Dicebreakers Too!

Distractible announced a shift to releasing only one episode per week, every Monday. This change is attributed to the conclusion of their deal with Spotify and Mark's upcoming honeymoon. The hosts expressed uncertainty about the duration of this reduced schedule, hinting at potential new contracts in the future.

Bob states, 'we're going to go down to one episode a week on Mondays for a little bit... cuz the way these podcast things work now that we're we're no longer in that deal. We are wandering free and alone and lost like little lambs... also I need to go on a honeymoon.'

Mark shared his positive experience with 'Kimchi Reader,' a Chrome extension and website purpose-built for learning Korean. He highlighted its superior parsing of Korean words, better dictionaries for idioms and slang, and its ability to help users save sentences for nuanced understanding, unlike more general language apps like Duolingo.

Mark explains, 'Kimchi Reader is great because it does exactly what I was doing with the other ones... this one is purpose-built just for Korean, right? So, it can parse the words better. it has better dictionaries for the idioms and the the slang.'

Bob revealed his excitement about acquiring a 3D printer, which he set up on a Friday afternoon and has been operating almost continuously since. He finds particular enjoyment in printing parts to improve the printer itself and creating custom items, such as a curved bridge piece for his son James's wooden train tracks.

Bob states, 'I am now the proud owner of a 3D printer... Mostly what I've been printing is parts for the printer itself, which is so [expletive] fun... Also, I've printed a new piece for James' trains.'

Mark detailed a new advancement in 3D printing that uses reflective mirrors and UV light to project a hologram into a gel medium. This process cures resin in the shape of the hologram, allowing for the entire object to be 3D printed at once in a matter of seconds, albeit currently on a small scale.

Mark describes, 'they have a a a gel medium... This actually uses reflective mirrors to have light concentrate in where a hologram would normally be... it will cure the resin in the shape of the hologram, thereby 3D printing the entire object at once inside the gel medium.'

The game 'Dice Breakers 2' involves each player rolling a D20 privately. The host, Bob, asks an icebreaker question, and the player must provide an answer designed to help Bob guess their rolled number as accurately as possible. Points are awarded for exact guesses and lost for being more than two numbers off, leading to a highly subjective and often comedic scoring process.

Bob explains, 'each of you is going to have your own die in your own hands... I will give you a question... You will roll your die and then you will have to give an answer that gets us to correctly guess what you rolled.'