They tend to be up in tall trees around my neighborhood, so the nests are hard to spot. But you can guess where they are because I've seen crows get territorial with each other when one flies up to the part of the tree where the other is.

I started out getting their attention by making noises. Once I knew they were aware of me, I tossed the food into a flat area where they could easily collect it all. Once they realize you're good for food, it won't take much effort to get their attention. They start looking for you and will fly up when you come outside. I've had them swoop very close to me to get my attention if I hadn't noticed them yet when I'm outside. They'll also caw to let each other know that you're there, so more will fly up. Sometimes there's one that will stay in a tree overhead as a watch if there are cats or other possible dangers in the area.

They hang out around the outside of your house, wait for you to come out, squawk to get your attention, follow you around the neighborhood. If you don't remember to have treats on you, you feel guilty.

If you enjoy it, it can feel like you're a druid communing with animals, but if you decide you don't like it, it could feel like you're in an Alfred Hitchcock movie. Crows have good memories and they tell their offspring about people they like and don't like. They may just stalk you and wonder why you stopped feeding them.

It could also become a burden depending on your income level and how often you feed them and how big the local murder is. It's not expensive, but I'd just recommend anyone who wants to get into it be prepared for the cost.

The best way to befriend them is to feed them. It does become a thing though, so be sure you're ready for a new hobby.

Some people recommend feeding them at the same time of day so they know when to expect you. I have crows around my neighborhood and at work, so I feed them whenever I'm leaving in the morning, at work, or come back home, or also going on walks at home or work..

Crows like peanuts in the shell. They'll also eat cat food and treats. You just want to make sure not to feed them anything salty, so no salted peanuts. They will eat other bird meat. I feed cats on my porch and I've had crows come up on the porch and snatch some wet chicken bits from the dish.

You can also put out a bird bath for them, depending on whether you're in an area with standing water issues like mosquitos.

Knowing the localization and the interaction of everything with each other would have helped me a lot and certainly saved time.

I guess this is the disconnect. I've assembled one, but I don't feel like assembling one necessarily conveys this. The instructions just tell you which part to attach to which other part. It doesn't explain why much of it is important or how it functions.

The other difference is that I haven't upgraded any. I have some MK3S+ printers that I are likely to remain that way since the upgrades are so expensive and the process so laborious.

For personal use, I'm waiting on the CORE One from Printed Solid but it's only available for education, government, etc at the moment.

I'd actually recommend the opposite. Unless you're a DIY hobbyist who loves taking everything apart and you don't want to print immediately upon receiving it, it's worth it to buy the prebuilt Prusa. There are so many many steps in assembling a MK4S that there are that many steps to get something wrong. Better pay a few hundred extra to get one that has been assembled by a more experienced person. And I say that as a makerspace coordinator who works with a lot of 3D printers.

Assembly teaches you how incredibly complicated the assembly is. I've adjusted pre-assembled printers with minor inconvenience. But the first one you put together can take more than the estimated 6-8 hours.

I tried, but I just can't go back and play Oblivion after playing Skyrim with all the quality of life mods. I'm waiting on the Skyblivion release to revisit it.

My significant other and I still talk about how great the internet was in the 90s. You could be yourself without having to mask. You didn't have to focus on the visual because uploading a picture either wasn't feasible or just took too long and too much data. No selfies, just being yourself with people you'd probably never meet, discussing mutual interests, and not having your interactions commoditized or interrupted with ads.

I guess the upside to the vast commercialization and commoditization of every last aspect of the internet is that there's a lot of greedy dystopian conventions to write about. I've got a few cyberpunk stories I'm going to include in an upcoming collection that utilize some examples of that issue.

I haven't read through these, but it sounds like any number of a few patterns I've recognized in some older works might be occurring for you.

The "you had to be there" thing is definitely common. It might be more relevant if you got a lot of physical junk mail like decades past. It might be making clever references to things you're not familiar with or mimicking a style you haven't seen because its practitioners are gone.

It's also possible that it wasn't all that clever to begin with, but it was good filler at the time when there was far less of the subgenre available. They were fiction magazines rather than a thousand online sources and movies and graphic novels, so standards were lower for many people just wanting more.

For anything that was actually good for its time but didn't age well, I've noticed that they often suffer from being surpassed by the later works that they inspired or broke down barriers for. The practical effects of Star Wars were a lot more impressive in 1977 when you saw cheesy rubbery aliens and blocky cardboard robots in earlier scifi works.

The beak is larger and curved, so more like a raven's beak than a crow.

No matter how much he pointed to his white beard as proof, the witch didn't believe Grumbles when he insisted he wasn't a child and wouldn't taste good in a nice meat pie.

How about:

I wasn't creeped out while watching a true crime documentary on TV late one night about a brutal murder until they showed a picture of the crime scene and the victim. It was a picture of me in my living room and the TV was showing a true crime documentary.

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Note: they dropped the 360. It's just Autodesk Fusion now.

Hollywood producers: "13 pages, you say? That's enough for a new trilogy!"

Ironically, instead of "prescribing against," it seems like you mean proscribing.

I do play games, but I also work on creative projects and watch shows/movies on my computer. I use Illustrator to create typeface designs, graphic design for laser cutting or stickers, 3D modeling and slicing programs for my 3D printer, Google Docs for writing, coding for Raspberry Pi and Arduino projects, et al.

It's too vague a question to answer easily. I'd need specific scenarios because the tell and the tipping point might be different in different scenarios. There might be a pattern, but you'd only see it with multiple scenarios about the same person, and even then, there might be some details you're not privy to that would otherwise change your perspective. It's also entirely possible for a person to be right some of the time, but to fight regardless of whether they are or not.

I like to pull this list up whenever someone starts talking about how the signs are clear that the end is near: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dates_predicted_for_apocalyptic_events

Could I cut up my wish into just wiping parts of a few songs? Like the march tune from Tears of a Clown, the electronic watch alarm in Rock the Casbah, and the chopsticks part of Blinded by the Light.