It does, the more water in the filament the more uneven the extrusion.

Bed adhesion is the most likely cause - give it a really good clean. You can also use a glue stick to help it stick better, but that’s often just a crutch that doesn’t address the root problem.

Most things look pretty bad and gross when you zoom in on them close enough.

Elegoo’s Saturn 3 is pretty budget friendly and decent quality in my experience. I’ve owned an original Mars and a Saturn 3 and I’ve been happy with both.

Masque of the Red death is a Edgar Allen Poe story not De Sade. If De Sade had written it the protagonist would have tried to fuck death.

Sadly the only way to know for sure is to test brain tissue, including in people, so there’s no way to be certain without killing the potentially infected animal/person.

There are a bunch of tests they can do for people that can potentially identify rabies (lumbar puncture, CT and MRI scans, skin biopsy, antibody test) but apparently it can still be easily missed even with all of these tests so they aren’t enough for an accurate diagnoses.

Unfortunately quarantine and observation isn’t effective as a testing strategy for animals, the disease can progress at different rates and it’s possible for infected animals to show no symptoms. As rabies can’t be treated after symptoms start showing, they can’t take the time to do this.

Yep, you’ll never get it perfect, but a smaller layer height will make the steps less noticeable. Adaptive layer height in cura if you use that can help, but adds a mortal age to the length of the print.