If you stopped playing after 3, and who could blame you, than you did miss out on Black Flag which was probably the high point of the series. But your general point still stands, Black Flag is kind of the exception that proves the rule.

This happened to me once (with deer ticks, not lone star) while I was having a nice walk in the woods high on shrooms. Worst trip of my life.

For what it’s worth, I regularly print materials not supported by the AMS on my Bambu P1S and it’s quite painless. There’s a spool holder on the back of the machine that you can load directly to the extruder bypassing the AMS. Of course, if your goal is do multicolor prints in TPU obviously that won’t work.

I actually really like the story of Dune, but I kind of have to agree that the writing leaves a lot to be desired. The fact that Herbert constantly switches perspectives with no indication in the middle of chapters, or sometimes even in the middle of paragraphs, drives me up the wall. I almost couldn’t finish them because of that.

I’ve gotten a lot of freezing and stuttering playing on my desktop PC (Linux with Proton). The deck actually seems to be more stable, though it is locked to 30 fps and textures still take a minute to load sometimes.

I’ve been playing it on steam deck, it’s definitely playable but I wouldn’t call it smooth.

The shadow drop was real, I’m downloading it now!