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  • Thank you for pointing that out! I missed the context of the survival backpack and now it makes more sense. When you view this as more of a ‘what if’ for a somewhat (hopefully) fictional situation this becomes a fun challenge of creating PCBs from limited resources. I’m wondering how I might try to build a PCB under such circumstances now. I’m still not a fan of their ‘urban mining’ though. If anything I believe there would be better sources for silver in a disaster/post-apocalypse.


  • Idk, this one is weird to me. I agree that micro electronics production is not conflict free and appreciate a search for alternatives, but clay? From an engineering perspective this isn’t just a bad material for PCBs, it’s neigh impossible to use. How would that affect device longevity, or recyclability? Their production process is quite failure prone as they mention. Not to mention how their design is easily magnitudes larger than a comparable laminated fiber PCB. Also urban-mined is a needlessly opaque buzzword imo. They mean recycled, right? Just say so, no need for flourishes. Emphasizing that the clay is sourced from a wild forest and burned over a bonfire is meant to feel sustainable via association. There is nothing environmentally conscious about these inefficient methods and it makes this project appear amateurish. Nothing wrong with amateur attempts to help the problem, but somehow I get the feeling no one bothered to ask a PCB fab worker or repair technician along the way. More sustainable PCBs start with open source documentation and freely available replacement parts, not forest clay. Full disclosure, I read the description text on the site and (only) skimmed through the video. Feel free to correct me if I misrepresented anything.



  • I believe there is no strict rule for how to distinguish between monsters and animals, beyond those you already suggested. While you can pick freely which characteristics distinguish them, I’d suggest tailoring them to your world. They should mean something. Perhaps monsters are magical to show off the magical system/ideas of your world. Perhaps they are tormented souls of humans to show how grim your setting is. You might make monsters more intelligent to help people emphasizing with them, or blur the line completely by just making monsters a fictional kind of animal to support a scientific narrative.










  • Token German chiming in

    You got most of it quite right, except the ending. It’s -erle, or really just -le (depending on where you split the word). The suffix is used to change a word to sound smaller, cute, playful and generally less serious. It also has a southern accent/sound to me, but take that with a pinch of salt. Not sure if there is an english comparison. Its similar to another german suffix: -chen



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    After a year of unemployment one may have their eyes opened to how truly awful the modern working conditions and hours are. They may even pick up a hobby, make non work friends and God forbid enjoy life outside of prepackaged holiday trips. In short, unemployment can be a mirror to unfair and insane employment conditions.