Subscription-style 3D printing creators are all the rage these days and .... well ... her stuff looks kinda ... sad, compared to the stuff out there, e.g. https://www.myminifactory.com/tribes.
Wtf did she do? She had like an episode of Buffy right? And that stupid “date my avatar” crap. I remember she was in Dragon Age 2 DLC and BioWare thought I would care.
"The Guild", a series about a bunch of WoW gamers, she was the token thirst target (which is where "date my avatar" came from). She also played Penny in Dr. Horrible? Her work in Guild Wars 2 was weak, in that she didn't alter her voice, didn't "act", at all in her voice "act"ing, a text-to-speech bot could have done it.
Really all that is noteworthy I remember her from is her chiming in on GamerGate about how she would cross the street to avoid anyone wearing nerd aesthetic shirts, because it is a sign of them being bad people.
She was the geek Name people could recognize. Honestly, she shows up when you know the writers are running out of ideas. I was actually angry when I saw her show up in The Librarians, because I really liked that show.
As long as you're subscribed you get the monthly release for free and you get a discount in their store where you can buy previous releases. Unlike with software or streaming subscriptions you don't lose access to the stuff you've unlocked if you end your membership.
No husband/father in sight. And she's happy to share uncensored (face showing) pictures of the baby it seems, if she was all about muh private life you'd expect her to keep that more private than her adult man.
lol, combining loot crate garbage dumping with MLM. Instead of buying a model you want, commit ahead of time to buying some you probably don't want - but you're not getting ripped off, you're an entrepreneur now!
A post wall whore trying to keep cashing in on her "cute geek" cred is both hilarious and pathetic. It's pretty funny seeing that even the simps at reddit are tearing her apart for it.
In March, I met a guy named Paul at a convention in Indiana. We got to talking about his company, Thangs, which is a resource to help people find 3D prints to make, and they also have exclusive models on their site. Neat. We chatted for quite a while and exchanged info because, as I said, I INTENDED on getting a 3D printer, I am a good mother and not a liar! :P And no, I didn’t ask Paul to send me one, lol, but next thing I know I’ve got a Bambu Carbon X1 on my doorstep and he’s asking me if I want to collaborate on my own collection of 3D items.
Wut?!
I mean, I have 1000 projects I’m working on right now and a novel I’m about to start (MAYBE!) but Thangs said to me, “We’ll pair you with artists so you can design and create 3D prints together.” Which MEANT that I’d be able to make pretty things, and have a legit excuse to watch hours of YouTube videos on how to use the printer and, were something to go wrong, I would get to use my Allen wrench to fix it, and because of THAT I would then feel prouder of myself than I’d ever felt before because then I would become an official “hands on fixing person”. How could I say no to that, ya’ll?!
Bruh. I don't think many people are falling for this "relatable quirky nerd" 2010 era effluvium anymore.
Yeah. All those issues you had with your 2d printer jamming and not connecting to the pc add a dimension and toxicity and fire hazards
That's 3d printing. It's a pain in the ass. Worth it if you really love customising your 3d model army just so, or love digital sculpting, but yeah most people end up not using theirs.
Part of that is model painters having a spending problem anyway. But part of it is that 3d printing just is not fun, its perpetually at the 'hobbiest' tier in terms of quality and hassle. You can at least buy a 2d printer that just works but you are expected to have to fix and troubleshoot and deal with all sorts of shit for your 3d printer. It aint fun. It's work, and I immensely dislike it.
But F-me, those minis are ugly. Horrendous. Like out of the 90s. You can very easily get 200x better from 500 different patreons or minifactory 'tribes'. And the skilled-ish painter (looking on their insta, they aint great, but above average) couldnt even save them, I'd hate to see what they look like by joe-average painter.
Tech issues weren't the problem for us. It was the material quality. You just get to the point where it's not worth printing a phone case rather than buying one for example.
Strength issues are intended. It's part of the US govts gun blueprint honeypot. But, using the phone case example, you can't print you own Otterbox without jumping through hoops to get actual tensile strength.
sometimes all you need is dollar store junk, but specifically modeled to your needs... which effectively makes it not dollar store junk. also, you don't actually need to go to a dollar store, waste half an hour looking for the right thing in their pile of crap, and possibly interact with their less than mentally stable customers.
in my experience even basic pla or petg prints are way stronger than cheap chinesium crap. because you actually use your brain when you model them, unlike chinese crap designers.
got myself a printer several moths ago and that thing is never idle more than a couple days. either I need some custom crap around the house, or my wife needs some decorative thingy, or my daughter wants a toy(and would you look at that, there's a new pink pla spool to try out).
I dont make dollar store junk? I make a lot of weird stuff around the house that are specifically for the niche uses like sorting out items as i want them to be sorted, game inserts, wall decorations, wall organisers etc.
How breakable they are depends on what material you're using and what printing settings you're using. Sure they're not going to be metal or injection moulded plastic strong but for some items they dont need to be
What's the point in making cheap breakable junk that is cheaper to buy?
You seem to be confused as to what 3d printers are for. They're not going to outperform mass-production injection molded for price. If it is something you can readily buy, it's not something that you should be 3d printing.
3d printing is for making things that are not commercially available: hard to find parts, custom parts, prototypes.
What's the point in a home-ink jet printer if the quality is so much less than the quality of National Geographic?
Because sometimes, you want to print something besides a 1:1 copy of something from the newsstand. Likewise, it would be cost-prohibitive (not to mention retarded) to contract someone to spin up a photogravure press so you could make a pristine copy of a utility bill for your filing cabinet.
Mate, with the amount of hatred people have for Games Workshop right now, you'd make a KILLING if you can produce 40k miniatures and ship them independently..
Afaik, she's been utterly irrelevant for about a decade, ever since she insulted gamers during gamergate, implying that we were predators and that she was a victim for having this type of audience.
You think she made that much from Geek and Sundry? I imagine she's doing just fine, but she's never been in anything huge. She's by no means an A-lister.
Do people honestly think she 3d prints everything? I’d laugh as it’s the same idea as Wolfgang Puk going to Disney Springs to eat or MrBeast eating at one of his shitty ghost restaurants. It’s a celebrity putting their image on something and getting paid for it.
She's just a low effort grifter like the rest of her friends, Wheaton, etc.
Here's her substack.
https://felicitations.substack.com/p/my-new-3d-printing-project
tl;dr generic parasocial geekmom influencer sponsorship.
Subscription-style 3D printing creators are all the rage these days and .... well ... her stuff looks kinda ... sad, compared to the stuff out there, e.g. https://www.myminifactory.com/tribes.
Yeah, its really banking on her name
Wtf did she do? She had like an episode of Buffy right? And that stupid “date my avatar” crap. I remember she was in Dragon Age 2 DLC and BioWare thought I would care.
"The Guild", a series about a bunch of WoW gamers, she was the token thirst target (which is where "date my avatar" came from). She also played Penny in Dr. Horrible? Her work in Guild Wars 2 was weak, in that she didn't alter her voice, didn't "act", at all in her voice "act"ing, a text-to-speech bot could have done it.
Really all that is noteworthy I remember her from is her chiming in on GamerGate about how she would cross the street to avoid anyone wearing nerd aesthetic shirts, because it is a sign of them being bad people.
Sound just like her Dragon Age 2 voice work.
GW2 killed off her character so as to end the relationship with her.
So did Supernatural for a while until they started bringing in alternate dimension versions of various characters.
She was the geek Name people could recognize. Honestly, she shows up when you know the writers are running out of ideas. I was actually angry when I saw her show up in The Librarians, because I really liked that show.
Haha, good joke u/Lurker404. Can you imagine how stupid things would have to get for something like that to catch on?
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Why? It's basically the Patreon model.
As long as you're subscribed you get the monthly release for free and you get a discount in their store where you can buy previous releases. Unlike with software or streaming subscriptions you don't lose access to the stuff you've unlocked if you end your membership.
She had a baby?
googles
No husband/father in sight. And she's happy to share uncensored (face showing) pictures of the baby it seems, if she was all about muh private life you'd expect her to keep that more private than her adult man.
>$10/mo for loot box of random 3D models
>$40/mo to be a reseller
lol, combining loot crate garbage dumping with MLM. Instead of buying a model you want, commit ahead of time to buying some you probably don't want - but you're not getting ripped off, you're an entrepreneur now!
Sadly this isn't uncommon for 3d printing patreons
A post wall whore trying to keep cashing in on her "cute geek" cred is both hilarious and pathetic. It's pretty funny seeing that even the simps at reddit are tearing her apart for it.
And on a subReddit that's apparently setup paying money for upvotes?
https://imgur.com/a/cuglC3U
Bruh. I don't think many people are falling for this "relatable quirky nerd" 2010 era effluvium anymore.
Certainly not from someone as insincere and gross as FD.
My dad bough a high end 3D printer. We have never used it. Not him, not his children, not his grandchildren.
It just sits there.
What brand is it
Idk these days. It's been a while. Not buying cheap material for the 3D printer ended up being difficult.
Yeah. All those issues you had with your 2d printer jamming and not connecting to the pc add a dimension and toxicity and fire hazards
That's 3d printing. It's a pain in the ass. Worth it if you really love customising your 3d model army just so, or love digital sculpting, but yeah most people end up not using theirs.
Part of that is model painters having a spending problem anyway. But part of it is that 3d printing just is not fun, its perpetually at the 'hobbiest' tier in terms of quality and hassle. You can at least buy a 2d printer that just works but you are expected to have to fix and troubleshoot and deal with all sorts of shit for your 3d printer. It aint fun. It's work, and I immensely dislike it.
But F-me, those minis are ugly. Horrendous. Like out of the 90s. You can very easily get 200x better from 500 different patreons or minifactory 'tribes'. And the skilled-ish painter (looking on their insta, they aint great, but above average) couldnt even save them, I'd hate to see what they look like by joe-average painter.
Depends on the printer. I've pretty much never had issues with my prusas but I've had issues with nearly every other brand
Tech issues weren't the problem for us. It was the material quality. You just get to the point where it's not worth printing a phone case rather than buying one for example.
Strength issues are intended. It's part of the US govts gun blueprint honeypot. But, using the phone case example, you can't print you own Otterbox without jumping through hoops to get actual tensile strength.
? I've bought lots of cheap pla. My current fave is like 12 bucks usd on sale regularly
To make dollar store junk? What's the point in making cheap breakable junk that is cheaper to buy?
Never played Warhammer 40k, eh?
sometimes all you need is dollar store junk, but specifically modeled to your needs... which effectively makes it not dollar store junk. also, you don't actually need to go to a dollar store, waste half an hour looking for the right thing in their pile of crap, and possibly interact with their less than mentally stable customers.
in my experience even basic pla or petg prints are way stronger than cheap chinesium crap. because you actually use your brain when you model them, unlike chinese crap designers.
got myself a printer several moths ago and that thing is never idle more than a couple days. either I need some custom crap around the house, or my wife needs some decorative thingy, or my daughter wants a toy(and would you look at that, there's a new pink pla spool to try out).
I dont make dollar store junk? I make a lot of weird stuff around the house that are specifically for the niche uses like sorting out items as i want them to be sorted, game inserts, wall decorations, wall organisers etc.
How breakable they are depends on what material you're using and what printing settings you're using. Sure they're not going to be metal or injection moulded plastic strong but for some items they dont need to be
You seem to be confused as to what 3d printers are for. They're not going to outperform mass-production injection molded for price. If it is something you can readily buy, it's not something that you should be 3d printing.
3d printing is for making things that are not commercially available: hard to find parts, custom parts, prototypes.
Because sometimes, you want to print something besides a 1:1 copy of something from the newsstand. Likewise, it would be cost-prohibitive (not to mention retarded) to contract someone to spin up a photogravure press so you could make a pristine copy of a utility bill for your filing cabinet.
Manage expectations.
Mate, with the amount of hatred people have for Games Workshop right now, you'd make a KILLING if you can produce 40k miniatures and ship them independently..
There are way too many people with 3d printers to make a killing
Probably now but it should at least be looked into.
Actually thinking about that, with how stupid a lot of other franchises are, anything else a guy with 3D printer could capitalise on?
You could print terrain, d&d miniatures
Big three are probably wh40k, Warmahordes, and bolt action
No, warmahordes is pretty much dead. Moving to mk3 lost a lot of its fans and mk4 pretty much killed it
If you'd do that with actual 40k miniatures you'd be asking to get sued.
No, you can easily get past that by printing things like Sisters of Battle that look like strong women
Compared to the official miniatures which are teenage boys in wigs.
Nobody prints actual 40k miniatures that's a 1 to 1 copy. They're all inspired by not identical
It is unclear to me how she ran out of money unless she really mismanaged her geek and sundry cash
Afaik, she's been utterly irrelevant for about a decade, ever since she insulted gamers during gamergate, implying that we were predators and that she was a victim for having this type of audience.
It is true. People who wear gaming shirts are all psychopaths who might explode into misogyny at any moment.
She was right to literally flee from them and then write a blog post about it.
/s
Can confirm, have Superman t-shirt, am in fact Superboy.
Shit, there goes my secret identity 🫣
She's a wamman. Money flows through her fingers like water.
You think she made that much from Geek and Sundry? I imagine she's doing just fine, but she's never been in anything huge. She's by no means an A-lister.
Yes. The market has been on fire for nearly 2 decades. If she was smart at investing and didn’t live like an A lister, she would be set.
Do people honestly think she 3d prints everything? I’d laugh as it’s the same idea as Wolfgang Puk going to Disney Springs to eat or MrBeast eating at one of his shitty ghost restaurants. It’s a celebrity putting their image on something and getting paid for it.
Only fans in the future for this whore