youtube videos. And my latest project is making a sticker pack of the character GiR from the movie "Invader Zim: Enter the Florpus." 

I like them all but the newest GiR sticker pack is by far the best looking and most consistent.
I also have a reaaaaly old sticker pack of various Invader Zim characters from the TV show. This sticker pack somehow got out (I can see the stats because I made the pack) and became very popular (even tho the quality is poor).
I of course used GIMP to make all of these stickers.

Feel free to download and share any or all of these Telegram sticker packs!


Here's the lionks to get em.

The NEW GiR Sticker Pack:  Invader Zim: Enter the Florpus - GiR

The MaxMoeFoe Animated Youtube Vid Sticker Pack:  Cas Van de Pol - Animated MaxMoeFoe

The Earl Of Lemongrab Sticker Pack:  The Earl of Lemongrab

The Invader Zim Sticker Pack:  Invader Zim Characters

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Second Album Incoming: Moldies! (sep 20)

My second Album, Moldies, is coming to all the places on Sep 20!  It's the "B side" to my first album. In my personal opinion most of the pieces on Moldies aren't as good as Oldies, but if you enjoyed Oldies, Moldies will give you that same vibe.
I have a link to it that works for spotify users,
 

 Loink to Moldies: Hyper Moldies

UPDATE: It's here!

Yoink this loink to listen on spotify: Moldies

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My first Album on Spotify!

Finally after years of having these things lying around I finally got em on spotify. I would recommend listening to a few but bare in mind they are my first ever compositions. At that time I had no (or at least very little) musical training so they pretty much suck.
simply looking up the name "GavOnyx" will get to my page in spotify
Album title: Oldies

Loink to list of places to follow: Hyper Follow

Loink to Spoopify: GavOnyx

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Rap-bear poo - what even do Raspberry Pi?

I recently got my hands on a raspberry pi 3 B. It's the first time I've really interacted with a raspberry pi so I have no idea of its capabilities nor exactly how to use it. I started to do some research but I'm not sure where to start.
I also have a 3-d Printer so I decided to take my Pi and use it as a remote way to control my printer using a thing called Octo-Print.
Basically the pi acts as file storage and as a printer monitor. So you can send the files you want to print over wifi and then start printer, monitor the print, and even tweak settings. Pretty neat.

Loink to Oicto Proint: Octo Print Doody-doo howchoo

Improving your Speaking Voice

I have taken multiple public speaking courses and consider myself pretty good at formulating speeches and then presenting them. But one of the aspects of speaking that was never addressed in the courses I took was about the tone of your voice and certain aspects of the melody of your voice.

Recently I was listening to the Art of Manliness podcast and the host brought on a Mr. Roger Love –which is where I learned about these things.

It's a very informative and practical episode that I highly recommend everyone listen to.

Here's the Loink to Yoink: Improve your speaking voice

Yoink this Loink to listen on Overcast: Improve your voice –Overcast link

Overcast is an excellent podcast app. would recommend.

Savage Worlds -mechanics

As promised, here are links to another video I made about fundamental mechanics in the Savage Worlds RPG system.

Loink to YT: Important mechanics in 5 minutes

Loink to Toogles: important mechanics - toogles

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Savage Worlds -creating a character

I enjoy Role Playing Games and systems. I've played DnD, pathfinder, Star frontiers, and the og star wars system. But by far my favorite is Savage Worlds.

It's a terrible name, but a fantastic system. It's generic, so it works with any setting, and the great thing is you can add more rules to make a setting that much better. You wanna have a JoJo campaign? Easy. How bout Star wars? Yep. You want the players to be dragons? Not a problem. The game has a "race creation" section to make your own race archetypes that others can use to guide character creation.
The biggest difference between this system and others is that instead of a d20 system like DnD or a d6 system like the OG star wars, Savage worlds uses every die type except d20. Your character could have a d4 in Agility and a d10 in strength for example. Same deal for weapons. Daggers are d4 (+ the str die), guns are usually 2d6 or 2d8. You get the idea.

Anyways, I really love it. I highly recommend it to anyone interested in RPGs especially if the same is starting to explore more systems.

The only issue with savage worlds has to do with youtube. YouTube tutorials are always over 20 minutes long (an hour or more even) and the people making these videos seem to have no idea how to make even a half decent video. So, I set out to make a video that explains how to create a character in 5 minutes or less. Then I set out to explain various important mechanics with a similar time constraint. Success again!
You can find both on youtube but I'll have both the loink and the actual file for easy access. I'll post the second video in another post.

NOTE: In the video I explain that if you do not have the fighting skill your parry score is 4. That is incorrect!! your parry score is 2 if you lack the fighting skill.


Yoink this Loink for youtube vid: How to make a character in 4 minutes

Yoink this one for Toogles: How to make a character in 4 minutes – Toogles

Video File:

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the video quality is low, I know, but it doesn't need to be high so... eh

Smash BRUHs

I play the game Super Smash Bros Ultimate for the Nintendo Switch. It's a pretty great game and the team they have working on balances is really committed and on top of things. One interesting aspect about the game is something that Nintendo really touted as being a prime reason to play. There are so many characters and each one is so different that there is a play style out there for everyone.
They're right. There is a character who's kit and moves align with the general way a person goes about doing things. The annoying thing is that there are some just butt dumb ways people solve problems and there are characters who reflect that.

Take Incineroar for example. All you need to play him well is use side-B when a character is close, Use Down-B when about to get hit and then immediately use side b, and use up b whenever the crap you want to if your opponent is in the strike zone.
It's a little more complex than that of course but just knowing that is enough to give a beginner the edge in battle.
A character that requires a little more knowledge and skill is Lucario –my main. Lets look at what to do when an opponent is close, vs far, vs if there's a move you can use in any situation.
Close: Grab your opponent. Unless you're at a high percent. If you're at a high percent, it's different.
Far: use movement options especially B reversing to close the gap and use grab or nair. but if you're at a high percent, don't be so eager to approach and use aura sphere to keep your opponent at bay.
Any situation: . . . yeah OK, you got me there's no move to cover too many situations. Nair maybe?

So, I'm overplaying it a little bit because I do not know how to play incineroar. But my point should be clear. Some characters require a lot more knowledge about the character to play them effectively.
Let's compare some more.
    Lucario side B: it's a command grab if you're close enough but if you aren't close then it's technically a projectile.
    Incin side B: it's a command grab that makes you move.
    Lucario Up B: A recovery with no hit box till the very end. You can go in any direction and can swerve if you're good enough but the controls are very touchy.
    Incin up B: You go up and then down. and you go boom when you go down.
    Lucario Neutral B: A projectile you can charge. it deals damage as it charges and sets up for many options including grabs, aerials, up smashes, and shooting the projectile. Lucario's kit revolves around using this projectile and the charging hit box as well as using B reversing as some advanced and necessary movement options or kill set ups.
    Incin Neutral B: Haha me go spin spin

So I'm not saying that Incineroar is bad. But it seems to me like there maybe is a lower skill ceiling with this character than certain other characters. Maybe?

Really I'm not mad at Incineroar or other simple characters. I'm moreso upset that lucario is just freaking hard to play. I'm pretty darn sure that lucario is the most advanced character in the whole roster. You have to know how his famous aura affects him, you have to keep in mind your opponents percent and your own when pulling off combos, many of his combos are DI dependent, you have to have complete control over the movement options, most of his combos are frame perfect, etc.

Smash bros is a hard enough game as it is. It's suuuuper frustrating to deal with Lucario and his oddities and all the jank he's got. The worst part about it is absolutely no one has any guides on how to play him beyond the very basic stuff. Like, for other characters there are definite answers for what to do in certain situations. For lucario, there are usually no definite answers and no one that plays him well makes videos or posts on the topic. There's a good chance no one plays him because no one has any well presented and knowledgeable information on him. so its a crappy situation for Lucario Mains out there.

There's some hope however. I have some skills in the video editing and audio recording. I've taken public speaking classes. And I consider myself pretty knowledgeable about smash bros and lucario so I plan on making some videos on how to play him. Rant over.

First Albums on fartcloud

In an older post I mentioned that I had 6 albums in the works. That's true, but I haven't technically released any of them on to monetized platforms. In other words I have some of my music on the worst platform of them all, sound cloud.
My first 2 albums are there along with a few other goodies. Sound cloud is the worst because every good feature is behind a pay wall (spotlighting tracks, getting featured, no limit to uploads, etc). Beyond that they don't pay you one cent even if they have ads all over your music. I'm sure they get away with it because of some legal loopholes with the user agreement.
Anyways, I most certainly wont put any more music on that. But of course my early stuff is on there. Like way way early. Most of it is pretty bad –gonna be honest. But hey, if you're interested take a listen.

Yoink this Loink: GavOnyx on trashcloud

p.s. oldies is better than moldies