if the earth stopped spinning you fly eastward at mach 1+
#lounge
white oxide
pearl elk
because most people dont know that the Sun doesnt perfectly orbit its center
white oxide
barrycenter
pearl elk
its like oh the sun is a fixed point in space... well I got news 😛
white oxide
yeas
pearl elk
bloody barry
cursive crypt
its like oh the sun is a fixed point in space... well I got news 😛
Games told me otherwise.
white oxide
except the point it 'orbits' the sun is like never outside the sun
surreal marten
because most people dont know that the Sun doesnt perfectly orbit its center
u mean flat earthers?
white oxide
pearl elk
the earth is also alittle pudgy in the waistline
surreal marten
so earth and sun's orbit overlap eachother
pearl elk
yes thats why it gets so hot
surreal marten
australia is closer to sun at this moment which is why its hot
white oxide
this is ours
pearl elk
our entire solar system is on an intergalactic voyage through the milky way
surreal marten
earths orbit isnt circular
yea that ik
white oxide
so winter for the northern hemisphere is when the earth is furthest from the sun
but that changes
which is why the earth has cyclical ice ages
surreal marten
cyclical ice ages..?
white oxide
so were actually heading out of an ice age
surreal marten
but the antartica is melting.....
white oxide
surreal marten
so were actually heading out of an ice age
ah makes sense
white oxide
EVENTUALLY, the earth will naturally cool
cursive crypt
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ice_Age
If -0.25C is ice age, +1C is what? 🤔
white oxide
ok so read the article
pearl elk
big heat wave
white oxide
wasnt technically an ice age
cursive crypt
big heat wave
nah, conspiracy theory /s
pearl elk
Jesus kept the planet warm by turning water into wine
white oxide
granted human development is speeding UP things, but we have historical records of heat and cold eras based on that orbital eccentricity
cursive crypt
hm? hotter is, earth is more chaotic or what?
pearl elk
fun fact, Australian BoM is one of the oldest national weather agencies
white oxide
every few ten thousand years, the earth moves REALLY close to the sun, things get hot, glaciers melt.
then they move back out and eventually we get an ice age
white oxide
were still trying to develop most of the models to predict this but yeah, we were heading into one of these hot periods
hell the earth has this every decade
cursive crypt
-50 here we come
Maybe he buy finally some 50xx card to warm himself.
white oxide
the el nino thing
pearl elk
well atleast the datacenters will use less water
I still like that idea of putting an AI on the moon
summer cedar
3.2 million US dollars for this bluefin tuna.
pearl elk
its not a tuna
pearl elk
tuna comes in a can duh
summer cedar
pearl elk
this is a trout
summer cedar
silence roo.
pearl elk
still small compared to the cosmic space whales
pearl elk
but thats okay because it can give you the answers to the universe
white oxide
pearl elk
oh boy those bored ape things arnt worth much these days are they
summer cedar
auspicious tuna is expensive. 😛
those people are nutty for things like that.
They also pay $15,000 for a watermelon.
dusky shuttle
best business model is to convince billionaires to buy your goofy "product"
proud jay
I need to get onto that market next year
I can sell bread for 7000 a piece at least
I'll make is auspicious
white oxide
dusky shuttle
pearl elk
why have 1 brain when you can have a few million
pearl elk
surreal marten
I still like that idea of putting an AI on the moon
then it might launch millions petrification devices in near future to petrify all humans
summer cedar
https://tenor.com/view/nature-good-leaf-big-gif-5958506
You're a kangaroo, not a panda.
Stop admiring big leaves.
Don't roos eat 3-course bush cuisine?
worldly mantle
worldly mantle
white oxide
worldly mantle
worldly mantle
next
white oxide
'gingo canada'
white oxide
they even bombed Hugo Chavez’s grave
technically there was a barracks there
but theres no real reason why they needed to hit THAT particular barracks
other than the delayed cremation of chavez
soft night
worldly mantle
i don't think ram and gpus are going to become cheap anytime soon
fair bridge
worldly mantle
worldly mantle
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/979439588651196466/1450616062088577065/im...
soft night
https://tenor.com/view/jensen-huang-nvidia-ces-2025-blackwell-rtx-50-series-gif-12534509959108132851
jensen gtc talk nvidia
fleet tangle
@formal crown why the random friend request? <@&213101288538374145>
median wraith
This is absurd
soft night
Nvidia CES keynote "AI" talk
soft night
white oxide
https://tenor.com/view/its-insane-right-m3gan-its-crazy-am-i-right-its-unbelieva...
that movies sequel was far better the the first
one of the few with that claim
soft night
white oxide
what
the sequel was cheesy but leaned into it honestly without trying to be some weird horror movie with kids when no one of any importance actually dies
but i am insane
so
i keep thinking i can find someone who actually wants a stable relationship
old sedge
white oxide
theres a mod thats been doing that since like 1.7.10
oh its WAY worse in person
why go so large on the voxels?
not like somewhere between MC and teardown?
like the new SE2 25cm grid system
soft night
white oxide
Wouldn't that just require a redesign of the trees? Just make then one block taller and the bury that block?
soft night
voxel Ponkkis
pearl elk
could give them alittle ground mound underneath
or you could simulate root systems trying to find water 😛
pearl elk
then you'll need a precipitation system to generate voxel clouds for rain too 😛
there is 😛
niagara can convert between cpu/gpu on the fly
oh if only Epics primary goal was artist friendliness
instead we get pretty spreadsheets
hey we heard you like art so we put a spreadsheet in your spreadsheet in your spreadsheet.... in your spreadsheet
Cant say Ive ever dug into Niagara on the C++ side much though, I just imagine it being super powerful
well it ties into Chaos physics doesnt it
so meshing and collision esp on the GPU end is its jam
it also ties in with materials as well so you could use those systems and pass data off to niagara
oh you use CPU for anything nearer the player
my thoughts were with optimising the scene
youre using parallel loops or do you have a lock issue?
you could use a froxel system but instead you use it for clustering, this would atleast make searches view dependant and you can iterate sectors of the octree in parallel
and I vote you call it PVOGI ponkkis voxel octree geometry iteration 😛
mild gust
Sounds very European
pearl elk
yeah if your system has these tight dependencies even compute might not work since its high parallelised
but if you can make it parellel on CPU then moving to GPU will be far easier and then the back and forth is easier too 😛
you know how to do it on the CPU in C++ Im guessing
Im guessing its like a mutex
trick with that is not to lock the entire array which is why I recommend some sort of clustering optimisation
mild gust
Lol your youtube is Internet Explorer
How many tiles across can that expand per tick?
Looks like it's in the hundreds
white oxide
tbh i wish i could get this sort of thing working.
id LOVE to make a procedural voxel space game
mild gust
Steps height limited?
white oxide
look im the sort of guy who can accidentally BRICK an entire college campus accidentally
mild gust
or just set amount of tiles
white oxide
i have
im not allowed to touch their computers or bring a computer onto their campus anymore
mild gust
lol
But your on a computer now
So you could waterfall?
Nice
I got Voxel plugin and saw someone made something similar with it was going to try it someday
white oxide
sigh
mild gust
Valheim made me want to work w/ voxels
white oxide
haha
mild gust
Then researching multiplayer support for it made me change my mind slightly
white oxide
le sigh
mild gust
Voxels and multiplayer is fun I heard
white oxide
tbh my problem with game dev is more that i can COPY the tutorials
but any time i try and go outside the tutorial it destroys computers
i really dont want to have to rebuild my hard drive
again
mild gust
7 days is good one to
pearl elk
and what does Teardown make you want to do 😛
white oxide
look i can write 2098 pages of book in 5 months
5 years trying to build a game... no dice and 3 corrupted drives
pearl elk
look i can write 2098 pages of book in 5 months
good send some pages to George RR Martin so he can finally finish something
white oxide
nah
pearl elk
Ive had someone ask me what it would take to replace UEs renderer and just use its networking system
I basically said too much money lol
white oxide
haha
like im just trying to make a 6DOF version of a 2003 game that formed my lifelong love of space games
white oxide
Space empires Star Fury
like uber obscure game
but SO fun
and everything was text files so i taught myself story boarding via modding 6 new campaigns for it
pearl elk
Yeah alot of older games were like that, just simple text configs for alot of gameplay data
white oxide
and until like the last 6 months it still ran perfectly
and apparent the issue is modern graphics drivers just arent compatible
like they dropped direct3D and RGB emulation support
96 star system
even with cheats to warp everywhere the 3 campaigns took like 20 hours
directional combat damage to internals
pearl elk
sometimes I do wonder if the tradeoff would be worth it with the amount I battle with UE
white oxide
a cool interplay between missiles and beams
pearl elk
Its not that UE is bad its just like Epic didnt want to make anything I want to do any easier lol
battle tested for them is a team of 400 programmers
but poor solo me... yeah
white oxide
honestly the problem im having is the type of game i want to make there really ARENT ANY tutorials that explain a procedurally generated 6DOF game with multiple levels.
yep
i have the games mechanics planned out
and scaling
each system follows a set procedural template, the ships are all basic, and modular, internals are pretty predictable, and poof, easy game
assuming i could get it started
but thats where i suck.
pearl elk
Well I definitely want to explore new things but I also want to make larger games, I dont think its impossible with a smaller team given the right tools. I just dont want to be digging around all the time in editor tools designed by programmers who have the luxury of time.
white oxide
oh totally
pearl elk
by larger I mean more complex gameplay not so much scale
white oxide
yeah
like my games more meant to make it easier to build the systems, and then you can fully customize your ship to play style
pearl elk
even in C++ its insane, to make a gameplay ability the amount of boilerplate for just the module and ability are insane
I dont know who at Epic thinks this is okay, I guess people who do it all day just dont think twice about how much time could be saved
I do love all the modern abstractions in GameFeatures, GameplayAbilities and MoverComponent but boy... abstractions on the backend doesnt mean your frontend UX needs to be complete dogwater
summer cedar
Good morning! 🌞 ☕
white oxide
maybe with the way ai has been improving its general ability to asist i can have it create a walkthrough how to actually make the game i want. i have enough paid assets to make it...
and plenty of time
pearl elk
gippty managed to render some images which look almost like screenshots of my game
summer cedar
Mornin' Lucifer. What's up?
mild gust
Mornin' Lucifer. What's up?
Playing some osrs and watching stuff about minnesota potential fraud.
You?
summer cedar
Playing some osrs and watching stuff about minnesota potential fraud.
Ah, the Tim Walsh thing? I saw the thumbnail last night before heading to bed.
summer cedar
I am catching up on the news and seeing whether something else exploded while I was asleep.
Not to mention preparing a cup of vanilla coffee.
mild gust
Ah, the Tim Walsh thing? I saw the thumbnail last night before heading to bed.
Yeah I guess some of the money is going to a terrorist group
Allegedly
pearl elk
Tim Walsh is captain of the Aussie womens rugby team
I guess that makes him a terrorist in Englands eyes 😛
summer cedar
Yeah I guess some of the money is going to a terrorist group
Lul. This from the same country that provides billions to Pakistan and the occasional millions.
The nature of the world is hypocrisy.
🤷♂️
pearl elk
Finland?
pearl elk
or is it VPPR+376 Unnamed Road, Ereentsav Port, Dornod, Mongolia
its okay us Aussies are here to help
white oxide
ugh
i uhh took too much vitamin d3 and like while i didnt take enough to like kill me, doesnt mean it not painful
the problem is to process D3, the body needs calcium
and if your food doesnt have enough, it takes it from anywhere else
summer cedar
Excuse meow?!
summer cedar
Cats don't need helmets.
They always land on their boots.
Ponkkis is Finnish special forces, trained never to divulge their Finnish origins or mention their Finniness in anyway.
It's highly specialised training, requiring arduous months of building snow tolerance.
pearl elk
their chief weapon is metal guitars
summer cedar
Yeah I guess some of the money is going to a terrorist group
The loser opposition party in India wants US to conduct a regime change here. 😄
They keep losing every election by a bigger margin and this is their solution.
pearl elk
Here we go, apparently this is a spitz, a Lapphund and a Lapponian Herder
beware the dogs of war
summer cedar
Too diverse to be Finny.
First of all, you forgot the drunk dogs.
WHERE is the booze?
mild gust
The loser opposition party in India wants US to conduct a regime change here. 😄
Are they liberal?
summer cedar
Are they liberal?
They are stupid.
I wouldn't put them in either Liberal or Conservative category. In the present world, they are a bunch of butt kissers.
mild gust
Fair enough
summer cedar
Their leader (so-called), Rahul Gandhi goes from London to wherever-the-hell and tells everyone India isn't a country.
It's kind of sad to see, given the Congress is the 'grand old party' of India.
They are just... uh, out of their time I guess.
Problem is, I don't think the situation is unsalvageable. All they really have to do is focus on the economic issues to win some states, but.......... dunno. Their heads are in the clouds.
summer cedar
Fair enough
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=np_8V6c-qMw - Meanwhile, more b00m!
Summary: They doubled the range of the howitzer ammo.
pearl elk
I wonder if someone will try to kidnap Trump next
pearl elk
theres alot of workmen at the White House lately I wonder if theyre all being screened properly
summer cedar
Possible attempted robbery, kidnapping, murder.
pearl elk
they realised how ugly Vance is and left him huh
summer cedar
Quite possibly. Also, he wasn't home at the time. But, quite possibly.
summer cedar
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/221796616653373441/1288525088773247006/la...
Right'o! And cheaper!
mild gust
summer cedar
It's heartening to see the renewed enthusiasm of MAGA in YT comments sections.
Last couple of months, their supporters were quiet with all the shit Trump's put them in.
mild gust
Maybe it will help unite Merica'
summer cedar
Last couple of days, they've come out thumping their awesomeness and racism.
Yes, the vacillations of the monkey-mind are always a joy to see.
white oxide
Maybe it will help unite Merica'
pearl elk
summer cedar
Lucifer, get your spellings right.
There're two kinds of USA.
American and M00rican!
The sane, sensible ones are the former. Everything else is the latter.
pearl elk
Theres no such thing as an American
summer cedar
Come on, that's an exaggeration. I admit, the former is a reducing population, but still.... 😛
pearl elk
its a plural, it wouild be Americasians
summer cedar
Shh... don't reveal the silent conquest of the US by Indians. 😛
summer cedar
Coming choon on EGS.
That Copa City looks interesting.
Wonder if it'll have copium.
pearl elk
Make Tenochtitlan Great Again
pearl elk
who needs education when you got grok
summer cedar
Epic.... 🤦♂️
Earlier versions of software should NOT be listed in my library by default.
You'd think programmers/UI designers would know this by now.
Vibe coding ftw, I guess.
And btw, I can't remove those listings, but I CAN ADD THEM TO A COLLECTION. 🤣
pearl elk
Make Epic Launcher Great...
I cant say again cuz it was always garbage
Wouldnt it be funny if they fixed it and suddenly all your game sequels were the only ones you could see
oh you dont need Total War anymore you have Total War 3
white oxide
Theres no such thing as an American
summer cedar
Sitting on 103% and 134% profits on two of my investments. 😊
mild gust
Tim coins?
pearl elk
yeah but is there a place in France called Quality Knob?
we have Bumcooler Flat just down the road from here 😛
summer cedar
The French public is complaining that he was given citizenship.
It's a pity people still don't understand that countries have golden visas and money buys citizenships.
😩
mild gust
pearl elk
fake Linus
real Linus didnt have braces and he's been kidnapped and replace with a deepfake
mild gust
His teeth are crooked 😂
pearl elk
is this whole review just watching him look into the void?
and they wonder why its hard to sell these things lol
mild gust
is this whole review just watching him look into the void?
Mostly
He explains it to but hey
pearl elk
its definitely interesting, I remember drawing an integrated AR wearable thing in 2003
back then alot of jackets and backpacks had wire pockets or sleeves
running it through the seams of the clothing just made alot of sense to me
using a light exoskeleton to help carry the extra weight of water and a battery 😛
worldly mantle
Lul. This from the same country that provides billions to Pakistan and the occas...
since like FOREVER
mild gust
@errant raven https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj4inlWlf4I
summer cedar
Made with AI?
summer cedar
makes me kyurious.
made in Godot.
She did good.
It also helps that she has a good personality, to market the game.
Glad people are playing to their strengths.
Make dat moolah! 💰 💰
mild gust
She seemed to have a quirky personality
summer cedar
Lol. I broke Tower Dominion by playing it too much.
A boss unit started to magically restore its health. 😄
I think the game is telling me to give it a break.
mild gust
summer cedar
😮 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYI6A7PGLI8
Give me the gist.
mild gust
A boss unit started to magically restore its health. 😄
Cheater
mild gust
Give me the gist.
Its good
mild gust
Comparable to premiere if your not after the newest stuff it has
Faster workflows, keyframe animations, guides, nested clips.
summer cedar
🤔 Sounds good. My problem is always the time it takes to export stuff.
Yes, yes, I know 3 hour videos ought to take time, but still.......
summer cedar
Oh, I just multi-task. 🙂
mild gust
Or that
summer cedar
Benefit of having a beautiful computer.
Still.....
Can't fault a Windus for having windy encoding dreams.
mild gust
Soon ™
summer cedar
I honestly thought mkv and av1 would encode faster. They probably do, but not fast enough for moi.
I want it to be like AI generating images. Hit button, 5 seconds later, done. 😄
mild gust
Get faster pc
mild gust
Impossible
summer cedar
tariffs? 🤣
mild gust
Sure
I mean he talked about it like yesterday
or what ever
When he was asked about Venezuela on the plane.
25% tariff
Due to buying Russian oil
Then India said they were buying less
summer cedar
https://deepmind.google/blog/alphagenome-ai-for-better-understanding-the-genome/ - reading this with a student. Gotta pay attention. Afk for 20 mins.
unborn lotus
😮 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYI6A7PGLI8
its one of the the best software i ever used lol
summer cedar
Yeah, problem with Ukraine is they don't have diplomats.
summer cedar
Maybe they have more experienced people now, but diplomacy is NOT Europe's strongpoint in general, and not Ukraine's certainly.
summer cedar
So there's that
Ah, a polite person then.
mild gust
Sorry Canadian-Ukrainian.
proud jay
looking frosty today
summer cedar
Then India said they were buying less
They are working on a bill to place 500% tariffs on Russian oil buyers.
The problem is, India didn't reduce Russian oil imports. What we did is increase US oil imports to make the orange twat happy.
YouTuber MAGA idiots don't understand that it's not Indian culture to yap away to glory in public. 😄
summer cedar
looking frosty today
That's a slight amount of snow.
That glowy sun-looking thingy you have there on the horizon, looks nice.
Is it butterscotch flavoured?
summer cedar
grab hold of it before it rises.
Otherwise, you'll have to journey west.
|| Obscure eastern mythological story reference ||
@mild gust The other side of this is America's worry about the dollar as the primary currency. I watched a report that Wall Street bigwigs are spending 8-9 billion dollars annually now, since 2024, to combat BRICS de-dollarisation.
Problem is, it ain't working too well and that makes M00rica antsy.
proud jay
I'm "losing" so much gains on my investment cause the dollar is becoming so weak
summer cedar
Yeah, ordinarily, I'd expect to see the consequences of dedollarisation more evident in the currency rates. But it's not, even though BRICS IS moving away from using the currency. I just hope whenever said consequences show up, it's not a sudden shock.
proud jay
it's already doing shit
but yeah, definitely going to shit
crazy how one presidency can fuck a countries international relations and economic power so hard
summer cedar
I was about say. Yeah.
proud jay
his reign is already doing bad shit, but it's really detrimental long term
summer cedar
I think M00rica could have solved this issue with a peaceful, diplomatic (economic) transition that would've kept the dollar's primacy intact.
But, we can't expect such things of the Orange Overlord.
You know, sometimes, I wonder how much the first administration during Orange's first term kept him in check.
They always say that in interviews, his former admin officials, about how much they prevented his desires.
Goes to show just how bad it could have been eight plus years ago.
proud jay
They always say that in interviews, his former admin officials, about how much t...
well everyone of the last admin pretty much hates him
so that says enough
summer cedar
Can't imagine why.
mild gust
What he's a stand up fellow what's not to like.
proud jay
I was gonna buy some new running shoes tomorrow, but idk if I wanna go in this snow, traffic will be such ass
summer cedar
Just use your socks.
If you run enough in the snow, the snow will become your shoes.
Be one with the water. Be one with your inner elements.
mild gust
I was gonna buy some new running shoes tomorrow, but idk if I wanna go in this s...
Have the shoes come to you
proud jay
good idea
mild gust
Better yet craft your own shoe
proud jay
man I got a fitbit like 3 years ago and I've tried unsubscribing from their mailing list like 6 times already
and they keep sending me crap
time to sue
summer cedar
reached wave 60 in Tower Dominion. 😄
proud jay
Lol the icon in the app of my ev saying how far you can drive
that is not a charging station cable
proud jay
level 2 chargers don't have a handle at all, and fast chargers have a handle on the back
summer cedar
Time to eat lunch. BREAD 🍞 ftw!
proud jay
this is gonna go great https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-asks-rubio-lead-venezuela-001748964.html
summer cedar
this is gonna go great https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-asks-rubio-lead-vene...
Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.
I bet this will be a success story too, like ALL the others.
worldly mantle
Terminators in the movies are water pistols compared to this, script writers sure lacked imagination they don't have to turn 180 to terminate u 😁
worldly mantle
this is gonna go great https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-asks-rubio-lead-vene...
2. US declares Maduro as a head of the drug trafficking “Cartel de los Soles”
3. US designates “Cartel de los Soles” as a terrorist organization
4. Maduro is now a terrorist, with $50 million bounty on his head
5. The military can act against terrorists without congressional approval!
6. Maduro gets grabbed by the military quickly
7. For the actual trial, the US drops the whole “Cartel de Los Soles” act and admits it does not even exist
8. This allowed them to get Maduro without asking congres for approval.```some are pretty wild https://tenor.com/view/terminator-dark-fate-fight-fire-gif-17488429
pearl elk
```1 . US invents a new bad cartel, “Cartel de Los Soles”
2. US declares Maduro ...
Always the way, you know how many issus the USA has had with its own CIA operatives, Noriega, Bin Laden, list is loooong
proud jay
Terminators in the movies are water pistols compared to this, script writers sur...
this looks so dope
strange that it's now owned by the same company that made my car
but apparently making both cars and robots is a thing
summer cedar
Terminators in the movies are water pistols compared to this, script writers sur...
@unborn lotus I believe this is a bigger WMD than any robot could be.
Chinese EV battery ejection concept.
Not put into production for sanity's sake.
Credits to Lucifer.
summer cedar
Always the way, you know how many issus the USA has had with its own CIA operat...
Dunno why they are bothering with all this, except for behind-the-scenes stuff. With all the media we have now, even MAGA dudes are saying, "Might makes right." Might as well roll with it. 😛
worldly mantle
<@378415373470662656> I believe this is a bigger WMD than any robot could be.
wasn't the concept ditched already, imagine the lawsuits, no legs and your pretty much launching a bomb
summer cedar
Yeah, they never put it into production. Must've swept someone off their feet though. 😛
pearl elk
lithium smoked pizza coming right up
worldly mantle
don't underestimate the power of lithium battery when it malfunctions, remember the exploding samsung phones fiasco
summer cedar
We had an exploding phone in India that took the flesh off of a guy's chest.
It was a gruesome scene, captured on video.
No idea if that dude lived.
white oxide
don't underestimate the power of lithium battery when it malfunctions, remember ...
i remember this mod being made in like 2 days
proud jay
lol
worldly mantle
pearl elk
Amazing. 🙀
Hi, I was wondering if you would like to hold onto $10,000,000 for me...
summer cedar
This would be good for their national debt, no?
Very wise, very.......
|| ## /S ## ||
pearl elk
debt is going very bigly
proud jay
This would be good for their national debt, no?
some oil guy must've bribed him a few million
worldly mantle
Yes they are going to bring peace and prosperity to Venezuela when they can't even look out for their own citizens
pearl elk
what I dont understand is why a cartel would stop oil companies operating
seems to me like all those shipments of oil might be a good cover for you know... drugs
summer cedar
some oil guy must've bribed him a few million
seems like small change.
Must've been a few million + 2 or 3 Trump coins.
worldly mantle
seems to me like all those shipments of oil might be a good cover for you know.....
you buying into the msm bs 
pearl elk
theyre just trying to avoid another lawsuit
worldly mantle
from who Maduro or US gov 😂
pearl elk
BBC is being sued bigly by Trump
worldly mantle
If they have studios in US they should probably care, lawfare is used by anyone in power
summer cedar
BBC is being sued bigly by Trump
Btw, did the US actually seize any drugs from Venemargo yet?
pearl elk
Im just trying to make sense of it all because the narrative totally doesnt fit, you dont sell drugs to destroy nations you sell them to make money. If youre sitting on all that oil why not play ball, it just seems like fabrication to me because the US couldnt control them
summer cedar
Im just trying to make sense of it all because the narrative totally doesnt fit,...
There was an Indian economist who was explaining it from the dollar's primacy point of view.
He basically said that because Venezuela was selling to Rus-Sino customers and trading in yuan instead of dollars, it threatened the dollar.
By taking control of the oil rigs, Trump can offer to continue doing business with China in US dollars (and he has already offered by the way).
There is an old agreement between world countries that oil will be traded in dollars only. BRICS is slowly breaking that, so....
proud jay
tbh at this point I'd rather be allied to china than the US
summer cedar
Yep. That's the way sentiments are floating.
pearl elk
according to my sources Venezuela couldnt move its oil because of US sanctions
so I guess they chose the next best commodity
summer cedar
according to my sources Venezuela couldnt move its oil because of US sanctions
Cojject. The sanctions prevent access to the dollar for transactions.
So, de-dollarisation would circumvent that and destroy the dollar's primacy.
Some of this also explains why India doesn't exploit all of its oil reserves. I bet the Indian governments of past and present knew something like this would happen courtesy Uncle Sam.
pearl elk
turns out oil being heavily regulated makes it a bad place to hide drugs 😛
summer cedar
turns out oil being heavily regulated makes it a bad place to hide drugs 😛
https://japantoday.com/category/world/oil-flotilla-sails-from-venezuela-despite-us-blockade1 - I think Pete Hegseth doesn't know how to run a blockade.
Not surprising, but still surprising.....
--- A separate group of three smaller empty ships, also under sanctions, left the country after completing domestic trips or discharging imports, including of Russian naphtha. ---
To show that the 'blockade' actually exists, I guess.
pearl elk
this really is just the US being bullies isnt it, apparently this crude is quite heavy and hard to refine... the US doesnt need it at all, theyre just grumpy no one wants to be their friend anymore
summer cedar
Heh. Like Dieter was saying yesterday, Trump doesn't understand the difference between reserves and capacity.
But hey, GO M00RICA!!!!!
pearl elk
Im just confused what Venezuelan oil has to do with the US at all
summer cedar
Im just confused what Venezuelan oil has to do with the US at all
Oil is the basis of the dollar's strength.
Got to make sure it's done in dollars only.
pearl elk
wish we could get our electronics off the dollar
pearl elk
manufactured near our backyard yet we are paying almost double because it all comes wrapped in the greenback
hate to say it but China taking Taiwan might actually be good for business
summer cedar
That should tell you why US will do almost anything to ensure the USD's dominance.
Which is all well and good, but Trump is literally ham-fisted in his approach.
proud jay
Im just confused what Venezuelan oil has to do with the US at all
US likes oil
see: middle east
proud jay
hate to say it but China taking Taiwan might actually be good for business
what do you mean? Taiwan is already part of China /s
summer cedar
Pretty much. The fireworks that'd ensue if OPEC traded outside the dollar would be... interesting.
proud jay
everyone's gonna be hating the US, which will only lead to it being ran more authoritarian and as a military state imo
fleet tangle
see: middle east
You mean the US likes the military industrial complex.
summer cedar
I will place an iota of hope in the fact that Americans will eventually do the right thing.
Just to be a bit positive.
.................................eventually.
proud jay
give it a year or 300
summer cedar
299, surely.
fleet tangle
I will place an iota of hope in the fact that Americans will eventually do the r...
The Venezuelans seemed to like the whole Maduro thing.
summer cedar
The Venezuelans seemed to like the whole Maduro thing.
Yeah, so did the Iraqis about Saddam and the Afghanis about those other dudes.
I am sure it'll end well.
summer cedar
I nominate Hevedy.
median wraith
Wait I'm a dictator?
summer cedar
Yes, I am nominating you to be next Plenipotentiary Honored Non-Elected Colonial Administrator of Venemargo.
pearl elk
Spain needs to take back the americas
proud jay
can't wait for the START treaty to expire next month
fleet tangle
Latin America moved past being half-naked and using wooden spears.
Damn, If they're not using sharpened mangos any more, Britain is out.
summer cedar
They are using sharp liquour bottles and cuban cigars.
summer cedar
can't wait for the START treaty to expire next month
👀 I had almost forgotten that.
Thanks for the reminder.
fleet tangle
START treaty?
summer cedar
It is an agreement between the M00ricans and the Sovietians to curb nuclear missile production.
Good luck to its renewal.
fleet tangle
That's a non-STARTer!
summer cedar
Trump's ready to SET & GO!
pearl elk
summer cedar
Dim Tong Puun?
pearl elk
white oxide
canadians wish they had the military might to breach the us
white oxide
still gonna get curbstomped by a cornfed marine
pearl elk
marines dont operate on US soil pretty sure
white oxide
tbh venezuela military is like the opposite of competent superpower
marines guard the whitehouse
pearl elk
its like here in Australia they need permission
so youre telling me the Canadians can get all the way to the whitehouse
and probably bust in through the big hole in the fence 😹
pearl elk
hell if people can just walk into your Capitol I dont think the Whitehouse has much going for it
white oxide
well you can walk to the fence
touch grass on the other side and they drop a bearcat on you
theres also the fact that every bird in D.C. airspace is tracked
from sparrow to airliner
if it could possibly show up on radar, they got it under watch
pearl elk
its easier just to plant a guy on AF1
white oxide
so the most hijack proof, nuclear disaster proof, and and best mobile remote command center in the world, and your just gunna put some rando on it?
pearl elk
yeah why not, theres plenty of rando press onboard for those photo ops
white oxide
that press has had the last decade of their life under scrutiny since they applied for the press badge
pearl elk
Canadians are known for being upstanding citizens, especially mounties
white oxide
most nations are pretty paranoid about their presidents, the US just has the CIA, NSA, FBI, and every other alphabet agency around to do all the work of background checks
pearl elk
that worked so well in the past 😛
white oxide
you mean for kennedy
pearl elk
I mentioned Noriega and Bin Laden before
white oxide
well they werent looking out for him
pearl elk
CIA trained
pearl elk
but aye thats all good its not Canadians you gotta worry about its your own black ops 😹
pearl elk
I mean we are lucky we're even talking about Trump bacause despite all that some chump with a walmart short rifle almost took out "the most powerful man in the world"
white oxide
most of the black ops guys are the most jacked up testosterone fueled cornfed inbread mothafackers you will ever come across
my cousin is married to one
pearl elk
but Im used to the hot air from yanks, I grew up next to a USAF base 😛
white oxide
like i have a clearance level cause some of the people i hang around (and work ive done) and im not cleared to know what he does. all i know is he works for USMC marine intel
pearl elk
peak of the Gulf War place was all buzzing
white oxide
what he does in that job we have no clue
pearl elk
I saw the US Marines parachute once, they were being trained by our SAS
white oxide
gory gory what a hell of a way to die...
pearl elk
not exactly their specialty poor guys, recon missed the mark by more than a football oval 😹
white oxide
yeah marines arent exactly in their element off the ground
cover them in come guys guts, mud, and feed them the most horrible MRE's ever, and they will enjoy it
also box of crayons
pearl elk
but yeah I got clearance, I just never need it... I wouldnt be allowed in the US though
apparently free speech only extends to US citizens
pearl elk
doesnt matter, you critize Trump or his administration grounds for refusing entry
white oxide
lol
pearl elk
not to mention all the biometrics they take, no thanks... I dont do facist states
white oxide
i mean a lot of the ex british colonies are in the same sort of freedom restrictions let alone the motherland
pearl elk
we have restrictions here but they tend to only cover criminal history, you can talk crap about Albanese all you like
white oxide
tbh the biometrics are more to deal with if you do any crime here if it gets found out AFTER you return they can have full data if you did it to get you extradited
pearl elk
but the US will make you believe its not free speech here because we block their businesses from mistreating children
its the same with the EU, US is heavily biased towards their business agenda
white oxide
well yeah
yall begged us to be world police and cover europes defenses, then get mad when we want something back
pearl elk
tbh the biometrics are more to deal with if you do any crime here if it gets fou...
its the assumption I am a criminal I have a problem with, you guys have statues of blind lady justice everywhere but you dont seem to know what that means
pearl elk
I get it, we had the shooting in Bondi but that was people we let in 20 years ago
white oxide
always loved the "only deport the illegals that broke the law...."
"alexa, define the world 'illegal'"
like idk why 'anti illegal' has become 'anti immigration'
pearl elk
as far as I can tell Id only have to be scared of ICE if I spoke
pearl elk
xenophobia is back in full force
white oxide
not really a fear, more a dislike for someone breaking the law
pearl elk
yeah but then it turns to every muslim is a criminal or some such, they use those actions of bad actors as justification
white oxide
xenophobia would be basically ALL immigration is bad
pearl elk
thats what its like here and in the UK
white oxide
tbh anyone can use anything as justification if they search
pearl elk
Australians certainly arnt immigrating to the US nearly as much anymore and its not because they dont want to. There are heavy restrictions even on "allies"
we have to hand over 5 years of social media history just to visit
but we've had to deal with the blow out, neo nazis everywhere emboldened by the US' lead, even if its not ment to be that way it has been taken that way
I guess you gotta knock em down a peg if you get up on stage and do a nazi gesture not just act like it didnt happen
proud jay
yall begged us to be world police and cover europes defenses, then get mad when ...
you think the US is doing the policing out of charity?
they get influence and power out of it first and foremost
setting up strategic alliances
the US even had to convince europe of the marshall plan
just for their own agenda of trying to prevent the spread of the soviet
and it's not like the US doesn't enjoy it's position as world power
pearl elk
no hablo inglés
proud jay
I think the people saying US should get something back should maybe open a history book once in a while
of course many of those same people are not capable of reading a book
median wraith
no hablo inglés
At this point even the phone translates images
pearl elk
Im just wondering who wanted to visit Iran to begin with
median wraith
I think the people saying US should get something back should maybe open a histo...
The people always read everything on their own context so
Whatever they open a book nothing gonna happen
proud jay
Im just wondering who wanted to visit Iran to begin with
people who are tired of running and want to make it past tense
median wraith
Im just wondering who wanted to visit Iran to begin with
Dafak? So what's going to happen with our honeymoon?
pearl elk
I find it odd how some people say Iranian... you dont say Uranium do you
pearl elk
Dafak? So what's going to happen with our honeymoon?
I guess we just go to Saudi Arabia instead
proud jay
we don't say uranium?
pearl elk
they might atleast let us share a hotel room unlike Japan 😅
some people say it with an aahhh instead of an aye
I-raaahh-ni-an
but when you say uranium like that it just sounds so hilarious
oh yay Nvidia coming with just what we all needed 6xMFG
pearl elk
I dont even think they have enough RAM to do that
pearl elk
Im not buying anything electronic for atleast 2 years if I can help it
pearl elk
I got a 1070 in a laptop, Im good for the end of the world
fleet tangle
This is genius. I forwarded this to a friend who works at his family auction house and loves greek history. His brain is rioting now.
median wraith
Everything is less
pearl elk
More is less
summer cedar
Oh yeah, this advisory was given two days ago? Or yesterday. One of those days.
But, it was more because of the protests there, not because of Israel, publicly at least.
summer cedar
Are you sure that Icicles recorded the chronicles of Barnacles on his bicycles, in his articles about the obstacles that he faced with intangibles particles created by reptiles with spectacles, who were driving vehicles with tentacles?
pearl elk
yestacles
summer cedar
|| For those not in on the joke, read the -les with an ancient Greek accent. ||
pearl elk
forrealatcles
summer cedar
Oh! My Goddilees!
fleet tangle
Don't forget the exam hero, testacles!
summer cedar
Pennicles objects! He and nibbilaus are the most important exam toolous!
worldly mantle
proud jay
crazy how this fly is sitting so still until someone chats and then it teleports up
summer cedar
I can't get a hold of swattiles.
summer cedar
crazy how this fly is sitting so still until someone chats and then it teleports...
Dieter, go to #food and check out the latest post.
🤣
proud jay
wtf is that lol
summer cedar
Someone Trump forgot to kidnap, I guess. 😄
dusky shuttle
fleet tangle
I know this is AI... but I can imagine him actually doing that.
worldly mantle
Trump daddy
summer cedar
'fuckin aroundo' - cracked me up. 🤣
summer cedar
No, he is/was a terrible ruler, aptly labelled tyrant.
However, that doesn't preclude procedure, law, morality, etc. etc.
Of course, none of that matters in our b00tiful world.
Back to your regularly scheduled spam.
worldly mantle
Labelled by whom, you want facts ask actual people living in Venezuela its that simple
summer cedar
No one cares about him specifically. It's the act and its consequences. Not to mention the history.
Oh, all the comedians are back on TV today! 👏
New Year holidays are over. Yay to good cheer and well-written sarcasm! 😄
worldly mantle
summer cedar
Lol, this food channel poster is inspiring. 🤣
summer cedar
@proud jay --- Moreover, Trump was reportedly not pleased that Machado accepted the Nobel Peace Prize, with two White House sources telling The Washington Post that her acceptance of the Prize had been the “ultimate sin” and that he lost interest in supporting her after this decision. ---
IF that report is true, how small can this fat orange be? I know, dumb question.
proud jay
not surprised tbh
fleet tangle
Didn't she dedicate it to him or something?
To butter him up to take the oil free Venezuela?
summer cedar
Yes. She also said she's grateful to him for brokering peace somewhere too.
But Donny no accept bigly sentiments.
proud jay
he is not for nought the FIFA peace prize winner
summer cedar
J00 stole my prize, he says.
fleet tangle
But Donny no accept bigly sentiments.
Pretty sure I heard he was grateful shrug
summer cedar
by the prize, yes.
proud jay
his good pal jeffrey can get them for a great price
summer cedar
Well, I figured out why I had Git installed all those months ago on my system... FINALLY.
The ComfyUI desktop app needed it for maintenance. 😅
proud jay
I have git cause I do software
also on my home pc it's default installed cause it's linux
worldly mantle
Make Oil Great Again
nothing about fentanyl or stolen oil 
https://www.justice.gov/opa/media/1422326/dl
proud jay
OIL ODIL PIIL
median wraith
Make Oil Great Again
proud jay
it's actually so dystopian that this kind of shit can just be generated like that
unborn lotus
now imagine when you won't be able to tell it's ai
worldly mantle
They are so many jobs being lost due to ai and its gonna get worse, been using chaptgpt for programming and unreal engine for 3 years now and its a great learning experience and reduce spending on devs
unborn lotus
I think bernie sanders raised some interesting questions about how human work will be devalued so much in the future. I bet billionaires that own the ai will basically be like lords in techno feudalism in 50-100 years
With complete power over everybody
proud jay
seems likely
fathom wadi
They are so many jobs being lost due to ai and its gonna get worse, been using c...
AI without a programmer who knows what they are asking for is still as terrible as coders who can't code. When it does get better then it will still take a good prompt to get anything out of it that is useable and doesn't waste time. Imagine not being able to code, making a prompt for what you want, then not understand why it doesn't work. It will waste more time than it saves.
proud jay
it's also not as impressive at coding as people make it out to be
or maybe it's just me idk
worldly mantle
Its machine learning nowdays, trial and error and it learn pretty darn fast compared to human, predict 10 years amazon will be run over 90% by ai as example
fathom wadi
it's also not as impressive at coding as people make it out to be
I have to say I was expecting worse, but with a solid prompt it's really good depending on which model you use. That being said I know my stuff so my prompts are usually tip top, and I can decipher where there are any discrepancies . I can't imagine how bad it is for someone who is using it with minimal coding skills tho.
worldly mantle
you will do a prompt for it to create a unreal engine game, wait a few days for it to complete, and in time it will get better and better until it will design a game humans works years in just a few days
fathom wadi
the length of a prompt to make a full game of any complexity will still take a great game developer to whittle out the inconsistencies and determine the full requirements. Just typing "make an unreal engine first person shooter" might generate something along the lines of the FPS template, but it would be devoid of anything useful that isn't already a template anyway.
unborn lotus
but people will flood the stores with thousands of those anyway
fathom wadi
they do that now anyway. Saturation in the game releases isn't full of quality by any means 🙂
worldly mantle
its already bad, for example publishing a game on steam might actually hurt sales and rep
fathom wadi
Back in the flash/swf days we were making templates for generic refactors and there was loads of trashloot games back then too
proud jay
kinda hoping LLM's and shit just die in a corner
I don't think they've added net value to society so far
fathom wadi
I beg to differ in my case. I've found it super useful and it's helped me be a better programmer just as a personal tutor would. Perhaps even better.
proud jay
I'm not saying there's nothing positive about it
just saying imo the negatives outweigh the positives as a whole
worldly mantle
problem is you might have a great idea and nice gameplay for your indie game but its gets stolen by some triple A game company, little innovation and what little is there is copy pasted
fathom wadi
Here is an example prompt I used to generate 3 functions which would have taken me days to write due to the complexity of what was required. A lot of it was math based and I have trouble with that, but with this prompt it generated the functions perfectly.
fathom wadi
you should see the result. It was crazy code
worldly mantle
that's nothing, save to memory, make adjustments to it what wants and not, your can write quite complex function still might need correcting
unborn lotus
problem is you might have a great idea and nice gameplay for your indie game but...
It sucks either way, if it's 10k shitty games per day that play the same (0% visibility for the real deal) or if ai can make something okay... Then like whats even the point anymore
worldly mantle
99% budget needs to go to marketing tbh
fathom wadi
{
// If A == B, distance is distance to A
const float ABx = Bx - Ax;
const float ABy = By - Ay;
const float ABlen2 = ABx * ABx + ABy * ABy;
if (ABlen2 <= UE_SMALL_NUMBER)
{
const float dx = Px - Ax;
const float dy = Py - Ay;
return FMath::Sqrt(dx * dx + dy * dy);
}
// Project AP onto AB, clamp between 0 and 1
const float APx = Px - Ax;
const float APy = Py - Ay;
const float t = FMath::Clamp((APx * ABx + APy * ABy) / ABlen2, 0.0f, 1.0f);
// Closest point
const float ClosestX = Ax + t * ABx;
const float ClosestY = Ay + t * ABy;
const float dx = Px - ClosestX;
const float dy = Py - ClosestY;
return FMath::Sqrt(dx * dx + dy * dy);
}``` this is one of the functions it generated from the prompt. I would have broken my brain writing this. 😄this is what's wrong with the world
worldly mantle
you might be selling water from the fountain of youth or even giving it for free but if nobody knows about it...
Gaben was clever got there first, why make valve games just take that 30%
unborn lotus
i think steam should do some sort of greenlight again
worldly mantle
almost 20 years still waiting for half-life 3 
unborn lotus
alyx is hl3 😋
worldly mantle
script was published to bad wed did not get an ending, some indie maybe like black mesa to get the story going
pearl elk
math lounge
fathom wadi
math lounge
yeah that sums it up. ho ho ho
errant raven
She seemed to have a quirky personality
The worst kind
median wraith
almost 20 years still waiting for half-life 3 <:laughcry:1316599405125566475>
almost 20 years? You mean more like almost 22
COD4 is almost 20 at this point
In 1 year
worldly mantle
episode 2 was released in 07 if i'm not mistaken
proud jay
only 18 years 2 months and 27 days since hl2ep2
fathom wadi
I missed playing HL:Alyx, which looked playable due to the VR element, but frankly I thought HL2 was generic. I spent more time staring at the leaked devkit than playing the game. It had some great tech though. I did play HL1 to death on PC and playstation though.
HL3 seems like the hype will be better than the game to me
worldly mantle
I missed playing HL:Alyx, which looked playable due to the VR element, but frank...
no old enough, hl2 had groud breaking physics engine for years to follow, the amount of modding can be compared to amount of games being released now on steam
pearl elk
that airboat had some really crap physics tbh
fathom wadi
the thing about games is, gameplay is king. I found a few interesting moments in HL2, but not enough to make it a classic imo. It's not a popular opinion but it felt like a glorified tech demo to me. People loved it tho
worldly mantle
the thing about games is, gameplay is king. I found a few interesting moments i...
depends when you played it, on release ?
worldly mantle
compared to what other games lol
only game to push the industry that followed was crysis
unborn lotus
i think the atmosphere and world building was great in hl2 + great puzzles, and the usual valve design of the levels
fathom wadi
thats not really true but it did have some good tech as I said. I mean we had Doom3 the same year and that tech was important. World of Warcraft released too which rewrote MMOs. Farcry released which did more for shrubbery than any other game until speedtree got good.
errant raven
Only worked there for one day and I can already tell working there with those people is going to be very difficult
I got sick so I've been out for a week
fathom wadi
Only worked there for one day and I can already tell working there with those pe...
what you working at ?
errant raven
They won't answer the store phone at all
pearl elk
errant raven
what you working at ?
Fuckin fast food
The general manager said everyone there sucked at communicating
fathom wadi
ugh. Well a job is a job. I hope its good food at least so you get all the free stuff
errant raven
I can see what the hell he meant
worldly mantle
I blame the consoles to downgrade that followed after Crysis, even Farcry 2 had to keep up and its better then followup games
errant raven
I've called many times they only time they answered is when I had to call out to do having the flu
worldly mantle
I've called many times they only time they answered is when I had to call out to...
Hear EU is investing 7 billions to counter disinformation, might get a job as a bot shitposting propaganda
errant raven
I don't live in the EU
fathom wadi
am I the only one who finds governments investing in countering disinformation a little ironic? 😄
errant raven
Nor do I care for a censorship heavy body of government
Or their shitty socialist beliefs
pearl elk
well keep working fast food, wait for the trickle down
fathom wadi
lol
worldly mantle
They pay a lot of money to just comment krap on twitter, facebook etc
fathom wadi
that was so sardonic I really laughed out loud
worldly mantle
wait till china make these 100x cheaper then fast food jobs gone #lounge message
summer cedar
kinda hoping LLM's and shit just die in a corner
I certainly hope not, given I spent two hours fixing everything that was wrong with my ComfyUI installation and THEN figuring out how to use the new IPAdapter Advanced module. Thankfully, the python code didn't screw anything up this time. 😄
errant raven
Once I find a job at a factory I'm switching to it
fathom wadi
They recently opened a Wendy's in my town. Took the family and I have to say, that was some good trashloot fodder. Their cheese sauce is ridiculously nice
worldly mantle
you can always go onlyfans hear they give visas to top rated models to come to us 😂
errant raven
Now's a better time than anyto work on a 401k and still have enough revenue coming in to put into a generic savings account
pearl elk
I feel like onlyfans and wendys cheese sauce is a winning combo
fathom wadi
I'd subscribe to that
errant raven
Why the fuck do I still have a sore throat and runny nose
fathom wadi
errant raven
There's no way in hell the symptoms last this long after the main infection happens
pearl elk
who needs a house when you can buy DRAM
worldly mantle
read uk oil industry does not contribue half of taxes as much as of does 😁
worldly mantle
good thing us has free medical care right
fathom wadi
sounds bad. Have you had your bloods checked for thyroid disruption?
fathom wadi
its what regulates your immune system
fathom wadi
sick for a year though sounds a little much
yeah vitamin D also if you are a night owl like me
errant raven
It's only been two weeks
worldly mantle
eat nuts
fathom wadi
oh you said all year I thought you meant a year 😄
errant raven
oh you said all year I thought you meant a year 😄
This year has only been for about 6 days now
errant raven
hows that healthcare working for you
What is going to the doctor for the flu gonna do
fathom wadi
a year is only 88 days on mercury. so 6 days is a fair chunk
errant raven
Give me slightly higher doses of ibuprofen and a bottle of water?
pearl elk
depends if its bacterial or viral
pearl elk
could be super covid
errant raven
No my sense of smell didn't leave again
pearl elk
keep a stapler handy incase your head starts to fall off your shoulders
fathom wadi
covid almost killed me, but I've not been sick since
worldly mantle
US population doing so great they just had to improve life in Venezuela
mild gust
It's not april already is it?
https://x.com/Razer/status/2008543615916666928?s=20
X
fathom wadi
Theodore Roosevelt once said "Comparison is the thief of joy", but I preferred his other sayings.
pearl elk
It's not april already is it?
https://x.com/Razer/status/2008543615916666928?s=...
a tiny slave in a jar, just what every capitalist needs
mild gust
What's not to love
fathom wadi
I'd love my own AI but I need some cash to spend on hardware so I write it. I don't really want someone else's AI that I cannot train to do things.
pearl elk
I have a few AIs but why would I need them to have holographic bodies
its bad enough to have to talk to them
fathom wadi
free mocap
pearl elk
"hey honey how are yo...." OFF
pearl elk
If I want a pet human I'll just buy one of those 😛
mild gust
Mr. Grummz
pearl elk
I feel like CES is a pretty big waste of time this year, they shoulda just called it off and used the money to make more DRAM
mild gust
Why make more DRAM when they can make more money
fathom wadi
I would get two of those and have them project Tenacious D and play random D songs on the hour, every hour to cheer me up
mild gust
Hell yeah
worldly mantle
rather wait for bladerunner type of companion 😂
pearl elk
someone likes their holograms very yuge
mild gust
Not yet soon
summer cedar
Cool. 🙂
I am running my GPU at max load generating images.
But, temps aren't going above 72C. Fractal Torrent cooling ftw. 😄
Tell you what, I am happy with the stability of ComfyUI and the model loaded on my 4060Ti.
It hasn't crashed even once so far and I have loaded/unloaded 3 models and tried a whole variety of variations.
This is good python juju.
mild gust
You remind me I need to repaste my older pcs
summer cedar
Tell a chipmunk to do it.
mild gust
He would probably try to make a nest in it
mild gust
Pretty sure someone tried peanut butter as thermal paste
Didn't go too well
Coming to any RTX gpu near you, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rnjawJ_QDc
DLSS 4.5
cursive crypt
Coming to any RTX gpu near you, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rnjawJ_QDc
Tried dlss/dlaa in expedition33... it sucked hard, especially lights and hair, the ghosting was awful.
mild gust
Tried dlss/dlaa in expedition33... it sucked hard, especially lights and hair, t...
But 4.5 should fix it!
summer cedar
But 4.5 should fix it!
This has been quite the learning experience. In ComfyUI, you can drag and drop a previously generated image to get all the parameters that produced it.
So, even if you make several changes to your existing workflow, you can always retrieve the best settings from a batch of generated images in a new workflow window.
VERY convenient.
summer cedar
Reply, "Poop on it some more."
proud jay
Coming to any RTX gpu near you, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rnjawJ_QDc
they're not fake, they're "alternative" frames
and you only have to pay 7000 bucks for a gpu to support it
celest musk
5000 soonish if the predictions are true
proud jay
I'm still rocking my gtx1070ti, so I'm good
errant raven
Since when is full time 8-24 hours a week
Applied for full time, they agreed to full time
What fuckery is this
proud jay
Since when is full time 8-24 hours a week
if you're a teacher I guess maybe?
errant raven
But school is Monday through Friday
8 hours a day
They're salary based so hours worked don't matter anyways they get paid the same
proud jay
sedondary school teacher here is full time with 22 hours of teaching
of course you have work in between though
fleet tangle
Controlled by Ender himself.
white oxide
i mean nukes one shot the enemy hq
so yeah
warp it into range and blow them away
and has enough anti-light turrets to defend against fighters
white oxide
and then theres this fugly thing
