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    3D Printing/Modeling General Interest Thread

    Not sure if it counts as interesting but I've been printing a lot of miscellaneous household items, like this molding for the woodwork when we re-did part of our floor: Extremely middle-aged home improvement energy, but a lot of my 3D modeling/printing efforts these days are DIY fixes for our...
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    GNU Terry Pratchett

    Oh, that's awesome! It's cool to see the entire series charted out like that. I do appreciate that they're written so you can kind of read them in any order, but that they also build on each other within a particular thematic and/or character arc (I particularly liked the character development...
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    GNU Terry Pratchett

    I thought I'd start a general thread for one of my favorite authors, apropos of I may have made an impromptu New Year's resolution to reread his entire bibliography (almost typed Disc-ography, lol) but in chronological order this time. So far this month I've read the first three, up to Equal...
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    What did you read in 2023?

    That's a very impressive reading list! I read Tao Te Ching in my teens and I think it had a pretty big influence on my worldview. I was really into Taoist philosophy for a while. I didn't do a whole lot of reading last year (though I hope to make up for it this year) but I did finally get...
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    Anyone got the models ripped for blender or have a tutorial?

    Not sure if this helps or is close to what you're looking for, but The Models Resource has characters and objects from Xenoblade in .dae format, which I believe can be imported into Blender and/or converted into another Blender-compatible file format. (I've had a little experience ripping...
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    ES and AGWS 3d model

    The model converter can be a little difficult to work with. Can you take a screenshot of the settings you're using? And/or can you describe the issues you're having with the model? Depending on the software you're using to view/import the models after converting them, you might have to do some...
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    That's beautiful! Hope you had a good birthday!

    That's beautiful! Hope you had a good birthday!
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    Hey! Happy to see fan forums still around

    Hey there, welcome! Datamining XS1 sounds really interesting. I'd be curious to see what you find! Hope you have fun here!
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    What are you listening to?

    I've been watching Vinland Saga during my morning run/workout and this OP is highly effective on the treadmill. View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iBZB-IFaO8
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    Zanza's OB11 head shell (including halo)

    Wow, this looks amazing! Is that an SLA/resin printer?
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    Hello/sorting out my feelings about Xenosaga

    Hence why I have a Robocop artbook that I consider part of my Xeno collection. ;)
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    Hello/sorting out my feelings about Xenosaga

    If you're interested, there's a partial text translation archived here, and scans in our media gallery. This thread also has a list of other documents and stuff related to the series. Xenosaga was pretty life-changing for me and, I would imagine, for a lot of people here. I can understand why...
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    Hello/sorting out my feelings about Xenosaga

    Hi, and welcome! <3 And thank you for sharing your reflections on the series. I kinda feel the same about Soraya Saga's/Kaori Tanaka's writing and some of the changes between Episode I and the later episodes. I still enjoyed the story in II and III (flaws and tone/pacing issues and all), but...
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    Erin's Xenosaga junk

    I haven't had much of an attention span to finish anything this year, but here are some recent-ish sketches of indeterminate quality: