#lounge
mild gust
white oxide
someone got hacked:
jade wyvern
someone got hacked:
Just offering a solution mate, so if interested in, if not then out.✌️
white oxide
given you randomly messaged me, out of the blue to talk about trading...
i already have to deal with the jahovas morons
this is a server for coding, not advertising trading
especially foreign trading and all the absurd potential risks
mild gust
Come on man do some trading!
white oxide
i already do plenty
never on the FX
cause that is... so damn risky
and so easy for someone to get swindled or lose more than they can afford
dense atlas
errant raven
@mild gust 2 days since first sign of ripening. Look at her now
It has a butthole, see how deep that hole is where the flowers pistil used to be
Fuckers deep man
Why are my YouTube ads and mobile ads in spanish
Who's selling my data to Mexico
mild gust
Question is who isn't.
errant raven
Me
So the question really should be who is since that one can be answered
Holy shit
@trail ore Bethesda DOESNT KNOW THIS
Everyone thinks the origin point is top left corner 
Imagine not knowing how gles works when you're making a mobile game
Pygame thinks my origin is top left corner. Kivy uses OpenGl, and renders stuff on bottom left
white oxide
tbh its kinda how a lot of stolen ideas are checked
so plagiarism systems look for grammar and typos
easier to look for mistakes than correct
runic lodge
hmm, I need to make "intentional" secret bugs, in case a big company stole my shitty game code/assets
white oxide
wait your bugs arent intentional?
echo mulch
The whole world is just shapes bruh.
mild gust
We are but triangles
errant raven
Grok ai sucks
Doesnt know how to shut the fuck up
Whys it responses so damn long for
runic lodge
Grok needs ambulance now
white oxide
Whys it responses so damn long for
why not
errant raven
why not
Whys it unnecessarily attach a damn bar graph or line graph or any vendiagram rto everything. HUH, WHY.
Atleast its allowed to have a dark sense of humor tolerance, unlike chat sensitivity
white oxide
runic lodge
I hope i can yap a lot like grok
cursive crypt
Grok ai sucks
I thought it is used only to spread Musks ideology on Twitter
mild gust
Neo-Nazism?
broken sigil
every day I'm more and more convinced that reality has shifted into some alternative timeline somewhere around 2020
mild gust
Guy's too busy huffing his own damn farts to even know what's going on in reality.
Donald Trump needs to go
Send the Pedo to El Salvador.
mild gust
Just got off work you?
Welp Ubisoft killed farcry 2
Can't run it on anything steam, gog, you name it.
Classic
Maybe if they still made good games people wouldn't wanna play old ones.
summer cedar
Just got off work you?
Preparing for work. 😄
Well, watching an anime episode before it. 😄
mild gust
Slacker!
summer cedar
Can't run it on anything steam, gog, you name it.
People are clearly gaming too much.
Gotta go outside, explore the world.
Rent a girlfriend. Sell a kid or two - not your own of course.
Quest for the sasquatch! ✊
Got to breathe pure, polluted air! 🌬️
mild gust
If there wasn't a wall of smoke outside
I'd be able to enjoy the outdoors
However my allergies don't agree with that choice
summer cedar
You must embrace the petrol.
mild gust
Not petrol
summer cedar
Accept the divine chemical that will transform your lungs.
mild gust
Our forests are still burning
mild gust
Yeah
summer cedar
How many months has it been?
summer cedar
Lord!
mild gust
Basically 3 provinces are still under mass fires
summer cedar
If anything, it's a call to invest more in fire fighting than military hardware.
Or at least invest in more fire fighting military hardware.
mild gust
Lol if we could
summer cedar
Oh, not just Canada. I mean the whole world.
mild gust
Kinda need military because of our douchebag neighbour
In California someone was caught lighting fires 😂
summer cedar
Lul. People be crazy. 😅
mild gust
So I can only imagine these are possibly also caused by a person
Almost as if people hate the world
and want it to burn
Then we got idiots like this, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16Ub09q37fE
We would put out the fires if we could 😂
summer cedar
I wish we could pull their server plugs.
Wuchang is getting reamed in the reviews, apparently.
Optimisation issues.
mild gust
😮
So like every modern title?
And game devs wonder why we want to play older games that actually ran stable?
🤔
summer cedar
Apparently, it's worse.
I am installing it, but I read an article about how bad it is performing.
summer cedar
Gorgeous but ultra-stuttery.
mild gust
Gorgeous but ultra-stuttery.
Can you walk on water?
summer cedar
Can you walk on water?
I don't think so. People are complaining on Steam about drowning.
I'll find out after installing it.
mild gust
Lol
I had a buddy play a game recently
In which you were Jesus in some areas
and not in others
summer cedar
I might have an inkling as to which game that is.
I think I've seen it on steam two years ago.
Recreating the Jesus lore.
mild gust
It was a game about alchemy
I'll ask them
I removed the demo I guess lol
Well they found it
summer cedar
Yeah, I remember this.
Didn't play it myself, but found it in the demos list sometime ago.
fair root
Woah, fires in canada again?
It usually causes more air pollution in a few months than the entire 19th century put together : <
summer cedar
@mild gust Launching Wuchan now.
Experiencing the obligatory 'compile shaders' routine.
mild gust
Oh joy
summer cedar
Screen tearing on alt+tabbing.
Shop button opening MS Store, no shop or app found.
Good devs.
And, we're off to a good start.
Hot babe, check. UE lighting, check.
summer cedar
The game causes screen tearing with HDR enabled, and the tearing persists even after exiting the game. Big problem there.
Performance is okay, but I think the combat is clunky.
mild gust
The game causes screen tearing with HDR enabled, and the tearing persists even a...
What
After the game ends 😮
summer cedar
I think the HDR system has been poorly implemented and conflicts with the monitor's HDR.
mild gust
I hope I poorly implement mine
So I can sue people for stealing my code
Time to patent every mechanic in every game
summer cedar
After the game ends 😮
Yeah. I had to reset my Win 11 HDR settings to stop it and restore the screwed up brightness.
mental veldt
every day I'm more and more convinced that reality has shifted into some alterna...
That's what you said in the other timeline too
summer cedar
What
Also, the audio in-game is funny.
It feels like I am listening to ghosts; people talking really far away.
summer cedar
Why are you messing around in a creating daycare?
celest musk
nanny simulator
celest musk
yea, it's an easy asset flip
gonna change the moles in my whack'a'mole game for babies
summer cedar
yea, it's an easy asset flip
~~I meant selling the actual babies who... ~~ yeah, that's true.
@mild gust The Q'Anon Shaman apparently broke with Trump.
Will wonders never cease?!
celest musk
who didn't draw like this as child...
summer cedar
a child.
celest musk
well organized from year 1
summer cedar
they should apprentice at sushi restaurants.
mild gust
Wow I wish I was so talented
summer cedar
I solved the screen tearing problem. Low Latency mode needs to be disabled.
@mild gust Water.
mild gust
Not bad at all
soft night
summer cedar
Well, the game finally started being fun after I got my hands on the first one-handed sword. It makes the combat MUCH BETTER.
Behind that door... is a surprise.
median wraith
manny is approx 135cm tall
That's messed
broken sigil
<@261183265438695424> New girlfriend material for you.
Sir, those are pixels
summer cedar
Sir, those are pixels
So, are you interested? 😄
summer cedar
Think of all the swordplay you can enjoy. 😄
dusky shuttle
bro be talking about screen tearing and low latency and be posting still image
runic lodge
stronk dogo
summer cedar
Killed the first boss by simply kiting and shooting him with magic.
The combat... leaves much to be desired.
Oh, the in-game music is fine. It's a pretty Chinese classical chorus. The problem is... the game's clunky.
It's got a lot of stuff in it, but the balance is missing. It's like a hot pot that someone just threw together.
@trail ore Professional game design question for you. You have a sword and an enemy in front of you. What's the best way to kill that enemy?
Very cool.
In Wuchang, if you have a sword, it's better to just kick your enemy to death.
No kidding.
mild gust
I'm getting Russian videos now! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRlOekd79Ns
mild gust
Slowly but surely learn more languages!
summer cedar
NO!
I will take Epic's recommendations and force Spain to give me a citizenship.
When Tim has spoken, ALL shall hear and obey.
Looks very professional.
God Todd will be proud.
Insert into Starfield immediately.
dusky shuttle
summer cedar
Yay! Taxes filed! 💸
summer cedar
pearl elk
Difficult but fair gooning
summer cedar
I found a very interesting 'feature' in this game.
Some of the respawned enemies have just 1 HP.
😄
pearl elk
1 hand point
errant raven
I should work in tech support
summer cedar
I am getting the impression that WUCHANG is an anti-boss game. Anti-boss in the sense that every OTHER enemy is difficult to kill, but all the BOSSES can be cheesed. I just killed the second boss with my magic spells, from the top of a terrace - unscathed.
2/2 bosses cheesed. 🧀
A really cool thing in the game is that you can control the targets of your spells' individual bolts. Like I fire one magic spell and send one of its bolts at one enemy and the second at another. Very cool.
pearl elk
Wuchang is what mum says youve got at home when you ask for Wutang
Blueman, Shepardman, Yung Clean Homie, Wizza and the Jizza
summer cedar
Doubt your mum would give you a girlfriend, even if she's a kangaroo.
But... sure.
I would appreciate some Tofu, Black Olives Wizza, though.
pearl elk
I think youre mistaking Wuchung for Youhung
pearl elk
Yup looks like a hardstyle dancer like Wukong
runic lodge
why the armor scale looks inverted
errant raven
You're thinking of farming simulator 1780
pearl elk
Pretty sure they could make a Jetsons style clothes washer but it wouldnt make them all the profits
cursive crypt
All the fun is for AI
errant raven
Me watching is making him money
pearl elk
When you realise you can make more by people watching you than releasing games
Oh thats just pirate software
errant raven
You have to actually release a game first
pearl elk
I thought 5 layers of reacts was the new react
Start doing code reviews of code on shadertoy
summer cedar
you should hide your good ideas.
pearl elk
Good ideas, up there with thoughts and prayers
pearl elk
Pray for their exposure
summer cedar
You mowed a lawn.
I murdered a big boss spider that had melded a human being into the side of its skull and he had a sword in one hand, too.
It's totally the same thing.
cursive crypt
ngl, win11 is such piece of shit
Previously one could have just rmb + Send To + USB drive
Now, that SendTo shows a shiton of useless folders instead.
Is 30C even hot? 🤔
I will be grateful if it is so chill.
summer cedar
Ah yes, one mk1 fire typical of these kinds of games. 🙂
Niagara makes shit look good. 😄
cursive crypt
Oh, the ShitMenu... this one tops. No contest with the the taskbar being only below. Fukin Apple simps
I was well annoyed at that, and it still annoys me when I notice it. Like now.
Take a scorching vitamin D hit
Maybe invest in Sunfactor companies 🤔
white oxide
ngl, win11 is such piece of shit
Previously one could have just rmb + Send To + ...
startallback
cursive crypt
startallback
A 3rd party fix? I recall one app, but forgot it. One was able to use any kind of StartMenu variants.
white oxide
i have it, totally solid
one of the fre freemium options i actually paid for the $20 lifetime
you can make win11 act like win 7
i liked win10
stable gull
what happened to start menu in win11? I am still on win10 so idk
my hardware doesn't support win11, apparently
summer cedar
I had my taskbar widgets simply stop working and hanging day before yesterday.
Then, Windows updated itself and the problem just went away.
cursive crypt
what happened to start menu in win11? I am still on win10 so idk
It also sucks in terms of usability imo
white oxide
median wraith
Niagara makes shit look good. 😄
Niagara have nothing todo here but the artist
summer cedar
Niagara have nothing todo here but the artist
The flames aren't particles?
echo mulch
summer cedar
@mild gust https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TK-kx_hbOo - The Pope is a debt collector and buys Florida. 😄
median wraith
The flames aren't particles?
Textures made by an artist moving
Niagara here isn't adding anything
median wraith
technically will auto move to tablet style
stable gull
Then, Windows updated itself and the problem just went away.
I really feel like they are doing it on purpose, or half the OS updates sections of itself somehow
stable gull
It also sucks in terms of usability imo
worse than win10? I thought win10 was bad enough with it searching online instead of searching files
stable gull
on daily use cases starting by the right click menu
even that is worse?!
why did they release win 11
median wraith
For office users but not for devs that for sure
stable gull
I don't think office users can fix start menu not working or something similar
summer cedar
I really feel like they are doing it on purpose, or half the OS updates sections...
It's more likely they are focusing on AI and related features, neglecting quality control in general aspects.
They do have a beta branch - insiders programme, so it's not like they don't know the bugs exist.
Gotta get that AI market under their thumb!
Kudos to the Wuchang devs.
They released a patch fixing the screen tearing issue.
Apparently, Low Latency Mode couldn't be toggled off. 😒
errant raven
Is machine learning a subgroup of AI
Answer my question first
I need an honest answer
Have you tried whispering sweet nothings into the i/o bay
Slowly running your hand against the chassis while doing so?
If that doesnt turn it on idk what will. Aside from power button
mild gust
There's also a church simulator
Coming Q4 2025
I'm installing the demo
I gotta see the insanity
I believe it
summer cedar
I'm installing the demo
Yas! THAT was the game I was referring to earlier.
Based on the reviews I was reading at the time, it just follows the Bible.
mild gust
Ofc it's made in unreal engine
summer cedar
Which other engine can easily turn wine into water?
and water into chocolate?
and crash appropriately when a miracle is performed?
mild gust
As it should
Sorta sounds like the narrator is Morgan Freeman at first
Dw I Jesus with seek out John the Baptist
fleet tangle
Gaming 2025, https://store.steampowered.com/app/1198970/I_Am_Jesus_Christ/
Do they properly portray the lizards?
mild gust
So far mixed feelings
It's like feeding mixed history down your throat.
Also like your playing jesus with an fps shooter template
Just the way the character moves feel very shooter like
summer cedar
I don't think the creator is trying to spread the religion, or anything like that.
mild gust
and teaching me of the roman occupation
summer cedar
Same way you listen to stuff in a movie.
fleet tangle
Surely it'd be Christian Rock?
summer cedar
and teaching me of the roman occupation
Unless you are going to have a conversation with Julius about his Caesarship, it doesn't matter.
fleet tangle
Surely it'd be Christian Rock?
(and sling shots)
summer cedar
Kill both the merchant and the Romans.
Rob everyone and go live your life on an uninhabited island.
summer cedar
Find a hidden treasure cave and become Lucifer of Luci Cristo.
Ok. Ok. Fine.
Heal everyone and charge them $10,000 per heal, with a penalty for not having insurance.
summer cedar
Well, that's easy then.
mild gust
Then they stopped marking quests on the map
fleet tangle
Rob everyone and go live your life on an uninhabited island.
Where only you can live, becuase you just part the sea to go to the local shop?
summer cedar
Heal the mentally ill.
Exorcise the physically bleeding.
mild gust
So I gotta run around and guess wtf to do
summer cedar
Where only you can live, becuase you just part the sea to go to the local shop?
Pretty much. He's got holy magic. He can talk to the Kraken.
fleet tangle
But can he default the Karen?
mild gust
Dw Jesus helped me find Joachims friend
summer cedar
Just gotta avoid the tentacles.
summer cedar
Dw Jesus helped me find Joachims friend
As Jesus, you just gotta follow the beams of light.
The beams man... the beams.
🚬
summer cedar
Take it to the nearest chop shop and exchange it for a Horsighini.
I heard the mileage on those is incredible.
fleet tangle
Can you speed craft like in Fortnite?
summer cedar
Wasn't His Imperial Princeness a carpenter BEFORE he became a healer?
Wait, this is a game. It doesn't matter.
Forge the holy spanker that heals people!
mild gust
summer cedar
https://i.imgur.com/tbxqdeV.jpeg
Is John drowning in the water?
summer cedar
mild gust
Eating locusts
mild gust
Ngl the voice acting is not bad
Like for an indie game
Now I gotta do a puzzle in heaven
summer cedar
The first page of the game's forums is just full of religious spam.
Actual game questions are more on the second page - like the first half of it. 🤣
mild gust
Lol
That doesn't surprise me
Apparently there's a Judas boss fight
Idk if that's real
Nvm it's a joke
summer cedar
What? You didn't read about Jesus-Judas throwdown in The Grimoire of Thomas 66:67?
mild gust
Nope fake news
summer cedar
They totally went at it for a year, dude, with battle axes and flamethrowers.
mild gust
Mormon?
summer cedar
Oh no. No mistake there. 😛
mild gust
It's easy mkay!
median wraith
https://i.imgur.com/tbxqdeV.jpeg
Not that far if Far Cry
mild gust
You could try joining Louis Rossmans right to repair discord
Yikes
Yeah probably better off trying to fix yourself
Right to repair guys know quite a bit and are pretty helpful
mild gust
Saw some id stuff floating around maybe thats the future.
To access most of the web produce id.
mild gust
Lore building
dusky shuttle
gold new ATH, silver new ATH, , s&p new ATH, bitcoin new ATH.
Inflation status: through the roof
median wraith
What will happen with all those coins in global inflation?
errant raven
@mild gust @dense atlas I think she looks purrty
Nice lil pockets of capsaicin in there
pearl elk
To access most of the web produce id.
I thought most of the web was already hidden from normies
cursive crypt
Marketing's genius
Hmm, wdym?
white oxide
im watching the og willy wonka movie and holy shit the amount of wasted candy i can see in the first like 20 minutes
errant raven
Is looping through and printing out all your memory addresses a bad idea in c++
I just wanna see what happens
cursive crypt
What is all?
pearl elk
Approximately 2.68 million A4 pages to print 80 GB
64GB RAM + 16GB VRAM not including other memories
errant raven
What is all?
I cant even access memory the program doesnt own. Otherwise it gets flagged as malicious attack/virus
Oh well
pearl elk
Rustalicious
errant raven
I'll just take 20,480 address and store a bunch of dumb shit in them
Good god how many addresses does 4Gbs of ram have
Can I go 10x higher now
I can
10000x more
What the fuck is a segmentation fault
I just bricked my phone
Welp that was fun
Oh it fixed itself
That was fuckin scary
cursive crypt
errant raven
I'm loving how fast c++ is tho. Itd take a good hour to print out a few million lines in python
This shit is printing 10,000 lines a second
pearl elk
my computer almost got hit by a rock the other day
lawnmower threw a big rock from under it, went through the window right next to where my rig is
cursive crypt
Still going
18446744073692551616 to go, enjoy!
errant raven
I can only do 750MBs worth
Otherwise my phone will do that weird white screen flash thingy
cursive crypt
lawnmower threw a big rock from under it, went through the window right next to ...
dfuq is that lawnmower? Is it cutting trees?
errant raven
I think gippity rigged it up to delete the memory as soon as it was printed tho
errant raven
But my phone has a feature that uses storage space as temp ram
white oxide
at this rate ill be able to pet her in december
errant raven
Didnt know phones could do that too
white oxide
most have been doing that for a while
pearl elk
one of these bad boys
white oxide
also using storage as shitty ram is an old trick
errant raven
I never pay attention to phone specs tbh
cursive crypt
https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/shopping?q=tbn:ANd9GcQBb53GNR38GriwXqZ3qh0ErR...
One should have a driving license for these?
white oxide
used to be a paging file option in windows
errant raven
I know computers do it. Even today
pearl elk
One should have a driving license for these?
private property, definitely not street legal but our new tractor is
cursive crypt
It was a joke for being too big
white oxide
i have one of these
cursive crypt
Aparraently throws rocks too
errant raven
But why would phones need it, you never use more than the amount given and some mobile games wont even install of you dont meet the spec requirements
white oxide
they do if your willing to sacrifice your blades
cursive crypt
i have one of these
If I have so big lawn, I would have been a millionaire here.
errant raven
Can I have half an acre for my pepper plants
cursive crypt
https://media.kubota.io/uploads/kubota-m5111_header-2048x720.jpg
That collage hurts my eyes, looks like a cheap motivational poster.
errant raven
You can have half the harvest
white oxide
i have one of these
also driving this without ear protection is stupid
pearl elk
I got ~90 acres
cursive crypt
Average aussie
white oxide
bah
pearl elk
4096 acorns for 1 acornholio
errant raven
pearl elk
you dont have any farm animals?
white oxide
we have bees
errant raven
51 million adresses printed
cursive crypt
When I was young, I recall guarding a 100 acres of watermelons... That was a lot of watermelons 🤔
errant raven
No where near 786,432,000. Not as fast as I was thinking it was
cursive crypt
how big are these watermelons sheeesh
At the end, an once in a decade hail passed through it. The size of the ice balls were between wallnuts and small eggs.
pearl elk
At the end, an once in a decade hail passed through it. The size of the ice ball...
like meteors attacking alien eggs 😮
cursive crypt
like meteors attacking alien eggs 😮
I think we rolled a 1 on luck
pearl elk
cursive crypt
At least it was the year of eating watermelons 👍
pearl elk
and your first daugher was named Melony
errant raven
Almost 10% there
This is only 750MB and this is a lot
Games use much much much much more no fucking wonder managing pointers is hard
mild gust
I thought most of the web was already hidden from normies
They can find it if they wish
cursive crypt
and your first daugher was named Melony
Need a mom for her first
mental veldt
i have one of these
haha, same - 52" zeroturn with the steering wheel - I also have 3 broken windows from it.
pearl elk
Need a mom for her first
white oxide
haha, same - 52" zeroturn with the steering wheel - I also have 3 broken windows...
thats why you make a cover for the chute to prevent rockshot
errant raven
686,432,000 left to go woo
mental veldt
thats why you make a cover for the chute to prevent rockshot
yep - ended up doing the same
pearl elk
I just make sure the chute is facing away from the house when I do it but when others do it we end up with these sorts of things
mower was like 1m from the window
errant raven
Does c++ have a timer thing to tell you how fast it executed a program
mental veldt
I just make sure the chute is facing away from the house when I do it but when o...
yeah, there's always those heart-stopping bits where you need to cross the driveway though 😄 (I enjoy too much to let anyone mow mine)
errant raven
So it's only 192 million adresses because I'm storing ints which are only 4 bytes each.
pearl elk
lies
errant raven
It checks out
Barely
768,000,000. Missing 20,432,000 but oh well
I'm not smart enough to understand this shit yet
errant raven
I'm confused man
white oxide
been watching the og willy wonka movie with the kids... and holy damn was wilder a perfect pick for a madman
summer cedar
Good morning! 🌞 ☕
summer cedar
Yo!
pearl elk
why you killing my games bro
summer cedar
W H Y
mild gust
Waiting for people to go home
pearl elk
so you can kill more games in silence
mild gust
Yes
mild gust
All games must die
summer cedar
Super Mario tech demo made by someone in UE.
mild gust
So Tim Sweeney can sell more
summer cedar
Try it before Nintendo pounces.
pearl elk
Thats not Mario its Bario
summer cedar
Tim is conquering everything.
summer cedar
Ghost Recon might ditch Ubi for UE.
pearl elk
Im actually keen to see a fight over copyright law updates, we all know that elephants been in the room for awhile now
summer cedar
Lo and behold, Romans!
Tim is at the gates!
mild gust
All need to play more Jesus simulator
summer cedar
Did you finish His story?
pearl elk
Gaben Simulator
summer cedar
Did you wipe your tears of ecstasy and penitence?
Did you find the source of bliss that created maply syrup?
mild gust
Did you finish His story?
No I had to go to work
pearl elk
mild gust
Also there was a puzzle in another language I couldnt solve
summer cedar
Smacking it with holiness didn't work? 🙀
pearl elk
did your priest teach you that move?
summer cedar
Yes. White Mage from Final Fantasy.
Also Star Trek Online, where banging buildings with your gun is repairing them.
summer cedar
Probably, but looks like Gabbard.
pearl elk
Im enjoying the new Star Trek stuff more than Star Wars tbh
summer cedar
I wish they make more Discovery. I loved the future Federation series.
pearl elk
mind you Strange New Worlds is getting to the filler episodes now
summer cedar
I haven't watched the new season on Hotstar yet.
I posted about this a year ago or so, I think. But, this has more details.
pearl elk
how long until someone steals the building
summer cedar
They'll be fine. It's not in India. 😛
pearl elk
or Australia
summer cedar
That kinda stuff happens over there too?
pearl elk
yeah we have some pretty nasty crime, its not that common but it happens
plenty of ram raids
white oxide
https://trekcentral.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/PP_15900_STP_S3_Individual_Ch...
that show was such a fucking letdown
pearl elk
that show was such a fucking letdown
Yeah Picard wasnt brilliant, mostly nostalgia. It had really good sets and tech though, I liked the newer ship controls
summer cedar
Those shows always shine when they focus on the characters, instead of shallow plots.
white oxide
more that picard as a character went from the shining paladin of the federation to depicted as a bitter old man
summer cedar
I loved The Orville for that reason.
summer cedar
more that picard as a character went from the shining paladin of the federation ...
It's called being old, bro. 😛
white oxide
also they opened like 8 plot points that never got finished
pearl elk
I hate that TV shows always have templates for the episodes, you get the wedding episode, the pregnancy episode, the musical episode, I wish they would drop those all together... oh how can I forget the trapped in a video game or time loop episode
white oxide
tbh trek only had one musical episode, and it was actually good
tbh the klingons singing rap not dramatic opera was a waste
pearl elk
yeah surely Klingons have war songs
white oxide
like their whole culture shown in DS9 was about these massive dramatic operas
they have operas, and drinking songs
cause klingons were written and invisioned as mongols originally, and then pirates in DS9
pearl elk
Klingons singing Chumbawamba?
white oxide
but pirates with a culture
summer cedar
I can imagine how boring that'd have been.
summer cedar
Yeah, but they never went into solving it and stuff.
pearl elk
wasnt there creatures in the warp drinking the warp juice
white oxide
supposedly the new nacelle designs were the fix
voyagers variable geometry nacelles were one solution
summer cedar
Just make Greta Thunberg the next captain.
white oxide
HAHAHAH
summer cedar
Every episode is her protesting outside the Klingdon embassy.
white oxide
these new nacelles were the official semi canon explination for the warp damage
they solved it by being more efficient or not damaging nearly enough
pearl elk
Just make Greta Thunberg the next captain.
didnt they do that in Discovery?
white oxide
fuck disvoery
summer cedar
didnt they do that in Discovery?
Greta in Discovery? Not that I remember.
white oxide
such potential
lost because they focus on a single horrible person and make them somehow captain
summer cedar
It was a return to The Next Generation for me.
pearl elk
I didnt like they removed communicators in Discovery, so silly having the Captain constantly leave the bridge to go have a chat
summer cedar
New doodads, new cultures, diplomacy.
white oxide
but Saru was a million times better person to lead the charge
Saru was basically the 23rd century picard
a shining example of what starfleet could be
he was a solid captain who always focused crew first
he was also both cautious and fair, as well as capable of being one of the most dangerous people to cross
he was the perfect starfleet captain
pearl elk
I like Pike, he reminds me alot of a young Picard
white oxide
not angry whisper woman who cried at least once per episode
yeah pike was a demigod
he really shined in SNW
white oxide
why?
summer cedar
Must be h00man.
summer cedar
one or two episodes is fine, but entire seasons.... no, no.
I doubt it. It's probably why they never did that.
white oxide
Tilly was a better captain than burnham
pearl elk
Spock was captain in the new movies
white oxide
anyone really
summer cedar
It's not about capability.
It's about ratings. 😄
We are not ready to be an all-accepting society.
white oxide
its more that in anything more military based than starfleet burnham would have been executed for treason like 15 times
pearl elk
We are not ready to be an all-accepting society.
I will never forgive the Klingons for the death of my boy
summer cedar
pretty much.
white oxide
she was a horrible person
and totally unfit for command
maybe a first officer
but never command
summer cedar
Gotta heat the potato kulchas for breakfast! 🫓
white oxide
but yeah
fixing the federation as a plot was solid
they just needed to not have our horrible mutineer anywhere near it
also i think if they put Saru as captain with a straight face he could have sold the show
everyone else was human
honestly i think people would be more open to alien leaders
but it takes careful
pearl elk
yeah it would be like making a show about Khan being the good guy
white oxide
why?
again, i think if Saru had been captain, nothing would really have changed long term other than more of the original trek fans liking it
summer cedar
it's a nice dream, but we are not ready for that leap yet.
white oxide
Discovery is almost universally hated in most of the older trek fans i know because of Burnham
summer cedar
But yes, Burnham was.... uninteresting.
white oxide
shes the absolute worst character in the show and closer to villain than hero
Pike is the only thing that saved season2
pearl elk
Strange New Worlds has a character who is related to Khan and they did it perfect the whole Michael Burnham thing was just silly
white oxide
and Saru being mostly in command of season 3 kept it interesting because he stood down burnham and georgeu when they wanted to do horrible stuff that starfleet never stood for
because la'an's character wasnt totally revolving around her family past
most of the stories with her save one was about her troubles fitting in, and her horrible experience with the gorn
pearl elk
yeah and the gorn are an interesting addition too
white oxide
yeah
they made them a way better adversary than the klingons
also the whole klingon redesign should have been given a canon explanation beyond just trying to "update"
pearl elk
nothing wrong with the staples but it does get abit tiresome when its always the same enemies
white oxide
like the fanon agreement that the excessive ridges were a sort of overcompensation for the loss of the ridges cause the augment
pearl elk
I liked the whole Romulan and Klingon disguise stuff, that coulda played out so much more
espionage makes a whole lot more sense to take down the federation over straight war
white oxide
yeah
pearl elk
but obviously the Klingons being proud struggled with it which makes it interesting where the Romulans just dont care
white oxide
tbh i wish we had gotten more about the Battle of Charon
the whole source of the neutral zone
pearl elk
for some reason they focus on Romulans in the future after the defeat rather than before
white oxide
i think they were trying to find some way to get nostalgia points over actual story and effort
and they made so many plot points
like the entire plot of season 2
which was apparently setting up some sort of major enemy to come in and be the next big 25th century bad guy
and then they totally forgot about it next season
also the whole borg coming back every time
borg are vastly overused
pearl elk
Im not sure if Im down with the destruction of Vulcan but it seems to be one of those bridges which cross many of the series now
white oxide
and voyager kinda beat the entire concept of the borg to death for plot points
TNG borg were such a novel concept
pearl elk
I did find it interesting how they did it in Picard, it wasnt just Q clicking his fingers
white oxide
they originally were so well written
we cant understand them because their needs, and desires and communication beyond simply wanting forward advancement, is so alien were not capable of communicating on their level
that assimilation wasnt like some "everyday" thing
they only did that simply to try and get starfleet to stand down
because they didnt understand us anymore than we understood them
pearl elk
yeah it took them so much to disconnect that first Borg from the network, then after that it was like it was easy
white oxide
First Contact turned them into space vampires
and then voyager rolled with it so much it kinda ruined them
I want an enemy so vast, and incomprehensible, that simply understanding them could be a multiple episode plot
pearl elk
Wesley Crusher made some nanites which went crazy and started eating the ship, I always thought it could be cool if it turned out when they got rid of those they became the borg
white oxide
like species 10C in discovery
they destroyed entire planets, not because they were hostile, but because they simply didnt understand we were sentient and might object to their efforts to simply harvest raw materials
pearl elk
they had to nerf them in voyager though because that ship sucked 😛
white oxide
its more that the borg werent nerfed
just no one knew how to write them compellingly without making them super op
pearl elk
they had a similar issue with the replicants in Stargate
white oxide
tbh those were done fairly well
they followed their original plot points the whole show
summer cedar
Stargate was an amazing series.
I never got bored with it. It was always 'one more episode' please.
white oxide
the only thing that really changed them was the human form
but that was more like flood hive mind control evolution than changing them on a conceptual level
summer cedar
The movie(s) wasn't so great. But the TV series, I fell in love with naturally.
white oxide
they built the first human form after learning that a human form initially built them
summer cedar
Probably because the series made everything more h00man, than the movies did.
summer cedar
I believe the technical term is anthropomorphism.
pearl elk
the movie I watched most recently they attached to the human to make a borg like creature
summer cedar
If you can do that well, then people will watch the show for a long time.
If you can't, then every other idea is basically good for a niche episode only.
'cuz 💰 talks.
white oxide
the movie I watched most recently they attached to the human to make a borg like...
ark of truth movie?
pearl elk
yeah I think thats the one
white oxide
they only took over the guy because that guy had the fingerprints to get them access to the asgaurd core
it was more means to an end
also plot point because they knew you wanted him dead
summer cedar
🤔 I wonder how that stargate-inspired game is doing.
white oxide
which one?
summer cedar
I remember playing the demo.
white oxide
the one they made a whole episode to sell then the game got canceled before the episode aired? or another
summer cedar
No, no. It was made by indies.
pearl elk
you guys remember Earth 2?
summer cedar
The Man from Earth 1 is a great story. It's basically a theatre conversation an immortal has with regular people. Very immersive.
The second movie is not all that great.
white oxide
honestly the one series id love to see made into movies is the Honorverse series
summer cedar
I remember that Weber was speaking to someone about that.
white oxide
but with the evergreen studios ship designs, not the original weber ones
summer cedar
I don't know what happened to their negotiations.
white oxide
evergreen studios was the plan
then they went bankrupt in the 2014 market issue
the og ones look like space dildos
evergreen designs:
og designs
summer cedar
I prefer the OG designs for this unvierse, actually.
white oxide
tbh id like to see a mix
summer cedar
The evergreen ones look alien.
mild gust
Did I win?
white oxide
its more that i think the OG ones are going to get dick jokes more than the series will get seen as like an hard SF option
tbh if they made an honorverse tv show (split each book in the series into like 8 episode mini series), with the budget of the expanse, it would be solid
also wouldnt have to really change anything
tbh the books did a really good job of describing everyones looks
mild gust
Like, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency?
white oxide
also weber said they would skip basilisk station and likely only explain it in flashbacks in the honor of the queen and short victorious war
given it would have been a solid feature film would make it a loss to not show it
but anyone who read the books knows shortening each one to a single movie would cut out so so much
they need to be at least 2 parts, more likely 4-6 episode miniseries
mild gust
Movies of books are so mid
mild gust
People are still trying to replicate lovecrafts books
Only a few are really possible
Re-animator was good
white oxide
and aside from how kinda sad super accurate depictions of their STL drives would look, its a solid series with detailed, sometimes over detailed explanations how how things look
mild gust
Funny you think it's only girls buying those 😂
white oxide
white oxide
that dot in the center is the largest ship in the setting
mild gust
He doesn't understand anything
summer cedar
My real beef is with the 480,000 jobs that article mentions.
IF they do lose all those jobs, F*@! him.
mild gust
Plenty of those were probably filled by immigrants
Did you see the one of the most recent Jubilees?
summer cedar
that dot in the center is the largest ship in the setting
What? Just use the scale modifier, bro. You can make it bigger. Promise!
mild gust
These guys go full mask off fascist. All except a few people. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S-WJN3L5eo
summer cedar
Plenty of those were probably filled by immigrants
I am not so sure about that. Making toys is a delicate job, depending on the toys. Pretty sure lots of Americans have those technical posts.
summer cedar
Did you see the one of the most recent Jubilees?
No. What's that about?
mild gust
No. What's that about?
It's a debate panel
summer cedar
🤣
mild gust
Which was originally christian vs 20 atheists
pearl elk
aww I thought you were gonna write 20 athletes
mild gust
But then he said he wasn't a christian
pearl elk
I was sure Peterson would lose one finally
pearl elk
alot of that is social hacking, if youre charismatic enough you can get people to say what you want them to
mild gust
This is better than it
pearl elk
aww only frogs, wheres toad of toad hall
mild gust
Either your Jordan Peterson or your not!
Also this was funny too, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqBzYhICO8o
white oxide
tbh i love watching the world unfold knowing that overall im pretty secure
pearl elk
dont join the delulu
mild gust
Just wish the unfolding ends at some point
summer cedar
tbh i love watching the world unfold knowing that overall im pretty secure
It's called winning the game.
The best you can do. 😄
pearl elk
look how winning worked out for Charlie Sheen 😛
summer cedar
He should've just taken his money and lived a chill life.
But, he had drug issues or something, no?
pearl elk
tbh winning looked way better on Ozzy
mild gust
look how winning worked out for Charlie Sheen 😛
His lifes slowly improved
As he stepped away from drugs
pearl elk
well thats the thing, its probably better to work on yourself than try to change the world around you right
pearl elk
I like the Navy Seals they have a saying about controlling your 3ft world, it makes alot of sense because things in that space you do actually have control over
they obviously mean it in a CQB context but it does make sense for most of life too tbh
pearl elk
feng shui third
mild gust
and in the darkness bind us
pearl elk
ugggh I cant watch this politics stuff
mild gust
Jubilee?
The wildest part of it was the white guy calling himself a "Native American"
I started laughing.
pearl elk
back in my day on South Park it wasnt all politics, it was singing turds, explosive diarrhea, Kenny dying and chocolate salty balls
mild gust
To be fair they are at risk of being shut down
Stephen Colbert was shut down already
Jimmy Kimmel was threated next
pearl elk
some people will say anything to get a rise Id say
mild gust
pearl elk
lol thats definitely Trump not The White House
pearl elk
I never remember other Presidents getting so bent out of shape over SNL, South Park etc
summer cedar
Wasn't he trying to disband NVidia or something?
Then he understood that he didn't understand.
pearl elk
He didnt even know what Nvidia was by his own admission
mild gust
I never remember other Presidents getting so bent out of shape over SNL, South P...
To be fair they did make fun of Trump before
They just used a proxy
Mr. Garrison
cursive crypt
To be fair they are at risk of being shut down
Classic dictatorship is to suppress/convert the mass media first.
summer cedar
Probably thought NVidia was Nivea.
pearl elk
Mr. Garrison
remember the bicycle invention?
summer cedar
And didn't like lube cream monopolies.
pearl elk
thats why I didnt link it 😅
mild gust
Fart face airports
pearl elk
Probably thought NVidia was Nivea.
if only Nvidia prices were closer to Niveas
summer cedar
😄
I like the aroma of nivea cream, but I don't use it myself. Beardo creams are better on the skin.
Beardo - a brand of men's creams and accessories in India.
pearl elk
I use their shaving gel
pearl elk
the best a man can get 😹
white oxide
Stephen Colbert was shut down already
tbh theres probably more to it than the settlement
keep in mind they pay colbert 15 million a year
mild gust
Shutting down the top rated late show?
mild gust
It's okay he will probably keep doing some form of media
white oxide
yeah
pearl elk
well look at Microsoft, theyre looking to fire more people and theyre not hurting at all
white oxide
and live tv has been dying a slow and hemoraging death
mild gust
Yup
white oxide
super expensive, never actually on air, and also the fact that TV isnt all that profitable anymore
plus people arent staying up till 11pm to watch him
mild gust
Everyone just streams now
white oxide
when they can wait to the next day and see the parts they want on youtube
THATS what is killing it
tbh theres also the fact hes been alienating a lot of his long term client base
like my grandma used to love watching him
pearl elk
arnt those types of shows geolocked to the US as well
white oxide
then she stopped because like 80% of his jokes are sexual
mild gust
They appear in Canada here
white oxide
his primary viewerbase is elder, and democratic
and then he tells jokes that really only appeal to a younger audience thats more central than democratic
add that in with TV dying, and yeah, its inevitable
plus a massive live audience is expensive in an era when you really dont need it
pearl elk
alot of that is US politics based too so its not like that appeals broadly to an international audience
white oxide
yep
he only talks international when it affects local us politics
so his viewerbase isnt big
and his show costs more than many movies per year
with a fraction the return of a movie
and a LOT more work
200 employees not just him
to put on an hour show 4 nights a week, 20-30 weeks a year
and he himself has a 15 million dollar salary
pearl elk
yeah even if it is profitable it might just not be enough versus other projects
white oxide
yeah
pearl elk
even if those others are risky the potential rewards might end up in the same spot overall
or hell maybe they need to lose some money for tax purposes 😛
white oxide
google says the late show costs 100 million per year
thats a decent direct to tv/stream movie
every year
white oxide
i think they would have canceled the late show in another year or so anyways
the settlement was just the tipping point in cost benefit
summer cedar
HBO might give him a place.
white oxide
well the same google search says the late show was operating at a 40-50 million deficit
summer cedar
They did so with Bill Maher, after all.
white oxide
not at his old salary i bet
mild gust
Bill Maher went republican
white oxide
whose going to pay a guy 15 million a year to be a talking head to a small group
summer cedar
Nah.
Bill calls it both ways whenever he can.
I like him for that.
--- As of January 2023, Maher was hosting the show's 21st season, reportedly earning an annual salary of $10 million for his commentary. ---
Bill gets $10 mil.
They might pay Colbert.
mild gust
Like having dinner with Trump
summer cedar
Yeah. Why not?
Bill's not the police or the justice department.
And what he said afterwards was enlightening.
dusky shuttle
mild gust
Local NAS ftw
summer cedar
The problem with OneDrive isn't so much the software itself, in as much as it is MS setting OneDrive on by default when Windows installs.
That's what troubled me, since I ignored it until it backed up Starfield's entire game folder to cloud.
mild gust
Bloatware?
summer cedar
🤣
white oxide
yeah actually lost the vast majority of my game project files because onedrive kept acting like is was my documents and doubling my drive used space
so i erased one drive and the onedrive folders
and low and behold all my files i spent a lot of time orginizing and storing were gone
fuck onedrive
also the constant "windows 10 is reaching EOL upgrade now"
bitch i would, if your os worked on this computer
it doesnt so shut the fck up
pearl elk
they shouldnt obscure the directory structure, its fine to have shortcuts but they go too far
white oxide
yeah
i lost all my files because of that with zero warning of what i was actually doing
pearl elk
google tried putting their drive space up in price so I deleted everything I didnt need to have up on there
pearl elk
poor google cant afford drive space
white oxide
given you can just make free additional accounts...
pearl elk
I will say this about Valve, they give heaps of drive space for free
mild gust
"Inflation"
white oxide
i pay like $30 a year for 250gb of drive space?
mild gust
I paid $80 for lifetime 100gb
white oxide
which is more than enough for general backups, and transdfering project assets
mild gust
Till when ever Koofr dies
white oxide
dafuq
summer cedar
After I spanked OneDrive with a forbes magazine... er, changed the settings and made it unobtrusive, it's been surprisingly useful in some situations.