#certified old fart yells at clouds

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I think 2024 will have more text musings from me. Idk tho.

But here is one anyways:

The dream would be 3d modeling on pc and producing 3d print works like figurines but painting is legit impossible for me due to health now lol, guess I have to wait until the Statasys PolyJet/BJP patent expires in a decade+, so that consumer level color/transparency/multimaterial printers can become available. $50,000 for the base machine is not affordable lmafo.

Honestly with the rate at which certain tech advances, it truely feels like patents in those specific fields stunt global advancement for decades. Feels criminal.

For things like 3d printers that are able to print with different materials, colors, and transparencies, it could truely save lives and at minimum drastically improve livelihoods, so it is so bizarre that tech like this is gatekept and not shared to be expanded on and innovated on by others.

This is also a problem in the gaming industry, (albeit at less severity, but still ridiculous). Tell me why there was a DECADES long patent on "mini games during loading screens" that was barely even used before it expired? And the nemesis system...

Obviously, patents have a use and can be very important in making sure creators are not taken advantage of or ripped off (in fact it will likely be a saving grace for taking down unethically sourced data for the current scummy unregulated generative ai models out there), but in certain situations like 3d printing it is straight up detrimental gatekeeping that benefits no one.