lounge

[sweet rose]

Ohhh, I haven't listened to them, will check em out

[bronze axle]

Symphonic metal is a subgenre of heavy metal.

Think: heavy metal meets orchestral music.

[pine hill]

is it like atmospheric elevator metal ?

[sweet rose]

Ohhh

Like Sabaton, Dragonforce, Highlander and similar

[pine hill]

dragonforce x stevie wonder when

[bronze axle]

I'm not familiar with Sabaton or Highlander, but Dragonforce is power metal.

[warm bloom]

ptoe

[broken sigil]

Sabaton is really good

[bronze axle]

Kamelot and Nightwish are my favorites.

[sweet rose]

https://open.spotify.com/track/1w4bCGGUTjqbkEgBASOLpY?si=37a909b668124c90

sorry song name is Highlander

definitely enjoying Nightwish

[bronze axle]

My two favorite symphonic metal songs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47e_961OQWE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecvHBLadaxM

[sweet rose]

I have a weakness for strong female vocalists 🙈

[bronze axle]

Then Ghost Love Score will devastate you.

Floor Jansen is incredible.

[sweet rose]

Do you know Amaranthe?

[broken sigil]

Kamelot X Epica 💙
https://youtu.be/RE7_Zp0lX1c

[bronze axle]

Amazing song! Although I prefer the live version from One Cold Winter's Night.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsMXxxDMFYY

[broken sigil]

oh yeah for sure

[sweet rose]

Wow I definitely like this music

[bronze axle]

Hm I think so.

[broken sigil]

I really like their older stuff

new stuff is too "poppy?"

[bronze axle]

Floor Jansen of Nightwish has a wild vocal range.

She can also switch between classical, contemporary, and rock singing styles at the drop of a hat.

And she's over 6 ft tall.

Quite a stunning woman.

[sweet rose]

Helix was kinda poppy but it's also my favorite album of theirs

[bronze axle]

Watch through all of Ghost Love Score to hear this in action. ❤️

[sweet rose]

Maybe she should change her name to Ceiling Jansen

[bronze axle]

It's a 10-minute epic.

[broken sigil]

Probably my favorite song from Nightwish, right alongside Nemo
https://youtu.be/wEERFBI9eCg

[warm bloom]

I really dislike staff members being active

it prevents me from committing crimes

[bronze axle]

Fire us all.

[warm bloom]

you're fired pfoot

[bronze axle]

How dare I hang out with my community and allow my moderators to fraternize.

[broken sigil]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/221796616653373441/1060685591336996934/BluemanBan.gif
(Thank you Luos for making this 💙 )

[warm bloom]

yes its people like you keeping this discord mod stereotype going

[sweet rose]

https://tenor.com/view/simpsons-bart-simpson-vibing-dancing-gif-17455810

[warm bloom]

the only band I try to spread love to is Gentle Giants

if you're into prog rock they're great

[broken sigil]

Really liking stuff from Mushroomhead too https://youtu.be/_-zWpdq3_2s?t=154

[sweet rose]

I feel like I'm going to begin an epic voyage

[bronze axle]

That's what I love about Nightwish.

Every song is a journey with them. The lyrics tell a story, and they change time signatures and moods a lot.

[late solstice]

https://youtu.be/1eZqMMQBXp8

[broken sigil]

Epica has a specific style that might not be for everyone but I really like them
https://youtu.be/dNoTvg0t52c

[bronze axle]

I adore the finale of Ghost Love Score. It's so energizing.

[broken sigil]

I'm trying not to drop too many links because there is a lot of music like this that I like 😅

[bronze axle]

Epica is great, too. Very unique style compared to the other symphonic metal bands out there. They lean a bit more classical than most.

Simone Simmons is very talented.

[broken sigil]

Yeah is insanely talented

[bronze axle]

Welp, here I am listening to Kamelot "Elizabeth" again.

[zinc matrix]

https://tenor.com/view/rvb-sarge-red-team-good-old-buckshot-test-gif-13759117

[bronze axle]

It's such an amazing song if you like music that gets a bit theatrical with storytelling.

It's a 13-minute epic inspired by a real Hungarian noblewoman who was rumored to have bathed in the blood of virgins to obtain immortality.

Roy Khan is probably my favorite male singer.

[zinc matrix]

they never even had a chance to go home to their wife and lose virginity

That’s sad

[sweet rose]

Does anyone listen to Meaningwave

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0ytZtKyHcuSc7yrWQ8ihFs?si=b0bd3681143140ff

Life changing music

[gloomy inlet]

soon full spotify on discord

[naive sigil]

what are ur guys thoughts on kickstarter?

thinking about sticking my game up there

need to pay for a music composer

[bronze axle]

Running a Kickstarter campaign is a lot of work. Essentially a full-time job.

I don't recommend the platform personally, but you may have a different experience.

[naive sigil]

despite the lot of work, is it worth it?

im willing to put in a lot of work if I can get a good return

[naive sigil]

i havent tried anything else

is FMod better?

[quasi mantle]

Crowdfunding in general can be tough, and one small slip-up can snowball into project killing fate

Not to mention you're competing against scam projects, which somehow has much more publicity than legitimate ones

[carmine frigate]

use scam projects to fund ur main project

sell a bunch of promises for virtual real estate for a bunch of diffrent crypto coins

all those coins have their own cult following

[quasi mantle]

The difficult part would be to not get traced back to the scam project and get caught, which will eventually happen

[carmine frigate]

just say its goin too the moon 🚀 🚀

just say crypto ppl are dumb and you were just taking free money... normal ppl will understand

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/moon-gif-19231269

[carmine frigate]

you should prolly joind the luna classic subreddit

that went from we are all rich too straight up kill ur kids and suicide cult... too buy the dip... too suicide cult again

right now they are buying the dip again..... great moment to promote ur scam project and take their money

[teal marsh]

Hey I need some help using User Widget

can someone help me?

[broken sigil]

#umg

[zinc matrix]

Do u guys think using a publisher is a good idea for an indie dev?

especially one that specializes in programming (not marketing)

[bronze axle]

I laugh at the dumbest shit sometimes

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/B6NJ5Tyi_9o

[broken sigil]

lol

[steady fox]

I like more exotic stuff, like people inappropriately dancing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5KYndSrXMA

also I need to reinstall my OS, steams being a pile a poo, and won't load fast, takes like 2minutes for it to pop up and some other crap

[marsh drift]

Hello people

[quasi mantle]

hello 🦑

[marsh drift]

How are you? 🥁

[celest musk]

somehow that squid looked uncomfortable...

[quasi mantle]

I'm feeling it coming in the air tonight

[marsh drift]

Hm?

[regal pecan]

it looked more comfortable than it should considering how much of it was missing
(must be a fish thing)

[marsh drift]

That’s crazy

[celest musk]

isn't their "brain" going through the whole body?

[marsh drift]

https://tenor.com/view/squid-gif-20543090

Why does it matter js party

[celest musk]

A Squids has 9 brains. The nervous system includes a central brain and a large ganglion at the base of each arm which controls movement.

[regal pecan]

no javascript pls

[celest musk]

javasquid

Squid have three hearts

wth

they seem to be the most redundant animal on earth

9 brains, 8(?) arms, 3 hearts

[regal pecan]

we also have ganglions in our arms

[celest musk]

To many, leeches are horrifying creatures. To a few, they're impressive and miraculous. They have 32 brains, 2 hearts, 300 teeth grouped in 3 jaws, five pairs of eyes...

ok enough internet for today....

[marsh drift]

https://tenor.com/view/gigachad-chad-gif-20773266

[primal summit]

nightmare fuel

[cursive crypt]

ngl, we freaked out a bit first time leeches sucked us during one hike.

It can extend quite a bit when trying to take it out.

[unborn lotus]

We had some bites at one point and couldn't figure out what it was. Turned the house upside down, inspected everything, nothing, and the bites kept appearing. It was a nightmare lol, but they just dissapeared after a few days. I imagine actual bed bugs is horrifying

[celest musk]

holy shit, why did i google that...

guess it's like lice where you have to quarantine everything and wash it at 90°C or something

[unborn lotus]

Far worse because they can stay dormant for a year or something

[warm bloom]

tbf bedbugs wouldn't exist if sleeping wasn't a crime

if you simply stop going to bed

the bugs will disappear

[unborn lotus]

Stay clear of old furniture left on the streets 😂

[warm bloom]

the worst I've dealt with is fleas

but that's fairly easy to get rid of

[celest musk]

are you a dog?

[warm bloom]

no but I've had animals carry them indoors

[celest musk]

aren't those different ones?

[regal pecan]

Any mammal will carry fleas, even mice. Only humans carry bedbugs.

[warm bloom]

wdym?

[celest musk]

idk, i'm not an pest expert

thought there are different kinds of fleas

[regal pecan]

When I said any mammal, let's exclude cetaceans for obvious reasons. I don't think fleas can swim.

[warm bloom]

there are

the most common is cat fleas

[unborn lotus]

Technically humans don't carry them, just live with them 😅

[regal pecan]

There are aquatic things called fleas, but they're not fleas, I guess?

[warm bloom]

which despite the name

cat fleas will go after humans and dogs plus more

[celest musk]

yea, those who are on top of still waters

[warm bloom]

we call them water bugs

[celest musk]

i don't think that they can live on a human

at least not for long

Daphnia is a genus of small planktonic crustaceans

so they're rather crab than flea

now that's an cool image 😄

[warm bloom]

I dislike the sea

the ocean is scary

[regal pecan]

Carried luggage is their primary mode of transport these days.

[warm bloom]

and I dislike every aspect about it

I got thalassophobia

[unborn lotus]

I can confirm that, it's the worst, fear of drowning and fear of heights if you swim and look down

[regal pecan]

Considering what people pour down drains and into rivers that end up in the oceans, it's hard to blame you.

[warm bloom]

you mean depths not heights?

[warm bloom]

even ignoring that

I think there is a beauty to the ocean

but I will stay away

from it myself

[unborn lotus]

I mean heights, it's the same thing 😅

[warm bloom]

not to mention I burn so easily

[warm bloom]

Height is a upwards measurement depth is downwards

[regal pecan]

Fear of heights is still downwards.

Not too many people get scared from looking up at the sky.

Ah the stars are too far away I can't take it!

[warm bloom]

fear of heights is not downwards

[unreal ether]

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/acrophobia

Cambridge dictionary says youre wrong

So does Merriam webster

[broken sigil]

many people who say they are scared of heights actually have a fear of falling
They feel very similar

[unreal ether]

So does mine

[warm bloom]

almost everyone has the fear of falling

[broken sigil]

does it 🤔

[unreal ether]

What about a fear of floating 🤔

[broken sigil]

https://tenor.com/view/horror-disgust-ohno-jimcarrey-liarliar-gif-12183274

[regal pecan]

I want to dispute the "fear of falling" on the grounds that you can fall in practically any position and location and yet nobody freaks out until they're on an edge.

[cursive crypt]

This is all fearmongering.

[unreal ether]

So a fear of falling from heights

Because I'm not personally scared of falling over and hurting my knee

[warm bloom]

a fear is only rationalized by the person with said fear maybe someone with awful depth perception is afraid of falling from a curbside no?

[broken sigil]

https://tenor.com/view/pennywise-evil-smlie-it-movie-killer-clown-scary-gif-14387543

wait this one might fit better

what is that spelling 🤦‍♂️

[unborn lotus]

you're not scared now, let's see you at 70 😅

[regal pecan]

If you have osteoporosis, you have a very rational fear of falling.

[unreal ether]

Fair point

[regal pecan]

I think "fear of losing one's grip" might be most accurate.

[warm bloom]

I have that one fear of things with too many legs

[regal pecan]

Since it tends to be coupled with people clinging tightly to whatever is nearby.

Or fear of being pulled away?

[warm bloom]

no it's the "fear of subjective irrationality"

[unreal ether]

As a kid I always used to have a fear of windsocks

[unborn lotus]

as a kid I imagined I'd encounter quicksand more often or be stranded in the wilderness

[warm bloom]

they really do pump that into your head

I thought I'd be walking one day

and oops I'm getting sucked into the ground

just gone

in reality most quicksand pits aren't even deep enough to swallow you whole

[unborn lotus]

altough I was close to being bear breakfast last year, took a detour through the forest and got my leg stuck in a muddy marsh, as I was getting out I spotted some bear tracks next to me lol

[warm bloom]

I got stuck in the thickest mud in a swamp once

it's not really quicksand

but fuck was I exhausted

and like just stuck

[unborn lotus]

damn

[warm bloom]

like arms deep

I had two people with me though

but it is kinda scary to feel like stuck and exhausted

[warm bloom]

nah that bear got stuck in the same mud

never going back

[unborn lotus]

I think he just tested it, it was a really clear track, but nothing further, meanwhile I got stuck almost to my knee lol

[unreal ether]

In fairness I was stuck in quicksand as a kid lol

I was like "pfft when will I ever get stuck in quicksand" then I got stuck in quicksand

[zinc matrix]

what is C used for?

ik it used to be the base of windows, which was phased out for C++

but i cant rlly think of anything that uses it

[broken sigil]

There isn't much reason to use C instead of C++

maybe just maybe for low level driver/kernel stuff

[zinc matrix]

alr lets make this more accurate then

[timber viper]

based on the hints I got from Laura even for that C is pretty much redundant these days

[cursive crypt]

Old code, tooling support and some popular industry standards call for C.

[broken sigil]

Pretty much

[quasi mantle]

Or coding for retro systems like PS1, which predominantly used C (though some games went their way to use assembly for performance reasons)

[cursive crypt]

It is also kinda fun to use C in C++ projects. Makes you feel strong and powerful.

[zinc matrix]

LOL

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/221796616653373441/1064415486399500349/20230114_203833.png

[timber viper]

I wonder which language is this??

[cursive crypt]

lol, for windows it shouldnt matter

UnderTale.exe

[cursive crypt]

Not hiring you if you cant find - GameMaker (https://steamcommunity.com/app/391540/discussions/0/523898291490374850/)

[timber viper]

i thought gamemaker was using ruby

[quasi mantle]

If only he use case insensitive string parsing

Also I don't think storefronts allow self deleting games

[hollow maple]

@zinc matrixtime of flight lasers with an oculus quest

[primal summit]

ooh

[sweet rose]

Good Morning 🙂

[marble sparrow]

https://tenor.com/view/good-morning-gif-25395775

[timber viper]

I believe using C in C++ scope just because OOP and keeping C style (no pass by refs, smart ptrs etc) is more evil than using C

thats even more evil, wtf

why would you manually do something compiler can do for you

i wonder why they fail to catch up with.. modern things

[ancient ingot]

@sand oxide 🌹

[cursive crypt]

Gotta up your flirting game or you will stay forever on the outside.

... car, diamonds, crypto... up your game

[ancient ingot]

😂

I'm poor, a 🌹 is all i can afford 😉

[cursive crypt]

https://tenor.com/view/yayeet-kick-cat-yeet-duck-gif-16875215

[ancient ingot]

😲 omg

[timber viper]

only coroutines and half fighter jets

[ancient ingot]

i can maybe stretch to a chicken ?

[timber viper]

makes more sense tbh

[ancient ingot]

🤔

[timber viper]

@sand oxide i need more anime recommendations from you

somehow hayate managed to make me ignore my current anime list

yes

I'm on ep5 already

watched 4 eps today

iirc both are musical animes right?

great

thanks

[ancient ingot]

I wanna be a squirrel

[timber viper]

this? https://github.com/matusnovak/simplesquirrel
or this? http://squirrel-lang.org/

[ancient ingot]

https://tenor.com/view/squirrel-cute-dance-hula-hoop-adorable-gif-17185587

^^ that

[marble sparrow]

https://tenor.com/view/huh-heh-interesting-confused-confusion-gif-22475884

[marble sparrow]

vinland sagaaaaaa

[timber viper]

maybe 2 years later

see my list

[cursive crypt]

Still not watched Evangelion?

wtf

[marble sparrow]

ikr, what kind of list is this

[timber viper]

sorry to be such a kid but I actually heard about evangelion last year

[cursive crypt]

https://tenor.com/view/it-just-got-worse-and-worse-and-worse-its-worse-so-bad-its-getting-bad-its-getting-worst-gif-15904688

[marble sparrow]

just watch it, ignore ur list for 3 days

[timber viper]

did thorfinn find a girl yet

[marble sparrow]

what girl lol, just watch it. S2 is amazing

[timber viper]

i was expecting thorfinn to ||save the slave girl at s1 and marry her|| but it was such a disappointment

i bet this he wont do the same

at s2

[marble sparrow]

||i remembered now, no he is not into women at this time, he is focusing on his revenge.||

[timber viper]

thats exactly what I hated about him but also what made the show great

[marble sparrow]

||it will be more greater, just complete s1 a lot of plot twists||

S2 episode 2 today or tomorrow i think

[timber viper]

i finished s1

[fleet tangle]

I do wonder at what point in the story s2 is set.

Is it after s1? Or in the middle of it?

[foggy path]

what is modern anime even, all I know is early-mid 2000s and older stuff lol

[fleet tangle]

Modern would be in the last few years?

[foggy path]

and random odds and ends that showed up on netflix and looked fun, like ya boy kong ming lol

I started reading azumanga daioh recently, that's how ancient in comparison my anime knowledge is

[timber viper]

after s1 afaik

[timber viper]

do you know hayate no gotoku

[quasi mantle]

Did anyone here got random friend requests from this server again?

[timber viper]

no

[tulip orbit]

nobody wants to be my friend either

[quasi mantle]

I got one again, said person has no message history on this channel, despite only mutual servers being in here

[thin aspen]

Discord is on it's way to becoming the new hook-up thing

[thin aspen]

is it really "ya boy kong ming" or did you just add the "ya boy" part

[foggy path]

it is

a more direct translation of the japanese title is "kong ming of the party people"

[slim atlas]

do you

want to hook up with me

[thin aspen]

https://tenor.com/view/deus-ex-jc-denton-what-a-shame-what-a-shame-gif-23891340

[foggy path]

lol

[thin aspen]

localization is always funny

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YfCkN668Vg

in case you didn't know the party people is an actual gang

[foggy path]

it seems party people/paripi is a japanese term for people who go clubbing and stuff

and yeah kongming is fun, thermae romae is another good recent one I've seen

[thin aspen]

The japanese, pushing 🇵 before it was popular

[foggy path]

oh, maybe there's a liveaction too 🤔

Thermae Romae Novae is the anime

had that Novae in the title I guess to distinguish

lol

I wouldn't mind more weird historical x modern stuff

hehe

speaking of live action, watched this movie the other day and it was pretty spectacular https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wqa98TXHttE

it's exactly as cheesy as that suggests

[thin aspen]

I recently started rewatching inuyasha

my kids are into it so I guess i gotta see it through to the end

But more importantly how do i get 20M in funding for my RPG that requires, for no reason other than i want to, a custom engine built from the ground up

https://tenor.com/view/noted-notes-taking-chicago-pd-gif-23270333

Do you think that'll be enough to make the next Final Fantasy type series?

because all i know how to do is the art side

[fleet tangle]

You can do the art? That's more than most who ask.

Normally they just have a vague game idea, not even a design document.

[thin aspen]

Well

if you ask me I'll tell you i have all of that but never produce it

[fleet tangle]

Just pretend to be a girl and get simps.

[thin aspen]

You know, i'm kidding of course, but the person who i know if real life that's doing this would have surely scoffed at that idea.

I guess though, the moral of the story is people will say wild things to get you to build an engine for them.... for free.....

[fleet tangle]

Or show you wild things.

[quasi mantle]

Don't forget to use AI generated portrait to catfish hungry boys
They'll lose their minds if their naughty instinct get the best of them (mostly)

[bleak remnant]

I did that as a joke and everyone said "I knew it"

[thin aspen]

I want free work, not to be barraged with genitals

[thin aspen]

another condition of this person's was that i had to move my entire family to.... ohio.... for no other reason than "you need to come into the office".

This person has since had to learn programming (i guess they're learning python, not sure how that will help) on their own because nobody wants to move to the middle of nowhere to build a game engine.

[fleet tangle]

Move to Ohio and come into the office... to work for free?

[thin aspen]

correct

I should clarify, it was a "free now with the promise of money when i get it" deal.

[ancient ingot]

whats an alternative to php & mysql nowadays ?

[thin aspen]

Ironically he has since gotten the funding and hasn't asked me to come work for pay.

[thin aspen]

js, everything js

[quasi mantle]

Whatever hippiest programming language right now

[ancient ingot]

bah thats no good

php / sql it is then

[fleet tangle]

Go full LAMP

[quasi mantle]

Web development is largely unstable, chasing whatever happens to be trending in current year

[ancient ingot]

ive got lamp setup on my server (old habits die hard)

[thin aspen]

If it ain't broke

[ancient ingot]

@quasi mantle yup im learning that quickly, not touched this stuff in about 10 years

[thin aspen]

you know the rest

[ancient ingot]

yup 🙂

[quasi mantle]

Shit, apparently Laravel is still on top of the lists

[ancient ingot]

ye i saw that yesterday when i was looking for a framework

[thin aspen]

as my brother said, people chase the newest thing only to have a codebase that dependent on a specific language rather than having something that.... oh idk.... works

[quasi mantle]

My worst nightmare still lingers, I guess

[fleet tangle]

Go full hipster with ruby and mongo db.

[ancient ingot]

lol no !

[quasi mantle]

Making money ASAP is ultimately what matters, not whether your website is maintainable or not

At least that's how average webdev clients/bosses are

[ancient ingot]

this site needs total stability so yeah tried and tested old skool ftw

[thin aspen]

it's terrible that things are this way

[ancient ingot]

yes, its what makes life for server admin (me) a total pain!

[fleet tangle]

This is why the global airline booking system still uses a console program from the 80s.

[ancient ingot]

im old Laura, with fewer brain cells everyday, i have not the ability to learn asp.net

[quasi mantle]

I can't remember which instance, but I do remember seeing a large display of MS-DOS application in a building

[ancient ingot]

there's new simple, and new hard, asp.net is new hard

🤔

eugh screw Ruby

[fleet tangle]

Sinatra isn't that new! Even I've heard of it.

[ancient ingot]

😐 oki ill have a look!

oo oki, thanks Laura

haha ye old asp.net was a shit show thats why i stayed away from it

😂

[foggy path]

<form runat="server"> is my jam

[thin aspen]

zomg you use a lot of suspicious language

[foggy path]

how so

[thin aspen]

i haven't heard "xyz is my jam" in so long

[foggy path]

Yeet

[thin aspen]

zomg inner city kid confirmed

[foggy path]

yeah I'm rockin my heelys rn

[thin aspen]

80's kid confirmed

[foggy path]

wait heelys are that old? I thought it was some kinda zoomer thing

[thin aspen]

you would have had to been born in the 80's to actually use them

[pearl elk]

https://tenor.com/view/ok-zoomer-zoomer-ok-roze-monsters-inc-gif-23394871

[thin aspen]

I was born in the early 90's but i wasn't old enough to actually get a pair

[foggy path]

I've only seen some kinda shoes with wheels like in the 2010s or so, so I always thought they were a much more recent fad lol

[pearl elk]

If you know Bittersweet Symphony then youre old

[thin aspen]

they came out in '99 the heelys i mean

[pearl elk]

cross colours came out in 89

[ancient ingot]

why do DHL always run late ffs 😡

[pearl elk]

you should try AusPost, then you wont complain about DHL 😛

[ancient ingot]

hell no, even sending something to your neck of the woods bankrupts me !

[foggy path]

DHL last mile is handled here by local delivery companies which always do a pretty good job, they send you an SMS and let you pick delivery time etc.

[ancient ingot]

😮

[pearl elk]

Ive seen packages from Melbourne to Adelaide take longer than Taiwan to Singapore

[ancient ingot]

see thats what DPD do here

[pearl elk]

Its a 30 min flight 😛

[thin aspen]

DPD does nothing where i live

[ancient ingot]

that sucks 😦

[pearl elk]

wait, whats going on with the Mods 😮

[ancient ingot]

they keeping a "very" close eye on lounge lately 😐

[thin aspen]

DPD == Detroit Police Department for reference

[pearl elk]

Did I miss a coup?

[ancient ingot]

nah but there was a bit of a shit show yesterday

[thin aspen]

good thing I stuck to playing vidya

[ancient ingot]

@thin aspen sounds like my local pd then

[pearl elk]

And... I missed it, typical!

[ancient ingot]

😂

[thin aspen]

They invested tons of money in shot spotters, and now all that happens is anyone with a gun, or that looks "suspicious" goes to jail

[pearl elk]

Did Lous and Blueman ban hammer each other?

[ancient ingot]

nah Robbie and Mippi handled it

[pearl elk]

Whats a Mippi?

[thin aspen]

Nah lous can't use his computer because of rain issues, so he has to use an alt account.

[plain meteor]

Let's be a little careful on the language. Not a big deal but just be mindful. Thanks!

[bleak remnant]

michigan >

[ancient ingot]

😐 we cant say ******** now ?

[pearl elk]

You cant say that on television

[ancient ingot]

😂

[pearl elk]

https://tenor.com/view/kurtis-bernie-shocked-shookt-what-gif-16773936

Well, atleast Im in the clear on this one since I wasnt here

or maybe I was behind the scenes pulling all the strings...

[ancient ingot]

i cant even remember what time it was, this bloody brain of mine 😦

[thin aspen]

quality tv programming

My oldest brother got recruited to be on Legends of the hidden temple for being like 6 foot 1 at 11 or something

[fleet tangle]

Legends of the hidden temple?

[thin aspen]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legends_of_the_Hidden_Temple

an old show from when i was a kid

[thin aspen]

:this tbh:

[fleet tangle]

Looks like a shitty version of the crystal maze.

Because any puzzle based gameshow without richard o'brien being creepy as hell is not worth watching.

[thin aspen]

the 90's in general was a great era for tv game shows

[pearl elk]

https://tenor.com/view/screaming-the-rock-kevin-hart-karen-gillan-jumanji-gif-10227275

[fleet tangle]

GamesMaster!

[pearl elk]

There was one they did here, people dressed in velcro suits and then trampolined into a velcro target

[fleet tangle]

Sadly, there is no xylophone.

[thin aspen]

I wonder why shows like this today aren't more popular

Probably because of all the risk involved

[fleet tangle]

People have the internet

[pearl elk]

seems to be more quiz things

[bleak remnant]

netflix

[thin aspen]

all of those are valid answers except what soldier said

[pearl elk]

and there isnt enough cotton wool to wrap all the snowflakes in

[bleak remnant]

that wasnt an answer lmao

I was disagreeing with what Daekesh said

[thin aspen]

oh

fixed it

[bleak remnant]

thank you

[fleet tangle]

I don't see how that disagrees with what I said

[pearl elk]

they still do adult ones with the plushie gauntlets of doom

[bleak remnant]

people still watch shows in the modern age?

[pearl elk]

but not as good as Gladiators OG

[thin aspen]

what was that show where people tried to be ninjas

[bleak remnant]

ninja turtles i think

[pearl elk]

Ninja Warrior

[thin aspen]

no that about turtles beating up humans

[thin aspen]

yeah i think once ninja warrior got popular that was the end of an era

[bleak remnant]

/j

[pearl elk]

I prefer Wipeout, its hilarious when people get totally pwnd

[fleet tangle]

I see your English comprehension isn't up to scratch today.

[thin aspen]

people getting pwned is indeed hilarious

[fleet tangle]

Takeshi's Castle is fab.

[thin aspen]

top tier advertising

[fleet tangle]

Semi-naked Japanese guys tried to run up a hill of slime is the best thing.

[pearl elk]

Dont press the red button

[ancient ingot]

😂

[foggy path]

Is this real

[thin aspen]

it is

[foggy path]

Because honestly that is pretty good copy lol

It hits right there in the feels for people trying to learn gamedev

[foggy path]

That's not as good lol

[thin aspen]

effective marketing has to invoke emotion

[foggy path]

Yeah

[pearl elk]

They need the speech bubble of that guy totally ripping that guys drawing apart

[thin aspen]

oh by the way this is on a site called awesometuts so this is funnier than it appears

[pearl elk]

"you used AI DIDNT YOU, I can tell by this bit"

[thin aspen]

stirring the pot i see

[pearl elk]

I gotta make my potions some how

[quasi mantle]

Sloppy photoshop job is sloppy

[fleet tangle]

I'd go there if they changed how it was spelt. 👀

[quasi mantle]

The ad plastering Unreal Editor, I mean

[thin aspen]

believe me it gets better

[pearl elk]

https://awesometuts.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Unreal-Engine-Old-Vs-New-Final.png

[foggy path]

Yeah that's a lot more generic like the second one

[foggy path]

Too annoying to read

lol

[thin aspen]

i'm gonna click the link and see where it takes me

[fleet tangle]

"Game dev tutorials are hte problem. Here, buy my tutorial. It actually works."

[pearl elk]

Hilarious, they say you can get a job at EA Sports by doing their Unreal course

Must be a how to make ultimate team in UE5

[foggy path]

Honestly the first one was by far the best, because it actually hits a real pain point for beginners

[thick oracle]

work at EA

[foggy path]

There's so many people who complain about watching tutorials but not being able to do stuff

So if you're a person who feels that way that ad should really look like something for you specifically

[thin aspen]

it took me to their totally not a tutorial credit card info farming sign up page

[fleet tangle]

See, that's the game you'll make. It's Credit Card Farming Simulator 2024.

[thin aspen]

I want to be a pro game dev and work in the best game studios

[pearl elk]

Im surprised they dont make you click through 40 pages filled with ads

[thin aspen]

available where games are sold

[thick oracle]

$800?
Even the $27 are too much for a tutorial

but i think the 800$ are a lie

and its always 27$

[thin aspen]

getting hired by game studios actually only requires 4 steps.

[trail wedge]

instead of wasting money on that stuff you guys should just give your money to me for no reason... same gain

[foggy path]

Yeah that purchase page copy is not that good

[thin aspen]

these people need to be stopped

[foggy path]

Makes you wonder how they came up with that first one which was pretty good and the rest of it is pretty meh lol

[thin aspen]

just crunch out a bunch of meme's and see what hits

[thick oracle]

who asked

[pearl elk]

Pro Meme Design course

[quasi mantle]

Heh, VS Code

[foggy path]

Memes actually can work very well for marketing to certain audiences

Of course if your course is garbage then people will request refunds and you won't gain anything

[pearl elk]

Meeting notes are kept entirely in memes

[foggy path]

so you have to back your marketing with good content

[thick oracle]

now i can finally be assured that my money is wasted

[thin aspen]

the marketing is extremely aggressive

[foggy path]

My sales page when I was selling a thing was several screens long

[fleet tangle]

To be fair, most people's problem is exactly that. They just copy+paste the code, but don't understand what they're doing.

It's like transcribing a book on quantum mechanics when you don't know what gravity is.

[foggy path]

Yeah their sales page fails to convince me that their content teaches you anything, that's why short sales pages don't work so well on something like this unless the product is like super super cheap

[thick oracle]

is it just me or is that color combination extremely ugly and hard to read?

[thin aspen]

Low-Quality Bad Unoptimized Basic Copy-Pasting

[foggy path]

Yeah the red on blue is not great

[thin aspen]

they're trying to set off alarms in your head i think

[fleet tangle]

Red, white and blue. Targeted at 'murika?

[pearl elk]

aww but cmon, why cant you integrate 40 marketplace assets together seamlessly in less than a week?

[thick oracle]

Joke's on them, I've already accepted the fact my code sucks.

[thin aspen]

yeah but what about all the savings, you could be getting by signing up right now!!!!

[foggy path]

lol

[pearl elk]

If you miss out you'll never be a real game dev

[foggy path]

yeah selling a 800 dollar course for 25 dollars does very little to convince me of value

[pearl elk]

you'll have to wait for the season 20 battlepass to get shards of gamedevness

[foggy path]

I sold a course for about 100 dollars and I never offered a discount :P

I've actually paid like 1500 for a course myself, and the guy who sells that never offered any discounts either

[thin aspen]

but did it teach you how to be a real pro UE game dev that works for a game studio?

[foggy path]

No because I couldn't care less about that lol

[thick oracle]

i think it always costs 25$ and that 800$ price is just there to let you think its more valuable

[thin aspen]

it's not even worth the $25

[foggy path]

Exactly, but at least for me it makes it look like it's just a marketing gimmick and your course's actual value is likely less than 25 dollars

because if it was actually worth 800 dollars you wouldn't need to resort to tricks like this

[thin aspen]

Gotta take one from lauras book, it's worth them giving me $800 to take it

[thick oracle]

i think that marketing strategy is illegal in some countries

[foggy path]

and you would be an idiot to sell a course actually worth 800 dollars for 25 dollars

[thick oracle]

so yeah

[thin aspen]

https://awesometuts.com/blog/unreal-engine-enemy-ai/

this is what they're selling

[pearl elk]

Definitely illegal here in Australia but most of that sort of thing just flies under the radar. Costs too much to prosecute since it comes out of the tax payers purse

[thin aspen]

or probably just exclusive access to their youtube play list that includes the same videos on the page

[foggy path]

lol their exit intent popup has no close button

[thick oracle]

wow. Thats it?

[thin aspen]

it's pro game dev

[foggy path]

it must have been some kind of a fluke that they came up with that good copy for that one ad when the rest of it looks like trash lol

[thick oracle]

thats the most basic of ue4 ai you could make

[thin aspen]

I'm tryna tell you, they just made a bunch of memes and threw them in rotation

[foggy path]

apparently yeah

[thin aspen]

I think it's time for a name change

[thick oracle]

wdym

awesometuts is the most awesome name a tut has ever had

[thin aspen]

no-no-no i meant my name

[thick oracle]

oh

maybe

[pearl elk]

Im gonna start selling squid rings since I'll never make it as a game dev not having done a single awesometut

[thick oracle]

good idea

[thin aspen]

If you aren't a game dev pro like me then it's clearly the only way

[pearl elk]

but but I wanted to work for ID using UE5

[thick oracle]

i am probably going to delete my engine repo because I apparently have copied it all from tutorials (instead of copying from "awesometuts" tutorials).

[thin aspen]

but wait

there's still time

[thick oracle]

yes i will waste 25$ for the ability to not copy code

[thin aspen]

https://tenor.com/view/think-about-it-reece-simpson-kayode-ewumi-roll-safe-meme-gif-17305682

[pearl elk]

its memey head tappy guy, Im sold!

[thin aspen]

they might have dropped the ball by not including him in their advertisements

[quasi mantle]

[pearl elk]

I wanna work at Wizards of the Coast, I think people would love me if I work there

[quasi mantle]

What's going on with WotC anyway?

[pearl elk]

OGL 1.1 which is now OGL 2.0 😛

[cursive crypt]

Testing the waters

[pearl elk]

or just boiling the water so the frog doesnt notice

[quasi mantle]

OpenGL?

[pearl elk]

No, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Game_License

[cursive crypt]

No, after series of screw ups they changed their license

[pearl elk]

goes to show the stock markets mentality though when Ubisoft drops for cancelling and delaying games and WotC gain on news of a far less open and more lucrative licensing arrangement

[cursive crypt]

Ubi cancels? Delays are normal.

[pearl elk]

Yeah they cancelled some unannounced projects, delayed another. Not a terrible thing if it means other games get the resources they need but the stock took a nose dive

I think its just this modern mentality of flooding the market with content at all cost, doesnt matter how good it is as long as its profitable because its about shareholders more than customers

[cursive crypt]

They sure do enough market research to know how to milk the best.

[pearl elk]

Its all about making a great sales platform, the game is secondary

[cursive crypt]

This is how biz operates.

I mean, not good, but this is how it is.

[thin aspen]

Well that's the consequence of putting value in revenue instead of profit as has happened in the past 30 years

[pearl elk]

I dunno how this stuff hasnt crashed yet in all honesty

[thin aspen]

We have social safety nets to stop that

[cursive crypt]

Because what we talked about. We may judge here, but they know how to sell.

Because ranting ppl are .1%, the other just want to play.

[pearl elk]

But do they know how to sell or are they just poisoning a whole future generation of gamers

[thin aspen]

It's a revolving door too

Because the 99% aren't actually spending the money on the games, and the ones who are spending the money just want to keep the 99% out of their hair while they do whatever it is they do

But soon that 99% will became the new .1% and they will be the parents of the new 99%

[pearl elk]

At some point those gamers are going to be so desensitized by those tactics because its so prevalent across their entire online ecosystem

[cursive crypt]

Is not. If you read the forums, you will think EA too had to collapes, but nay - they do well. Why? Because they know the market, they know people. FIFA rulz, lootboxes, microtransactions, that 💩 works.

[pearl elk]

If it were just games but its not, Amazon uses tricks to lock you into Prime sub, Tinder uses boosts and timers etc in the same way social games do

[thin aspen]

Marketing to children has been a thing since the 80's that's really when they figured out the formula.

It was such a big deal that there were actual lawsuits about it.

by children i mean child-minded people. Those who don't have responsibilities.

[thin aspen]

Instant gratification doesn't help either.

[pearl elk]

Epic got done recently for violating the coppa rules

[thin aspen]

But then it all boils down to "potential to make money" you don't have to actually make money anymore, just show that you have a user base to monetize and people will throw money at you.

[cursive crypt]

Aye, Epic researches too. At least they do something else for us devs.

[pearl elk]

I got no issues with people making money, even shitloads of it, its just how they do it that bothers me

[thin aspen]

Yeah, but they don't make money, which is the issue.

They just borrow lots of money and incur more debt.

[cursive crypt]

Going back to Ubi, I have played some games of theirs. While I liked say the division and FarCry, all the rest seem alike to these or just bring out the same feeling. I don't think I need to play anything else. Just... boring 🤔

[pearl elk]

We still see plenty of great gems making good returns without the greed

[thin aspen]

Ubi has been that way for quite some time now. It pains me to see.

[pearl elk]

Im curious to see how this Ubisoft Star Wars thing turns out, wondering if it'll just be some sort of Assassins Creed skin or an actual attempt at a Star Wars game

[cursive crypt]

Prolly it will be a very good, sterile game. A lot of heat it will take, but it will do them enough money to not take care.

[pearl elk]

Yeah I get ya, sterile is a good way to put it. Thats how I felt when playing Watch Dogs 2, Legion and Farcry 5, 6... For Honour had a hint of it but no where near as bad.

[cursive crypt]

Thank you for your money.

Ubi ^

[pearl elk]

I think part of it is Im always back at square one, I never feel like I make any progression in the franchise like how Doom Eternal continues off the first

I get the same thing from Need for Speed these days, I enjoy the games but they feel sterile because theyre so formulaic rather than trying to take a few risks

Risk aversion is definitely a killer of fun

[cursive crypt]

Corps dont like risks.

[thin aspen]

And the reason is even worse

[pearl elk]

But we remember what killed the games industry last time, heaps of low quality tripe flooding the market

[cursive crypt]

Killed? When?

It is still alive.

[pearl elk]

the great crash of 1983

if it wasnt for that we wouldnt have had the 1996 or 1998 we had

It would have been a far more corporate late 90s

[cursive crypt]

Back then there were not so many players on that market. It was more easy to disrupt the industry.

[pearl elk]

Thing is now the people with the ability to disrupt are too risk adverse to do it

[cursive crypt]

They will always search of how to expand the market, appeal to the mass. That means, slow changes.

[quasi mantle]

You can say the same with mobile market these days, but it isn't as disruptive as what happened in 1983 at the US

[pearl elk]

Im just seeing franchises largely move in reverse, sure the graphics might get better but the games themselves dont improve mainly just the sales platforms

[cursive crypt]

And new markets, like if you wanna step in China say, you start to remove stuff. Or if you want to appeal to younger, dumber or whatever you do changes.

[pearl elk]

They are locking alot of people out in some respects by locking people in, not everyone wants to commit to all those unlockable rewards every day. Infact theres probably a decent industry set up around botting those rewards

[quasi mantle]

I'm inclined to make analogy that the 1983 industry crash is basically the mobile game market except no "high standard" and top selling gacha games

And it was only happening in the US

[pearl elk]

Thing is the tech sector on a whole uses those sorts of tactics in many apps not just games

Oh you should get this virus update now and the bundled security and the super duper VPN and the enhanced quantum encryption... and the super locust swarm ecoflex deflector

if you dont you'll be hacked within minutes

HACKED I tell you

*this is not a real advertisement 😛

[thin aspen]

sounds like gamedevpro level advertising

[pearl elk]

Just wait till Twitter 2.0, I wonder if there will be a tweet timer paywall

5c for every extra character

[quasi mantle]

Well, Twitter is bleeding wallet already, and Musk is desperate to monetize basic features

[bleak remnant]

Now you're just overreacting, you really think nothing can compete with Twitter?

Twitter would never do something like charge for tweets unless they want to close down very quickly

[pearl elk]

Not just Twitter, Meta is bleeding money fast too... Lots of companies have been taking hits lately, its not all doom and gloom but the market is definitely weaker

[quasi mantle]

At least it's well known by now that Meta loses its nerds

Zuck already lost his nerd side

[pearl elk]

Microsoft are on the verge of owning a huge amount of IP

lots of people think ActiBlizzard are just CoD and WoW but theres so many more IPs in that stack

Sometimes just having an IP on hand is all it takes, if a competitor pops up with a similar title just smash em over the head with brand recognition

[quasi mantle]

And yet not much effort to strengthen their position on the eastern market
Meanwhile SIE internal is pretty much abandoning their east side.

Nowadays eastern PS games are mainly third party ones

[pearl elk]

Yeah that is an interesting development, I wonder if that will lead to more western companies pulling out of those markets further

[quasi mantle]

Well, not denying that eastern markets have increasing bias with mobile sector, but as far as I can see, JP devs still make stuff for consoles

[pearl elk]

Square Enix is still raving on about NFTs

[quasi mantle]

Gah, don't mind it, just boomer higher up trying to catch up with latest trends

Though I definitely never saw it coming

It was kind of a sudden, heck, the whole NFT thing is also sudden

[pearl elk]

Trouble is with trends they are like trade winds, they change rapidly and can smash you into rocks

[quasi mantle]

SE is definitely (one of) the most aggressive NFT endorser as far as established JP devs goes

[pearl elk]

I understand where they are coming from in one way but I get the criticisms, many of the systems we use today wont even be around in as little as 10 years let alone 20. You cant tell me some sword I got in some rando game from my youth will somehow be usable in the latest and greatest 35 years later

[quasi mantle]

I still have yet to see other JP companies going that aggro with NFTs, though I do see many of them catching up to the metaverse concept in more low key fashion

[pearl elk]

This idea of metaverse or web3.0 doesnt seem to factor in time at all, its this universe in this timeless magic bubble where everything works and theres no updates

when in reality its like all these different scaffolding manufacturers hot wiring their stuff together just to get it to work for the present

[quasi mantle]

IMO metaverse as a concept is entertainment creation/delivery in a more virtual fashion

[pearl elk]

Im expecting that by the time I die I will loose all my gaming achievements and stats

All the servers would have shut down, changed hands, been wiped, upgraded etc etc

[quasi mantle]

I'm more open minded to what the metaverse has to offer

Still against current NFT pushing tho

[pearl elk]

Ive seen it just with images online, we went from a really rich diverse hosting of images across all different servers and search engines which only searched for existing images to all this cached, watermarked stuff and many of the older servers shut down and took the images with em

[quasi mantle]

Current problem with metaverse is how it's being promoted and interpreted across, though I guess unironically going with decentralization concept lol

In my interpretation, it's a concept of virtual entertainment creation and delivery

I'm not interpreting it as (literally) second life like other seem to do

[carmine frigate]

NFTs are still looking for a problem too solve 😛

[quasi mantle]

Can't agree more with that

FWIW NFT is still comes off as inflated speculative market

Just like how old physical copy of games have their prices artificially raised to ridiculous numbers

[carmine frigate]

those are actual collector items

[pearl elk]

Depends if they are still functional

[quasi mantle]

Except those who bought it won't actually play it, like a real game collector would.

[carmine frigate]

NFTs can also become non functional 😛

[pearl elk]

If you got a boxed copy of Shadow of Mordor it aint worth much

[quasi mantle]

Even among game collector community the whole price hike isn't justified

[quasi mantle]

Non Functional Token

[carmine frigate]

shadow of mordor is unplayable now? servers down?

[pearl elk]

Nemesis system is offline as far as Im aware

[carmine frigate]

dedi server version is the only true ownership 😛

[cursive crypt]

So cool, company controlling the servers.

[pearl elk]

Im actually fine with servers and stuff, I just hate the lack of a shut down plan

[carmine frigate]

only played shadow of mordor singleplayer... that should still be possible right?

[pearl elk]

If they said to you upfront, oh we plan on supporting this game for 5 years, atleast you know what youre getting into. They sell you all this junk but you never consider what will happen to it down the line when you stop playing that game, you cant ever trade it

[quasi mantle]

It's like companies terminating work immediately without notice

[pearl elk]

Pretty sure the game has an online component even in the SP

Its functional but its not the game you woulda played when the servers were online

[quasi mantle]

Also not to mention some efforts on reimplementing community dediservers were met with C&D

I forgot what game it was

[pearl elk]

I suppose the good thing is its only digital waste so its easy to recycle

but its a huge bubble of an economy based on bits

imagine playing an RTS where every unit cost real money...

[unborn lotus]

that's a good idea

[quasi mantle]

bruh
don't give cryptobros the ideas

[pearl elk]

Thats the crazy thing though, its not far off the truth, it costs them nothing to create these skins past the initial investment

[quasi mantle]

Also here's god knows how many times of me mentioning how I hate play to earn gimmick

[pearl elk]

I remember saying no pay to win well before it was a common phrase

[carmine frigate]

i like the part where u pay extre so u dont have to do the booring sidequests 😄

[quasi mantle]

At least whaling P2W players taking their losses in the end

[pearl elk]

You should get more loot for spearing a whale

[quasi mantle]

Consider that they don't get refunds/compensation once the service ended

Aside from faking enthusiasm and reminiscing in Discord server that is

[pearl elk]

Spam your friends and family, get rewards

[quasi mantle]

"I'm happy that I spend $70K in this game and pulling <insert generic name for cardboard cutout waifu>"

[quasi mantle]

Deja vu....

[pearl elk]

I have PTSD from all the chain letters I replied to

[quasi mantle]

Also MLM shills have tendency to reinvent the wheel

And the whole play to earn gimmick is no exception

[carmine frigate]

was watching tv a while bac and see that the whole tupperware setup is also still alive and kicking

[quasi mantle]

Oh god, I remember as a kid, couple neighbor would heavily into tupperware MLM shit

[pearl elk]

Thats what we need, games with food that spoils so you have to buy the correct sized containers to store it in

[carmine frigate]

it was some health food stuff i believe... some crappy powder that costs nothing to make and a pyramid selling strat

[quasi mantle]

To be fair, tupperware is functional, but those pile of tupperware won't go anywhere

unless you sell them all to people with typical MLM premises

I mean, those things are built to last and not disposable

[pearl elk]

I think the older stuff has a lifetime warranty thats why people buy it at op shops since the warranty is transferable

[quasi mantle]

At first I thought it's kinda strange to see the mom having so many tupperware piling up at her home

That was mid-2000s

[carmine frigate]

i put some packaging stuff in the dishwasher sometimes... its basically the same

buy fish in a plastic bucket and use the bucket for freezing other food

[quasi mantle]

I won't be surprised if tupperware still doing the same shit all over again

after all, MLM prey on desperate people. I've seen many of them popping up, and I had lost few friendship because of it

As poor as I am, at least I still have the brain to avoid MLM scams

[carmine frigate]

what does MLM stand for?

[quasi mantle]

multi level marketing

[carmine frigate]

ahh yea

[quasi mantle]

some would call it pyramid scheme

The Office US has one memorable skit on it

[pearl elk]

If you call in the next 5 minutes we'll give you NOT ONE, but TWO widgets and you'll get a free mini widget. If youre not entirely satisfied with your purchase you can return it in 30 days

[quasi mantle]

How can I invalidate them?

Also will the garbage collector pick up unused ones?

[warm bloom]

if you call now you can talk to me on the phone 📱

no refunds

[pearl elk]

You must convert to gems

[quasi mantle]

It's funny how people who already deep in MLM willing to appear stupid and clowning in front of people with thinking capacity

"Look, it's not a scam, it's not a pyramid scheme, it's an opportunity, an honest work. Become your own boss, and believe in yourself!"

[pearl elk]

And spend all the money you make on fuel selling our stuff

[proud jay]

https://tenor.com/view/red-panda-cute-awww-gif-20028421

[quasi mantle]

TIL "pay by exposure" still acceptable in some artist community

[unreal ether]

Isn't that what fan art is?

[pearl elk]

https://tenor.com/view/downsign-big-fan-fan-air-standing-fan-gif-13848760

[frigid vortex]

how do I start the Java so the bot is seen as online in Discord (music bot), my brain is not braining rn.

[proud jay]

lol start the Java

what does that mean

[frigid vortex]

yeah how do I start it xd

i completely forgot

my brain dead rn

[quasi mantle]

Yeah, except when the artist pay for featured slot

Though I guess some exposure can help directors find suitable artists

[proud jay]

Idk what you mean tbh

[frigid vortex]

the bot is seen as offline, how do I start the Java so to the bot is seen online

nothing anymore got it

[quasi mantle]

writes discord bot in C++
Wait, Java?

[unborn lotus]

one maya scene and one large 4k substance painter file, 50/64gb ram usage 👀

[pearl elk]

so much ram, so little exposure

[carmine frigate]

@unborn lotus https://disneyanimation.com/resources/moana-island-scene/

have fun 🙂

[pine hill]

gamers its time to unite and rise up against ai 🙏

[sweet rose]

https://tenor.com/view/post-malone-reaction-offended-posty-malone-posty-gif-16729956

[pine hill]

shout with me : we don't want no NPCs

[sweet rose]

https://open.spotify.com/track/2VXox441YYAPS1srSR7mGI?si=a068679703da48a3

Beautiful song

Unlike Pluto is famous for releasing one song every week and still making each one amazing

[remote fog]

Anyone know some very simple sound editing software that free to use? I would like to trim couple of sound effects and it would be nice if I wasn't doing it with Da Vinci Resolve

[celest musk]

audacity

simple is relative, it's not the most intuitive user interface....

but does its job

[remote fog]

Thank you, it looks like it's exactly what I was looking for

[fleet tangle]

Sounds pretty generic to me.

[sweet rose]

💀

[primal summit]

yeah, and I couldn't get past 30 seconds with the terrible harsh flow-breaking cuts

[gloomy inlet]

bruh this color is so good

time to rebrand

[primal summit]

do it

[fleet tangle]

I dig it.

[gloomy inlet]

ye

removing bg

[sweet rose]

You look like you mainly listen to electronic music

[primal summit]

80's style speed, thrash, and power metal mostly

[fleet tangle]

I mainly listen to 80s cheese and heavy metal

[sweet rose]

Ohh

👴

[primal summit]

give me 600bpm lead guitars or give me death!

[sweet rose]

Have any of you listened to Rings of Saturn

the drummer is an octopus

[broken sigil]

with a shovel or?
What tools do you usually use for digging

[gloomy inlet]

i'm not even good at removing bgs rip

[sweet rose]

https://open.spotify.com/track/25CWLeqS0Cl0EXnVz2qVM7?si=589194eaa3ce42e6 @primal summit Aliencore

[broken sigil]

||ok that was a bad joke||

[fleet tangle]

I was prepared to give this a go until the guy started "signing".

...that's what she said.

[sweet rose]

🤣

I thought you liked heavy metal

[primal summit]

yeah

heavy metal, not screechmetal

[foggy path]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObtI9ICekgs how about some j-speedcore

[primal summit]

deathmetal is a very different beast with completely different themes and stylistic choices

[sweet rose]

it's a subgenre tho

My favorite kind of metal is alt

[fleet tangle]

I'd have pegged you as the emo type.

[gloomy inlet]

@fleet tangle@primal summit

[cursive crypt]

Sounds like when a game freezes and the audio starts to loop.

[foggy path]

lol

[sweet rose]

perhaps

[fleet tangle]

Speedcore always makes me think of chiptunes... evne though they are nothing alike.

[sweet rose]

dafuq

[foggy path]

m1dy has got some real bangers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWg_on1unBc

[fleet tangle]

That's one way of putting it.

[foggy path]

lol

[sweet rose]

Chad test

https://open.spotify.com/track/5PXyH5bb5fbVfO8LjByhBb?si=d6cb5d1522db4726

[cursive crypt]

Got a bud from school who was into *core styles - we called him Dexter (as the cartoon network char) 🤔

[sweet rose]

https://tenor.com/view/death-grips-guillotine-the-money-store-no-love-deep-web-gif-25589580

[sweet rose]

relation

like why dexter

[cursive crypt]

More like wannabee badasses, they will screw their voices that way tho. No technique.

[gloomy inlet]

ignore first msg

but damn the color change is nice

[sweet rose]

Lmao

[fleet tangle]

The mint one never really fit.

[cursive crypt]

Looked like him. Triangle pose, eyes popping.

[fleet tangle]

Also what is it with Japanese people thinking mint ice cream tastes like toothpaste?!

[sweet rose]

Death Grips is one of the most innovative bands ever

[cursive crypt]

I like mint icecream.

[slim atlas]

https://tenor.com/view/slap-gif-25249881

[foggy path]

I've only heard a swedish friend think this way lol

[gloomy inlet]

how can i save this as gif

[foggy path]

another friend then put mint toothpaste on his vanilla ice cream to try it out and it tasted like shit

lol

[slim atlas]

https://tenor.com/view/slap-gif-25249881

[cursive crypt]

Just talk, you get slapped for free ^

[sweet rose]

A few of their songs are sampled from ringtones they found on a Nokia phone they found in an Arabian desert

[cursive crypt]

Sounds like they smoke something.

[sweet rose]

definitely

[gloomy inlet]

https://tenor.com/view/despierta-ya-gif-24011402

I'm no longer hehe

test x2

i'm heheagain

can someone say anything so i see my new color

nvm

[foggy path]

🤔

Oh is this some thing that is for users who have the weird big mode and not the good compact mode

[gloomy inlet]

how can u deal with compact

looks weird

reminds me of chat sites of 2000

[foggy path]

You can fit more text into it so it seems better simply by that virtue

I'm used to Irssi anyway so there's your chat sites of 2000 lol

irssi looks like this

:P

[gloomy inlet]

dang

sadist

[foggy path]

this is a hundred times better than discord especially when you have a large number of servers and channels

the only bad thing is no embeds

[gloomy inlet]

plain black + grey/white text hurts tbh

when i read in sites like that even for 10 sec

if i look anywhere else, i see white lines in my vision for few mins

[foggy path]

heh

I mean you can customize the color scheme since it's just a regular terminal

[gloomy inlet]

grey like discord is nice

easy on the eyes

[ivory lodge]

Making pacman without tiles is more difficult than I thought it would be.

But I like my ghosts.

[proud jay]

How’s the new job @deep glen ? And where it at?

[sweet rose]

gives me to catch a predator vibes

[carmine frigate]

lockheed martin is usin a bunch of unreal stuff... bet they hire atm 😛

metaverses are out... boomstuff is in

i could program an autocannon to shoot in random directions... might be usefull 😛

im pretty much a pacifist tho

[sweet rose]

https://open.spotify.com/track/6Ucjy0z1uO111RCUVXqhnn?si=0b764b67b8b0429c

[quasi mantle]

What's more difficult? The pathfinding?

[ivory lodge]

Yes, having to keep a list of segments and cutting them up or joining them.

Also movement between segments is annoying.

I made a PacMovementComponent.

[fleet tangle]

Man, Made in Abyss is such a good series.

[steady fox]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/PU5I0Ia6fqQ

[marble sparrow]

https://tenor.com/view/slap-face-gif-18202319

[quasi mantle]

Is this slapping tournament?

[marble sparrow]

https://tenor.com/view/baby-scream-yeah-hockey-kid-gif-24698394

ends next friday

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/hotel-transylvania-what-bat-gif-8682389

[quasi mantle]

https://tenor.com/view/cr1tikal-penguinz0-meme-woo-yeah-baby-gif-19316511

[timber viper]

https://tenor.com/view/anime-slap-funny-gif-22149950

[marble sparrow]

https://tenor.com/view/spongebob-squarepants-patrick-star-gloves-slap-gif-17514643

[timber viper]

https://tenor.com/view/slap-gif-20126989

[fathom wadi]

https://tenor.com/view/will-smith-oscars-chris-rock-slap-angry-gif-25233486

[warm bloom]

oh my god

the abomination of how some people solve a problem

[pearl elk]

Chris Rock would have to be one of the least slappable people I can think of

Im not liking Will Smiths stance there though, the twist is good but his footing is all off and theres no follow through

[unborn lotus]

But why was Chris Rock smiling, what did he expect to happen?

[trail wedge]

gonna go out on a limb and say comedians smile and laugh when nervous like a lot of people do

Chris Rock was just trying to keep it cool and play it off

[pearl elk]

He's always smiling thats why I dont consider him very slappable

Jeremy Clarkson though, highly slappable

[primal summit]

Sometimes force of action is the right solution. In those cases, a slap is an insufficiently forceful action.

[gloomy inlet]

Hehe

Did anyone make will smith slaps Chris rock simulator in unreal engine yet

[timber viper]

Intriguing

[cursive crypt]

Couldn't care less about these 🤔

[quasi mantle]

Doesn't even have to be Chris Rock, just a slapping tournament video game

[gloomy inlet]

watch some youtuber snooping in this chat and in 2 weeks:

"I MADE A SLAPPING GAME IN UNREAL ENGINE IN ONE WEEK"

[quasi mantle]

Controls would be like a golf game, but slapping your opponent, and build up strength to reduce damage from incoming slap

Also right amount of strength and slap location can actually kill your opponent

[gloomy inlet]

huh

[quasi mantle]

Boo, cheap ass mobile cash grab

[gloomy inlet]

ye

need ue5 ver

ultra graphics

32k textures

[quasi mantle]

Step up, use realistic looking metahumans and realistic blood and gore effects

[unborn lotus]

hello slappers

[quasi mantle]

Rename this server to "Unreal Slappers"

[unborn lotus]

https://media.giphy.com/media/hSEdydt4IJIKB6Q88Q/giphy.gif

[quasi mantle]

haha drums go brrr

[gloomy inlet]

kek

nice one

[timber viper]

so based on Steam's CPU GHz survey to achieve 30fps on an average gaming hardware you can do max 6969696969 cpu cycles

[quasi mantle]

nice.

[primal summit]

6 billion cpu clock cycles per frame?

[cursive crypt]

https://tenor.com/view/bonk-gif-26414884

[carmine frigate]

https://tenor.com/view/punch-hawk-love-death-and-robots-smash-wreck-head-gif-22023596

hmm i might have to check that last season of love death robots

[cursive crypt]

Recently watched with the gf the first 2-3 episodes, kinda so-so.

Switched to something more interesting at the end.

[carmine frigate]

yea i watched 2 of the new season now and kinda stopped

the robot slap looks dope tho

[unborn lotus]

last of us show is not bad at all so far

[cursive crypt]

Nice. I guess you like the game too?

iirc, they are doing one more part.

[unborn lotus]

lol never played

but i will buy it when it comes out on steam

[cursive crypt]

huh, that game is console only?

[unborn lotus]

yes I think it's PS only, and the remakes

[pearl elk]

https://tenor.com/view/slap-slapping-self-slap-your-face-gif-15358839

[cursive crypt]

I watched several reviews and lectures on it. I feel not like playing it, but it is still an interesting project.

[cursive crypt]

https://tenor.com/view/calm-down-gif-24013477

[unborn lotus]

me too, but I'll play it for research purposes 😆

[pearl elk]

The Last of Us: The Last of You Edition

[unborn lotus]

I also saw station eleven a few months ago, similar vibe, loved it

[cursive crypt]

They are neither last, nor it will be the last edition 🤑

[cursive crypt]

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10574236/

Looks interesting

[unborn lotus]

yes, also very relatable with covid

[pearl elk]

The Last Starfighter

https://tenor.com/view/last-starfighter-startled-gif-26343251

[topaz depot]

affectionateUser

[gloomy inlet]

Where is he

[broken sigil]

Left a few days ago

[quasi mantle]

The remake will get PC port

[sweet rose]

Good Morning fellas

[zinc matrix]

Yoo

Guys

Been thinking

What do you think Unreal Engine 5.2 will be ?

[fluid bloom]

it will be UE 5.2

[pearl elk]

UE 5.20 when?

[primal summit]

it will be a revision to the unreal engine version 5

[fluid bloom]

it will most likely contain the commit 82a85872dbcfc5aef49811285a8e65a050df0ef8

[pearl elk]

lies, thats your coinbase link isnt it

[primal summit]

need the private key to confirm

[zinc matrix]

No seriously now guys

[fluid bloom]

you asked what it will be

what

😛

[zinc matrix]

Like with Unreal Engine 5.2