tom_mai78101

tom_mai78101

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The Helper Connoisseur / Ex-MineCraft Host 32 From Taipei, Taiwan
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  • The Helper
    Hey Tom I am real worried I have not heard from you since the Taiwan earthquake. Can you please check in and let us know you are OK? I hope you and all your family are OK!
    The Helper
    I don't know if I have told you this or not but man thanks for posting the news for so many years! You have a nose for news and you have posted good stuff! Thank you!!!
    S
    I don't know if you're familiar with the youtube channel of Tek Syndicate, but they tend to report stories in the nature of what you post a lot of the times. So if you wanted to reach a larger audience you should check out their news forum. Anyways keep up the good work, I miss this site, seems to have slowed down quite a bit.
    https://forum.teksyndicate.com/c/community/news
    N
    What happened to TH?
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    tom_mai78101
    tom_mai78101
    Oh. I don't know much about him and his life. Sometimes, he pops in and out, but other than that, I'm not sure. If by the end of this year, and he is still not active, we can then assume something has happened. At the moment, I assumed he's just busy with real life.
    N
    Ninva
    Who owns and maintains the site then?
    tom_mai78101
    tom_mai78101
    TH and Ghan, I think.
    Wummi
    Hey Tom, do you live in Taipei all the time or do you move around? If so, it would be really cool if we could get to know each other =)
    tom_mai78101
    tom_mai78101
    My home town is technically in Taipei, I have residency there, but my family lives in Nangang. As you may know, I am currently living abroad in Mass., USA for grad school. Getting to know each other is fine.
    Wummi
    Yes I am from Taiwan. I mainly come to this site (it's been like over seven years?) to see news postings. It all started with asking questions about mapping in WC3 haha!
    tom_mai78101
    tom_mai78101
    I'm probably around 10 years for me. To see a comrade out in the wild is surprising.
    tom_mai78101
    Yay! Got myself an updated avatar! Still liked this version of Mega Man, but I can also choose to switch to a different one anytime.
    Mahucharn
    Hi Tom_mai!

    I would be honored. I look forward to reading it =)

    Respect, yo.,
    Mahu
    tom_mai78101
    tom_mai78101
    What I mean to say was, would you like to contribute your autobiography, from the days of yourself joining this forum to present day, to The Helper Forums Site History project? Because I can't write something that belongs to you and only you can be able to write your history down in the forums.
    The Helper
    You have a site history section being done about you. Would you like your forum name changed to Tom Mai?
    tom_mai78101
    tom_mai78101
    I prefer to keep my name as it is, as the name itself means a lot to me. However, it is okay to be called Tom Mai, TM, or anything you and others wished to call me. :)
    Darthfett
    You destroyed the portal in flatland! :(
    tom_mai78101
    tom_mai78101
    That! I thought no one is using it. :O Is it possible to repair it, since the portal and the original one are different by their height?
    Darthfett
    Darthfett
    I'm not sure height makes a difference, I think repairing should work fine. Sounds like mylongshanks might fix it, though.

    We use the portal to get back to our current area when we die (so it may have been broken for a while).
    tom_mai78101
    Yesshh... I'm officially now a super moderator. I'm sad that this place isn't getting the activity that it shouldn't be.
    vypur85
    vypur85
    It'd seem that you're the only one keeping the site up so far. It's pretty much dead elsewhere. Keep it up, tom.
    tom_mai78101
    tom_mai78101
    Other staff members did mentioned this. I sure will keep this up. :)
    iPeez
    Minecraft host???
    tom_mai78101
    tom_mai78101
    I'll update my status to reflect on current events. I'm no longer a Minecraft host, as my VM that hosts the server is longer servicing.
    iPeez
    iPeez
    Oh, that is a shame. Would be nice with a TH Server. :/
    Slapshot136
    tom_mai78101
    tom_mai78101
    By all means, if you happened to find anything wrong, do report. The one thing we are currently lacking is insufficient hardware testing. :D
    tom_mai78101
    tom_mai78101
    And you probably won't regret your decision. Hope you enjoy its awesome width of the display in your palm, and so many oil smears are bound to appear. :p
    Slapshot136
    Slapshot136
    I haven't had any issues with oil smears.. but I am slightly worried about the size - on the plus side, I can test to see if your game scales well
    Fatmankev
    Yo bro', just wanted to extend a thank you from me and probably most of the rest of us that regularly post on the news threads. Without you, TheHelper.net would be a greatly diminished site in my eyes. Your dedication is invaluable, so again... Thanks!
    The Helper
    Would you be interested in a News forum mod position? The advantage is that you post straight to the News forum and don't have to be approved. You have to move posts, even your own to submissions if they have less than 50 views and/or under 3 replies in a day or if it looks like a post after half a day is not going to meet that. Not all submissions get moved to News, only ones you think are interesting and you think will be commented on or popular viewed. What u say?
    S
    Hey, how's it going? I was just wondering what kinds there are to see in Taipei :D

    I might visit Taipei some day and want to know a few things about it.

    ^_^
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  • The Helper The Helper:
    Here is a cool dessert recipe I found https://www.thehelper.net/threads/recipe-cherry-cheesecake-brownie.194048/
  • The Helper The Helper:
    Found a cool easy Chicken Pot Pie recipe! https://www.thehelper.net/threads/recipe-chicken-pot-pie.194064/
  • Monovertex Monovertex:
    How are you all? :D
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  • Ghan Ghan:
    Howdy
  • Ghan Ghan:
    Still lurking
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  • The Helper The Helper:
    I am great and it is fantastic to see you my friend!
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  • The Helper The Helper:
    Here is a great appetizer recipe Texas style! https://www.thehelper.net/threads/recipe-chicken-stuffed-poblano-peppers.194086/
  • The Helper The Helper:
    If you are new to the site please check out the Recipe and Food Forum https://www.thehelper.net/forums/recipes-and-food.220/
  • Monovertex Monovertex:
    How come you're so into recipes lately? Never saw this much interest in this topic in the old days of TH.net
  • Monovertex Monovertex:
    Hmm, how do I change my signature?
  • tom_mai78101 tom_mai78101:
    Signatures can be edit in your account profile. As for the old stuffs, I'm thinking it's because Blizzard is now under Microsoft, and because of Microsoft Xbox going the way it is, it's dreadful.
  • The Helper The Helper:
    I am not big on the recipes I am just promoting them - I use the site as a practice place promoting stuff
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  • Monovertex Monovertex:
    @tom_mai78101 I must be blind. If I go on my profile I don't see any area to edit the signature; If I go to account details (settings) I don't see any signature area either.
  • The Helper The Helper:
    You can get there if you click the bell icon (alerts) and choose preferences from the bottom, signature will be in the menu on the left there https://www.thehelper.net/account/preferences
  • The Helper The Helper:
    I think I need to split the Sci/Tech news forum into 2 one for Science and one for Tech but I am hating all the moving of posts I would have to do
  • The Helper The Helper:
    New dessert for Summer - https://www.thehelper.net/threads/recipe-lemon-blueberry-layer-cheesecake.194113/
  • The Helper The Helper:
    What is up Old Mountain Shadow?
  • The Helper The Helper:
    Happy Thursday!
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  • Varine Varine:
    Crazy how much 3d printing has come in the last few years. Sad that it's not as easily modifiable though
  • Varine Varine:
    I bought an Ender 3 during the pandemic and tinkered with it all the time. Just bought a Sovol, not as easy. I'm trying to make it use a different nozzle because I have a fuck ton of Volcanos, and they use what is basically a modified volcano that is just a smidge longer, and almost every part on this thing needs to be redone to make it work
  • Varine Varine:
    Luckily I have a 3d printer for that, I guess. But it's ridiculous. The regular volcanos are 21mm, these Sovol versions are about 23.5mm
  • Varine Varine:
    So, 2.5mm longer. But the thing that measures the bed is about 1.5mm above the nozzle, so if I swap it with a volcano then I'm 1mm behind it. So cool, new bracket to swap that, but THEN the fan shroud to direct air at the part is ALSO going to be .5mm to low, and so I need to redo that, but by doing that it is a little bit off where it should be blowing and it's throwing it at the heating block instead of the part, and fuck man
  • Varine Varine:
    I didn't realize they designed this entire thing to NOT be modded. I would have just got a fucking Bambu if I knew that, the whole point was I could fuck with this. And no one else makes shit for Sovol so I have to go through them, and they have... interesting pricing models. So I have a new extruder altogether that I'm taking apart and going to just design a whole new one to use my nozzles. Dumb design.
  • Varine Varine:
    Can't just buy a new heatblock, you need to get a whole hotend - so block, heater cartridge, thermistor, heatbreak, and nozzle. And they put this fucking paste in there so I can't take the thermistor or cartridge out with any ease, that's 30 dollars. Or you can get the whole extrudor with the direct driver AND that heatblock for like 50, but you still can't get any of it to come apart
  • Varine Varine:
    Partsbuilt has individual parts I found but they're expensive. I think I can get bits swapped around and make this work with generic shit though

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