Made in China โข ๐คฃ
#lounge
summer cedar
It's what his AI does as therapy.
Gotta have some way of washing off the ๐คฎ from generating his crap.
Ok. I will try slaying that dragon and its warlord again, before lunch.
summer cedar
It just t-bagged me.
mild gust
Rip
summer cedar
I decided to kill the plagued, undead bear instead.
Then get back to the dragon.
Priorities for cowards. ๐
mild gust
That's how I play souls games
If I die multiple times to something I go to something else and come back
summer cedar
In this case, I am pretty sure one of the quest triggers is problematic. I've investigated the rune stones and found that demons messed with them, but the game doesn't acknowledge that.
Oh well. ๐คทโโ๏ธ
mild gust
Why
mild gust
It was an accident, I swear.
Smh
summer cedar
Executed an old lady in the name of the law.
She was binding abyssal spirits to animals and infesting them with death parasites.
All in the name of protecting the environment.
I knew Greta was up to no good! ๐
errant raven
*looks at steam destroying 3 billion in cash*
Cash? Where?
That's just speculative value
white oxide
steam straight up did more effective inflation management than any government
white oxide
That's just speculative value
isnt all money thats not on the gold standard of speculative value?
errant raven
Its different in steams case
white oxide
tbh Amercias economy would have collapsed about a decade ago if it werent for the fact that the dollar happens to defy historical precedents on the power of a form of currency
errant raven
Its against steam ToS to buy or sell their skins on third party sites
They genuinely have no real world value outside of steam
white oxide
50 3rd world countries with the military budget to fight god, and only that cold hard military is whats giving the dollar any backing these days.
tbh if someone is actually WILLING to pay those prices, then it actually has real world value
errant raven
Until your account gets trade banned for breaking ToS
white oxide
lol
summer cedar
Actually, no. The reason the dollar has value is because the UN (and member nations) agreed to it in a treaty after WW2.
It's not really about military power or marketing.
We have agreed to use the dollar for the world's financial security.
Sadly, that's slowly being undone.
40% of precious metals and resources are now un-dollared.
Yes, I coined a new word.
summer cedar
๐คทโโ๏ธ
white oxide
yeah, but given the general state of the US industrial might and their social problems on a historical precedent, the 2008 market collapse should have been absolutely devastating
summer cedar
That's what people assumed because they don't know about financial security and institutions.
The reason the world hasn't collapsed economically is because lots of smart people in various organisations work round the clock to ensure it.
white oxide
it wasnt because unlike previous similar collapses, the american dollars value isnt as linked to the power of the internal economy as those past and other precednents
summer cedar
There's tons of treaties and organisations that prevent it, provided a certain orange house doesn't convince all of us to change those things.
errant raven
yeah, but given the general state of the US industrial might and their social pr...
This was just a scam pulled off by banks, just so they could buy up a bunch of foreclosed property and make the housing market in the u.s what it is now
mild gust
Blackrock, Vanguard, State Street?
summer cedar
Of course, said orange house is ignorant; so.....
white oxide
because yes, american states really are 3rd world countries
summer cedar
Yeah, you will have local (national) problems.
But the world itself will carry on.
Like we are doing now despite the orange ๐ฉ
mild gust
because yes, american states really are 3rd world countries
Louisiana? ๐
summer cedar
I would honestly advocate for Marshall coins.
errant raven
How are u.s states third world countries tho?
summer cedar
Not only does it sound cool, it's also a tribute to chuck norris.
Roundhouse currency ftw! ๐
white oxide
tbh my rural town is better off because its an oil rich people limited space, so we actually have the money to keep the roads clean and the library well maintained, but everyone around us their roads SUCK
white oxide
tbh each state technically has his own entire economy and country setup, the federal government is more a federal POLITY than it is a single overall controlling unit
white oxide
if you ever had to deal with the interstate compact as a business thing your head will spin because whats standard in texas is illegal or done radically different in oklahoma
ok so... example
a friend of mine got drunk
peed in a park
got arrested for exposure
white oxide
in texas, thanks to it not being part of the rest of the countries sex offender statues didnt have to register
when he moved to FLORIDA however, he was required to
mild gust
If you piss on school grounds here you get put on the Sex offender list
white oxide
because exposure was a registerable crime
but he didnt know that
because texas didnt do that
so... he got arrested and charged with felony failure to register
because waht should be a federal system is regulated at the state level as if they are individual countries with a shared overarching polity
hell thats why texas isnt even part of either of the electrical grids
they said ๐ to the rest of the states because they didnt want to winterize their plants and so simply made their own electrical grid
paid the price a few years ago but yeah
mild gust
My grandma in Arizona I think got snow to
white oxide
the snow wasnt really the issue it was the temp
mild gust
Like get rekt
white oxide
and how manufacturing rules in california can influence how factories in texas work
mild gust
She purposely leaves Canada during winter to avoid snow
So she was forced to see it ๐
white oxide
the factory i worked in had to buy whole new machines to comply with the recycled plastic content california put in place. even though the factory is in texas and its office is here too
theres simply so much interstate trade and the laws of actual import require anything coming in to comply as well or face essentially import duties
its wild
but yeah
50 3rd world countries
with the 1st, 3rd, and 4th, largest air fleets
mild gust
I believe it
white oxide
military budget to fight gods
because yall with your universal healthcare just get to let us build a base and reep the rewards
but tbh, LOGCOM is the most terrifying part of the US military and people dont realize it
mild gust
Maybe you can go bomb China's naval armada
white oxide
deploy a fully working burger king anywhere in the world in 36 hours
mild gust
Should be easy to split up
errant raven
CNN thinks were actually bombing fisherman 
mild gust
Give them democracy and burger kings
errant raven
How the fuck do you fish in a submarine
white oxide
do you realize the sheer power projection thjat requires?
mild gust
How the fuck do you fish in a submarine
With your hand
white oxide
any sufficiently technologically advanced nation can build carriers and missiles
white oxide
but the ability to get them ANYWHERE in short time frames with all the supplies they could possibly need and all the intel they also need to opperate is absurd
errant raven
You're in a subamrine, you cant do that
mild gust
Submarines can come up for air
errant raven
but the ability to get them ANYWHERE in short time frames with all the supplies ...
I dont think you understand how invested the u.s military is when it comes to global logistics
mild gust
That's why they are mad at UK right now
errant raven
Air superiority and logistics is what they spent the most money on developing
mild gust
white oxide
I dont think you understand how invested the u.s military is when it comes to gl...
oh i know that was my point
logistics win wars, and we happen to have the best logistics networks of the next 3 countries combined
mild gust
Uk ceded territory to an east African country that has deep ties to China and is giving up a embassy potentially they have in partnership with the US
So Trump's not happy with Kier Starmer
errant raven
Is Starmer still in power tho
errant raven
I havent heard shit about the internet thing from the uk in the past month of October
mild gust
He's the reason they have Digital ID and all these grooming gangs ruling the UK
errant raven
And the last two weeks of whatever the month before october was
white oxide
you really need to read the army of freedoms foreign officer reports. Americans were able to cross a 150 mile of barren desert, and refuel in the middle, they brought not just tanks, but landed thousands of gallons of fuel in the middle of nowhere, and linked everything up while the others were sturggling to even meet the pace
errant raven
I ate beans
Cant wait to shit myself with all the hot sauce and peppers I've been eating
white oxide
honestly, I have LOTS of beans
like enough to put my blood protien into the dangerous level
mild gust
Me I'm eating lemon loaf
mild gust
Man this worlds getting weirder by the day, https://gulfnews.com/world/offbeat/albanias-ai-minister-diella-pregnant-with-83-digital-children-1.500321907
AI is pregnant now
summer cedar
Oh good.
We can resolve AI toddler issues right out of the gate.
AI baby bottles.
AI baby diapers.
AI baby formula.
AI baby vaccines.
white oxide
AI is pregnant now
tbh "children" in the form of merged data models would be realistic, a pregnant ai is beyond stupid
summer cedar
I can attend to all my project-children, now that my GST registration has been completed! ๐
summer cedar
Our GST registration is now apparently corruption free, at least in my area.
Very polite tax officer, very nice guy. He saw my payment receipts and approved the application immediately.
๐
Your tax authorities suck. ๐
white oxide
honestly ive only had to deal with the IRS once, and that was as part of a company i was working security for
otherwise ive never had to talk to them about anything
summer cedar
Once you have biggie, biggie business, you'll have to talk to many people.
That's why social skills are mucho importanto.
Can't escape pesky people.
white oxide
tbh at that point i just get a CPA or tax firm on retainer
summer cedar
cojject.
white oxide
they handle everything and i get to just read a memo
sign a few documents a year and golden
summer cedar
The first part is kinda true for many things, but sometimes they need you involved.
But yeah, they are a godsend for this sort of thing.
Or one might say a necessary consequence of the system.
white oxide
tbh here we do taxes once a year, and once the new CPA and my current FPA get together, its just maybe once a quarter meeting for at most an hour while they explain everything and i read paper
then sign a few things make a few choices, and boom
summer cedar
tee hee hee
just you wait.
once you start selling stuff in different states and shit.
things get interesting. ๐
white oxide
haha
summer cedar
but honestly, it makes you a stronger person.
white oxide
tis why im working with a publisher
summer cedar
And it helps you hobnob with the truly important folk.
white oxide
they handle sales and legal shit
summer cedar
Yes, and no.
median wraith
okay
white oxide
they just send me a check and i handle that
summer cedar
It kind of comes back to you in various ways.
median wraith
playing System Shock that's another UE game
summer cedar
System Shock is good.
summer cedar
I think the remake got good reviews.
median wraith
so i cannot play
white oxide
tbh ill have time between the various sages to get used to it
summer cedar
Yeah. It's all in the mind, mostly.
But I have serious sympathy for the peeps without social skills.
They'd just get so screwed.
white oxide
yeah, why I want a publisher
white oxide
summer cedar
except when it comes to Nightingale.
summer cedar
twue
white oxide
but honestly, if you knew me better you would absolutely say im a wackjob
summer cedar
That's why people are best dealt with with a 10-foot pole.
white oxide
i mean writing TWENTY ONE books before submitting even the first? building 400+ pages of technical manual?
summer cedar
Get off my lawn!
white oxide
because it HATES YOU
would be HILARIOUS if you shared this with the devs and they go "i have no damn clue, in X years since this released, we have never seen this bug"
median wraith
closed the game that's how fixed it
white oxide
restart of just gave up?
queen isle
This is uhh real
summer cedar
Donald meets John Trump.
Yep. Very real.
I confidently opened my phone's app drawer to remove useless apps.
Only to find that I don't have ANY useless apps.
๐คฆโโ๏ธ
white oxide
lol
soft night
median wraith
whats that
summer cedar
No. And it seems it isn't widely used.
Did you find the UE documentation for it? I got that link on google.
https://dev.epicgames.com/documentation/en-us/unreal-engine/BlueprintAPI/AudioMotorSim
and
https://dev.epicgames.com/documentation/en-us/unreal-engine/API/Plugins/AudioMotorSim
summer cedar
whats that
MotoSynth and Audio Motor Sim are vehicle engine sound plugins in UE.
steady stone
which iirc epic themselves don't use in fortnite, they licensed some 3rd party thing
white oxide
so, the movie industry?
summer cedar
My duellist is supposed to be the Aeon of Law, but my prisons are empty because I've executed all the criminals. ๐
celest musk
summer cedar
Superpea Cock Brother 2025.
Looks good.
Should be sold to a AAA studio.
crash cock, you mean.
summer cedar
Well, after the great war that Trump stopped between Albania and Marsistan, they need all the digital babies they can get.
mild gust
mild gust
Why
summer cedar
Because it's already in my library.
mild gust
Rekt
mild gust
Wow
mild gust
Always
summer cedar
No b00bs allowed.
mild gust
But boobs win
summer cedar
Nooooo
mild gust
X
We peaked guys
There can be no better games
Multiplayer rock sim can't get any better
summer cedar
Looks good.
So, what's the skill you use if a pigeon sits and poops on you?
This is a make-it-or-break-it skill, keep in mind.
mild gust
Bide
summer cedar
Well, a rolling stone gathers no moss.
Why can't I roll?
I am a rock after all.
They are a group.
mild gust
Stuck on a prairie
Dragon ๐ฎ
You see this? @trail ore https://www.anything.world/
For many various types of animals and stuff
X
mild gust
I see blur
mild gust
Can literally see each individual pixel
unborn lotus
ok but what house did you choose?
mild gust
It doesn't choose for you? ๐ฎ
unborn lotus
It does on questions you answer but you can change it anyway
median wraith
ok but what house did you choose?
it choose for me and I choose the blue one
That's good?
mild gust
You don't want to be snake people?
unborn lotus
That's good?
I guess thats ravenclaw right?
median wraith
Yeah
soft night
median wraith
I guess thats ravenclaw right?
I'm the Rooster by Chinese one, everything makes sense
I'm a grifo
mild gust
Nice
fleet tangle
Bit of a heifer
pearl elk
Nvidia lied about 8K gaming ๐
this was almost 2 gens ago too, surely we should be gaming @ 16K by now ๐
mild gust
All you need is a 4090!
celest musk
๐ฟ
pearl elk
A wild TI appears
white oxide
All you need is a 4090!
8090 ti
mild gust
Let me just plug in my external power supply so I don't burn down my house
But what about second recall? https://x.com/nixcraft/status/1982550428522053903
X
Make it the main character
pearl elk
cosmetics
white oxide
yes and female wizard with blue hair and a nose ring...
would hit twitter like heroin hit poor neighborhoods
dusky shuttle
white oxide
my writing partner is not your girlfriend
summer cedar
Good morning! โ๏ธ โ
dense atlas
median wraith
@unborn lotus got stats for you
there are more liars in the world than hardworkers
that's it
what a surprise
summer cedar
But, technically, Slytherins weren't liars. Their expertise lay in using every magic possible to attain power and prestige. That usually meant dark magic.
For the cylinder! ๐
unborn lotus
Should you not chamfer those edges?
summer cedar
or fillet even.
you learn something from google every day.
I feel attracted to ogee edges.
Amazon is allegedly terminating 30,000 employees.
Oct 27th communique.
HR division cuts in favour of AI investments.
This is in addition to the 27,000 already laid off.
pearl elk
why waste a fillet on a primitive
cobalt nest
This... is a masterpiece of a novel. So much iconic vocabulary. This right here however, single best sentence I've read in a novel:
white oxide
---
Amazon is allegedly terminating 30,000 employees.
tbh doesnt amazon have something like 250k employees world wide?
they are a MASSIVE employer
mild gust
Chump change
summer cedar
tbh doesnt amazon have something like 250k employees world wide?
350,000 minus all the peeps they fired/will fire.
white oxide
so 50K is like what? 15-20%
mild gust
Should have became a cyborg
white oxide
plus all the others they hire weekly
mild gust
Then they will keep their job
summer cedar
They claim they will hire more people in their warehouses, BUT they are also researching robots and AI in warehousing.
So, I take that with a pinch of MSG.
Or a kilo of salt.
celest musk
good
mild gust
Mmmm MSG
celest musk
they should use AI to train their low wage workers of how to close doors at 3am
white oxide
tbh, I dont see this as some corpo dystopian thing because anyone can blow numbers out of proportion. now a mid range company with say 80k employees dropping 45-50k is a bad sign
thats half
white oxide
but a trillion dollar company dropping less than 30%?
mild gust
And sets the alarm
summer cedar
But, the alarm is AI generated and contains only an hour hand.
The second and minute hands are missing.
So you have hourly alarms instead. OR no alarm at all!
summer cedar
Meanwhile, there's a nice, new serum for hair regrowth, for bald people. Apparently, it's miraculous.
So, once you are jobless and lose your hair, you still have hope.
๐
celest musk
Meanwhile, there's a nice, new serum for hair regrowth, for bald people. Apparen...
like all others before
summer cedar
๐คทโโ๏ธ It might have been developed by AI, so must be good.
The AI taketh thy job, the AI giveth thy hair.
celest musk
yea who knows where the hair will sprout....
mild gust
Wtf is that hair
celest musk
Wtf is that hair
yes
summer cedar
AI serum.
mild gust
That must have taken ages to dye
celest musk
it's somehow cool ngl
summer cedar
Or an expensive saloon.
celest musk
i'm not much into vibrant dyed hair, but i can tolerate that one ๐
mild gust
Nice hair lady
summer cedar
It provides vibrancy under the covers.
Many dashes of colour to your life.
Happy Halloween, I guess.
Someone's remaking Chrono Trigger in UE5.
mild gust
We are cooked, https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1982974679204651242
X
Show me a human that can tow 1,400 kg
@broken sigil you see unitrees newest flex?
white oxide
well today started good
mild gust
Cheater
white oxide
HOW?
mild gust
Just are
white oxide
๐
white oxide
tbh i dont cheat, if they allowed local host co-op with NPC's? fuck yeah me and vesper would cheat that all day for lols, ensuring no one else is getting tormented
we dont cheat if it harms real people
but like GTA online? we loved to go into private servers, spawn cars and planes and then do mock dogfights, or simply hunt each other. or the NPC's nothing to mess with other players just each other
mild gust
Sounds like something a cheater would say.
white oxide
lol
mild gust
Me I'm broken so I cheat
white oxide
I mean what are games but platforms to enjoy as long as you dont give others missery? except your friends who sort of volunteered for it
mild gust
Yeah
white oxide
and vesper deserves it
mild gust
And if the only person your giving misery to is a rockstar dev
Who cares
They did it to themselves by making a bloated cash cow
white oxide
๐
wait till we have to wait an additional year to play 6 on the pc
what a fcking joke
like probably HALF of its playerbase thats still around is on PC
mild gust
Maybe we never even get it
white oxide
the console wars are over and PC won it. especially with emulation
I mean why else are they throwing the Re-Re-Mastered HALO CE at us?
though i wanna see 3 get a remaster
mild gust
Idk man
white oxide
maybe for its 20th?
mild gust
Halo Campaign evolved is supposed to be more than a remaster
It's a re-write
Apparently they left out a bunch of the halo 1 story
They want to add it
pearl elk
Master Chief destroyed the east wing of the white house
mild gust
Idk I am all for it
Seeing how a lot of the content they want to add
Is flood content
I love the flood
Give me more flood
I was mad when they got removed from the series
They were literally the thing that made halo good
Almost a coincidence that after halo reach the games community was pretty dead.
Almost as if people liked the flood.
mild gust
Master Chief destroyed the east wing of the white house
Oh yeah and the lead music director guy is running for congress or w.e
Shit's based
summer cedar
The next Halo is being made with UE 5.
mild gust
Yup
summer cedar
So, probably stuttery enemies.
white oxide
I was mad when they got removed from the series
the problem with the flood other than being a CGI nightmare is that they really are a nightmare, and the studio that said "we need to show his face and bare naked ass" wouldnt agree to make it a horror show
mild gust
The horror part made halo what it was.
white oxide
true
white oxide
tbh i liked 4, but not 5/infinite
summer cedar
I bet if Master Chief used bug spray, the flood would cease to be an issue.
white oxide
only played 5 once and found it dumb
summer cedar
Whoever decided killing cockroaches with bullets is a good idea, is an idiot.
mild gust
I bet if Master Chief used bug spray, the flood would cease to be an issue.
Idk if bug spray works on space gods
mild gust
These guys don't bug around. https://halo.fandom.com/wiki/Precursor
white oxide
tbh nothing will top Reach for an emotional gutpunch series
if they had to make a new halo game and not make a sequel to Infinite, id rather have it be Halo: Harvest
stick you on first contact vs the cov
theres such a body of lore between Harvest and the end of 4
summer cedar
Killing the bugs of Klendathu probably gets more takers.
That being said, I'd be happy if the Flood disappeared and we had more sentient enemies.
white oxide
yeah
thats part of why i liked 4
the knights were that sentient but for their time? pretty good
summer cedar
These guys don't bug around. https://halo.fandom.com/wiki/Precursor
Just need a jumbo can, honestly.
white oxide
given the entire power of the flood is that it just simply overwhelms anything
mild gust
tbh nothing will top Reach for an emotional gutpunch series
Just wait for the game which odst fights flood
Will be a slaughter
white oxide
Id much rather see a Mad Sentinel god that the forerunners unleashed and forgot about or thought they shut down
azimov cascade thing
like the Asurans in stargate atlantis
summer cedar
Oh oh.
The Flood's back.
Pak just violated the ceasefire.
@mild gust Looks like we might be at it again! ๐
white oxide
just imagine, having to fight a mobile planet of sentinels
especially with the cool super designs from the Legends shorts
summer cedar
I can't say anything about sentinels, but we do have a whole group of stupid peeps right next door, here.
white oxide
summer cedar
and as it turns out, we might be going to war again. ๐
white oxide
https://tenor.com/view/halo-spirit-of-fire-sentinel-forerunner-shield-world-gif-17756585720973713877
tbh a halo wars 3 with the same writing and design team as 1 would be the ultimate
as good as halo is from an FPS standpoint, the origins as an RTS really showed in HW1
mild gust
<@320666038721183745> Looks like we might be at it again! ๐
ruh roh
white oxide
unleash the nukes
mild gust
tbh a halo wars 3 with the same writing and design team as 1 would be the ultima...
bring halo wars 2 to steam
summer cedar
unleash the nukes
we kinda hit their nuke bunker's doors last time.
not the same thing, but yeah.
The US had to fly in some emergency boron.
white oxide
actually i find it HILARIOUS that in one of the alien invasion books i recently read even while millions are being killed india and pakistan hate each other so much that they deploy nukes against each other while they are being invaded by aliens from orbit
summer cedar
I wouldn't find that surprising.
The idea that we'd unite against a common foe really applies only to the group concerned with THAT conflict.
Not everyone else.
We hamoons can hold more than one thought in our head at a time.
mild gust
We hamoons can hold more than one thought in our head at a time.
Literally
We would be too busy in-fighting to realize the real enemy
summer cedar
We would be too busy in-fighting to realize the real enemy
Many of us, yes.
But, my point is that we can do both - fight the alien AND each other.
We'd just make separate groups for each conflict.
We already do that in so many cases.
I mean, look at the military, right? It has three branches that operate semi-independently, independently, or in a co-ordinated fashion - as befits the situation.
You can bomb Pak, invade Iraq, AND blockade Venezuela, if you so desire.
Costly as shit.
But can do.
white oxide
tbh the ending of the book comes literally out of left field
380 pages of realistic humanity fighting aliens
20 pages where immortal vampires which are actually nanotech show up and save us
summer cedar
I wouldn't mind reading about aliens, after having read so many rules about taxes.
๐
white oxide
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out_of_the_Dark_(Weber_novel)
READ THISSS
or wait for my books to come out and buy all 21....
summer cedar
It's David Weber's. I've probably read it already.
I like his stuff.
John Ringo's Troy Rising was also very cool.
I arguably liked his Empire of Man better.
David Drake's stuff I've forgotten, but it wasn't bad at all.
Baen Books was good juju, back in the day.
white oxide
then you might like mine, tbh its really damn heavily inspired. but i dont spend 2/3 of the novel on random shit that seems to not really pay off until like 10 novels down the line
summer cedar
Haven't been there in a while.
white oxide
my stuff is very weekend binge style for serious and somewhat fast readers
~54,600 average words
compared to webers ~150k words
could send you my sampler if you interested
white oxide
so... 2027/28
haha
im finishing all 21 novels before releasing novel 1
and the prequel trilogy will be *free
summer cedar
I'm just happy to be done with GST preparations. ๐
white oxide
something lik 1.4 million words projected by the time im done
summer cedar
After I double-check to make sure I've checked off everything, I can set it aside for almost ever. ๐
summer cedar
something lik 1.4 million words projected by the time im done
As long as you make lots of money.
๐ฐ
white oxide
tbh that would be nice, but right now its simply something to keep me busy cause I really dont have anything to do during the day
white oxide
hev why must you break everything
summer cedar
He needs an outlet for all the negativity in the world. ๐
Also, I think Hev likes lighting studies.
And promoting UE4. ๐
white oxide
my outlet for negativity is killing 32 of 100 people in a pubg match
white oxide
i think thats the hogwarts game
mostly cause the vest thing and the weird plants, and the goblins
and because they were talking about it a bit ago
proud jay
did you expose yourself
proud jay
i think thats the hogwarts game
yeah you can still see it from the UI, it's Hogwarts Legacy
white oxide
never played it so inferred
hows the house dieters?
ive been in mine for almost 6 months, yours has got to be near done
proud jay
the plasterer still has to come do his thing lol
then flooring, doors, stairs, kitchen and bathroom
then it should be done
and there was a leak into the basement ๐
there was some connection between the roof shingles and the side of the dormer not sealed properly leaking into the house straight through the ground floor into the basement somehow
very cool
it's fixed now though, so that's good
but I hope it was the only problem
maybe read #instructions
proud jay
we don't do septic tanks in newer homes
or it's different at least
I think
depends on where you live too I think
mild gust
Marshall is more rural
proud jay
probably
median wraith
What game is that
Harry Potter one seems like some houses don't have proper shadow setup
median wraith
UE4
soft night
marshall might be more nomad
proud jay
in a van
mild gust
Hell yeah
mild gust
That's bonkers
proud jay
proud jay
marshall has 10 acres
pff that's only like 30 times larger than our property
white oxide
pff that's only like 30 times larger than our property
and marshall is eyeing a 260 acre property if books sell well
proud jay
that would be insanely expensive here
white oxide
about 5 mil here
proud jay
Wow
Trump has labored under the misunderstanding that magnets are somehow destroyed by water for at least 18 months.
now that's hilarious
proud jay
about 5 mil here
that's cheap af tbh
white oxide
lol
proud jay
average building land price here is like 250 euros per m2
white oxide
building or sale price?
proud jay
I mean land you can build on
white oxide
ah
cause i could get my own private peninsula of a major local lake for like 10 mil
71 acres with 2/3 of the property being lakefront
land itself is stupidly cheap here
the problem is that most of the big parcels are either more expensive or so remote the nearest walmart is a 35 minute drive
at 60mph
but you wont ever have to deal with your neighbors if you dont want
proud jay
you're very ambitious hoping for 5 mil in book sales though
but if you do, don't forget to tip your lowly discord conversation partner
white oxide
lol
not just books
21 books, 80 page book to tv blueprint, and multiple GDD's for transmedia
plus a 400 page ultimate collectors tech manual, for the fanatics willing to drop money
proud jay
that could still make 0 dollars though
proud jay
it's more likely than making 5 mil though
white oxide
3 of the books are being written to be given out as *free copies to grow a reader base before submitting the remaining 18 to the agents and publishers
the biggest problem is theres no apparent historical precedents for submitting 18 novels at once
so hard to see what it could make
what helps is theres no fear of something like GOT or wheel of time where author non completion will cause ripple effects for everyone involved
the closest historical precedent is tolkien submitting the entire LOTR trilogy as one stupidly huge book that had to be split because it was too big to print on a financially viable plan
and ill keep writing these
eventually something will work
im lucky that my cost of living is so low my disability payments cover survival so i can spend 16 hours a day writing
white oxide
i have literally NOTHING ELSE TO DO
mild gust
Just drop a giant book on the publishers desk
white oxide
straight up started this cause dev wasnt going anywhere and i could do this alone
mild gust
21 books in 1
white oxide
eventually getting back into dev with a fanbase and cash
proud jay
straight up started this cause dev wasnt going anywhere and i could do this alon...
except for the help of mister ai
proud jay
if I would discover a book was written in large by AI the chances of me picking it up would be near 0%
but that's just me
proud jay
idk if you're trying to trick me or not, but that second piece reads a lot more naturally
white oxide
yeah, it does, but theres also the fact that theres a LOT of issues with it, especially formatting and theres less heart in my writing, it comes across pretty droll once you get in
proud jay
idk, I felt that first screenshot felt hard to read through, much details that don't all seem relevant and long sentences
but again, just preference
maybe also reads different if you're already in the story
but idk if chapter 1 is very deep in the story
white oxide
theres a like 6 page prolouge that summerizes the public prequel series for anyone who never read it
proud jay
https://x.com/klimbi123/status/1982860904720150736
the blasting sound is dope though
white oxide
heres probably a better excerpt from book 4 (the spam detector wont let me simply post it as raw text)
white oxide
yeah and theres a LOT of story to tell
proud jay
not mine though
white oxide
the first 9 are the "core" they setup the rest
mild gust
Clive barker is good at descriptive writing to
mild gust
Star wars?
white oxide
star trek novels are on the edge, but anything by david weber, eric flint, Mark L Van Name, the Anderle books might fit but they are more rapid fire long novellas that are algorithm chewers.
proud jay
ok, but like the movie is the source material though
mild gust
Lol
white oxide
weber kinda cemented the genre's epic scale level
white oxide
his books average 150-250k words
proud jay
I'm saying the star wars novel was written based on the movie, while typically it's the other way around
white oxide
at least one of his trade paperbacks is 1100+ pages
proud jay
but I haven't read those books so idk
mild gust
white oxide
there is one novel that technically predates the movie in writing age
mild gust
They were before?
proud jay
they were released before yes
mild gust
Books were all before
white oxide
they turned the original script of the new hope movie into a comic
its RADICALLY different
proud jay
Now, letโs not get it twisted. The film version of Star Wars is not secretly based on a 1976 book by Alan Dean Foster. Even though the book came out before the movie, Foster was hired by George Lucas to write a tie-in novelization of Lucasโs screenplay. The book hit shelves early because Star Wars, the film, was late. 20th Century Fox initially wanted Star Wars in theaters for Christmas of 1976, but because of production delays largely connected to the incomplete visual effects, the film was pushed back to May 1977. This meant that Alan Dean Fosterโs Star Wars book, with George Lucasโs name on it, had an entire life of its own for half a year, before the Force was famous.
white oxide
like the pre edit and pre change script
mild gust
Every single star wars game has a unique story
white oxide
yeah Alan Dean Foster seems to have been the Lucas Film/Lucas Arts go to writer
he did one of my fav books which turned out to be a novelization of a really unknown lucas arts game
proud jay
star trek novels are on the edge, but anything by david weber, eric flint, Mark ...
I don't know any of these
but military sci fi also doesn't sound like a genre for me
white oxide
i found the book at a church white elephant sale in cali, and read it till it literally fell apart
proud jay
white oxide
holy shit, they still have the cassette audio book
mild gust
Noice
white oxide
might get it later cause i recently finished upgrading my old cassette player
mild gust
Wtf lol
proud jay
idk who bob is but where is vegana
no
I was -5 years old when the last episode released
before reboot at least
too busy watchin Columbo which ended 6 years before I was born
proud jay
I have no idea what that is
oh it's an old series and they made a new one in 2024 lol
I was very confused how it was relevant cause my google searches were mainly showing the new one
proud jay
what's about the 195 cm
median wraith
Oh that's a sentence for Instagram ๐คฃ
median wraith
what's about the 195 cm
The sentence it's something like: "Yeah the game didn't sold because it's marketing but because is good.
Sure and I'm 1.95m"
proud jay
but the game has yet to release
in 2 days according to the internet
cause it had kinda a rainbow on the cover?
women are woke
@broken sigil you gonna play Arc Raiders?
since you're a The Finals kinda guy
and also a helldivers kinda guy
oh nice
The US is bombing some more ships
summer cedar
Everyone's in a fighting mood, these days.
proud jay
I don't think Gemini gets the meme
median wraith
The US is bombing some more ships
Venezuela?
median wraith
does steam have a soft limit on how many GB you can download per week or so?
maybe everyone is downloading
white oxide
i think it seems to depend on the game and where it might be stored on their servers
i noticed most really popular games go lightning for me
but foreign games seems to go dogshit slow
median wraith
all the ones that are secondary areen't downloading right now
neither updates or whole game
white oxide
for whatever reason my ping is like 4, when i try and get something transfered or connect on games hosted in the US but it jumps to like 100 when i try and game on EU or other servers
proud jay
does steam have a soft limit on how many GB you can download per week or so?
your ISP might have
white oxide
my various background processes guzzle internet because thats what they do, but on a clean computer with nothing else on the network i get some damn good speeds
proud jay
for whatever reason my ping is like 4, when i try and get something transfered o...
you're surprised your ping goes up when connecting to a server halfway around the world?
white oxide
not terribly
median wraith
your ISP might have
other downloads works
white oxide
tbh i shouldnt be as pissed with ping when i used to have 400 trying to connect to a server in the same town
median wraith
alsto the speed test
proud jay
how are you getting such nice speeds in the middle of nowhere while I have to log with dogshit 500 Mbps on the best days
white oxide
gigbit for me
proud jay
I pay 65 euros for 500 Mbps
so that's close to 80 dollaroos
if I want 1Gbps I need to pay an additional 15 euros
also, the service is ass
and connection randomly disappearing for a few hours happens multitle times a year
white oxide
mostly cause i wanted to not have issues
proud jay
I hate belgian internet
white oxide
starts at 250 for $50 here
white oxide
then like $10 for every 250 after
proud jay
I know I'm getting shafted
summer cedar
The local electricity board and wiring people have been correcting electric poles AND phone/broadband wires, I think.
So, earlier today, the internet went out. I am using my mobile hotspot now.
If the internet doesn't come back my tomorrow morning, then I'll have to crawl my way through my work schedule with phone internet, until it's fixed.
Given the current depressing weather, not an enticing prospect.
white oxide
yeah
i was on DSL until 2024
~300Kbit down ~175Kbit up
ping starting at 280 and only going up
summer cedar
We lived in interesting times.
white oxide
i could watch web comics load images line by line
summer cedar
Nah. It's ubiquitous now.
๐ฅฑ I am sleepy from thinking too much about taxes.
And this bloody depressing weather.
When did my place become a new London?
white oxide
when you got taxed without rebelling
proud jay
jezus lol https://youtu.be/buFrcgSym6k
proud jay
I mean im on disability, i pay zero taxes
lol wtf, that's a wild rule
white oxide
lol wtf, that's a wild rule
why?
disability is socially funded by taxes, so making me pay taxes on them is stupid
proud jay
well because your usual taxes could be affected by life situation
e.g. let's say you get a benefit of 2k
someone with the same disabitily would get the same 2k
but he maybe has children
which in belgium for example would raise your tax free bracket
so in the end he would keep more of the 2k gross than you would
white oxide
i live on $985 a month....
proud jay
it's just an example ๐
but it just makes it easier to apply taxation and societal rules as a whole I guess
white oxide
even if i earned the highest at ~$3.8k a month it would be tax free
social security pays out based on what you pay in
i never really paid in because of inability to work, so i get the lowest pay out
proud jay
also since taxes are calculated on yearly income, your benefit payment net could vary depending on how your situation evolves over the year
so really it's not all that senseless to tax social benefit payout
median wraith
i live on $985 a month....
not possible anymore
proud jay
not possible anymore
if you don't have to pay rent anymore it's doable
white oxide
this
proud jay
wtf are you guys doing lol
median wraith
300โฌ just in services
proud jay
don't smoke 5kg of crack every day maybe
median wraith
400โฌ in food
proud jay
what services?
median wraith
water + gas +electricity and basic phone
proud jay
ah like that
median wraith
it's about 100 each
proud jay
ok, so you still have 285 left
median wraith
plus 50 to 100โฌ for the house of the community
proud jay
wtf is the house of the community
median wraith
we pay here a fixed price each month for all the building
in case something have to be fixed or so
proud jay
is that not what taxes are alredy for lol
median wraith
no, each house have to pay it
so each build pay their own expensives
in case something breaks etc
proud jay
oh you mean like in an apartment complex
proud jay
400 euros for food for 1 person is also on the higher side no?
proud jay
no one said it would be a life of luxury
you can't expect to live like a king for 985 bucks
median wraith
google says
averge in good here is 450โฌ
used to be half by 2019
due the price rise well...
proud jay
lots to learn to be frugal
white oxide
i think my utilities equal about... ~200?
median wraith
for one solo maube you can cot 100โฌ there
median wraith
car insurance also yeah
here is I pay more than 1000โฌ per year
but usually is like 800โฌ or so
white oxide
well $100 a month for 2 vehicles
median wraith
and the car costs etc
white oxide
depends on the car
median wraith
true
white oxide
if your good to them and do related regular work they last a LONG time
median wraith
here depends even of the people I have around in my adress
white oxide
my last prius went to 285k before it got totaled in a wreck and had zero major problems (burned a tiny amount of oil each month and a little top off was all thats needed)
median wraith
the day I purchased the car a lady collided with me opening the door when I pass by
so it was insta insurance increase
white oxide
yeah
median wraith
and not by my fault
white oxide
I get by with about $600 in costs
proud jay
so it was insta insurance increase
why is your insurance increasing if she's at fault
proud jay
that's not how insurance works
median wraith
aside of that
proud jay
do you just like getting scammed maybe?
median wraith
I didn't had any other issue in like 4 years
median wraith
do you just like getting scammed maybe?
na, the lady that sold me the car
told me every company does that
they say don't affect you, but since you got affected
you are fucked too
white oxide
most insurances jump costs in any accident regardless
median wraith
you are fucked even if your neighbors drive like the ass
or have old cars
as in my case
white oxide
yeah
median wraith
the insurance increase for you because you live in an area of idiots
white oxide
yeah
so far im doing pretty good on my bills
im enjoying things and able to write my books without worry of going hungry
median wraith
yeah I had that increase of 400โฌ in 4 years
in part because they increased it for everyone
white oxide
cant go out to eat but like once in a month but yeah
median wraith
it was like a 30% increase for all
median wraith
I have to check offers
a lady told me in other company they give me it for like 600โฌ
technically the same but isn't the same, right
white oxide
never really HAD money, so my lifestyle is low. i actually get more per month now than i used too
median wraith
the only way to keep the cost low is to change in betwen then, because they never want to rechedk the price
white oxide
so im actually able to have ~$100 a month is dispoable
median wraith
never really HAD money, so my lifestyle is low. i actually get more per month no...
me too the first part
now I'm like in one of my worsts lol
proud jay
you are fucked too
so switch to another insurance?
median wraith
yeah on my way for the next year
now you talk about costs
next month or so
Have to pay 50โฌ
that's the whole price the goverment charges me here
proud jay
you need to maintain your finances
median wraith
to place my car in my fooking house
because they made it paid
so you can pay a fixed per year
rather than 15โฌ per day in case you park
you pay a fixed 50โฌ to park the whole year
again, we pay taxes plus all this shit yeah
median wraith
you need to maintain your finances
yeah finances are good, income isn't you know the situation
on my way to solve it
proud jay
you pay a fixed 50โฌ to park the whole year
inside your own house?
or like on the street next to your house?
white oxide
garages are rare in general in the world
proud jay
the street of my house
ah yeah I know that shit
my gf had it at her last place before she moved in too
you can get one for free though
for the second car you have to pay
here
white oxide
rural living they dont give a shit what you do
long as you dont cause problems or burn the neighborhood
median wraith
yeah but you pay x2 in gas then