lounge

[median wraith]

well virtual shadow maps still uses virtual textures tech

but lumen can work without it from what I know

[summer cedar]

Not just him. All of the big tech bros.

[summer cedar]

Gemini says VSM is kind of essential for Nanite to work well with Lumen, otherwise there's a big performance drop.

Lumen CAN work without VSM, but not recommended.

*Evening walk time 🚶‍♂️ *

[median wraith]

Yeah nanite is a different thing

we were talking about Lumen purely

[median wraith]

have a nice walk sir

[summer cedar]

I will walk quickly. I want to watch the remaining videos. 😄

[median wraith]

someone knows how those old pictures with movement water cascades are called?

[celest musk]

???

[median wraith]

never seem those pictures with some kind of flowmap effect in the river etc?

with a light in the background

[celest musk]

still not sure what you are talking about 😄

[summer cedar]

Motion Waterfall Pictures or Lighted Motion Pictures?

[celest musk]

i had these cards in mind that you can flip to see different images and wondered if they use water

[median wraith]

there you go

[celest musk]

but they clearly use IOR hacks i guess

[summer cedar]

I asked Gemini. 😄

[median wraith]

so how you make those in the digital images

bet with flowmaps

[celest musk]

what did they do tho?

all i can find is pictures which are backlit

like this thing

[median wraith]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0Wr0TEPfvo

yep

kinetic picture

[celest musk]

ah ok

for material you can just use a panner to move noise over the image 🤷

together with a mask to maskout the water area

thought the same

aren't they loud AF?

[median wraith]

my father had one

but it was close to the fishes tank

the fish tank had more noise going on

never figured out it was like that inside

old light bulbs and those cilinder lights makes as much noise as the engine maybe

[celest musk]

damn i want a fishtank now...

but without fish

just plants xD

[median wraith]

well is an option

[celest musk]

is that something people do?

[median wraith]

usually the real fish ones don't have real plants, so you can make one of real plants without fish

[celest musk]

see, i love pets, but i don't want to loose them at some point

so might aswell not get them to begin with

maybe some snails 🤔

they might be okay in a tank, and not give a fuck, and clean the glass

[median wraith]

those that clear the glass yeah

but usually aren't snails are they?

they had a name

is some kind of fish

[celest musk]

For fish tank cleaning, Nerite Snails are top-tier algae eaters for glass, decor, and tough spots, while Mystery Snails clean algae and decaying plants, and Malaysian Trumpet Snails (MTS) sift substrate; other good options include Ramshorn and Japanese Trapdoor Snails, all helping with algae and detritus without harming plants, though Nerites are best for not overpopulating freshwater tanks

[median wraith]

you have to adapt also to the kind of water source you have

and temps

whatever you want cold water things but you live in Cuba is a no no

[celest musk]

ideally no pump and heating

not sure if there's plants which would survive that

[median wraith]

you need a pump

because you need the water flow

and oxygen

are small things so don't worry about that

you can turn them it off some hours

get some eletric swtich you can program for the connector and thats it

[celest musk]

maybe i'll just put in some sand and rocks 😛

that would be so sad... but low maintenance xD

[median wraith]

well its just once a month to check it all

[celest musk]

i don't even water my plants once a month

[median wraith]

hahaha

[celest musk]

and i'm surprised that they are still not dead

[median wraith]

then cactus

[celest musk]

ok, maybe they are by now

[median wraith]

oh!

[celest musk]

guess i need new ones this summer

[median wraith]

I know something you will like then

[celest musk]

just checked on them first time in weeks xD

[median wraith]

get one of those

they create vapor themselves and use it

[celest musk]

they are usually very small, not?

[median wraith]

you only put water once per month or so

it depends

we have a big store here that sell big ones too

half meter or so

[celest musk]

nah, i like normal plants

[celest musk]

but they got to be tough

how did we get sidetracked so much

i was watching the raytracing video, paused, and now i'm watching videos about fish tanks xD

the 02 video from the other guy is good, too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIxKo8k81XY

maybe too informative

do i really want to know the flaws and not unsee them in the future?! 😄

[median wraith]

oh lord the same GPU

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/we're-independent-thinkers-roger-roger-b1-battle-droid-star-wars-separatists-gif-63547133892915330

[summer cedar]

#food message - I walked quickly, but then realised I needed food. So, I stopped for dinner.

Time to watch Lumen secrets 02.

New learnings:
Ray casting - a ray is cast from the CAMERA first, not the light source.
Bounding Volume Hierarchy - BVH.

Cool 😍

Bring your own bottle though.
Those are tariffed and very expensive to import.

[proud jay]

look at you with the fancy spoon

[summer cedar]

Yes. And like everything else fancy, it was too big to use. It's the serving spoon. 🙂

[proud jay]

well of course, otherwise you're wasting a bunch of rays that the camera is never gonna see

[summer cedar]

Cojject.

So Lumen DOESN'T raycast. 🤔
Interesting.

I'll have to explore this G-Buffer thingamajig in detail.

02 done. This H-Trace needs further googling.

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/sci-fi-oxyg-oxygen-wifi-oxygen-or-wifi-gif-6156168645060121702

[summer cedar]

Wait. H-Trace is for UNITY?!!! 😱

Damn, apparently it is. 🤦‍♂️

Excitement = excitement - 1

Ok. On to 03.1 video.

[median wraith]

450€

Two HDD

Oh man

[summer cedar]

Go to Thailand.

[proud jay]

excitement-- for cool people

[summer cedar]

United people, apparently.

[proud jay]

are they 24TB?

[summer cedar]

So, indoor pathtracing is more complex than outdoor raytracing. 🤔 Interesting. Still, I struggle to understand exactly why. It's not like Lumen KNOWS the difference between indoors and outdoors.

Ah, Gemini. 🙂 More bouncies indoors.

So, Lumen can use HRT to mimic Pathtracing for indoor scenes. 🤔

So, in distance fields, 200m is near field and 1km is far field. 🤔 New learnings today.

[soft night]

Hevedy Trace or Hev Trace when hevedy have detective office work

[summer cedar]

Hevedy Trace is only for Unity.

There must be an invasion as revenge! ✊

[median wraith]

6TB each

they rised the prices 100€ each

this marketing should be illegal

[summer cedar]

Is it fake?

[median wraith]

yeah

They show the original game and a modded one

and pretend it is due RTX

[summer cedar]

Oh, is this RTX Remixed?

The thing we discussed before?

[median wraith]

No is a custom game they made for this

using the old Source

[summer cedar]

Oh.

Damn. Yeah, that's illegal.

[median wraith]

but have new models and new shit

[soft night]

well rtx remixed the game

[median wraith]

you can tell the foliage and build etc

[summer cedar]

Yeah, if it's a custom game, then it's deceptive representation.

[median wraith]

you need this standalone

and its only like 2 levels

[summer cedar]

Oh, it's legal, Hevedy.

That's RTX Remix.

See description.

[median wraith]

how the hell that will be legal

[summer cedar]

They used RTX Remix.

So, RTX On in the marketing is fine.

It's using NVidia's tech entirely.

[median wraith]

is a whole new package

[summer cedar]

Yep.

[median wraith]

its like saying Gmod isn't a game standalone

are total different products

[summer cedar]

But it says you need to own HL 2.

You can't just get this separately. No problems then.

And it's free. So.

[median wraith]

illegal marketing

[summer cedar]

nope.

You'll have to mod the law to make it so. 😛

[soft night]

there is portal one too for RTX

[summer cedar]

I think I've heard of that. Is it old or new?

[median wraith]

it was before of this

same thing

[soft night]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2012840/Portal_with_RTX/

Steam

Portal with RTX

Portal with RTX is a free DLC for all Portal owners developed by NVIDIA Lightspeed Studios. Experience the critically acclaimed and award-winning Portal™ reimagined with ray tracing and NVIDIA DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation Every frame of gameplay is upgraded with stunning full ray tracing, new, hand-crafted hi-res physically based textur…

[summer cedar]

Yeah, I thought I had seen it a while ago.

Cojject. And my first google search says Valve owns the rights to Half-Life.

So, if they permitted its listing, they're fine with it.

Time to start re-mixing @median wraith !!! Make some moolah! 💰

Oh look! I've half-life 2 in my library.

Time to get this remix. 😄

Oh fart! FORTY TWO GB????!!!!!!

Okay, I'll get it later. 🐱

[soft night]

openUSD so it detect the asset on game what get update it change that asset

[summer cedar]

Yep. That's how RTX Remix works.

Very cool.

03.2 was a bit complicated for me, but still very informative.

Time for the last one so far, 03.3.

Is Radiance caching enabled in Lumen by default?

[median wraith]

lol

[soft night]

ask claude

[summer cedar]

I could, but since I have you around, I thought I'd trouble you first.

[median wraith]

but feels absurd to have both at that FPS

[summer cedar]

What game is that? Doom?

[soft night]

https://giphy.com/gifs/splashdw-stephen-fry-bertie-wooster-pg-wodehouse-iFjDBMX9Wsi5YVaqwQ

[median wraith]

yep

[summer cedar]

What resolution is the guy playing at?

[median wraith]

1440p

seems like the difference isn't much yeah specially in this resolution when the nvidia one start to get lost

[summer cedar]

🤔 I remember playing Dark Ages (it's on my channel too) at that resolution.

[median wraith]

8GB by 2025 GPU

[summer cedar]

I had higher frame rates with 4060ti.

[median wraith]

what are they thinking

https://klipy.com/gifs/monster-versus-1

[summer cedar]

Link the video.

[median wraith]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEFjpGiXc6w

12FPS on Stalker 2

[summer cedar]

Ah, I bet he had DLSS turned off.

[median wraith]

Unreal going unreal with the VRAM limits

[summer cedar]

These were stock frame rates.

Makes sense if so.

[median wraith]

https://klipy.com/gifs/el-risitas-juan-joya-borja-1

you can tell the whole issue is the VRAM

and UE5 is failing on that topic

[summer cedar]

Not in Avowed and Claire Obscur though.

Or Obli remaster.

[median wraith]

let me see

[summer cedar]

Or Kingdom Come.

Or Space Marine 2.

[median wraith]

Kingdom Come is Cryengine

neither space marine 2

Elder Scrolls don't run fully on UE5

[summer cedar]

Hmm. Radiance Cache is enabled by default. Irradiance Cache was introduced by Epic in 5.6. That's not enabled by default.

[median wraith]

only a side of it or something

[summer cedar]

🤔 Interesting.

Avowed is UE 5 though.

[median wraith]

also its using scaling it says

[summer cedar]

So is Sarah. I mean, Claire.

Yeah, DLSS must. 😄

[median wraith]

Avowed isn't using photoscans etc

[summer cedar]

Soon, frame-gen will also be must.

[pearl elk]

Why no big battlemage Intel 😭

[summer cedar]

So, radiance cache IS surface cache. It's basically the same thing by different names.

Kwool.

[summer cedar]

Because Jagar Tharn objected.

🥁

[unborn lotus]

I would buy that 48gb one

[summer cedar]

Did they make one?

[unborn lotus]

They did but nowhere to be bought yet

[pearl elk]

Neural radiance caching

[summer cedar]

I'll get the rights for ES: Arena from God Todd and remix it using RTX Remix. 😄 The first game.

[pearl elk]

Toddenham scrolls

[summer cedar]

Oh someone's doing it.

OpenTESArena.

[pearl elk]

Tesseract

[median wraith]

technically I purchased one of the worst

the 3070 vs 3070 TI

that came with the same amount of VRAM

[summer cedar]

And now you want to penny pinch and purchase ANOTHER non-TI. 😛

[median wraith]

no no

I did get the actual TI

and was the same amount of VRAM

just it came with GDRR6X

Porn version of VRAM

[summer cedar]

So, your device no longer boots erect, and you want to downgrade to non-porn?

Holy moly, batman!

[median wraith]

isn't even comparable lol

[summer cedar]

One's for gaming, the other for movie rendering. Still....

[median wraith]

the radiance caching is just an aprox

in a grid

so technically is more like LPV

[summer cedar]

Yes, path tracing uses individual rays and returns accurate information.

[median wraith]

and the actual Cryengine LPV costed less than that

maybe at this point cost 1ms or less

but in ue4 cost like 2ms

[summer cedar]

Well, if H-Trace had been for UE, it might have performed better.

But it's only for Unity. 😭

[pearl elk]

Monte carlos taste better than radiance caching

[summer cedar]

They'd better, given how much time they take to render.

[pearl elk]

NeRFs

[summer cedar]

Another 17 minutes left in the video.

[pearl elk]

If you lose russian roulette you get gaussian splattering

[summer cedar]

I am a more enlightened person than I was in the afternoon.

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/and-theres-your-enlightenment-your-enlightenment-insight-undertsanding-awareness-gif-12587424

[pearl elk]

https://tenor.com/view/enlighten-enlighten-me-illuminate-explain-walken-gif-18511903

[summer cedar]

So, is higher Adaptive Sampling more expensive or is it inverted?

🤔 Irradiance Atlas. Intewesting.

So, do we insert Screen space probes and World space probes ourselves, or is that done automatically?

I will play probe level immediately.

Ok. I hope Mark Itekta releases more lessons soon. Those videos were very nice.

Sarkamari is better, but still... good stuff.

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/mordin-mordin-think's-mass-effect-mordin-solus-gif-3469816563600908844

[summer cedar]

Or I can ask GPT. 😛 😛 😛

I'll check these out.

[soft night]

ponkkis did you got the news of donut lab

the nordic nano group start making those solid state batteries in imatra and actually its located very close to me

yeah

verge motorbikes seems nice as we have the street racing for motorbike in summer

ponkkis as some markets went bankcrup as because they was focused to russia tourism so reusing the buiildong for very difference make sense

[summer cedar]

@mild gust 👋

You should be awake by now.

@median wraith In my e-mails.....

...Epic thinks I am Portuguese.

[median wraith]

Lol

[pearl elk]

jai dev

[summer cedar]

So, I am Spanish in the launcher.

And Portuguese in the receipts.

[summer cedar]

One word. 😄

But correct split for pronunciation.

[unborn lotus]

he changed his name legally for that

[median wraith]

You actually looks from Brazil

[summer cedar]

I am also from Sri Lanka.

And according to someone else, sound like a Canadian.

Truly, I am Divine.

All are in me and I am in everyone.

[pearl elk]

oh you sound like a Canadian, Im sorry for your loss 😛

[summer cedar]

🤷‍♂️

[pearl elk]

could be worse, could sound like a New Zealander

[summer cedar]

at least not an Australian. 😛

[pearl elk]

with all that multicultralism you could pass for one

[summer cedar]

Pretty sure I'd pass for anyone anywhere and at this point, even the Africans might think of me as one of them. 🤣

Truly, Divinity is omnipresent.

[pearl elk]

you might have trouble fooling the locals here 😅

[summer cedar]

What? They'd ever trouble an aboriginal like myself? 😛 WOULD THEY DARE?!

[pearl elk]

time to learn 1000 odd dialects aye

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/themortalinstruments-rude-gif-5402161

[summer cedar]

@proud jay https://www.livemint.com/news/world/trump-threatens-tariffs-on-countries-that-dont-support-his-greenland-takeover-dreams-11768578106662.html

Fair warning, Belgium!

Probably us here, too.

I wonder if he'll tariff Greenland and Denmark for not endorsing his plan to take over Greenland and Denmark.

[soft night]

so tariff for russia too?

[summer cedar]

threat of tariff, yes.

--- Peskov added that Trump “has said that international law is not a priority for him. The situation is developing along a different trajectory, and we, along with the rest of the world, will be watching to see which one.” ---

I recant my statement.

I guess Russia will just change statements and say that Trump's idea is great. So no tariff for them.

[pearl elk]

This will be a vicious cycle, the US wouldnt need this security if they didnt have bases all over the world threatening the sovereignty of other nations. There is no deesculation that can happen under leaders lke the world has currently, maybe once they all die we can move past all this post-WW2 hysteria

[summer cedar]

They have bigger problems. Check out the latest reporting on WHY the US hasn't whacked Iran yet.

Their military capacity has problems, as was hinted at earlier through other intel sources.

Who knew that bombs, missiles, and other capacities were limited? SHOCKING!

[pearl elk]

US hasnt whacked Iran because it staged whats going on there currently?

Tehran was all ready to go toe to toe with Israel just a few months back now look, funny timing

[summer cedar]

No. It's a capacity issue. Check the reporting.

[pearl elk]

they dont report on black ops

[summer cedar]

I suspected it two days ago. But interesting to see it confirmed by their own people.

[pearl elk]

CIA is operating in Iran, thats why there is no strike

[summer cedar]

Nope.

His military advisors informed him that they have cap. issues.

[pearl elk]

nice cover

[summer cedar]

--- “Nobody convinced me. I convinced myself,” Trump said. “You had yesterday scheduled over 800 hangings. They didn’t hang anyone. They cancelled the hangings. That had a big impact.” --- Trump on not hitting Iran. 🙂

So, the opposite must be true. 😄

[white oxide]

laughs in team blue

[summer cedar]

Another day, another vulnerability.

La, la, lala! 🎶

[mild gust]

What's next tacos in a box.

[summer cedar]

He has conveyed his 'respect' to the regime.

I suppose tacos are inevitable.

[pearl elk]

ICE would deport them for looking suspicious

[white oxide]

im also so glad that i am not important enough to get targeted by an exploit and dont have team red gear in any active pc's

[mild gust]

That's why you call them freedom tacos

[white oxide]

if i wasnt disabled the sign on bonuses for ICE look enticing

but then im also not eligable for the draft...

[mild gust]

Work at a desk

[white oxide]

they need agents for the tackling of illegals outside home depot

and at 6'4 im plenty big enough to tackle

[summer cedar]

--- “no mercy” will be shown to “rioters”. --- I think Trump's going to be disappointed in Iran, sadly.

Not that it isn't to be expected, but still.....

[pearl elk]

I feel like its a race to see who can hang more rioter

[white oxide]

https://youtu.be/s8hEtI9AI0U

[summer cedar]

Oh, USA will lose that.

Iran has set up a fast-track court.

[white oxide]

yeah

[mild gust]

Yeah they win

Because Sharia

[pearl elk]

making hanging great again

[white oxide]

also we dont execute by hanging as its considered inhumane

[summer cedar]

And they've chosen a judge with a suitably LOOOOONGGGGG name to preside over these urgent cases.

[pearl elk]

cmon USA you can do it, witch trials v2

[white oxide]

lethal injection supposedly is, but its also absurdly painful and routinely goes wrong

[mild gust]

Good

[white oxide]

nothing like a long fall, quick snap and done

[mild gust]

Why should someone getting lethal injection be comformtable

[white oxide]

because the ACLU is a bunch of pansies

[pearl elk]

just kneel on someones neck, saves needing a rope I suppose

[white oxide]

lol

[summer cedar]

Don't worry. RFK and Trump's 'Great Healthcare Plan' will substitute hangings.

What were those meal ingredients? Brocolli, soup, and 'something else'?

I forget.

[white oxide]

nah why waste rope? just find an empty pool with a really high dive and throw them into the bottom

easy to power wash

[summer cedar]

It's SUPPOSED to be. 🤮

[mild gust]

Right

Make them suffer

Like they made others suffer

[summer cedar]

They do though.

[mild gust]

Why have sympathy for someone who had none for others

[summer cedar]

Turns out that whole process doesn't 'quite' work out as advertised.

[mild gust]

Maybe they should try our MAID system

Works great

We get to harvest your organs after to

[summer cedar]

Meanwhile, Trump is distracted by tariffs over Greenland.

[pearl elk]

are harvested organs kosher?

[summer cedar]

Lucifer, tell Carney to say taking Greenland is a GREAT idea.

[mild gust]

Sure it's possible

[white oxide]

so maybe the LEXX method of execution?

[mild gust]

He won't

He's too busy sucking up to China

[summer cedar]

Oh yeah, I read that.

[white oxide]

just attach them to a big rail that extracts organs and feeds the remainder to a giant planet killing organic warship?

[summer cedar]

Also, China is funnelling its MASSIVE trade surplus into buying foreign assets.

Not debt, but property, machinery, people, etc. etc.

[white oxide]

https://tenor.com/view/lexx-90s-space-scifi-gif-27038756

[summer cedar]

I bet maple syrup will be renamed Mai Pzu Si Rup.

[mild gust]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zGqQWEp6uE

Guy brings Scott Moe and gets side eyed

[white oxide]

lexx is the only technically horror series that actually made me actively uncomfortable

[summer cedar]

Welcome to Toronzhu and Vancong!

[white oxide]

like im fine with splatter films but that show

[mild gust]

China is slowly taking control of Prince Edward Island

[summer cedar]

Given how Trump is behaving, people won't mind really.

[mild gust]

If Trump really cares about security in the west he would do something about that

[summer cedar]

It's like, China is looking like a better ally every day.

[summer cedar]

W00t? Why? He's already given special permission to them to get NVidia's chips, even though China said it's banned in Chinese customs.

He'll just strike a deal for more IP money or something for his family.

[pearl elk]

meanwhile the US sells more and more of the games industry off in the name of making itself great again 😅

[summer cedar]

THAT was always a bit inevitable. It's cheaper to make games in China and India.

India was already making many video games via outsourcing, without overt credit.

So, yeah, cost management would have meant they'd have shut down in the US eventually and moved out.

Not to mention how UE has democratised game making for even poorer devs in poorer countries.

[summer cedar]

Uganda had elections and 7 people were killed in it. Next US target?

[mild gust]

Sudan

[summer cedar]

Oh? What happened there?

[mild gust]

Idk

They will make something up

[summer cedar]

😄

[pearl elk]

isnt it cheaper to make anything in those countries

[summer cedar]

Almost. Don't explain that to Orange Fuhrer.

He thinks we pay his tariffs.

[pearl elk]

that said there is still alot of outsourcing to third world countries with even weaker worker protections

vietnam make heaps of stuff

[summer cedar]

Yep. Even India will lose out eventually to other countries, especially African ones in the next ten-fifteen years.

They are developing steadily, some of them, aye.

[pearl elk]

I think even China got in a huff over people choosing Vietnam over them because it was cheaper

[summer cedar]

Yeah, coming on the back of their employment and realty problems.

But then again, they already had much higher wages than India, so they must've anticipated it.

I mean, their leaders are ACTUALLY educated. So....

[mild gust]

Wait you can have educated leaders?

[summer cedar]

I know. Shocking.

[mild gust]

We got 59km/ hr winds here today

[summer cedar]

So, in the Sino-Maple trade deal, you guys get EVs from China and sell them Canola oil?

[pearl elk]

its best not to have educated leaders though

[summer cedar]

Try not to fly away.

[mild gust]

Then you can invade what ever you want

[pearl elk]

then you can deny sending drones to kill Putin on xmas day

uggggh... I dunno

[mild gust]

https://tenor.com/view/trump-shrug-smile-idk-i-dont-know-gif-16515321

[summer cedar]

Meanwhile, there was a big fire in Seoul.

Totally ordinary fire, nothing militaristic.

[mild gust]

Not China this time?

[summer cedar]

No. And answer this - #lounge message

[pearl elk]

theres always a fire in my soul

[mild gust]

Oh yeah probably

[summer cedar]

Your fire was extinguished by the CIA.

[mild gust]

Doug Ford is mad about it

He doesn't want Chinese EVs

[summer cedar]

He's still at it?

[mild gust]

To be fair most Canadians don't

[summer cedar]

🤣

[mild gust]

They won't work

They will barely function here in winter.

Lol

Teslas barely function

[summer cedar]

Oh yeah

[pearl elk]

I wonder if Tesla will stop building cars in China after the door handle ban

[summer cedar]

That problem STILL exists in EVs?

[mild gust]

100%

[pearl elk]

the fire was in Gangnam

[summer cedar]

Dang. I guess that's why China makes smoking batteries.

[pearl elk]

https://tenor.com/view/gangnam-style-gif-7933004733129289462

[summer cedar]

It's a FEATURE just for winters.

[mild gust]

It's the Lithium batteries.

They are poorly made

[summer cedar]

Serious question. Do you know what that song was really about? 😄

[mild gust]

Why do you think they made that shitty SUV that has an ejectable battery.

[pearl elk]

Nirvana did a song about this

[summer cedar]

Naw! It's made to smoke and be hot because of your winters.

[mild gust]

Bring it back

[pearl elk]

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

[mild gust]

Canadian governments act was ruled unlawful, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygPwhxjJLQ4

Illegally seizing peoples bank accounts etc

[summer cedar]

Yekscellent!

[mild gust]

No that Christia Freeland cares

[summer cedar]

All these power-hungry m0rons.

[mild gust]

She's going to work in Ukraine now

[summer cedar]

That idiot Trudeau screwed up Maple-Indo relations for his own electoral ambitions.

[mild gust]

Because her grandparents were Ukrainian so.

So she's moving back there

[summer cedar]

Er....

Is that wise?

[mild gust]

🤷

[summer cedar]

@pearl elk #lounge message

[mild gust]

Kyiv lost power recently I say not likely a good idea.

[summer cedar]

So, who's sending Ukraine more energy?

Reports say they have twenty days of reserves left, only.

[mild gust]

No one probably

West may give up

[summer cedar]

Lord Shirtless Bear purposely targetted their power plants and infra.

[mild gust]

Even though Ukrainians have kept Russia at bay for years and they have bearly gained any ground.

[summer cedar]

Like, tens of kilometres or something so far.

[mild gust]

Heck even lost ground

In many areas

Ukraine pushed them back

😂

[summer cedar]

I wonder if that journalist and newspaper in Russia, who wrote that realistic editorial, have flown out a window yet.

[mild gust]

Like wow

[pearl elk]

its a reference to the medication, mood and suicidal feelings

[mild gust]

What a banger

Makes me want to do Lithium

[summer cedar]

Akshually, I was surprised when a Korean student explained this to me. Apparently, Gangham is an area in S.K. where the VERY affluent live.

[proud jay]

banger? I barely know 'er

[pearl elk]

definitely was for him, blew his whole head off

[proud jay]

like batteries?

[summer cedar]

That whole p*nis dancing song is actually about income discrimination. I was surprised to learn that.

[mild gust]

Allegedly

Or Courtney Love did it

[mild gust]

Uh kinda

[mild gust]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ey8LVUupy34

[proud jay]

https://youtu.be/8amtq5aXRL8

[summer cedar]

That one I haven't listened to.

You can explain it to me in detail.

Please provide Gemini level deep research notes.

[pearl elk]

oh right, that song... I figured it was like yanks who sing about going to The Yams (Miami)

[summer cedar]

I thought along similar lines when I first saw it. Apparently, in Korean, it's a whole different thing.

Meanwhile, India is busy flipping the birdie to Trump.

Latest news: We refused to abandon the port in Iran. 😄

[pearl elk]

you guys should do a Bollywood movie about Trump

it'll be epic

[summer cedar]

what makes you think we won't? 😄

[mild gust]

Make a video game to

[summer cedar]

After this saga is over. It'll be Modi vs Trump or something. Trilogy.

[pearl elk]

I heard a funny joke the other day

at what point does Trumps tan become black face?

[summer cedar]

Oh oh.

[mild gust]

When he hangs out with Trudeau too much

[summer cedar]

When? 😄

Cal?

When?

[pearl elk]

its not a knock knock 😛

[mild gust]

When they go on double dates with him and Katy Perry

https://people.com/katy-perry-kisses-boyfriend-justin-trudeau-in-holidaze-photo-dump-11881292

[summer cedar]

While I am pleased India is playing hard ball with the US, it does make me a bit antsy.

It's not in our nature to be aggressive as a policy.

Feels weird to be... different. 😄

[pearl elk]

just wait till you have to play hardball with JD Vance

[summer cedar]

Oh, that's easy. Just send him his own couch f*ing memes.

[pearl elk]

I dont think Ive ever seen that guy actually smile, its always that evil grin

[summer cedar]

--- In 2024, India had signed a 10-year contract with Iran under which the state-run India Ports Global Ltd (IPGL) committed investments of $370 million in Chabahar, underscoring the long-term nature of New Delhi's plans at the port.

For India, Chabahar is far more than a commercial venture. The port is central to New Delhi's connectivity strategy, offering access to the Indian Ocean and providing a crucial route to Afghanistan and Central Asia while bypassing Pakistan. ---

[pearl elk]

its like Im angry and its my happy place

[summer cedar]

Explains why we are going to keep it, no matter what Trump wants.

[mild gust]

Did you see him on Halloween?

[summer cedar]

He certainly has that perennially unhappy-forced happy smile, yes.

[mild gust]

He smiled when playing the meme version of himself

[summer cedar]

Btw, we did something idiotic today.

We got rid of an entire attire because it represents 'colonial mindsets'.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/15/is-it-the-end-of-the-line-for-one-of-indias-most-distinctive-garments

[pearl elk]

https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2025/10/1024/512/split-image-of-jd-vance-halloween-costume.jpg?ve=1&tl=1

[mild gust]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/tKb3HgY7aOg

[summer cedar]

Fun fact: The bandhgala is NOT British.

It's Mughal. 😄

[pearl elk]

this is precisely what I mean, he's smiling on the outside but looks like he's ready to murder some bros

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/blue-beetle-yet-im-okay-w-ith-that-superhero-gif-17249097

[mild gust]

Make it great again

[summer cedar]

Well, he is.

The Danish dudes will tell you.

He totally wants Greenland.

[pearl elk]

just send him in solo Greenland

I bet they'll find him years later alive in a polar bear suit

[summer cedar]

Hey, Cal, I just realised something.

JD Vance has visited Greeland once, right?

[soft night]

windus will send the marsian ship

[summer cedar]

And now Greenland is threatened by an invasion, right?

[pearl elk]

oh I thought you were gonna say you realised it was Hevedys birthday

[summer cedar]

It's the curse of Vance.

[mild gust]

He went w/ his wife

[summer cedar]

Killed the pope.

Started a war.

Now doomed Greenland.

It's the curse of Vance. 👻

[pearl elk]

Sir Vance Alot

[summer cedar]

I hope Vance never visits Epic.

We'll probably lose Unreal shortly afterwards.

[pearl elk]

Unity will buy Epic

[mild gust]

Dw it's not even on his radar

[summer cedar]

Don't jinx it, Lucifer.

Don't you dare! 😛

[mild gust]

He's looking for another Indian wife

[pearl elk]

or maybe Vance did visit and thats why Epics new HQ isnt done

[summer cedar]

Okay, Epic launcher got updated TWICE today.

[mild gust]

He got to Tim!

[pearl elk]

updated then rolled back

[summer cedar]

Ah, I think not. It was for the Fab sale announcement, I think.

Until 20th Jan.

[mild gust]

Sale more like bail

[summer cedar]

Or mebbe not. I saw these discounts yesterday.

Ah, no. I was right.

Carousel has changed in Fab shop.

[mild gust]

It's been the same sale what you mean

[summer cedar]

Yeah, the sale's same, but they added pretty pics and stuff.

[pearl elk]

MUGA

[mild gust]

There has been a lot of sales recently

Feel like there was just Christmas sale

[pearl elk]

does anyone else hate how the launcher is so inconsistent between tabs?

[summer cedar]

New Year Sale, 70% off until 20th.

I don't quite see 70% though.

So......

[pearl elk]

like why is the sidebar different from the main content

[summer cedar]

I THINK the Fab part is connecting to a separate app/tool.

If I remember the UE presentation last time, they said Fab is launched separately on the mobile as a distinct tool from EGS.

I might be wrong. Whatever. 🤷‍♂️

I blame Lucifer.

It's easier.

[pearl elk]

yeah but why is the sidebar inconsistent in the launcher

[summer cedar]

'cuz the inconsistent bits were being designed by someone who was deported.

Why do you want us to remember poor Bob?

[pearl elk]

Bob Shakamalakalamazoo?

[summer cedar]

Bob Pedro Cartelos.

[pearl elk]

https://tenor.com/view/bob-king-scream-yell-minions-gif-4643611667807994308

[mild gust]

https://tenor.com/view/haka-samoa-gif-21582264

[summer cedar]

Resident Evil Requiem for Pre-Purchase

[mild gust]

Bring back Jordan Peterson

[summer cedar]

Speaking of, the Trump admin apologised for deporting a US student. On CNN.

[mild gust]

As crazy as he was he had some valid points sometimes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_q44phEpFjA

Benzodiazepin op

[summer cedar]

Okay. Off to sleep. 😴

[mild gust]

Till next time

[summer cedar]

Remember, if they come for you, rub your Tim coins to summon your demon helper.

[pearl elk]

ugggh the new animation system cant happen faster

[mild gust]

Soon!

[pearl elk]

just looking at how many anims I need to retarget to the UEFN rig because I want to use GASP

[mild gust]

Takes so long 😴

[pearl elk]

I think I can cheat since theres already UE4/5 rig retargeters in GASP

[mild gust]

There's examples places for sure

[pearl elk]

but I have about a billion SK_Mannys

[mild gust]

Need more

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/bad-movies-rule-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-2-tmnt-2-computer-lab-access-denied-gif-13837912379686998981

[pearl elk]

https://tenor.com/view/nvidia-gif-14251978375826396304

[proud jay]

@timber viper idk if you like pewdiepie, but I know you like anime https://youtu.be/2UN7IJvDqHk

he went to the attack on titan studio

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/лёня-nvidia-rtx3080-gif-18459729

[proud jay]

have you guys drank enough water today?

[mild gust]

https://x.com/minchoi/status/2012196922761609507?s=20

Min Choi (@minchoi)

This is crazy

Claude + Unreal Engine MCP creating 3D building from a single prompt 🤯

X · Jan 16, 2026, 4:15 PM

[mild gust]

Only Pepsi

[proud jay]

F

I hope Max at least

[mild gust]

Nope just raw pepsi

[proud jay]

ew

[mild gust]

https://x.com/mundfish/status/2011831047265136709?s=20

Mundfish #AtomicHeart (@mundfish)

#AtomicHeart #asmr

X · Jan 15, 2026, 4:01 PM

[proud jay]

does she have scoliosis?

look at that anterior pelvic tilt

[mild gust]

She robot no?

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/helldivers-automaton-robot-laptop-oil-gif-7384339337185613233

[median wraith]

Now even need help to make levels?

Where is the joy?

[mild gust]

In running the simulated finished product hundreds of times

https://nationalpost.com/video/f73b8c06-f2c8-11f0-8ff2-aada5d29882c/china-to-allow-visa-free-access-for-canadian-visitors-says-carney

[median wraith]

@trail ore https://github.com/electronicarts/ShaderToHuman?tab=readme-ov-file

[pearl elk]

"Mankind has progressed to a point in its dim-witted history where life has been drained of all of its enchantment. All you got to do is sit back and enjoy."

[mild gust]

Needs tweaking

[soft night]

https://giphy.com/gifs/cold-water-U9iE0sITjV9OU

[pearl elk]

https://tenor.com/view/david-warner-tron-sark-david-warner-gif-18249140

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/blender-vram-ram-memory-gone-gif-27551226

[pearl elk]

https://tenor.com/view/babe-sheep-baa-ram-ewe-gif-13622532

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/sheep-dragon-how-to-train-your-dragon-gif-23204140

[pearl elk]

https://tenor.com/view/celebration-dj-festa-disco-shaun-gif-15106689

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/how-to-train-your-dragon-httyd-httyd-2-snotlout-hookfang-gif-7341236006438244713

[pearl elk]

https://tenor.com/view/game-of-thrones-dragon-goat-fantasy-creature-gif-4163784

[celest musk]

look ass tho

you can go to Kindergarten and they gonna build nicer stuff with Lego

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/goat-avvar-dragon-age-inquisition-skyhold-gif-22942524

[pearl elk]

https://tenor.com/view/goat-simulator-gif-25924953

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/sheep-black-wolf-dog-german-shepherd-gif-15178404743906028807

[median wraith]

Too bad if the opinions are his own and not made by AI

[summer cedar]

Good morning! 🌞 ☕

Frieren's season 2 released.

[celest musk]

Eren posted that in #programmer-hangout https://x.com/pmddomingos/status/2012271582660673624?s=20

Pedro Domingos (@pmddomingos)

OpenAI has finally achieved AGI (Ad-Generated Income).
https://t.co/Z6Im2JFrKm

X · Jan 16, 2026, 9:11 PM

the headline is just relevant 😛

[summer cedar]

Isn't it WONDERFUL, when people take your hard work, redistribute it via piracy sites, and don't even pay you a single Tim 🪙 in recompense?

[celest musk]

by the time they added adult mode they already lost against all competitors

or is it already there? (as in, did they loose already)

[summer cedar]

https://80.lv/articles/artist-shows-photorealistic-portrait-created-with-unreal-engine-5

Kwool! 😍

ArenaNet is hiring artists to work on Guld Wars 3, apparently, in Unreal Engine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1lfY3QxjDE

Subliminal Demo. Supposedly a psycho-horror game in UE.

I like how the apartment visuals look at 1:50-59.

Oh wow, from 4:10. I see why this is spooky now.

[summer cedar]

I think the next update is 1 minute of opening them.

Exciting stuff.

[white oxide]

i need an opinion, which color looks the best

[summer cedar]

Sapphire blue.

Steel blue for the helpers in the house.

[white oxide]

her bio:

PENNY (LANCER series)

Penny is the “Iron Homemaker” and sentient heart of the stealth corvette Ingenioso, a sophisticated Electronic Intelligence who evolved far beyond her original logistics programming. Rejecting the typical "ethereal" look of other AIs, she manifests as a high-fidelity 1950s matriarch—complete with her signature navy-blue polka-dot dress and a gravity-defying victory roll—specifically to provide the emotional stability and "hearth" that her partner, Mark Davis, requires to survive his history. While she spends her days managing the ship with aggressive domesticity, she is a dual-natured entity; the moment her "family" is threatened, she shifts into a "Warrior" state, trading her sundress for a crisp WAC uniform and unleashing the ship’s point-defense batteries with icy, lethal precision. After two years of navigating the galaxy as a creature of light and data, Penny finally enacted her "Biosynth Endgame" to solve the "intangibility paradox" that kept her from truly reaching Mark. Through a process called Phenotypic Crystallization, she took an androgynous, "Tabula Rasa" biosynth core and literally "painted" her own permanent physical body within a maturation vat. By locking in her beloved 1950s silhouette, she achieved a Hybrid/Dual-Presence Mode that allows her to inhabit a physical form while remaining the ship's nervous system. This "ascension" transformed her from a haunting digital lullaby into a tangible presence, finally allowing her to anchor herself in the physical world and join her husband on missions for the first time as a true equal.

[summer cedar]

Steel blue for the help, then.

[white oxide]

Navy doesnt translate well into the old style art

[summer cedar]

Just outpaint the apron.

[summer cedar]

Cool. Now inpaint the navy uniform over the dress.

[white oxide]

https://tenor.com/view/water-wet-breaking-news-water-is-wet-perry-white-dc-comics-gif-17801328

[mild gust]

https://x.com/gregthesorcerer/status/2012283937645592893?s=20

Greg the Sorcerer (@gregthesorcerer)

The natural beauty of this place disgusted me so I made a strip mall

X · Jan 16, 2026, 10:00 PM

[summer cedar]

Too bad for the strip mall.

[white oxide]

i love this weird new trend

ive seen chilies too

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/leedleville-leedle-minecraft-chili's-minecraft-realm-gif-11947146141056088310

[mild gust]

Oh yeah this is still on-going remember we brought up Sudan the other day. https://www.thenation.com/article/world/sudan-genocide-usaid-united-nations/

[summer cedar]

Tag Trump on X.

Assuming the US military has any bombs left, they'll attend to Sudan shortly.

[mild gust]

It won't change

[mild gust]

They have bombs

They are just in the western hemisphere rn

They moved all their fleet to South America

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/the-fleet-is-on-the-move-reapers-gif-14739416436392588880

[summer cedar]

--- the US ammunition market is characterized by stable but constrained supply and ongoing price increases driven by material costs rather than consumer demand spikes. ---

Sadly, no.

They had a severe shortage in 2021.

It's improved, but Trump's antics haven't helped.

There's a reason why the USA is establishing ammo factories in conjunction with Japan and possibly, India, and other countries.

--- Raw Material Scarcity: Global shortages of lead, copper, brass, and especially nitrocellulose (used in gunpowder) continue to cause production bottlenecks. ---

This other problem. Thanks, China, I guess.

[mild gust]

I mean fair, their current munitions also required a lot of rare earth materials so.

[summer cedar]

Maybe he shouldn't tariff all the cool dudes.

I said this yesterday. His own military advisors told him not to strike Iran, for this reason.

They have capacity issues. Regardless of M00rican braggadocio, the USA isn't God.

It's just another country; with humans in it.

[mild gust]

They can just use any munitions close to expiry

[summer cedar]

Heh. No.

That works in the movies.

Old ammo has a tendency to.... let's just say sputter.

[mild gust]

Well they did went all that stuff to Ukraine before 😂

[summer cedar]

Cojject.

Why do you think Poland did what they did?

They recycled their ENTIRE military stockpile with Ukraine, in return for fresh imports from South Korea.

S.K. made a killing $40 billion in one year, selling new stuff to Poland.

Not just Poland of course; the Poles were just reported by the news.

[soft night]

space fight

[mild gust]

Just make rod of god

[soft night]

https://youtu.be/44poM41rowI?si=Beob7RpRr7aD5K-K

[summer cedar]

They exist. Tungsten rods.

It's just that NO ONE is stupid enough to try dropping one of them from a satellite.

We just don't have the right tech to ensure safety.

I bet Musk will try one out on Mars.

His idea of terraforming the planet is to nuke it, after all.

[mild gust]

Nukes for everyone

[soft night]

india idaa is to explode mars?

[summer cedar]

Read again for better comprehension.

[summer cedar]

Sounds like a good idea, given Trump.

Let's face it. If Ukraine had nukes....

[soft night]

they had

the deal with soviet made it that they dont have now

[summer cedar]

Exactly.

If Venemargo has nukes....

Even Greenland...

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/captain-america-shield-ice-gif-15070564

[summer cedar]

@mild gust https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbSQMOMrmIw - From 2:20. Use English captions. The South African affair.

I have to ask GPT to explain that.
Return next year.

[mild gust]

I think this guy might just like Trump a bit

[summer cedar]

His opinion of Trump is, "He's a fucking moron."

He's ex-Army, retd. Major who's seen action. He's not given to emotional bias, other than bashing Pakistan for fun in Majorly Right.

Cyril Ramaphosa hopefully won't earn Trump's full attention.

---

Almost time to raid the bakery!

🛍️

[mild gust]

I'm over here eating Ice Cream at 3am

[summer cedar]

The raid begins at 3 p.m. 😛

Coincidence? I think not. It's a maple conspiracy.

[mild gust]

That's when I go back to work

Gods plan

[mild gust]

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/breaking-carney-accepts-role-on-trumps-gaza-board-of-peace

[summer cedar]

I guess he's in-charge of the Swimming Pool Committee at Trump Gaza.

[mild gust]

He will help get the plaza ready

and make sure the "slaves" I mean workers are well fed and ready.

The "New World Order"

[summer cedar]

Gotta love the left-wing news agencies in India.

--- India has never felt as powerless as in 2025. ---

Yes, the only country to give Trump the middle finger and happily prosper, felt powerless.

Very interesting perspective. 😄

[mild gust]

You notice the left is often doom and gloom

Even if things are going well

[summer cedar]

Yeah. But even doom and gloom can be made with actual logic and.... never mind.

@mild gust Federal court judge blocked ICE in Minnesota.

[mild gust]

Okay

They did the same in LA to no?

[summer cedar]

Not sure.

[mild gust]

Didn't stop them there

[summer cedar]

Ah, no. Supreme Court overturned that.

But that was before all this nonsense happened.

[mild gust]

Block ICE when they are the ones being harassed by people.

If they were allowed to do their jobs would be crazy how quick it would be over.

[summer cedar]

What gets me is why ICE doesn't just wear Halo Spartan armour.

[mild gust]

Agreed

Treat them like undesirables

Like Robocop

or Judge Dredd

https://tenor.com/view/law-police-judge-cop-dredd-gif-8606130

[summer cedar]

Yeah, and carry BIG guns.

What's with all these tiny, teeny rifles and pistols?

[mild gust]

Bring it back

When cops actually could do cop things

[summer cedar]

They HAVE gatling guns.

We know they do.

[mild gust]

and not get told they can't do shit

I get it now why my family chose a new career lol

[summer cedar]

What did they change from? And to what?

Raid on! 🪓

[mild gust]

Police officer to politician 😂

[mild gust]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOUEz7M3I3o

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/судья-дредд-judge-dredd-фильм-1995-фантастика-gif-1678416020870873939

[summer cedar]

So, you're.... you're... L..L...L... Lucy Trudeau?!!!! 👻 😱

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/cyberpunk2077-cd-projekt-red-night-city-police-department-in-game-ad-gif-18501659

[summer cedar]

Is that the ONE BALL of the fourth reich?

https://japantoday.com/category/world/us-names-rubio-blair-and-kushner-in-gaza-board-under-trump's-plan

Da phuk?!

So, Gaza is now a registered company with a Board of Directors? 😄

Wonder what the dividends and bonus shares are going to be like.

[pearl elk]

my favourite player reichnaldo

[summer cedar]

Does he bend it like ballham?

[pearl elk]

they definitely need a new department, they got ICE now they just need FETTY

[summer cedar]

https://discord.com/channels/187217643009212416/1462087235888222279 - This is very pretty. 😍

[pearl elk]

anything has go to be better than the USS Athena

[summer cedar]

The music in the video is well done, too.

[pearl elk]

Space... The Final Frontier! These are the voyages of the starship... Enterprise

[summer cedar]

It's bigly mission. To deport civilisations to strange new worlds.

[pearl elk]

looks like a point cloud model

[summer cedar]

To seek out new life and bomb it in the name of oil.

Dunno what that is.

Is it pointy or cloudy?

[pearl elk]

Unitied Federation of Progressives

[summer cedar]

Oh, I see.

a dataset of points.

[pearl elk]

all the conservatives defected to the Romulans

[summer cedar]

The Romulans changed species and became human.

[pearl elk]

so what youre telling me is conservatives are the real illegal aliens

[summer cedar]

The Indians... er, Borg would agree.

[pearl elk]

I guess that makes Aussies Species 8472

[summer cedar]

Kangaroos are 8473.

There's an insurrection coming.

[pearl elk]

Scorpion pt 1 and pt 2 the last good Star Trek episodes

[summer cedar]

Benedict Cumberbatch was the creepiest Khan, when he introduced himself.

[pearl elk]

oh those movies wernt terrible but I feel like Gerard Butler shoulda been scotty lol

https://tenor.com/view/star-trek-star-trek-tos-scotty-mr-scott-montgomery-scott-gif-25876523

[summer cedar]

Scotty should've asked Orange.

All the secrets of the world lie in those pudgy fingers.

[pearl elk]

running a country is easy... game dev on the other hand 😛

[summer cedar]

Totally. Can't stop the White House from functioning even at 1 FPS.

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/scorpion-mortal-kombat-stare-glare-video-game-gif-16260859

[pearl elk]

https://tenor.com/view/scorpion-mk-gif-27061609

[summer cedar]

Grok really went for a toss, huh?

I never thought investigations would be initiated by world governments into an AI.

Fun stuff.

[pearl elk]

wasnt it Elon Musk asking for stricter AI regulations back in the day? 😛

[summer cedar]

oh yes.

and now, too.

He warned his users against generating such images.

It did A LOT of good.

People reformed immediately.

[pearl elk]

please help me... I cant help myself

[summer cedar]

Everyone's an 👼 now.

[pearl elk]

even one of Musks baby mummas was complaining about it

[summer cedar]

She's suing, I believe.

[pearl elk]

I guess we're up to me three now

[summer cedar]

meprompt.

[pearl elk]

I must admit I get frustrated with OpenAIs guardrails sometimes but atleast theyre trying

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/movie-the-rock-3d-cgi-mummy-gif-17898074

[pearl elk]

its just crazy though even some local imagegen wont even do stuff that explicit because the training set has been limited its been tuned away from providing explicit reponses

so the team doing Grok must have just sent it fully

[soft night]

some say freshly generated mons calamaries came with too adult content

[pearl elk]

we do not restrict the number or the moistness of the tentacles 😛

[summer cedar]

Cough. Use CivitAI. Cough.

Sounds good. Today, each time I click a link on Discord to be opened in Ulaa, the browser crashes.

I consider it an evolution.

[pearl elk]

Windblows

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/memnon-the-scorpion-king-2002-steven-brand-mathayus-gif-10420094636375196573

[pearl elk]

https://tenor.com/view/looking-from-afar-john-garrity-greenland-migration-looking-from-a-distance-lionsgate-gif-17310089924808836839

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/geo-storm-gif-10132671

[pearl elk]

https://tenor.com/view/michael-c-hall-dexter-dexter-morgan-dancing-gamer-movie-gif-9512832111764875726

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/geostorm-access-denied-geostorm-gifs-gif-9754241

[sturdy citrus]

just finished a plutchik emotion wheel for a dialogue system i'm working on.
Would love to hear back what you guys think of it

i have a good working abstraction layer working under the hood. But yeah, you're actually right xD

[cursive crypt]

How this viz function?

[sturdy citrus]

its basically just registering a custom IPropertyTypeCustomisation class for a structure. Then i'm instancing a custom Slate widget in there and brodcasting the changes back to the structure that registered this overlay

[sturdy citrus]

And for the usage part of it. You have a drag handle where you can select emotions

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/ionet-rndr-render-gpu-nvda-gif-17231300548989369932

[cursive crypt]

No, not implementation. Function, like... purpose? UX

[errant raven]

@trail ore a whole week later, I'm healed

Now I have no addictions at all

Except for

The post nasal drip is done too

Well at least the coughing is

Some random milf called me handsome today while I was taking the trash out

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/pepeuniverse-pepeuniversenft-pepe-pepebike-pepe-motorcycle-gif-25136528

[errant raven]

I got some pepper seeds started in tiny little red solo cups

Doing the double cup method with the lil cups too

The light is doing well to heat the soil, no need for a heatmat for now

[pearl elk]

or you could watch Twilight

[errant raven]

Google translate is now available in 110 new languages

Did we get a large language data pack dlc on earth or something

[pearl elk]

oh wow, 30th anniversary of Quake this year in June

[white oxide]

theres like 7 thousand officially recognized languages in the world

most of them are indigenous languages that are slowly dying out as america enacts the monrone doctrine

[errant raven]

I'm willing to bet klingon is one of the languages they included

And I'm willing to bet they finally differentiated between Frisian and Dutch

[errant raven]

They didn't do either of those

[summer cedar]

Good morning! 🌞 ☕

[mild gust]

Reeee

[pearl elk]

https://tenor.com/view/minion-banana-gif-minion-minions-gif-81650879192259967

[mild gust]

Hallo

[summer cedar]

Bonjour!

[mild gust]

Guten Morgen?

[summer cedar]

¡Buenos días a ti también!

[pearl elk]

https://tenor.com/view/waynesworld-waynes-world-garth-party-gif-5356725

[mild gust]

Chill

https://tenor.com/view/odablock-osrs-necksnap-oda-runescape-gif-23163670

[summer cedar]

Fry

[summer cedar]

'Tis a sad day, when the forces of immaculate righteousness are wiped out from the galaxy.

There shall be.... peace.

[mild gust]

Sit rats

[mild gust]

More! https://x.com/gregthesorcerer/status/2012651247677895005?s=20

Greg the Sorcerer (@gregthesorcerer)

The Mattress Firm went under and in its place now stands a Sprit Halloween

X · Jan 17, 2026, 10:20 PM

[pearl elk]

https://tenor.com/view/relax-gif-26152749

[mild gust]

https://x.com/tradeit_gg/status/2012527809055346694?s=20

Tradeit (@tradeit_gg)

Bro plays as two in CS2 😭

X · Jan 17, 2026, 2:09 PM

[summer cedar]

Cal....

--- This week, the Pentagon announced Elon Musk’s A.I. system known as ‘Grok’ will begin operating inside classified Pentagon networks. ---

Cal, we're going to get naked sidewinder and nude hellfire pics.

[summer cedar]

Sir, we encourage immigration in this part of space.

[dusky shuttle]

Why is it hard to keep the UI on video sites? I'd like to have a peak on how much of the video is left while I'm watching it

[summer cedar]

Everything must be renamed after the Great Orange.

Trumpdew Valley

Doncraft

Trumpisfactory

Donpunk 2077

Donald Conquers: M00rican Sun (C&C: Tiberium Sun)

[rare sparrow]

https://x.com/i/status/2012686850989920377

advaith (@advaithj1)

on Discord desktop, you can now type @ time to send a dynamic timestamp

X · Jan 18, 2026, 12:41 AM

No, it's just a timestamp. Timestamps have been a feature for a while now. The @ time thing is just a command to create them easily in the desktop client

If it did ping anyone, then it'd have to be tied to @ here and @ everyone which in this server is definitely disabled for us

[cursive crypt]

Wasn't that like years old feature?

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/jim-carrey-typing-hyperactive-productive-gif-13741595

[rare sparrow]

Timestamps? Yes.
Being able to type @ time to create them within discord? No.

[median wraith]

zeriusly

[proud jay]

@summer cedar omfg lol https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2026/01/18/8016698/#

[summer cedar]

🤔 So, Trump Gaza became Donald Peace Inc., which will now become Fuhrer's Union?

This constant 'evolution' is mind-boggling.

[hasty cargo]

it's been quickening so maybe not a lot longer

[summer cedar]

Depends. If everyone votes in the coming elections, not very long. If they don't because they don't LIKE the other candidate, his 38% whatever base will keep him strong.

I wonder if Trump Gaza will have rocket fireworks to compliment the festivities.

Wine, caviar, bombs.

[worldly mantle]

US$1bn you have to buy first then give it to us, does US pay anywhere in the world not in its own currency compared to others ? no ! control the money printer control the world hegemony

[hasty cargo]

I guess it makes sense if the intention is to rebuild gaza into something nice, being a part of the peace organization means helping fund it

[worldly mantle]

they haven't finished demolishing yet, bombs being dropped on a daily basis guess that ceasefire was banannas

[hasty cargo]

hamas is essentially dragging their feet on the "disarm" part of the ceasefire which was supposed to be agreed to so I guess this is the outcome

[worldly mantle]

got to give it to the jews being pretty clever in creating an organization they fund as a pretext for ethnic cleansing but its the natural order of things

[hasty cargo]

x files theme plays

[worldly mantle]

kurds in syria feel like an used condom right about now too 🤣

[hasty cargo]

weren't the kurds just given home inside syria by the new gov?

[summer cedar]

Final sandwich.

[hard edge]

https://i.postimg.cc/q4Gh4RVG/cloudflare.png what is amazonbot doing in my site?

[summer cedar]

Lovely. Plasma turrets don't shoot at the enemy bases.

Renovation complete.
The realty is ready for possession.

[errant raven]

@trail ore my lungs feel heavy again, like when I was smoking.

[pearl elk]

arms weak, lungs are heavy

[errant raven]

I have a swollen lymph node. I. Just getting sick again

[pearl elk]

ready to make some blueprint spaghetti

[errant raven]

https://tenor.com/view/tissue-roll-hangging-suicide-funny-gif-22276377

[unborn lotus]

yum yum

[median wraith]

how are we doing?

[median wraith]

someone own that PVP "Bodycam" game?

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/ahh-mr-bean-cute-funny-rowan-atkinson-gif-17427554

[white oxide]

https://tenor.com/view/knocking-head-stupid-gif-22346679

[summer cedar]

@proud jay --- India has imposed a 30% import duty on pulses and lentils originating from the United States, a move that has introduced a new point of friction in bilateral trade relations. ---
Just saw the new report. I wonder who buys this stuff from the US.

[fleet tangle]

Hungry people?

[summer cedar]

What do you mean?

[fleet tangle]

I was being facetious.

[summer cedar]

I asked Gemini. Apparently your facetiousness was tantamount to seriousisisiness.

India 3D-prints... er, I mean cultivates 25% of global pulses and lentils. But eats 27% of the global produce.

So, we apparently import that remaining 2%, 'cuz it's good for trade deals.

Which is also interesting in and of itself, because we're now increasing production to 30% of global production.

I guess I'll have to wait len till and see. 😛

[soft night]

i ate the hot dog

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/m101sandbox-door-gif-24670200

[celest musk]

why settle with USB-C if we can use USB-A

way more fun

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/wireless-charger-phone-smart-watch-apple-gif-17223903

ben why not have usb of anything if just have robotic cable what latch to the port itself

[summer cedar]

@white oxide You're doing a lot of work in Hell Mode novels (and anime).

[white oxide]

thats hawkins not hawke

[summer cedar]

It's a hawk.

10 of them, in fact.

All named Hawkins.

[white oxide]

https://tenor.com/view/you-got-it-makings-greatness-in-you-treasure-planet-gif-20508234

thats a hawkins

[summer cedar]

Hell Mode is an interesting light novel.

It's the first one I've read written more in western style than Japanese.