My first attempt at doing "product photography"

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My first attempt at doing "product photography"

Back in college, I had a few classes on CAD (mostly for engineering design), and I became decently proficient with CATIA, SolidWorks, and Autodesk Inventor. Now that I’m getting into 3D printing, I’m coming back to CAD and finding my skills pretty rusty.

I plan to use FreeCAD as my main tool. Could anyone please recommend some tutorials that I can complete that would give me a solid working knowledge of FreeCAD and help me brush up on CAD in general?

Let's see what our government does now.

Batman, Skeeter, and Eddie Boots, in a rare moment of shared calm.

I've been playing DnD since 5e came out, and I've always been a warlock fan. By far my favourite class to play, there's just so much versatility in the class.

I started playing BG3 with my table top group a few weeks ago, and to make sure that I don't miss out on story and stuff I started my own single player campaign. Created a Great Old One/Blade warlock that would mirror one of my favourite builds I've ever done (polearm master hexblade).

I'm now level 10 in game, and my Tav's Eldritch blast is absolutely terrifying. Between magic items and other features, I can pump out a minimum of 39 damage per cast (math at the bottom of this post).

It's just so useful, and allows me to have a proper DnD party where not everyone is combat optimized. I have a Dungeon Delver Astarion for dealing with traps and locked doors, Laezel and Karlach are different kinds of tanks, Gale casts Magic Missile and utility spells. I can actually take my "non-combat companions" into combat and not worry.

Now for the math:

Eldritch Blast:

• 1d10 per beam on hit.

Level 9:

• 3 Beams per cast

Agonizing Blast:

• Add CHA mod damage to each beam.

Magic Clothing from Act 2 (can't remember name or how I got it):

• Add CHA mod damage to every cantrip (basically duplicate of Agonizing blast)

Ring that grants advantage on all attacks:

• Can't miss most targets

Ring that allows you to cast a cantrip as a bonus action once per short rest:

• Double the number of beams

Hat that gives +2 CHA (max 22):

• Gives 22 CHA (+6 mod)

With all of these buffs, eldritch blast becomes:

3 attack rolls +10 to hit /w advantage (1/400 to critical fail, 399/400 minimum 12 to hit) 1d10+12 damage per hit 1/short rest cast twice in one round.

Final damage totals:

Normal round: 39 - 66 (Avg. 54) Double round: 78 - 132 (Avg. 108)

Summary

Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are leading the new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), tasked with recommending $500 billion in federal spending cuts.

Their agenda includes defunding organizations like Planned Parenthood and public broadcasting, using recent Supreme Court rulings to justify overturning federal regulations and enabling mass federal worker layoffs.

Critics warn this could undermine public health, civil rights, and gun control regulations.

DOGE’s recommendations, aligned with Trump’s goals, aim to scale back federal oversight and reduce spending but face legal and practical challenges. A final report is due by July 2026.

Those, who buy these kinds of games for their kids, does this looks good?

Looks like a mobile game collection to me, but then again, my kids don't play these. At least not on console.

1. 📰 Steam games will now need to fully disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages (direct link) (👍1486 👎23)

from Games (!games@lemmy.world)

Steam games will now need to fully disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages

Developers will now need to clearly list the kernel-level anti-cheat used on Steam store pages. It's not just for new games coming up for release, and it is also part of the release process now too. Valve will be doing checks on games to ensure the notices are there and correct. 🖋️

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2. 🖼️ Gamer_IRL (direct link) (👍792 👎12)

from Gaming (!gaming@lemmy.world)

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3. 📰 Popular Female Skyrim Modder Has Abandoned Her Work Due to Daily Harrassment (direct link) (👍657 👎37)

from Gaming (!gaming@lemmy.ml)

"It makes me sick": Skyrim modder with 475,000 downloads, fed up with "daily harassment," abandons modding after "thousands of hours" of work on what she calls "the most advanced follower to ever exist"

The latter is a by-product of the significant changes that Kukielle made to Daegon in the year after its release. Kukielle said that "Gore was right about this community. [...] It takes and takes and takes and almost never gives." GamesRadar+ spoke to Kukielle to ask about her decision. It swallows you whole and isolates you with terrible and few good people." In quitting, I have found my real passion, and have been obsessively working on music. Most Popular 🖊️

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4. 📰 Apex Legends is taking away its support for the Steam Deck and Linux (direct link) (👍415 👎1)

from Linux Gaming (!linux_gaming@lemmy.world)

Apex Legends is taking away its support for the Steam Deck and Linux

Apex Legends is one of the only battle royale games that lets you play on a Steam Deck gaming handheld. Electronic Arts and Respawn are taking the game away for that very same reason. EA: “We’ve identified Linux OS as being a path for a variety of impactful exploits and cheats” 🖋️

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5. 🖼️ An old ad for the Wavebird controller for Gamecube (direct link) (👍416 👎7)

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6. 📰 Indiana Jones doesn't "endorse" Nazis, Bethesda assure, just in case you were confused by him repeatedly murdering them (direct link) (👍315 👎2)

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Indiana Jones doesn't "endorse" Nazis, Bethesda assure, just in case you were confused by him repeatedly murdering them

Indiana Jones And The Great Circle is a new video game from MachineGames. The game contains an explicit disclaimer that it is not Nazi propaganda. The disclaimer is designed to ensure compliance with Germany's qualified lifting of prohibitions on depictions of Nazis in video games. It's likely just the usual legal arse-covering, of course. But it does look a bit ridiculous. 🖋️

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7. 📰 Apex Legends Recent Reviews Are Now Mostly Negative Because of the Removal of Linux Support (direct link) (👍282 👎3)

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Apex Legends™ on Steam

Germany, Austria, and Switzerland only: EA’s PRIVACY & COOKIE POLICY (privacy.ea.com/de) APPLIES. Other EU, United Kingdom, Norway, Iceland, Andorra, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Kosovo, Macedonia (FYROM), Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, San Marino, Serbia, Turkey, Vatican City (Holy See), Liechtenstein only: ACKNOWLEDGEMENT of EA's PRIVacy & C Cookie POLICy. 🖋️

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8. 📰 Half-Life 2 is currently 100% off for its 20th anniversary, plus a major update (direct link) (👍264 👎1)

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Save 90% on Half-Life 2 on Steam

Check out the entire Half-Life collection on Steam Download Half-Life 2: Demo WEEKEND DEAL! Earth has surrendered. The Black Mesa incident is a distant memory. HL2's physics adds a new dimension to deathmatch play. Play straight deathmatch or try Combine vs. Resistance teamplay. 🖊️

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9. 📰 Pushing Buttons: Is there even any point in making more powerful games consoles? (direct link) (👍62 👎3)

from Let's Talk About Games (!letstalkaboutgames@feddit.uk)

Pushing Buttons: Is there even any point in making more powerful games consoles?

But something as momentous as the leap from 2D to 3D gaming in the late 90s? It’s been a long time since anything like that happened. The visual detail of games like God of War: Ragnarök and Horizon Forbidden West is astounding. Is it time to leave that fight behind “Games have come to a dead end,” he told Japanese outlet Mainichi Interactive in 2004. Relaxing and minimalist, this is a good lunchtime play on Steam Deck I am genuinely sad to see it go, as I was with gamesTM a few years ago. Also, I hear the Guardian has a very good online games section – you should check it out some time 🖊️

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10. 📰 OpenRA for classic RTS games like Red Alert has a new playtest with enhanced visuals, revamped map editor (direct link) (👍36 👎0)

from OpenSourceGames (!opensourcegames@lemmy.ml)

OpenRA for classic RTS games like Red Alert has a new playtest with enhanced visuals, revamped map editor

With this release OpenRA now supports post-processing effects out of the box! Switched to high-quality Dune 2000 assets and included lots of extra visual polish. Added two Red Alert missions and improved the quality of many others. Red Alert and Dune 2000 balance changes. Pictured - Red Alert in OpenRA Read more in their news post. 🖊️

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11. 📰 If you enjoy Balatro, check out Dungeons & Degenerate Gamblers (direct link) (👍12 👎1)

from Indie Gaming (!indiegaming@lemmy.world)

Dungeons & Degenerate Gamblers by Purple Moss Collectors

Viewing most recent comments 1 to 40 of 407 · Next page · Last pageWhat a good game manI beat the game AGAIN I got all the way to Sandy's Casino, but, sadly, I don't have the full game Other than that, the game no longer has any weird bugs, making it perfect Thanks everyone for your patience, the demo is now back Thank you so much happy halloween 🖊️

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12. 💬 How it feels to be a high-level necromancer in Grim Dawn (direct link) (👍8 👎0)

from Patient Gamers (!patientgamers@lemmy.ml)

PS. Play Grim Dawn! Amazing ARPG with really good classes and customisations.

If you'd prefer something older and simple...

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13. 💬 Weekly what have you been playing discussion - week of November 18th, 2024 (direct link) (👍4 👎0)

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Inactive communities 👻

These communities have had no posts in the last month:

• Gyro Gaming
  • Welcome to Gyro Gaming subreddit, where people can share their passion for Gyroscopic Controls in Video Games, such as Camera Aiming, Vehicle Steering, Typing, etc.
• FPGA Gaming
  • A fediverse community dedicated to gaming hardware, clone consoles, flashcarts, and other accessories based on field-programmable gate array (FPGA) and similar technology. A place for engineers, developers, and FPGA gaming fans to discuss news, facilitate development, and enjoy a new passionate community!

Here is a popular post from one of the inactive communities. 🪦♻️

📰 The Brief History of Motion Sensor Aiming in Video Games (direct link), posted in Gyro Gaming (👍11 👎1)

The Brief History of Motion Sensor Aiming in Video Games

Let’s call this: “Motion Aiming” Shortly after, Nintendo released Metroid Prime 3: Corruption. until Nintendo decided to add a gyro sensor inside the controller You can jiggy the Sack-person’s booty via Motion Sensors In this mode, you can look around from Link's perspective, and motion aiming is back. One is moving the body, the other is aiming where you’re shooting. But, Breath of the Wild is where most people got introduced to Motion Aiming In the process, “Motion Aiming” got a new name: “Gyro Aiming” (also, ‘Intu-Aiming’ was merged). Future KEX Engine games after DOOM 64 added Gyro Aiming support ever since But The Last of Us kinda works but Aim Assist is in use, and Gyro Aiming doesn’t like Aim Assist 🖊️

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