lounge

[carmine frigate]

thats more expensive than u buy it for 😛

[proud jay]

not really

[carmine frigate]

yea baking bread is sorta expensive.. store does it super cheap and dont mind takin a loss on it

[proud jay]

I have literally done it though

idk what kind of garbage bread you buy in the store though

[carmine frigate]

same banana bread is nice

[proud jay]

but good baker shit is expensive

standard prices is like 3 euro for a bread now

fucking end me

[carmine frigate]

yea baker is more expensive... supermarket 'sorta' cheap

[proud jay]

supermarket bread is at least 67.2% salt

you're overpaying

[carmine frigate]

lol

[fleet tangle]

I don't eat much bread.

I do not miss it.

[carmine frigate]

bread is great

clearly no dutch cheese where you are 😛

when i was working abroad i was having it shipped over... cant live w/o it

[timber viper]

garlic bread

[tulip orbit]

Holy jeebus christ its windy, and its been dry so its just a dust storm out there

[proud jay]

apparently bread is only popular is a very specific region of europe

like people in Finland don't usually eat bread for lunch or dinner or somethign

[tulip orbit]

a sheet of plywood flew off the 5th floor of the construction site next to me 😦

[timber viper]

in Turkiye its a side meal, but everytime

[proud jay]

they thought we were crazy for doing so

[timber viper]

its difficult to imagine not eating bread everyday tbh

bread prices is powerful enough to destroy a government in here

[fleet tangle]

Been raining here for like 12 hours.

[tulip orbit]

starting to rain here a little, hopefully should cut down on the dust

was pretty low visibility for a while

[timber viper]

Classic England? 😄

[fleet tangle]

I was also drinking tea.

[proud jay]

well

there goes another UK prime minister

[fleet tangle]

Oh? She's gone already?

[proud jay]

👋 https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-63332037

[fleet tangle]

Lol

She still gets over £100k/year for life.

[proud jay]

I should become PM

brb

[timber viper]

I'll vote

[fleet tangle]

Friend was saying they should just roundrobin it.

Every Tory gets a go.

[proud jay]

do you need to be bri'ish?

[fleet tangle]

No idea.

[timber viper]

so who is next?

[proud jay]

I vote lord buckethead

[fleet tangle]

You just need to be a British Citizen, apaprently.

We've had a Canadian PM before.

One British prime minister has been born outside of the UK. Andrew Bonar Law was Canadian, but moved to the UK with his family when he was 12. He served as prime minister only a short time — 23 October 1922 to 22 May 1923. He died of cancer whilst still in office.

He is one of Britain’s least memorable prime ministers; he’s probably most remembered for being a Canadian who served as Britain’s prime minister.

[proud jay]

"only a short time"

not as short al lizz lmao

at least he died

liz is just bad

[timber viper]

at least she resigned

imagine being in power for.. checks calendar 20 years

[knotty skiff]

OH HELL NAH!

Everyone should vote for me!

[proud jay]

lol

imagine voting for an artis

an american artist on top of that

[fleet tangle]

Imagine voting for a movie star.

[proud jay]

you @knotty skiff you made a typo on your site lol

wtf is an alifornian

[fleet tangle]

Oh wait, Reagan and Schwarzenegger.

[proud jay]

can't even write and wants to be UK PM smh

[knotty skiff]

Holy mother of GOD

I'm Alifornian all along?!

[proud jay]

I'm confused, you are from LA and alifornian-texan, how does that make you a oklahoma city boy?

[knotty skiff]

My "cringey" past

nonsensical

that's all

ACTUALLY NO

DONT TALK ABOUT IT

[fleet tangle]

If you don't regularly take the train and aren't born and raised in south Detroit, you're just not American enough. Or from a small town, living in a lonely world.

[knotty skiff]

I walk from California to South Baltimore

[proud jay]

I walk from Quebec to Karaganda

[knotty skiff]

I walk from South Baltimore to Epic Games Headquarters, Cary, North Carolina

[unborn lotus]

I heard walking 1km is a lot for americans

[proud jay]

I heard walking in walmart is a lot for americans

[fleet tangle]

https://miro.medium.com/max/800/1*b2sASBV_xu8Dd22lzhj7IQ.jpeg

Murika.

[fluid bloom]

the you-must-be-fun-at-parties in me wants to point out that gyms are used by handicapped people too

though those escalators don't really work with wheelchairs

[tulip orbit]

legs dont work with wheelchairs either

[fleet tangle]

Wow 😛

[fleet tangle]

Pretty sure those 2 using the escalator are not handicapped. 😛

I know, not all handicaps are visible, but still!

[thorny dock]

Check out an LA fitness, with the platinum sub they will carry you in the building and to each machine, offering you their finest grapes by the vine after each machine

Never understood the hype, I'd use that money to order some BBQ or something

[fleet tangle]

Lol

You'd have to get up to answer the door to get the bbq.

Clearly not happening.

[thorny dock]

I'll open a free platinum 24 hour fitness trial and cancel it, they make house calls

Or there will be a 20 minute long wacky contraption sequence lol

[primal summit]

doubt it, that building's not ADA compliant and the escalator emergency off buttons look nonstandard

[hard hamlet]

Hello people

[fleet tangle]

Howdy.

[hard hamlet]

I dont like ue5 manny

Ue4 mannequin on the other hand

Very chad

[flint pier]

I hope y'all happy now because due to the pizza discussion above Inhad to go get a pizza for dinner!
They cost over ten bucks now. Things is starting to get expensive.

[hard hamlet]

What kind?

Frozen or fresh?

[flint pier]

Fresh. Pepperoni pizza with onions on it.

[hard hamlet]

Individual slice or whole pizza?

[flint pier]

A whole one.

Used to be about 7 bucks.

[hard hamlet]

I feel like 10 is fair then

[hard hamlet]

Ah

[mossy nexus]

point loma at san-diego 🙂

[flint pier]

[angry old man shaking fist at cloud.bmp]

[hard hamlet]

Could you imagine a 10 dollar frozen pizza?

Skull emoji

[mossy nexus]

https://tenor.com/view/the-simpsons-angry-grandpa-gif-14233249

[primal summit]

what size?

[flint pier]

God no. 2-3 bucks maybe? But much smaller.

[flint pier]

Pacifier (for 8 months babies) for reference

[primal summit]

a 10 inch or so?

[flint pier]

Can't show the actual pizza. It is now eaten

[primal summit]

see, I don't have kids, a pacifier does nothing for scale for me

[flint pier]

12 inches maybe? Box is 33x33 cm.

[primal summit]

a 12 inch for $7's a pretty solid deal, especially if not a thin crust

[fleet tangle]

I dislike thick crusts.

Too much focus on dough, not enough on sauce and toppings!

33cm would be 13" roughly

[primal summit]

the box, yes, but the contents tend to have a little room inside

[fleet tangle]

Probalby more like 12" then.

10" would leave a lot of room.

[primal summit]

and thin crusts in my experience aren't worth it, often charging a premium for less dough, less sauce, less cheese, less toppings/square inch

[fleet tangle]

Depends what the default is for the place, I guess.

[primal summit]

thin=less structural integrity, standard hand-tossed=reasonable volumes, deep dish=maximum calories and topping volume per unit surface area

[fleet tangle]

Topping volume, I like it.

But then I'd rather buy 2 thin (assuming the prices reflected the volume)

[proud jay]

same

I got bbq bacon though

[primal summit]

they often don't, with thin crust costing more than hand tossed and similar to deep dish

[fleet tangle]

If that's normal for you, so be it!

[primal summit]

it's a good reason to dislike thin crust

[topaz depot]

y'all complaining about 10$ pizza, for us its 15$ for one slice

[fleet tangle]

And who is 'us' ?

[hot canopy]

managed to capture the sky in my water glass, some weird combination of materials gave it prominent rayleigh scattering causing it to go daylight-blue and sunset-orange for the same reason our atmosphere does

[deep glen]

nice

[broken sigil]

Looks cool
Is that the soap thing?

[hot canopy]

probably not, what soup thing?

[broken sigil]

soap*

[primal summit]

is that like the tesla green flash thing?

[hot canopy]

oh nope, although I did notice similar (albeit less prominent) effects in a soap bottle recently, wait, maybe, soap was actually involved (it's water that I found in my rice pot in the sink, so maybe starch is involved as well)

[broken sigil]

Yeah there is an effect you can get by adding like white soap to water, it gets similar light scattering and refraction to earth's atmosphere

https://youtu.be/6bqBsHSwPgw?t=817

[hot canopy]

that's awesome, might have been the case here, it was a happy accident

that window at the end really does look like sunlight damn

[cursive crypt]

hmm... ngl, Factorio has kinda impressive state machine

[carmine frigate]

@timber viper skimmed a bit over that writeup... looks allright

[broken sigil]

I almost wanna try making that 😅

[carmine frigate]

reminds me of some of the horror BP youtube tutorials 😛

stuff like errors are fine if performance is good 😄

told the guy to do a valid check... didnt know what it was... wtf u making tutorials for?

ive been using unreal for 2 weeks now... time too teach others

[cursive crypt]

Time to make vr mmo rpg

[timber viper]

Thanks, I did another read today after sleep, I think I'm going to break it into 3 parts and explain things in more depth

[timber viper]

Btw I used your beautiful BP sphagetti as thumbnail

[thorny dock]

https://tenor.com/view/potion-seller-justin-kuritzkes-strongest-weakest-gif-23479807

[thin aspen]

Which one of you is working on police simulator

[cursive crypt]

send sofa

Damn, lift a spoon sometimes.

Using pneumatics for working with keyboard.

https://tenor.com/view/เฟี้ยว-ไอ้เฟี้ยว-บ้าพลัง-cat-keyboard-cat-gif-16284776

[timber viper]

lol cat literally enjoying this

[cursive crypt]

catkbd.exe

[primal summit]

meowano

[timber viper]

Runtime Asset Loading Engineer

First time seeing a title like this

asset loading engineer

i mean, isnt all you have to do just use asset manager and load objects with FStreamable lol

[cursive crypt]

But you need a diploma for asset loading, what kind of engineer you are otherwise.

[vestal violet]

Compiletime Asset Loading Engineer: The easiest gig ever

[primal summit]

you feel like there isn't a need for someone to manage asset loading algorithms and asset memory management to keep requirements and loading times down and quality up?

[lofty lark]

I mean, I don't think there's a need for some one's entire job to be doing just that lol

[primal summit]

what if his job is to handle that across multiple projects?

[cursive crypt]

It will depends too much on yours colleague work - a Blueprint Renamer.

[carmine frigate]

David Beckham studies – Staffordshire University, UK It might sound like a joke, but the squeaky-voiced soccer star actually has a degree course dedicated to him.

[fleet tangle]

A degree course in what?

Hair commercials?

[carmine frigate]

dad i want to be a docter... no son ill push your life to become a total meme

now saddle up ur Emu and go to school

https://tenor.com/view/emu-jump-freakout-gif-5329771

[vernal sierra]

hello everyone... how can i stream on a voice channel?

@dense storm help plz?

[dense storm]

its all written in #more-resources

After you've been a member for at least 1 week, you can share your screen in voice chat! Type /stream in any text channel to get started.

[vernal sierra]

thank you brother... appreciate the help... i was dming Manny lol... my bad

have a great day

🍻

[timber viper]

oh hey we have admin role now

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/escort-rs-motorsport-cosworth-race-gif-18117835

[slim atlas]

We have a new admin 😮

wow

that pfist would give away the entire server to someone else

is this the beginning of a gruesome tyranny?!

[tulip orbit]

everytime there's a new boss, things go to hell

in other news, I think I just quit my job. not officially, but dont see myself going back

[slim atlas]

Do you need emotional support D:

are you ok?

Do you have backup money?

[tulip orbit]

still feeling a bit pissed. And no

[slim atlas]

I mean if that job is bad for you then yes... quit now

your health will only get worse

[tulip orbit]

I punched a fridge today

put a good fist-shaped dent in it

[slim atlas]

jezus

talk to someone about your stress 😮

[tulip orbit]

I'm talking to you right now

[slim atlas]

🙂

i am listening! ❤️

[mossy nexus]

or stop putting pictures of your boss on the fridge! 😄 😄

[tulip orbit]

I spent most of the night in the paint dept, 3 large pallets, most of it was overstock. Maybe 5 boxes of stuff we actually needed

meanwhile, theres about 100 empty spots on the shelves

[slim atlas]

damn waste

[tulip orbit]

there is sooooo much fucking overstock in that dept... we they are out of space to actually overstock anything now. dozens of pallets of stuff that arent even on the shelf anymore

[slim atlas]

have you told someone about it?

tell them they are loosing money 😄

that will make them listen

[tulip orbit]

oh, everybody knows. including store manager and many of the higher ups. corporate is too busy sucking each other off to do anything about it

[slim atlas]

damn

well then youre not alone?

make sure to tell your coworkers about your emotions

its easier as a group

[tulip orbit]

they know. One guy is also thinking of quitting

[slim atlas]

make your anger known in a productive way

if you 2 quit at the same time

that will be a message

not enough ofc

but it will sting

[tulip orbit]

tonight I think was the breaking point

[slim atlas]

well you hit a fridge

[tulip orbit]

its a corporate entity with 400+ stores across north america, they wont do shit

[slim atlas]

walmart quality business practices

[tulip orbit]

yup

[slim atlas]

is there a union?

[tulip orbit]

no

[slim atlas]

well

you either find people to found one

or you quit 😦

[tulip orbit]

its not workplace/worker issues for a union to be useful. Its corporate being dumb shits with their ordering

[slim atlas]

Maybe you should call a higher up then

maybe the boss boss

unless they dont care too 😄

[tulip orbit]

I mean, the straw that broke this camels back was that I couldnt go out for a smoke on my break. Store has to be locked/alarmed when closed, but normally, theres a girl that starts at 4:30am, so we go out to make sure she gets in safely, and I get to have a smoke

but she wasnt in tonight so I wasnt getting a smoke, even tho I've been able to every night since I started

[slim atlas]

there are smoking alternatives tho

maybe buy a stressball too!

and maybe try meditating

i really mean it

[thin aspen]

I hope this isn’t in America because this sounds all too familiar

[slim atlas]

its america

[tulip orbit]

I chew nicotine gum, helps get to 4:30am, but barely. cant vape on the property either. Tho I've snuck into outdoor seasonal twice this week to have a few puffs cause it was needed

[slim atlas]

and there is no windows?!

[thin aspen]

I am not surprised then

[tulip orbit]

if they caught me, and there are cameras, I'd get written up

[slim atlas]

for opening a window?

[tulip orbit]

for smoking/vaping

supposed to be out in the parking lot for that

[slim atlas]

so they lock you inside the store?

Man look out for yourself

[tulip orbit]

they lock us in cause the store has to be locked/alarmed when closed. And I get that, and I also fully understand why its a blanket rule about no smoking/vaping inside the store(and outdoor seasonal).... people would abuse it if it wasnt a firm rule

its the not being allowed out on my scheduled breaks that pisses me off

[thin aspen]

Having been in a situation like this before the only real advice I can offer is if you plan on quitting make sure you secure another job first

[slim atlas]

i am not gonna argue with you 😦

but smoking/vaping, isnt a life essential

[tulip orbit]

I think saturday, once I sober up, I'll try to start looking for work

[slim atlas]

yaa 🙂

[tulip orbit]

I want to quit, but I'm not in the headspace to do so right now

er, quit smoking I mean

[slim atlas]

and make sure to take a break!

really get down to comfort again

You deserve it

🙂

[tulip orbit]

the job however, ..... I just dont want to go back... I've been wanting to quit for months now...

[slim atlas]

https://tenor.com/view/ghost-hug-you-cant-feel-but-its-there-ghost-cute-gif-15621727

let it all out

its fine

[tulip orbit]

I need a game to play or something to get my mind off work for a while

got nothing on my playlist I wanna play... dunno what to do

[slim atlas]

have you played darkwood yet?

[tulip orbit]

no

[slim atlas]

:3

play that

[tulip orbit]

that looks like I'd get more frustrated than have fun

[thin aspen]

You could try police simulator if you game on pc

https://tenor.com/view/respect-my-authority-cartman-south-park-respect-me-im-in-charge-gif-22089203

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/mojo-jojo-gif-25362086

[tulip orbit]

https://i.imgur.com/9UBtjI4.jpeg

[topaz depot]

BREATH AIR

you don't need a vape

[tulip orbit]

https://tenor.com/view/no-smooking-gif-19747001

[thin aspen]

There was a conversation in here about pizza earlier and the slander thin crust got is not appreciated

[ancient ingot]

@late comet who are you

[ancient ingot]

Thin crust is for wimps

[fleet tangle]

Just have more crusts.

[fluid bloom]

just had napolitan pizza

it was great

[unborn lotus]

Pineapple pizza is best

[bleak remnant]

School project

[zinc matrix]

that disgusts me

[zinc matrix]

thin crust best

except if its papa johns

papa johns trumps all

[unborn lotus]

I bet you don't even eat bread + grapes together

[thin aspen]

I’m calling the police

[unborn lotus]

For a medal?

[zinc matrix]

ill eat grape jelly on toast

[thin aspen]

I generally just make my own pizza so I’ve pretty much forgotten what pizza from other places taste like. But local pizza spots should beat out any brand name

[zinc matrix]

no to report a crime

[thin aspen]

Strawberry jelly/jam*

[zinc matrix]

i have no clue how to make pizza

i like papa johns best, but its pretty expensive so i usually just get little ceasers

[thin aspen]

It’s really easy, bread flour, hot water, yeast and salt makes the dough then you just stretch the dough to the size you want and add the toppings

[zinc matrix]

cici's is a good medium, i like their thin crust

[zinc matrix]

how long does it take

[thin aspen]

I double bake my pizza crust though, so after I stretch it I bake it for a few minutes then put the sauce and cheese and toppings and bake it again to melt/get everything hot

[primal summit]

hawaiian with cashews, pineapple, and ham, a local place made it, it was delicious

[thin aspen]

So I do pizza fridays for the kids, so make my dough around 9AM and handle stuff for the day and start stretching the dough around 2PM but it only takes a couple of hours for the door to rise

[zinc matrix]

CASHEWS? THATS EVEN WORSE THAN PINEAPPLE

[zinc matrix]

so basically all day? that wont fit my schedule

[primal summit]

try it! The salty nuts contrast the pineapple well!

[zinc matrix]

gotta admit, i do like salty nuts

tho pineapple on pizza sucks, had it once, never again

[primal summit]

or buy a premade crust and be baking in 5-20 minutes

[zinc matrix]

how much does that cost?

[thin aspen]

Nah I mean I could do it faster but I just choose not to. The dough should be proofed enough in like an hour or two.

[primal summit]

depends on size, brand, and location

[thin aspen]

You can also make the dough ahead of time too then it’s home made premade crust

[zinc matrix]

i mean, it sounds nice and all, but if its more expensive than buying a pizza at little ceaser's i prob wont

i literally spend all of saturday making leftovers for the rest of the week because i dont want to spend time making dinner

[thin aspen]

Well you usually get more than one crust so divide the cost by however many crusts you get and it should almost always be cheaper to either make it yourself or buy the premade crusts

Well the crust is ready to go so it takes maybe 90 minutes for the dough to proof but you also have to consider the temp of the room it’s proofing in and such. (Basically as long as you got heat in the winter it’ll be around the same)

[primal summit]

an 8-pack of individual size with sauce packs for $11, or larger ones for less than $5 for 2

[thin aspen]

Sounds about right

[primal summit]

also very dependent on altitude

where I live the air's 17% thinner than sea level

[mossy nexus]

Eeek. Cold tea and coffee... 😄

[zinc matrix]

tea is better when it's cold imo

[unborn lotus]

Ok noted lol

[primal summit]

someone in corporate is getting a big bonus for their store moving a lot of inventory (based on how they graph it) and will leave before he's caught

[zinc matrix]

https://www.foddy.net/Athletics.html

[opaque fiber]

Does anyone here have experience with the Spring framework (Java)? Just started playing around with it and was wondering if Spring's Bean is similar to Unreal's UObject.

I'm 90% sure it is but just wanted to confirm

[foggy path]

iirc more or less it's just a generic object yeah

Spring and other Java EE nonsense was just pretty annoying lol

I think it had also support for the IoC containers for beans

...anyway if possible I'd stay away from it lol

[opaque fiber]

Don't have much of a choice as I want to become a backend engineer. Only other real option for enterprises is .NET

Hopefully my experience with Spring will be better than yours lol

[foggy path]

JavaScript, Python, Ruby, Scala in the JVM world.. tons of choices really... but I suppose if all the local jobs need Java then it might be a bit annoying :P

[broken sigil]

Looks fine on pc (web browser version) 🤔

[mossy nexus]

Looks fine on PC app version too

[opaque fiber]

True, although medium to large businesses generally don't use JS or Python in a majority of backend systems due to scalability among other things. And as you mentioned briefly, Java and C# jobs are most common in the area.

[foggy path]

tbh it's not too bad as long as you don't get stuck working on some J2EE monstrosity lol

[broken sigil]

You sure you ain't seeing things 😅

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/seeing-things-luke-upload-tired-exhausted-gif-25098724

[timber viper]

weirdest bug ever

variable names are not visible

[slate flame]

Did not know where else to ask so here it goes 😉

I'm working on a walking simulator for quite some time now. It's shaping up well, kind of like an "Ethan Carter" in the middle ages with a few adventure elements. Now I have a very tranquil map and countryside where the player can walk around and explore things.

I want to put things there to collect and do (besides the adventure/story). But I don't know what. Does anyone have any advice for me...?

[primal summit]

sci-fi trophies

action figures

things that don't fit in

[slate flame]

"Don't fit in" would be indeed good! However, it aims to be a realistic environment with a realistic story and approach. So this would look extremely out of place and too gamey (unfortunately... as the idea ist good).

Here is a picture of how it currently looks.

[primal summit]

they'd make the player think there's an easter egg

you can even count up to, say, 9/10 and not place the last one to encourage people to search all over

[timber viper]

Did you build a "world" yet

If something needs to be collected it needs to be a shiny element of that world

[slate flame]

I did, it's a small island.

[timber viper]

I mean world as storytelling element, not level design

[slate flame]

Ah yes, I did indeed.

[timber viper]

Think like "marvel universe"

[slate flame]

Story and lore is all in place.

[timber viper]

Middle age is notorious with religion in Europe, i guess. So and your character look like a knight

So it could be something a knight would value

[slate flame]

In fact I made a small historical disquisition about my game world.

[timber viper]

either for personal reasons or for the topic of the adventure

[slate flame]

That is most excellent!

I have created a sort of alternate religion.

[timber viper]

If you are in middle europe, it could be related with holy roman empire etc

[slate flame]

It is kind of "bad" however. The knight in question is more of an avatar, it's more of a spiritual game in a sense.

Are you thinking in terms of the holy grail and things like the classic knight's errant/quests?

[timber viper]

so we have a knight travelling around and questioning the world around it, right?

[slate flame]

The world is basically located in the vicinity of Germany and today's Czechia (there is no such island in reality, however)

[slate flame]

Why did you strike it through, this is true actually 😉

[timber viper]

I thought I misread your message

The knight in question is more of an avatar

from my perspective, a knight represents a honorable warrior that fights for a holy reason, be it protecting someone, or fighting for their country etc
but if that knight questioning things, he is in doubt of something

so that collectible things can be a tool to help knight question and discover their thoughts further

[slate flame]

I have actually placed certain "entities" around the world which question virtues, honour and such things 😉

Those are basically avatars as well in a sense. It is a bit mystical. You are getting a real good grasp of things, that's very nice!

[primal summit]

so, not how goat simulator did it?

[timber viper]

you know, I never played it 😄

[timber viper]

then is this knight trying to find the "true path"?

[slate flame]

The main problem is, since I try (at least) to be realistic in a way (for several reasons, would end up in a wall of text, though), there is not much I can imagining just "lying" around. I tried herbs, mushrooms and things you find in the forest (it's mostly outside with some ruins - the ruins have stuff already, but not the large areas in the outdoors).

[timber viper]

maybe you can create a "culture" then, it what blends things into civilizations

[slate flame]

In short, the knight is basically trying to figure out what happened on this island and is a kind of spectator (you can think in a way of Ethan Carter, the game, if you like)

[slate flame]

It's more of an alternate reality to the real history of the middle ages on that island.

I thought maybe something like gems could be found - but they wouldn't just lie around the forest floor. And herbs and stuff (like you find in Gothic/Risen a lot, one of my main inspirations) just leads nowhere, since I don't have a crafting or trading system.

In the ruins I have notes and a lot of other things to find, do etc. but nothing that just fits in the countryside.

And if I let the player collect mushrooms or herbs - what to do with it besides one puzzle I have in place where you need herbs 😉

For a "game" it's just a terrible idea to stay "realistic" people. Both in terms of cost and complexity of assets as well as in terms of content. Gameplay can be fun if you do something like Kingdom Come but unless you have that kind of "simulation" approach and a lot of world, content and characters, it's just better to do stylised games in a fantasy/sci-fi setting... 😏

Especially if you're a team of one.

[regal pecan]

Collectibles serve one player need, for progression through acquisition, but there's other potential needs that could be addressed. Puzzle solving, exploration, conflict resolution...
If you're only looking to fill dead space, maybe it's better to remove that dead space entirely, or signify to the player that it's dedicated liminal space that can be traveled through but has no expected interaction.

[slate flame]

Yes, what I did so far is shorten the distances, allow a form of teleport and build clear pathways.

I want a certain amount of liminal spaces for reasons of atmosphere and to let the player travel a bit, go for a walk in a sense.

But I should indeed look to shorten the time outside a bit more. Since it's something I still feel the need to "fill", I should start to remove things.

Something can only be perfect if there's nothing more you could remove.

So thanks for those insights, @regal pecan and @timber viper 😉

[celest ice]

any idea why do i have dlss in my blender file? 🤔

which ive never done something like this

i also have dlss for render queue and nis

[regal pecan]

That looks like an unreal addon that got added into the blender addon folder by accident

[unreal ether]

downloaded a plugin and forgot to set it's download location. i do that sometimes
found a word document in my steamapps/common/Fallout: New Vegas folder

[regal pecan]

blender addons are all .py files

[celest ice]

no idea how i got there and copied it

[zinc matrix]

Hands up if u do unity dev as well

https://twitter.com/CountereCulture/status/1582418983701069826

Countere Magazine (@CountereCulture)

What happens when you ask an AI to generate "Human Evolution."

This is terrifying.

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according to this, we will become some kind of pipes

looks more like the inside of a server to me

maybe it means we'll go from human > robot > data

ooh, i see. so it thinks humans become ai eventually and sees itself as the most evolved thing ever?

thats not scary..

[primal summit]

religious relics, stolen by invaders somewhere, dropped as they were fleeing a disaster on the island while resupplying, or similar?

[slate flame]

Yes, I like that idea, actually there are people who fled said island, that could indeed work! Very nice! Thank you! 😁

[zinc matrix]

or some lore about a lost civilization, how most do it

[knotty skiff]

All Tomorrows

[timber viper]

https://github.com/EpicGames/UnrealEngine/pull/9691

[fluid bloom]

nice

[frosty halo]

Me: let’s add this new UE5 compatible megascans trees pack to my project and check the fps

My GPU fans:

[fathom wadi]

my gpu doesnt have fans. Im sure it will get famous one day though.

[quasi mantle]

Imagine being fanless passive GPU

That is possible, though it requires large passive coolers

[fathom wadi]

doesn't take much to get a simple vga signal. Who needs raytracing anyway.

[flint pier]

Or no fans or coolers because it's not working as hard and fast.

[flint pier]

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFhc0MFC8MiD2QzxJKi_bHqwpGBZZpYCt

[quasi mantle]

But you can turn it into multi purpose heater tho
Gaming while keeping your tea warm

[flint pier]

That is a very overlooked feature!

[quiet grove]

Does anyone know how to get RenderDoc to do the animated output seen here? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtmAoMJ10V0

[quasi mantle]

I'd assume the creator batch export all the images from RenderDoc and stitch them into video

Also damn, didn't know P5 used meshes for the UI that extensive, imagine piping those into Slate :'3

[quiet grove]

yeah this is exactly what surprised me

[quasi mantle]

Speaking of which, would SMeshWidget suffice for that?

[quiet grove]

SMeshWidget is for drawing tonnes of relatively complex meshes. If I was going to try to implement something to support artists like this, I would probably just find a way to let them edit stuff in their preferred external 3D editor and import it.

Or start with simple Slate draw calls for rendering polys.

But the tricky bit would be authoring the data and animations, and I wouldn't want to have to write an entire editor for that within Unreal.

[sweet rose]

Hey guys, upvote this post if you like:

https://discord.com/channels/187217643009212416/1017169184955834490

[mossy nexus]

A new thing that people will ignore? naa I'll pass.

[unborn lotus]

Just bring back #design-chat 😔

[tulip orbit]

speaking of

whats better for a kinda stardew valley/my time at portia/ crafting/building type game: Upgradeable multi-tool for mining etc, or craft new better picks/axes etc?

[primal summit]

depends on game mechanics

[tulip orbit]

Been working off/on this project (mostly off) for a few months, I still have no idea really... havent solidified any ideas yet 😦

[primal summit]

is it a mining and crafting game, like minecraft, or is resource gathering just a means to an end and not the point, like age of empires or space engineers?

[tulip orbit]

Hm, I guess more a means to an end. Grab resources to craft and build. But not like, build house from scratch... my idea is mostly starting from My Time at Portia....

I love games in that genre, mostly what I've been playing, but I dislike how everything is so bright and cartoony. I dont wanna be that super-helpful villager that helps everyone all the time

[primal summit]

if resource gathering is just part of the gameplay loop to keep you busy, typically you'll find games having one to three somewhat generic tools with levels or upgrades

in SE, the drill; in 7d2d, pick, shovel, and axe (but the gameplay is focused a bit on using terrain to survive); in age of empires it's villagers

while a more gathering-based game has more tools with different requirements

but why?

[tulip orbit]

I still havent even figured out how the player is gathering resources... in some of the games I like, its going into a mine, fighting off monsters while gathering resources nodes...

[primal summit]

keep the parts of the loop that are designed to slow you down and give contrast to the high reward point of the game less complex, just tedious

[primal summit]

that sounds like gathering is a primary goal, but instead of harvesting tools the varied tools are player equipment and the search for rare resource locations

[tulip orbit]

yeah, I guess it would be a main part of the "lööp"

everytime I go I stare at my design doc(such that it is...), I keep simplifying things to make it easier for me to program. Like I made the inventory more of a FF style global inventory with list display, instead of slot based

with the global inventory I dont have to have inventory chests everywhere, or worry about slot management. Just went into an array

[primal summit]

slot based works well for games where a major gameplay strategy is managing your limited inventory

list's fine when that isn't part of the gameplay

[tulip orbit]

managing inventory chests and all that I always find pretty tedious and annoying

[primal summit]

hope you're dynamically sizing that array...

tedious and annoying have their place

[tulip orbit]

its in BP so ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Looks to be a map, Name/inventory struct

[primal summit]

how many games have you played where the devs listened to the whiny playerbase to remove X because it's annoyingly tedious or an irritating slowdown, only to find yourself and many others stop playing as much?

[tulip orbit]

none that I can think of tbh,

[primal summit]

because the rest of the gameplay was fun because of the contrast, but you get rid of that comparison, the fun doesn't feel as good anymore

[tulip orbit]

yeah

[primal summit]

I've played a few, including SE, EGS, and minecraft that all fall into that category for me (but minecraft's got a huge new playerbase so it's a win for them I guess?)

eve too

[tulip orbit]

in MC, I always played with mods, especially the programmable turtles, mekanism ore processing, and the logistics network to auto sort mined stuff into sorted chests

I'd love to expand on those aspects in my own game, but doing the MC type world is waaay beyond me

[primal summit]

honestly my favorite inventory system was from the x-com: ufo defense soldier loadouts

bases were a volume-based number, ground attacks were limited to a number of equipment items, but soldier equipment...

https://www.ufopaedia.org/index.php/Battlescape

[tulip orbit]

I've always enjoyed those kind of screen layouts, with the different slots. Hated trying to program them in, the few times I've tried

[noble plaza]

That looks like Path of Exile's inventory juggling system

[tulip orbit]

Currently, my game is setup with a hotbar, 1 being a weapon, 2 being a tool, and 3-5 are just items that can be held or potions. I dont have any equipment slots at the moment, but I do want some

Kor, wanna talk more, but brb for smoke and fresh coffee. Thanks for help if you're gone when I get back 🙂

[noble plaza]

Any recommendations for Unreal Fest talks, for game dev? There were so many!

[tulip orbit]

so, am thinking I'll keep the FF style inventory, instead of switching to slot-based. Will add equipment slots. Maybe switch to individual tools/weapons that you swap out on hotbar... or hmm.. weapon slot and tool slot, but... hmm

or maybe just a weapon slot, tools in hot bar, can be moved around, or stored, if the player is building or doing something that doesnt require the tools

So much I need to figure out/decide. 😓 combat, how base building works, if theres a town where does it come in to play, where resources come from....

[primal summit]

the nice thing about the x-com soldier inventory was things weren't always square or rectangles, you could put things anywhere they fit

it took longer to get out of a backpack than belt

[tulip orbit]

never been a big fan of tetris style inventories. It makes more sense, but always found it annoying

and no idea how to program one

I think I've seen tuts, but

[zinc matrix]

those are actually simple, just like normal one slot system, but you have that one slot as "root slot" and calculate the other slots based on that

its just annoying to do (and use)

[tulip orbit]

its especially frustrating in a game that drops a lot of loot, and you have a tiny inventory

cough diablo cough

[zinc matrix]

yea, some games luckily have auto sorting 😄

so you dont have to do the tetris for 5 hours

[primal summit]

but since optimal sorting is in NP...

[light isle]

I'm getting a new computer and was wondering; any idea which CPU would give the most benefit to UE between I7-12700F and Ryzen 5800x CPU? anything I should keep in mind when looking for a CPU? more cores i guess?

[zinc matrix]

https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i7-12700F-vs-AMD-Ryzen-7-5800X/4124vs4085

core i7 seems to perform better

it benches 110%

[carmine frigate]

as far as i know intel isnt relevant anymore 😛

https://tenor.com/view/thanos-infinity-war-gamora-what-did-it-cost-gif-14001403

well my pc is inside.. and i use it in the summer aswell

[primal summit]

easy solution!

put your AOI radiator outside

want a laugh?

[carmine frigate]

yay blender

[primal summit]

my CPU's AOI is rated lower than the heatsinks on the motherboard voltage regulators

by about 20%

[soft night]

oneAPI on blender is getting update so it will change there

[carmine frigate]

if you really gunna do heavy renders in blender ... might wunna get 2 med end CPU system and share the load

that is never benchmarked

still an option

[mossy nexus]

Get a 5995wx. Eats everything for breakfast, lunch, second lunch, and dinner. 😄

[regal pecan]

Shame there's no 13600k in there.

[regal pecan]

If you're buying two brand new systems it's probably not worth it compared to a single workstation, but if you have a 3950X lying around...

[oblique palm]

General Question:
How long did it take you to get comfortable programming with C++?
How old were you when you first started coding with C++?
What were some of the some of the most challenging concepts to wrap your head around?
What were some resources that you used?

[foggy path]

Is there some particular reason for these questions? You're likely to get similar responses as you could by just searching google, so I wonder if there's something more to this

[primal summit]

college project I wager

[tulip orbit]

Still not, -1, all of it, Rum.

[zinc matrix]

why would you use c++ when there is Rust?

[broken sigil]

Rust 🤕

[zinc matrix]

dont laugh, all the loonix people told me its gonna replace c++ very soon

i never asked that question but they still told me several times

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/rust-turret-gif-26178553

[broken sigil]

Are those from Rust?
They look cool

[zinc matrix]

that furnace looks rusty

[quasi mantle]

They won't stop until it permanently etched in your brain.
Kinda like cult

[thin aspen]

https://tenor.com/view/balla-baller-lil-troy-south-coast-wannabe-a-baller-gif-16764267

[zinc matrix]

yea, it seems like one

[thin aspen]

Rust? Of course it is

[zinc matrix]

i mean.. they wrote one driver with all the memory safety features off, and spread the word of memory safety, is what im understanding

i could be wrong, i havent followed that topic that much

nvme driver or something, it was almost as fast as one written in C

so you couldve just write it in C, kek

[broken sigil]

Using Rust, turning off all memory safety features and tolerating that obnoxious syntax instead of just using C++

[trail wedge]

You guys like my Jack O' Lantern?

[cursive crypt]

AI art?

[regal pecan]

does AI art do reflections?

[slim atlas]

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUCK

[timber viper]

ikr

[slim atlas]

dragging and dropping is broken in 5.0.3 somehow

i cant figure out why

it works in another project tho

i am so mad

[timber viper]

this is my experience with 5.1

[unborn lotus]

with 5.1 preview

[timber viper]

preview implies 5.1 too though

[inland oriole]

Seems like a feature to me 👀

Unreal is going the “minimalistic” route 😄

But Laura, we can all agree the best feature is still not in Unreal.

[quasi mantle]

I can't lie
I like the pop out content browser

I never actually pinned the CB since then lol
It's easy to bring up when working on assets/BPs

[inland oriole]

Good thinking, but I was referring to 🎵

[noble plaza]

5.1 is just broken for AMD GPUs for now apparently. Hope it's resolved by either Epic or AMD before 5.1 but who knows

[timber viper]

i want same behavior for BP editor

i wanna hide details tab with one key

[noble plaza]

Yeah for sure, like a zen mode that just maximises BP area, and brings back side panels when you hover over the edges?

[inland oriole]

ALSO A PROPER AI SYSTEM PLEASE.

[timber viper]

exactly

[inland oriole]

Can you put that on your TODO list? 😛

[timber viper]

#mass looks more promising each update tbh

[inland oriole]

Mass is not a replacement for regular AI though if you ask me, it over complicates a bunch of things that are not necessary for a good amount of games.

[timber viper]

and Mieszko told they might start updating AI framework in around... 2 years 😂

[noble plaza]

Isn't Mass ECS essentially?

[timber viper]

its collection of multiple things

[inland oriole]

Yes.

[inland oriole]

But also ECS

[timber viper]

I'm going to do some PRs fixing some annoying UX issues btw

[inland oriole]

Can you PR an entire new system? ❤️

[timber viper]

Mieszko told I should ping him to request review

[inland oriole]

I can merge it into my own branch though.

😂

[timber viper]

I'm actually working on two PRs that is so cool as an idea but BP VM is so complex still can't progress

[inland oriole]

Plugins can't really change the fundamentals of the engine.

[timber viper]

its also suffering from UX

[inland oriole]

But then again.. I guess AI doesn't do anything weird for engine changes.

[timber viper]

its like wild west on scale

for different reason tho

[inland oriole]

Please don't tell me you're bringing mass to BP.

[timber viper]

if you really need very flexible and powerful AI there are paid solutions but unless you are developing very complex AIs you can do with using BT as a high level decision maker and encapsulate behaviors into BTTasks in Blueprints

it scales very well

[noble plaza]

The ex-Epic guy I spoke to about LogicDriver mentioned some absolutely mutlitated FSM workflow he had to develop to get the performance in check, mostly around the tick-based transition checking

Eren merge your Doom Token AI with Laura's emoji AI system, visible emoji token states

[timber viper]

I dont want to tell it right now because until I finish it people will be: "no it wont work" or "why"

[timber viper]

iirc emojiai is just working on services*, laura needs to provide an interface for me 😛

[inland oriole]

All I wanted was time sliced pathfinding for a bunch of characters and it instantly became a mess to program. BP doesn't solve the problems the AI framework has. It's not impossible to do but extremely ugly with a lot of hacks. For how often AI is used in games I would have hoped Epic would have come up with something more approachable.

[timber viper]

why timesliced

while async one exists

also moving to actors are automatically threaded unless first/initial pathfinding test

and you can force it to be asynced too

oh nice brb doing PRs even though you using a bot to auto reject them

[inland oriole]

Lol

[timber viper]

If you need to know how I can share my code @inland oriole

[inland oriole]

Sorry I meant the async pathfinding, I thought it was time sliced lol.

I got it to work eventually, but it was just hack after hack after hack.

[timber viper]

its pretty easy

[inland oriole]

In the end it wasn't difficult, but it was not great code lol.

[timber viper]

wait my PTSD awakens

I remember that

[inland oriole]

https://tenor.com/view/awake-woke-elmo-i-has-awoken-wake-gif-16298489

This was the experiment we did in #cpp a while back xD

[timber viper]

how was it ended?

what kind of code you have right now

[inland oriole]

No idea. Haven't touched it in forever xD

I believe it did work at some point though?

I've mostly been working with and learning multiplayer stuff honestly.

[noble plaza]

Tried Iris?

[inland oriole]

I did not. I still don't even know what it does.

[noble plaza]

Not sure if there was any sort of news about it, but some sort of new replication system? Hopefully not a Unity-esque rollout for it

[inland oriole]

They are marketing it as a better replication system, but I did not look at the source code yet. They didn't announce anything about it.

But supposedly Github has some code on it already 😄

[timber viper]

nani

was it not protected by the bot?

I LOST THE CHANCE

[inland oriole]

Iris Replication (Experimental)

The goal of Iris is to enable richer multiplayer experiences in Unreal Engine that “just work”, with larger, more interactive worlds, higher player counts, lower ping for players, and lower server costs.

This is the first iteration of the Iris replication system; the feature is considered Experimental.

[noble plaza]

You fucked it, you had the chance to get a PR in to get a manual rejcetion at least

[proud jay]

gotto pr fast

[timber viper]

@inland oriole
https://paste.ee/p/Rdk6n

this is what I do

[inland oriole]

My system was inside a BTTask though 🤣

[timber viper]

doesnt matter

[inland oriole]

But it looks similar to what I remember from it.

[timber viper]

If Laura wasnt protecting UE5Coro I'd replace every auto with explicit types if its possible and do PR to troll

[inland oriole]

x)

[noble plaza]

I don't see the point of not using auto when you're doing something like auto Origin = FVector::Zero();, the type is plenty explicit

[timber viper]

i would only replace possible ones

that you dont do crazy template metaprogramming things with

btw

why do you use [[unlikely]] a lot

even on things that are really not frequently executing

[proud jay]

must be a wchar_t

[noble plaza]

That's not quite the same as my example, I mean when the type is very explicitly specified after =

[timber viper]

how much do you use var in C#

[proud jay]

it's just impossible to know

[timber viper]

[proud jay]

why would you not if you can'

[timber viper]

to help people to read

[noble plaza]

Because it's a cast, so you have to scan the line a bit.

[proud jay]

I don't let braindead people read my code

[inland oriole]

Can we all agree we need a 128bit variable to hold decimal values?

[timber viper]

i dont say people wont be able to read, its just not easy as reading explicit types, at least from my experience

i dont enjoy weak typed languages much too

[inland oriole]

You should try Javascript, Eren. I'm sure you'll love it 😄

[noble plaza]

Weak typing is great fun once you get to a corpo codebase where there's 20 layers of indirection to everything, and the types were hinted a dozen function calls beforehand 🙃

[timber viper]

god forbid

[proud jay]

luckily c# intellisense actually works, so not that hard to find the type

[noble plaza]

Best thing I've seen was a library that dynamically constructed functions by string interpolating the function names, and with a factory for the actual getters that did some data mangling in the meanwhile... Safe to say I didn't make much headway in understanding that

[inland oriole]

I've still not once had the need to create a templated method when using Unreal.

[timber viper]

I dont hate auto, I dont like it

since I dont work with anonymous types, thats only usage of auto for me

not typing damn long type names

not a problem unless its all over the place

[noble plaza]

I wonder if you could leverage some static analysis/ intellisense tool to replace autos with the actual types in a pre-commit hook (assuming you're using git).

[timber viper]

tbh at this point I even struggle working with a few lines of python code

was just writing a twitter scraping tool and I'm still confused how am I going to know if given type is a string or not

[noble plaza]

isinstance(variable, str)

You can also match on the type in later Python versions

But he is using Python, so I'm helping him with that

[timber viper]

and write a few hundreds code to replace existing py libs in C++

if my code is going to be only 10 lines of python code why would I switch to another language tho

every language has problems

i see python as something like bp, making calls to natively written libraries and not writing system architecture

most of the time someone else already wrote a library for my use-case and I just import it and then go brr

[noble plaza]

Lucky you, I'm petitioning for a second backend language besides Django/Python, seems like a lot of people are keen on allowing C# or Go at least 😅

[timber viper]

i dont get how people debug python after 200 lines of code 😄

[proud jay]

it's only problem is oxidization

[noble plaza]

Not too well lol, but with a good debugger usually. 200 lines - I've seen functions bigger than that, models with 50+ fields, thousand+ tests for a single model, etc. You have to unit test a lot of basic assumption-level stuff to get any sort of assurance with bigger codebases, and even then. At runtime, things happen 🤷‍♂️
Auto-formatters slow down to a crawl when you get to like 10K+ lines per file. Fun stuff

[timber viper]

I wouldnt want to read a python code more than 1k lines

btw a random question
did you ever hear about auto-vectorization doesnt really benefit on SIMD

[noble plaza]

I feel you, Python at scale ends up with a mixture of wildly divergent styles. It's probably the furthest from a language with "one and only one way to do things", or whatever the Zen bit is

[proud jay]

at least with python now you can add the type hints

it's something

[timber viper]

ah, alright. I remember GB and Aqua made a convo about it around one year ago so I wondered your opinion

i've read a long academic article about why it doesnt work

[noble plaza]

Yeah I'm pushing for that, but there's so much code that will be hint-free for a long while still

[timber viper]

it feels like what data scientist need and also works well with good libraries i guess

https://tenor.com/view/dalek-explain-doctor-who-gif-5490200

[noble plaza]

By the way, WTF is UE5.1 import ordering?

I can't tell what's changed, though I may be overlooking something obvious

Even SPJ's Verse interpreter will be rewritten in C++ for performance reasons amongst other things 🤔

[timber viper]

coughs

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/sepples-cpp-cplusplus-bjarne-stroustrup-gif-25570450

[lament salmon]

Where are all the professional! they left the server or got banned?

its been a min

[noble plaza]

Everyone with jobs gets suspended here, for security

[lament salmon]

😂

only beginners

[noble plaza]

Seriously though, people with jobs have less free time for Discord, so are less represented in activity at least

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/presentdayproduction-present-day-production-cat-gif-24725464

[lament salmon]

ya thats true

I heard most of them got banned

[inland oriole]

Me every day 😄

[noble plaza]

And where did you hear that?

[lament salmon]

few cool guys like Dragan on other servers

lol

[noble plaza]

A Professional, I assume

[proud jay]

dragonHell's cousin?

Dragan Hell

[lament salmon]

an admin of a server

ya

[primal summit]

I do not understand the concept of "other servers"

[noble plaza]

Maybe just Eastern European with a sick af name 🏄‍♂️

[inland oriole]

I own a private Discord server, does this make me a professional? 😛

[lament salmon]

why was he banned

[proud jay]

lol idk

it's a joke

idk who the fuck dragan is

but if they got banned it's probably with a reason

[lament salmon]

i dont think you know anyone thats the only server your on

[proud jay]

ok

[lament salmon]

lol

[noble plaza]

Not sure if aloof+oblivious or trolling

[proud jay]

I would go for 11 yo + trolling

[noble plaza]

Man I looked up my forum nick from when I was 13 or something, and holy shit I was an idiot. Enough cringe to keep me from sleeping for a decade

[proud jay]

I know the feeling

back when I was on 9 gag a few years ago

very cringe

[noble plaza]

The most vivid memory I have from those times is getting home from school, and toasting my hands by the fireplace so I could play CS without hand cramps 😄

[fathom wadi]

I played cs for 5+ years from beta 5.2 through to 1.6.
All i can say is, I was a good troll back then. One of the best.

yeah

now we suck bullets out of people and they remain healthy for the rest of the round

[timber viper]

jailbreak modes was nice

[noble plaza]

Russia/CIS servers were basically about finding out the nationality of everyone, and joking about war crimes they have endured. Kids, man

[proud jay]

https://tenor.com/view/it-is-evolving-just-backwards-gif-21647112

[proud jay]

is this Tenet?

[fathom wadi]

no I dont pee myself

wait no... thats Tenor

[proud jay]

now I'm confused

[fleet tangle]

Tenor is a brand of underwear inserts for people with weak bladders.

[fathom wadi]

it got to a point with trolling in CS where the skill was gone. Everything was just arguments instead of friendly troll banter. Thats when I started avoiding trolling in games. Had much more fun since

[fleet tangle]

But trolling is the best. 😦

[fathom wadi]

it can be when its funny

[fleet tangle]

Obviously.

[fathom wadi]

I got my wife to play Fallout 76 because shes a big fan like myself. I said its multiplayer and she didnt want to play it. I asked why and she said as soon as people know shes female they start trolling her. I said it will be fine.
10 minutes later she is trying to sleep in her hideout and two guys came in, started trolling and teabagging her.
So she paid for a private server.

[fleet tangle]

I can't stop myself from making parallels to some middle eastern countries with this.

[noble plaza]

EU was so different WRT to that, compared to Australia. Australian CS is chill, every second person is baked, fair few girls using mics and stuff, no one cares. European servers... yikes

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/fusion-goten-trunks-dragon-ball-z-gif-12515146

[fleet tangle]

Filled with angsty teens?

[noble plaza]

Also Europe, a lot of people only know how to swear in English, so that's about all they do haha

[fleet tangle]

I can't imagine CS is better in that regard.

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/cs-go-squat-walking-walk-gun-video-game-gif-17500260

[fathom wadi]

thats how I get off the toilet after a really bad constipated poop

[foggy path]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61ss1KSdDxE

Classic from a gone by era

[noble plaza]

Is that the boom headshot guy?

[foggy path]

yep that's the origin!

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/ironman-tony-stark-forge-gif-10677756

[noble plaza]

Jesus it's so hard to listen to him say like every, like, third word

[foggy path]

lol

there's so many funny bits with FPS Doug

like when they go for a run and he brings a knife "why do you have a knife" "what do you mean? everybody runs faster with a knife" lol

[noble plaza]

The other core bit of CS lore: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRCeSpQUgbc

[foggy path]

There's another classic called "I hate you myg0t" but the language in that is... probably a bit too much so I'm not gonna link it lol

[fathom wadi]

wait... that person is called Phoon. But I created f00n back in CS days as a shortened way of calling someone a buffoon. Had the domain for like 20 years now 😄

[knotty skiff]

Bruh what the hell happen to the original?

[fleet tangle]

YouTube deleted it for being too 1337.

[noble plaza]

Just taken down, I have to find a new upload every time I want to link it somewhere!

The creator removed it and at this point keeping it up is a community effort

[timber viper]

So Epic Games blocked me from making purchases

from marketplace or Epic Games Launcher

for literally no reason

[slim atlas]

can you show

[fleet tangle]

Might be region based? Shrug

[timber viper]

same card works on steam

i think epic just dont want to earn money

since when people not living in USA are not able to make online purchases

[fleet tangle]

It's because of the dragons.

Same reason people in America can't find their country on a world map. The dragons keep changing the landscape.

[timber viper]

is this an House of Dragons meme

[fleet tangle]

It's a map meme where people drew monsters on maps in unexplored/dangerous areas.

And wrote "here be dragons"

[timber viper]

ahh, dark ages

before 1967 then

[slim atlas]

oh

someone is messaging me on discord

in dm

i wonder where this is going 😛 should i open?

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/its-like-were-in-the-dark-ages-dark-times-dark-periods-medieval-tough-times-gif-13856502

[slim atlas]

i ignored it

[mossy nexus]

Has your country done bad things recently? 😄 It will probably fix itself, but if not send the marketplace team an email.

[timber viper]

depends on which country's citizen you are, but.. i guess we didnt 😄

[zinc matrix]

that same person DMed me about some old posts ive made here. just some random spam ig

[knotty skiff]

What's this?

Some sort of steam report dms?

but unreal

[quasi mantle]

Nowadays I opened my DM, but only accept those that seem genuine to me, like this

[tulip orbit]

I have discord set so I only get DMs from friends.

...I never get DMd

[cursive crypt]

Friends?

[tulip orbit]

I've only heard the word said by others, dont know what it means either

[broken sigil]

error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol "Friends" (?Friends@asdas@@@as@@) referenced in function "Life" (?Life@@@Z)
error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol "Girlfriend" (?Girlfriend@asdas@@@as@@Z) referenced in function "Life" (?Life@@@Z)

[foggy path]

asdas

lol

[broken sigil]

lol

[tulip orbit]

I'm still debating moving most of my player character code into c++ or leave in BPs

[foggy path]

I'm trying to figure out basic flight physics but ugh it's so annoying

I can do it based on some realistic stuff like lift and drag, but if you apply those as forces you basically end up with something that's rather finicky

[cursive crypt]

A fart might be a part of your solution.

[foggy path]

too much lift causes the plane to go upwards and not enough causes it to go down, which just becomes a whack-a-mole of adjusting all the values until it doesn't do that and ugh that doesn't seem right

lol

[tulip orbit]

I'm now looking at equip system, XP, player levels, etc... very doable in BP, but cleaner to read in c++

arent there YT tutorials on things like that?

[foggy path]

I'd say just do it in C++ if it feels cleaner, it's probably going to be a more robust solution

There might be I guess, I don't like video tutorials so I haven't really been looking on YT lol

[tulip orbit]

I'm not super-experienced in c++, or the workflow between VS and ue5, so thats the main reason I'm hesitant

[foggy path]

Well if it's not something that you have a deadline for this seems like a good chance to try and see how that works

[tulip orbit]

yeah, YT can be great, but 90% of the time I just want it explained in text and a few pics, can learn it so much faster

no deadline, but if I spend 3hrs fighting with it and end up getting frustrated, it'll feel like I wasted time

[foggy path]

heh

I'd just consider it as lessons learned

Surely you'd have learned something in those three hours that you wouldn't know otherwise

[tulip orbit]

Yeah true.

[foggy path]

The workflow with that is not too complicated anyway

You create your files, press compile and run, Tim's your uncle

lol

[tulip orbit]

I'm always annoyed by closing/recompiling. And because I'm not a great programmer, I do a lot of small changes and tests

[foggy path]

As long as you're not changing your header files or constructors you can use livecoding to compile on the fly... I think with UE5 there's some support for .h and constructor compilation too but I've not used UE5 much so can't say for sure

[tulip orbit]

I added the new character class from ue5, and it said live coding failed

[foggy path]

Yeah adding a brand new class would most likely require a restart to build

[tulip orbit]

ah, true

[foggy path]

vertical_force.y = max(vertical_force.y, 0)

feels like a hack but this eliminates the lift force from pushing the plane up

lol

I have no idea how that works with real life physics, but it feels like increasing lift doesn't actually cause it to get pushed up, it just means it's not going to fall down... just can't figure out how that's supposed to be calculated

[tulip orbit]

TownyCharacter.cpp(38): error C2065: 'PlayerInputComponent': undeclared identifier (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

oh, whoops. I put the code in the wrong spot

┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ)

[turbid spindle]

:coin: Tails

[primal summit]

that settles it then, we ride at dawn!

[tulip orbit]

But my tauntuan is dead, I was cold last night

[primal summit]

damn

can you ride a warg, or perhaps a tribble instead?

sure, tribbles wear out fast, but they're born pregnant, so easy to replace

[tulip orbit]

cant even ride a tauntaun tbh

[tulip orbit]

2hrs into coding my player character in c++, copied code directly from docs, wont compile. so far so good

[tulip orbit]

BlueMan to the rescue 🙂

[primal summit]

is there a nice CFD plugin?

[tulip orbit]

CFD? Compact Flourescent Disc?

[primal summit]

computational fluid dynamics

[tulip orbit]

I was close. No idea either way 🙂

[cursive crypt]

Crazy Fast Dance plugin.

[primal summit]

I'm specifically looking to model compressible and incompressible fluid flow over curves

[cursive crypt]

Dancers have sometimes incomprehensible curves.

[primal summit]

indeed

sometimes they even let you model them

it is, but there's a nice free and open source option available, much like mechanical load modelling and thermal modelling

[primal summit]

I don't know if or how easily I can implement those solutions in a realtime unreal engine project, and was hoping someone did the hard work and put it on the marketplace so this noob doesn't have to

I can find a standolne solution, but that's not what I seek

[pearl river]

Not even sure where to ask this: Where should I start looking to find out how to take in external data and reflect it in UE5 in (approximately) real time?

More specifically: I have an external system doing physics simulation of multiple objects. It outputs their state (location, orientation, and velocity) periodically (the rate varies with complexity, but 30 Hz is pretty nominal).

I want to map that data to objects in UE. I can alter the output format, and medium (serial stream, network packets, etc).

I’m awfully new to UE though, so I don’t even know how to structure my search string to find out if this is possible, let alone how.

[spare glade]

Its possible. There are plugins native to the Engine that can handle sending/receiving data from an external program.

[pearl river]

Thanks - any hints on what sort of common keywords would help me unearth the ones I’m after? Or is there a plugins, um, market I should be browsing?

[broken sigil]

You wanna look into inter-process communication like sockets or "pipes"

[pearl river]

That sounds perfect, thanks!

[spare glade]

If you take a look through the Plugin list in the Editor, read through their descriptions, there are a few that should give you plenty of examples to work with.

[pearl river]

Will do, thank you again

[spare glade]

Man why is it that whenever Epic needs to send you an email it always takes FOREVER

Just trying to get the stupid verification code for a new device is painful....

Yeah, its only an internal management thing. Not a big deal. Helps us execute changes without having to wait for Nick.

[tulip orbit]

QUICK

what was I doing before I went for a nap!?!

$0.99

[broken sigil]

You were thinking about taking a nap

[tulip orbit]

That is also probably true

lul, my smoke detector doesnt like my air fryer

[oblique cloak]

i fell dumb because i always do this to myself.

[tulip orbit]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D-uDMHBX4AAMSCl.png

[primal summit]

what did @crystal mortars ever do to you guys?

sorry! it didn't show that ping completing

[spare glade]

Huh?

Oh, I see.

[primal summit]

executing him... bad joke

[spare glade]

https://tenor.com/view/mood-michael-scott-michael-scott-the-office-gif-7842241

Is anyone else not receiving verification emails from Epic?

Just tried registering a new account and its just simply not sending the verify code to the email??

[primal summit]

I can check, one second...

[spare glade]

So many jokes today.

What will I do with them all.

[broken sigil]

For me usually takes a couple of minutes

[spare glade]

Literally been waiting hours now lol

[broken sigil]

Sometimes it's instant but more often than not it takes a while

Oh 😅

[spare glade]

Maybe not

Though its Monday for me, he should be accommodating to other timezones.

NA = Not Australia?

[tulip orbit]

he's on the moon I thought

[spare glade]

Sounds right

[primal summit]

requested a password reset email, did not yet receive

NA=North Australasia?

I'm normally US but overseas for training... why can't I sleep right?

going on week 2...

[spare glade]

What type of training?

[primal summit]

training to repair machines that make semiconductor devices you probably will use soon

new FSE job as of may, second time to europe for training

first was a month, second's 3 weeks

what do you mean?

more like processors and ram

[spare glade]

Any luck receiving any email?

Their service must be down.

[regal pecan]

The NSA wants to know your location.

[primal summit]

nope

no email

[regal pecan]

Lies. The birds can't see me.

[primal summit]

huh... I went to add my new free stuff from the marketplace and it came out to $34.99

epic games receipt email worked

[timber viper]

is it just me or verse syntax is very similar to coffeescript

[cursive crypt]

There is a Chai script too btw

fstream guru

[timber viper]

Is that you, Duroxxigar?

Duroxxigar is watching Verse news closely

[fleet tangle]

My favourite film.

[median cape]

Hoy all, I'm releasing my game teaser tomorrow and am writing the press release atm. Would love any feedback for it!
Note that I've not yet added links to presskit/assets/etc.
I've already sent out an advance notice to the journalists I'll be emailing this to as well 🙏

[foggy path]

It's very professional

[quasi mantle]

NGL I still wish Verse won't be forced to use on non-Fortnite UE projects.
As much as I kinda despise Lua syntaxing...

[slim atlas]

not professional

because wrong channel

[median cape]

not really sure what other channel it'd fit in 💀

[slim atlas]

we are a clown channel tho.

we only joke here..

nothing we say can be taken serious

https://tenor.com/view/akirambow-spoiled-rabbit-sleep-phone-bed-gif-24823908

[knotty skiff]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/648561297700683777/1034028708975104080/unknown.png

[primal summit]

I approve of this

vote for me next presidential election and I promise both coasts and the heartland unfettered freedom and security!

[tulip orbit]

with nuclear fire!

[primal summit]

not quite!

two walls, 3 countries

the westies can fail on their own without resources, handouts, industry, or food production sufficient to meet demand, the east can flop with their financial and services economies, the central US can thrive with land, resources, military, industry, and ablative meatshields on both coasts!

it's win-win-win!

[tulip orbit]

I prefer my solution 🙂

[primal summit]

the fallout would poison the heartland though

and we're the only reasonable ones in the country!

Now hold my beer and hand me my rifle.

[tulip orbit]

I'll take the beer, but I'm keeping the rifle :p

[primal summit]

🤣 you can keep it if you can plink a beer can off a fencepost at 200 yards, I'll go grab another.

[tulip orbit]

I can, so long as there's enough ammo

[primal summit]

ya got the one in the chamber and one in the magazine

[tulip orbit]

Shot 1: Hits the cow in the field beyond. Shot 2: Hits Kor in the foot. Toss the rifle: lands 2yds away.

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[primal summit]

looks like you could use another beer

and on a side note, looks like dinner's steak!

[tulip orbit]

and Deep-fried toes for dessert!

[tulip orbit]

wierd. My drag/drop stopped working. Its not passing along the struct I've added to the dragdrop operation

refreshed nodes, woorks

[hard warren]

@sand oxide fair enough, you're not accepting work but if for whatever reason you change your mind on this, I'm wondering what country youre local to

Thats my second screeen

lol

I have a backup account for streaming dual monitors

How can we even figure out how complicated getting you a visa would be if its such a secret

[proud jay]

if only there was some info in your bio about not being for hire via discord

would make it a lot more clear

[cursive crypt]

https://tenor.com/view/richard-attenborough-whip-whipped-whiplash-whiplashed-gif-16731040

work laura

[proud jay]

crunch harder

https://tenor.com/view/andronic-android-sonic-dash-sonic-running-gif-26154716

[hard warren]

@proud jay "I don't want to be hired", is "I'm not available now" not "I don't want to be hired ever" and keeping track of good engineers is just a good practice because eventually they do want to make a switch and when you have an infinite budget to bring together a good team... you need to keep track of as many as possible.

[thorny dock]

infinite budget you say? well hello there nice to meet you I'm available for hire

[proud jay]

https://tenor.com/view/dr-evil-one-billion-dollars-haha-money-gif-16679435

[hard warren]

@thorny dock If you're good at what you do yeah show me your stuff

You're very welcome but I do need a way of keeping track of when you may be available other than like randomly pinging you on discord every few months

[proud jay]

just make a ue5coro PR every few months with a job offer included

[cursive crypt]

infinite loop detected

[proud jay]

but it had AI in the name

you're hired

[hard warren]

Lol I’m not HR, and it wasn’t the emoji plug-in, it was a Git with regular commits that show a clear understanding of UE under the hood that got my attention. Emojis was just a good character / company culture fit bonus

[carmine frigate]

is this about undecent offers on the workplace again?

[primal summit]

#salary-jobs ?

[proud jay]

#dont-hire-me

anyone used Obsidian before? the markdown text editor thingy?

[primal summit]

also rule 8

[proud jay]

saw it in a vid recently, looked cool

it's like a glorified markdown editor

yeah I know, but it's more for like note taking and stuff

https://obsidian.md/

[carmine frigate]

nah when there is a meeting he steals every1s notes and runs off... this meeting is over!

[proud jay]

I have so many open notepad++ tabs unsaved lol

I just trust that recovery thing every time

good idea? no, convenient? yes

My one note at works is getting fucked up