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empty dune
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eyy, another new member on the watchlist

cursive crypt
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Coding nowadays is so violent.

queen isle
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Where were you when gaming was legitmatized?

queen isle
empty dune
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also, id very much like to stop living through historical events, thanks

cursive crypt
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Gran?

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Is there esport for chill games, watching the grass growing or something?

empty dune
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ah yes, the rest of the olympic feats are in no way related to war or martial arts

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javelin throw? thats just darts with bigger sticks 🤣

regal pecan
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Or the competitions with actual guns and live ammo.

empty dune
regal pecan
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...There really should be an artillery competition in the olympics. 155mm of gold medal.

empty dune
regal pecan
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I assume they'd have to make a match-grade artillery piece. That would be expensive.

empty dune
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i wonder if theyll put DCS jet fights in the olympics

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id honestly watch the shit out of those

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fascinating how a few calculations and some poor sod 300 m away loses a leg

empty dune
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thats probably more strenous than anything the actual olympic feats require you to do

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i played a lot of world of tanks when i was much younger, i was horrible at playing artillery mainly because i failed to change positions in time 🤣

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how far away was considered "far enough" btw?

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fancy way of saying classified lol

regal pecan
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There was probably only "too far". Not allowed to leave the continent.

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You're never safe if their aim is bad enough.

soft night
median wraith
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what the heck lol

summer cedar
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Careful.

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You use that gift card and your credit cards will shut down.

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really?

queen isle
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Apex reverts changes to battle pass

soft night
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out of bound memory error

errant raven
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@empty dune

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The comment with the green pfp

river sable
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they mean arts and crafts projects right?

errant raven
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It's funny how much money actual orphans make private companies with foster care facilities

river sable
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like put googley eyes on it or make a hat for it etc

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or a cape maybe

errant raven
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"You know what's going on, the kids dont know, but you do" - Glenn Quagmire

river sable
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been doing a course on wave function collapse and it's actually starting to collapse now, very satisfying

tulip orbit
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I never could figure out the full WFC stuff

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my generator uses a quasi-WFC loosely based constraint solver type thing

river sable
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been following this, it's pretty involved and I'm sure it would have taken me a lot of attempts to implement this myself

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I'll need to extend this a bit, curious how that will go 😄

zinc matrix
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I've just quit this pursue of 52 games. No reason. I won't gain anything. I've found out that I was playing games in an attempt to study level design but who is going to get a job by playing games and taking notes of what you think is bad in it? I was going to play Alice Madness returns with cheats, but decided against it. It's a huge waste of time to keep playing games with cheats just to count towards 52.

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Alice Madness Returns is a beautiful game, but it has a pretty average gameplay with not much substance.

brittle holly
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I’m fairly certain several people told you that was a bad idea when you initially mentioned it

empty dune
# zinc matrix I've just quit this pursue of 52 games. No reason. I won't gain anything. I've f...

if you want to get a job without a degree in that field, atleast make sure you have experience. in your case, start making games, small ones, doesnt even have to be commercial products, enough to show your understanding of level design. Put them on a website as a portfolio and use that to break into the industry, instead of playing games. A visible docket of things youve managed to accomplish (in your case, showing off cool level design ideas you have packaged in a game) will take you a lot farther

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there's absolutely no substitute for hands on experience, take it from the dude who spent way too long without it

errant raven
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The best way to learn how to make fun games is to do the exact opposite of the industry standards, and be a indie dev because the companies you grew up with fucking suck now

pale scarab
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is there a way to use C# in unreal?

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C++ is so hard. and also C# seems to do more than just game programming. idk what else C++ can do other than unreal

unreal ether
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C++ powers a hell of a lot

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You can do anything you want with it

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Unreal is but a tiny tiny super small subset of the language's uses

broken sigil
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there is a good chance every single thing you use daily uses C++/C in some way

unreal ether
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Hell this very app is

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Runs off electron, which is chromium, which is largely C++

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C# compiler was too until Roslyn

empty dune
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its like java and html, too old and deep seated to replace, not enough good enough reasons to try to begin with

pale scarab
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oh wow hahaha okie thanks guys. this kinda makes me happy tbh . I cant wait to do more than just unreal engine! because i dont wanna waste my C++ by just doing games 😅

empty dune
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incase you were wondering, c++ is almost double the age of c#

pale scarab
empty dune
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no not really, C is the parent language of C++

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i dont remember what C was derived from

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demonic rituals probably

brittle holly
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Ik there was Visual C at one point

empty dune
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isnt the entire basic family younger than C?

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or am i mixing it up

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nope, basic is older by about a decade

brittle holly
dusky kettle
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Just in 0.2

brittle holly
brittle holly
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Jk

dusky kettle
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We have a pretty big discord server now

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We’re around 300 peeps

brittle holly
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Nice

empty dune
brittle holly
summer cedar
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I'll wait for AI C.

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Connected to my neuralink chip.

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I'll probably need an i100-66000k CPU to run the thousands of iterations and test the code instantaneously.

unborn lotus
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Nah we'll have subscribtion cpu's by then

empty dune
summer cedar
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In 2060, in a school, on a planet not so far away:
Teacher: Your son is stupid. His IQ is really low. Send him to a special school.
Parent: NO! I'll just rent a brain instead and connect it to his chip.
Teacher: But, it won't be HIS brain.
Parent: SILENCE! Or I'll rent a teacher in your place too!
Son: Do it NAOW! Or I'll rent a parent instead!

pearl elk
summer cedar
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🤣 Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman are awesome guest hosting Jimmy Kimmel Live.

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The kids' questions are hilarious.

pale scarab
cursive crypt
dusky kettle
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Only thing missing in the API is support for TSet and FGameplayTag

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check my bio for the website

cursive crypt
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Abandon the ship!
We meed Erlang UE

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That from StackOverflow survey.

proud jay
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that's just cause there's only like 5 of them

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so all those jobs need to be filled by those 5

soft night
pale scarab
cursive crypt
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Will never understand that attraction to MS C 🤔
But on other hand... many wont understand mine 🔥

soft night
cursive crypt
proud jay
median wraith
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Haahah

pearl elk
fleet tangle
median wraith
pearl elk
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Im gonna buy a 9950X instead 😮

celest musk
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anyone got an idea how to generate a texture like this with consistent spacing?

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tried to do this with HTML => PNG but the antialiasing and nonexistent transparency are an issue as i can't really get rid of artifacts when trying to add opacity

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i'm almost tempted to do it in UMG and to render it to a render target 😄

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nvm, i'll make it in gimp... guess i've figured how to space it even

median wraith
median wraith
celest musk
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you said the magic word

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grid is what i was looking for, seems like Gimp has something similar

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that only works with monospace

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and you got to be lucky that it matches your desired spacing

median wraith
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works pretty bad on my end Gimp*

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XD

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Man i loved Pyxel Edit

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Sadly dropped

celest musk
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that fricking grid is awesome

median wraith
celest musk
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thanks hevedy, saved my sanity

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i was about to block it out manually with a pattern 😄

proud jay
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just do some quick mafs

median wraith
celest musk
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there wasn't much sanity to save tho...

median wraith
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dammit

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oh man, I still remember when UE4 didn't support 1080p intro videos by 2018

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idk whats the max res now, but that one is a thing so

cursive crypt
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ngl, it is kinda weird... Lately I get unknown calls from London, India and etc. I hang up, but... wtf really.

pearl elk
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if you give me your number you can get unknown calls from Australia too 😛

proud jay
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my number is 4

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anyone going to the olympics?

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good idea

fleet tangle
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Well that was the wrong message.

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But you get the idea.

cursive crypt
soft night
proud jay
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unrealistic, there's no fapping in the gif

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someone that only computers and sleeps would definitely not survive forever like this

cursive crypt
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food + toilet too

unreal ether
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They're also a really slow walker

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Like an hour to get from bed to computer

soft night
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poinkkis now challenged to make that simulator

proud jay
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ponkkis has always been challenged

celest musk
fleet tangle
summer cedar
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It uses sophisticated hinge AI systems to delineate between viable and disposable creatures.

median wraith
unborn lotus
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Oh man I have a long time left

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pearl elk
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oh wait this is Brussels but it seems like theyre targeting the Olympics

celest musk
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that's actually neat

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do i want to f*** up my grub for this

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$ uptime
17:14:33 up 33 days

guess not

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for 12 boots a year 😄

median wraith
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here the people end working almost 70 by now and they started by 20 lol

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lovely they list 36 years of work in green XD

unborn lotus
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You just gotta start at 40 or 50 so you work less

summer cedar
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Fallout London mod for Fallout 4 has been released.
Grab it before it's nuked by da revenuers on high.

carmine wraith
carmine wraith
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or to at least make sure its not biased by actual lifespan

median wraith
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At this point

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How many years did you spent in a mediocre education system? Welp

summer cedar
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Once Crowdstrike nukes the computer that manages your pension funds, you'll have to forgo retirement. 😄

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Of course, if they could nuke the computer that manages the registry of companies, you could declare yourself CEO of Microsoft or some such, before a back up can be restored.

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Total CEO, a variant of Total Recall.

white oxide
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at my current funding i can retire today, only if i expect to live till Saturday

empty dune
summer cedar
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Sunday can be a bummer.

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So go out by Saturday. It's a plan.

empty dune
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found the full version lol

summer cedar
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I THINK I can live for about three years on my current savings (without touching my investments) with a good lifestyle. If I implement austerity measures, I think I can stretch it to six or ten.

median wraith
summer cedar
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Although I imagine I'll be in ICU by then in a hospital.

summer cedar
median wraith
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Exactly

summer cedar
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Yeah, same system in Japan.

median wraith
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the national one aka the public one

summer cedar
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The kicker in Japan is, the government hasn't even told the people that they have trillions of yen in profits over the last four years. Many think the pension system is broke. 😄

median wraith
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you will be rich with about 900€ once you retire, if that even happen

summer cedar
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urf.

empty dune
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thats like a couple month's rent in a big city

summer cedar
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In India, the National Pension System is currently giving a 13% yield per annum.
But, it's better to invest in equities directly while investing in the NPS, too. That way, you can make BIGGER profits short-term AND reinvest it in the NPS later.

median wraith
empty dune
summer cedar
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The only thing is, you'll need to develop a thick skin and a strong mentality; otherwise, the volatile Indian emotional mindset reacting to the market fluctuations will drive you insane.

unborn lotus
empty dune
unborn lotus
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A friend is paying like 700 per month

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Yeah

median wraith
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To pay you back those 900€ once you retire

summer cedar
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😓

empty dune
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daily reminder to eat the rich

median wraith
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The state taxes paper list that any person have the right to live with a min of 5k per year, imagine anyone this days living with 5k per year

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so you deduct those first 5k

summer cedar
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Hehe. I love those income thresholds they create.

unborn lotus
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5k per year was my first salary lol

summer cedar
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We'll give you X money according to Y threshold, but that Y threshold isn't sufficient even to cover 10% of the total expenses.

empty dune
median wraith
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I don't think it have changed since 1980 lol

summer cedar
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You are welcome to move to India, Hevedy.
Just don't drive all the way here. 😛

median wraith
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just as when I purchase something for my company

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anything over 300€ is considered a company inversion

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that didn't change since 1980

summer cedar
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Yeah, it's a common complaint that the indexation formula don't keep up with current inflation.

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Of course, if they DID, then a lot of people who get rich will have to pay more; so they like it that way.

empty dune
median wraith
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means that, if you get something that cost 303€ you will have to deduct it as company inversion at 5 years between 12 months each, aka 5€ per month, YAY!

summer cedar
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Is that depreciation, or a different concept?

median wraith
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idk really, if you get something that's 299€ you can deduct those 299€ from the income of that month right there

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otherwise you go for the 5€ for 5 years as in the prior example

summer cedar
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Ah.

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So, under 300 you get a direct deductible.

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Over that, it's depreciation forced.

median wraith
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yes

empty dune
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okay nvm i dont want to swap anymore

summer cedar
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Interesting. 🤔

median wraith
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because is a big "investment"

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imagine getting a GPU as I did

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they don't last more than 2 years, still deduct it 3 years more

summer cedar
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We have a very similar thing here, but there's no forced aspect.
Any company asset can be deducted from the current year's income by a reducing percentage.

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Eventually, depreciable value reaches 0.

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It's one of the great reasons to start your own proprietorship a.s.a.p.

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All your major purchases are company expenses. 😄

median wraith
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yeah, but is kinda sad, the limit where it is

summer cedar
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Of course.

median wraith
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plus I have todo the 5 years thing

summer cedar
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They limited it, because you can take advantage of it.

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We do here, in India.

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In fact, in the current budget, the Finance Minister plugged a loophole in real estate, which will eventually make houses cheaper for common people.

median wraith
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an investment should be over 1k tbh

summer cedar
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So far, when you bought a house in India and resold it for a big profit later, you can cut the taxable income using the cost indexation figure.

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That way, realtors could save a TON of money on taxes and they were lapping up houses, driving up the realty rates.

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From this/next year onwards, that's gone. Their realty profits get taxed at a flat rate.

empty dune
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plugged 1 leak, drilled 37 more

summer cedar
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So, hopefully, that'll prevent them from owning MOST of the realty for investment and the ordinary person can buy houses cheaper.

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OR the ordinary person will get beaten up in dark alleys to cough up more money by shady realtors.

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One of those. 😛

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@median wraith Is it easy to get low-interest loans from the government or banks, as a business?

median wraith
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nope

summer cedar
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😓

median wraith
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and public ones are worst

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you have to wait 1 year to get the company founds

summer cedar
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dang.

median wraith
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meanwhile you pay from that from your money income, because they claim they gave you the money before you got it

summer cedar
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In the last few years, it's become way easier here for registered companies to get loans. BUT, you should have paid GST at least once, so you have a valid GST number.

median wraith
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because the money they give to you count as income

summer cedar
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or the interest on it?

median wraith
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yes

summer cedar
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aing?! 👀

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By what justified logic is that even allowed?

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It's a LOAN.....

median wraith
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if they give you 20k for example that considered income from the company

empty dune
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spain sounds like a lovely place

median wraith
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talking about public ones*

summer cedar
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public or private, the meaning of the word LOAN kind of excludes it from being INCOME.

median wraith
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so if you get that 25k, you will have to pay about 7k of your income over the imaginary money once you get it

empty dune
median wraith
median wraith
unborn lotus
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Yeah but what if you use all of it for company expenses? Like acquisitions or salaries etc

summer cedar
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and the private lenders have a higher interest rate to make up for the lack of income tax, yeah? 😄

median wraith
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by the end of the year, they check if have to return money or not

summer cedar
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Ah.

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So, this is TDS.

median wraith
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The public help they give here to new companies

summer cedar
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And you get it back, yes? Assuming you're eligible...

median wraith
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is literally to pay the goverment itself lol

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so they give you money into a private account

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and they take the money they gave to you for them back

summer cedar
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Sounds splendid.

median wraith
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and in the meanwhile that count as income

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the first time*

summer cedar
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Base your company in Montreal. They don't charge taxes, right?

median wraith
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idk

summer cedar
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or Monaco... wherever.

unborn lotus
summer cedar
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or maybe even Andorra

unborn lotus
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So technjcally you can use all loan money with basically no tax

summer cedar
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That's how it should work.

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Which country are you in, hristew?

median wraith
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Andorra issue is too small to live and houses start at half million

summer cedar
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Ok. Step 1: Find an old lady with a house.
Step 2: wink, wink, figure out the rest.

median wraith
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and the montly fixed payment

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they give you the money for*

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yes, the *public health care of min 300€ per month

summer cedar
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Okay, but the more important question is, are the five star hotels still good?

unborn lotus
median wraith
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only went once to a five star hotel

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was worst than 2 star ones I was at

summer cedar
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that shouldn't be the case.

median wraith
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stars only define accesibilty and other elements tbh

unborn lotus
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But you can choose not to and keep them in the company account

median wraith
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the TV didn't worked, one of the shower pumps didn't worked either, and they didn't changed the bed sheets once requested

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onn the five one

summer cedar
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Google says this is from Romania.

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Looks pretty. 😍

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Hevedy, did you get a refund from the hotel?

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That sounds like crappy service.

median wraith
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nope

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never, they never ever came to the room to check what we called out

unborn lotus
summer cedar
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Why would anyone even go near a bear?

unborn lotus
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For tik tok content!

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or to feed it, duh 😂

summer cedar
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🤣

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Even those damned koala bears.

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I have a student who LOVES them.

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Bloody aggressive buggers. Will murder you without battin' an eyelid, I tell you.

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Or worse; scratch your face off.

median wraith
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Now you point it out

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I think the less expensive hotel I ever was about 40€ the night

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and was decent

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I don't think you can find something for less

summer cedar
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I think that's a teen-ish bear. It's probably the only reason that worked.

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There was one in Japan, too.

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The home owner found it in his house shrine.

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He literally kicked it in the backside and it ran out.

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If it had been a fully grown one... oh boy. 😓

unborn lotus
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Good thing I played Control

unborn lotus
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Ur basically ded

summer cedar
empty dune
zinc matrix
open fog
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Depressed as anything and might be to do with the fact i started boozing again after taking june off

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im trying solo crunch atm Sadge

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and lost all energy at 95% completion

summer cedar
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completion of?

open fog
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gamre

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multiplayer rts

summer cedar
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Cool. Best of luck! 🙂

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By that I mean, work hard until you succeed.

brittle holly
empty dune
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and even that is pushing it imo

empty dune
open fog
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yea how do u know

empty dune
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you have posted it here before

open fog
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i have some personal life related depression and made it a lot harder to get motivation

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but im still inching forward

empty dune
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same man, same

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did you manage to solve the low fps issue?

open fog
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last time i optimised i got good performance
I will probably need another optimisation pass because some stuff I added since is not well optimised

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Last big hurdle is error handling when people disconnect, players cant search for new sessions

zinc matrix
empty dune
open fog
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i dont i just try and power through stuff with caffeine

empty dune
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yeah thats my approach atm

open fog
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i keep rescheduling deadline so basically the steam promo stuff is borked because its been in pre release forever so I will have to do some advertising myself

empty dune
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im seriously considering ticketing everything from now on

empty dune
open fog
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I made a discord for it and i tried to make a professional twitter but elon said no

empty dune
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huh? why

open fog
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idk just couldnt verify or something small prolly work if i try again

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just energy

empty dune
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ah right

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isnt verification nowadays a swipe of the credit card?

open fog
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I dont think so yet

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he makes you do some kind of 6 stage puzzle

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and it says passed and then it crashes or smt

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not hard but easy to get 1 wrong if you are tired

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empty dune
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ah yes my favourite minigame

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train skynet

open fog
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Yeah I passed and then it says we will text you with a code to verify, when i clicked ok it put me back to 'create account' this time with an email entry instead of phone number entry, if i fill in the email entry it wants me to redo the whole puzzle

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and no code texted

unborn lotus
empty dune
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understandable, they have a whole 5 employees left at twitter

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and 4 of them are busy appeasing elon

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like the greater daemon that he is

median wraith
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Is the meta human to print friends ready?

summer cedar
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To give your printed friends a conscience, if that's required, use a nice AI... or something. 🤷

cursive crypt
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More like u have friends and make them meta humans.

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I don't watch horrors. Kinda disgusting.

summer cedar
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It's all interchangeable.

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First came the cyborg human with a brainchip.

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He printed robots and they became human.

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Then they made their own cyborgs.

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At the end of the day, everyone asked the same question, "Which came first, the chicken or the egg?"

cursive crypt
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gf, likes psycho thrillers, can't sleep after them.

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Why janky horrors tho?

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Ah, yeah, lol

median wraith
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So need to print someone

summer cedar
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Subscribe to the online AI girlfriend and talk to her on your mobile phone.

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Enjoy your burger 😄

cursive crypt
# median wraith So need to print someone

Hmm... when I was single, I was hanging around friends with gf. It is not always a problem, on the contrary, can be fun and u also sometimes get to know an interesting friend of them.

empty dune
median wraith
median wraith
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Are locked groups

summer cedar
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😛

median wraith
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Blender one?

summer cedar
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I can't guarantee most of the attendees will be women. sorry.

median wraith
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I posted the Blender one I think?

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Or at least named it ifk

empty dune
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link

median wraith
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There is another with helicopters and such

cursive crypt
median wraith
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I was the first one tbh

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So is fair

cursive crypt
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I noticed, the older u get, more the effort for having friends is.

median wraith
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Correct

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The older the more different the people is, and the more sub branches there are

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That's why couples that last long are kinda similar usually

errant raven
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Pepsi is a dutch drink

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Why else would they use Dutch flag as logo

unborn lotus
feral viper
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wazzup

cursive crypt
empty dune
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wbu

feral viper
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lonely, depressed, looking for an anchor to reality so i can focus on work

empty dune
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mood

feral viper
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cant let the brain opps bring me down.

empty dune
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if they do, they go down with me🤝

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speaking of brain opps, @edgy elm how goes the milkshake business?

edgy elm
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I did a milkshake once and it actually came out really good! It was nom nom

empty dune
edgy elm
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Then I went bac into workin on my game LOL. Mind Games.

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I gave myself a new thing to procrastinate on

empty dune
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lol what is it

edgy elm
errant raven
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The shit I just googled

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I need perma sleep

empty dune
empty dune
errant raven
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Hehehehe

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Peppers and tomatoes pollinate themselves, due to having both parts in their flowers, so I wondered if a..

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Cant say it

edgy elm
errant raven
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I'm more concerned why it auto completed my question

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Google didnt even answer my question, it just has a bunch of sites saying different things

errant raven
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Should of said tell/show instead of just tell

edgy elm
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Tru step forward in evolution, perhaps, perhaps not, perhaps super inbred, but perhaps poggers

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Imagine being able to have babies yourself

empty dune
# errant raven

and i thought eating a frozen burger was the worst part of my morning today...

errant raven
#

Why the fuck would you eat a frozen burger

#

Brother youre in india, just let it sit in the counter for 5 minutes

empty dune
#

i didnt want to waste it

edgy elm
errant raven
#

I eat raw beef

#

Frozen beef tho?

#

I finally got a cat tower today, and my kittens love it

#

Neighbor moved and let me have his, and a few good tables

north torrent
#

And a few good cats?

empty dune
empty dune
empty dune
errant raven
#

Why are these amber alerts so god damn vague and weird

errant raven
errant raven
#

My kittens like the cat tower a bit too much, they dont wanna sleep on my lap anymore.

#

@unborn lotus which one you picking

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unborn lotus
#

lol none

errant raven
upper gazelle
#

it depends on the kind of stuff you are marketing

#

well

#

no not really

summer cedar
#

Manor Lords is adding fishing ponds and migrating to UE 5.
They are adding crossbow regiments, too. Nice!
I really wish they'd allow 100 regiments to be spawned and maintained. The current 12-16 whatever is just too low to show off our virtual arms race.

upper gazelle
#

nevermind

cursive crypt
#

Sounds good, but is it enough? Only you can tell. At some point, it won't matter much, if you did your marketing/advertising well.
Also, I suppose you talk about nickname, not a name. I know people with names which are hard to pronounce in English opt in for real names, say Benedict Wong, Jess Hong, Rosalind Chao, etc.

zinc matrix
#

One more thing to take into consideration is how weird would someone in real life called me Flow

cursive crypt
#

Do not worry about it, my term might be also not the best. Nickname and pseudonym are close. My point was about more 'artistic' vs more 'real' names. Choose whatever is comfortable for you. If you are into the artistic side or if you are into the business side.

#

Note that, for example, western cultures are slowly getting used to names which are more hard for them to pronounce, say the asian languages with tone variety.

zinc matrix
#

I mean non real name is quite popular i guess

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cursive crypt
#

This is a informal, mostly anonymous, game server.

zinc matrix
#

Yeah but i guess they use that name in marketing material

cursive crypt
#

Unlikely. Many people have separate business persona.

#

As I said, just choose something and stick to it. This is what matters.

empty dune
#

sounds cool

zinc matrix
cursive crypt
#

Depends what I'm targetting. If I'm targeting this UE server and some open source projects - yeah.
My own game dev company? No.

empty dune
#

it just a matter of what you are comfortable with and how you want to market your persona

zinc matrix
#

ok can i ask both of you, how weird it is to call someone flow in real life meeting?

empty dune
#

ive gone by both my real name and my onscreen name in meetings and sure, hearing "So rain, what do you think of this?" is a bit weird at first but if it works it works lol

cursive crypt
#

Normal. As someone who wants to adapt his name to the rest.

broken sigil
#

if someone in my work environment called me by my real name I would be like "eeewww who the hell is that... oh yeah... right, me ConcernedFrog "

empty dune
cursive crypt
zinc matrix
#

alright i guess i am flow now, if nothing changes this is my name till the rest of my life

#

fuck what an anime moment

broken sigil
empty dune
#

vroom vroom mfer

zinc matrix
broken sigil
#

sure

cursive crypt
zinc matrix
#

don't you guys have to meet others once in a while?

#

or like at least meet to sign something

broken sigil
pearl elk
#

I want to work for a company 90% of the time and get paid 90k a year

empty dune
cursive crypt
empty dune
#

most of the paperwork i use are with digital signatures

zinc matrix
#

wow if i failed my solo gamedev i can probably work for some remote company outside of my country

#

wild pay even 50k a year

empty dune
#

at this day and age especially in this particular industry, you can sit behind a screen name or a real name, no one cares as long as you can do the job

pearl elk
#

I pay 50k kangaridoo dollars per year

empty dune
#

at most someone will ask for your linkedin or something

zinc matrix
#

steam page gotta be strong material lmao

#

instantly hired

pearl elk
#

Now hiring, must have steam level of over 300

broken sigil
empty dune
broken sigil
empty dune
summer cedar
#

In industries other than tech, it's essentially 3 days at home and 3 days at the office.

#

Or any combination thereof.

#

The best kind of jobs are the ones where you can work 95% remotely and go to the office once a week, mainly because you need to stamp papers.

unborn lotus
#

Or 100% remote, 0 meetings, just tasks

pearl elk
#

I go into the office just to intimidate the other workers with my presence

empty dune
#

boring as fuck

unborn lotus
#

Dunno

#

I sometimes miss the office

empty dune
cursive crypt
unborn lotus
#

Like getting up and asking people if they're working hard or hardly working

pearl elk
empty dune
empty dune
unborn lotus
zinc matrix
#

So i am here at vietnam right, i video call and got hired by an US company, and sit at my house to do the job and get pay lol?

empty dune
pearl elk
#

theres a big game dev outsourcer in vietnam

empty dune
zinc matrix
unborn lotus
pearl elk
zinc matrix
#

well not this one

pearl elk
#

I think locally they are Sparx and Glass Egg but owned by Virtuos. I met acouple of UE devs from there at UnrealFest here

zinc matrix
#

i talked to a studio that made steam monopoly

empty dune
summer cedar
#

When you rebuild your entire ship in space...

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#

...make sure there's enough oxygen.

pearl elk
#

more like TSS missionfail 😛

summer cedar
#

The rail guns seem to be working just fine.

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#

The explosions are nice!!! 😄

#

and now, lunch time! 😄

empty dune
#

its been a month and i still cant figure out why certain UI textures gets this really jagged edges while the rest are crisp. For example, exhibit A: this reticle from hell

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cursive crypt
#

material sampling? can't say is it good or bad, depends on resolutions/dpi/etc

empty dune
#

here's the actual texture, 1024x1024

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unborn lotus
#

texturegroup / filter?

empty dune
#

texture group UI, compression to UserInterface2D RGBA

#

filter is default, whatever that is

#

probably bilinear

celest musk
#

you have to set UI Textures to Cinematic

empty dune
celest musk
#

it isn't

#

do you have screen percentage not set to 100% maybe? (not sure if it affects UI tho)

soft night
#

svg is way to go

empty dune
empty dune
celest musk
#

now that you say that...

#

do you maybe have that thing as image and the resolution of the image widget is still set to 32x32?

empty dune
#

Is that what's causing it?

celest musk
#

don't think so

#

but 1024x1024 is a bit much imho

#

that's something thats worth smth between 32px - 128px probably

empty dune
#

Ill try 128 then

empty dune
median wraith
celest musk
#

idk if that will fix it tho, but it's probably not helping to have a ton of aliasing samples to reach the target resolution

empty dune
median wraith
#

You can enable lods for UI images too

#

Some times help

empty dune
#

Alright. If only there was a dummy's guide to ui floating around

median wraith
empty dune
median wraith
#

Side note: Make the edges a bit blur

celest musk
empty dune
celest musk
#

you want the smallest possible resolution which is necessary to reach your desired look

#

you can get the same blur effect with correct mip settings tho

empty dune
#

TIL

celest musk
#

that counts for anything in dev work

#

you can keep the hires texture in unreal as reference file, and just change the max resolution in the texture settings

#

that way you can still increase the resolution, when necessary, without reimporting it

empty dune
#

Smort

celest musk
#

i usually import all stuff hires and adjust in UE

empty dune
#

Ill try that, when power decides to come back that is

#

Ive been an hour without power so far lol

#

I think one of the connection lines nearby got fried

median wraith
#

Wanted to add in my tools some thing for this cases

#

Usually also the materials are better than textures itself

#

As you get more control

#

A lot of small things here

empty dune
median wraith
#

Usually this are the kind of thing on production nobody notices until everyone start to point on release and prior nobody listen to the dude that reported it

#

🚬

summer cedar
#

Never listen to the smart ones.

#

Just take credit for fixing the things you screwed up. 😛

median wraith
#

Na you don't even get credit at times thats the best part

empty dune
summer cedar
#

No, no. As the boss, you take credit for fixing the things you ignored and screwed up.

#

It's proper leadership.

cursive crypt
median wraith
pearl elk
median wraith
#

And make sure you don't even name the devs, just say something like:

pearl elk
#

curly smell lines are always bad

median wraith
#

"one of our tech artists..."

summer cedar
#

one of our refugee hires.

median wraith
#

Whatever you have only one

summer cedar
#

that's appropriate.

median wraith
#

🤣

empty dune
soft night
summer cedar
#

There's a proper CEO right there ^.

median wraith
empty dune
pearl elk
#

I never listen... or did I just

summer cedar
#

No, no. You imagined it.

median wraith
summer cedar
#

Well, you pay too much in taxes to afford a barber's services.

#

So, we forgive you.

median wraith
#

Na I want the hair long

summer cedar
#

Long yeah.

#

But like THAT?

#

Oh yeah, the cat's style is better.

median wraith
#

XD

pearl elk
summer cedar
#

Is your hair as long as mine, is the most important question.

#

I think mine almost touches my waist.

median wraith
#

Idk you can tel from my photo

pearl elk
#

Hevedys hair runs far into the desert

summer cedar
#

Is that why he has to travel 1,000 km, to pick them up?

pearl elk
median wraith
summer cedar
#

Indeed.

empty dune
median wraith
#

No mine is a bit longer than where the shoulder is

median wraith
summer cedar
empty dune
#

You guys have concrete deserts?

soft night
empty dune
#

So that's where all the tax payer money is going

summer cedar
pearl elk
median wraith
summer cedar
empty dune
#

Aaaand hevedy is canceled

soft night
empty dune
#

It was nice knowing you

#

🫡

median wraith
summer cedar
#

That's me from the front.

median wraith
#

Ohhhh

summer cedar
#

Slightly more backwards comb.

median wraith
#

Now I get what you mean

#

I had the hair like that, sides cur

soft night
median wraith
#

But wasnt able to figure how you mean that on the front

#

Not that you pointed out makes sense

summer cedar
#

If I kept the front long, my Japanese students would probably complain and I'd get crucified.

soft night
summer cedar
median wraith
summer cedar
soft night
empty dune
median wraith
#

We live in caves

median wraith
summer cedar
#

You need to look 'homogeneous' to fit in their conservative society.

soft night
summer cedar
#

Until recently, they'd force all their students to dye their hair black.

#

It doesn't matter even if it's a shade of brown or ever so slightly off-black or something.

#

There've been court cases to force the schools to stop that.

soft night
#

would windus dye the hair pink?

summer cedar
clear cape
#

is epic down again? keeps "service is temporary unavailable" whenever attempt to login

summer cedar
#

one sec.

#

It's opening for me.

#

it just updated.

#

restarting.

#

Works fine.

median wraith
#

Not gonna fix*

clear cape
#

ugh, that awful buggy captcha strikes again

summer cedar
#

Does it work if you login from a browser?

clear cape
#

im loggin in browser

summer cedar
#

and the app?

clear cape
#

dont have app on a tablet

summer cedar
#

Ah, I am using the app.

#

Let me check the browser.

#

It's working.

#

It might be a local internet IP/proxy issue on your ISP's end.

#

Try flushing the dns cache, restarting your modem, reconnecting to the network, and finally, restarting your tablet.

#

Because you have also those dynamic widgets and fish floating around your desktop.

#

✊

median wraith
#

Pause the 4k videos from the adult site for a second

summer cedar
#

This is Dr. Ponkkis you're talking about.
He surely peruses only 8k content.

median wraith
#

The key reply

summer cedar
#

No, the best reply is, push the plugs in harder while the device is on.

clear cape
#

ugh

#

well, will do marketplace things later

summer cedar
#

I think you can bypass the captcha by using 2FA.

#

I logged in without captcha.

median wraith
#

Maybe you have to wait if you fail the captcha

#

Or check email

clear cape
#

what could be wrong failing clicking guitar or butterfly on pic lol not like first time epic down

summer cedar
#

Do you have another browser on your tablet?

celest musk
#

dude

#

their fu**ing captcha sucks, end of story

summer cedar
clear cape
celest musk
#

i guess the issue is on the end of the captcha "service"

summer cedar
#

Well, when you login next time, set up the authenticator app.

#

Then, you'll never need captcha.

celest musk
#

and on epic, who despite of 2FA and real money spent, still asks for a captcha

#

it's totally unnecessary

clear cape
#

hell, no. i've spent months to recover accounts with 2fa after war began and my phone number was gone

summer cedar
#

Eeep.

#

What happened to your phone number?

#

Did James Bond steal it?

celest musk
#

it had to go to war, scnr

summer cedar
#

Or was it Ben?

#

He might have stolen a mobile number for a sandwich.

#

🥪

clear cape
#

oh, well. thats enought lounge for me, back to cpp

summer cedar
#

I bet cpp is not as cool as the lounge.

celest musk
#

it's pretty much the same

summer cedar
#

No, lounge is cooler.

#

✊

pearl elk
#

what if its a lounge written in cpp

summer cedar
#

As long as it's cool, that'd be okay.

pearl elk
summer cedar
#

neons 😋

#

Lies. Your 8k videos still impede your PC's performance.

#

Good devs are dead.

#

only lazy ones remain.

#

Just get 1TB RAM.

#

You'll be fine.

pearl elk
#

who does video anymore, Im all about that adult VR

empty dune
cursive crypt
median wraith
#

Oh my gad

median wraith
pearl elk
pearl elk
unborn lotus
empty dune
cursive crypt
celest musk
#

also the body of whoever films it appears way too large

#

that wasn't a pun

cursive crypt
#

I saw only solo i.e. from a distance.

#

It was just kinda disappointing.

unborn lotus
celest musk
#

there are some okayish solo videos imho

celest musk
cursive crypt
#

I think the cam tech is not there yet. At least not for big budget companies.

celest musk
#

but in general you are pretty much sitting in a skysphere where you can turn around to some degree

pearl elk
#

this is why it has to be full 3d

#

none of this stereo cheats

celest musk
#

nah, you don't gain much from 360 deg video imho

unborn lotus
empty dune
unborn lotus
#

Oh no um a friend has told me

celest musk
#

i can confirm that i've told them

pearl elk
summer cedar
#

I oppose such dubiousness.
We must all become undubious.

#

Let us strive for hilarity.

#

I mean CLARITY.

#

Yes, that's what I meant.

celest musk
#

yea, play some Doom to regain sanity

unborn lotus
celest musk
#

indeed

#

if anyone else is into furries, too. just hit on me

summer cedar
#

Or buy some MTX in PoE to cater to vanity

cursive crypt
pearl elk
#

mega transactions

summer cedar
#

I'll accept your money.

pearl elk
summer cedar
#

Really? Not even becoming sashimi on someone's dinner table?

soft night
fluid bloom
#

Lake water at summer cottage is 26.5 C, nice

north torrent
#

I would eat that fish...

empty dune
celest musk
median wraith
#

It's 2024, people still don't difference between a cyclist icon and a person walking to pick a lane

#

Maybe is a language barrier

summer cedar
#

I like this sword.

#

Very much.

summer cedar
#

Just plough through everyone.

median wraith
#

🤣

#

Can someone generate that in a cyclist lane with people walking front of it?

summer cedar
unborn lotus
#

Life pro tip, DON'T crash your bike after 30

soft night
unborn lotus
#

broken bones hurt more and heal slower than in your 20s 😅

#

got no time for that in your 30s

#

just gotta stay inside all the time or use full body bubble wrap

#

Ouch

#

Ive broken both collarbones

#

But it's only about 5 weeks of downtime each

#

I bet

#

But you did recover

#

I imagine by your 40s it's a nonunion and you just live with noodly bones

#

Ah

#

But will they take it out at some point?

#

I also had a metal plate in the collarbone but it sucked, hurt when you sleep

#

They did take it out

#

sucks

#

Was it a bear attack?

fleet tangle
#

ponkkis: the most metal of us all.

unborn lotus
#

Its like everything wants to hurt us, you can slip and fall anytime and break something, dont even have to do some extreme thing like downhill biking or skiing

#

survival 😅

summer cedar
#

This is why you get a monster truck.

#

Make sure it emits tons of smoke, so everyone stays out of the way.

unborn lotus
#

Or move to warmer climates

summer cedar
#

Soup up the engine's noise, so that even the police won't come near.

#

Make those ambulances weep as you plough through everyone.

#

Break others bones, not yours ™️

unborn lotus
#

Well climate change will destroy the jetstream so all of europe will be like yakutia

#

Yeah

#

The -60 in winter, 1 month of summer

#

but everybody else will slip on ice

#

Youll be king of the people

#

or ice skates

fluid bloom
#

Gulf stream

celest musk
#

does it really take longer?

#

thought life goes past you when you are older

#

so it should be quick

#

one, maybe two blinks and you are healed

#

and retired

unborn lotus
#

just blinked 5 times and nothing happened 😔

celest musk
#

did that happen today?

unborn lotus
#

nah, like 5 weeks ago

#

I wasted the best of shmmer

celest musk
#

😦.

#

don't say it like this, i'll spend the summer in front of the desk, too -_-

empty dune
unborn lotus
empty dune
#

this is what we were meant to do

empty dune
#

i did downsize the original texture as well

#

but the latter alone didnt help

unborn lotus
#

so a very productive day for you

celest musk
#

that sounds like your UI group may be set up wrong in the project settings?!

empty dune
empty dune
unborn lotus
#

Onedrive saved me again

#

But i still lost about 1 hour of work

empty dune
unborn lotus
#

Its the best

#

I dump everything in there

#

It takes care of the rest

#

And it has version control

#

Rudimentary

#

But enough to save me

empty dune
#

hello bill gates

#

youre not getting me money

unborn lotus
#

Just want to vaccinate u

empty dune
#

(im joking)

#

im already 5G chipped

celest musk
#

yea, but they need to change the huawai chip to some tesla neuralink thingy

#

dw, no one will chip someone who makes 1k cursor textures

median wraith
summer cedar
#

I made the mistake of leaving it on W-UPS for ten years and my laptop has rebooted five to six times when the GPU was on full load, during blackouts.

#

I switched it recently to UPS and have never had a reboot since.

#

Ah, cool! They fixed the 'open in new tab' not working bug in Google Chrome.

empty dune
unborn lotus
summer cedar
# unborn lotus I don't 😔

If you can, get one. The sealed, zero-maintenance batteries are quite good. I've had them for four years now and they haven't given me any problems. I think you have to replace the batteries every six years or so.

empty dune
summer cedar
#

Some people have pushed them for longer.

#

Don't get the older lead-acid ones though, even if someone offers them to you for cheap.

#

I've seen those leak all over a friend's living room floor.

#

Tubular batteries are arguably cheaper, but you have to tolerate a technician checking them once a year.

empty dune
#

was it before or after you shot the friend?

summer cedar
#

the friend was still alive pre and post-battery leak, but I believe she already had several holes or something in her heart.

#

something that caused it to misfire a lot or some such.

#

Didn't cause the batteries to leak though.

empty dune
#

didnt answer the question and confirmed the presence of holes in the heart

there you have it folks!

summer cedar
#

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celest musk
#

Wild sharks off the coast of Brazil have tested positive for cocaine, according to new study by Brazilian scientists, in the latest research to demonstrate how illegal drug consumption by humans is harming marine life.
now they blame us humans for the cocaine addiction of sharks

#

they tested 13 sharks and they've all been positive

#

it's weird tho

#

How the cocaine ended up in the sharks remains a mystery.

There are a few possibilities... [bla bla]

#

why do they not test the water around the area where the fishers had been fishing Oo

#

that should give them the answer

#

and how did they came up with the idea to test sharks for cocaine

brittle holly
#

How about f sharks how about that

#

Let them have cake cocaine

celest musk
#

yea

#

they have to swim 24/7, that must be exhausting

brittle holly
empty dune
celest musk
#

yea, i kinda suspect that, too

#

and/or they ate a lot of cocaine fish before

summer cedar
celest musk
#

which had it in their body from other places 🤷

summer cedar
#

Think of all the cocaine revenue that's been spilled in those waters.

#

It's not too late to monetise the high seas. We should ensure that all marine life pays the appropriate amounts for their medical acquisitions.

soft night
median wraith
soft night
median wraith
#

Why in America the torch is ported by people that don't do any sport?

soft night
#

very different way of doing the opening

split crag
#

The Windows cmd window always starts minimized and I have to click "Maximize" to be able to see it otherwise it's hidden. How do I fix this? Arghhh, it's infuriating.

fleet tangle
summer cedar
#

😄

fleet tangle
#

Even better.

#

They didn't get it

#

Though it was in the Richard Whitely era on afternoon TV... so maybe they weren't allowed.

analog marten
soft night
summer cedar
#

I loved the leap of faith in AC.

#

I think it's one of the iconic moves of gaming ever created.

soft night
#

the olympics paris opening ceremony have had assassins creed assassins doing parkour with torch

summer cedar
#

that's a nice way to get hurt

#

these people do realize that it's a game, yeah?

#

that people in ancient arabia and morocco didn't leap off church tops into hay carts below?

soft night
analog marten
summer cedar
#

Marc! 👋

#

Ready for PoE?

soft night
#

the real live parkour assassins creed style https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8b1zWOgOKA

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fathom wadi
#

I once leapt off a building on a skateboard to land on the bare concrete below. I say leapt. I fell. and I say land, it was on my head. I had a unique helmet though so I survived.

fathom wadi
# summer cedar Ready for PoE?

kind of. Still stuck on a starter build. Thinking it might time to play glad SST bleed. I didn't play it when it was meta so might be worth it now it's been buffed back into existence.

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the thing is I play bow or totem builds usually. And this is neither

summer cedar
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Split arrow triggering bleed can work.

fathom wadi
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yeah thought about that but its weak

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SST looks a bit weak on paper but obviously the explosions are the extra gravy for mapping.

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also worried it might be too slack on bosses to kill ubers

summer cedar
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I planned a build to level 90, with claws to take advantage of the instant leech.

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I am getting about 40k Bleed DPS in PoB community.

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Theorycrafting is fun, until the build explodes by lag and DoT.

fathom wadi
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I don't even think you need too much leech with 90% block and mitigation. Not sure tho. That 10% is a lot without evasion

summer cedar
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I got around 70% block. I need to tune the build further, given I focused most of the nodes on bleed.

fathom wadi
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40k bleed dps isn't great but it will get through white maps I guess

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this is what I'm looking at around 90 with uber lab

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it looks bad to me really. I'm used to ignites dps.

summer cedar
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Nice!

fathom wadi
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also not sure if that dps is with Aggravated or not.

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its definitely not looking like a boss killer unless surviving for an extra 10 minutes a fight is worth it

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bleed used to be great for bosses though with puncture but that with kiting ability. In melee you are going to have to keep close to keep bleeds up. Which means danger.