lounge

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/fascinating-mr-spock-henoch-star-trek-the-original-series-gif-23404763

[hollow dawn]

nah, thats a grapefruit spoon, made to carve out your lips

[pearl elk]

time to stream some over bloated difficult to use unreal engine thing

[hollow dawn]

grapefruit spoon, or so they say...

[hollow dawn]

compiling shaders are we?

[pearl elk]

Always compiling something

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/aqua-man-justice-league-justice-league-movie-trident-jason-momoa-gif-8085810

[hollow dawn]

"you call that a fork?"

https://tenor.com/view/forklift-gif-25849231

[pearl elk]

https://tenor.com/view/the-deep-deep-thoughts-deep-thoughts-with-the-deep-the-boys-gif-26372785

[hollow dawn]

you know, if you spell the deep backwards it become Peed

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/callisto-ghost-water-poseidon-gif-14680745

[hollow dawn]

and water is about 50% fishpee...

roughly, im not a water scientist

https://tenor.com/view/look-science-can-soda-satisfied-gif-5193612

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/mummy-water-gif-24387840

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/magnolia-1999-frogs-kid-looking-gif-16961495

that logo is so overblown

[hollow dawn]

ye maybe haha, part of the whole now

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/mazaspin-gif-24763315

someome had time to make hass gifs

[proud jay]

was there no vr chat?

or was it removed?

[inland oriole]

💯

[proud jay]

what happened?

[proud jay]

ah it's spelled in full

[inland oriole]

According to the video Github had 2 datacenters and a bunch of random things running in the cloud. Both of these datacenters host a bunch of databases too. One of the datacenters lost connection to everything, but most importantly was the "master" of their whole database cluster, so after 30 seconds or so the other datacenter was chosen to be the new "main datacenter" because a ton of traffic to Github was failing because of the datacenter failing. Sounds ok to me if that happens right. But then after 43 seconds the other datacenter came back online. Now they had a big problem because the datacenter that went offline at first still had data that the other datacenter didn't have because their replication system for some reason pushes everything to a single "master" in the other datacenter which wasn't able to do so when it went down. However at this point the datacenter that had became the new "master" database was already receiving requests from users again.. So now they had 2 database clusters that were out of sync with each other. And obviously they couldn't just immediately pull the trigger on deciding what to do so it took a bit of time to figure out a plan which made the desync even worse.

See: https://youtu.be/dsHyUgGMht0

They also had the bigger issue that the applications running in the datacenter that had lost connection now had to go to the other datacenter which caused a ton of latency which ultimately caused even more problems because they never tested this scenario 😛

They didn't lose any data in the end though unlike a certain other company. But it did take 24 hours or so to fix everything.

[proud jay]

meh seems like reasonable handling in a way

[unreal ether]

*cough* gitlab *cough*

[zinc wagon]

i was just about to mention it lmao

[inland oriole]

The title is definitely clickbait and I'm glad they didn't really lose any data other than it being a bit "inconvenient" but overall they handled it pretty well.

[zinc wagon]

gitlab had the same issue. tho it didnt end in a happy ending, some data got lost

[proud jay]

why do you like gitlab

[zinc wagon]

i dont like it

[inland oriole]

I watched a video about Gitlab's case too. They were absolutely doing many things in an awful way lol.

[unreal ether]

Me neither

[zinc wagon]

tbh i didnt know it existed before the video i watched

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/star-trek-data-the-next-generation-strategema-peak-performance-gif-24785627

[inland oriole]

What happened to Gitlab was the most "funny" thing ever and at the same time something to ditch that company over. Essentially their systems had (has?) 2 clusters for all of their data. In case one of the two clusters fails there's still another one. At some point there was an issue where their main database was being bombarded by spam which in return caused a ton of replication issues from cluster 1 -> cluster 2. So they decided to NUKE the entirety of the data on cluster 2 (which was their back up) so they could just copy everything from cluster 1 in a quicker way right. Then for some reason that didn't work so they logged into cluster 1 to change a setting because apparently something over there didn't like the copy operation they were trying to do. Then after changing that it still didn't work so they wanted to remove the data on cluster 2 again because maybe it was bugged or whatever right. It was already gone anyway so might as well. Only to then after executing the delete command to realise they were still connected to cluster 1 and had just right there deleted ALL production data. It also turned out their backup system didn't work so eventually they had to copy all of it from a DEVELOPMENT environment and lost a bunch of data along with being down for a while because their development environment had a trash internet connection...

[soft night]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lW0gxMbyLEM one version control other than git

[inland oriole]

https://youtu.be/tLdRBsuvVKc

This is the Gitlab video explained.

[fleet tangle]

Thanks.

[soft night]

most hevedy thing to celebrate it with Daekesh

[fleet tangle]

Happy birthday!

[inland oriole]

Happy birthday! May your Unreal crashes be few and your cakes many 😛

[broken sigil]

Happy birthday 🍰

[inland oriole]

🎉

[hollow dawn]

happy bday daek \o/

[turbid spindle]

:question: will Hevedy and Daekesh have shared birthday in unreal fashion?
:8ball: It is decidedly so.

[zinc wagon]

happy birthday!! 🎉

[hollow dawn]

an unreal birthday flower

[inland oriole]

You can also host it your self, that's the only thing I like about the whole Gitlab thing. Github over them for regular things though.

[inland oriole]

Honestly. Why is it that I never see effects like these in any games? Does anyone know why that is? They look awesome but it never seems to get used 😦

[soft night]

would you use Grace?

[hollow dawn]

performance -.- runtime spline meshes and procedural meshes eat so much

[inland oriole]

I wasn't thinking for an entire field of flowers. More for just some smaller things here and there.

[soft night]

when someone not see forest from trees so some have it otherway around

[hollow dawn]

this runs at 20fps on my mid range laptop and is 90% procedural, try making it higher gfx would need i dunno what kinda future pc

of those flowers i can spawn like 5-10 before 1fps shit starts, depends a bit on how many rando branches and blossoms it creates etc

[inland oriole]

Is it generating as you go or just at the beginning?

[hollow dawn]

as you go

endless

background mountains stay thou, and car is a premade mesh

[soft night]

some could say that could run 500FPS

[inland oriole]

The scene seems overall rather simple yeah. I don't want to be "that person" but I don't quite see directly why this should run at 20fps.

[hollow dawn]

you can def improve the code to spread out tick functions more and make it smoother, but procedural meshes are bad boys

nah, i create each rock individually, each tree vertice is runtime placed

draw calls dont matter here, but calculating the point locations for each vertex is alot

i dont calculate a million rocks at start, it creates like 200m then redoes it once i get too close to the end, and recalcs every fricking vertex again

i do

but what would help ineed would be to calc only like 5 rocks and remember them, then reuse those

the shaders yes, not the actor blueprints even tho i simplified heavily

like the clouds morph and you have day night cycle, stars etc

[fleet tangle]

Unless the stars are casting shadows, taht probably doesn't make much difference

[hollow dawn]

it really aint the draw calls for shaders, even though yeah i use depth map for temporall aa blending and height dependant coloring

like, lets say you procedural mesh a simple cube, thats 6 quads, which loop for 12 triangles, which loop for 36 vertices, normals, uv and collission... many hundred functions... thats a ton to do in a tick just for a cube

https://tenor.com/view/im-so-fast-2frames-gif-26113047

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/csgo500-fortune-phantom-gambling-dance-gif-17703134

some could say the calculations are not optimized

[soft night]

where one mesh when outlines need to be and other object related thing when it s close enough of it to calculate

[stiff crystal]

I didn't read everything

but like.. if it's that bloody slow.. why even do the math in game thread

also doing proc gen on seemingly same looking objects seems weird

[woven wing]

https://i.redd.it/327p19ggejeb1.jpg

[broken sigil]

this is actually pretty nice
https://youtu.be/kKQbj_zvueA?t=31

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/aliens-i-want-to-believe-spaceship-mothership-ufo-gif-9472798

[fleet tangle]

Have they (dis)proved this yet?

[broken sigil]

Apparently a few independed labs managed to replicate it

[fleet tangle]

The Chinese ones?

[broken sigil]

This #lounge message

[hollow dawn]

the cube is just an example, i use randomized, cylindrical rings for the trees and rocks with vastly more points than a cube has. but that way i can shape cubes, rocks, cylinders, etc, even triangular pyramids however those are called, just by changing some variables.

i do objects when they get called for, but stuff like morphing clouds has constant ticks going.

the code problem i acknowledge is me doing 200m of road at once, instead of constantly removing and adding just a few metres, that would smooth out frame drops drasticly.
and i probably have a shitty code cleanup and memory leaks here and there.

---

@stiff crystal its a proof of concept/ procedural unreal exploration, not a release game. and i come to the conclusion that spline mesh and procedural mesh components are viable and powerful, but also performance hungry af.
was just an answer/example to the question why you dont see procedurally growing plants in games all the time.

sounds like unreal yo

wait... it did NOT compile shaders?

witchcraft!

https://tenor.com/view/exorcism-father-mulvehill-evil-z-is-for-zombies-get-out-evil-spirit-gif-22407195

https://tenor.com/view/tala-star-wars-indira-varma-grand-inquisitor-insolence-gif-25995367

like... who thought these hats look good?

[pearl elk]

https://tenor.com/view/heresy-priest-blasphemy-gif-21064011

[hollow dawn]

now thats a swaggery hat

with a hat cape

[broken sigil]

I don't know if any game actually uses it
Looks more like it's meant more for simulations and similar

[cobalt oracle]

how can lk-99 improve my shader compile time? 👀

[hollow dawn]

well...

we came to the concluson that it doesnt, because even if you compile shaders faster than light, you would only stretch out how long that time takes

its like fps and tick and delta time stuff, confusing, but you know what im saying cause u smarts

"serious games" mh mh, like games for "mature adults"?

[cobalt oracle]

I've played at least one game in unigine... I think? 🤔

[cobalt oracle]

nah, usually educational games are "serious games"
games about "serious" topics

[hollow dawn]

only adults bother with serious topics

[cobalt oracle]

nah, we pretend we do

[hollow dawn]

so how is anyone supposed to trust another "pretendmature" person?

we have a "serious" social issue here i think, is us talking about it... mature? yay! adulthood reached \o/

[lofty lark]

*Unless you use Rider

[hollow dawn]

isnt Rider called Twix now?

[lofty lark]

[cobalt oracle]

You realize you are an adult when you reach a situation in your life where you need an adult and then you remember you are an adult and need an adultier adult

https://tenor.com/view/raid-cartman-gaming-gif-14736747

[lofty lark]

I wish I had a motorcycle 🙁

[hollow dawn]

hog looks much cooler thou

even does burnouts

[cobalt oracle]

why choose? why not a motorhog?

[hollow dawn]

😮

🤯

MOTORHOG! OUR SAVIOR! \o/

[cobalt oracle]

I just saw an update that said it had AI™ included

now I have to installed separatedly?

[hollow dawn]

Al? like Al Bundy?

[cobalt oracle]

they expect me to press buttons?!

[hollow dawn]

Al Bundy pressed all the buttons

and he made 4 touchdowns in one game

[broken sigil]

If you are gonna use any AI would highly recommend Rider's assistant, it's like 10x better than even GPT4 for programming (more than like a custom fine tuned version)

It has more to do with the fact that they can update the plugin often (which there is an update every few days) without having to push an update for the whole IDE

or R#

link?

AI Assistant update
AI Assistant, which was previously included in the EAP builds, has been unbundled in Rider 2023.2 EAP 10. Starting with this build, the functionality is available as a separate plugin. This decision will help us focus on evolving the AI-powered features at a faster pace than if they had been tied to the IDE releases.

[woven wing]

Nothing like super confirmed but looking more likely than not right now, maybe

[broken sigil]

https://blog.jetbrains.com/dotnet/2023/07/21/rider-2023-2-eap-10/

Well the data protection concerns are kinda BS either way

Welp your loss

Why are you using google then?

ah right

And internet at all?

[lofty lark]

Just because you can't avoid 100% of data tracking, doesn't mean you should give up on reducing it at all.

[broken sigil]

Someone who is so concerned about their data shouldn't be using internet at all

[cobalt oracle]

tbh, any other kind of distribution and I ignore the whole thing

nothing is universally loved

[lofty lark]

^?

[cobalt oracle]

things can be universally hated tho 👀

great talk on privacy, made 8 years ago and as present and ever
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kBlH-DQsEg

amazing how with a different name, predicted the rise of AI 👀

[lofty lark]

[broken sigil]

I don't get what data tracking with AI?
You are submitting a prompt, you have direct control over what gets sent

The prompt doesn't magically get consumed by the LLM and reused for future replies
LLM providers like openai have quite strict policies about data collection, chatgpt is using chats for training if you don't opt out
API requests are never used and prompts retained for 30 days for automatic moderation and abuse detection

and?

[cobalt oracle]

can't the LLM read your existing code to give you a more accurate answer?

API requests are never used and prompts retained for 30 days for automatic moderation and abuse detection
also, you have to trust them to keep their word

[lofty lark]

My comment wasn't specific to not using the AI assistant - I know nothing about that thing. It was directed towards the "And internet at all?" and just the general concept of doing what you can to reduce unnecessary data tracking/collection/etc.

[broken sigil]

Rider sends it like the language version, language you are using, etc...
It's sending only what you explicitly selected yourself when it comes to the code itself

[broken sigil]

I don't see that as being unusual at all

[cobalt oracle]

I think that is exactly the point 😅

[broken sigil]

First of all it's checking automatically for updates

[broken sigil]

I agree, we should go back 25 years
Forget automatic updates and convince features, who needs those
Better to just unplug the ethernet cable completely from the pc

[cobalt oracle]

on the other side, they grew up assuming youtube and many other sites could/should be free 👀

[lofty lark]

Part of my job includes analytics for our game and it's made me a lot more aware of data collection/tracking and respective policies/laws/etc. 🙂

[cobalt oracle]

a big crash is comiiiiing ♪

[cobalt oracle]

You can find a middle ground. You can aknowledge that you are the product now and enjoy it 👀

I know icecream isn't nutritious

I'll still eat it

👀

[lofty lark]

It's not a black and white ordeal. It's just a case of reducing unnecessary data collection.

[broken sigil]

I'm aware data collection is huge but I'm not gonna be overly paranoid over it either, I just don't care enough, have bigger issues in my life to deal with than that

[cobalt oracle]

Yep, I'm at that point 👀

kinda sunken cost also, I've got a digital footprint so big by now, trying to go completely off the grid would be kinda silly 😛

[lofty lark]

I use a VPN and default to "no" when things ask about collecting data. I don't do much more than that :p And no google chrome. or edge.

[cobalt oracle]

I would like to have that 🤔
any quick guide you can point me to?

[broken sigil]

Also prompts are more than likely not saved in text format but rather encoded tokenized version which is impossible to convert back without the unique tokenizer instance it was encoded with

LLMs don't take text as input

[cobalt oracle]

now it's my time to be paranoid, either the antivirus is open source or is a scam 👀

[lofty lark]

put did you know, at least in my case, it'll default to blocking connections to a p4 server

[broken sigil]

You'll first need a 400GB VRAM machine 😅

[cobalt oracle]

its trying to save you! 🥺

[broken sigil]

Btw there is a rumor that 5090 might have 32 or 42 GB of vram

[lofty lark]

saving me from connection got connecting to a p4 server hosted on my LAN. ty. and blocking pings too.

[cobalt oracle]

and we went full circle to LK99 👀

[broken sigil]

You could probably train a tiny specialized LLM for a specific task

[cobalt oracle]

if we get superconductors, we can kiss our freedom goodbye

all hail our superconductor ai overlord

[fleet tangle]

32 ie 42gb of vram?

[broken sigil]

gonna suck at everything else but be good at that 1 thing

[broken sigil]

or*

typo

[fleet tangle]

Ah

[cobalt oracle]

perforce is eeeeeeviiiiiiiil

[broken sigil]

p4 sucks

[cobalt oracle]

but what if we can teach verse to the llm?

[lofty lark]

i really dislike that it blocked me from pinging a machine on my LAN. stupid. Spent literal hours figuring out why I couldn't even ping it. Disable windows firewall and voila.

[woven wing]

Like every AI Assist 1* is something I can't read in Chinese

[lofty lark]

Do you use a product or have you configured your firewall yourself?

I don't like the idea of a 3rd party product managing my firewall :p

Are you configuring windows defender firewall specifically, or your network firewall, or both?

If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

[proud jay]

the launcher is so good at deleting stuff

[broken sigil]

The other day I had to wait for it to download a 50gb game before it deleted old engine versions

Apparently it can't do both at the same time lol

[median wraith]

that reminds me of Ogre3D

[woven wing]

What's the fastest way to waste 19 hours 45 minutes and 43 seconds

[lofty lark]

You can try counting every second that passes

Get a sharpie and an empty wall. Draw a line every for second that passes. Or minute if you wanna go slow. Let your inner child live a bit.

[timber viper]

Watch mob psycho's first two seasons

[woven wing]

Visit a black hole

https://tenor.com/view/kung-fu-hustle-gif-24481539

[dense steppe]

is there any help section in this server?

[woven wing]

Usually just #ue5-general Or if it's for something specific there's channels for more specific topics

[dense steppe]

but can i use threads for asking seperate questions?

[woven wing]

No threads, just raw chat here

[dense steppe]

what is that and where is that

[woven wing]

HE OLD

[fleet tangle]

I am. 😦

[inland oriole]

https://tenor.com/view/simpsons-hahah-nelson-simpsons-haha-laugh-gif-12400026

[carmine frigate]

is threads like X?

its meta X?

[timber viper]

@fleet tangle happy birthday 🎂

[inland oriole]

"Welcome to the Metaverse, now available along with 𝕏"

[carmine frigate]

they should have called it facebookverse

that would be3 super Meta

i have an oculus, should i try facebookverse?

is it any good?

[inland oriole]

Facebook has a bad reputation though. The Metaverse is clearly brand new and absolutely not associated with Facebook™️ 😛

[carmine frigate]

yea i dispise facebook... but Elon is even worse 😛

[woven wing]

𝕱𝒜 𝔸 𝒩𝒢

New FAANG just dropped

[carmine frigate]

i have no idea what that is

[woven wing]

Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, Google

[inland oriole]

That's why today's sponsor will let us introduce the brand new Tesla Model 𝕏 which now features a built in VR mode! Simply enter your car. Stop driving and your windows will magically turn into a display so that you can play your favorite driving games from the comfort of your own car! Only for 59.999,99 US dollars*. The first 20 buyers get a special surprise from the man Elon him self!**

*price does not include cup holders, safety belts, a steering wheel, wheels.

**The special surprise is not actually given out by Elon Musk him self but does contain a lame hand written message that was copied pasted.

[carmine frigate]

i could buy a real car with that money

[woven wing]

Trains are cooler

[inland oriole]

Clearly you misunderstood. The car is a car but it also has windows that can turn into screens once you stop driving.

So once you're tired from all the silly people on the road you can just put your car somewhere, play GTA V to let all the rage out and proceed with your day.

[carmine frigate]

Elon said he would spend a billions on a supercomputer so he can teach chatGPT how to drive

[inland oriole]

The problem is however that most people do not buy trains. I know it's a shocking discovery 😦

[carmine frigate]

the guy is clearly insane

and thats a seperate project than where he is about to teach chatgpt the secrets of the universe

thats even more cuckoo

[inland oriole]

So he wants to learn... An AI largely focused on doing text related tasks... How to drive a car instead of, you know.. Might sound crazy.. Just developing an AI that can drive a car? 😛

[carmine frigate]

its all the same

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvnBn-P4Wr4

[inland oriole]

Yes, but no.

[carmine frigate]

no but yes

[inland oriole]

no but yes but no.

[carmine frigate]

mayB but 100% no

[inland oriole]

I ask my self this question every day 🥲

[inland oriole]

But what if yes, but actually no but then it turns out to be reverse day so the yes turns into a no and the no turns into a yes ONLY for it to then not actually be a yes, so once again we're back to it being a no.

[carmine frigate]

but ive been saying that all along

[inland oriole]

Awh man. I'm sorry that I didn't see that. This all cleared it up for me! Hopefully you can forgive me.

[carmine frigate]

no but yes

mayB

[inland oriole]

Conversion kits?

[lofty lark]

I imagine it'd be cheaper to just buy a EV instead of converting a gas/diesel vehicle to electric

And who knows how'd that effect the vehicle.

The more I think about it, the more I hate it lol

Oh but could you imagine the look on a mechanics face when you drop off a F250 that's been converted? Just a normal loud diesel truck they'd think. Until they go to start it to take it in the shop and silence.

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/arcimoto-arcimoto-fuv-fuv-roadster-trike-gif-24770713

[carmine frigate]

v12 in a cybertruck 😛

[lofty lark]

"We went from 12 cylinders to 12 volts!" I like it.

[carmine frigate]

nah convert ur elec car to diesel

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/tesla-truck-elon-musk-outerspacefrisbee-gif-24405598

[woven wing]

truk

[carmine frigate]

if you fart a lot in ur air intake you go faster

elec cars dont have that

[soft night]

well there was one weekend was when this happen https://www.autoblog.com/2023/07/24/battery-fire-destroys-lancia-delta-evo-e-rx-team-cars-shuts-down-world-rx-event-in-uk/

[worldly sapphire]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtdWGmIgwK8

It's crazy what we take for granted from the Unreal Editor

Also I feel less bad for being overwhelmed and giving up on mapping for Half Life when I was a teen

[celest musk]

i made some maps for halflife, when hammer was even worse

which is probably why i wasn't overwhelmed that much 😄

[clear dust]

reminds me of the glory days of Starcraft making UMS maps...sigh

[tulip orbit]

https://i.imgur.com/35zQHKA.mp4

[zinc matrix]

breath in, breath out, heavily for 15 minutes

[cursive crypt]

Stop breathing.

Wait, we forgot to write the Inheritance first!

[unreal ether]

Who's going to take over the coroutine madness 😔

[cursive crypt]

You just call co_await

[sweet rose]

I created this today

[fleet tangle]

I wasn't sure if that was real or not at first. Fuzz camera is fuzzy!

It's pretty good.

[sweet rose]

Thank you 🙂

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/owl-heavy-breathing-intensifies-gif-18035285

[dull thorn]

I'm still amazed how so many games have to use fomo to get people to pay, but League of Legends is still super successful just having skins for champions

[fathom wadi]

its successful because people love to repeat the same thing expecting a different result, the definition of insanity. Combined with the fact when they get the opportunity they can expel some stress by calling someone else awful names and blaming their inadequacies on the team. It's a perfect storm of hatred. The skin part of supplemental to it's success really as you can earn them, bar a few.

what I'm saying is, it's a horrid environment for horrid people 😄

Baldhead's gate 3 releases today. Can't wait to play it tomorrow as it will take so long to download 😄

[soft night]

expanse tellgate series is out it seems

[proud jay]

I'd play it if I would have anyone to play it with 😭

[dull thorn]

You just described most of the games on the market, not like league is unique in that regard, and yet I still feel like their monetization is very much fair.

[fathom wadi]

Not sure I will play it with others but looking forward to a solo run or two. So much variation in it I think it will be a staple for downtime when I don't want to play online

[proud jay]

I don't really sit at my pc and play games that much anymore though

maybe I should

I would want to try it with my gf, but 60 bucks is a lot for something she'll probably ditch very soon lol

[fathom wadi]

yeah I wasn't going to pay for it until a sale but I played some slots and won a little cash so forked out for it. Essentially free

[proud jay]

but how much have you lost in slots previously though

the mind tricks to justify games 😄

[fathom wadi]

over the last 10 years or so of playing online slots I'm still up a bit. I was lucky with some huge wins on free bets

I'm very conservative with slots because I'm addicted to them. I only put in £20 a month tops, I play minimum stakes (0.10p - 0.30p) and I cash out when I hit £100-£200. I give my wife half of everything and play with the rest.

A couple of times I've won £1500 or so. A few times I've hit £500+ and I've paid for so many things from household goods to computer parts. I have been lucky though. I wouldn't recommend it as you will always lose in the long run. They are designed that way.

I also get a lot of free bets because I'm signed up to a couple of hundred casinos so I get offers to "come back with these free spins" and sometimes I win and cash out

[proud jay]

lol

really sounds like an addiction

but seems like you have it somewhat under control

[fathom wadi]

I have to. I have a family and I wouldn't let my addiction affect them negatively. I used to be real bad with it when I was younger though. Spending all my wages and rent on it sometimes.

A few trips to gamblers anonymous sorted out my mindset on it tho

[tulip orbit]

I should check my lottery tickets 🤔

[cursive crypt]

Can give you my bro, he is a big fan.

[hollow dawn]

BG3 is multiplayer? O.o

[cursive crypt]

Non MS DOS

[hollow dawn]

ohhhh true... Divinity had mp too mmmh... never tried that lol, some turn based fights took forever in solo already lol

fucking slime blobs... yes you you slow af slimes!

worst battle...

worse than the taverna fight in wrath of the righteous

not the difficulty... the time those two fights took 😛
45mins for the slime one in divinity 2... the taverna one in wrath of righteous is even longer if you dont turn on real time (not possible in divinity)

and its mostly waiting for enemies to move, which aint exactly exciting with slime blobs lol

...and since im starting to rant... the inventory system in divinity 2 is arse, and the rp part? great, if only i could tell that old mysterious woman to piss off and let me rp for real... so, mid day rant done...

[proud jay]

I like dos2 though

though I never finished it

it's so long

I played like 40 hours and was like in chapter 2 lol

[hollow dawn]

oh, and the characters, all whiny emo slaves, except for the dragonchad, hes boss... i played the emo elf thou... so sad... so sad...

[proud jay]

and there were 4 I think

from a story point bg3 does seem interesting though

seems like they really tried to capture that dnd feel even more

[hollow dawn]

yeah i like DOS1 and 2 even thoi rant... i dont rant about shite games

but i only play games for the steam achievements anyway, shows the ladies that im fit and playful, i know, back in the day you became a lumberjack or fireman, these days you run a dinosaur zoo and shoot lego people dead, husband material right there

[proud jay]

you must be very succesful with the ladies

[hollow dawn]

nah, my friends all have much bigger steam levels :/

but i got a free sticker in summer sale, so i must be someones favorite

https://tenor.com/view/its-a-gift-for-you-reem-shaikh-pinkvilla-gift-present-gif-17412988

[pearl elk]

still not legal drinking age

[worldly sapphire]

Mine will be 20 in a month

[pearl elk]

theyre for Gabens steak account

Its good for having friends... which we all know gamers dont have any 😛

[worldly sapphire]

Cards were nice at the start to make some small cash to buy keys to unlock crates

[pearl elk]

But how do you add them on Steam with no levels

[worldly sapphire]

back when i was a broke teen

[pearl elk]

I was never a teen on Steam

[inland oriole]

🥲

[pearl elk]

you'll hit a limit 😛

then you need levels to get more friend slots

[inland oriole]

You mean pay Valve a whole 10 cents to get silly trading cards?

[pearl elk]

I add my boss on Steam

he fired me for being too uwu

[unreal ether]

Valid

[worldly sapphire]

sounds justified

[pearl elk]

you should see the games he was playing

[unreal ether]

Should I?

[pearl elk]

1000 hours in a game about dongs 😛

[unreal ether]

I'm going to pretend you meant to say dogs

[worldly sapphire]

Rising Storm 2: Vietnam?

(Because their currency is dong)

[fleet tangle]

I can think of a game that fits the description. Just don't want to go there!

[unreal ether]

It's a solid guess

https://tenor.com/view/science-wise-monty-python-who-are-you-gif-13606581

[pearl elk]

dogs on a stick taste delicious

https://tenor.com/view/corndog-gif-24457481

[unreal ether]

Counterpoint: Chickens can be cannibalistic evil little bastards and they taste good

[fleet tangle]

I think chickens have earned the right to be a little uppity.

[pearl elk]

A moment for all the stolen eggs

[sweet rose]

TIL that the creator of Choo Choo Charles is only 22 years old

Gotta skill up fellas

[cursive crypt]

Some ppl loose their virginity in highschool even.

[sweet rose]

weird reply

[cursive crypt]

https://tenor.com/view/very-normal-not-weird-at-all-super-normal-weird-super-weird-gif-22607390

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/lancia-delta-evoluzione-hf-evo-gif-7528322

[sweet rose]

He started learning Unreal when he was 12

[pearl elk]

Unreal wasnt even released when I was 12 😭

[sweet rose]

my computer couldn't even run roblox when i was 12

but it could run

Plants VS Zombies

https://tenor.com/view/plants-vs-zombies-gif-26295314

[cursive crypt]

32 bit apps were all the rage back then.

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/windows-gif-4805990

[pearl elk]

Mate how old do you think I am, more like 16bit apps

[sweet rose]

48

[pearl elk]

*48bit

[sweet rose]

🤣

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/c64-christmas-xmas64-commodore-mug-gif-19517511

[pearl elk]

https://tenor.com/view/nintendo-dk-retrogaming-c64-crackers-gif-19435616

[cursive crypt]

https://tenor.com/view/games-vintage-pixels-gif-9131396

[soft night]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_64

[celest musk]

played that like 2 weeks ago on some website 😄

[cursive crypt]

It always brought some uneasiness. It was a mass murder simulator.

[celest musk]

now you sound like someone who wants to speak the manager

[pearl elk]

Karen mod for Lemmings when?

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/lemmings-lemmings3d-gif-20977030

https://tenor.com/view/geek-atari-st-vintage-demoscene-gif-13003459

[fathom wadi]

these young 'uns posting their profiles. heh.

[pearl elk]

Is Jankfest on again already?

[worldly sapphire]

I'm older if it's the same timezone

[chrome gull]

it is always a good time to replay fallout 4!

my favorite game ever

[proud jay]

mine is only 11 years 😔

[chrome gull]

5

for me

[fathom wadi]

yeah but that was my second account. My first was on the beta as I was a counterstrike player so I had it early.

[worldly sapphire]

Man, I remember excited as hell for CS1.6

Until I encountered the riot shield

[fathom wadi]

yeah

[worldly sapphire]

Oh and the kids today will never know how jank and hated Steam was at first

[fathom wadi]

I was running a clan called the Judean People's Front at that time. Had so much fun.

yeah steam took up about 10% of the cpu at beta/launch. So you ended up with less fps

[worldly sapphire]

Friends and chat never worked

[fathom wadi]

The first program I wrote as an adult was for Counterstrike. I made it with Flash + PHP. It was called CS-Elements and let you save tactics by using a HLTV style interface where you drew waypoints for your team. Kinda like the Ghost Recon map method. Then it saved to a flatpack database so you could share tactics as text files and load them up. I made it because I was sick of recruiting 5 people a week and having to run through the same plans with them all. I should have sold it but I quit CS after 5 and a half years so never did.

[worldly sapphire]

oh wow, I remember something like that, making plans for de_dust and wishing I had friends to play it with

And to imagine, 20 years later I'm making gantt charts

[soft night]

my stream service badge is 12 but next time it update is on 9/11

as month second

[clear dust]

I literally yawned after watching this

[pearl elk]

https://tenor.com/view/kitty-cloud-kitty-cloud-funny-weird-gif-26492399

[broken sigil]

😐

[median wraith]

even Gears of War is using fortnite software this days

[chrome gull]

bruhhhhhhh

https://tenor.com/view/facepalm-annoyed-stöhn-oh-no-oh-nein-gif-24943313

imagine knowing AND not knowing what a game engine is

[broken sigil]

Fortnite Slackers™️

[median wraith]

Fortnite Stalker

Since Stalker is made using fortnite software too, it fits

[carmine frigate]

X software

[mossy nexus]

Xoftware?

[cursive crypt]

60?

[pearl elk]

Xortnite

[cursive crypt]

Forknite

[pearl elk]

Sporknite 😮

https://tenor.com/view/forky-scared-yell-woody-toy-story4-gif-16233879

[celest musk]

technically we got a lot of stuff in UE thanks to fortnite

[worldly mesa]

odd question, but is Amazon.com not working in Edge for anyone else? you have to actually either try to login, or try a search if already logged in. full crash out

[celest musk]

don't worry, they do it for you

[proud jay]

That’s where all the crunch effort goes

[worldly mesa]

it is what i use strictly for streaming services and amazon shopping (heavily controlled through Group Policy and Privacy.sexy and manual settings though. never had any issues until today

[celest musk]

you know, microsoft windows is some kind of multi user operation system

[worldly mesa]

actually, i do the window shopping with Librewolf and only go directly to the product i am ordering in Edge

[celest musk]

you can just run it as different user

[worldly mesa]

i am not sure of the point at this time..

are you saying like, 'test it yourself'?

[celest musk]

not messing with a bunch of permission settings

because it's kinda sandboxed by default

[worldly mesa]

Oh.. nah, it is fine for me. i am used to it :/🥲

[carmine frigate]

isnt that fraud?

or identity theft?

[celest musk]

co_await UE5Coro::Latent::NextTick();                
EnableDisabledCamera();

this would run EnableDisabledCamera(); on next tick, right?

[cursive crypt]

What if you save/load your game that tick?

[celest musk]

what if i told you that i make a soul like game where you cant die

[cursive crypt]

You save on a cupcake bar? Count me in.

[celest musk]

i lock player input and wait for a arbitrary number of seconds before i save

so that all transitions can play out

😛.

[cursive crypt]

Pff... I show a message box with all the values which the player has to write down on paper.
On load, they enter the values back.

[celest musk]

i bet there's at least one game out there which did that :>

World->GetTimerManager().ClearTimer(SwapPendingViewTargetWhenUsingClientSideCameraUpdatesTimerHandle);

nice name epic

[regal pecan]

More than a few. I recall strategy guides including codes with max resources (effectively cheats).

[worldly mesa]

turns out that if there is a windows notification up that says Update Virus Definitions, it crashes out. Dismiss that particular message, and it works fine again :/

[broken sigil]

lol

[carmine frigate]

just make new stuff... dont look at ur old stuff

if more variables is not these variables set more variables these variables

replace dunno lol with I know

[cobalt hare]

Anyone have any tips or can recommend where someone new to unreal can look for game optimizing?

I've been using Unreal 5 and Lumen for a year now. Made a game have it on Steam. I can't figure out how to get my Maps to run good. Low FPS on them. I've tried watching youtube videos and done the things I've seen and probably broke things and made things worse more than helped maybe lol

I did all of this in blueprint. Is that why? Need to be smarter and code with C++ to get a game to run smooth high FPS lol

[timber viper]

Basically by profiling and detecting overheads

then coming up with a strategy to eliminate them

[tulip orbit]

has anyone looked at that audio bundle on humble bundle? Need audio for my game, it seems to have a wide selection but not sure if its good

[fathom wadi]

I went to the store the other day and someone was at the counter. They asked "Do you have any audio books with subtitles" so I replied "Sir, that's a book".

[tulip orbit]

https://tenor.com/view/ba-dum-tsss-drum-band-gif-7320811

[zinc matrix]

Jeezzzz!!!! I missed my schelduled optometrist because I could not sleep well.

one week after starting to use the new glasses lens and still not adjusted. Either there is some mistake in the astigmatism or there is something else causing this extreme failure to adjust

[clear dust]

My optometrist wrote me a prescription for what they wanted to sell me, NOT what I actually needed.

[fleet tangle]

Isn't that illegal?

My friend had a doctor's prescription once. Went to the pharmacy to get it filled and the guy said, "this is basically the same, have this instead."

Turns out that "basically the same thing" had a food colouring additive that my friend was lethally allergic to.

Luckily she noticed.

Also very much illegal.

[unborn lotus]

Ban

[regal pecan]

How is unity doing these days

[broken sigil]

https://tenor.com/view/battle-ship-sinking-mjc-gif-19519348

[cursive crypt]

https://tenor.com/view/unity-starts-now-unity-come-together-unite-hands-in-gif-20018311

[clear dust]

https://tenor.com/view/hot-garbage-dumpster-fire-trash-trailer-rubbish-float-gif-16157657

[ruby mason]

trying to live with disabilities, a video essay

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/subaru-car-jump-cars-dirt-rally-gif-18782608

[pearl elk]

https://tenor.com/view/jinki948-cat-shocked-shocked-face-shock-gif-22585372

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/rally-car-jump-fast-gif-9043004

[pearl elk]

https://tenor.com/view/rally-racing-rally-car-rally-jump-high-speed-rally-jump-gif-5468714

[cursive crypt]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-drive-car-funny-gif-25309052

[pearl elk]

https://tenor.com/view/traffic-pileups-gif-21467569

[cursive crypt]

https://tenor.com/view/bad-boy-bad-boy-bad-boy-cat-gif-19614922

[fleet tangle]

I thought tihs was how southern europe was doing

[pearl elk]

https://tenor.com/view/gang-relationship-pose-hand-sign-gif-17947179

[proud jay]

https://tenor.com/view/rain-sad-man-man-in-rain-gif-23062134

this is how belgium has been doing the past 2 weeks

[regal pecan]

at what temp?

[proud jay]

like 20 ish celsius

[fleet tangle]

This person thinks they're cool.. but they really aren't.

[pearl elk]

Just your avg CS player 😛

[regal pecan]

I'm sold. Package and mail me some of that wimdy.

[fleet tangle]

It's this weather in London atm

[soft night]

if want to see some rally car jumping https://sectorallyfinland.fi/en/press-photos/

[pearl elk]

https://tenor.com/view/supertrucks-trucks-gif-7652377

[deep glen]

same here

[soft night]

https://gfycat.com/gifs/search/rally+finland there is some gifs

[proud jay]

damn but I really don't care though

[soft night]

going 180km per hour on between trees

[fluid bloom]

https://giphy.com/gifs/officialWRC-crash-rolling-rally-3xINyooRG4JB4XPKQu

[cursive crypt]

https://tenor.com/view/bike-fail-bike-fall-gif-16484215

[fluid bloom]

https://giphy.com/gifs/car-news-C1kHJlcprz5cc

[proud jay]

https://tenor.com/view/risumies-finland-suomi-gif-18204992

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/adrien-fourmaux-wrc-fiesta-jump-69m-gif-26508979

[pearl elk]

https://tenor.com/view/simracing-car-crash-assetto-corsa-gif-24153154

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/estonia-rally-estonia-rally-rally-fail-gif-15056916

[pearl elk]

https://tenor.com/view/fall-asleep-car-crash-sleep-sleep-on-car-gif-26365134

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/s4-integrale-lancia-delta-wrc-gif-20573602

https://tenor.com/view/subaru-rally-wrc-subaru-rally-wrc-racing-gif-16681847

[pearl elk]

https://tenor.com/view/fly-away-car-crash-speed-driving-gif-17567550

[proud jay]

man I got some instant soup and it tastes disgusting and delicious at the same time

I'm conflicted

[tulip orbit]

like a bad movie?

so horrible its entertaining?

[proud jay]

kind of I guess

[tulip orbit]

ugh, one more day then a long weekend

[proud jay]

how so long?

some holiday monday?

[fluid bloom]

same thing for me with instant noodles

the amount of salt and palm oil in them is hideous

but still, delicious

[proud jay]

Northern Territory Picnic Day

lol

nice holiday

[hollow dawn]

so... appearantly, 120° seems to kinda be the rectangle of hexagons... mmmh...

[proud jay]

what

[hollow dawn]

... like, you go straight ahead but wanna go right? you turn 90°... not if you are a hexagon... you dont have 4 sides that define a rectangle but 6...

[fluid bloom]

I just go from 1,1,1 to 1,1,2 when I turn left

[proud jay]

why not just say the angles of a hexagon are 120

idk what a rectangle has to with this

[hollow dawn]

cause its 60°

[proud jay]

what

[hollow dawn]

you just dont understand math the way i do

[hollow dawn]

the edges of a hex are 120° to one another ya, thats what the rectangle polly is... but hexagons themselves are aligned in 60° intervals

[proud jay]

I think you talked to horse seeman a little too much

[hollow dawn]

cubes might not even exist

most things are pairs of three

[proud jay]

like your braincells seemingly

[hollow dawn]

RGB, CYM, chromatic metals, i-qing, quantum entanglement, etc

even a cube... is actually just a bunch of triple pairs... like triangles make up rectangles anyway

but you usually have 2 triangles so a rectangle and cube aare actully a base shape that forms one pair

[proud jay]

you've been doing too much graphics programming

[hollow dawn]

ya but you get really close to the origin of shit via geometry and color theory, combine it with math and physics and visualize how the universe is

like... combine these two and the stuff about cubes and hexes. and go wuut, horse seeman showed me the light \o/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1px8hBl7zg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go2KPTNhNgE

[unborn lotus]

CYM but you forgot the K?

[hollow dawn]

K aint a color

its just a power

[cursive crypt]

https://tenor.com/view/dance-old-man-dancing-stanky-legs-street-dance-gif-11916134

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/theitalianjob-italian-job-1969-classicmini-gif-5076023

[fleet tangle]

Is he saying weeeeeeeeeee again?

[chrome gull]

why does paypal refuse to give me my money damn

I am desperate for new hardware

[median cape]

it takes a bit of time

[chrome gull]

im more surprised that people actually pay on itch

paypal is just refusing to give me the money

like bro

[hollow dawn]

once they kept mine for like 6 month -.-

[chrome gull]

noooo don't say that I'm scared now

[unborn lotus]

Only if you bought a tesla

[misty maple]

why even buy a tesla when u can buy a shitbox 😄

[unborn lotus]

Why buy one when you can build one yourself

[chrome gull]

heh why is that

please educate

bro steals $10 dollars for every $100 (or 200?) dollars that I make

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/nikola-tesla-electricity-nikola-tesla-tesla-electricity-god-gif-25756523

and magnets can do this https://youtu.be/Ulk4hw7pUZY

[finite jackal]

Random people of the internet, do you have a cheap keyboard recommendation?

[lofty lark]

Logitech K120 get's alotta love from one blue wizard

[carmine frigate]

i have 1 like that

its great

[lofty lark]

that enter key is so tall

[carmine frigate]

ow w8, my enter isnt that tall

i have a backslash there

[lofty lark]

That's just more chances of me making a typo

[carmine frigate]

my shifts are bigger

also my + on my numpad

a tiny minus

its good for c++

not c--

no ansi is best.. its on top

[zinc matrix]

So I went back to the optometrist and I really need new lens. -4 and -4.25 and the astigmatism swapped sides from one eye to the other. Half a year was enough to make the old prescription outdated. This explains why I was feeling dizzy and uncomfortable. She didn't follow the machine. According to the machine measures I'd need -6 and this would mean making two glasses, one for short, another for far. But then I'd have to pay for two glasses. The solution was to take an average to keep one glass.

[carmine frigate]

yea but you have to read it left to right

[lofty lark]

such a smol space bar

[zinc matrix]

bifocal wasn't recommended because I'd require some forced adaptation

[clear dust]

yeah I declined on the bifocals

[carmine frigate]

I just have a big monitor

[chrome gull]

well isn't that delightful

i hope i can finish building a pc before starfield comes out

[clear dust]

yeah I cancelled my PayPal after they started generally doing some shady stuff. months after I cancelled they started trying to spam a bunch of charges on a credit card I don't even remember giving to them smh...

[timber viper]

I wonder how the latter ended up

[median wraith]

I do know a gamedev that paypal freeze his money because they thought Steam were a weapons dealer

[timber viper]

PayPal is blocked in Turkey, so never had an issue but I was very much into it back in 2015

[timber viper]

weapons dealer

who wouldnt pay their weapons dealer via paypal

[median wraith]

Who the hell knows haha

Actually... XD

[timber viper]

average AK47 is around 2500usd iirc

[clear dust]

in csgo? cuz the real thing is much cheaper

[chrome gull]

I'll need to find something new then damn

any alts y'all know of?

[chrome gull]

lmfaoo

[chrome gull]

wait what? how much does one cost?

[clear dust]

no, I was only using that service because eBay required it until a few years ago, I never used any others

[chrome gull]

welp

thanks for the note tho

[clear dust]

I was with my nephew when he bought one roughly 5 years ago at a retailer, it was well under $1000 usd

[chrome gull]

damn, that's it??

guns are cheaper than I thought they would be

[clear dust]

I don't know what it's like in other countries, but yeah in the USA yes gun prices start out shockingly low

[carmine frigate]

aint really allowed to buy guns here

[timber viper]

thats how it should be

[carmine frigate]

mayB if you join a shooting or hunting club some some shit

[timber viper]

why tf you would sell weapons to citizens

[carmine frigate]

bet i can buy a bow tho

i build a potato cannon once... that thing could down a tree

[clear dust]

has anyone ever been murdered with a potato cannon?

[carmine frigate]

prolly

mine had a whole nitro gas canister... it was kind of a danger too the user aswell

[chrome gull]

what's a potato cannon?

[chrome gull]

yikes

are they reliable?

or subject to breaking often?

[carmine frigate]

https://tenor.com/view/potato-cannon-linus-acetylene-recoil-kick-back-gif-16438820

[clear dust]

there are some really cheap handguns, like $200 ish, that have a pretty bad reputation for reliability

maybe even less i dont remember exactly

[chrome gull]

i was not expecting an actual potato cannon

[chrome gull]

I see

[unreal ether]

I've heard the HiPoint horror stories lmao

[chrome gull]

welp whatever I cannot buy them in my country anyway

[unreal ether]

It's amazing that people would cheap out on something that if it backfires will literally blow your face off

[clear dust]

yeah thats one of them lol

[chrome gull]

people will cheap out on literally everything mindlessly

like it's astonishing

[clear dust]

yeah, esp when they could go from junk to decent quality paying like 10% more sometimes

[chrome gull]

I've seen people on reddit with an RTX 3080 and a $20 (?) PSU

your PC will set itself on fire bud

[unreal ether]

Here in the UK they do too. But you have to have stringent background checks and regular police visits.

You also have to apply for every gun you want to buy, and have a valid reason for doing so. And then youre still subject to the right being revoked and things like ammo limits.

While I think it's a tad overkill personally, it works wonders.

Something solid for hunting or plinking at the local club like a ruger 10/22 starts out quite cheap. So do a lot of shotguns, because you basically need one as a farmer

[chrome gull]

I've heard it's the best in Switzerland

[unreal ether]

Me too

[chrome gull]

you can keep the gun but the bolt should be kept somewhere else

and/or ammo should be separate too

[unreal ether]

Same here. It's a really good method to ensure people can still enjoy it as a sport but can't just get their hands on a deadly weapon willy nilly

[clear dust]

specific limitations vary significantly from state to state in the USA, and also your self-defense rights

[unreal ether]

Again I do think the restrictions are slightly overkill. Like you aren't allowed to own any semi automatic centerfire rifle.

The thing I found weird is that the us hates allowing suppressors, where here in the UK they're encouraged. Well they're called moderators here, but they're the same thing

[zinc wagon]

in algeria you'll need to have a valid reason (which is hunting usually) and you're only allowed to have a very limited variation of weapons which the most recent one was probably made in like 1800s

well that is the case for only "weapons that shoot bullets". you can obtain swords for a much more relaxed ruling around it

i mean you can just have one if you want. they might give you wrist slap at worst

[unreal ether]

The weapon limits here are quite strict too. But not as strict

If it's rimfire you can have semi auto/bolt action
If it's center fire, manual action only
If it's a shotgun, you can own any capacity semi auto on a firearms certificate, however on a shotgun certificate (way easier to get, literally just a Google search to ensure you aren't a criminal) you can only own a manual action holding no more than 3 rounds
Cannot be under 30cm in length
Cannot be fully automatic

Me too. Those are scary

[zinc wagon]

they look badass tho

[unreal ether]

If someone comes at me with a sword it's because they truly hate me, and have practiced years to kill me with it :P

[zinc wagon]

and they arched so you cant really stab someone with it

you'll need to slash which takes more skill

[unreal ether]

Anyone here ever tried archery?

I find that quite fun

[zinc wagon]

when i was young yeah

the fucking bow was heavy and the longest distance i got was like 3 meters

[regal pecan]

Although in the few cases when someone does have a sword, it's been someone who's gone mad and is randomly swiping it at people they've never met.

[zinc wagon]

no heavy in a sense of picking but in a sense of actually drawing the bow

[unreal ether]

https://tenor.com/view/sword-knight-swordplay-swashbuckler-gif-12304957

[carmine frigate]

its super hard

its not like in the movies

[unreal ether]

Saw a guy training to draw a 135 pound draw weight bow

Was insane

[zinc wagon]

my man is using a cannon not a bow at this point!

[unreal ether]

Pfft yeah right, I hit the bullseye on my first ever shot 😎

It was some serious beginners luck. Never even got close again in my few attempts since :P

[regal pecan]

Not far off from the intended use.

[carmine frigate]

kid from my school got a spear in his neck in front of a lot off ppl and died

[unreal ether]

👀

I'm sorry what

[carmine frigate]

yea crazy stuff... some freak accident or fooling around

[unreal ether]

Fortunately never got traumatized by something like that. The kids did always try to murder each other with the javelins, but soon got expelled for it

[zinc wagon]

kids at my school used the razors that come in sharpeners, shove in a pencile and use it as some kind of a knife

almost got killed by one

[unreal ether]

Kids in my school just skipped the middle man and brought knives

[zinc wagon]

thank god i was tall enough for the kid to not reach my neck 😅

UK?

[unreal ether]

We had a constant police patrol in my school

[unreal ether]

How did you guess

[zinc wagon]

just a hunch 😎

thankfully tho no one was murdered (i think)

[unreal ether]

Fortunately not at my school

[zinc wagon]

actually you reminded me. we used to have gang wars between schools lmao

just bunch of 12 year olds with stick and rocks beating the shit out of each other

'twas fun to watch when i was young

[unreal ether]

Sounds like typical 12 year old behaviour tbh

Yep. They're in direct competition with the unity studio called 'other kids with rocks'

[zinc wagon]

oh god im sorry to hear that! did the stabbed get cought? and is your friend ok?

[carmine frigate]

friend of mine got stabbed too a long time ago... had an argument with a group of guys.. while talking with 1 of em another got behind him and stabbed him 4 times in the back, pretty messed up

it healed fine... but he never really went out clubbing or anything after that..

basically changed him 4ever

that friend of mine was around 20 or so when it happened

dunno how old the others were

[mossy nexus]

I'll refrain from telling some of the horror stories, from my old town. Think of something bad. very bad. It's probably worse than that.

GoG it works, you buy games, you play games.

[median wraith]

Except for their own games that if you don't get the launcher you cannot get The Witcher 2 because is corrupted

[carmine frigate]

yea thats the bear sex game

it was in the news

catchy angle

[worldly mesa]

what do you guys think?
https://trulyergonomic.com/ergonomic-keyboards/mechanical-keyboards/products/cleave-truly-ergonomic-mechanical-switch-keyboard/

[zinc wagon]

thanks, i hate it

one of the main reasons keyboards makes me uncomftable when using them for so long is because my hands need to be close to eachother when typing. i want to spread and strighten my arms when typing which those half and half keyboards provide

[worldly mesa]

i have a limited space to consider too, have to limit to around 13 inches wide

looking at this though, i do not think it is angled quite enough

i am just to old and tired and busy to consider building my own anymore

don't those cost like 10k 😛 Thanks, i will look 🙂

[worldly mesa]

Ok, i ended up getting the Cloud NineErgoTKL MX Brown
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41pwoydv7pL._AC_.jpg

[worldly mesa]

a very good point that effected my decision. Thanks

it makes sense, for sure

i would have loved the HD screen one that Dieter had shared, but it is just a straight keyboard. the whole reason i need a new keyboard is because i cannot bend my wrists and arms like that anymore. I have been using an angled keyboard, but it is Membrane style, so kept missing keystrokes

yeah.. to bad it is not ergo, or probably even decent action

i do not really like the fact i would have to find a wrist support solution for that though

20 or 30 years ago, i'd have been there with them 🙂 I was born to early :/

[worldly mesa]

That is so strange. it is now verified, if this message is up, Amazon website crashes in Edge. this is probably due to the oddball settings i do to try to keep microsoft out of my daily business

[cursive crypt]

TIL the downvote button in r/GamingCircleJerk is a logo of Epic Games.

[regal pecan]

Steam rivalry thing?

[cursive crypt]

Upvote is Gerald from that Witcher book.

[fluid bloom]

geralt

[cursive crypt]

Jérale

[river sable]

https://twitter.com/andercot/status/1687740396691185664?s=46&t=DR80SmuWx_B63PVnJwXDaA

Andrew Cote (@Andercot)

First video of LK-99 Full Levitation, aka flux-pinning

This video was just posted to the Chinese video-sharing site BiliBili and claims to be a highly pure synthesized sample of LK-99.

What is the physical phenomenon behind this and what does it mean?

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might be a fake but if it's real god dang it prepare for magnet memes

[tulip bison]

do you think this will attract memes ?

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/airheads-brendan-fraser-gif-24168191

[carmine frigate]

https://tenor.com/view/magnets-gif-20309785

[hollow dawn]

actually nvm, thees a pro channel for lighting ha... 😛

[tulip bison]

but…

I was just about to tell you

[hollow dawn]

nono, this here is for recreation

[tulip bison]

there should be a field to change that

[hollow dawn]

but ya, please tell anyway 😄

attenuation for spotlights etc, but those dont have godrays for soe reason

directional has unlimited dimensions afaik

[tulip bison]

they don’t have a field ?

[hollow dawn]

directional doesnt, only a direction and strength, its like sunrays, parallel and unlimited in length or dimension

godrays then depend on the interactio of those rays with fog

so either a lightfunction gradient, no clue bout light functions, or limiting the fog height, which is kinda wishy washy for expo height fog

[tulip bison]

are you positive they don’t have one ?

[hollow dawn]

i want like very short but very intense lightshafts coming from the gaps between hexes, atm they go upwards forever kinda

[tulip bison]

ahh so all the light just sticks up like poles ?

[hollow dawn]

nah not like poles, like walls, the lightshafts work, but they go up too far, i want like little fences not very tall walls

cause atm, as you can see, it just becomes a bit pink.... cause lightshafts cover the view and add up, low fences wouldnt obstruct the view and color of the scene, but would still show light leaking through the gaps

[tulip bison]

hmm, Im trying to think of a permanent solution, the only ones I can think of are temporary, its looks cool tho like an electro rave or something

[hollow dawn]

🙂

lol no

or do you see any sausages?

hoho

🦘

[tulip bison]

Do you even realise what ive been saying tho 🤣

[hollow dawn]

im just dorking around, nothing important, just trying to solve stuff i dont know how to do XD
like sudoku or somin, with more color

[hollow dawn]

its animated atm, so temp solutions would likely work, gaps become larger etc anyway so its not a static light situation

[tulip bison]

so no… 😆

literally every message was a reference to magnets haha

[hollow dawn]

duh -.-

dont meme me, i suck at that!

🤯

[tulip bison]

that message was a reference to temporary permanent and electro magnets lol

[hollow dawn]

https://tenor.com/view/danny-kaye-the-court-jester-shoot-and-toot-gif-23465679

[hollow dawn]

whats a finish shader compilation? 🦌

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/nuclearhairdryer-nhd-splashscreen-demo-demoscene-gif-24264151

[hollow dawn]

dudes, why does the unreal launcher have two "Library" buttons... one for engine and one for games... both with the same name... and then you gotta wait for this slog to load to see what is what... 😠

and no i dont wanna install ue in the games folder lul no...

i heard that epic uses actual pigeons to carry the data packets for the launcher to our pcs

but that might just be an urban myth... but then, alot of people say so...

expert people

😮

not use tha launcher? 😮 😮 😮 ohhhh... you mean i can take off this collar and chain? 😮 😮

🏃‍♂️ 💨 ⛓️

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/demo-1984-amiga-boing-demoscene-gif-20223079

https://tenor.com/view/matrix-spoon-gif-24497969

[unborn lotus]

red team go!

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/blue-beetle-xolo-mariduena-sword-suit-take-position-gif-7722981528341759652

[sweet rose]

https://tenor.com/view/lets-ride-nicolas-cage-gone-in60seconds-okay-gif-7806996

best actor ever

https://tenor.com/view/uncut-gems-i-agree-i-disagree-un-cut-gems-uncut-gems-i-agree-gif-20884408

[unborn lotus]

John travolta is pretty good

[sweet rose]

https://tenor.com/view/face-off-gif-13700966

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/red-vs-blue-gif-22536445

[turbid spindle]

:question: is Nicolas Cage best actor?
:8ball: My sources say no.

[turbid spindle]

:question: is Nicolas Cage the greatest actor of all time?
:8ball: Concentrate and ask again.

:question: 🧘‍♂️ Is Nicolas Cage the greatest actor of all time?
:8ball: Yes – definitely.

:question: Is Nicolas Actor the greatest cage of all time?
:8ball: Yes.

:question: is cage the greatest nicolas of all time?
:8ball: Yes – definitely.

[pearl elk]

https://tenor.com/view/ok-nick-cage-nicolas-cage-the-unbearable-weight-of-massive-talent-fine-with-me-gif-25135485

[zinc wagon]

https://tenor.com/view/niculau-nicolas-cage-trip-pedro-pascal-movie-movie-trip-gif-10473773258249426452

[turbid spindle]

:question: is it really?
:8ball: Most likely.

:question: are you best actor of all time?
:8ball: Outlook good.

[zinc matrix]

e

can i use UE 5 with 4gb ram

[pearl elk]

Nope, 4gb is barely enough to run windows

[zinc matrix]

ic

[carmine frigate]

dunno where u live but here those get tossed in the trash

could prolly pick up something with 16gig for free if i go to the recycle center 😛

[pearl elk]

My aunties old rig had 4gb, I ended up getting her a nuc, nvme and 16GB of ram for pretty cheap

now her PC is smaller than her phone lol

[carmine frigate]

yea or could get a tablet

a place i worked once had a few PCs running 12 hours a day... had like 6 year old monitors... like the 1st gen flatscreens

told the boss he should replace em

he was like nah... they work fine

made a calculation that the new monitors would save in power bill more than they cost in less than a year

3 days later we had new monitors 🙂

[pearl elk]

Yeah we've got to look at replacing our reverse cycle AC, the newest ones come with a 7 star energy efficiency rating

[carmine frigate]

sometimes it just pays off to get new stuff

[pearl elk]

The one we got is probably made before the star rating system was even a thing lol

[carmine frigate]

same for a friend with his plasma tv

[pearl elk]

Im loving my new monitor though, upgraded from an older Samsung business monitor to a mid end gaming one and its brilliant. No more screen tearing... finally

[carmine frigate]

yea, my new monitor actually pulls a bit more power than my last

its bigger and 144hz

still have my old1 tho

[pearl elk]

I think it depends on how Im using my PC, if Im loading it up it definitely uses more power

[carmine frigate]

there wasnt that much time between buys.. like 2 years i think

[unborn lotus]

How much is your power bill though? We pay like 50E per month and most of it is for cooking

[carmine frigate]

where?

[pearl elk]

Yeah I think mine was about 2 years too but the other one was one to tide me over, 60hz 4k but this one is 165hz but I run it at 144 max variable sync

[carmine frigate]

i think 50e pays for my vid card for 2 months 😛

Netherlands

[unborn lotus]

Eastern europe, and our prices are among the highest lol

Guess I don't use mine enough

[carmine frigate]

you stealing most of it from the guy next door?

😛

[median wraith]

Cool man cool <@&213101288538374145>

[proud jay]

how the fuck is a game 2,5TB?

I played it once for like 20 min lol

anyone played BG3 yet?

looks dope

120 gig download though 😔

back when I lived with my parents the download limit for a whole month was 150GB lol

[sweet rose]

that's insane

[carmine frigate]

its named shootergame.exe

that explains all

[proud jay]

what really confuses me is that I don't even have a 2 TB drive lol

[carmine frigate]

i watched the unreal stream with some valorant guy... he knew jack shit and was just making stuff up

[proud jay]

how is spotify using 1,4GB

wtf is it storing

[carmine frigate]

what kind of kinky shit u torrenting?

[proud jay]

why would I torrent a free game

[carmine frigate]

bittorrent right above valorant

[proud jay]

it's for completely legal peer to peer sharing of media I already own

obviously

[carmine frigate]

suuuuuure

I bet ur torrent folder is oozin with weirdo shit

[proud jay]

not really

[carmine frigate]

https://tenor.com/view/doubt-press-x-la-noire-meme-x-button-gif-19259237

[proud jay]

🤷‍♂️

I haven't used VS on my pc in a long time

[carmine frigate]

also valorant root 0

you have like 3 strikes of messed up pc in that small image

[proud jay]

there might be ubuntu and ubuntu server in there

possibly

[carmine frigate]

https://tenor.com/view/interrogation-questioning-question-ace-ventura-light-gif-14087339

https://tenor.com/view/judge-gif-7886584

[proud jay]

man was hyped af to play bg3 but waiting for downloads is boring af

[carmine frigate]

torrent aint fast enough?

[proud jay]

why is it only going at 130 mbps

dumbass steam

[carmine frigate]

mayB the root 0 is taking ur bandwidth

[proud jay]

probably the piano burning in the kitchen is blocking the internet waves coming in my house

[carmine frigate]

also i have a digital piano now

takes way less space

[proud jay]

does it burn well?

[carmine frigate]

dont change the subject

we are talking about the weirdo stuff on ur pc

[proud jay]

not everyone is like you

[carmine frigate]

Conjecture

your claim is based on nothing

[proud jay]

ok

[carmine frigate]

mayB every1 is like me

[proud jay]

the amount of pianos in existance prove you wrong

[carmine frigate]

mayB valorant is 2 TB, cuz you are hiding ur utorrent download folder in there

[proud jay]

bro I just told you

my hard drive it not even 2TB

idk why valorant is tripping like that

but it's gone now

[carmine frigate]

you cant delete the evidence.. we got the screenshot

you are hiding ur freaky torrent files in ur valorant folder

[proud jay]

I'm starting to feel that you're projecting

should I call the police?

[carmine frigate]

im not on trial here

[proud jay]

I don't think anyone is

[carmine frigate]

and yes i have a freaky torrent folder

[ashen marlin]

sup gais

[fathom wadi]

been playing it for the past couple of days. It's everything they hyped it up to be.

[proud jay]

still 20 min of install remaining 🙃

probably not playing it today anymore

[fathom wadi]

what class you gonna pick do you know?

[proud jay]

not 100% yet, maybe bard or monk

[carmine frigate]

when piratebay was still a thing i often checked the top100

[fathom wadi]

well have fun with it. It's one of the best of it's kind I've played so far. The acting is top notch

[carmine frigate]

at one time there was this tellsell book uploaded... i think it was some speedreading or muscle memmory self help book or some shit

[proud jay]

well DOS2 was pretty good already so high hopes

[carmine frigate]

and the author himself from tellsell came in the comments and say pirating was bad

[proud jay]

I have standards for belgian game studios 😆

[carmine frigate]

also his book was useless and didnt work and we needed his new course with video files for 99.90

[fathom wadi]

I once went to a famous piracy site when we released a game and gave support because they uploaded a day 0 version that had bugs that were fixed in the first patch. People thanked me for it. I just asked that if they like it, please pay for it. Can't get fairer than that. They weren't gonna buy it anyway

[carmine frigate]

wich offc also got torrented including vid files

[proud jay]

it's been in early access for 3 years, so should be pretty stable-ish

[fathom wadi]

yeah likely worth the wait. It was hotfixed almost immediately

[mossy nexus]

Cast failed, Accessed None,.. ..

[carmine frigate]

I watched the wolverine super early cut with pre studio edits... pretty cool with all the notes

[fathom wadi]

Cast Failed, SAGAFTRA strike.

[mossy nexus]

Couple of years back a guy released his game on Steam [around $10 I think] he also released a torrent with an accompanying note saying he understood not everyone has spare cash etc. His wishlist and Steam sales rocketed.

[carmine frigate]

also watched a few of the movie cam edition where the guy filming got kicked out of the cinema

[fathom wadi]

theres bugs more in co-op than single player apparently. Which is to be expected

[proud jay]

I wish I had a coop partner 😔

[carmine frigate]

chatGPT

[proud jay]

my gf it not really a gamer girl though

only like Sims

[mossy nexus]

buy a few chickens

[carmine frigate]

is she an undercover nazi spy?

[proud jay]

obviously

[fathom wadi]

I have the same sentiment. When I was growing up we were poor and piracy helped me to escape the shitty life I had to grow up with. Now I'm an adult I pay for games. What goes around, comes around. Any kid who wants to play one of my games and can't afford is entitled to a free copy from me as far as I'm concerned. #payitback

[carmine frigate]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/video-games/2022/04/26/russian-assassination-sims-3/

[mossy nexus]

My view is that the vast majority of software pirate's were never going to buy it anyway. So trying to fight them is like swimming up hill backwards in sand.

[proud jay]

true

[fathom wadi]

yeah. Studies have shown piracy doesn't really affect sales the way they make it out. It's definitely a slice of the pie to a degree but it doesn't stop games being super profitable

[proud jay]

I haven't pirated a game since I have income though

[mossy nexus]

I know the ex SOE CEO said that music piracy had helped sales, massively.

[proud jay]

of course you need to make everyone's experience worse to try to stop the pirates though

looking at you denuvo

[fathom wadi]

the money they spend on denuvo is likely more than the money lost to piracy. That's the irony.

[carmine frigate]

these days its all about ingame buys anyways

[proud jay]

I think I need some context

I played it on ps5

[mossy nexus]

eeek

[proud jay]

wow

[carmine frigate]

I mostly play some games that are free on epic.. rarely buy games... dont really play much either

[proud jay]

that's stupid af

hogwarts legacy was great though

[carmine frigate]

got a friend that if he wants to coop he buys it for me

[fathom wadi]

Anti-piracy when I was a kid meant having the manual and looking up the line and word from the prompt. That was great until the internet and the time I downloaded 250 manuals for games in a single pdf 😄

[proud jay]

well I bought it for feeling like a wizard

the main story was pretty cool

ignored like 95% of side quests

[fathom wadi]

my missus enjoyed hogwarts. Dunno if she finished it tho. Probably did she's a beast of a gamer

[mossy nexus]

Steam - remote play together, Not tried it, looks okay on paper at least 😄

[carmine frigate]

I got tiny tina free on epic and played with a friend coop... that was pretty cool

[proud jay]

it works pretty good tbh

[carmine frigate]

also a few of those other games they made.. their main IP

[mossy nexus]

any restrictions etc?

[proud jay]

haven't noticed any

it's just like you're sitting next to eachother

[fathom wadi]

time for me to go back to searching for ogres I can throw at things. #bg3

[proud jay]

so the game needs local co-op

[mossy nexus]

cool

[carmine frigate]

working solo on a MP game is pretty depressing 😛

[proud jay]

just don't make a game then

[carmine frigate]

im not atm 😛

I did some MP tests tho, did a local coop game for a gamejam once... but that sucks doin solo 😛

[proud jay]

finally

ready for tomorrow though

too late now

[carmine frigate]

its the bear sex game

[proud jay]

yes that is indeed the only thing in the game

[carmine frigate]

its the only thing i heared about that game

[proud jay]

it's digital dnd

[carmine frigate]

with bear sex

I only played dnd once but i died really fast

but i took out one of my high lvl team members

so igot some idea what it is... so that made tiny tina also a bit more fun

[worldly mesa]

it is a little disconcerting that we can buy BG3 on steam and GoG, but not Epic

one thing is nice though.. my characters lip-sync is better than theirs 😁

[carmine frigate]

it had only like 5 games for a long time.. it was pretty good back then 😛

[unreal ether]

i would absolutely release on EGS if I actually had a finished game to sell it wasn't so awful to use

[ornate orbit]

will the reproductive systems merge in the future?

[unreal ether]

you really chose that as your first message in nearly a year 😆

[broken sigil]

So.... Anyone has experience with compound bows by any chance

About to order 1 and curious if there is any general advice I should know

[cursive crypt]

A friend of mine has made probably over 20 bows during his life. Nothing high-tech tho.

So depends on wdym by compound.

[tulip orbit]

I've only used a recurve. but if your arrow is on the string (not even pulled back), never aim it anything you dont want dead

[cursive crypt]

If it is not something modern with eccentrics and etc, you will need a strong back.

[broken sigil]

Spent my whole childhood with handmade bows, the other day went to some event where I got to shoot a proper recurve bow and I got an itch to buy one 😅

[cursive crypt]

You need a good target and good deal of arrows.

[tulip orbit]

compound bow is usually the one that kinda locks after you pull it back all the way right? Good strong back to pull it and hold it still tho

[cursive crypt]

That eccentrics. Let me check the terminology tho.

[broken sigil]

These

[broken sigil]

My arms were sore for 2 days straight after that event lol

[tulip orbit]

yeah I want one of those types too, but I never use the one I've got so 🤷‍♂️