disorderly

Chemical etching is more accessible for sure, but every part of the process kind of sucks. Getting a solid toner transfer, preparing the bath, keeping the bath warm /moving, evenly washing the board (and stopping at the right time), cleaning up the mess, drilling all the through-holes, and optionally tinning… It’s all labor-intensive and error-prone, and I’m honestly not sure if the results I got would ever have been good enough for modern digital circuits. Ymmv.

(If I did go back to chemical etching, I sure as hell wouldn’t use ferric chloride. I’d try one of those reagents you can actually see through!)

I’m right there with him until the end:

I’ll probably enjoy playing it. I’ll also probably find myself repeatedly asking why it had to be born in circumstances as horrible as these.

My dude, you just laid out a perfectly compelling argument that morale in the studio is catered, the management is cruel, and projects are getting slashed left and right. You’d have to be huffing glue to say all this and still believe that you’re getting something other than another Fallout 76 squeezed into New Vegas 2 packaging. Get fucking real.

In high school, I went on a field trip to, well, a field, and there was a local wildflower in full bloom. Our teacher told us to go out and collect observations about them. We did that for a bit, then gathered back in to talk about what we found.

One of the more outdoorsy students noted it was unusual that these flowers were, in fact, blooming in October; they normally bloom in summer. That was it! In this valley, they bloom in fall for some reason. Our teacher explained that this is one common way that speciation occurs, because these plants could effectively no longer breed with the rest of the population and would begin to genetically drift away.