Ari [APz] Sovijärvi

@cos Meillä menee hiiriä välikatossa. Hupasa katsoa kun huoneessa on 2 kissaa, molemmat eri paikassa ja päät osoittaa tarkasti samaan kohtaan ja seuraavat ääniä. Vielä ei ole yksikään tehnyt sitä strategista virhettä että tulisivat huoneisiin.

A white and grey cat on lap with its front legs all stretched out

A white and grey cat on lap, all stretched out, sleeping.

It's slightly chilly, but I have a lap warmer.

#cats #catsofmastodon

A disassembled pinball machine upkicker mechanism. A finger emoji points to a spot where the solenoid's plunger has snapped in half.

A player reported Striker Xtreme not getting balls out of the upkicker next to the goalie. Looks like half of the upkicker is missing. #pinball #pinrepair

@moira Looking at the fracture point, is this piece not solid for a purpose? Looks like some low degree infill to me in there.

@teotwaki I'm actually going to leave that in even when the spare arrives, as I'm generally curious to see how various materials survive real world use.

The return spring in the part is very weak, as is the solenoid itself, I can stop the solenoid from moving with just keeping a finger there […]

Last on the board was Viking. A player had reported its spinner being dead. I glanced at it when we were last open, but it was too crowded to take the glass off.

As I spun the spinner manually, I immediately made a note of how it's wire behaved. The spinner […]

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Hacks. They happen to be best of us.

Last week I wrote about Elvira's multiball lock post solenoid's curious failure mode. The metal bracket that holds the coil and rest of the mechanism had suffered a case of metal fatigue. This is very unusual, as this is […]

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@ObsidianUrbex These are wonderful and have this vibe of a post apocalyptic video game.

@joncounts The last picture looks like that if you could just make a scaled up plush toy like it, it'd sell like hotcakes.

Top down view of a black cat sleeping on human's lap.

I don't think I'll ever tire of the wonder of such a acutely scared creature trusting me so much it can fall in deep sleep in my lap. Wäinö was the first one to ever do it, Vallu here only started doing it last year for some reason. It's just so spooky when they go all limp.

@jellycrystals To be honest, me too. We've binged so many movies and series, what's 3 marathon ones more! Going to the movies would however have the bummer of not having a cat in my lap while watching the movie.

A tuxedo cats on lap, resting its chin on human's arm. There's another cat barely visible in the back.

Oh, Wäinö did a tactical mistake. He jumped off my lap for a second but as he was returning, he started to circle me, meowing his "I want to jump on your lap" meows. But as he was still considering, Vallu took some running steps and beat him to it.

Since Vallu […]

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@jellycrystals I read this at first as you watching all 3 extended cuts in a row and was like "Uh-oh, RIP butt".

The old gentleman is feeling very purry today. #cats #catsofmastodon #catsoffediverse #caturday

@jellycrystals Yeah, it's surprisingly unforgiving for such a shallow angle game.

Here's us losing our minds about it in an old stream:

https://youtu.be/vfet7LdY1nU?si=9KBTihDdjR8jzROG&t=9818

Top Score is one of the weird ones. Not particularly innovative playfield layout, but somehow I find myself playing it over and over again. #pinball #arcade

I think I'll play something today while waiting a 3D print to finish. Maybe something from the classics side? #pinball #arcade

Me, wearing Hopeakuula Arcade staff t-shirt. It says: Too much pinball! -No one, ever

That.

Flsun S1 3D printer's print head with its cover removed. A PCB with plenty of wires and a small fan are exposed.

I'm taking the Flsun S1's effector apart. The design is pretty baffling to be honest. If the print head is clogged for any reason, you'd expect the major parts would be easy to access?

LOL to that says Flsun.

To get to the filament feed gears, there's this fun […]

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Here's me testing the 3rd rotten drop target from the batch and compare it to a proper one.

Two drop targets side by side. One has flat front side and the other is at angle.

Here's the difference between the targets used in Playboy and a standard one.

The one on the left is a normal one and the right is Playboy's. The ball hits them from the left from this point of view.

Half of a drop target being held in hand, pinball machine's playfield in the background.

Three snapped drop targets on a table, two of them have Playboy's decal, the last one is vanilla.

A snapped drop target next to a drop target assembly.

Multiple pieces of drop targets on a desk.

"Hey, Playboy's drop target is snapped in half" someone shouts.

Huh, I swear I put in a new one last week or something. I go to investigate and sure enough, it's snapped, but how?

I replaced it and played a test game. Literally first hit and the thing is in […]

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People asked me if it floats. This was put to a test. I can tell you that Benchy is a bit top heavy. But it does float.

Prusa Mini+ 3D printer with a huge boat in its build plate.

Screenshot of Prusa Slicer with a Benchy that's been scaled to fill the whole build plate.

A large 3D printed Benchy boat being held in hand.

Today's just for the laughs print. Full plate Benchy with Prusa Mini+. It's 21cm long and made of LW-PLA, so it feels absurd to hold.

#3dprint

@ifixcoinops Ah, that page was already very academically studied!

@ifixcoinops Let's see some.

This is for academical purposes only. Asking for a friend.

A white and grey cat sleeping in a cat bed in a neat little roll.

Sunday night cat roll. #cats #catsofmastodon

Old meme picture of a laughing man. It says: "Ha! Ha! It is not possible!"

@whitequark

A black and white cat in lap. The cat is resting its chin against human's arm.

A black and white cat on human's lap.

Plenty of purr today. #cats #catsofmastodon

@jellycrystals We used to. We were especially active during the COVID time. Nowdays I'm just too tired and stressed out to be entertaining and play well enough to bother.

The streams were often us being us, with either stupid banter combined with trying to demonstrate various game I have. We […]