You already know what they're gonna say

I use my 3d printer sparingly. I don't like printing useless stuff, so I design parts when needed if I can't find them somewhere else.

I use my printer when I need it. Once I learned CAD, the need to print toys and trinkets basically evaporated. (I did just print a tiny guitar for my daughter for Christmas as a placeholder for a trip to the guitar store after the holidays were over.)

The printer is now an extremely useful tool. The drawback is that I don't use as much filament and have had a few spools degrade on me. It's no biggie, but it's a time suck to dry it and get it usable again.
- Do what I do, when you have filament, extrAs, supports. Leave them in a 5 gallon bucket until 2/3 full. Then go out to the garage with your old toaster oven and make filament bricks. It takes no time at all to make....please help me I have filament bricks 9x12x1" everywhere. Please normalize this lol
Same but when I do use it, wow is it handy to have around. It's more than paid for itself with all the stuff I've been able to fix with it or make outright.
I am the same way but I get hell from the wife for purchasing something that isn't being used. So now I have a table full of articulated dragons, and a wife asking why I have so many....
- Print yourself a new wife, simple.

I like printing those flexi Dino’s.

It’s for my niece. Honest. Grown men don’t play with Dino’s….

Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!
- We may experience some turbulence then explode.
the color changing with temperature plastics are a good choice, my niece likes the purple to pink one
- my niece likes the sparkly stuff. That you know... destroys nozzles.
  
  Ah the things we uncles go through, huh?
- I recently tried some dual-color silk filament. Half the filament is one color, half is another color. It makes cool looking parts that are different colors on each side.
They're a great test for new filaments... the ones I keep stockpiling.
- My favorite is Gunther’s steggo.
  
  To print. My favorite to print! (“Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal! Ahahahah!”)
  
  Although for testing new filaments, I usually go with a small egg-shaped spiral printed glue pot (or paint pot or small parts holders,) small things, I feel like spiral prints show flaws, as well as layer adhesion issues.
I'd play tho
The articulated print-in-place animals are such great gifts.

They are fun and look magical how they are just printed as one piece.

I also like the NASA fabric, it is like 3d printed chain mail, but then futuristic

May your filament be strong and plentiful and may all your beds be level.

I got addicted to converting USGS and European digital elevation data to 3d topo map prints; I just think they're neat!

That sounds neat. If you change filament with elevation it could be pretty educational too
Any for Czechia?
- My wife is from Italy, so I printed out a topo of the valley where she grew up. It took me a long time to figure out how to change to the European projection in the software I was using, and I didn't write down how I did it; unfortunately I'm not sure I can figure out it again! There's a digital elevation TIFF of the whole EU available online, even Czechia! If you want to make it a project, I can point you in the right direction and give you some pointers on converting to a obj file to print. I found a couple websites that went through the process, but I didn't find their directions very complete and had to figure a lot out myself.

Don’t ask me if my bed is level

People with self-leveling 3D printers:

signature look of superiority
- I hope your corner warps
- People with high-end FDM 3D printer: You guys bed-level?
Ohhh yeah that's a good one

I recently made a violin that sounds pretty decent but I don't know how to play it yet

The main body was what I was worried about the most but it turned out pretty easy it just took a long time

Check out the "modular fiddle" everything fits fine on a cr6 se

New revisions of the printer design itself of course.

I'm a mod in a telegram group (not piracy oriented). Pretty much every other day comes in a clueless idiot asking, ipsis literis, "what's the best printer?"

Ask said idiot what they want to print and you're met with one of two: silence or "I wanna print some stuff". What stuff? "Oh just a couple of stuff first, you know" - They want a printer without having a fucking clue of anything and they're always surprised to know that resin printers are a thing.

To be fair, I didn't know what to print as well when I started. Now I always know.

Boats of course. Lots and lots of boats.

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