lounge

[proud jay]

now today I get a message that the original package is arriving today lol

guess I'll have twice as many bottles

[summer cedar]

be careful before signing for it.

check the weight

[white oxide]

randomly they seem to "lose" their shit and its all started like 2 weeks ago

[proud jay]

there's no signing

like internet, or the food stuff or something else?

[white oxide]

internet fiber

[proud jay]

and what are they losing?

[white oxide]

the whole fcking thing

[proud jay]

how does one physically lose internet

[summer cedar]

nothing if they put a baby inside the box to foist it off on you.

you know.... to check whether the bottles work.

[proud jay]

I assume the baby would not be very alive if it's been in a box for over a week

[white oxide]

"scan states it missing"

[proud jay]

well

[white oxide]

like somewhere along the way the fiber roll that weighs 8 pounds magically vanished

[proud jay]

they lost it

maybe stolen

[white oxide]

https://tenor.com/view/laughing-gif-13393277

[summer cedar]

I like to think the baby would cut a hole in the box to breathe, and use the Farce to levitate food from food stalls, whenever the delivery guy stops for a bite.

Positive madness.

---

I started down another road to reading 2,000 pages.

This light novel series feels lighter to read, easier.

[proud jay]

but babies don't eat solid food until like 4 to 6 months

[summer cedar]

Fine. We'll expand the madness.
The baby will levitate baby food jars, shatter the bottom of each jar with a Farce crunch.

Then, it will channel the food slowly through the hole.

If not that, then bottles of milk.

[white oxide]

and if they be lactose intolerant to cow lactose?

[summer cedar]

This hypothetical baby is strong in the Farce. The Farce is never intolerant of anything.

It is all encompassing. All farcical.

[white oxide]

dieter, want me to mail a "live harmless snapping turtle"

[summer cedar]

as long as you pay the post.

[white oxide]

https://tenor.com/view/viralhog-turtle-crush-apple-eat-gif-11717914

snapping turtles are why you avoid muddy waters around here

[mild gust]

Ow

[white oxide]

they absolutely will rip a toe off faster than you can react

[mild gust]

Jackass people made me scared of those things

and they only messed with babies

[white oxide]

https://tenor.com/view/alligator-snapping-turtle-macrochelys-macrochelystemminckii-ast-giant-turtle-gif-12049065

[summer cedar]

Oh yeah.

[white oxide]

they get big as fuck too

[summer cedar]

I was surprised at how awesome they are, when I first read about 'em.

[white oxide]

ive handled them

free claw machine with near aligator jaw strength

oh they also hunt ducks

[mild gust]

https://tenor.com/view/turtle-bites-ass-gif-18356288

[summer cedar]

It's why we have a Pyramid of Life, with man ON TOP and armed with guns.

[mild gust]

Lasers are next bis

[white oxide]

https://tenor.com/view/why-would-you-do-that-frasier-crane-frasier-how-could-you-paramount-plus-gif-1414449182718247609

[mild gust]

Soon we will have warhammer tech

https://thedefensepost.com/2024/12/17/ukraine-possess-laser-weapon/

[summer cedar]

didn't someone invent something like a lightsaber already?

[mild gust]

Yeah

[white oxide]

hacksmith

[mild gust]

On youtube even

[summer cedar]

It's not a pure blade of light, but supported by a metal shaft.

something like a plasma blade.

[mild gust]

Adam savage wants one lol

To be fair who doesnt

[white oxide]

https://tenor.com/view/testing-the-hacksmith-real-burning-lightsaber-swing-feeling-the-weight-gif-17038742

that project alone quadrupled their flowwing

[summer cedar]

personal plasma blades and shields would increase public safety A LOT.

The latter ESPECIALLY.

Shields that mitigate explosions and stupid people trying to run others over in their cars, yes please.

[mild gust]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4d-juU7EX_A

[summer cedar]

I mean, if we are going to wear Fremen sillsuits in the future to combat climate change, might as well invent forcefields to hook to their belts.

[white oxide]

holtzman fields would be by far the best

[summer cedar]

I'd love for this to be made into the Kung Lao hat in the latest MK movie.

[white oxide]

or the royal protection fields of Foundation

[summer cedar]

Screw guns; walk around with your own deadly rice hats. 😄

[mild gust]

Peaky blinders

[white oxide]

https://foundation.fandom.com/wiki/Aura

[proud jay]

sure

[white oxide]

ill send an adult, you can feed it squirrels

or ducks

[proud jay]

or babies that were accidentally shipped to me by windus

[mild gust]

https://tenor.com/view/borat-gdb-cuppa-tea-runescape-osrs-gif-24522923

[white oxide]

https://tenor.com/view/you-guys-know-youre-weird-right-weirdos-freaks-making-fun-of-nick-gif-16674403

[mild gust]

https://tenor.com/view/confused-mall-bucket-buckets-prank-gif-17471689

[summer cedar]

How terribly unresourceful of you!

The right thing to do is to resell said babies for a profit on B-bay.... er, E-Bay.

[mild gust]

That place is cool

[summer cedar]

You can totally strum a guitar and sing, "B-B-B-B Beeee Bay."

🎶

[summer cedar]

first volume - 380 pages done. This is an easy read.

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/raise-the-volume-true-damage-giants-song-volume-up-louder-gif-25781949

[nocturne wraith]

whenever i feel hopeless, i just look at this image and i'm reminded of the indominable human spirit and i understand that no matter what, we will survive through the injustice of this cruel world.

[proud jay]

depends who you define as we

it might not include you individually

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/simpsons-tank-grandpa-gif-25179212

[summer cedar]

This is why we must ship our babies out with random Amazon packages.

They must be scattered across the world to ensure a high probability of survival.

[nocturne wraith]

it includes the working man versus the hand of oppression

[proud jay]

ah the working 14 year old men

I get your point though

but still funny

[steady stone]

Anyone here read David Graeber's Bullshit Jobs?

[proud jay]

no

but there's plenty of bullshit jobs

[steady stone]

That's what the book is about 🙂

This passage is really mostly quoting Stansilaw Lem but I always found it amusing, also written before 'the ascent of AI' as graeber died in 2020:

At this point, my own instinct is to turn for inspiration from Vonnegut to a different science-fiction writer, Stanislaw Lem, whose space voyager Ijon Tichy describes a visit to a planet inhabited by a species to which the author gives the rather unsubtle name of Phools. At the time of his arrival the Phools were experiencing a classic Marxian overproduction crisis. Traditionally, they had been divided into Spiritors (Priests), Eminents (Aristocrats), and Drudgelings (Workers). As one helpful native explained: “Through the ages inventors built machines that simplified work, and where in ancient times a hundred Drudgelings had bent their sweating backs, centuries later a few stood by a machine. Our scientists improved the machines, and the people rejoiced at this, but subsequent events show how cruelly premature was that rejoicing.” The factories, ultimately, became a little too efficient, and one day an engineer created machines that could operate with no supervision at all: “When the New Machines appeared in the factories, hordes of Drudgelings lost their jobs; and, receiving no salary, they faced starvation.” “Excuse me, Phool,” I asked, “but what became of the profits the factories made?” “The profits,” he replied, “went to the rightful owners, of course. Now, then, as I was saying, the threat of annihilation hung—” “But what are you saying, worthy Phool!” I cried. “All that had to be done was to make the factories common property, and the New Machines would have become a blessing to you!” The minute I say this the Phool trembled, blinked his ten eyes nervously, and cupped his ears to ascertain whether any of his companions milling about the stairs had overheard my remark. “By the Ten Noses of the Phoo, I implore you, O stranger, do not utter such vile heresy, which attacks the very foundations of our freedom! Our supreme law, the principle of Civic Initiative, states that no one can be compelled, constrained, or even coaxed to do what he does not wish. Who, then, would dare expropriate the Eminents’ factories, it being their will to enjoy possession of same? That would be the most horrible violation of liberty imaginable.Now, then, to continue, the New Machines produced an abundance of extremely cheap goods and excellent food, but the Drudgelings bought nothing, for they had not the wherewithal—”9 Before long, the Drudgelings, though—as Tichy’s interlocutor insisted, entirely free to do what they wanted provided they did not interfere in anyone else’s property rights—were dropping like flies. Much heated debate ensued, and a succession of failed half measures. The Phools’ high council, the Plenum Moronicum, attempted to replace the Drudgelings as consumers as well, by creating robots that would eat, use, and enjoy all the products the New Machines produced far more intensely than any living being could possibly do, while also materializing money to pay for it. But this was unsatisfying. Finally, realizing a system where both production and consumption were being done by machines was rather pointless, they concluded the best solution would be for the entire population to render itself—entirely voluntarily—to the factories to be converted into beautiful shiny disks and arranged in pleasant patterns across the landscape.```

[steady stone]

the original article - https://strikemag.org/bullshit-jobs/

[summer cedar]

@proud jay https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cw0F8G4-dMw - Dunno if you watch John Oliver, but you might enjoy this one.

[proud jay]

yeah I watched it 2 hours ago lol

[summer cedar]

😄

[dusky shuttle]

Stopped reading at "John Maynard Keynes"

That pedo has no business in economy

[patent mango]

So, me and a buddy of mine has been working on a new Project management tool and need testers. Is there a place I can post the link for the domain?

[proud jay]

I don't seem to find a credible source for this

but I also don't know how someone's sexual deviance is necessarily connected to economic theories

[steady stone]

Also Graeber is not really promoting Keynesian economics.

[proud jay]

if there were a place it would be here, but it could be that it counts as self promotion and is not allowed

[patent mango]

hmmm

well that sucks

[steady stone]

there's a channel for volunteer projects

[celest musk]

Gamedev is a bullshit job, since the world would keep turning without it...

but there's a lot of jobs/tasks within jobs which seem bullshit but overall might benefit the employee 🤷

[steady stone]

At least according to the definitions Graeber provides Gamedev is not a bullshit job.

The world would keep turning without hairdressers as well but as long as people would like their hair cut it's not a bullshit job.

Corporate litigation lawyers on the hand

The article is not very long, the book is a bit longer and goes into more detail but the basics of the argument are in the original article which I linked, he gives his reasoning.

[proud jay]

why are Corporate litigation lawyers bullshit jobs?

[errant raven]

https://tenor.com/view/truth-nuke-truth-true-soyjak-wojak-gif-14828627546768133163

[steady stone]

if you have entire layers of beurocracy that don't produce anything and only exist to protect some legal entity from their counter parts in some competing legal entity it stands to reason that should you eliminate the function from both sides the net value change would be 0. But that's just one possible example of a bullshit job.

[proud jay]

but that makes no sense though

there's a reason to protect the legal entity

just as there's a reason for lawyers for individuals

[steady stone]

i mean, i'm not david graeber

[errant raven]

You could be

[proud jay]

I didn't say you were

[steady stone]

dunno, pretty sure he's dead

[errant raven]

Gotta be careful around you now

[proud jay]

but you bring it up as an example, so I would assume you stand behind it

[steady stone]

I do think that most corporate litigation produces zero net value for humanity yes, and that gamedevs and artists do produce value

[proud jay]

but does something necessarily have to provide net value for humanity to not be bullshit

[errant raven]

Dead is social construct is no real

[proud jay]

and in a way they do I guess

cause if you would sue a company and there's no lawyers to defend it, the company might go under, making all those people lose their jobs, impacting their value to humanity

[steady stone]

I think Graeber wasn't a fan of the sort of beurocracies that force productive people to surround themselves with beaurocrats in order to defend their interests against the abuse of said beaurocracies. In fact he wrote a whole book about that as well.

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

[proud jay]

who pinged me and then removed message?

[cursive crypt]

https://tenor.com/view/screaming-yell-squirrel-omg-gif-14158566

[rugged jetty]

i did lol, but then scrolled up and read the other stuff

[proud jay]

interesting

[rugged jetty]

i said for here, engels has entered the chat

engels was 𝓕𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓴𝔂

[proud jay]

which one

[rugged jetty]

Friedrich engels

[rugged jetty]

but the origin of the family is a pretty good book, and ofc can be credited for funding/interpreting/making legible(along with marx’s wife)/finishing kapital marx’s writings

[rugged jetty]

what about this image says that bruh😭

[nocturne wraith]

tienamman square 1989

[rugged jetty]

what do you think happened there… i can guarantee you, ur “point of view” fits the exact narrative propagated by “radio free asia” which is explicitly funded by the US government

[rugged jetty]

who do you think is the working class and who do you think is the ruling class and how is that exemplified in this photo

[nocturne wraith]

you are chinapilled, i hate both the us and china equally.

[rugged jetty]

what is china doing to deserve being hated on the same level as the US

[nocturne wraith]

the tanks are running over a protester in tienamman square who is peacefully protesting and it examplifies defiance against oppression

[rugged jetty]

the tank is leaving the square in this photo…

[nocturne wraith]

not even gonna mention the genocide going on rn but they are running over an innocent man 🤦‍♂️

[nocturne wraith]

are you either stupid or ignorant, that holds zero relivance as they RAN OVER AN INNOCENT MAN

[rugged jetty]

which the tanks were originally brought out in response to the immolation of PLA officers

[rugged jetty]

they didn’t run him over… that’s why the photo is misleading

[nocturne wraith]

they ran over an innocent man

[rugged jetty]

and hanging

[nocturne wraith]

four tanks ann rolling in the same direction with no room to back up and a man infront, you are a troll or chinapilled.

[nocturne wraith]

<@&213101288538374145> troll

[rugged jetty]

even the wests wikipedia says he wasn’t run over… https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank_Man

[nocturne wraith]

1: you are trusting wikipedia

2: where?

3: there is zero way it cannot be running him over.

[steady stone]

lol

[slow gyro]

I don't think you two discussing this any further leads to anything fruitful.

[rugged jetty]

you know the “tank man” is a video right? “As the tanks came to a stop, the man gestured at them with one of the bags. Having successfully brought the column to a halt, the man climbed onto the hull of the buttoned-up lead tank and, after briefly stopping at the driver's hatch, appeared in video footage of the incident to call into various ports in the tank's turret. He then climbed atop the turret and seemed to have a short conversation with a crew member at the gunner's hatch. After ending the conversation, the man descended from the tank. The man is then seen briefly speaking with a second person who is walking his bicycle across the street in front of the stationary tanks, as they begin to start their engines again. It is unclear if he is still seeking to obstruct the tanks”

[errant raven]

You're talking to someone who doesnt have the mental capacity to comprehend anything beyond long division

[nocturne wraith]

i agree

[nocturne wraith]

and you are being a dick to a kid because you do not agree with me :)

[steady stone]

lol

[rugged jetty]

fair enough, i just usually try to question it when that image is posted as it’s fairly misleading

[proud jay]

I don't think it's necessarily misleading, the guy is just standing in front as protest. I never interpreted it as him being ran over lol

[steady stone]

the tank man was not run over by the tank, that is a basic fact, not something to agree or disagree on. it's just the thing that happened.

[slow gyro]

Yeah, afaik he didn't. He did later on vanish and no one knows what happened to him, but that's besides the point I guess.

Now please leave it at that and stop being rude to each other, or I smack you all with Infractions.

[nocturne wraith]

we can just agree to disagree but its my opinion that tank man is a symbol of defiance against the oppressive hands of power, no matter what country your talking abt

[errant raven]

https://tenor.com/view/truth-nuke-truth-true-soyjak-wojak-gif-14828627546768133163

[slow gyro]

Everyone can have their opinions, but you start sharing it you gotta live with others having their own. No need to call people "troll" and ping moderators.
If you can't deal with that you will need to keep such opinions to yourself, or at least away from a huge discord server.

[nocturne wraith]

dude i thought the guy was a troll because the way it sounded was frankly absurd

[errant raven]

Only commies try to control others thoughts

[slow gyro]

To be fair, you insisted on the person in the image being run over by those tanks, which didn't happen. It's a video iirc, so you can watch it for yourself.

[cursive crypt]

If it does not satisfy ones truth, it is deep fake.

[steady stone]

intellectual humility is good, assuming you know everything not so much.

[slow gyro]

I don't get why people have to get so worked up about shit all the time. This is a game dev server, not a "let's fight over who's opinion is the best" server.

[errant raven]

Says the ai

[nocturne wraith]

we kinda dropped this

[cursive crypt]

Suddenly half the convos disappear.

[slow gyro]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[nocturne wraith]

dude

it was as simple as me saying

this was something i liked

and like

wuh

[errant raven]

@fleet tangle what's up with all the over dramatic suicidal characters in fruits basket bro

[slow gyro]

The original start of the discussion by @rugged jetty is obviously not the greatest thing to do on the internet either. That's why I said you should both stop :P

[primal summit]

I honestly thought he was run over, so I learned something from it all

[errant raven]

Youre about to learn something else

Nvm you learned

[primal summit]

my typo?

[errant raven]

https://tenor.com/view/anime-yes-nod-head-gif-22150013

[primal summit]

been fat fingering a lot lately

[errant raven]

Take your fingers to the gym

Problem solved

https://tenor.com/view/strong-fingers-fingering-spongebob-gif-15962147

[proud jay]

we don't have to fight, I already know it's mine

[errant raven]

Since when is anyone from Belgium ever correct

[slow gyro]

Don't let my wife read that.

[proud jay]

approximately around my birth

[rugged jetty]

AD = After Dieter (as in after they were born)

[errant raven]

Took yall long enough

[slow gyro]

Whenever I have to place two identical things next to each other, while making sure I remember which one is for my wife, I put hers on the right. Cause she's always right.
send help

[fleet tangle]

Just wait until you watch the prequel for even more feels.

[proud jay]

still ahead of americans

[errant raven]

I get it, whatever is left is yours

[errant raven]

Nuh uh

[slow gyro]

I don't have to mention she is from Belgium of course. I'm the sad German.

[errant raven]

Yall still have yet to make donut sausage breakfast burgers

Topped with a nice fried egg

[slow gyro]

I think one of my arteries just clogged up from just reading that.

[errant raven]

I practiced some hiragana before bed, for about 20 minutes. I forgot almost all of it

https://tenor.com/view/jump-hanging-gif-20498305

[slow gyro]

I'm doing Japanese lessons every day for 997 days now. I still forget them from time to time.

[errant raven]

I havent even gotten to practicing writing them

All I know is あ

[slow gyro]

It does help writing them to remember them. Cause then you connect a bit more than just the looks of it to it.

Na, jap gov has me distracted with animes. I'm good.

[rugged jetty]

lmaooo

[slow gyro]

Snuggles is doing its best. F*ck off gimpgodofthunder.

[errant raven]

Two for learning pronunciations, and characters. Flashcard reinforcement, and the last is writing with good ol finger to screen action

[nocturne wraith]

https://youtu.be/BOdpFgxkqVA?si=9KOx5H0Hicm9sawa

[nocturne wraith]

love this :3

[slow gyro]

I actually went through the Hiragana and Katana tabs of Duolingo for this one.
As shitty as Duolingo is in general, those two actually made it quite nice to get started with the characters.

On top of that, I got myself the Genki books.

[errant raven]

Duolingo is why I stopped trying to learn dutch

[slow gyro]

I would have assumed Dutch is why you'd stop learning Dutch.

[errant raven]

For the last time you damn owl, I'm not an apple

[rugged jetty]

dutch is like german but with a weird american accent

[errant raven]

The dutch G is the bigger reason

[proud jay]

Just learn flemish dutch

Easy g

Or west flemish, we don’t even use the g in pronunciation

[slow gyro]

Finding someone in Germany that teaches Flemish is my problem.

[errant raven]

I would. But duolingo only teaches standard versions of languages

[slow gyro]

Yop, even the language schools around me only teach Dutch.

[errant raven]

Anime uses the Tokyo dialect, pretty sure

[steady stone]

here's a great piece of german music rendered in metasounds. kinda random i know.

(brahms - rhapsody in g minor opus 79)

[fathom wadi]

I started learning piano a while ago so replace my guitar playing skills as I had an injury and cannot play it well anymore. So I really dig the complexity of stuff like this. Love me some Carl Orff, O Fortuna and my main man Mozart 🙂

[steady stone]

I could never play something as complex as this. Pianos are difficult, I can only play the ukulele.

[errant raven]

I can play the recorder blind folded

Hand me one and marry had a little lamb is as good as played

[errant raven]

Writing い is a pain the ass. But atleast I remember now, for sure.

[maiden orbit]

sheesh
just now I hear about this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHmriR0KRGQ

[primal summit]

backwards J lazy I

[errant raven]

https://tenor.com/view/sad-angry-cry-upset-anime-gif-24905129

I have problems with spacing in english too

My handwriting is still preschool level

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/freemium-gif-25588278

[errant raven]

You make it sound so easy.

[primal summit]

getting it properly backwards and lazy is hard

[errant raven]

My う isnt any better

I'm hungry, and the worst part of the virus is finally over

I dont have to worry about handwriting stuff tho, so no big deal. As long as I remember the characters it's fine.

[unborn lotus]

the mind blowing part is that latin letters over 2000 years old look just like today

i'd expect them to be more crude

[errant raven]

Latin cursive

[cursive crypt]

iirc, latin is greek based, which are close somewhat to Phoenician. The tree of languages is pretty cool thing.

Most of western letters are actually all coming from the greek.

[errant raven]

I should have invested in a air fryer sooner

[white oxide]

anyone with an air fryer would tell you the same

[errant raven]

Am I insane or does food feel fluffier when cooked in an air fryer

[primal summit]

I prefer a real fryer to a one-trick convection oven

[errant raven]

Crunchy yet fluffy

[white oxide]

i like both the convection ovens and air fryers

[primal summit]

they're basically the same

[white oxide]

though theres not a lot you can air fry so if counter space is limited

compared to a toaster oven with convetion air fry

[errant raven]

I cut a frozen pizza in slices and cooked 2 slices at a time in the air fryer

I need pizza rolls and wings now

[summer cedar]

I had a pre-night nap and now, I feel a bit groggy.

And for some reason, thirstier than when I went to pre-night sleep.

[tulip orbit]

if I nap too late/long I cant sleep at night

I had one a few hours ago... and looots of coffee

[cursive crypt]

Never been a problem. I nap for an hour or two late afternoon and, for my disappointment, I feel like going to bed at the same time as usual.

[tulip orbit]

Oh nice. I went to turn off my placed pickups from affecting navigation, unticking the 'can ever affect navigation', hit compile, and crashed... brought me to CpuProfilerTrace.cpp... and a whole lot of error/stack codes that are way beyond me...

[errant raven]

Call me crazy but cigarettes got smaller

Or did I get bigger

[steady stone]

I quit smoking a week ago. Smoking is great I really miss it.

[errant raven]

Go get ya some

11/10 recommend

[tulip orbit]

you're crazy

[errant raven]

No they're just smaller

[tulip orbit]

that too probably

[tulip orbit]

it crashed again. Maybe I need to set the var in c++ instead...

[errant raven]

How is it that I hit the 30% more than the 70%

[unborn lotus]

just roll your own

max effect

[mild gust]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYDa9cZptTY

[errant raven]

Cheap tobacco tastes like ass

Noticable difference that I dont like

Moooo deng

MOOOOO DENGGGGG

[pearl elk]

why would you chew ass

[errant raven]

Because I'm tired of kicking gum

[unborn lotus]

just buy expensive tobacco then

[errant raven]

Too expensive

1 pack of cigarettes, of the brand I like, lasts a week and a half.

But I swear they got smaller

[unborn lotus]

then I bet good tobacco, filters and paper lasts 3 months

[errant raven]

Waste of money, 3 months of living isnt guaranteed

Neither is a week, but its safest

[mild gust]

Lol

[dense atlas]

cheap fert, tons of pesticide, then add chemicals to make it somewhat smokable 🙄

prob many corners that can be cut on curing process as well

[errant raven]

It's not healthy either way

Is stupid habit of mine

YouTube wants me to watch ancient magus bride

[dense atlas]

https://tenor.com/view/savingthrow-savingthrowshow-rpg-savage-worlds-dnd-gif-14717463

[errant raven]

If I could only give my exact answer, itd probably end the test immediately

I only dropped 14 hours on anime last week. 4 this week, so far

I usually do that in a single day

[fluid bloom]

ever had a cough that's so bad that you had to go see a doctor? I have, it sucks

[pearl elk]

Glad I didnt get my hands on a 5090, my PC isnt melting

[cursive crypt]

Accelerating global warming

[soft night]

need cable pins seating checker too

https://tenor.com/view/melting-aluminum-electromagnet-science-trick-gif-3541212

[pearl elk]

looks better than my attempts at bending PTFE tubing for my liquid cooling loop 😛

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/cable-deadpool-josh-brolin-brolin-gif-12306205

generate fresh tubing for generated mons calamari

[pearl elk]

https://tenor.com/view/the-cable-guy-the-cable-guy-smile-jim-carrey-jim-carrey-smile-gif-1710588951243916286

oh boy this game is old 😅

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/deadpool-cable-i-am-batman-gif-23693206

[pearl elk]

https://tenor.com/view/wolverine-cowl-wolverine-cowl-mask-deadpool-and-wolverine-gif-12747860615755199908

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/batman-dc-comics-arkham-batman-dc-batgoat-gif-16416585757983713182

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/ice-outkast-gif-4685458

[fluid bloom]

https://tenor.com/bOjKB.gif

that's one smooth gif

[cursive crypt]

https://tenor.com/view/american-psycho-1-fps-gif-3691076786749255056

waste of bandwidth

[soft night]

🏚️

[cursive crypt]

🏙️

[fluid bloom]

https://tenor.com/bE5Xi.gif

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/cyberpunk-cyberpunk2077-cyberpunk-2077-cyberpunk-game-cp2077-gif-4204067393671290992

[wispy rain]

https://tenor.com/view/blinking-eyes-white-guy-blinking-meme-what-huh-gif-26334323

[mild gust]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QcQ_128OIw

[queen isle]

https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/1iskhj5/thaddeus_sasser_marvel_rivals_director_my_stellar/

[queen isle]

Layoff

[bright thorn]

Was just about to comment on this as well...

[feral viper]

Guys

[bright thorn]

This is...

I never thought something like this could happen

[feral viper]

Im getting depressed about this layoff stuff now.

Not like in a bad way more like.

How does this industry get to be the most valuable industry in entertainment and we cant pay our workers.

[bright thorn]

It's infuriating, soo many talented individuals are struggling in this industry

[feral viper]

I never got paid by a big studio before but im starting to think they got no choice.

Like shit is changing rn

Mabey this is how artist felt when ai dropped (sorry for the trigger artist)

Like im ready to not be paid to make games getting paid isnt the point for me.

But shit

Btw sorry for the rant

Im triggered by the crysis 4 cancellation message rn

[bright thorn]

Yeah a lot of problems been popping up lately, I just recently branched my company into game development too.
We were lucky enough to secure funding before starting a games studio, but nothing is certain in this industry.
I wish I could hire all the talent but money is inconsistent here.

[regal pecan]

Ah, a return to the good old days when EA drop kicked studios left and right.

[feral viper]

Honestly.

I think im just upset because the conflict i have right now in my life. (Do i want to make games or do I want to make money) is being felt all the way up to the top.

If i had some sense this would scare me into getting a "real job"

[unreal ether]

It's cyclical in nature

"Damn we aren't doing so great, let's grow!"
"Yay, this is amazing, let's grow massively!"
"Shit, we grew too much, scale back"

Layoffs are unfortunately common in the games industry

[pearl elk]

Companies shift alot in the games industry, seems like ever second startup these days is ex-blizzard or ex-bioware

[errant raven]

Found some old m&ms in a packet, did the only logical thing and ate some

Tastes good

Like an m&m

[white oxide]

when its half preservatives yeah gonna still taste like coco and yellow 40

[errant raven]

Tasted a little soapy

I think they might've been through the washer

Oh well

[white oxide]

well if you vanish from here for a while we will know what killed you at least

[errant raven]

Itll take more than a virus and mysterious m&ms to kill me

[white oxide]

https://tenor.com/view/omg-wtf-what-wut-wat-gif-17321100

maybe some arsenic and old lace

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arsenic_and_Old_Lace_(film)

[pale scarab]

https://x.com/JakeSucky/status/1891928955080347882

Jake Lucky (@JakeSucky) on X

Marvel Rivals Game Director and his entire Seattle based team has been laid off by NetEase according to LinkedIn posts

Following one of the most successful game launches we have seen in a long time...

X · Feb 18, 2025, 7:13 PM

But the game doing so well 😭

So confuse how game industry works

[errant raven]

I can feel the kittens moving around in my queens belly

It's so freaking cool

My 7th time going through this and it's still just as amazing as the first time

[primal summit]

I was petting one of the cats. She got riled up, rolled over and grabbed my hand. I returned the favor by rubbing her belly and riling her up even more. She demonstrated why she's an apex predator in her domain and slit my wrist a bit and slashed up the back of both my hands. Pretty sure I still won.

[errant raven]

My cats love when I touch their bellies

Pretty much anywhere

I do not recommend cooking cinnamon rolls in an air fryer

[primal summit]

she's a hunter, got her to resolve mouse problems, and she's good at her job

not much of an indoor cat by her choice

[white oxide]

cat in back is not the offender

[primal summit]

shreddy!

[white oxide]

the offender:

[primal summit]

d'awww da murderfloofer

the orange ones all share a single braincell

[white oxide]

my orange one is really calm

hes only a little nuty

[errant raven]

I bite my cats back, literally

[white oxide]

haha

i smack mine regularly when they try and bite

not hard but enough he backs off a bit

now i just have to raise hand over his head and he instantly stops

but i give him enough treats to go through a 30 ounce box of temptations every 3 months

and 42 pack of wet catfood every 6

[cursive crypt]

Who knows why they were fired actually... on other hand, game is ready, people play it a lot apparently (marvel is boring af imo) and no there is need to support a big work force anymore. If they need one, they will hire one. Moneys are the king.

[mild gust]

Anyone know an alternative to terrain.party?

It's not downloading the heightmap image files for some reason.

[errant raven]

Should atleast know the difference between agression bites and love bites

[white oxide]

yeah, but still, i dont want him to bite me, he can bite his sister all he wants

[mild gust]

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/02/batman-arkham-games-among-those-losing-physx-powers-on-newer-nvidia-gpus/

[regal pecan]

Port physx to opencl when?

[white oxide]

if you want to play older games keep an older pc

i have a win 98, and win xp home laptops for playing older 16 and 32 bit games

[mild gust]

😮

3770 by intel with a 1050 ti works for me

[summer cedar]

Stupid electricity board is supplying power like we're living in the UK or something.

130V instead of 230. 😄

I turned off the main power, so my stabilizer and inverted don't have to keep switching every three seconds.

And YET, they'll charge bucketloads for the energy.

[errant raven]

Love bites dont hurt

[mild gust]

Weres the fun in that

[errant raven]

I can go an entire video on youtube without ads. But the second I open the comments on a video that's when the ads play

[mild gust]

Just mute the ad and close your eyes

[white oxide]

problem is the few times i didnt punish love bites, attack bites always followed

he is orange...

[mild gust]

Always starts as love

[errant raven]

Run their heads

Right behind the corner of the ear

[white oxide]

oh i know

[errant raven]

Or gently rub their nose

If they even let you touch that spot

[white oxide]

mine lets you do anything to him as long as its not directly painful

[mild gust]

Makes sense

[white oxide]

and im fine with him being obnoxious

just not biting or clawing me

biscuts are different though

but ive trained him to only biscut the really thick fluffy blanket i have

[mild gust]

Good cat

[summer cedar]

easy solution.

roast the cat.

save on food bills.

win-win.

[mild gust]

Eat the left over cat food

[summer cedar]

No, no.

Use it to attract the neighbourhood cats.

Then... repeat step 1.

[mild gust]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iYb76kwDjU

[dense atlas]

Making a catserole? https://tenor.com/view/fozzy-bear-fozzie-muppets-jokes-dad-joke-gif-16043362

[summer cedar]

Cat Dogs.

$5 each, to combat the price of eggs.

[mild gust]

Now thats a deal

[warped pine]

I had a dream the other night about going into the .ini configs of a fictional diablo-clone, editing global enemy magic resistance, and forgetting that I had a live instance of the game reading from those configs.

The consequence is that the wizard character who was supposed to be buffed by this config edit whiffed half her spells, and enemies from other levels were spawning in and attacking the player.

I can't even escape the horrors of debugging in my dreams.

[summer cedar]

Perhaps it was a premonition.

Embrace the future OR change it.

The choice is yours, if you are strong in the Farce.

[mild gust]

Time to start mining poe 2

[fluid bloom]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1z7aco-y4RE

[cursive crypt]

Just buy another one

[pearl elk]

Or liquid cool it so when it goes on fire it springs a leak and puts the fire out 🧠

[median wraith]

So hows doing the new Intel GPUs?

[mild gust]

Value per pixel pretty good

Drivers seem to be relatively stable in reviews now

When compared to team red or green

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/12/review-intel-arc-b580-is-a-compelling-if-incredibly-tardy-250-midrange-gpu/

[median wraith]

Somehow in spain it cost more than nvidia alts

[mild gust]

Apparently alchemical is going to be better

[median wraith]

that breaks the whole point I bet

[mild gust]

Yeah

Heard in na prices are better

🤷

[summer cedar]

Arc's great, but it is rumoured to have peformance issues, glitches, etc.

So long as Intel patches them up and Arc doesn't crash UE, I'll be happy supporting them.

[mild gust]

Artifacts too probably

Some amd cards have artifacts in games

[summer cedar]

😦

[mild gust]

I mean so does nvidia

I have artifacts in road redemption

and probably other games just less noticable

[summer cedar]

So far, I've never had any artefacts, BUT my computer is beefy, so....

[mild gust]

I think it could be a nvidia setting causing the issues tbf

[summer cedar]

It's weird that NVidia's Broadcast complains of high GPU usage, even though the GPU is at 55% utilisation.

I wonder who the heck programmed it to think that way.

[mild gust]

Number bigger than 50

Must be high

[summer cedar]

Fair. Majority wins.

[median wraith]

even the 4000 gen cost less

idk why they do this in europe

[summer cedar]

All those cards are 8GB, though.

So it makes sense that they cost less than a 12GB card, which is also new.

[mild gust]

Also rip kindle e-books on pc

[summer cedar]

what happened?

[mild gust]

In February 2025, Amazon added a notice next to the download button whenever you access the "download and transfer via USB" feature. This notice says that the feature will be removed on February 26th. This means that after that day, customers won't be able to download their purchased e-books from the Amazon website.

[summer cedar]

Unless they discontinue the Kindle app, you can download your books via that.

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/giurik-generative-floorplan-design-gif-15996688

[summer cedar]

So, you can just find the kindle cache on your hard drive and get the books that way.

[median wraith]

Well no, in the prior image are 12GB too

[soft night]

not like prior image is like 128GB

[median wraith]

I mean the 3060RTX have more memory than the 3070RTX don't say much

[mild gust]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfcoUdWCB9M

[summer cedar]

I wonder if those 3060s are new stock or just refurbished/old ones.

I mean, as long as they work, it doesn't matter.

[mild gust]

Depends to be fair

[median wraith]

only the first one is refurbished

[mild gust]

You don't want an abused card

Maybe they took the card apart

[summer cedar]

I wouldn't go for the old series anyway. They'll work and probably work well, but I'd rather have updated new cards whenever I upgrade.

That doesn't mean I want cards that burst into flames.

But the principle stands.

[mild gust]

So buy amd

Havnt heard any of their stuff melting

[summer cedar]

Oh, I am not shopping right now.

I am happy with my 5-month old 4060ti. 😄

[mild gust]

Wow

Also guess amazon was removing books from libraries again

The changes included numerous alterations to the original text, such as:

Replacing "fat" with "enormous" in describing Augustus Gloop
Removing Miss Trunchbull's "great horsey face" description to just "face"
Modifying character occupations (e.g., changing a woman "working as a cashier" to "working as a top scientist")
Removing references to certain authors (e.g., replacing Joseph Conrad with Jane Austen in Matilda)[15]
Gender-neutral language – Cloud-Men in James and the Giant Peach were renamed "Cloud-People."
Removal of references to physical appearance – The "fat little brown mouse" in The Witches became simply "little brown mouse."
Sanitization of language – The Witches originally stated: "You must be mad, woman!" This was softened to "You must be out of your mind!"```

[summer cedar]

I don't think Amazon is doing that by themselves.

Pretty sure it's the authors or whoever's uploaded those works that's making the changes.

[mild gust]

Artist is dead

:/

[summer cedar]

Yeah, so the uploader of the works.

Otherwise, a simple manuscript reupload would overwrite all the changes that Amazon made.

[mild gust]

Sanitization of their work though....

That's just wrong

[nocturne wraith]

:3

[mild gust]

Be like if stephen king died and they changed all his books

[summer cedar]

It depends.

[mild gust]

What would be the point

[summer cedar]

Are we talking about copyright works?

Or public domain works?

[mild gust]

🤷 Don't know that part

[summer cedar]

That's important, that part.

[mild gust]

It's multiple books so

[summer cedar]

Because if it's public domain, they can basically do what they please.

[mild gust]

Hard to say

Likely public

As authors passed on

Ah

[summer cedar]

In that case, people can download the unsanitized copies from gutenberg.

[mild gust]

So like the bible

😂

[summer cedar]

Pretty much.

[mild gust]

Yikes

[summer cedar]

Technically, it'd be Amazon's edition of that public work.

So, it's their version. 😄

[mild gust]

So slop

Nice

[summer cedar]

OR I think it's more likely the seller who uploaded it made those changes.

I doubt Amazon cares for all that, honestly.

[mild gust]

Ah well, back to buying physical

lol

Only own 2 e-books

[proud jay]

iirc it was actually the estate of the author that updated the book

[summer cedar]

Ah, then it's not public works.

Either way, yeah, doubt Amazon cares.

They're busy on movie IPs these days.

[mild gust]

Nothing beats that book smell anyways

[summer cedar]

Besides, all the originals are available on Gutenberg, so.........

[mild gust]

What are you gunna smell a kindle

Smh

[summer cedar]

You can smell many things.

Air freshner

[mild gust]

Lol

[summer cedar]

Perfume

Fresh plastic

Old plastic

Normal plastic

Charred circuits.

Uncharred circuits.

Dirty buttons

[mild gust]

Vapo rub

[summer cedar]

Clean, alcohol-aroma buttons.

[mild gust]

My favourite thing to smell is burning wires

[summer cedar]

Smell of butt having sat on Kindle by accident.

Smell of butt-having-passed-gas having sat on Kindle by accident.

SO MANY varieties.

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/iphone-15-titanium-gif-5954500769465850436

[mild gust]

Pour some menthol on the kindle

[summer cedar]

I was looking forward to getting my hands on a Kindle Scribe.

That thing disappeared almost as soon as it arrived on the market.

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/rtx-gosling-gif-17606638648077301862

[proud jay]

I actually prefer reading no an ereader these days

just more comfortable

[summer cedar]

Ah, another dude who doesn't read the rules has posted in #1054845218723209226 and #1054845249945616404 .

Gimme job!!!! in the wrong place.

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/harley-quinn-tea-drinking-sipping-reading-gif-16033206

[proud jay]

non-fiction I sometimes still read physical cause you can flip back and forth

but the kindle is ass though

why would I want to buy books through amazon

that you don't own

and you can't buy them anywhere else

that's why I didn't get a kindle

[summer cedar]

You can jailbreak the Kindle though.

Read whatever you want on it.

There're custom ROMs for all that.

[proud jay]

or just buy an ereaeder that's not a piece of shit

[summer cedar]

also that.

But, Scribe isn't a piece of shit as far as I know.

Then again, it's also not available, so moot.

[proud jay]

I have a vivlio, which is just a rebrand of a PocketBook Touch Lux 5

[soft night]

this book teaser is like movie teaser in some sense https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsa_qY6QK8o

[summer cedar]

I wanted a Remarkable 2, but it has to be imported and that means 50% and more import duty in India.

I love how India hasn't developed its own e-reader yet.

[proud jay]

and it's already expensive

and for reading not optimal cause it's giant

it's more for note taking

[soft night]

my bro was thinking remarkable 2 put got other what also had ebook

[summer cedar]

Actually, I like the large screens since I read pretty fast.

[proud jay]

if you buy a remarkable with as main goal to read you're insane

[summer cedar]

I also find it more comfortable.

Originally, I wanted to buy one of Sony's lawyer-focused e-ink pads. I forget their name.

But, as always, Sony products need gold bars to buy.

and hence, not worth buying.

[soft night]

what my borther got was similar size as remarkable

the size also good for dual use of device

[proud jay]

good that you don't mention at all what he got

very informative

[pearl elk]

my borther was larger and shes scary

[soft night]

i dont remember it

also i remember it wasnt remarkable

[proud jay]

maybe that's why you don't remember if it was unremarkable

was it a kobo elipsa 2e

[soft night]

mihgt be and might be not

[proud jay]

interesting hypothesis

[summer cedar]

https://shop.dasung.com/products/dasung-paperlike-color-world-first-color-e-ink-monitor?

I LOVE how expensive these are.

🤮

You'd think e-ink colour being better than IPS and whatever else would be promoted and subsidised, but noooooooo.......

Because low latency HD PD MD RD whatevah FTW!!!!

On the funny side,
ULTRA-FAST 33Hz Refresh Rate 🤣

[cursive crypt]

Holes >> Star Wars

[pearl elk]

surely AAA should just stick to selling on sex appeal

either that or try hiring some actual writers not script kiddies 😛

[cursive crypt]

Most devs are fine imo, but marketing/managers and maybe even game designers seem off.

[pearl elk]

https://tenor.com/view/the-witcher-netflix-exposition-jaskier-there-i-go-again-gif-16288571

[soft night]

when quality is replace by activism

[pearl elk]

well its not like one has to replace the other

[soft night]

awoved art director got some what can be label as activism and boss of that game develoment suggested to sue the company

ubisoft have also gamers who bought games dont own the game

[pearl elk]

Battlefield for everyone

[summer cedar]

One of the problems with these games is the overhype.

Their marketing departments rile everyone up and raise expectations sky high.

Then, the gaming systems and mechanisms are basically recycled and then again, done badly.

What else do they expect?

[pearl elk]

I lived through one crash and I totally expected another by now

[summer cedar]

Hehe.

Use the Farce.

Prevent the crash.

OR cause it.

[pearl elk]

Theres only a handful of those studios from when I was a young kiddo still around

[summer cedar]

Well, it's not like developers are great project managers, let alone chief executives or finance officers.

So, I am not surprised.

You need to make 'hard decisions' to keep a company afloat.

OR have a long term 'vision' that secures a bright future for the company.

[lost bison]

you don't see those ancient studios trend-hopping

[summer cedar]

speaking of ancient.

Microprose released an RTS demo.

Battlefall: State of Conflict.

[soft night]

i recently came to this https://www.gamereactor.eu/ci-games-ceo-western-developers-should-learn-from-chinese-studios-how-to-create-female-characters-1498603/

[summer cedar]

Well, you have to account for the 'exotic' effect.

[fluid bloom]

the hornier the better, right, right?

[pearl elk]

retro stuff is fun but the novetly wears off for me

[summer cedar]

More like, the rarer the better.

[lost bison]

it's not that western writers can't do it, but that they are allowed to inject their personal biases in the writing

[summer cedar]

So, ultimately, if you saturate the market with that art style, it'll become 'regular' and lose popularity.

Same goes for writing.

It's better to focus on improving one's style, instead of trying to release a product just to make money half-assed.

[fluid bloom]

horny gamers want attractive looking woman characters

[summer cedar]

Heh. Just give them sex simulators.

Which devs are doing....

[soft night]

when the western "modern era" writers seems to make them more men than women

[summer cedar]

🤷

I doubt any of that is actually affecting whether people enjoy a game.

It's more the quality of gameplay, etc.

The rest of the rants people go on is just an excuse for their inability to enjoy a product.

[fluid bloom]

exactly

[soft night]

i have played more asian games lately

[summer cedar]

They are good. I play many of them.

If the gameplay is good, why not?

Celestial City: Fantasy is a very nice wuxia version of Majesty-style gameplay, with factory management and RPG elements. It's quite enjoyable.

Ancient Cultivatrix presents itself as a horny game, but is actually quite enjoyable as a bullet hell title, with a DEEP upgrade system.

[soft night]

no forced politicis in game

[summer cedar]

One of my favourites is Immortal Life.

A great alternative to Harvest Moon.

[cursive crypt]

Frankly, I lost hope to understand the appeal of these sexualized stylized machos & chicks.

[summer cedar]

That's not true.
If by politics, you mean suggesting a way of thinking and behaviour on others, it's there in their games as it is in any other.

You may not realise it if you are not aware of or experienced a lot of Chinese culture.

I think it's natural though.

[cursive crypt]

Taste is subjective, so... 🤷

[summer cedar]

You convey the principles you believe in through your art and culture.

[soft night]

windus the rl politics have being very much filled in recent western games

[pearl elk]

I just wanna blow shit up

[summer cedar]

You think that because that's where you live and experience.

[soft night]

that have being lately got burned badly

[summer cedar]

If I play Western Games, I might not see it that much.

BUT, if I play Indian games, I'll feel it a lot more.

[cursive crypt]

Sad truth

[cursive crypt]

Dig a hole.

[pearl elk]

https://tenor.com/view/arnold-schwarzenegger-getting-ready-commando-gif-4535586

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/bogos-binted-absurd-no-braincells-worms-explosion-gif-24317461

[pearl elk]

Trump never gonna have these vibes 😛

[cursive crypt]

Worm vibes

[pearl elk]

80s movies were the best, they didnt even have particularly great stories but the charisma is all there

there was this really odd trend too of having an awkward scene in the third act

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/worms-worms-armageddon-gif-18580061

[pearl elk]

https://tenor.com/view/thi-team-bubba-gif-20145368

[fluid bloom]

https://tenor.com/rhO8.gif

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/do-devs-blender-gif-14972073502786403600

[errant raven]

I use blender all the time

[bright thorn]

I'm using it right now

[errant raven]

Are you making a smoothie

[bright thorn]

Well...

[errant raven]

Oh the app

I am mildly disappointed

[unborn lotus]

blender's cloth brushes are pretty cool

[errant raven]

Didnt know you had a verlet integration fetish

https://tenor.com/view/naughty-naughty-naughty-borat-gif-18882574

[unborn lotus]

https://tenor.com/view/borat-dancing-gif-3711277765144631072

[cursive crypt]

Today I ran Blender for first time since 1+ year and I can say I forgot almost everything. Not to mention the 2h updating of plugins and shit.

[proud jay]

luckily it's very user friendly so you'll pick it back up in no time /s

[errant raven]

How do people find games that are 80% dialogue fun

Jesus christ persona 3 is fuckin boring

[cursive crypt]

If you are not the reading books type, is understandable.

[errant raven]

I like reading books

But I dont play video games to read a book

That's what a book is for

Why is there even a difficulty option, theres no combat so far

[cursive crypt]

Do you? Then maybe my theory does not hold for you.
I have read many books and I'm fine with a lot of text as long it is engaging.

[errant raven]

I just wanna get into the combat man

[cursive crypt]

Wrong game then.

[errant raven]

Not live a life as a Japanese high school boy living in a girls dormitory

It has difficulty options, wheres the combat

Is it socializing

It hasn't brought up the fuckin puddles of blood and mysterious coffins it showed in the beginning again

[celest musk]

xD

what the...

[summer cedar]

Ask @median wraith for details.

He drove those 1000KM a long time ago, if I recall.

[proud jay]

he was the original trucker

[celest musk]

since we talked about anglerfish a few days ago...

they are fricking huge

[errant raven]

Ugly ass fish is back

Wonder what it tastes like

[celest musk]

yea, i'm reworking a 3rd party asset atm

which contains one

[errant raven]

I wanna eat one

[steady stone]

you can get eaten by one in 'Outer Wilds'

[errant raven]

That's no good

I, as in myself, me, the guy talking, wants to EAT one of THEM

Not be eaten by on them in a video game

I cant help it, the one in that pic looks like a fuckin crispy drumstick

[celest musk]

iirc you can tame and ride them in ark xD

i thought they just exagerrated the size

[errant raven]

Its snowing

Global warming is a fuckin lie

[median wraith]

XDD

Well I love to drive so

Driving is my love at this point

"Is about the journey not the destination"

[celest musk]

what a fricking beauty...

[errant raven]

Ugly

But probably tasty

[celest musk]

idk how the original author picked it as statue for a hotel 😄

[median wraith]

that's what she said

[errant raven]

You freakkkkkk

Are anglers considered apex predators

I'd hate to eat one and die from mercury poisoning

[median wraith]

DOn't the salmon have ?

[errant raven]

Not much apparently

[median wraith]

aside from the mercury we got the testicles filled with micro plastics already

and the brain

If ever have a child will look like

https://tenor.com/view/terminator-terminator-robot-looking-flex-cool-robot-gif-16625083

[errant raven]

The flesh is weak, the machine is eternal

https://tenor.com/view/warhammer-40k-techpriest-binaric-screeching-screeching-gif-20192683

[median wraith]

seems like the DLSS4 MFG gives x3 almost FPS

2.5

[errant raven]

You know it still blows my mind I speak english

I know what it sounds like to hear other languages I don't know. But I'll never know what it feels like to hear English in that way

Properly

[unborn lotus]

https://youtu.be/fU-wH8SrFro?si=4O0D76SLERIpF2PC you do now

[errant raven]

Hes not speaking english tho

That's the most annoying part, I have to suffer from simulations. Not the real thing

You are a monster for using Marins face for your scams you damn dirty bot

[steady stone]

idk for some reason I was reminded of this bit - https://www.reddit.com/r/ConanBeingAwesome/comments/rijkw7/sona_is_a_bad_improv_partner_for_conan/

[errant raven]

I can pretend to speak other languages by mimicking their sounds, but I cant do that with english

I just end up saying actual words. Idk why its frustrating or why I want to know. I just do.

Language is bullshit

[celest musk]

look at that lovely stair geometry...

i hate this pack

also whoever made it went crazy with subdividing everything -_-

[cursive crypt]

Nanites auto increase of the mastership.

[summer cedar]

Wow.

[celest musk]

even nanite won't f... up that much

[summer cedar]

Those vertex arrangements remind me of wavy katana steel.

What was it called? Water steel?

[steady stone]

Damascus steel

[summer cedar]

No, that's Indian.

[steady stone]

Pretty sure it's syrian.

[summer cedar]

Same thing, but different areas.

But yeah, the artist must have been a swordsmith in his previous life.

[steady stone]

But it's called "Damascus steel" even if it's a katana.

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

[summer cedar]

Ah, the Japanese used to called it hamon.

Sounds like the name of a devil. 😄

@celest musk Now you know who made that pack, Ben. It was a devil. 😄

[steady stone]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huJ81Mq2y34 - improv comedy is hard

[celest musk]

yea look at that

how the heck do you even end up with geometry like that...

[summer cedar]

a great attention to misdetail, mayhap.

[cursive crypt]

My condolences, most products are bad by definition.

[celest musk]

i'm using this pack tho because no asset flipper is determined enough to fix all the issues and polish it 😄

and i like the overall composition

[summer cedar]

well.... if you were willing to pay $1,500 for an asset pack.

I am sure the developer would fix everything.

[celest musk]

yea, but then i'm risking that other products have the same assets

[summer cedar]

Yes, of course, BUT moolah matters in this world of ours.

[celest musk]

and even expensive packs can be shit...

[summer cedar]

Twue. It's why Moorica loves guns.

[celest musk]

i guess most good artists work at actual game studios, rather than producing asset packs

[summer cedar]

If you buy shit, you can always hunt down........... censored.

[cursive crypt]

With all the layoffs, one would have expected something else.

[summer cedar]

Finished four books in two days.

Not bad for an old man. 😄

[median wraith]

what are you working on ?

[median wraith]

on purpose broken?

[celest musk]

never, there's gaps all over the place

[celest musk]

bringing some environment to UE and making it "gameready"

[summer cedar]

Maybe the creator is allergic to finished work.

[celest musk]

or rather ready for anything but cherry picked renders 😄

[celest musk]

so am i

[summer cedar]

😱 YOU sell assets with broken stuff and water steel poly patterns?

You fiend!

From Hamon, I name thee Bamon.

[celest musk]

no

[summer cedar]

😒 Then you are not allergic to finished work.

[median wraith]

oh my lord

but do individual assets work as expected ?

[celest musk]

no, this is a shitshow through out 😄

also the scene wasn't intended for games (no collisions, zero optimization)

[summer cedar]

So not-intended-for-games is the excuse to make shitty topology.

Hehe. I wish I was 30 years younger and starting out in the industry today.

I could just do shitty work and get rich. 😄

[celest musk]

i haven't bought it yet tho 😄

[median wraith]

reminds me of this

[summer cedar]

Yeah, but I am sure there are those who know far less than you, who do supply their moneys to such fellows.

[proud jay]

isn't everything lumen ready?

[celest musk]

too many times did i fall hard with bought shit, so i get it somehow else, check it out and if i'm sure to use it i'll buy the license

[summer cedar]

'Tis a pity I grew up being taught about hard work, dedication, quality, etc.

[proud jay]

time wasted

[summer cedar]

Indeed.

[median wraith]

up to an extend, need to be nanite ready, so more poly

[proud jay]

you get ahead by grifting and scamming in today's world

[summer cedar]

To be taught the Trumpian secrets, to act in the holy Trumpian way.... is the true path to success.

[median wraith]

or they needed you to make them all nanite ready in order to get a performance boost before

[celest musk]

yea, but i don't think that anything benefits of subdividing a plane surface 10 times 😄

[summer cedar]

You gotta show those DENSE wireframes.

[proud jay]

you can put a higher number on your portfolio

[celest musk]

nanite can do it on it's own probably, so i don't need to waste space for geometry etc

[summer cedar]

Only then do dense people believe in the quality of the movie-ready mesh.

[proud jay]

ok, but you're missing all the microdetail of the denting in the asset

[celest musk]

i feel like this was a selling point of render scenes at some point, the... higher polycount = better

[summer cedar]

Plus, if you delete a triangle, you should tesselate the surrounding polys to at least 500,000.

[celest musk]

there is NO detail

it's a flat surface

[summer cedar]

Otherwise, it won't be a proper hole.

Also, when you operate a messy boolean, make sure you put bright, reflective material with raytracing enabled.

[celest musk]

also i probably spent 1 or 2 hours flipping normals to face the correct side 😄

[summer cedar]

That indicates quality cut.

[summer cedar]

seriously?

[celest musk]

because most standalone renderer treat everything as two sided

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/death-stranding-2-baby-ship-hideo-kojima-gif-9116364576511759807

[unborn lotus]

because nanite. UE is ruining games!!

[median wraith]

oh my

[median wraith]

flip them batched

[celest musk]

blender also has ghosting

not sure why

[median wraith]

that came with the society update

[summer cedar]

Even with nanite, you have to be particularly.... uh, I don't know the word, to accept that kind of poly arrangement.

[celest musk]

i wish that would've worked... but they've been randomly flipped

[median wraith]

via the checkbox or?

[celest musk]

checkbox?

i'm used to using one of those, but neither did work in my case

because the whole geometry is ass

[median wraith]

inside unreal

you have a checkbox to invert them

but you mean the mesh ones

gotcha

[celest musk]

well, that would probably just do the same as the first option in blender

[summer cedar]

It takes a particular lunacy to get poly normals randomly oriented like that.

Or sheer cluelessness.

[median wraith]

na I meant the normal map textures

[celest musk]

let me load the original scene, then i can show you the mess 😄

[summer cedar]

Please don't.

I don't want to lose my IQ. 😛

[celest musk]

join me on the trip....

[summer cedar]

Let this trauma be yours alone.

[median wraith]

that's from the epic marketplace?

[celest musk]

thats one subscene

no, that's from Daz store

[median wraith]

that looks like BF3/4 map

with the build in the middle you can destroy the sides xd

[celest musk]

7.5M verts for that -_-

[summer cedar]

🤮

[cursive crypt]

https://tenor.com/view/can-you-see-it-now-close-seeing-blind-up-close-gif-15995568

[median wraith]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FCy5nIUXMAAajPv.jpg:large

na is different

[cursive crypt]

room details?

[celest musk]

nope

[cursive crypt]

wtf

[celest musk]

but 2.5M verts of it is foliage, so that may benefit a bunch from instancing

[cursive crypt]

Nanite ™️

[median wraith]

why even get things at daz store?

[celest musk]

guess i'll end up with half of it, leaving what's left to nanite...

[median wraith]

you need the extra pay for games production

[summer cedar]

Easy solution.
Just call the scene Brazil and delete 3/4th of the foliage.

[celest musk]

because NO ONE SANE would use the same 😄

[cursive crypt]

3d license, lol, yes, it was like that

[summer cedar]

It's keeping in line with the burning of the Amazon over there.

[celest musk]

while, if i buy something gameready on Fab it may be in 20 games

[cursive crypt]

However, what chicks are there

[celest musk]

chicks don't fit the vertex budget

[cursive crypt]

They get all the performance.

[soft night]

on sunset

[median wraith]

the same what

[celest musk]

scene/assets

[median wraith]

oh from the epic market you say

well you can use Unity ones too, combien etc

isn't bad a thing

damm Victoria still a thing

despite of Metahuman lol

the hair still are planes

I do remember to render this loong time ago like 15 years ago or more

the computer baking 16h in row for a single image on CPU

the fact they made living from a single mesh model for 25 years

mean they are marketing genius

[proud jay]

who's victoria?

[median wraith]

The base female mesh mod they sell for Daz

basically

[proud jay]

Daz Nuts

[median wraith]

No, Daz nuts model have other name

Do remember to have the commercial gamedev version

but never completed the feets game to be sold so

https://tenor.com/view/hehehe-ghehe-reptile-laughing-gif-gif-26223253

[proud jay]

this is why you're not a billionaire

[celest musk]

there's also strand based hair

actually they have anything... haircards, strands, tubes, ... it's sometimes a surprise what you get

[median wraith]

well, but the base one isn't

at this point in general looks a bit dull if you compare it with Meta

[celest musk]

yea, they constantly try to push new things at Daz

e.g. the whole G9 thing was kind of unnecessary

but i don't care... so the legacy stuff gets cheaper xD

the main problem is that they heavy rely on geometry for good things like wrinkles etc.

which is an absolute performance killer at the amount of subdiv the model needs for that

[median wraith]

LOL

[primal summit]

survey foot or imperial foot?

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/andor-star-wars-imperial-officers-drinking-gif-26361684

[steady stone]

Mbappe is so good

[cursive crypt]

https://tenor.com/view/furry-meme-missile-furry-alert-gif-24658735

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/entanglement-quantum-entanglement-science-atoms-gif-17770432

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4xCR20Dh1E

[cursive crypt]

Majorana is name of a plant/herb, useful in the kitchen as a spice.

[soft night]

that chip named after https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ettore_Majorana

[cursive crypt]

I see, he was named after the plant.

[white oxide]

https://tenor.com/view/space-marine-gif-18465926

[nocturne wraith]

Guh

[drifting crescent]

@proud jay you have the same name as me bro haha

Can anyone help me with this it's a stupid question tbh but it's bugging me I'm trying to change my project to my other hard drive because its full but where do I change it

[mild gust]

Cant you just manually move it?

[errant raven]

@fleet tangle more anime on my watchlist, stored on chatgpt because I'm too lazy to move them over to myanimelist

[mild gust]

Lol do you just ask chat gpt for anime to watch