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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • Since Lemmy is kind of like a bunch of small separate Reddits, its very possible that a community you are looking for already exists; its just on a different Lemmy server. But fear not! You can be the person to connect it so everyone here can see it and start to interact with it!

    Use this site to search for other communities that might not yet be on this instance: https://lemmyverse.net/communities

    You should find a good handful of communities around D&D, Pathfinder, Fate, etc. When you find one you are interested in, you can visit it directly, but since you probably don’t have an account on that server, you won’t be able to post or comment there until you connect it to ttrpg.network by subscribing to it.

    Mouse over the link (it should pop up with “Click to Copy”), and copy it. Then come back here, open the search page, and search for the link you just copied. You should get a result that you can click on, but notice this time you are viewing it through ttrpg.network, so you can interact with it with your account here. Click “subscribe”, and everyone here will also start to see posts from that community.

    Congrats! You have just made one link in the Fediverse, connecting everyone here to a community somewhere else.


  • Love Letter. A very quick game with just 13 cards. Games take about 3 minutes so you can play multiple rounds if you want. Suits 2-6 players (best at max 4 in my experience). Generally very popular and easy to learn.

    Comes in dozens of themes as well, if you don’t like the “princess in a castle” theme. You can find Batman, Cuthulu, The Hobbit, versions depending on your preference.


  • OnShape is my go-to. It’s what I taught my students when I was a TA for an introductory engineering class at college, and they could pick it up in about a day.

    Can do just about anything a “professional” cad suite does, but it’s free, works in a browser, and is generally so much better designed so you don’t have to fight against the UI to get anything done.




  • The way I picture this is by letting communities have some sort of “partner communities” listing. If mods of games@xyz decide they like the content of games@abc, and gaming@123, they add those communities as “partners” (perhaps those communities have to accept which in turn adds games@abc as their partner). Then, when any user subscribes to one partnered community, they also become subscribed by proxy to the others, and begin to see posts from all 3.

    This helps smaller communities piggyback on the success of willing larger communities and gain a bit of visibility as well, which should encourage growth of each partner so smaller ones don’t just die out.

    Communities can “unpartner” at any time, in which case users would only remain subscribed to the one they originally selected. And of course, users could explicitly block any of the partnered communities if they don’t want to see the whole set.


  • Seconding this. V2 has been awesome for me, but I had to add a bltouch to get consistently good results without fiddling with leveling all the time. Now, V2 gives me flawless prints with minimal tinkering.

    Neo adds this by default, plus a few other upgrades other people are mentioning, that I think make it perfect for a newbie who just wants to start printing.

    V2 is “the same machine” but you would need to buy the upgrades separately (bltouch is really the only one you “need”). Good if you want to spend a little more time getting to know the machine and putting it together. Gives a good feel for how the machine works and is a good experience on its own if you want to get deeper into the hobby.


  • The theme is very minimal. I think the premise is “someone is trying to sneak a letter to the princess. Guess who has it? The guard? The maid? Etc.” It’s just a deduction game.

    But there are also loads of “themed” versions if you prefer. Batman, Cthulhu, Munchkin, Santa Claus, Legend of the Five Rings, The Hobbit, Marvel, etc.

    And since there are only 13 cards, you could easily re-theme it with a Deck of Many Things or something.


  • Others can correct me if I’m wrong, but PLA the plastic itself is food safe. As in, you can put it in your mouth and it’s fine. The issue comes from the 3d printing process which tends to create small pockets and porous surfaces where microbes can hide and grow once it gets wet, kind of like a sponge. So you could print a single-use fork and eat with it, but don’t reuse it later.

    I think an insert for cutlery would be fine since you aren’t going to be getting it wet or putting it in contact with your mouth or food.