lounge

[lofty lark]

Great month to be a warrior for the Emperor of Mankind

[empty dune]

this is a loyalist only discord

no chaos allowed

[lofty lark]

https://tenor.com/view/heresy-detected-war-hammer-40k-gif-15907237

[median wraith]

Welp that looks nice

[unborn lotus]

Mirage?

[median wraith]

Anubis

[fluid bloom]

is that chromatic aberration on the water?

[chrome gull]

Which kind of dialogue presentation do you guys prefer more?

the other one?

[median wraith]

Yeah in realtime actually is reactive

caustics that react when you move over the water surface

[fluid bloom]

but do caustics separate the colours like that?

I haven't noticed anything like that IRL 😄

could be that I'm blind or something

[median wraith]

yeah caustics always have a color aberration separation

it depends of the deep of the water

here is exagerated

[slim atlas]

first one

[chrome gull]

I am thinking of doing something like this:

[chrome gull]

I see

thank you

[lofty lark]

I always find the bethesda style a bit awkward because usually they are standing there straight only moving their mouth 😅 it feels so unnatural

[chrome gull]

yeah I'm making a game with dialogues rn and I am not sure how to present my dialogue

that's why I asked lol

noticed the bethesda thing while playing Starfield recently

[lofty lark]

It's got no style to it 😔

I like the relatively minimal design of some of the UI elements but that dialog is just bland bland

[chrome gull]

which game do you think has the best dialogue selector?

[unborn lotus]

It needs more bling

[slim atlas]

morrowind

[lofty lark]

Oh that's a hard one I don't think I'd pick a bethesda game personally lol

[slim atlas]

its not about the dialogue selector

its not about UI

what matters

[chrome gull]

I am trying out several layouts

[slim atlas]

the only thing that matters

is the dialogue itself.

[chrome gull]

i see

[slim atlas]

everything else is worthless

[unborn lotus]

I like ones in rpgs like Pathfinder where you can click on words and get extra lore info...i think in Morrowind you just unlocked that word and had to ask about it specifically as an response

[lofty lark]

Are we talking specifically the selector, i.e., the method of selecting a dialogue option, or the entire dialogue view/layout (UI and camera, stuff like that)?

[chrome gull]

presentation is important too yk

[slim atlas]

Write meaningful dialogue

[chrome gull]

all the dialogue related stuff

[lofty lark]

I like the way The Witcher 3 did it. Very minimal and but still very clear and readable imo

[chrome gull]

I'll need to check it out

[chrome gull]

what do you think of this?

[lofty lark]

What does M and PD refer too exactly?

[chrome gull]

the top is the NPC dialogue, bottom is the player dialogue and the widget on the right is a mood indicator

[chrome gull]

mood and player dialogue

[lofty lark]

I find it weird to have dialogue text appear at the top fo the screen personally

[chrome gull]

I see

if I put everything in the bottom, I'm worried that the widget will take up most of the screen space

that's why the split

[lofty lark]

The Witcher puts their dialogue off to the side

Granted, the games dialogue is spoken, so the text in the option isn't the literal spoken words.

Where as Bethesda games don't have your character speak dialogue, so they have the entire line as the text in the option

someone did a breakdown of the UI/X of the dialogue actually https://howtomakeanrpg.com/a/the-witcher-3-conversation-breakdown.html Might be helpful

[chrome gull]

ahh thank you!

i deffo can't afford voice acting

so that's something

[lofty lark]

Have other games you've played put dialogue at the top? I'm not saying it's bad or not done, I just personally don't remember playing a game that did it that way.

I feel like persona would do something like that based off images i've seen of that games UI lol. (never played it)

[chrome gull]

I don't think so, it's just the second idea that popped up in my head

so I drew something

[lofty lark]

If you don't need all your other UI elements (health ammo hunger, etc.), that'd give you more room to play around with

[unborn lotus]

I think kotor2 did it

[chrome gull]

I could try to disable them when in conversation

maybe

i don't have a conversation system yet so

[chrome gull]

ooh yeah that's something

[lofty lark]

It doesn't feel as off as I expected it to be tbh

[chrome gull]

me too

I'd remove the black bars and keep my existing UI

[lofty lark]

I'd play around with some type of bounding box around your text tho for readability.

[chrome gull]

I'll try that

thanks

[lofty lark]

Their "persuasion dialogue minigame" selector I think looks better than their normal dialogue. Still really basic but we at least have an outline for the bounding box (or whatever you wanna call that darker back drop that surrounds the text)

[chrome gull]

I want to rip this system off but I also want to keep my existing one

but this decision is for much later

so

[worldly sapphire]

Game dev (and lots of other stuff) is iterative

better to implement something now and change it later, than dawdle on it

It's something I struggle with myself

[lofty lark]

You'll never know what corrections you need to make if you don't make something to correct :p

[worldly sapphire]

Exactly hah

[lofty lark]

In my personal work I usually just do whatever my first idea was. Then I'll either go, "damn I'm awesome, that's perfect." or "that is horse shit." Evaluate why, then try again :p

[worldly sapphire]

Often it's the first part followed by the second the morning after

[chrome gull]

yeah, I figured as much

I'll keep it simple for now

here goes persuading someone to give you all their money based on a single random bool

[austere stirrup]

Im really curious to know how are other people doing at interviews lol. Feels like I am the only that sucks and gets stressed out lol.

[bronze axle]

Many people find job interviews to be very stressful. It's a lot of pressure.

[sweet rose]

sad to hear about the epic games layoffs

[sweet rose]

bcoz u know ur shit

depends

why is biden president

https://tenor.com/view/point-laugh-jake-gyllenhaal-ha-got-em-gif-4474495

[austere stirrup]

but Is it fair that because of that pressure they fail the interview? That stress and pressure for most people you cannot supress no matter how well prepared you are

[austere stirrup]

https://tenor.com/view/bait-thats-bait-tom-hardy-mad-max-gif-5055384

[austere stirrup]

lol the interview is tommorow and Im already nervous

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/bond-007-gif-26364844

[clear dust]

the interviewers may be more nervous than you

[austere stirrup]

lol Im for real thinking about wearing a suit to the interview

I can't im practicing for it lol

[clear dust]

i mean totally, you ARE interviewing them

[austere stirrup]

how

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/dont-ever-apologize-for-being-the-smartest-one-in-the-room-smart-jake-gyllenhaal-spider-man-far-from-home-marvel-gif-16529339

[clear dust]

How can an interviewer be nervous? lots of ways. Maybe they are inexperienced, have a deadline, are under some other pressure, maybe they want you and are afraid to scare you off, I could go on...

[soft night]

embrace the moment

[clear dust]

maybe they will be intimidated by your looks

another conversation killer...

[austere stirrup]

some people are saying that a 2nd interview means that you got the job

That's hard to believe

Is this is a good answer for the question What is your greatest weakness?

One of my weaknesses is that I tend to be a perfectionist. I often find myself spending more time than necessary on tasks to ensure they are flawless. While this dedication to detail has its benefits, it can sometimes lead to time inefficiencies. To address this, I've been working on setting clear priorities and time limits for tasks. A more official method that can help with this is the Agile working methodology. An interface called Trello, could list all the tasks for the day and give me a more structure workflow for the day. I've also learned to recognize that 'perfect' is not always necessary and that meeting deadlines and achieving objectives are equally important.

[clear dust]

some people consider the perfectionist thing a copout or something

[austere stirrup]

Chat GPT all day every day baby 😘

[austere stirrup]

ah shit

really?

Should I find something else?

[clear dust]

I don't know. I haven't interviewed anyone for many years, and I never really asked that when I did.

[austere stirrup]

Ya I feel like its a question to make the person more nervous

Everybody has weakness and nobody is perfect anyway

[tribal geyser]

naturally, but that was a decade ago (for andromeda)
Don't forget, Bioware also released Inquisition on Frostbite so the onus isn't entirely on the engine here

Absolutely not going to say it's perfect and it's still got a ways to go but it's a metric tonne better than it was.
Worth mentioning as well, we support more games now than ever. Just the narrative hasn't shifted as people still quote games from ~7 years ago

[fleet tangle]

"in early days"

[lofty lark]

TIL Dragon Age: Inquisition was made on Frostbite. Wild.

[regal pecan]

For modders or off-the-shelf engines with no source access that kind of epithet that would make sense, but I never understood it when applied to studios that have source code and competent programmers.

Besides that, FPS is the most versatile genre. You can do almost everything with a 3d perspective camera.

[fleet tangle]

UE was built from the ground up to make UT (and now Fortnite), though.

Everything that isn't directly related to that is just icing on teh cake, as it were.

[regal pecan]

The first UE was built to make Unreal... or was Unreal made to show off UE? Probably the latter. I don't think UE4 had any particular game in mind, but the after what happened with SVOGI I imagine things changed rapidly.

Are there any arguments against Fortnite being in the driving seat for UE5?

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/among-us-knifed-dies-death-backwin-gaemer-gif-24082291

[timber viper]

I know someone IRL who also annoy people just by sending cat pictures

maybe I should join him too

sounds really fun tbh

[fleet tangle]

Well, it's better than dick pics.

[steel summit]

What if you got all fancy and used that new AI image tool where it’s an image of cats but it subtlety looks like a dick if you squint your eyes.

[fleet tangle]

Why would anyone want that?

Also this.

[timber viper]

#lounge message

[timber viper]

i regret another lounge moment already

[fleet tangle]

I wonder how much of that is real

Whether it's entirely generated or just bent.

[steel summit]

All Ai

[fleet tangle]

Oh yeah.

That guy has 3 legs.

It's all AI or he has a very happy gf

[steel summit]

They share the same leg?

[regal pecan]

Don't think his gf is entertained by an actual third leg.

[fleet tangle]

Maybe she really likes winning 3 legged races.

[nova meteor]

https://x.com/realms_deep/status/1707470234565673303?t=8M2-ftFbjLK1uFOO8gKN8Q&s=33

Realms Deep (@realms_deep)

The amazing Realms Deep steam sale is here! Go grab your goodies to get into the Realms Deep mindset before the show premieres this Saturday.
https://t.co/AWlSJwAC5O
#RD2023 @3DRealms

Twitter · Sep 28, 2023, 7:00 PM

[vagrant roost]

unity refugee here, time to start my unreal journey 😔

[broken sigil]

https://tenor.com/view/simpson-gif-25340727

[vagrant roost]

haha...

this is gonna be hell

[tulip orbit]

just lounge

[regal pecan]

We're more accommodating to refugees than 89% of EU countries. (Citation needed)

[timber viper]

11% is Turkey as whole with 13 million refugees

[fleet tangle]

Check the first pinned message in #ue5-general

Also hi.

[vagrant roost]

i love you, thank you.

[woven wing]

Watching people work in zbrush is so impressive

It's like Spongebob hitting the marble with a chisel and a statue pops out

[broken sigil]

https://tenor.com/view/boring-unimpressed-meh-really-seriously-gif-16279809

[lofty lark]

construct that doesn’t really exist
Just like how B̸̒̃l̵̆͊u̷͑̉e̵̓͠ ̴̉̿M̶̛͒å̷n's reali̸͋̃t̶̾̒y̵̆̃ is a s̸̒̓i̷̾͗m̴̅̾ŭ̴lation

Is this what it felt like to live in a day and age of greek philosophers living on the street?

[broken sigil]

You are just a figment of my imagination, and I'm actually just talking to myself

It makes more sense if you look at the MJ server 😅

Midjourney

[unborn lotus]

I thought this server was your favourite

[broken sigil]

I had to remove that...

[broken sigil]

It is

[regal pecan]

This is not that kind of discord.

[broken sigil]

It is still disturbing to look at
Which I don't think anyone here actually wants to see

[unborn lotus]

yeah no one wants to see your selfies Lamp

[broken sigil]

exactly

jumpscaring us here out of nowhere like that

[unborn lotus]

MODS! 🫠

[timber viper]

just another regular day in lounge

'tis you?

makes sense though

your bio

meanwhile <@&213101288538374145> (also where that silent report button went?)

just because he's sleeping dont assume he wouldnt ban or strike you

[tall plume]

take the edge off your posting

it sucks

dont do this

[fathom wadi]

This person is a blatent troll. The abuse they shoved at me the other day was completely out of line and caused me to curse back and block them.

[empty dune]

goddamn discord swallowed all my messages

[stone saddle]

stop and drop the conversation, thank you

[timber viper]

its weird if I would go slightly offtopic I would get warned and then get a strike immediately if I continue, but this gets 1000x more tolerance

especially since all mods are here

[stone saddle]

something is not working correctly with the bot, we are addressing it now

for now, drop the conversation entirely

thank you

[timber viper]

ah alright, sorry for accusation then

[empty dune]

oh wow, did she get banned?

[spare glade]

Yes

This isn't their first warning

Hence now gone.

[errant raven]

Hi

[stone saddle]

Please refrain for antagonizing other users, if someone is acting out of line, alert us, and we'll address it

[timber viper]

quinn doesnt appear anymore

[stone saddle]

Apps>

[timber viper]

oh

baka me

[stone saddle]

same place it's been for ages now >_>

[empty dune]

also, im still trying to figure out where my swallowed messages went

[timber viper]

i survive with 3 brain cells so I forgot

[spare glade]

Hello 👋

[empty dune]

i was trying to respond to jack

but discord said "not today"

[timber viper]

query his messages directly

[empty dune]

i did, i replied to him

[stone saddle]

unsure what happened

[errant raven]

You're acting out of line, I challenge you to a Holmgang at once

[empty dune]

yeah idk either, i was typing, i could see all of your messages but mine were being banished to the nether realms

[stone saddle]

pass

[errant raven]

You cannot pass on a Holmgang

Good Asgard

[stone saddle]

you heathens will not drag me down with you in this chat, this is the danger zone, i'm going back to my safe zone, voice chat

[timber viper]

you're from a different world

[errant raven]

Alien

[timber viper]

it'd nice to chat about japanese with you though sucks I dont like voicechat

[stone saddle]

https://tenor.com/view/alien-nano-aliens-mork-and-gif-23168466

[fathom wadi]

I miss Robin Williams so much

[stone saddle]

❤️

[empty dune]

next minesweeper map refresh when?

[stone saddle]

i haven't changed it in like 1.5 years or something and people still fail it every single day, i don't think you people are ready for level 2

[empty dune]

what about dix pics?

#petting-zoo message

[regal pecan]

I wonder if there's an easy way to calculate the odds of winning that minesweeper map legitimately with no foreknowledge. It must be low.

[empty dune]

okay second attempt, here goes. I didnt know inquisition was made in frostbite. Im curious, if you had to name a genre of games that present day frostbite would still struggle with, which one would it be?

[empty dune]

i lose it even with knowing the solution

[empty dune]

eyyy, my messages are no longer locked to the shadow realm

[broken sigil]

Oh wow what happened here

[errant raven]

War

[empty dune]

https://tenor.com/view/chaos-gif-22919457

[errant raven]

Bloodshed

Pillaging

[regal pecan]

Turned out Mothds do not love lamp

[timber viper]

Henlo

@terse wasp what was the fast food company you were fan of that is near Epic HQ?

I ate popeyes in here, it was terrible. Idk why Tim likes it so much

[regal pecan]

New Orleans?

[timber viper]

I will try KFC tomorrow

[terse wasp]

Cook Out

[timber viper]

What makes it so good?

[terse wasp]

Cheap and good

[timber viper]

Hm

[terse wasp]

Tastes fairly close to actual grilled food

And it's fast food

[timber viper]

If I was living in US I would eat it all day then

[terse wasp]

If I was close to one, so would I

It's good that I'm not

[timber viper]

My options here are limited with burger king, mcd, popeyes and kfc

Rarely subway

All suck equally

[terse wasp]

I really don't eat much fried food to be honest. So I'm typically not a fan of Popeyes or KFC

[timber viper]

I like chicken a lot, especially if its fast food

I'll try all of these one day

[terse wasp]

I was thinking you were in the States temporarily and was like...dafuq you doin' here, lol

[errant raven]

Save your breath on Burger King

[timber viper]

Lol.. Actually reading the news, it looks like it wont be difficult to go there

Just need to arrive to border

[regal pecan]

Hah

[terse wasp]

https://tenor.com/b1h5f.gif

[timber viper]

Looks like Biden welcome everyone

Especially from mexico border

[errant raven]

Who's biden

[terse wasp]

It's more, "why would you want to come to a 3rd world country dressed in Gucci"

[timber viper]

For Cook Out ofc

[terse wasp]

https://tenor.com/bhkiF.gif

[errant raven]

U.S is a third world country?

[regal pecan]

Coming to the US illegally without an asylum claim is probably not a good plan. Worse if it's a thin asylum claim.

But if you come to the US to try out restaurants, they'll probably give you a free flag with your tourist VISA.

[timber viper]

If I had money I could visit US, Visa is not an issue

But even if you earn enough plane tickets are so damn expensive

iirc it makes up around 5k

Two tickets

[broken sigil]

It's like 700 euros from here to Los Angeles, which doesn't sound that bad

[timber viper]

I will try belgium instead, belgian fries looks so damn good

[regal pecan]

Turkiye to US direct is pretty far.

[terse wasp]

Until you realize that you're going to LA

[broken sigil]

Yeah lol

To San Francisco is 1.2k

[timber viper]

10k rent LA go brr

[broken sigil]

Which still sounds pretty reasonable

[terse wasp]

Both of these cities you have selected have a dense amount of people. No thanks.

[timber viper]

I like georgia

[terse wasp]

So does Russia

[timber viper]

And atlanta

[terse wasp]

Eh. People.

[regal pecan]

Do you like cows?

[broken sigil]

Nah I'm just choosing random cities I know the names of to check the prices lol

Would never want to live there or stay more than a day lol

[terse wasp]

We do have some awesome food though. Not gonna lie. I've heard from a lot of tourists about this.

[timber viper]

I am not into gender politics so trying to decide on something wont make me get harassed just because I said he by mistake instead of they/them/whatever

Recently listened a story of my IRL friend went through something similar to this in US

[broken sigil]

[terse wasp]

Eh - that doesn't happen as much in person. It's just highlighted on the interwebs really.

[terse wasp]

Like, legit - you want some southern BBQ. It is insanely good.

Sucks how racist the south is though

Good with the bad I guess

[timber viper]

Where is the people similar to GTA V in US

[terse wasp]

GTA V was california

[timber viper]

That the ones they portrayed as "drink beer eat pizza"

[terse wasp]

GTA also accentuates w/e thing they're doing.

[broken sigil]

I've seen online that in US in general balkan restaurants and fast food is somehow quite common so I would fit right in

[terse wasp]

But "drink bear eat pizza" is fairly universal in the states. So pretty much anywhere you go.

[timber viper]

Is texas scary though

Would I die there xD

[terse wasp]

Depends how white you are and where you are

[timber viper]

Im white but not a florasan light either

[broken sigil]

How about white as a freshly painted wall, would I fit in?

Like neon white

[terse wasp]

y'all would be fine

And yeah, Texas style of food is pretty good too

That TexMex 😋

[bronze axle]

Mmmm Tex Mex.

[timber viper]

This convo made me hungry

[broken sigil]

If I ever visit US it's probably gonna be for something like GDC or something

[terse wasp]

sigh - I hate when people do ternaries inside of a ternary

[bronze axle]

I was bummed about today, so I baked some blueberry lemon scones.

[terse wasp]

That's in San Fran. Mexican food could be good there. Asian food is probably good though. Otherwise, most likely fairly generic American food

[timber viper]

Wait.. How about new jersey?

Is it any good?

Food wise

I heard pizza is great there

[terse wasp]

Pizza is probably pretty good. It's right next to NYC

[broken sigil]

I would be curious to try it

[broken sigil]

Any time I hear about (new?) Jersey it's always just memes for some reason lol

[terse wasp]

I'd imagine you'd fine more European cuisines there though. Just because how immigration happened in the past and traditionally

In any of the major hub areas, you're going to be able to encounter pretty much all the food from the various regions of the States

However, the quality won't be as good as if you had them in their respective home region

It'll still be pretty good though.

Obviously some establishments will be worse due to just general quality though

[broken sigil]

Also I can read that without "MaxTac" popping up in my head lol

[terse wasp]

I'm unfamiliar

[timber viper]

cyberpunk 2077 NPCs

[terse wasp]

Ah. They were so lifeless when I played, I ignored all the dialogue

[broken sigil]

It's from cyberpunk, the special police "units" that are supposed to come for "cyberpsychos"

In the new update they come after you when you have 5 stars

It's actually quite cool

[timber viper]

at 5 star they actually assume you are cyberpsycho 😄

not because you are dangerous

[terse wasp]

I'm still trying to get through Starfield, lol. Just been too busy to play

[timber viper]

because its a company not a police unit

[broken sigil]

They kinda work with police tho right?

[timber viper]

nope

no direct connection

[empty dune]

all maxtac are ex cyberpsychos

[timber viper]

maxtac is completely separate from NCPD

[empty dune]

thats how they can take on other cyberpsychos

[lofty lark]

And you didn't share in #food ????

[broken sigil]

[empty dune]

ban. immediate ban

[timber viper]

wtf

[bronze axle]

I really should.

[timber viper]

they are a company lore-wise

like that medical unit thingy

[lofty lark]

Yes.

[broken sigil]

Hm I'm not too familiar with the lore outside of the game

[bronze axle]

This has been rectified.

[empty dune]

there's actually a throwaway line in the game where a maxtac officer asks if you were interested in joining maxtac cause she "could see the cyberpsycho" in you

[empty dune]

no longer banned

[timber viper]

MaxTac officers serve as the final enemy type to hunt down V in the event of criminal activity (four stars). On higher difficulties they are capable of killing V in just a few shots, regardless of level.

5 stars means insta-die then

Their reputation certainly isn't helped by rumors that the rare cyberpsychos taken alive are quietly reprogrammed and welcomed into the division.

[empty dune]

yep

they use cyberpsychos to kill cyberpsychos

https://tenor.com/view/gone-reduced-to-atoms-thanos-gif-22903506

[broken sigil]

Oh yeah they one shot you, at least did when I tired

They tase you, blind you and kill you instantly

But the whole sequence of first hacking your car, disabling it and landing in front of you in the middle of the city is quite cool looking

[broken sigil]

Oh I think I remember that

[fathom wadi]

The Dogtown map is so good. Feels so grimy and I keep finding new things everywhere

[timber viper]

phantom liberty* or regular?

[empty dune]

regular

[timber viper]

interesting

didnt encounter

[bronze axle]

So gracious. Thank you.

[timber viper]

I'd be careful next time

raindust looks dangerous

[empty dune]

https://tenor.com/view/youre-welcome-gif-2309461136654146376

[empty dune]

only if your name is vazumongr

:))))

ion is coming for you vazu

[broken sigil]

I bought phantom liberty when it released, installed the dlc but tf2 has been taking quite a bit of my time so I haven't tried it yet

[celest musk]

it's good

[timber viper]

i did not bought, not planning to either

when main game is still buggy

[timber viper]

i like how vazu lurks at lounge secretly and appears when you mention

without a ping

[empty dune]

he cannot rest for he knows ion is coming

[broken sigil]

I played the original game literally the day it came out, played it, finished

Encountered pretty much no bugs, maybe a few small ones
Went online to check what others thought about the game and was extremely confused when I saw all the complaining because for me the game was amazing lol

[empty dune]

i played the game day 1 and didnt encounter any bugs either..............problem is, i also didnt encounter those long list of features they promised before launch and quietly cut

that was my breaking point with that game

[broken sigil]

Phantom liberty has been getting like 9/10 and 10/10 reviews so can't wait to actually play it

[timber viper]

same, finished in first 24hrs

or 48 not sure

probably 48

yeah it was 48, took me two days

it wasnt buggy but very laggy

not to mention how denoiser sucks

[broken sigil]

Oh I decided to do every little thing there was to do, my save file is at like 80 or 90 hours

[timber viper]

i think mine was around 60hrs

[broken sigil]

I'm debating if I should play again from scratch or just play the dlc

[bronze axle]

I'm excited for Star Ocean: The Second Story R in November. My most anticipated game of the year.

[empty dune]

apparently they(cdpr) recommend a new save

[broken sigil]

Yeah

[unborn lotus]

I played much later and still missed out on a cutscene because someone got T-posed and vanished

[timber viper]

real question is

militech vs arasaka

in canon story militech exploded an atom bomb at arasaka HQ

but in cp77 its the johnny

i think in canon militech is slightly more powerful than arasaka, especially in NUSA

[graceful sequoia]

oh the johnny

[timber viper]

but in cp77 arasaka feels more powerful

[median wraith]

Seems like all the companies are firing people at the same time, why is that?
Ones overlap others?

[unborn lotus]

recession!

[fluid bloom]

it's because companies went on an absolutely crazy acquisition/hiring phase a year ago or so

now they're cutting the fat off

and for whatever reason end of the year is typically when companies let people go

[proud jay]

money is getting more expensive

at least for the big tech, a lot of them are borrowing lots of money, if they have to pay higher interestss, they can't get that much money

also just realizing they hired too many people in a lot of cases

[dusky bobcat]

I guess they were just too aggressive during the pandemic. Like the game industry were good at that time.

Well, not only game industry, basically the hi-tech related industries.

[rare sparrow]

[proud jay]

it only charges when someone installs your game

[stone saddle]

in fairness n64 games were often 70 bucks back in 1997, the costs of making games has sky rocketed, but the sticker price went down and then back up now to 70 (not even taking inflation into consideration and it's been nearly 30 years)

[proud jay]

well technology also improve to reduce production costs if you were making the same games as then

and the audience has grown tremendously

you can't be making record profits every year and then say you need to raise prices cause you're struggling

[stone saddle]

but expectations have sky rocketed

[stone saddle]

and competitive options have grown enormously

[proud jay]

plenty of games without a budget of millions still are popular though

[stone saddle]

oh no, i agree, the greed is real throughout corporations, not denying that

[proud jay]

they can do what they want, but I'm already not buying games at 70 dollars

so let alone I would buy them at 80

I only buy 60 dollar full price maybe twice a year anyway lol

there's not that many great games that interest me

[stone saddle]

yea, i don't have time to play shit, so i rarely buy anything

[unborn lotus]

does this mean indie devs can charge 40 now?

[stone saddle]

but i'll fork over my soul for ff7 rebirth lol

[proud jay]

no, you will charge 5 dollars and be happy

[stone saddle]

I think well made indie games should easily be able to charge based on the value they are providing

however, many of them see larger revenue from their lower price

[proud jay]

well they do have lower marketing costs to "recoup" most often too

[stone saddle]

it's the big studios that are leveraging their IP to make the 70 bucks price "reasonable"

[proud jay]

and no name to go with it per se

it's just harder to convince people

I for one am sick and tired of every AAA studio making games that take 100 hours to complete

[stone saddle]

Sometimes i want that, sometimes i don't

[proud jay]

give me 4 - 20 hours and I'm happy

who has time to complete all those

[stone saddle]

i don't need a 40 hour story mode for a fighting game or a fps

a good RPG though, gimme all the hours lol

hell, the amount of time i've sunk into vampire survivors is humiliating

[proud jay]

have you finished bg3?

[stone saddle]

I dare not play it, as i will lose weeks of my life

[proud jay]

too bad

[stone saddle]

but i want to so badly

[proud jay]

it's nice

I'm still in act 2 though lol

I'm slow af

[stone saddle]

I'll find time in the near future to play it

[proud jay]

don't play all that much

[stone saddle]

maybe after new years or something

[proud jay]

thing is though, they keep getting away with it

[dusky bobcat]

Unity version control is pretty good

[proud jay]

some people just really like buying the same football game every year

[dusky bobcat]

(Basically plastic lol

[proud jay]

well, it is plastic

they bought it

[worldly mesa]

this displeases me.

as usual, i'm late to the party.. but still 🙂

[proud jay]

https://tenor.com/view/theres-something-very-familiar-about-all-this-deja-vu-i-feel-like-ive-done-this-before-this-feels-familiar-i-feel-live-ive-been-here-before-gif-16489734

[worldly mesa]

lol 😁

[proud jay]

wth are unity gaming services

is that ads or something?

[worldly mesa]

matchmaking and server hosting, and yeah, probably ads too

[proud jay]

why would you use unity for that though

the only thing they have going for them is it's easy to integrate if you're using unity

other that that I think they probably don't really compete with others

[worldly mesa]

i don't know the details, but i tend to agree. seems rather unnecessarily redundant

[median wraith]

Choose the 2.5% then Epic gets the 5% from that 2.5%

[median wraith]

Yeah that's true

Also feels real bad that some people know from the community of Epic is fired...

[dusky bobcat]

Just using EOS for Unreal is much better, lol.
Anyway, I think Unity is trying to get more business for their cloud service. Both of those two plugins are related to their cloud service.

[median wraith]

does EOS have any server hosting service ?

[worldly mesa]

Epic does not have their own servers for us to use. we generally integrate into PlayFab or AWS. EOS does handle match making and other things though

[proud jay]

well they need to make up for those losses of reducing the install fee

[proud jay]

I kinda trust things like AWS more than unity servers though

[dusky bobcat]

Yeah, Epic doesn't have dedicated server service, but ether PlayFab or AWS is good choice for game server.

[worldly mesa]

totally. i had little trust to begin with in unity, and this last bout left me with none

sigh

[proud jay]

you just have to be creative with statistics

[worldly mesa]

i've been seeing a Lot of that in the 'news' lately

[proud jay]

sorry, I only read the 'olds'

[worldly mesa]

https://www.brownstonedetectives.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/seq-1.jpg

[proud jay]

mad

I really like the old paper aesthetic

not that I read papers

I mean, this is just boring right

[worldly mesa]

i read that as, More blasting near the kirk dam. not really, virtual reality testing

[proud jay]

it means, more tax payer money going to church than to VRT

[worldly mesa]

wow

[proud jay]

VRT is the public tv channel

and news

like the bbc for the uk

idk the name

[worldly mesa]

i am just trying to make a few million dollars so i can build my underground fortress and get away from all this BS

[proud jay]

public broadcaster?

[worldly mesa]

in the US we have PBS which is Public Broadcasting Station, but it is not completely open to the public. we also have NPR National Public Radio, but it tends to lean politically. Public broadcaster, state run tv, IDK, several names apply, i suppose

[graceful sequoia]

wait how is PBS not open to the public

[worldly mesa]

can you go post a show on there right now?

[graceful sequoia]

I think you're thinking of local access

[worldly mesa]

what is public about PBS?

[graceful sequoia]

but I get that you mean "I can't go put a show on it"

[proud jay]

I mean

that's not really the intention of public broadcasting

it's for the government providing entertainment/news

available to everyone for free

[worldly mesa]

i.e. state run tv

[graceful sequoia]

ironically PBS is not run by the government

it's a corporation

because america

[worldly mesa]

and they ask for donations

names in the USA do not really mean as much as they do in other places. i should say, are not as accurate and informative

LLC

LLC leaves you with basically no liability

[proud jay]

idk, but it contains monsters

people creating companies with personal liability are wild

it's easier though here

[worldly mesa]

exact opposite of the intent, for sure. But, the fact that corporations essentially have more rights and protections than a person is a very frightening thing

[proud jay]

like if you want one without liability you need a business plan and some startup costs

[worldly mesa]

Why didn't i think of that! i knew i was doing it wrong this reincarnation!

[proud jay]

I mean you can live as a corporation for a lot of things

a one person corp

[worldly mesa]

i am honestly not sure about the stipulations

according to CGPT, yes. 1 person Can be a corporation in most jurisdictions

here is the LLC i mentioned earlier
"Limited Liability: One of the primary reasons individuals choose to form a corporation, even if they are the sole owner and operator, is to benefit from limited liability protection. This means that the individual's personal assets are generally protected from the corporation's liabilities. If the corporation faces financial problems or legal issues, the owner's personal assets are usually not at risk beyond their investment in the corporation."

[proud jay]

idk I'm not america or anything

or uk

[worldly mesa]

i technically own a couple of small corporations, but i have not done anything with them in 20 years. i probably do not own the names anymore

[proud jay]

idk where you are

[worldly mesa]

i'm in the USA. currently in the heart of debauchery-ville. i am in las vegas right now

i'd imagine the laws are similar, at least, where you are. but actually, i can never be sure any more :/

[tribal geyser]

It’s hard honestly, I’m skewed because most genres have been covered by the game teams but that’s not without minimal effort…
Just as a result we’ve leant a lot about what game teams want and need
Think the changes that occurred to UE as a result of Fortnite except multiple genres

[unborn lotus]

We got new laws and tax brackets that are not progressive..if I make a lil bit more I'll be losing like 5-7k in taxes 😩

[tribal geyser]

In house, purpose built for the game teams
They get a say in the direction and not at an engineering cost to them

[proud jay]

how lol

what country has tax rates that are not progressive

was this romania?

[unborn lotus]

It's 3% income tax now, versus 16% on the next bracket if I go past the threshold

Yeah, not progressive and everyone is mad

[proud jay]

yeah but isn't that only on the 16% in that bracket?

[unborn lotus]

But at least they're still only under 20%

[unborn lotus]

No, it means your legal standing changes and you'll pay 16% from now on

[proud jay]

imagine paying less than 20% in taxes lol

[unborn lotus]

It is a company though

[proud jay]

oh that's even worse here lol

[upper oracle]

Omg that's so much o.o

[proud jay]

thanks

paying taxes is our national sport

[unborn lotus]

Yeah but you get shit from them

We pay taxes for "special" pensions

For every one working in the gorvernment

[proud jay]

you think our government doesn't line their pockets too?

[unborn lotus]

So I gotta figure out ways to make less money now hurrah

[proud jay]

maybe less egregious

but still some scandals

[proud jay]

give me half your money as expense

[unborn lotus]

To hold right?

[proud jay]

sure...

hold, in my bank account

until I spend it

but this is tax on your company

do you have a partner?

have them set up a company to consult for you and pay them so that your company falls under the threshold again

[unborn lotus]

Sadly it's income tax not profit, so no legal loopholes other than make another company

Then another and another

[proud jay]

I mean why not

[unborn lotus]

It's be easier if it was based off profit, I'd just spend more on shit

[proud jay]

it's based on revenue?

what kind of tax is that lol

wth

[upper oracle]

I don't think I'd ever make more than 44k a year lmao so 12% here

[unborn lotus]

If revenue is pure income yes, I mean the brackets are income based, not profit based

[proud jay]

why

[unborn lotus]

Like everything I bill

They are not smart people

[upper oracle]

Maybe you should invest in an accountant?

They can usually find loopholes like that

Claiming things

[proud jay]

so if you have a company that makes 1M but you spend 950k you pay more taxes than a company making 50k with no expenses?

in theory of course

that seems like a shit system

does this not discourage any kind of growth

[unborn lotus]

Hmm it depends

If you make 1M you go in 16% tax on profits, if you make less than 60k, you only pay 3% on tax on income not profits

I guess you'd have to spend 30-40k so your profit is minimzed

[proud jay]

but you're going from 3 to 16 so you jump to the profit section?

[unborn lotus]

Yes

[proud jay]

so that's easy

just spend more

like I said, hire your wife, if you have one

[unborn lotus]

My wife is already employed lol

Im her boss so to speak

[proud jay]

if you look at belgian companies you will notice most of them have a profit suspiciously close to 0

like my company has 160M in revenue, but our profit is at like only a few million

[graceful sequoia]

uhh

are we talking about us taxes here

[proud jay]

no

[upper oracle]

various countries rex

[proud jay]

I think

[upper oracle]

rez*

[graceful sequoia]

ok good lol

[proud jay]

I'm talking about belgium

I think hristew is eastern europe?

[graceful sequoia]

cause in the US there's no profit or revenue difference to the irs

[unborn lotus]

Woohoo for tax evasion

[graceful sequoia]

but you claim credits on various expenses to make it seem that way

[proud jay]

it's not evasion

it's avoidance

[unborn lotus]

Romania yes

[proud jay]

it's legal

[unborn lotus]

Fiscal optimization

[graceful sequoia]

lol

[unborn lotus]

It's only cool when us small players do it

[proud jay]

as long as you can justify the cost in some way there's nothing wrong with it

[graceful sequoia]

and that's the last we heard from him. taken away

[proud jay]

if you're not doing a maximum effort of avoiding taxes in belgium, you're doing it wrong

unfortunately most of the avoiding is only possible for companies

which is truly one of the reasons I've been considering freelancing lol

[unborn lotus]

We lost EU funding because they would not give up their pensions

[graceful sequoia]

just make sure to have an accountant

[proud jay]

yup

[unborn lotus]

10-15x times the average salary

[proud jay]

I only do legal things

[graceful sequoia]

VAT evasion

wooooow

[proud jay]

idk what you're talking about

[graceful sequoia]

dieters on a roll tonight

[proud jay]

it's morning here

[graceful sequoia]

tell it to the judge

[proud jay]

speaking of morning, I should make some coffee 🤔

I mean, even the less legal tax or VAT evasion is pretty common here

not saying it's good

but belgian taxes are insane

[graceful sequoia]

VAT is a pain in the ass even for americans

I have a big ass check coming from Spain but avoiding double tax requires a very annoying process...

[proud jay]

imagine going to buy groceries and having to calculate what you're gonna have to pay

[proud jay]

ah yeah I know this, but some countries have this treaty right

[graceful sequoia]

yep yep

[proud jay]

I had to sign one when I bought some american stocks

to avoid double tax on dividends

[graceful sequoia]

gotta go to the irs and get certificates so that the payer can legally not pay vat

[proud jay]

but what if you just don't tell them about the sale though 🤔

what could go wrong with fraud

it seems to be heavily rewarded in the US

[graceful sequoia]

my client would absolutely never do that.

and they are the ones paying the vat before sending me the money soooo

[proud jay]

you earn 400 million through fraud, pay a 20 million fine and go to jail for 3 months

profit

[graceful sequoia]

in America, white collar crime generally has nice digs from what I hear

[proud jay]

all our prisons are pretty nice

you can have like laptops and shit

if there were no other prisoners I don't think it would be that bad

[graceful sequoia]

our prisons are private, so that way the companies can use you for slave labor

[proud jay]

🤑

[graceful sequoia]

it's an equitable system that definitely doesn't take advantage of the poor and minorities

[proud jay]

it also definetily does not incentivize the prisons to not reform the inmates so they never come back

[graceful sequoia]

liberty and justice.... for Tom the tax fraud guy

[graceful sequoia]

good quip but double negatives.... who taught you English?

[proud jay]

that guy's uncle

[graceful sequoia]

hehehe

ok but seriously putting the two nodes side by side

smh

[proud jay]

some people just do be crazy like that

Is discord dead or just me?

I mean lol

[graceful sequoia]

well

we all knew this day would come

they are coming for the shit posters and they started with you

and doing it via Cloudflare no less

rude

[proud jay]

I wonder what triggered it

And why my phone is not blocked

[graceful sequoia]

phone probably hitting it over mobile

maybe falling back?

like I said, coming for the shit posters

I'm next

ayyyyyyy

but that's discord.com

not discordapp.com which I think is where the APIs are

considering this same phone is fine on the app

probably a sysadmin has made a grave mistake

or Cloudflare has, and the whole internets going down

[proud jay]

That’s what I had too a few seconds before

[late solstice]

oh mobile still works

[proud jay]

Downdetector is saying it’s not just me

[graceful sequoia]

hm. so for me I loaded discord.com in browser and it worked, then reloaded the page and it failed, but mobile app has no issues

(all on phone)

just email discord your ray ids

[proud jay]

I’m using discord in browser, there is no cache

Except browser cache

Which I just cleared

[graceful sequoia]

uhhh

tell me your not a web dev without saying your not a web dev

[proud jay]

I’m looking at the roaming folder though

[graceful sequoia]

see that's. that's not. never mind god

[celest musk]

had it, too

[graceful sequoia]

ok well bens not a shit poster so that wrecks my theory

[celest musk]

little do you know...

[graceful sequoia]

oh I can't wait

[hollow dawn]

yep same here, got blocked by discord till just now lol... wtf

[proud jay]

Well hard refresh did something

But now stuck on loding

[hollow dawn]

\o/ works again it seems

[graceful sequoia]

if we give it about ten minutes I should be able to tell if it's Cloudflare wide by checking how much more worthless my worthless Cloudflare shares have become

[celest musk]

the plot thickens

[hollow dawn]

yep cloudflare... same same

[proud jay]

it's back

slow af though

[graceful sequoia]

same

they wouldn't lie about that

[celest musk]

well it was a cloudflare screen, so it's not on discords end...

[graceful sequoia]

actually no

as a Cloudflare site operator, you can royally fuck yourself

and it would look exactly like it just did

that's why I mentioned rays

[proud jay]

well at least now I discovered I forgot my discord password

[graceful sequoia]

you can punch those bad boys into cloudflares console to figure out just what dumb shit you added to WAF to cause it

[proud jay]

I hate WAF

[hollow dawn]

dont worry the internet prolly knows your password somewhere

[proud jay]

flagging so much of our shit as risks lol

[proud jay]

well I do too now after resetting

[stone saddle]

that was fun being banned for 10 minutes lol

it's back up now

[proud jay]

now you know what it feels like

[stone saddle]

right!?!

[proud jay]

on the other side for once

[hollow dawn]

not even banned, blocked

[stone saddle]

oh true, blocked

[hollow dawn]

sounds like a minecraft thing tbh

[graceful sequoia]

I wonder if mobile app legit hits a different endpoint than web

actually that's quite possible -- it's stylish to proxy your APIs on the same domain as your web app

in this case it would have broken the service whereas non-web clients continued to work

[hollow dawn]

well it appears it happened on all kinds of clients, i used desktop

[celest musk]

did you guys get that error in the actual discord app?

[stone saddle]

yea

[graceful sequoia]

yeah perhaps desktop uses the same web endpoints?

[celest musk]

or did it only affect web page users?

[stone saddle]

and web

[graceful sequoia]

anyone have fails on mobile? (android/iOS, app not web)

[stone saddle]

nah, nothing on mobile from anyone i've seen

must have different path or endpoint

[celest musk]

weird since ip blocks are more likely to happen on mobile tho 😄

[graceful sequoia]

Slacker community is highly desktop oriented ime

[hollow dawn]

lets just code a new discord, in UE blueprints

[celest musk]

at least here mobile traffic runs through a provider NAT

[stone saddle]

Sourcererer*

[celest musk]

so it can happen that 2 persons have the same ipv4 address at the same time (happened to me before)

[graceful sequoia]

I'll always be a slacker

[proud jay]

you need to type really fast to get out all the toxic

[hollow dawn]

thats why they invented ipv6... cause numbers ran out

[stone saddle]

https://tenor.com/view/heresy-detected-warhammer40k-warhammer40k-heresy-detected-warhammer40k-space-marines-gif-26543746

[graceful sequoia]

yeah it can be challenging on mobile. but these fingers fly

[celest musk]

yea, but i'm not sure if they force ipv6 now, or if there's still a ipv4 tunnel which runs through NAT

probably later

[graceful sequoia]

almost certainly they are shipping A and AAAA for all services still

[stone saddle]

https://twitter.com/search?q=discord+down&ref_src=twsrc^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^search

[hollow dawn]

why is it still twitter.com?

[graceful sequoia]

because musk can't do anything right

[stone saddle]

formerlytwitter.com

[graceful sequoia]

literally owns x.com, literally can't figure out how to move it

[proud jay]

at least it reroutes to twitter.com

[stone saddle]

it does?

[graceful sequoia]

yeah he parked it at GoDaddy

[stone saddle]

oh x.com

gotcha lol

[celest musk]

domain is probably their most valuable asset now

[hollow dawn]

godaddy.... x.com... sounds like lewd boobie pics

[stone saddle]

thought you meant formerlytwitter.com

[proud jay]

need to buy this and reroute to mastodon or something

[graceful sequoia]

they should sell it to make up for the massive shortfalls

[stone saddle]

lol, someone has it parked

[graceful sequoia]

I will degrade myself publically if the US ends up in an everything app society a la WeChat and it's X and not tiktok

[proud jay]

luckily musk is incompetent

and in theory the laws should block this

[graceful sequoia]

yeah it's unlikely to be either

but tiktok is cunning

and musk wants people to pay to use Twitter at it's base level?

[proud jay]

there is simply no other way to distinguish from bots

[median wraith]

back to phpBB then

[graceful sequoia]

and I mean really, we all look like bots sometimes. especially when we are emphatically not pushing dogecoin

[proud jay]

there's a reason discord blocked us all

it's cause we're bots

[median wraith]

https://ih1.redbubble.net/image.1656653964.9214/st,small,507x507-pad,600x600,f8f8f8.jpg

[tiny bone]

Give it 20ish years and we might all end up using WeChat, no "a la" needed

[proud jay]

I hope that's you in your pic

that would explain a lot

[tiny bone]

I'll leave you to ponder

[graceful sequoia]

hopefully they can make the UI less shit

the story of wechat is super interesting. they are basically the consumer equivalent of the "well just hack something together for the client" -- just, you know, insanely more lucrative

https://youtu.be/51fWzJ-A5w4?si=oRnxwNrRRCAtjdut

[tiny bone]

Yeah I'm familiar, hence my comment 🙂

[graceful sequoia]

oh god

my desktop discord is definitely still dead from the thing

and stuck in full screen

phew there we go

yep had to murder roaming

[pearl elk]

Ai have birthdays too 🎂

[proud jay]

Omg

Down again

Ffs discord

[graceful sequoia]

man that sysadmin is persistent

your right, this must be user error

actually impressed they see indicators at all

the desktop app had the entire page showing the CF error page

so no idea what can be reporting the issue

perhaps it's just an external health check-- a stretch to call that only 'increased API errors" but sure

[proud jay]

they didn't say it was their api

[fleet tangle]

Damn.

[pearl elk]

could be worse, whole ANZ bank went offline today

[fleet tangle]

Is there a way, in Discord, to scroll to the latest notification in a channel?

[lean marsh]

Is all text in discord suddenly italicized after restart for anyone else?

Disappeared after restarting again, seems to have been a weird bug.

[pearl elk]

and the other week it was Toyota I think, a heap of production lines went offline

[graceful sequoia]

no they did on their status page

that's what the screenshot is

[proud jay]

no I mean

they say API issues

not discord api issues

[graceful sequoia]

hehe

fair

probably ChatGPTs fault tbh

but if they want to call "misconfiguring Cloudflare" an upstream API issue, welp

whoa check out this HN about it https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37701476

nderjung

CloudFlare is blocking traffic to Discord

Hacker News · Sep 29, 2023, 10:03 AM

100% spammy green accounts

[proud jay]

Omg

Again

Pls

[fleet tangle]

Oooh

I'd try that if discord wasn't broken 😂

[proud jay]

That’s it, we’re moving this server to slack

And call it unreal discorders

[unreal ether]

Don't forget the subreddit called r/UnrealLemmyers

[fleet tangle]

Oh that mentions thing is fantastic.

Did not see that.

Or even know it existed.

Thanks!

[proud jay]

Omg

Broken again

How can this be so shit

[analog lily]

Funmy how things degrade instead of improve over time

[unborn lotus]

like our bodies

[analog lily]

Some stuff gets better, some get worse :p

[proud jay]

Not even correct german in the comment that I read

[proud jay]

why is discord like this

now server is dead

I like how you can see when discord died cause of me starting my sentences with capitalized letters

except for I

https://imgur.com/COlyhIy

[fleet tangle]

That's pretty lax of them.

[proud jay]

you're way behind, they're on CS101 now

[pearl elk]

10/10 would recommend, fluffy cows ftw

https://tenor.com/view/hairy-cow-highland-cow-gif-26691687

[proud jay]

https://youtu.be/QiqqC_fbP1c

[fleet tangle]

That's it. Moo-ving to the country.

[worldly sapphire]

One of these days I'm going to move to a mountain cottage, have my own little veggie garden and not touch technology anymore

[pearl elk]

gonna eat me alot of peaches

[fleet tangle]

https://tenor.com/view/reference-captain-america-avengers-understood-gif-7991943

[hollow dawn]

https://tenor.com/view/letterkenny-thank-gif-19047322

[tulip orbit]

https://tenor.com/view/firefly-serenity-kaylee-kayleefrye-causeimpretty-gif-5375282

[pearl elk]

https://tenor.com/view/umbrella-academy-five-vanya-gif-18069934

[empty dune]

finally got out of the discord gulag

[median wraith]

Damm this is back

[lofty lark]

nitro speeds up the server speed. hence the name, nitro

[median wraith]

The whole Discord window was this for me

even no self window border

[unborn lotus]

The great blackout of 23

Actually did work today

[median wraith]

haha

The scopes are sad for the aug etc

But I prefer that scope style tbh

yeah is baked

[unborn lotus]

Source 2 has a great baker, hl alyx stuff is baked and looks amazing

[median wraith]

backed + realtime blend

if you go to office is too good inside

you can tell the light smooth and blending is awesome

There is a filtering also helping this and some kind of glare effect source engine always had but now is purified and increased

[unborn lotus]

https://tenor.com/view/american-psycho-card-shake-ii_ch2-gif-25887089

Those reflection in the yellow beam look 100% real

[median wraith]

yeah this looks really cool

fun fact there is caustics also moving at the celing

nice details

you can tell the light comming from this ring on the bake lmao

could nice if they add some cool modes to this

But yeah this will look way better than the realtime light techs for sure

GPU baking is still years ahead of what you will get in realtime

There is also an awesome indirect shadows tech going on there for realtime bodies

could be something like the indirect shadows from UE but not sure about

you can see in the floor, isn't SSAO

comes with projection from the light

[woven wing]

I learned the other day that Valorant doesn't have player shadows

Was reading through Riot's writeup on it

[clear dust]

How interesting...

[woven wing]

https://technology.riotgames.com/news/valorant-shaders-and-gameplay-clarity

[clear dust]

In somewhat of a contrast The Cycle:Frontier had player shadows facing the wrong way

maybe the AI takeover is starting

[errant raven]

Valorant is shit anyways

Cool maps but the egirl edating weirdos ruin the game

[errant raven]

Going on and on about the lighting system in cs2 but does the secret deagle inspection animation still clip through the player models fingers

[unborn lotus]

R8 is better

[clear dust]

oh did Valorant add a bunch of "lore"?

[errant raven]

Lore

The only cartoonish video I'll play is fortnite

[errant raven]

What lore

[woven wing]

Thinking about playing video games :)
Playing video games :(
Thinking about making video games :(
Making video games :)

[errant raven]

No one smiles when making a video game

[clear dust]

i dont follow Valorant at all, so when you said the thing about egirls and weirdos i thought maybe you meant Valorant added little storylines into the game or something, like comics that I have seen in other games.

[errant raven]

No

I mean actually people

[clear dust]

ohhhhh

[errant raven]

The valo server on discord is the breeding grounds for it

A cockroach nest

[clear dust]

love the choice of words lol

"breeding" grounds for egirl edating weirdos

[errant raven]

Yes

An infestation that raid cant even fix

[clear dust]

discord servers tend to turn into that

why I am in only two discords

[woven wing]

I'm in 1 discord, and a discord for every tool I use

[median wraith]

But the weapons don't pass cross walls

My website works at least so

[woven wing]

Like Maya, Blender, Unreal, Fluid Ninja, ZBrush servers

[errant raven]

Wdym weapons dont pass cross walls

[clear dust]

is Chat GPT associated with twitch?

[woven wing]

I don't think Amazon has really joined the AI war yet

[errant raven]

Ai is so shit still

[clear dust]

I was asking because it send a verification code to my phone that came from one of the numbers that twitch sends me codes from

[errant raven]

Dk why people who dont know anything related to computers/programming are scared of it

@broken sigil get in here nerdy dan

[lofty lark]

cloudflare is (potentially) saving you from LoL.

[errant raven]

What do you know about grinding, you're not a blacksmith smh

[empty dune]

Trust me bro, et al

https://tenor.com/view/space-marine-astartes-40k-gif-24048805

i just saw a close friend of mine online and playing fifa 2023

i know what must be done

https://tenor.com/view/gun-anime-load-gif-16105577

[errant raven]

Sports games are just iPhones of the gaming world

Getting paid huge to copy and paste

[empty dune]

and a new version every year that adds nothing

no i was still hung up on how they added swipe on keyboard

[errant raven]

What's the difference between titanium and whatever titanium apple marketed for their iphone 15

[empty dune]

never seen such marvel of technology before

[errant raven]

Isnt titanium relatively cheap to

[empty dune]

"forza is a racing game, whats there to add? guns?"

[errant raven]

The magic being the dude behind the PCB designing

Their engineers dont deserve a raise, they deserve to work for a better company

[empty dune]

comes with a shotgun and two shells, to put yourself out of your misery later

right

it was made to save the environment

[errant raven]

What's the second shell for

Kurt only needed one shell

Be like kurt

[empty dune]

https://tenor.com/view/gun-shotgun-kill-yeet-gif-23581385

where are you going

[errant raven]

https://tenor.com/view/aunty-donna-aunty-donnas-big-ol-house-of-fun-shoot-kill-me-insanity-gif-21455556

[lofty lark]

https://tenor.com/view/bardmp4-bard-bard-league-bard-league-of-legends-bard-league-of-gif-21899709

bard is a true bro

[errant raven]

That doesnt look like a bard

Looks like reggiggas had a a baby with krampus

[empty dune]

huh

ghost ping

[lofty lark]

https://tenor.com/view/borderlands-borderlands2-face-mcshooty-need-it-want-it-gif-14541737

[errant raven]

Glad to see the bass player from guitar hero 2 is ok

Well lead guitarist

The bass player was a Npc dude, basically the patches of the guitar hero games

[fleet tangle]

@timber viper i need this in a t shirt

[timber viper]

lmao

is this ep12?

[fleet tangle]

13!

[timber viper]

oh there is 13!

I'm still on 10 😄