I like the way the thicker lines look on the bottom of the print but I changed it back to 100%.

I figured out the problem that was causing the weird gap after the first layer. My nozzle was a little too high off of the print bed starting out. When I looked in the firmware (I assume that is what I'm looking at in the terminal) it showed my Z offset to be .8mm so I changed it to .1mm using the M851 command. After that the problem went away and I now have pretty decent prints, not quite 100% but not bad. I still get the wave along the corners, some rough edges here and there but it's definitely a decent functioning printer now. 25mm cube below is shown being measured along the Z axis.

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