People are complaining about Avowed? What the fuck is wrong with them?
I've been too busy loving it to be online reading anything, honestly cannot fathom what their complaints are tho. Avowed has repeatedly impressed me by being more clever and nuanced than I was expecting a game to be, in writing, level design, and combat.
Is this more dumb gamer anti-woke hysteria?
Depends on the type of plastic. PLA is what I have and it's the most commonly used material, and it will definitely degrade in UV light.
ASA is the most common, seriously UV resistant plastic, but it is inherently opaque (and printing it releases styrene which is toxic and requires special ventilation).
PETG is relatively easy to print, can be printed even more transparently than PLA, and has some UV reistance, so would probably be your best bet.
It will still eventually yellow or structurally degrade over time from sunlight though. I also suspect some of that phone case yellowing might not be UV exposure but absorbing oil from your skin.
Yeah, the transparent PLA I have is more crystal than transparent. It lets light shine through, so handy for encasing a status LED, but at any reasonable thickness it's too cloudy / obscured to make out details through.
But I have seen success printing truly transparent panels and things using PETG / PCTG.
When I got my 3D printer, the first spool of filament I bought was transparent / crystal. No regrets.
Oh yes of course, the whole world has of course been watching the mass protests and general strike being organized with baited breath, oh wait.
Come on doc, you've gotta help us, we've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas!
Jesus fucking christ. If you do this, and exploit Ukraine while they are literally under the gun, the US will be dead to the rest of the western world.
I cannot express how hard you can go fuck yourselves.
The literal rest of my life will be spent trying to fuck over America and Americans. Fuck you, you selfish, coward, pieces of shit.
From a mechanistic standpoint I think that mostly has to do with the high cost of entry for games.
At $80-$100 for a full priced game these days, it's hard to just buy on a whim. The only time you would is when they're on sale, which happens well after initial release. So initial sales of games are basically entirely driven by reviews and online discourse (which itself has an effect on reviews), and you basically just have a bunch of people all waiting for the signal to buy or not.
I do think that services like Gamepass are a genuinely good way of reducing that effect, because now anyone can try anything on a lark.