then theres the pickup truck...
#lounge
white oxide
12 miles to the gallon on a good day, 35 gallon tank...
but it tows or hauls just about anything you need
im a hobbit basically
i sit at home, eat, write a book, and enjoy peaceful living
soft night
welcome to hole of fame
soft night
the stonks said https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/nvidia-make-1-billion-investment-finlands-nokia-2025-10-28/
unborn lotus
Im glad that chapter is done for since we have lumen
sterile glen
yes chatgpt this is exactly what I was about to ask you to code
summer cedar
@mild gust in human form, when he travels out of hell.
Never mind that very sharp, extra black scythe. Don't pay it any attention.
Guys, guys, a guy drank his grandfather's moonshine and turned invisible.
This is normal, right?
Riiighhhtttt?
Oh good. I thought it was a terribly unusual phenomenon to turn invisible from moonshine.
I wonder if gin makes you fly.
The MC looks very trustworthy.
You get that AAAAA vibe from him.
Should buy. Spend $100 for it.
mild gust
<@320666038721183745> in human form, when he travels out of hell.
Looks pretty lore accurate
summer cedar
what game is that?
Wrath of the Righteous from the Pathfinder series.
The character portrait on the left is a custom one, doesn't come with the game.
summer cedar
Oh, there are some really terrible portraits in the packs I downloaded.
I couldn't preview them, so....
You should see how the gnomes look; absolutely ugly.
median wraith
watching now this new trailer from BF
man this game single map is bigger than the whole Dead Island 2
cannot imagine the work power to make this
mild gust
X
ruby depot
wsg lounge
mild gust
Render targets?
wispy rain
Anything exciting happened recently? That French museum theft was pretty cool but I got nothing since then
errant raven
Render targets?
Bitcoin and other currencies like it, all crashed
You think is is just the u.s trying to cripple the Chinese economy
Cs skins were largely dominated by Chinese investors too, and you know how that went
celest musk
Bitcoin and other currencies like it, all crashed
you shouldn't feed chocolate to your dog
errant raven
I don't have a dog
errant raven
The more mobile games I see, the more I realize they're all just using the same free asset packs from itch.io
And they're making money with them lol
I'm no expert, but almost all of those free asset packs have licenses that forbid commercial use
mild gust
Bitcoin and other currencies like it, all crashed
Finally
I doubt it's the U.S. trying to cripple China it's likely the effect of tariffs.
Stocks are taking hits right now to not just bitcoin.
If only Trump understood tariffs.
Guy knows nothing about economy...
Can't even run a casino
errant raven
Nah they know what theyre doing
There's going to be someone who comes out on top and owns almost everything
It's almost like fallouts world, pre great war, when 5 companies owned everything
The enclave
mild gust
You mean Baron Trump
mild gust
Only now
mild gust
proud jay
https://x.com/nosilverv/status/1982974457942827281
this man has never heard japanese lol
sounds way more germanic
errant raven
It's been almost a year
errant raven
sounds way more germanic
How's your guitar playing
proud jay
it's not
I play it
but not that much since I had the baby to be honest
but I played a little just before starting work today
errant raven
Hows the house construction
errant raven
Hopefully it's finished before spring
proud jay
should be
proud jay
normally should be done somewhere in january
errant raven
The maintenance guy still hasn't fixed our kitchen sink
proud jay
we have this giant pile of dirt that we still need to spread out though
errant raven
He's only came out three times, ripped up the flooring. Now so much cold air gets in
errant raven
Water damage from the hurricane
proud jay
isn't a sink supposed to be able to handle water
errant raven
It was the wood
proud jay
just light it on fire to dry it out
errant raven
Rotted
proud jay
throw it out then
errant raven
Oh it's out alright
Big hole in the floor, only thing cover it up is ply wood for now.
Brother keeps trying to do it himself, mom tells him not to, does it anyway, maintenance guy has to spend the entire time tearing up what my brother did, then works a little more on fixing it up
It's a loop
proud jay
how hard can it be to fix though lol
errant raven
Idk but we threw away all our dishes and just use plastic ware and paper plates now lol
Sure is taking forever
proud jay
true hillbilly life
errant raven
We were being evicted, but the lady randomly changed her mind about it and hasn't bothered us since
Maybe was scared about the illegal shit she's been doing for the past 4 years 
Our neighbors got evicted after they called and requested their plumbing in the kitchen needed to be fixed too lol
proud jay
oh what is that debug sphere doing there
median wraith
idk after kill an spider
proud jay
idk wtf you're doing to this game lol
I played it start to finish and can't recall any problems
played on ps5 though
median wraith
lol
I did the shaped color traces implementation
maybe they show because I'm their father
unborn lotus
someonw just leaved draw debug shapes
Arent those invisible in shipping builds? 😅
median wraith
hahaah
yeah technically the ones I did etc are discard on shipping builds
this must be one custom
proud jay
you worked on the game?
proud jay
unreal has a feature to shade things through walls?
why did I make it myself then 7 years ago
median wraith
you mean the depth thing?
proud jay
yes
median wraith
you did it from ground or what
summer cedar
No electricity, no internet.
The local board picked a GREAT time to renovate ALL the electric wires and poles.
Third day now, 15 hours of power cuts.
soft night
the hurricane doing the work
proud jay
I think they're more saying that money being the driving factor takes the passion out of games
dusky shuttle
Me when I was young and dumb
proud jay
because you have a duty to your shareholders to maximize profit
which makes sense monetary of course
but would be nice if it wasn't the case
but everyone wants to make a living
dusky shuttle
It's true games were better when they were developed by small teams
summer cedar
Because they don't know.
When you have young'uns who have barely held a job offering business opinions, it's best to ignore them.
The awesomest thing about the internet is how a bigly five year old can give investment advice. 😒
remote sparrow
is this your game?
unborn lotus
thats hogwarts legacy
white oxide
making shareholders money isnt a bad thing, the problem is that legal precedent states you need to make them ever MORE money end over end
even at the expense of the employee and consumer
median wraith
is this your game?
I wish
summer cedar
making shareholders money isnt a bad thing, the problem is that legal precedent ...
Whoever came up with that interpretation is/was a complete sociopath. Sadly, it holds in several cases.
There are many points of growth, where balance and stability is warranted over continued expansion in pursuit of profits.
Sadly, that rule/expectation keeps screwing with companies and their visions.
proud jay
can't really have a vision if the CEO's mission is to extract as much money as possible in the shortest amount of time
that will always drive them to short term profits
because why would you take a decision that would better the company in 10 years if you don't know you'll be CEO there in 10 years
then you're just setting up the goods for someone else
summer cedar
Yeah, it's a bit of a bad cycle.
You'll hire a CEO who'll fulfil the expectation. The expectation will make you hire a CEO to fulfil it.
Well, I already posted an article two weeks ago (?), saying 74% of studios are already using AI, globally.
People don't believe what they don't want to believe.
But, practicality cares not for whims and fancies.
If it makes things go faster for cheaps, then AI it is!
Those 'studies' are probably done by people who are looking for studio jobs themselves.
But yeah, each organisation will use AI to get the best bang for their buck.
It doesn't necessarily mean they'll fire people uniformly.
Just that in most cases.....
proud jay
If it makes things go faster for cheaps, then AI it is!
it doesn't though
AI makes retards producing crap faster
also ruins future careers
cause if AI replaces the bottom work, no one is learning those skills needed for higher level work
I think LLM's overall are a net negative
they can provide you with short term boosts of productivity
but in the long term and especially as a collective I think they can be very detrimental
summer cedar
it doesn't though
That's why they are not firing 'everyone'.
They are keeping the specialists to fix the crap the retards are producing.
In fact, recently, the big techs are hiring teachers from institutes, to transfer their teaching skills to LLMs.
So, teachers finally get a big salary.
While they train their replacers.
Reminds me of outsourcing and H1-Bs.
proud jay
I for one can't wait for the bubble to pop
summer cedar
But, I digress. Everyone won't be replaced. The few specialists will always remain.
proud jay
maybe we'll get some actual useful software out of it then
proud jay
But, I digress. Everyone won't be replaced. The few specialists will always rema...
but like I said, how do you become a specialist if all the work it takes to get to there is replaced by garbage ai
summer cedar
but like I said, how do you become a specialist if all the work it takes to get ...
You're not wrong, but that's a 'problem for the future'. We have those specialists right now.
So for right now, the problem will be ignored.
In favour of the PROFIT!!!!!
proud jay
this does not surprise me lol
One study of 7,000 professionals, funded by HR software company Dayforce, found that 87% of executives use AI daily, compared with 57% of managers and 27% of employees. Another study with 2,500 respondents commissioned by work marketplace Upwork found that 92% of C-suite leaders expect AI to boost productivity, while 40% of employees blame it for heavier workloads.
summer cedar
tee hee hee
Yeah, I imagine I'll never go back to working white/blue collar ever again.
Freelance is always better if entrepreneurship fails, unless your workplace is really good.
And apparently, the number arsehole Indian managers is increasing exponentially, in both foreign and domestic companies.
I keep reading more and more stories of Indian managers screwing every employee over, almost on a daily basis.
Today, I read that one of those managers tried to get an employee fired because he smiled in a zoom meeting, while everyone else was laughing at the jokes exchanged there.
Apparently, the dude spent MONTHS trying to get the guy fired, but the other team leaders and staff stuck up for the employee, because he was a good dude.
PITA.
proud jay
For example, in tasks like predicting future sales of a product or estimating the art period of a painting, AI is perceived as more capable than humans and personalization is perceived as unnecessary, so people prefer AI to humans. But in other contexts — from hotel reception service to administering lab experiments — people tend to favor humans over AI
this is not the kind of AI managment talks about though lol. If you do forecasting through an LLM you're boned lol
summer cedar
akshually...
I keep reading tidbits about AI stock traders that have made a killing. Very short-term, of course. No corroborations of the stories.
But, if true, it's interesting.
summer cedar
I will be positive and assume the executive looking at that LLM forecast uses his own brain and arrives at a sound judgement thereafter, and doesn't just copy the results.
proud jay
I hope he's not talking about LLM though
summer cedar
Do they know the differences though?
proud jay
of course not
summer cedar
I speculate they just buy the AI product that sounds best, or gives them the best demo.
This Metr sounds like a bad spelling of Metre.
Why is Engwish hard?
Enterprise
See! Easy to get even acronym spellings right.
summer cedar
Stop violating Hevedy's privacy.
Who said you could use his passport photo without paying the Passport Tax in Spain?
To me, that sounds like a surface being hit by a sheet of chain or chain mail, or a steel mesh striking something.
Well, I am not teaching tomorrow.
Bloody FTTH is still offline. Can't take the risk of depending on my phone alone.
Blender got an update. - 4.5.4
dusky shuttle
disappointed this wasn't a prank
summer cedar
Yay! 👏 I finished submitting my first export remittance for an exporter's bank realisation certificate! 👏 😄
Me happies.
I have also learnt that apparently, my bank's senior official doesn't know how the main bank reports foreign remittances to the Director General of Foreign Trade.
Isn't it amazing to see how the left hand doesn't know what the right is doing?
You remember how you posted that Epic submission form bug earlier? You have to choose all platforms, instead of just one or two?
Well, turns out modifying my Exporter Code profile has the same problem.
I have to RE-ENTER my bank account details even though I am not modifying anything related to that.
Around $3 to modify ONE field in my existing exporter code.
Yay money economy! 👏
👀 payment gateway might not work on my phone network, apparently.
🤞
<@&213101288538374145> ^
Bring forth the Divine Smite of Tim!
Tithe of 1 🪙 Tim coin.
Thank you! 🫂
summer cedar
You know, you could have just sold that lion cub on ebay for cash.
Now, you can just skin and sell the pelt.
🤦♂️
soft night
space the final frontier https://youtu.be/XT0G2DrLavo?si=gk8PCToPrp3Lj9y0
median wraith
oh BF battleroyale its free
most of the comments are idiots from other games saying this game is better than the others
...
median wraith
space the final frontier https://youtu.be/XT0G2DrLavo?si=gk8PCToPrp3Lj9y0
Today in a new episode of metahumans
hahahaha
so one single map of BF6
is bigger than the whole game of Arc
the outsourcing and the prebaked light you can tell
600000 skins
its 65GB
Arc its 30
why you put this on the first game boot?
I don't know how the game feels yet sir
summer cedar
Holy heck, this DGFT system is very fast.
They took ma money and modified my IEC like in a jiffy.
median wraith
DGFT ?
summer cedar
Directorate General of Foreign Trade
summer cedar
Makes sense.
Castle siege!
in 2025. 😛
Hehe.
Instead of becoming an Unreal expert, I am now a sales tax expert. 🤣
Only in info search, not the actual work.
For that, people can avoid me.
I am only an expert for myself. 😛
<@&213101288538374145> A Tim coin for your services ^.
Thank you. 🫂
@zinc matrix Please pay me 1 Tim Coin in thanking charges. 😛
mild gust
Woo Canada Post just fired a bunch of their employees mostly managers to.
Maybe they can hire people that actually want to do their job finally.
Tis a good day.
summer cedar
Woo Canada Post just fired a bunch of their employees mostly managers to.
So, they replaced them with AI?
mild gust
Nope likely going to be people who actually want to work
mild gust
😮
median wraith
and why DLSS have mega FPS frops depending of the area?
isn't technically rendering at less ress?
summer cedar
What DLSS setting are you using?
mild gust
But it's using AI
summer cedar
The highest setting - DLAA something - is buggy.
mild gust
Making gpu hot
summer cedar
Ah, okay then.
'Cuz it's a known buggy thing with DLAA.
It actually drops frames in many games. 😩
median wraith
the TAA don't looks my res tbh
mild gust
I blame Jensen
median wraith
yeah not liking what I'm playing
the kids this days don't really know whats a good networking tbh lol
back in 2008 you set a COD4 server with 64 on screen players and everything ran smooth
idk what they do this days
DLSSS makes here and harry potter
things to pop
the gunplay feels real bad
unistall
mild gust
Needs FSR4
soft night
soft night
dusky shuttle
aws down again?
broken sigil
summer cedar
Good morning! 🌞 ☕
summer cedar
Hehe. The peeps on the Affinity server are antsy.
Serif is dropping a secret update in half-a-day or so, and everyone's worried it's some kind of subscription model inspired by Canvas, after their takeover of the company.
white oxide
lol
white oxide
Serif is dropping a secret update in half-a-day or so, and everyone's worried it...
the company when that happens: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2acP06791I
summer cedar
Serif's facebook page handler is assuring everyone that 'creative freedom' is their priority, but they don't just outright state that they are avoiding subscription models.
That's making everyone more paranoid. 😄
But, there's no outright reason to panic. They are just being coy with their marketing.
mild gust
@errant raven https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9jePqf6qms
errant raven
None are
They all bred through many generations
They're not slapping specific genes peppers don't have into the seeds and growing them
mild gust
In China, a genetically modified sweet pepper variety known as PK-SP01 was developed in 1998 by Beijing University to resist the cucumber mosaic virus (CMV) by incorporating the CMV coat protein gene.
That's where your wrong
They stopped a virus w/ gene splicing so
errant raven
Yes that's GMO
errant raven
There is no pepper that's been genetically modified to be spicier
mild gust
Thus far
mild gust
Lies
mild gust
Well duh
errant raven
Average heat is more accurate
mild gust
It's a youtube video
For hype
Smh
Also why did the hotter peppers all have chocolate in the names
errant raven
The reaper isn't 2,200,000. It's average heat is the same as the 7 pot primo
Because chocolate pods have a higher concentration of capsaicin
errant raven
It's not hotter by much, but it's a bit hotter
white oxide
most of our food is GMO if your willing to expand the definition to domestication techniques
we specifically have been breeding wheat and other foods for thousands of years to get better harvests
naturally occuring wild grains are pretty limited, they dont need hundreds of seeds to propogate
we as a species encouraged those strains which produced more seeds and selectively planted them until they ended up being the massive heads of grain we see today
summer cedar
We've not had electricity and internet for the past two days here. Turns out that the town authority decided to uproot and install NEW electricity poles and take one whole DAY at a time for EACH pole.
So, I have to use mobile internet, which is undependable for the most part, I cannot conduct my tutoring classes, and I don't have electricity for 15 hours a day.
summer cedar
Thankfully, I have 18 hours backup including my PC, so I am not bored to death. But, I cannot heat water in a kettle and drink multiple cups of coffee. 🙁
The electricity techs have just tossed the broadband cables on the ground, like they don't care at all about the internet connections.
The phone company probably won't try to fix it until the electric board's work is done, since the electricians will just tear up anything the phone company fixes anyway.
proud jay
guess you should've printed marshall's 21 books to read during these trying times
you now know for the next time
summer cedar
😄
I should have printed half of Gutenberg for now.
The other half left alone for the apocalypse.
proud jay
I should have printed half of Gutenberg for now.
idk if you can print people
proud jay
that's project gutenberg
summer cedar
Yes, it was quite a project.
proud jay
was?
summer cedar
Well, they have added most of the books by now. It's a lighter, on-going service now.
proud jay
it's all public domain things thuogh right
summer cedar
I am not sure. I thought it was some NGO library style thing.
summer cedar
Twue. All the books there are pubwic domain.
proud jay
white oxide
guess you should've printed marshall's 21 books to read during these trying time...
Id send them but im still on the end of book 7
proud jay
has anyone reviewed any of them yet
like if you get feedback on book 1, it might be useful to apply to all the rest of them
median wraith
Epic is paying or EA is paying because the launcher just opened on the BF6 store
to install it
proud jay
what launcher opened
median wraith
Epic Games Launcher
proud jay
what are you buying
median wraith
nothing just opened directly with the BF6 Free page to download it
the battleroyale
median wraith
all this modern games with layers and layers of network
work worst than 2008 dedicated servers from the community
with 64 players
and in case someone hacks was directly banned
idk man seems like life were better
and servers were like 40hz
here you are playing Battleroyal at 20hz
soft night
is that a robot?
soft night
its tron what take over the world
summer cedar
Play's back on. No overs lost.
Run out attempt sent the ball to the boundary for a four off a throw. 🤣
summer cedar
With such shoddy fielding, India deserves to lose this semi-final.
Lost 12 runs to idiotic misses.
soft night
RTX on RTX off
proud jay
hogwarts legacy changed a lot
median wraith
no is not that one
pearl elk
Lumen on/ Lumen off
so much nanites
errant raven
Waaawaaaaawaaaaaa
median wraith
so much nanites
Nanite police, show me your triangles
summer cedar
Nanite police, show me your triangles
After you ticket Calamari, remember to file your foliage and polygon reports.
median wraith
@summer cedar https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQMTcn2kYG-/
Instagram
proud jay
I don't have instagram so can't see it
white oxide
https://youtu.be/xqfi9AKsAbA?si=dO798yOPYSaFVtql
feel like these 2 games arent really compatible
proud jay
interestingly the payout of the british royal family is calculated as part of the revenue of the crown estate, and the revenue of that far exceeds what they get paid from taxes
of course the real ownership of the crown estate could be contested as being seen by the government and not the royal family
soft night
marshall works with new scenario better
median wraith
there is everyone teaching you to import Google maps using a ripoff model with RenderDoc lol
proud jay
importing google maps to where?
median wraith
importing google maps to where?
to Blender or UE
I want the basic build shapes
no luck
proud jay
you can pay Maps3D to get some maps
celest musk
dang i had a class where they tasked us to count floors in the buildings around the school
because that teacher was obsessed with the idea to make a virtual map of that
proud jay
sounds like valuable education
celest musk
you should check the AI videos that lucy posted in #generative-ai, like #generative-ai message
summer cedar
The Affinity server is abuzz with the Canva keynote reveal hype and everyone's panicking about subscription models.
I feel like I am getting a preview of how you lot will react when Unreal eventually becomes a subscription engine.
@pearl elk Aussie women played like masterblasters today. Big, big kudos to them!
Indians fielded and bowled like shit. Literally handed 50 runs and two wickets to the Aussies.
India's chasing 339 to win.
pearl elk
cmon earring girl, you got the carry
proud jay
I didn't know canva bought affinity
summer cedar
Aye, they bought Serif the company.
Today, they are unveiling some 'creative freedom' they've been working on.
Woo hoo!
proud jay
before the acquisition, they were sans Serif
summer cedar
Now, they are canned Serif.
Quite possibly the most hated Serif overnight, if this reveal turns to be subs or AI credits.
pearl elk
I shot the serif
pearl elk
They call me the impact of outlaws
summer cedar
In Sherwood Bush
pearl elk
proud jay
In Sherwood Bush
is that family of George?
summer cedar
Hopefully Sr., not Jr.
proud jay
grandpa after falling down the stairs https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDuCg16OOFs&si=v8qQsXSY3jyziN4c
mild gust
EU is targetting micro transactions now, forcing devs to be more transparent and less shady with their currencies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Exy8NW3r9mc
Hopefully Supercell feels pain
proud jay
did you just edit the link to the original instead of brainworm react lol
proud jay
well he is a little bit insane
mild gust
He has some based takes however
summer cedar
I never appreciated mtx, honestly.
mild gust
So I find myself still watching it sometimes
proud jay
idk if related but I feel he's gotten a lot more extreme ever since his mom died
summer cedar
Always seemed unnecessary and irrelevant to the game.
mild gust
idk if related but I feel he's gotten a lot more extreme ever since his mom died
He just lost his Dad now to
So will only get worse
proud jay
I know
summer cedar
One man's filth is another retard's mtx.
summer cedar
I mean, if orange man can do coke and fires, and big mac for like FOREVER, then some dude can do rat poison.
mild gust
Rat poison while living in a toxic and molding environment.
summer cedar
I'd love to know what they mean by shady mtx.
Are they talking about how young gamers are enticed?
summer cedar
OR are they talking about money laundering?
mild gust
Mostly
They also want to regulate in game currencies
Like runescape
Because some countries use it as real currencies
and ways to make profit
celest musk
so it's all Tim Coins soon
summer cedar
I am in favour of regulating any dev that thinks he can evade taxes using in-game money, or some such scheme.
But, the kids' problems I blame on their parents.
mild gust
In Lithuania a bunch of gold sellers had to recently pay taxes on their sold gold 😂
summer cedar
so it's all Tim Coins soon
Tim Bullion.
mild gust
Governments like no we want more money.
and in lithuania they don't really make a lot of money lol.
Doubt it
They aren't losing that much revenue.
It's just MTX under attack
They can find a way to make it not predatory
Then they are fine.
Problem is most MTX are predatory
I shouldn't have to buy 2-3 of the max value MTX currencies to buy one pack on your shitty MTX marketplace.
Like get dicked
I'm not spending $200 on a horse skin
Or don't make a shitty cosmetic
Not worth it's cost
That they will just take from us anyways
When they shut down their slop video game
median wraith
@pearl elk lmao
mild gust
Since most of these MTX plagued games are just slop anyways
The same thing just done slightly differently
Games like League of legends need such regulations
Their currency is just as bad
Lol
or they are forced to not be shady cunts?
Seems better.
Just that easy
Then why defend it
Fuck their bullshit
Unless your making millions off MTX yourself
median wraith
If they do that, they need to remove the 95% of Mobile gamea
summer cedar
I'd love to know the details of the rules they are making.
Precisely how they are going to target mtx.
mild gust
I mean
summer cedar
Because if it's art they are targetting, it'll get thrown out in court.
mild gust
Not that hard if done right
They mostly just want it to not pull a roll over users eyes
Like they have been doing for years.
summer cedar
They need to focus on a particular aspect of money; otherwise, it's all opinion and emotion.
mild gust
Good
summer cedar
Enforcing OTPs for credit cards internationally, in EVERY country, would be a good start.
mild gust
Maybe it will be better than what we currently have
Because right now users get shot in the head.
summer cedar
That way, even if my card is enrolled in my kid's tablet, he can't use it to buy anything without OTPing at least the initial transaction.
That's how it works in India.
mild gust
I'd rather be shot in the foot
summer cedar
Plus, they can enforce strict daily usage limits on credit cards registered in devices that kids use.
Things like that would help.
summer cedar
Simply saying don't make mtx if kids play your game, won't work.
celest musk
give half the password to your wife so that you both are required to unlock transactions 😛
summer cedar
No.
celest musk
yea my kid will hate me.... but i'll just restart the LLM
summer cedar
Make the password two biometric thumbs.
So the kid has to cut off his parents' limbs.
mild gust
Make it so in order to buy anything you need to call your bank
Then get them to approve the shady MTX
summer cedar
Problem with entirely banning MTX is international law.
mild gust
Make MTX the equivilent of drug dealing
summer cedar
The ONLY way it would work is for the ENTIRE world (the parts that matter) to agree.
summer cedar
Coffee and MTX are my birthright, and I shall have it.
|| Modification of Lokmanya Tilak's quote ||
mild gust
I'm sorry when I get that SSR bikini unlocked on my gacha game that shit gets my chemicals flowing.
summer cedar
I posit the ban of chemicals inside human bodies.
mild gust
Imagine what it does to kids
summer cedar
It interferes with the spiritual soul and ethereal world.
summer cedar
From tomorrow, we shall deem it so, that the human body contains no chemicals.
mild gust
Ban all MTX
summer cedar
There is nothing but empty space and red water inside, filled with the holy spirit.
Ergo, dopamine cannot exist.
proud jay
I never got how people accidentally let their kids spend crazy money on mtx
mild gust
Me either
proud jay
like wtf are you doing leaving your credit card linked to shit like that
mild gust
Like do you hand the kid your credit card
summer cedar
Because they are working.
mild gust
But like
mild gust
How do you not notice
summer cedar
Or pay attention.
proud jay
you don't have to be caring to not hand them your credit card
mild gust
Do people not check their transaction histories?
mild gust
I bet they ignore darkweb breaches to
proud jay
it's like the internet after you turn off your lights right
summer cedar
you don't have to be caring to not hand them your credit card
It's not their fault. All they are responsible for is ejecting a body with a heart beat out of themselves. It's the government's job to raise the kid.
mild gust
it's like the internet after you turn off your lights right
A cosmic horror entity?
summer cedar
I think the dark web is when the internet moves from the yellow and red wires, and sometimes the gray ones, to the black cables.
At that point, it transitions races.
mild gust
I hope so
summer cedar
A cosmic horror entity?
Surely, you are not referring to....
CTHULU!!!!
mild gust
That's not hockey
summer cedar
Bloody fabulous save there.
summer cedar
No, sadly. Well done. 🙂
Did you guys boo their anthem again?
mild gust
I don't think we do that anymore
Was a close game though, https://i.imgur.com/YOOlsDh.png
LA almost had a chance
summer cedar
That's very close.
If the Dodgers had just got 2, instead of 1, they'd have won.
We all know 2 is > 6.
mild gust
At least
proud jay
Was a close game though, https://i.imgur.com/YOOlsDh.png
toronto and LA are quite far apart afaik
proud jay
If the Dodgers had just got 2, instead of 1, they'd have won.
they should've gotten 7 and then all the 8 year olds in the stadium would've gone crazy
summer cedar
Everyone speaking non-English would've been deported once they got back, if they had yelled at the stadium.
I am sure heat was watching.... I mean ice.
mild gust
toronto and LA are quite far apart afaik
Correct
mild gust
Shouts out ICE
proud jay
I still don't know why it's a fucking meme, so stupid
mild gust
Making America great again one day at a time
proud jay
Shouts out ICE
what was their score?
mild gust
6, 7?
summer cedar
@pearl elk Your non-girlfriend just got caught out.
mild gust
what was their score?
6 - 7
summer cedar
Might as well gg, unless the lower batting order can work a miracle.
pearl elk
<@156366027322687488> Your non-girlfriend just got caught out.
by my actual gf no doubt 😛
mild gust
Nice lady
summer cedar
You like Kim Garth?
proud jay
he prefers her estranged brother Dick Girth
mild gust
I do now
summer cedar
60-2 from 10 overs, India.
It's up to Jemimah and Kaur, now.
mild gust
Also this is a thing btw, https://x.com/WindowsLatest/status/1983636728104808928
X
Just confirmed by doing it myself 😂
End task
mild gust
Oh joy
celest musk
or they wanted to show that they are important, too
and all they got is 1 million angry emails about broken minecraft logins
which crashed their outlook
proud jay
one could only hope azure is not running on win11
mild gust
That would be interesting
celest musk
i guess they run a mix
pearl elk
proud jay
2042 or whatever?
summer cedar
In the context of the continuum, I prefer whatever.
It has the benefit of plausible continuity.
dusky shuttle
summer cedar
DAMN! Australia's first fumble tonight.
She dropped the ball.
India need 128 off 104 balls. Semi-finals!
211-2, 32.4 overs.
median wraith
5 and 1 are nice tbh
4 and 3 are pure nostalgia from people
2 and bad company ones are good ones
summer cedar
Damn fine fielding by the kangaroos.
What Australia DIDN'T do tonight was give India 50 free runs, like the other side did.
India needs 89 from 65.
Wow. Anyone who wants to study dew should watch this match.
The moisture is playing hell with the ball.
unborn lotus
What about bf1942
summer cedar
So far this over, the cannons have been silent.
Aussies just gave away a free ball - wide.
The dew is magnificently tricky.
56 runs - 43 balls to go.
It's not even the bowlers who are screwing up. The pitching is good, the line is nice, but the dew just makes the ball slip from their fingers at the last second and things go haywire.
😱
Aussies drop another one!
Right through her hands.
Yikes.
So....
https://www.affinity.studio/
Affinity is now free.
All 3 apps have been integrated into 1.
Apparently, you can PAY IF you want Canva's AI tools.
Otherwise, it's free and a 3-in-1 app.
That's the big reveal. 🙂
Jemimah Rodriguez - 126 of 133 balls - Amazing.
@pearl elk This has been one heck of a match, Cal. GG.
India needs 10 off 14 balls.
4 runs from 11 balls! Another 4!
India wins!!!!!
Highest run chase in international cricket history! 👏
Now, back to graphics! 😛
pearl elk
back to battling with crappy software for AMD GPU gen AI
summer cedar
back to battling with crappy software for AMD GPU gen AI
The Affinity server is exploding right now.
Seven employees from Serif are online there.
And users are spamming them with paranoia-paywall-AI-slop fears.
pearl elk
paywalls not the issue, its the conservatives and their content filters
summer cedar
@mild gust @proud jay I got a confirmation from the Affinity server. A user tried V3 Affinity Canva on Linux and it works very well, apparently.
Since you guys use Linux, I thought I'd let you know. You too, Ben.
And for now, they have kept all the Photoshopp-y features in Affinity free. Only the AI-related stuff is paywalled with a Canva membership.
median wraith
All 3 apps have been integrated into 1.
and how the hell they get income
summer cedar
and how the hell they get income
From people who subscribe to the AI portion - the Canva tab of the product.
I think it's a $15-$30 plan depending on what you choose.
The Affinity tabs of the program are entirely free.
Remember to open your Account Settings after you install the program and disable all the data sharing stuff, if you don't want to do that.
They declare that none of your designs and work will be uploaded, though. So 🤷♂️ .
I turned all the sharing off. 😄
median wraith
Me trying to sell this tools for 15€
damm man
well before was like
300€ all the suite or less
krita and the new Gimp get you technically covered too so
summer cedar
Well, I just tried the Affinity Canva (new V3).
It loads just as fast as V2.
Everything looks good. The old file formats open.
The new file format is just .AF for all 3 types - pixel, vector, and publisher.
summer cedar
@mild gust Initial loading time for the program is 30 seconds (after installation). After that, it loads in 8-10 secs on my PC.
They also added a 'Create Studio' mode, where you can design your custom workspace with only the tabs and tools you want.
Temperature's 22C and dropping.
It's getting a bit chilly.
summer cedar
Marvel Rivals its 110GB
Hero biceps take up more space.
Where do you think all that protein is stored?
And their poop?
soft night
@broken sigil some cyberpunk guru with interview https://www.youtube.com/live/1_HsIlaqMkc?si=amgKMbPHKvmRrvMb
proud jay
this kinda makes me thing of Returnal but Horror, visually at least https://youtu.be/mM2w__7EgzU
proud jay
oh it's from the guys that made returnal
oh
it's like actually returnal
but a new setting
I should play some more returnal
it's been a while
I never got past the first zone boss lol
median wraith
it's like warframe
median wraith
I never got past the first zone boss lol
oh lord
median wraith
A dude said Arc it's UE5 and works smooth
So it's a fault of the rest of devs
Just pointed out the little small thing
They don't use lumen neither nanite
proud jay
we were just talking about it in #programmer-hangout
mild gust
They use a special branch doe
broken sigil
<@261183265438695424> some cyberpunk guru with interview https://www.youtube.c...
oh he is THE creator of cyberpunk 
graceful sequoia
i love calling him "some cyberpunk guru" heh, like calling linus torvalds "some linux expert"
white oxide
summer cedar
Good morning! ☕ 🌞
white oxide
Good morning! ☕ 🌞
go back to sleep, today is not a good day, wke up tomorrow to see if thats a good day
summer cedar
go back to sleep, today is not a good day, wke up tomorrow to see if thats a goo...
Couldn't. I had an hour from 8:30 a.m. to store hot water, drink hot coffee, and have a hot breakfast before the power went out at 9:30.
It just did.
I have my large thermos and a kettle filled with hot water. It ought to last for the day, even with coffee refills.
Stupid electricians back at work. I am not. Broadband's down. YAY! 😠
white oxide
so go back to sleep fast travel to tomorrow
white oxide
so sleep two more days
summer cedar
No, I am not jobless.
I can't earn income for the next two days, that's all. 😛 Got other things to do.
summer cedar
I remember that movie, but I can't recall its name.
Apparently, Legends of YMIR is (re?)launching using Web3 and UE5. It's an MMO. AION 2 as well, launching with UE5.
errant raven
Im so OP in this game man
And I've save up another quarter million of the gacha banner currency
Gacha lite, I guess it's called?
summer cedar
I can't install The Outer Worlds 2 from Game Pass. Can't waste my mobile internet on 77GB. Gotta wait until broadband's restored. 🙁
summer cedar
Electric personnel cut it, along with electric wires.
errant raven
Those motherfuckers go out every 30 minutes it feels like
errant raven
Electric personnel cut it, along with electric wires.
Why the fuck?
summer cedar
No. Our FTTH mostly never fails.
Because the local authorities decided they wanted TALLER power poles.
That's it. No other reason.
errant raven
I fell asleep watching w video on how solar panels work
summer cedar
Sounds like you found your lullaby.
errant raven
I didn't know they were hooked directly up to the power grid
Honestly had no idea what they were hooked up too
summer cedar
You have options. Hooking it to the power grid allows you sell the power back to your state's electricity board, and get discounts and sometimes, profits.
You can also set it up exclusively for yourself and massive storage batteries, but the setup cost rises exponentially then.
errant raven
Also had no idea how much math they have to do when they wanna set up a field for solar panels
summer cedar
Especially when the panels are self-orienting.
Got to account for the rotation, angle, etc.
errant raven
Also had no idea that the panels themselves were so fragile
summer cedar
I think they have to be really thin for better conductivity, or something.
errant raven
Like I knew they could break, but didn't know it was way easier to break than a beer bottle
summer cedar
Thinner the better.
errant raven
You cant even hook them straight up to a battery to store the energy
Gotta hook it up to this thingy that regulates the wattage or whatever electrical fuck, then to the battery
summer cedar
Yeah. The panels are not transformers.
errant raven
It also mentioned those cheap little walkway lights, they have tiny solar panels on them, with that regulator, and a battery
Wonder if I can buy 50 of them, put them in an array and make a solar charging system for my phone
summer cedar
You get solar chargers for mobile phones.
No need to reinvent the wheel.
They are also fairly cheap, if I recall.
errant raven
The fun is building it yourself
summer cedar
The Chinese have already done it quite well.
errant raven
But there is this science kit that comes with a arduino, and a solar panel that you can build and program
Specifically for charging phones and other things
Comes with some servos and this photon sensor so it can follow the sun
mild gust
Holy shit balls Meta is gooner galore, https://www.techspot.com/news/110070-meta-denies-torrenting-2400-porn-movies-ai-training.html
summer cedar
Holy shit balls Meta is gooner galore, https://www.techspot.com/news/110070-meta...
Do you know that when a new Instagram user logs in for the first time, his search results are basically full of sex and porn videos?
mild gust
Yo that feels all too real
summer cedar
The algorithm feeds you that until you make your first search, and then adjusts it to your 'preferences'.
mild gust
I just had this Dino mommy show up in my feed
summer cedar
It happened to me when I logged in to Instagram after 8-10 years or so.
It didn't have my search history, so fed me porn vids.
errant raven
Do you know that when a new Instagram user logs in for the first time, his searc...
I'm getting a flood of women in the sex working industry on youtube
Didn't even search for it
mild gust
She also has an onlyfans
Neither did I
It just appeared
What's funny
Is the day it showed up
I watched a corridor crew video about dinosaurs
errant raven
Only thing ive been using YouTube for is Japanese grammar "classes"
mild gust
errant raven
The more I hit do not recommend, the more of it it recommends
mild gust
That's like me and Hasan Piker videos
errant raven
This one chicks ideology pissed me off
mild gust
I swear I've disliked multiple accounts of his
errant raven
"stop sexualizing women, let them do what they want to make their money" - a chick that's half naked, sexualizing not just herself, but also a fictional anime character
mild gust
Who does that
errant raven
The only hasan piker videos I get are memes making fun of him
errant raven
Who does that
Almost every woman with an onlyfans and "cosplays"
summer cedar
Broadband company just called me to ask if my internet was working. I guess they have started the repair work, which is fine unless the electric office cuts all the wires again.
mild gust
Almost every woman with an onlyfans and "cosplays"
Fair
Even trans people to
Why do so many trans people have an OF
errant raven
It's not even cosplay man, it's those cheap Halloween City costumes that cost like $10
errant raven
Report them for CP when they cosplay underaged characters for their onlyfans
That shit legally counts as CP
errant raven
No, adult diapers exist
errant raven
That chick is underaged, I see her and a lot of other my hero characters being sexualized for onlyfans
errant raven
Yeah, but cosplay is "dressing up as a character and pretending to be them"
mild gust
Yes but
The person dressing up isn't that person
Even if it was
Say a 16 year old dressed as a 16 year old
Shouldn't matter
They wouldn't have an only fans
So it would be fine
But 18+ dressing as any age is fair game
There's cosplayers dressing as Annie from league of legends ffs
You want to say that's CP?
errant raven
It's literally illegal
Normal cosplay isn't
Dressing up as underaged characters for sexual content is illegal
That's the CP, not the normal people doing SFW cosplay.
mild gust
Cosplaying as an underage character on OnlyFans is not inherently illegal, but it can be problematic and is subject to strict platform policies. OnlyFans prohibits content that involves or depicts minors, even in fictional or non-sexual contexts, due to its zero-tolerance policy for any material that could suggest underage activity or exploit minors.
It's just frowned upon..
As it should be
mild gust
Okay then Denims should be locked up
😂
and probably many other streamers
So have fun enforcing that
Your country is full of degens.
errant raven
Cosplaying as an underaged character for PORN. Not everything else
mild gust
They have onlyfans to?
Kek
Again
Plenty of people have diaper fetishes and stuff
Do only fans
🤷
That's basically CP then
or they have those sucker things
Imitating a baby 1:1
errant raven
Anything onlyfans related is gross
Or boundary pushing
Don't kink shame was pushed just so they wouldn't be attacked for it
summer cedar
Talented
One of my favourite games to-date.
white oxide
errant raven
Random dutch cartoon spawned in chat 
white oxide
**Talented**
One of my favourite games to-date.
this looks even weirder with my discord theme
summer cedar
I think the game has that film grain effect in the options, although I have it disabled.
That looks so cool. 🙂
mild gust
Anything onlyfans related is gross
Agree to disagree
errant raven
Stop lying
summer cedar
Game's MASSIVE skill tree.
mild gust
Some of it's fucked some is actually kinda entertaining
Someone in this discord has an onlyfans
😂
One of the mods iirc
errant raven
Everything onlyfans has created in the sexual field has been fucking beyond fucked
white oxide
yeah but thats what everyone expects
mild gust
I mean onlyfans is also a very insecure system in the grand scheme
errant raven
Bathwater, spit, used panties, used socks
errant raven
How many times have women said they're not worth $60
mild gust
I'd buy her a house
errant raven
I mean they're right, but $5 a month is kinda low
mild gust
Man
errant raven
From too much self respect to not enough