lounge

[summer cedar]

same devs?

[pearl elk]

energy is never created or destroyed so that Bioware magic had to go somewhere 😛

[summer cedar]

Owlcat has had a pretty solid range of RPGs. I've found all their games to be fun, although long-winded.

VERY long-winded.

[pearl elk]

good thing Mass Effect is long winded too then 😹

EA is working on Mass Effect 5

but its kinda funny to me how ME went a similar route to Halo with its story

its almost like rushing games out the door is not a good idea

[summer cedar]

Who knows if the programmers on Github are AI or not? 😄

[pearl elk]

Who knows, maybe now the AI are behind the wheel Windows might become good

[summer cedar]

My Windows has been remarkably smooth and efficient since I uninstalled Office 365 (including CoPilot).

[pearl elk]

I just want to be able to disable defender realtime scanning permanently

[soft night]

who knows if fresh mons calamari in windows andarians will be good

[summer cedar]

Oi!

We are not gay.
We are ray-traced.

[pearl elk]

I will admit defender has helped alot of people I know who used to get nasty virii but it doesnt help me at all

[soft night]

mons calamari the supreme leaders the new found planet

[pearl elk]

the planet of fine software

[soft night]

mons did you see the short film?

[pearl elk]

the Dust one?

[soft night]

yeah

starfisher

[pearl elk]

Oh I see you posted two

[soft night]

the starfisher https://youtu.be/afTDnY05v9A?si=d8M2VQY1h6S0tlQZ

[pearl elk]

is that a sparse job grid?

[lavish tendon]

there's a eastern?* game fest on steam and there's a billion games i haven't heard of

[pearl elk]

remember to play the games with chopsticks

[lavish tendon]

there's hardly any 3D games, they're all: roguelite deckbuilder, bullethell, wuxia and tycoon

I found a single FPS game

[pearl elk]

Chinese Frontiers?

[lavish tendon]

is that a game?

[pearl elk]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1640820/Chinese_Frontiers/

[lavish tendon]

haven't heard of this one

i found this FPS: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4056480/Survivor_Gunfire/

Steam

​Survivor: Gunfire

Survivor: Gunfire​​ is a first-person roguelite shooter that challenges you to fend off relentless monster waves. Gather resources to grow stronger, upgrade weapons, purchase unique attachments, and craft a unique playstyle to experience the thrill of explosive combat.

5 Distinct Shooting Styles to Experience
3 Major Weapon Upgrade Stages…

Price

$1.04

[pearl elk]

Global Strike is a free FPS game which has more than 300 million faithful players in China.

https://tenor.com/view/hmmm-really-seriously-wtf-what-the-hell-gif-14489122674203607365

[lavish tendon]

one of those cs 1.6 ripoffs?

[soft night]

https://giphy.com/gifs/honda-owl-superbowl-superb-owls-YLt0dcVELcUTeWv8As

[pearl elk]

yeah doesnt look very legit at all, odd Valve are promoting this stuff

[unborn lotus]

I feel thats what steam has come to, even in next fest, 75% is just roguelikes or deckbuilders or some gimmick thing

[lavish tendon]

games got minmaxed

ok buddy

[pearl elk]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4216670/Typing_Farmer/

[soft night]

https://giphy.com/gifs/anime-nte-neverness-to-everness-BWUyJIjmrKc5rtxq70

[pearl elk]

https://tenor.com/view/perfection-perfect-michael-fassbender-magneto-x-men-first-class-gif-2260686001358167676

[deft token]

i swear i am going to give the ppl of oak island a beating

[pearl elk]

could it be the lead cross links back to the knights templar?

[deft token]

i'll use that lead cross

[pearl elk]

will you use it in the XRF?

because I bet you know how one works without asking Emma Culligan 😛

[deft token]

i'll mount it onto a 950 excavator

[soft night]

https://giphy.com/gifs/the-simpsons-excellent-mr-burns-8fen5LSZcHQ5O

[pearl elk]

you'd think by this many seasons they could stop repeating stuff for new viewers

oh yeah Im just gonna come in at season 13 and watch them find the gold

[deft token]

ikr just dig a damn hole we dont care about what evidences and what just start digging and metal detecting lmao

[pearl elk]

we always give Laird shit cuz he never knows anything, he just nods and agrees then takes credit

about the only thing he knows is pottery and they only ever find tiny shards

[deft token]

yep lol it is jokes i swear that program is just one of them that you watch because you literally are commanded to troll them

like the equipment break downs ha

[pearl elk]

the big dig better happen soon or Im out

[deft token]

💯

[pearl elk]

I just hope they find something, for their own sanity

[deft token]

me too i really want them to find just one cool thing

not a chian or something useless

[soft night]

sanitazing

[pearl elk]

ox shoe

I remember them mapping the whole end of the island but they never did run down on that data again, they said there might be a boat in the swamp

[soft night]

one eve online streamer made game with gobot called chlorobattle

[deft token]

well they did get that one little silver coin

[pearl elk]

wooo its a bobby dazzler

top pocket find 😛

[deft token]

oh he would be getting whipped with the lead cross first

sometimes i'm like are you even bothering to swing that metal detector properly?

[soft night]

https://chlorobattle.com/

[pearl elk]

https://tenor.com/view/boring-lecture-gif-11087316

[pearl elk]

he's got his daughter out there doing the heavy lifting now

[deft token]

yeah like they just need big water pumps excavators and a couple of rock trucks

get a trommel with a metal detector build into it

and let it open and close its screens

[soft night]

chloroken made that chlorobattle

[pearl elk]

just put on some scuba gear and jump into the caisson and swim the solution channel 😛

that guy in Blind Frog Ranch is a madman, full cave diving

[deft token]

yeah i always think if it went in the fing solution channel then it got washed out to sea by now probably

could be long gone

[pearl elk]

they might find just a big blob of silver all corroded together

[deft token]

yeah lol

not sure my trommel idea could be done but maybe if you calibrated the metal detector against the complete metal complement of the plant and then any metal in the material would be a offset

surely even gold miners might like something that

[pearl elk]

I think their issue might be theyre not allowed to mine so they cant just open pit the entire moneypit area

[soft night]

just give calamari some gear so can play trading cards in deep blue sea

[deft token]

yeah permits and such 😄

[pearl elk]

theyve got the shaft but it keeps filling with water

[deft token]

yeah man i had high hopes for there shaft

[fathom wadi]

https://youtu.be/7jMlFXouPk8?si=Bxk8Jf92xUatMuMG speaking of high hopes. Nice day to go outside and listen to some Pink Floyd.

can't believe I was 18 when this released. Still feels recent for some reason.

[deft token]

grass is always greener on the other side 🙂 so many tracks speak to that

[fathom wadi]

yeah. like that time I quit teaching and network engineering to become a web developer, and got scammed regularly for a decade. So I switched to game dev and got scammed for a decade here instead. THe grass has been smoked no matter where you go 🙂

at least when I was 18 I got to see Pink Floyd live. That was a life goal that I never presumed would happen. I still consider it the best day of my life. No offense to my kids being born or meeting my wife but cmon now... it's seeing Pink Floyd live and they played most of The Division Bell, the complete Dark Side of the Moon, and my favourite song of all time (since I was 11), Comfortably Numb. Even my wife considers it a courtesy to allow me that cherished memory 🙂

[lavish tendon]

Femtanyl is going to be here in the summer...

[deft token]

ppl still use that lol?

[lavish tendon]

Use what? I know that it's not pink Floyd but it's worth getting excited for new things

[deft token]

the joke might not of landed correctly therre appologies 😂

[fathom wadi]

I think the only people who willfully use fentanyl are doctors. Everyone else who takes it doesn't know unless they OD

[deft token]

yeah that nurse program .. she knows how to handle her meds lmao

no gamer ever like microtransacations sadly

make it so you can get a visa/mastercard reward or something

ppl might flock to it

[fathom wadi]

There is only a couple of games where I've cared about MTX.
Path of Exile. I wasn't fussed until I started earning set items that looked more complete. However the one MTX I went out of my way to buy (besides supporter packs) was this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6taBnFv4ROY

I played totems for a long time and this was the best mtx I'd seen in a game 😄

I've bought battle passes in some games, like Overwatch, when I've happened to play long enough to unlock the full track. Makes more sense to buy it afterwards if you don't mind the XP grind.

I think there is room for quality MTX. Not the chaff they churn out tho

[rare sparrow]

Weren't they having server issues from having a larger wave of players than they were expecting?

Also the graph is pretty useless in that image. There was a free dev preview which is where the numbers start going up, then it goes back down after they revoked licenses when the free dev preview ended

I don't understand why they decided to "release" now. They even told Valve to not put them on the front page, so why call this the full release whenever it's more like early access?

I somehow met their playtime requirement to keep the game for free :)

[soft night]

just pose in the shore

[mild gust]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5XlbxhaQIA

[lost bison]

has anyone here used epics reality scan app?

It keeps complaining images are not connected but in the AR view they look to be in the spot they were taken from

[halcyon maple]

I hear Overwatch is in a good state, 2026. Makes me wonder how good if they are charging $80ish USD for new skin bundles

All skins are optional. It is just a bit concerning microtransactions are approaching $100 USD imo. IIRC League of Legends used to sell "legendary" skins for $20 USD which was the whole skin, weapon, vfx, sfx, etc.

[soft night]

ponkkis doing pokkis way

i dont buy skins i made them?

the center surely have fancy name hehe

[fathom wadi]

I have no complaints about overwatch. Buying skins is just a fast track to getting them eventually anyway. There are certain packs you don't see again, so the FOMO is there, and they do cross-over events where you can buy or earn skins. But it never feels mandatory to me. You get enough lootboxes to fulfil a bit of skin completion anyway.

the important thing really is the question, is overwatch fun? I have to say yes. If the main game loop isn't fun, then there are arcade modes, special events, stadium mode, etc which you can do as an alternative.

[lavish tendon]

It's going to be a decade since it came out right?

[fathom wadi]

i just got into the stadium mode. it's a nice change to the gameplay. I like the way the game evolves

[queen isle]

https://kotaku.com/mindseye-build-a-rocket-boy-leslie-benzies-mark-gerhard-cyber-boi-layoffs-teramind-2000691386

[soft night]

https://giphy.com/gifs/starwars-star-wars-episode-3-xTiIzL9Btjx9hegHT2

[queen isle]

They made a dlc where you break in and kill people based on YouTubers that criticized the game

[lavish tendon]

You fr

On android the news you get on the left home screen if you click on it, it just types a prompt on Gemini lmao

[queen isle]

Yes that happened lol

[pearl elk]

Oh not good, I heard Tesla disables software updates if you mess with their cars

Oh yay its going to take them 2 years... cant wait for all the failed updates

It'd be quicker for MS just to add a Windows themed desktop to linux

[mild gust]

Just gotta jailbreak it

[summer cedar]

Good morning! 🌞 ☕

[summer cedar]

The credit card company credited the nvme money provisionally. 😄 🎆 👏

Now, the evil merchant has 40-ish days to challenge the chargeback. 😈 I doubt he could challenge a goldfish, but still...

What a PITA to get a simple refund. I swear, all these scammers should be executed.

[pearl elk]

What, they didnt refund immediately?

[summer cedar]

Who? The merchant? No. He just beat around the bush with vague statements. I had to ask the credit card company for a chargeback.

I remember telling you. 😛

[pearl elk]

oh I remember you talking to him but I thought he was gonna do the refund, oh well thats what chargebacks are for

[summer cedar]

Yeah. He behaved like a m00rican, even though he's clearly educated. I gave him enough ropeway to gather sufficient evidence against him, and then approached the bank.

Fully digital process. 🙂

https://www.pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2254606&reg=3&lang=2

Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Rules, 2026 - new Indian law.

[pearl elk]

online money games

[summer cedar]

I believe all MTX-games will also be included.

Also games that charge $5 to click New Game. 😛

[pearl elk]

sounds like they can add virtually any game they want to the list

[summer cedar]

Only if the government is pissed off at the developer.

Otherwise, registration is not required.

So, Domina's dev is f*cked.

[pearl elk]

yeah that could be bad if its used nefariously

[summer cedar]

Well, be a good boy, basically.
Make games. Don't make political statements.

[pearl elk]

are all Indian laws written in English? is that like a colonial thing you guys just kept?

[summer cedar]

There's a Hindi version of it, too.
But, English is the official government language.

[pearl elk]

you guys even have a formal e-sports registration thats interesting

[summer cedar]

Saar, taxes!

[pearl elk]

heh interesting it also helps to protect gamers abit at the bottom here

I guess with that large of a population you have to be pretty on the ball

[summer cedar]

They're actually late. I think I mentioned this here, but some dude got in trouble with his family, after he blew all of his and his family's money on online games.

[pearl elk]

I actually made an argument to our ratings board if they considered virtual violence etc akin to the real stuff then they should do the same for virtual gambling even when theres no money involved

[summer cedar]

He was arrested, in debt, and the government had to step in.

[summer cedar]

A lot of wives would agree with you. They want their husbands focused on RL, instead of online poker.

[pearl elk]

Well if youre making poker machines for kiddos theres definitely an ulterior motive

[summer cedar]

I remember there being a pachinko shop in my housing colony, in Pune, at some point. Kids and young teens went there for a bit. Then, I think the police shut it down.

I did win once there. 😄

[pearl elk]

I do kinda get where EA was coming from with surprises, when something legendary drops its like woohoo but these companies cant be trusted not to feed addictions

[summer cedar]

Wasn't Mark Chuckerburg found guilty of addiction algorithms or something recently?

[pearl elk]

then they say video games cause violence when the truth is more like addicts get violent when their drug of choice is taken away

[summer cedar]

That might eventually become true when all the education m00ricans get is from their video games.

[pearl elk]

Thats why Australia did the social media ban though, kids dont know any better

Not that I can say I can relate since social media wasnt really a think back in my day, you could get on bulletin boards but proper forums came later

I guess the closest thing to social media harassment back then was if youre sat on the dunking machine and someone comes along and just dunks you over and over

https://tenor.com/view/ryan-reynolds-dunk-tank-wet-lasllen-gif-18959412

[summer cedar]

Eventually, we'll link our internet access to our real IDs.

Then, the police will be in our chat rooms.

We'll all say Sir and Please.

The world will be a happy place.

[pearl elk]

well if the US has its way it'll be an ID for logging into a computer

tbh I miss the open internet, before all the login requirements

[summer cedar]

well, if people are conscientious enough, we wouldn't need these rules.

If ye can't be proper, ye can wear the straitjacket.

Bring back the top hats and coats.

[pearl elk]

I think it has more to do with the internet being largely big business now, they dont want the liability that comes with it

[summer cedar]

Well, yeah. The more people have problems with something and someone important enough loses something, the more it's regulated.

[pearl elk]

I still feel like we need another unlocks after 18 or 21

[summer cedar]

30

Anyone under 30 is basically a baby.

[pearl elk]

yeah I feel like I should get somethin for reaching 40, like a responsible adult pin

[summer cedar]

You did get a pin. They're called taxes.

[pearl elk]

cuz lets be real, if youre enough of a screw up you dont make it that far

[summer cedar]

You get the privilege and reward of paying them regularly.

[pearl elk]

cuz really old people get the ability to say whatever they like

we all just laugh it off no matter what it is

but I need something to keep me going until then 😛

[mild gust]

https://tenor.com/view/donald-trump-they're-eating-the-dogs-the-cats-presidential-debate-2024-they're-eating-the-cats-gif-969082775744704603

[pearl elk]

Im not sure why you'd eat a cat if you have fresh dog available

[mild gust]

Maybe cat came into your yard

Free snack

Make some cat nuggets

[pearl elk]

https://tenor.com/view/jules-pulp-fiction-samuel-l-jackson-gif-15528453991497370288

[mild gust]

If China taught me anything eat your pets.

[pearl elk]

I have delicious fluffy cow pets

I call the mistake British White cross Highland... Ghost Burgers yummy

[mild gust]

Bring back raising cows in your home

[pearl elk]

think of all the cows you could buy with that money instead of a new car

[summer cedar]

riding your cow to work should be a thing.

The Indians had it right all along.

Bring back the bullock carts.

[pearl elk]

cows can pull more than horses

well your typical horses anyways

[summer cedar]

This is precisely why thought-mandated regimes are required.
Non-members shouldn't be allowed to learn dogmatic thoughts.
You must be re-educated immediately. Report to your nearest red police.... er, volunteer help centre immediately.

[pearl elk]

neural implants for everyone, every negative thought is -5 social credits

[summer cedar]

for absolute safety, you start with -15 credits.

[pearl elk]

https://tenor.com/view/blackmirror-black-mirror-nosedive-rating-gif-6224975

[summer cedar]

Reaching zero credits will net you a government-paid RTX GPU, certified to play all government-licensed, SM6-only games.

[mild gust]

Sounds fascist

Lost me at re-education

[summer cedar]

Ignorant people are panicking about this, while stock market investors are dancing blissfully. 😄

[fleet tangle]

Who are they?

[summer cedar]

Vedanta? A multi-national minerals and metals company. They're very rich and successful, and pay lots of dividends to their shareholders.

Today is the ex-date for their demerger into five companies. Hence, the share price tumbled to make a technical adjustment.

The plebians panicked. Investors are dancing for joy. 😄

|| I am one of those dancing for joy. 😛 ||

[fleet tangle]

😛

Did their share price split between the companies?

[summer cedar]

Yes. For every share held in Vedanta, I get one share each in five companies. Basically, a 1:1 split.

The assets and debts are split between the five companies, most of the debt going to the aluminium spin-off I think (I have to confirm that).

https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/india/no-otp-no-problem-ahmedabad-gang-uses-ai-deepfakes-to-bypass-aadhaar-checks/ar-AA221keZ

Meanwhile, scammers arrested.

[fleet tangle]

I wonder if it was Deep who make the fake.

[summer cedar]

One of them is probably named Deep.

[summer cedar]

Split, demerger, lawsuit?

[pearl elk]

https://tenor.com/view/the-deep-deep-thoughts-deep-thoughts-with-the-deep-the-boys-gif-26372785

[fleet tangle]

They are, hence the joke 😛

[summer cedar]

Don't be a scamcist. 😛

[mild gust]

😮 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksn5yrsC3Wg

The Crystal "Disease" That Could Wipe Out Lifesaving Drugs Overnight

[unborn lotus]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ju-EqJ_S_Q8

basically hl alyx

[summer cedar]

Is this your game?

[unborn lotus]

no mine is way cooler

[summer cedar]

Tomorrow, Industria 3.

[unborn lotus]

2 was supposed to come out two weeks ago but they delayed it on launch day

now it's finally out

but it appears to have been rushed

[deft token]

👍 fascinating stuff

[pearl elk]

cant remember this one

need to start advertising on Netflix and Prime 😛

[summer cedar]

That's coming to Game Pass soon ™ .

I haven't checked it out though.

[mild gust]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOr4glg1frQ

[pearl elk]

Make America Average Again

[mild gust]

Maaa

Awaken the sheeple

[pearl elk]

why would you buy a gold phone just to put a cover over it

I cant even tell you what colour my last 5 phones were

[summer cedar]

Israel allegedly hit the Sinai and Egyptian military jammed their radar. Long live the stupidly ambitious!

That being said, hopefully it's false reporting.

[summer cedar]

Black, black, black, white, and black.

[pearl elk]

https://tenor.com/view/jammed-signal-spaceballs-jam-the-signal-block-the-signal-signal-interruption-gif-24854397

[pearl elk]

I think one was actually orange tbh

not a Trump phone 😛

[summer cedar]

Never mine, sirrah. NEVER!

https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/this-is-treason-australians-outraged-as-indians-become-highest-immigrant-group-in-the-country-for-the-first-time-ever/ar-AA224y3w
--- Apparently, Australian MAGA is on the rise.

[pearl elk]

that makes no sense, isnt India still part of the British Commonwealth? How can it be treason

[summer cedar]

Because they don't want brown people. Basically.

[pearl elk]

I swear, self awareness on this planet has been dropping so fast even though information is more readily available than ever

[summer cedar]

It's not intellectual. It's m00rican.

[pearl elk]

yeah racism masquerading as populism

[summer cedar]

There's a thread that a guy started on the Starfield Steam forums.

His basic complaint was that there aren't enough white people in the game.

That immediately went on to racism against white people, from the second post.

[pearl elk]

ugggh Im a person of non-colour

[summer cedar]

I'm a person of manners.

Behave and I shall be courteous.

Otherwise, I shall dismiss the baboon with a brusque wave of my hand.

[mild gust]

They want it so long as it benefits them.

There's a point it feels like a net negative to some.

[pearl elk]

thing of it is India has a huge population and English is clearly part of the culture so it makes sense there would be higher immigration to English speaking countries

[mild gust]

Works out for most people

[pearl elk]

It just sucks when people from anywhere are all like "but they have to look like me to share my values"

[mild gust]

I mean values to a point I agree

Idgaf if they look like me

[summer cedar]

Apparently, one in four Indians in the US have had racial slurs thrown at them, says a report.

[mild gust]

They could look like a turtle I'd be fine

[summer cedar]

Lies.

You'd roast the turtles.

[mild gust]

Lies

[pearl elk]

imagine how the American Indians feel 😛

[mild gust]

What if the turtle is wise

and imparts knowledge upon me.

[summer cedar]

It doesn't speak English. You'd eat it first and then, deport it.

[mild gust]

I'm not American

[summer cedar]

They are apparently very happy, ensconced in their rich neighbourhoods far away from the impoverished m00ricans.

[pearl elk]

who would admit that anyway 😹

[mild gust]

Many making 120k a year

[mild gust]

Ambulance

[summer cedar]

Actually, another report says Canada has deported Indians the most this year, or some such. 😛

[mild gust]

Shhh

[pearl elk]

the most accident prone person in the channel lol

[mild gust]

Actually we have deported a lot of people apparently

Surprisingly

[summer cedar]

And for good reason, I think.

Expired visas and such.

[pearl elk]

deported 2 whole cricket teams

[mild gust]

We had a lot of riffraff

Oh and we banned Irans soccer team

https://globalnews.ca/news/11823247/canada-denies-entry-iranian-football-boss-permit/

[summer cedar]

https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/india/go-back-to-india-row-erupts-as-canadian-school-introduces-punjabi-classes/ar-AA21Z2hG

From Canada, with regards. 😄

--- According to Statistics Canada, Punjabi is now the fourth most spoken language in the country, having seen a 49 percent increase in speakers between 2016 and 2021. ---

Punreal Engine, when?

[pearl elk]

what an oppressive tiny room for learning

[summer cedar]

I did wonder, but I think it's more because of camera perspective.

[pearl elk]

in Woomera the US peoples used to go off an do American Studies instead of attending Australian Studies classes

I guess learning anything about the country hosting them is bad

[mild gust]

Our top languages 2021,

Top 15

[summer cedar]

Hindustani?

Hindi?

[mild gust]

Kinda

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindustani_language

[summer cedar]

Teaching people Hindustani would technically qualify as forced citizenship conversion. 🤣

It's Hindi. Not Hindustani.

[pearl elk]

Hindustani are from Hindustan right next to Pakistan

[summer cedar]

Hindustani means Indians. 😄

"Mum, could you please teach me to be Indian, because their maple syrup is warmer!"

[mild gust]

But sir think of the Urdu

[summer cedar]

The Persian students won't be able to speak it.

Urdu is supposed to be the same-ish, but is quite different.

For......... no idea... reasons.

Also, I am surprised at the Tamil there.

You guys have Tamil classes in Canada?

That's got to be in Indian schools, right? Not in mainstream Canadian ones.

[mild gust]

https://www.tamilacademy.org/

Oui

We also have Indian colleges

That are suspicious. 🤔

[summer cedar]

Yeah, I'd be surprised if it was taught in the mainstream areas.

There's be clashes between the Hindi and Tamil staff as it is. 😄

[mild gust]

Pay money get degree

Why learn anything

[summer cedar]

It's fine. We are in the Age of AI now.

[mild gust]

When you can just pay

[summer cedar]

You don't need knowledge.

Learn from Agent Orange.

Btw, he wants to rename the Strait of Hormuz to the Strait of Trump.

[mild gust]

You want to drive a semi-truck cross country

Just pay $1000

Have fun

[summer cedar]

This sounds correct.

A semi can destroy anything.

No training needed.

[mild gust]

All these semi accidents are now making sense

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KO53gwuqZUQ

Robots doing robot surgery

[pearl elk]

even the robots are white... so racist

[mild gust]

But inside it's black

That's like oreo

[pearl elk]

opposite oreo

[mild gust]

Opposite day

[pearl elk]

oero

[summer cedar]

Perhaps the brain chip hive mind is the way to peace.

We shall all be united in the silicon.

"My mind to your empty husk." 🖖

[pearl elk]

https://tenor.com/view/opinion-vibe-gif-7688380889753820468

[summer cedar]

We shall transfer our consciousness to new, super-soldier, mecha bodies, all of the same colour and size, all heavily armed.

We shall strive towards one purpose absolute: The Establishment of the Imperium!

One Game Engine Under God!

[pearl elk]

as long as I get to keep my belly button

[summer cedar]

we offer belly auto-cannons.

[pearl elk]

this is too good, for english press 1, for spanish press 2 😛

proudly Americas

also why is there red shoes walking across my screen when I Google The Devil Wears Prada 2

[summer cedar]

https://japantoday.com/category/features/kuchikomi/Savvy-shoplifters-find-ways-to-get-around-self-service-cash-registers

Even these guys have skills.

M00ricans ought to learn from them.

[mild gust]

Propaganda

[pearl elk]

Mark Wahlberg in Shooter 2 aka Call of Duty: Black Ops: Modern Warfare: Milking the Franchise 2

[summer cedar]

Isn't the CoD movie basically live on Al Jazeera? 😄

---

Apparently, Mein Farter indicted that Comey guy again, for using 86.

[mild gust]

Yet many Ukrainian gamers are now drone operators using controllers so jokes on that noob.

[pearl elk]

Crazy thing is despite that bad take on gamers he might actually have the tools to do it right, it wont be a game movie it'll be a war movie like Black Hawk Down probably

[summer cedar]

Would it be any different from other war movies though?

CoD is basically modern war, right?

[pearl elk]

who knows the OG CoD games are WW2

[summer cedar]

I remember.

If I was making CoD movies, I'd actually refrain from labelling them CoD in any way.

Make movies like Saving Private Ryan set in the CoD universe and make moolah.

No need to mention the game at all, except in gaming exhibitions.

They probably couldn't afford him.

[pearl elk]

I dont think it'll be too different to those gritty sort of documentary style movies he's done in the past with Deep Water Horizon and Patriots Day

yeah but Spielberg pretty much did his best with Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan, can he top those?

Im a huge fan of his, if he wrote it then maybe but just directing its doubtful these days

[summer cedar]

Saving Activision might be a hit.

[pearl elk]

Call of Kotick

I think he soured on Activision over the whole thing because he wanted to go bigger thats why he did Band of Brothers and The Pacific

[summer cedar]

Yeah, but they don't need to make a big brand out of CoD as a movie franchise, given how common that theme already is.

Just make good stories and sell them with unique titles. Link them to CoD later, or let gamers make the connection.

[pearl elk]

Band of Brothers would make an epic coop style game, thats one of the things I loved about the earlier CoDs is if your guys got killed they actually died so you tried to save them where you could and you'd see em later and be like YOU SURVIVED YAAAY

later ones it was just cannon fodder or heavy scripted sequences

scenes like the dog tags (in Private Ryan), you just cant top proper story telling

[summer cedar]

They can use satellite imagery shared on Pete Hegseth's signal account. Just say it was AI generated.

[pearl elk]

never heard of her

my brother always liked Hidden and Dangerous, I preferred Commandos

only because I actually liked Where Eagles Dare 😛

[summer cedar]

Trepang 2 and Aphelion released on Game Pass.

[pearl elk]

I just had a thought... what if its a CoD Zombies movie 😹

[summer cedar]

Then they should just buy that TV series with an Alrleigh Burke destroyer fighting terrorists after a global pandemic, and connect it to CoD.

Easy-peasy.

[soft night]

https://www.invenglobal.com/articles/21496/pearl-abyss-sells-eve-online-developer-ccp-games-to-secure-financial-health

[pearl elk]

I didnt know Pearl Abyss owned CCP

[summer cedar]

So, will Eve Online become Eve Offline?

[soft night]

the ccp get it ownself again

[summer cedar]

That's nice. Are the original owners taking over again?

[pearl elk]

they paid $425mil for it and selling it for $120mil... ouch

[soft night]

mons now think that other way for ccp games current managent

[pearl elk]

pretty risky with the amount of projects they got coming up

[soft night]

seems end of the day they both wanted to be fully independent

with collab open

[pearl elk]

collab on what, space pirates game? 😛

https://tenor.com/view/beyond-good-and-evil-gif-8915476

[soft night]

https://giphy.com/gifs/MassEffect-mass-effect-1-legendary-edition-ICB2MSPW85B5Doi6IR

[pearl elk]

oh no, I think I broke Gippty

[lavish tendon]

this is still in development

[soft night]

https://youtu.be/SJPu1spHqfk?si=cSMYKJYKq683Rnl9

[unborn lotus]

Weapons was indeed cool

[sweet rose]

Hey guys

Which IDE do you find yourself using these days for non Unreal stuff

Cursor, VSC, AGR?

[fathom wadi]

vs code if not visual studio

[sweet rose]

You think Copilot is better than the others or do you not use AI that much?

[fleet tangle]

You can use any Ai with VS.

[fathom wadi]

copilot is worse than a random person on the internet. It's the shittest AI out there

[fleet tangle]

Or VSC.

[fathom wadi]

I don't use AI as much as I'd like, but when I do I tend to ask a couple of them to see what results.
Copilot lost my favour immediately. When you compere vibe coding from copilot to claude it's worlds apart on quality.

[pearl elk]

who does non Unreal stuff is what Im wondering

I gotta cross some off you off the list obviously 😛

[sweet rose]

I was using Copilot then switched to Antigravity when it came out until google started acting like a leprechaun so I switched back to Copilot because they added everything Antigravity had and more

But now Copilot is acting like a leprechaun so I'm thinking of switching to the least greedy AI ide

[pearl elk]

Codex mebe

[sweet rose]

Claude seems more and more attractive

[sweet rose]

Or codex yeah

[pearl elk]

I liked Codex more than Antigravity, even just the app not counting the model

very similar but Codex gives me more control

[fathom wadi]

as much as I prefer it over the others, I still use ChatGPT. I also don't buy tokens so I'm relegated to the free tiers.
I really want a rig to train my own AIs so I can dedicated them rather than use generic use ones. I think that is where the real personal power comes from. I hate the idea of not being able to retrain an AI or have no interface to software to use it combined with.

[sweet rose]

It's something I've thought of too

Getting a great Chinese model and training it to think like you

Personal Chinese Coder (PCC)

[sweet rose]

Is it a vscode fork too? AGR was great but it barely works anymore because of "high model demand"

[pearl elk]

Im not entirely sure, I think its just an electron app which allows integration with the others

there are codex extensions for VS Code, Cursor etc

[sweet rose]

Ohh

[pearl elk]

I just prefer the seperate window rather than struggling with a sidebar integration

then theres a clear, this is for AI, this is for me distinction between them

[sweet rose]

Yeah makes sense

[pearl elk]

I use Sublime Text as well too, I typically use that as a source reader

so when I grep I pull it into sublime text then I dont get confused with multiple VS windows and tabs

[sweet rose]

I made my own custom VS theme for readability so I don't have that issue 😎

[pearl elk]

its more being able to find what I was doing lol, I live in tab hell for some reason

I see people who work on huge code bases with only 2 files open with much envy

[sweet rose]

There is the free bookmarks plugin

Ctrl Alt K to add a bookmark in a script

[pearl elk]

pretty hard to mix em up

[sweet rose]

Switching between themes sounds like hell lol 🤣

I just use the same theme for all languages now

Probably looks like shit to other people

[pearl elk]

well VS is mostly CPP, I use Sublime for markdown, json etc

but VS parser for json is pretty good

[sweet rose]

Yes

[pearl elk]

also how long had mermaid been a thing? I recently discovered it and its pretty cool

[sweet rose]

What's that

[pearl elk]

The Future of Diagramming & Visual Collaboration

https://mermaid.ai/

Gippty started using it all of a sudden, I couldnt see it on my phone but it renders on my PC pretty well

[sweet rose]

Damn looks awesome

[pearl elk]

yeah I'll have to add this to my design app

I was using Obsidian but decided to write my own rust web app

[sweet rose]

🧠

[pearl elk]

I guess thats technically non unreal but the only integration it has atm is for UE5 lol

[sweet rose]

That's still really cool lol

My noob ass has never made a custom app without AI

[pearl elk]

nah its not as fancy as it sounds, basically similar to doing on electron app except Im using tauri instead

so its all just pinching smart peoples javascript and writing some tiny bits myself

[sweet rose]

Modest_Calamari

[pearl elk]

rust is easier than typescript tbh 😛

[sweet rose]

I've never used it, but I would be really surprised if that's true

All the furries in the rust community gave me the creeps

[pearl elk]

lol not that rust

[sweet rose]

Oh I was referring to the programming language for sure

[pearl elk]

Im sure theres more crustaceans than furries 😛

[sweet rose]

But maybe some day I might find a use case for it

[pearl elk]

electron was just bloaty and I liked the rust memory model

I might find something better than Tauri tbh its just what I found that worked

I dunno how based Gemini is in this case

[sweet rose]

I'd ask Grok

[pearl elk]

Im not allowed to talk to Grok

[sweet rose]

Lol why

[pearl elk]

for some reason I thought you needed a X (twitter) account, never tried to go to grok dot com until just then 😅

[sweet rose]

Gemini isn't bad, I should stop being harsh on it

But I never really forgave it for trying to make me pay 137K more in taxes

Grok saved me 90K

[pearl elk]

Nano Banana is pretty solid too but the new Gippty image model is slightly better

[sweet rose]

Yes

[pearl elk]

I was looking at some of my old Midjourney renders and they still amaze me with how much detail is in them

[sweet rose]

Lol midjourney I forgot they existed

Can't believe they're still around

[pearl elk]

I just struggled to get midjourney to do what I wanted with later models

every time I did something with womens fashion it came out like some sort of runway photoshoot

I have the opposite with Gippty, it wants to make everything body positive and it doesnt like being told to adjust womens proportions

[sweet rose]

Oof that's the worst

[pearl elk]

I get where theyre coming from but my current project is victorian so women wore corsets

I do appreciate how uncomfortable those things musta been but I cant rewrite all of history

[sweet rose]

Grok just does whatever you want

[pearl elk]

yeah I might have to play around with the others, even if I take the image from one and feed it into another

[sweet rose]

I made a video of a hot chick farting on a guy's face while he was driving and she flew away using her fart as thrust and the guy's face melted and he drove off a bridge and the car exploded

For only $8 a month

[pearl elk]

Im hoping to find an image model which can do a concept then separate all the elements so I can more easily model them individually so I'll give it a shot. I need to test Nano Banana some more too but I guess if I use Meshy maybe I dont even need to model a thing 😅

[soft night]

https://giphy.com/gifs/workhard-rock-sisyphus-rocksisyphus-XEMvLJgSTBd0F0THwm

[prime tapir]

Haha, I came here to share my article, and it turns out it’s already been posted here 😅 🤗 👍

Btw, it also has a follow-up about translucent mesh-free bubbles built in post-process, which interact with lighting and depth
You can check it out on 80 Level here:
https://80.lv/articles/building-mesh-free-portal-bubbles-in-ue5-with-post-process
Or support the original author directly by visiting the full breakdown on my ArtStation 🤗
https://www.artstation.com/blogs/alinalede/RLvv3/building-mesh-free-portal-bubbles-in-ue5-with-post-process

[summer cedar]

That bubble looks pretty.

[prime tapir]

Thank you! It’s completely fake and doesn’t actually exist as a mesh 💪

[lavish tendon]

https://youtu.be/zmt5gmAlI3o?is=YFCMY6AKZRn8pTKA

[mild gust]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dM4ExubZ9J0

People be drawing out maps of the building 😂

[mild gust]

We can play twitter videos on discord again

Ah

Interesting

Misread the prompter? 😂

or just hates Ukraine

🤔

Ah Russia spreading more propaganda

Because they can't make any progress on the front lines 😂

[broken sigil]

@soft night https://x.com/CyberpunkGame/status/2049866670353547284

Cyberpunk 2077 (@CyberpunkGame)

Are you ready to read your future, chooms? 🃏

Introducing the Cyberpunk 2077: Tarot Deck, an official set of tarot cards created in collaboration with our friends at Panini Comics and @DarkHorseDirect.

Inside the box, you’ll find a full tarot deck, including both Major and

X · Apr 30, 2026, 3:01 PM

there are kinda cool looking

[soft night]

yeah it is

cyberpunk tcg late pledge is ending soon

[soft night]

i retweeted both of them

well witcher https://x.com/DarkHorseDirect/status/2049519237580902788

Dark Horse Direct (@DarkHorseDirect)

"What can you know about saving the world, silly? You’re but a witcher.”

Be sure to tune in tomorrow at 9AM PT / 12PM ET for the official release!

@DarkHorseComics @CDPROJEKTRED @thewitcher #Geralt #Ciri #TheWitcher

X · Apr 29, 2026, 4:00 PM

some good mass effect ones too

[queen isle]

https://www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/gabe-newell-was-an-enthusiastic-supporter-of-openai-in-2018-donating-usd20-million-and-even-acting-as-the-sole-member-of-an-informal-advisory-board/

[mild gust]

Theres ways around that usually

[rare sparrow]

I haven't read the article, but is that supposed to be seen as a bad thing? In 2018 the idea of real AI was still a dream and a lot different than what it's turned out to be so far, right?

[broken sigil]

they stopped their partnership or something like that a few days ago

[errant raven]

Blueeeeee

I started eating healthy and drinking water

Check me out

My pit forest is escaping too. Idk what to do about the high asf testosterone levels

[summer cedar]

Good morning! 🌞 ☕

[broken sigil]

damn son, you strapped a sack of potatoes on your arm

[mild gust]

Start estrogen

[mild gust]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2001760/Beast_of_Reincarnation/

Steam

Beast of Reincarnation

Game Freak's brand-new title: Set in a post-apocalyptic Japan, humanity's only hope lies with Emma, an outcast shunned from society for her affliction, and Koo, the blighted dog. Together, they embark on this expansive adventure in this one-person, one-dog action RPG.

Experience a journey where you feel moments of loneliness, and also the…

Price

$59.99

Release Date

Aug 3, 2026

[summer cedar]

Yes, it's coming to Game Pass too.

[mild gust]

Gives anime vibes

[mild gust]

I want to say I'm surprised but Toronto cops be wild, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNMqxbkgyDg

Racism runs deep in that department

[mild gust]

https://vxtwitter.com/restitutorII/status/2049781706568163424?s=20

Restitutor Orientis 🇱🇮 (@restitutorII)

🇺🇦⚔️🇷🇺
Ukraine: GTA est désormais aussi utilisé comme plateforme de simulation pour former des opérateurs de drones FPV au sein de l’armée ukrainienne.

▶ Play video

vxTwitter / fixvx · Apr 30, 2026, 9:23 AM

https://vxtwitter.com/CorrupcaoBrNews/status/2049843100965543991?s=20

CBN Brasil (@CorrupcaoBrNews)

🚨URGENTE! Jornalista perguntou ao Trump sobre a NASA.

Trump: o melhor para te responder é o diretor da NASA, que com certeza ouviu a pergunta, com essas orelhas que ele tem

Zoom da câmera nas orelhas do diretor da NASA

▶ Play video

vxTwitter / fixvx · Apr 30, 2026, 1:27 PM

[lavish tendon]

brasileiro

[summer cedar]

It's the month of May. We are almost halfway through 2026. Time is certainly flowing faster.

I guess even God is tired of Mein Farter.

[summer cedar]

For a bit. The orangetator is minting coins with his image, putting his picture on American passports, and renaming Hormuz to the Strait of Trump.

So, gotta dream some more.

[fair bridge]

https://tenor.com/view/hi-hi-there-cat-wave-cat-cat-hi-gif-18340632167687937789

[summer cedar]

Did someone just say, "Hi there?" 🤔

[fair bridge]

I didn't hear anything🙉

[summer cedar]

https://soranews24.com/2026/05/01/police-in-japan-summoned-to-deal-with-bank-intruder-who-is-also-a-deervideo/

A deer tried to rob a bank.

It's quite a strange dream indeed.

[pearl elk]

oh deer

[soft night]

https://giphy.com/gifs/bionic-woman-cyborg-transhumanism-8Qo8YOjFwIhmE

[pearl elk]

terrible polyflow

it'll eventually become a notdog

[summer cedar]

https://soranews24.com/2026/04/30/war-in-iran-threatening-japans-pudding-production/

Guys, it's time.

We must set aside our differences.

We must come together and stop this atrocious travesty of a war.

For the sake of pudding.

[pearl elk]

do people still crowd fund games?

[summer cedar]

I think so.

[pearl elk]

fair enough, I just havent backed a game in awhile and I havent heard much about any big ones lately so I was just curious

I think I need about 153,123 backers

[soft night]

i backed the game what got to $28,250,295 so far as late pledge period ends today

[pearl elk]

yeah I could use about that much

[unborn lotus]

Atom rpg 2 is on there

[pearl elk]

not far off being fully backed

[summer cedar]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYfCAAh8rDs

The meme coin scam.

[errant raven]

Why

I'm no woman

[soft night]

@broken sigil https://x.com/WRWTFWW/status/2050163530356207715

WRWTFWW Records (@WRWTFWW)

Cyberpunk 2077: Future Sound of Night City OST available on Yellow 3LP, CD, Digital!
+Hoodies & hats!
https://t.co/nFVetWmnqm
Dive deep into the gritty and neon-soaked streets of Night City. 15 tracks of electrifying Polish beats curated by RAFAŁ GROBEL & WOJTEK SOKÓŁ (MOST RECS)

X · May 1, 2026, 10:40 AM

[fathom wadi]

https://store.algosyntax.com/marketplace/unreal-engine/vst-audio/ Aubrey Olefile's VST plugin is on sale. I can't believe the original price was only £100. Literally it's a one of a kind plugin that no other unreal engine plugin does. Although niche, because it's for sound people, the ability to use VST plugins with Unreal is inspirational in context.
Not gonna lie, if it were me, I'd have priced that at 300 minimum, perhaps more. Anyway, just wanted to drop off a link in case anyone is interested. Aubrey deserves the success for doing this. It took him a long time and a huge grind.

[fleet tangle]

VST?

[lavish tendon]

fl studio plugins

nier automata did this, they had real time audio manipulation

[fathom wadi]

yeah the plugins you use with sound studio software like Cubase, Reason, Cakewalk etc. Digitally emulated instruments and synthesizers.

I have another friend who made a VST style setup for Metasounds. He teaches audio engineering so it seemed appropriate he should do that. Aubrey tho, that came out of nowhere. I've kept up with him since he started UE and he's come so far.

[fleet tangle]

Aubrey?

[fathom wadi]

Aubrey Olefile. The plugin author.

[fleet tangle]

Ah ha.

[mild gust]

Not with that attitude

[errant raven]

I'm about to do some science

I've always wondered what happens to you when you smoke this stuff

But I'm about to science the fuck out of it

[mild gust]

https://tenor.com/view/billnyeusesmywifi-bill-nye-the-science-guy-bill-nye-billnye-bill-nye-science-guy-gif-17287000568381927488

[summer cedar]

Good morning! 🌞 ☕

Yo!

[mild gust]

What up

[summer cedar]

Heat.

[mild gust]

Getting hot here to

Miss winter already

[summer cedar]

https://japantoday.com/category/national/half-of-teenage-girls-in-japan-use-ai-for-advice-gov't-survey

@median wraith You are screwed. ^

[mild gust]

Well time to become AI

[summer cedar]

Apparently.

Must ensure that AI likes you.

[pearl elk]

https://tenor.com/view/just-kidding-gif-7952375625498784056

[mild gust]

Should have been a Viltrumite.

[white oxide]

its almost like the ai isnt going to judge you and teen women apparently like that... no wonder they enjoy it

i mean i love asking it questions too, since its basically an advanced form of google search with vastly better context clues

[sleek trench]

I saw people using cheats to make large bunkers or trenches with this tool 🤣

[mild gust]

😮

[sleek trench]

every new feature in pubg comes with ready made cheats to earn more

[mild gust]

That's the same with many newer games to

Cheat developers hop on the train as quick as possible to make a buck

[sleek trench]

I am saying this because if hacker want to make cheats for this tool, they will need at least a month to learn it first.... but when on the first day of the new feature there are cheaters, this means the dev's are highly dirty

[mild gust]

They got banned after 1 day, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGvejPP5AoA

Russian server ofc

[lavish tendon]

https://tenor.com/view/walter-white-walter-hank-walter-screaming-walter-yelling-gif-26473309

[sleek trench]

every new feature is not only a feature now, its a product to sell 😄

[mild gust]

Luckily pubg is free 😂

Just gives cheaters a new thing to make

CS:2 has similar issues

Since f2p has a low barrier to entry sadly

Warzone did good w/ that phone verification

[sleek trench]

yeah, and I'm sure the cosmetics they sell will not be enough to pay salaries, rent, bills etc 😄

[mild gust]

That's when ya gamble 😛

[sleek trench]

I heared they were trying to shutdown this YT channel, since this channel is effecting their fake reputation 😄

[mild gust]

Unsure just found it myself

[sleek trench]

Ok

[lavish tendon]

<@&213101288538374145>

there's a guy that's named moderato bruh

[mild gust]

Seems like a cool guy

[soft night]

https://giphy.com/gifs/iron-man-hammer-tony-stark-qzu5DA3RXa4kF1L8ca

[summer cedar]

This could misrepresent our peace loving nature as human beings to our feline, alien visitors.

[summer cedar]

https://www.moneycontrol.com/world/ai-can-t-replace-humans-overnight-china-s-courts-say-no-to-ai-driven-layoffs-could-india-follow-article-13905452.html

--- Chinese courts have ruled that companies cannot fire employees solely because AI can do their jobs ---

[soft night]

https://giphy.com/gifs/believe-mammoth-utah-bKBfAbS9u3KhORcOZy

[pearl elk]

https://tenor.com/view/i-believe-i-can-fly-r-kelly-memes-90s-gif-12828488912867721423

[soft night]

https://giphy.com/gifs/AppleTV-ted-tedlasso-lasso-IazdAV1zjaGbBaGPgF

[lavish tendon]

i tried suno with experimental music and it un-experimentalised it

there's music you can't describe with words

[pearl elk]

youre not allowed to play silence, its copyrighted

[lavish tendon]

i don't believe in copyright anyway

[wide fjord]

If buying isn't owning..

[pearl elk]

https://suno.com/s/4sQ3i2RizIwG4rXW

my best one 😛

yeah it was all pizza themes

It got pretty good tbh
https://suno.com/s/C5Wu2YGi0EA23vkV

Ive got a few tracks with actual ghosts in em, the AI just went off on its own doing extra long outros

[summer cedar]

I believe I can touch the sky!

[pearl elk]

I believe in fairy winkles

[fleet tangle]

Do you think about it every night and day?

[summer cedar]

Only every leap year.

[summer cedar]

Yay! Site migration from sub-URL to main URL complete. 😄

No hitches whatsoever! 🎆 👏

[pearl elk]

kick them off the internet and force them to use the dewey decimal system, then they'll appreciate AI 😛

"I dont use AI" but I Google every day to search for my opinion on AI

[soft night]

https://giphy.com/gifs/8JTFsZmnTR1Rs1JFVP

mons calamary medusa search engine

[mild gust]

https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-house-to-consider-resolution-condemning-hasan-piker-candace-owens-for-antisemitism/

A bipartisan agreement those two are anti-semites

[summer cedar]

It'll have about the same effect as a UN resolution.

But, given the impotence of said Congress, why not?

[mild gust]

Who knows maybe they actually get arrested or deported

A kid got arrested for threats earlier last month.

and he was white.

So....

Also says a lot of similar things to Hasan

[summer cedar]

Tee hee hee. You know that Mein Farter will pardon them and hire them as his Secretaries of Israelism and Speechism respectively. 😄

[mild gust]

I highly doubt that

Trump doesn't like Cadance and he probably has no idea who Hasan is.

He's pretty much a nobody to him

[summer cedar]

I don't. All they have to do is begin kissing his posterior on every YT short they post from now on.

That'll do the job. Just retweet his truths, say how great he is, etc. etc.

Presto!

[mild gust]

They won't though they don't even support democrats.

Why would they support republicans

[summer cedar]

To save their own arse.

[mild gust]

Na

[summer cedar]

When a man is about to be hanged, it concentrates his thoughts wonderfully.

[mild gust]

Does it though

[summer cedar]

And all these morons are just a bunch of online twats.

[mild gust]

Plenty just accept fate

[summer cedar]

If they are about to be hanged, they'll take every lifeline they get.

And he's the best lifeline for twats. 😄

[mild gust]

or if your Hitler you just kill yourself like a coward.

Hasan just said something about shooting himself in the face with a shotgun actually

So he can be on the same brain level as another youtuber.

[summer cedar]

He and his ilk are not of any importance to anything.

[mild gust]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/auk1tSYNWaA

[summer cedar]

Whether they prosper or rot, 🤷‍♂️ .

[mild gust]

What a knob goblin

This would probably make him smarter tbf

[summer cedar]

👀 Roblox launching AI dev tool to 'compete' with UE or something.

[mild gust]

If he lost most of his brain

"Someone has to do it"

[summer cedar]

https://www.analyticsinsight.net/gaming/recommended-pc-game-development-companies-for-us-based-studios-clients-in-2026

Apparently, these are the Asian studios that US companies work with, to develop games.

[pearl elk]

how does he even have viewers

[mild gust]

Psy-op

[summer cedar]

I've never used it myself, but the article says that it's for professional game developers and it's 'about to be launched'.

https://startupfortune.com/roblox-is-launching-ai-development-tools-that-put-it-in-direct-competition-with-unity-and-unreal-engine/

[summer cedar]

35% of a certain nation are the poorly educated, remember?

Plus others.

[mild gust]

Plus many other poorly educated places.

Checks out

[summer cedar]

No. I mean plus other followers. I doubt he has much of an international following.

[mild gust]

and 35% of his viewers are from USA

65% of his viewers are not from US

So makes sense

Probably bots

[pearl elk]

Hasan isnt a gamer right?

[summer cedar]

I think he was playing something when Lucifer mentioned him to me for the first time.

I've never watched any of his videos, so 🤷‍♂️ .

[pearl elk]

Thats why Im asking, I dont typically watch anyone play games

[mild gust]

He was gaming recently but not really much lately

He originally was a gamer

When he was hanging out with people like Destiny

[mild gust]

I did years ago then started to see some odd behaviours.

Plus learnt about his "bro tips" past lol

Saying shit like "Old enough to count old enough to mount question mark"

[summer cedar]

Meanwhile, the 'racism against white people' thread in the Starfield Steam forums is STILL on-going.

Except, the last page somehow segued into discussing coffee for two posts and Steam moderation rules for a few more.

[mild gust]

Lol oh?

[summer cedar]

Oh yes. It's been three days or more now.

[mild gust]

Makes sense they took land here so

[pearl elk]

ugggh why are people social

[mild gust]

Definitely didn't give us shit loads of money or anything for it

[summer cedar]

Well, one of the complaints in that thread is hilarious.

"Why does a black guy named Vlad have a russian accent (in Starfield)?" 😄

[mild gust]

Never met a black russian?

[summer cedar]

Then, someone pointed out that accents have nothing to do with genetics. Complainers went back to talking about whitey racism again.

[mild gust]

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

[summer cedar]

In the midst of all of that, some posters got banned by Steam's moderation AI.

[mild gust]

Not really hidden

But okay

[summer cedar]

They are now unbanned and coming back into the thread. 🤣

This might as well be a soap opera.

[summer cedar]

b'cuz they like media.

[pearl elk]

but I like media and hate socials

[summer cedar]

Aye. And you are not a people.

[mild gust]

Also you'd think going to space we would change our melanin levels anyways?

Like????

[summer cedar]

Unsure.

At least in Starfield, you are in a spacesuit most of the time.

[mild gust]

Different exposure to UV

[summer cedar]

The only place you switch to casuals is in environmentally friendly, earthlike places.

[mild gust]

Most astronauts look pale when they return

[pearl elk]

we are a calamari

[summer cedar]

deliciousness is futile.

[mild gust]

https://tenor.com/view/calamari-infinitezoom-foodcalamarisquidyum-gif-14391359880347185385

[summer cedar]

I don't think astronauts get sunlight exposure much, right?

That's probably why.

[mild gust]

No, but they do experience the visual, thermal, and radiative effects of it quite often, seeing 16 sunrises and sunsets every day

On the ISS

[pearl elk]

Tartar master race

[mild gust]

Like our suits are made to protect them or something 😛

Sunlight is harsher and more dangerous in space after all no atmosphere

[summer cedar]

Yeah, but I think that direct sunlight exposure is what makes the body produce the non-paley shades.

If you don't get that direct membership to the sun, then you'd go paley, maybe.

[mild gust]

Watch before and after space missions seems pretty accurate

More specifically the one with the stranded astronauts

[summer cedar]

And getting direct exposure to Mr. Sun in space is...... bad idea? 😄

--- Blinding Brightness: Sunlight in orbit is roughly 1,361 watts per square meter, making it significantly brighter than on Earth's surface. Looking directly at it without protection can cause permanent retinal damage in as little as 30 seconds. ---

Ouch.

Still, you have to make tough choices.

Skin tan or vision. What's more important?

[mild gust]

Just get some robot eyes

[summer cedar]

--- Extreme Temperatures: In direct sunlight, surfaces in space (including an astronaut's suit) can heat up to over 120°C (250°F). ---

Double ouch.

Still, you have to make tough choices.

Skin tan with fried body, or pale skin mostly healthy meatbag; what's more important?

[pearl elk]

I feel like all this culture war stuff on the internet is just dead air

it wasnt even relevant in 2014, what makes anyone think the future will be any different

[summer cedar]

It becomes relevant when the majority decide to sit at home and not vote in their elections, sadly.

If people do their civic duty and vote, then no, it's not an issue really.

That's why we call them minorities.

[pearl elk]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goh2x_G0ct4

the more things change, the more they dont

we've got Pauline Hanson here fighting the good fight for the little guy, for affordability... she just got gifted a private jet by a billionare

the issue isnt putting people on the moon, its that we waste resources and this push/pull is there precisely to facilitate it so we can never move

its not a culture war, its a prison for your mind!

[mild gust]

Welcome to the prison planet

[pearl elk]

but aye if even the creators of The Matrix can end up falling for it we're doomed

[mild gust]

Three body problem looking more and more real

Chinese scientists disappearing too

Not just US anymore

[pearl elk]

no one cares about scientists, they'd rather listen to Hasan

[mild gust]

Likely others?

Sadly

[pearl elk]

remember one of those planes shot down had a delegation of leading aids scientists

its not profitable to solve problems

[mild gust]

It's always the useful ones

[soft night]

https://giphy.com/gifs/alexanderlansang-alexander-lansang-chappie-3oEduZ764J7Au6pEoU

[mild gust]

https://www.reddit.com/r/aliens/comments/1svsn7i/updated_list_of_missingdead_scientists_other/

Some of them straight up scrubbed from records

[pearl elk]

Im willing to bet its bigger than that

[mild gust]

Probably

This is just reddit theorists so far

[pearl elk]

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

maybe the reddit is the news

[mild gust]

Saw a video on it by Oompaville

Then looked into it a bit more kinda weird.

[pearl elk]

Trumps like "important people" thats why no one noticed especially not him

shame the world cares more about self-important people

[mild gust]

Down with the Tates up with the Carrolls

[pearl elk]

people probably think the James Webb Telescope is named after a scifi show

[mild gust]

Lol

or Artemis

🤔

Kids these days

[pearl elk]

Hubble telescope cuz it rhymes with bubble obviously

tele mc telescopey was already taken

[mild gust]

Should have named it more like the walkie talkie

[pearl elk]

I wonder how many Nvidia purchasers recognise the codenames for their chips

[mild gust]

Pregnancy Test: Maybe-baby

Some disappeared

Their wallets and phones left at home

🤔

Left all belongings at home

[pearl elk]

it was the russians obviously

[mild gust]

It was someone

People don't just disappear

[pearl elk]

https://tenor.com/view/alien-probing-probing-time-paul-catfoodcannon-gif-10399470640162320489

[mild gust]

Body or person is somewhere

[pearl elk]

people do just disappear btw

its just far less obvious if its not a self-important person

[mild gust]

Well they are usually somewhere.

Just not known to most.

[pearl elk]

theyre in antartica working on the nazi ufo upgrade

[mild gust]

Gotta drill baby drill

To reach that predator pyramid

[pearl elk]

oil companies are drilling less than ever and still making record profits

thanks Obama

[mild gust]

Must be nice to live in a real country.

[pearl elk]

I like how King Charles reminded Trump that he is head of state in Canada

one does not simply take a commonwealth country

[mild gust]

Mary Simon is basically his arm

[pearl elk]

was so funny to watch all the eye rolling from the royals

[mild gust]

Well he clearly has little respect for royals

Unless they are Saudi princes giving him money

[pearl elk]

Saudi princes are hurting atm, they gotta pay to fix their helium plant

If not French it might be Portuguese, maybe Venezuela would have kidnapped the head of the US 🙀

[soft night]

https://giphy.com/gifs/lisa-lalisa-manobal-FzDQMLQqMQe1A8rKjn

[mild gust]

or Nʉmʉ Tekwapʉ̲

[pearl elk]

Goblin maxxing

[queen isle]

If we're in charge of the unreal engine what would you do?

[mild gust]

Remake the water system.

[summer cedar]

Good morning! 🌞 ☕

[unborn lotus]

no more new features, just polish everything and push them out of experimental

[summer cedar]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3840230/Adorable_Adventures/

Steam

Adorable Adventures

Adorable Adventures is a relaxing third-person exploration game where you play as Boris, a curious baby boar who must learn to use his nose to reunite with his family, who were separated after a forest fire.

Across rolling meadows, sun-dappled forest paths, deep caves, and rocky highlands, identify scents and follow trails to learn more about t…

Price

$15.99

Recommendations

158

More animal cuteness.

[summer cedar]

Starfield moments from the week. The fishmarket was interesting, but I wouldn't buy any of those 'ingredients'.

[mild gust]

Too cute

Must cull the herd

[summer cedar]

Well spoken. You may commence the culling.

[mild gust]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdsxk3yatkA

[summer cedar]

Subnautica 2 coming to Game Pass.

[soft night]

https://giphy.com/gifs/mrw-friend-bro-8gJ28HfjAkc9y

[zinc matrix]

best

game

of

all

time

😤

[lavish tendon]

you can tag in san andreas also

[soft night]

https://giphy.com/gifs/hbo-wave-the-rock-san-andreas-MJ10w0H7fnbfq

[mild gust]

Jet Set Radio Future!

https://tenor.com/view/gameplay-jet-set-radio-sega-xbox-jet-set-radio-future-gif-26865972

[soft night]

https://giphy.com/gifs/hbo-the-rock-san-andreas-qbY4I26YG6NZ6

[pearl elk]

what happens if you use the buttons at the bottom 😮

[zinc matrix]

https://tenor.com/view/johnny-gat-saints-row-gta-saints-row-2-minecraft-cat-gif-9894054858756643523

[summer cedar]

Another morning! 🙂

Seems good. 😛

[soft night]

https://giphy.com/gifs/starwars-season-4-star-wars-xTiIzCpY7DmUyM5sFa

[soft night]

https://giphy.com/gifs/thelegomovie-the-lego-movie-batman-wyldstyle-nfeo8bKy3X23C

https://giphy.com/gifs/xbox-game-xbox-series-x-s-uY6mx5nxgMTQaCEprl

[sleek trench]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zd4KKtRKh3g 🤣

they don't want to fix the flying vehicles 😄 for a reason

and the loot spawn client authoritative 😄

[soft night]

https://youtu.be/v9J3Y1ypDMc?si=l39wRSoQpBBHVsPx

[summer cedar]

@river birch Why the friend request? Do you need something?

Busy days at the outpost. Trade ships coming and going.

[fathom wadi]

I got an unsolicited dm the other day and replied to it and it was legit. Now I will forever wonder

[summer cedar]

Yeah, I checked 'her' account and it's rather old.

So, I thought I'd give 'her' a chance.

[mild gust]

Yikes

[summer cedar]

Spacemart, circa 'the future'.

I am a temp cashier.

[pearl elk]

Shop smart, shop space mart

https://tenor.com/view/boom-stick-army-of-darkness-bruce-campbell-gun-this-gif-17346017

[fathom wadi]

i watched Army of Darkness a couple of nights ago. Still a fun movie

"it's got a walnut stock, cobalt blue steel, and a hair trigger." always got stuck in my head

[pearl elk]

https://tenor.com/view/angry-dooting-dooting-army-of-darkness-intergalactic-skeleton-bone-flute-gif-1824293436308030208

[mild gust]

https://vxtwitter.com/Rightanglenews/status/2050716399450947591?s=20

Right Angle News Network (@Rightanglenews)

Scientology raids are getting even wilder after a man brought over 20 “Christian dwarfs” to raid the Scientology HQ in Los Angeles in an attempt to find Tom Cruise.

▶ Play video

vxTwitter / fixvx · May 2, 2026, 11:17 PM

[fathom wadi]

they had little chance of finding him

[soft night]

https://giphy.com/gifs/studiohari-cartoon-lemmings-grizzy-VR26KGhBQFmnF3q6yJ

[dawn moss]

Off topic but do we think every scp beats one of every pokemon

[mild gust]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMBBSV1fwkQ

[mild gust]

SCP lore is wild

This is probably one of my favourite https://scproleplay.fandom.com/wiki/SCP-002_"The_Living_Room"

[dawn moss]

Im not well versed in it but my friend is

He said scp wins every time

[mild gust]

Yup

Many are unkillable so

Some they even tried "nuking"

[dawn moss]

Ok but like what about Dialga Palkia and Giratine

And Arceus

[mild gust]

Idk about any of that but when there's creatures that have gone through years of basically torture in their lore seems like they will be fine.

Plus there's an scp that is literally just a bottle of booze

[dawn moss]

They can control time, space, and Arceus is just poke god

[mild gust]

Ah yeah

Well that's not exactly irregular for scp 🤷 since people just make shit up right

[dawn moss]

Right

[mild gust]

There's also places that are scp's where if that "god" went to it would disappear

[dawn moss]

Damn

[mild gust]

https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2470

Or this one

You disappear if it perceive's you.

This things cool to https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-682

[fleet tangle]

That meme might be older than the internet!

[mild gust]

To be fair there is food glues

That are food safe

[soft night]

https://giphy.com/gifs/star-wars-starwars-bb8-VhtuzduQ8QV6SLAYyf

[errant raven]

I don't want to shit my pants

[mild gust]

Wtf

[summer cedar]

Good morning! 🌞 ☕

[fathom wadi]

I made this in Blender for my wife's cover art of her novel. What ya think? Don't hate me. I'm a noob, but still, if you spot anything let me know.

[unborn lotus]

maybe the cardboard box needs some waviness?

[mild gust]

Also make the light in the back flickering maybe

Like obviously it's still but dim it

[fathom wadi]

I was considering using a lattice and deforming the box a little to get rid of some of the ridigity.
Also it does have chromatic aberration but with the lighting and not wanting to blur the image with the RGB split offsets, it didn't come through as strong as I'd like. It's not an easy balance to get right with some lighting setups. Also the scanline filter I used covered it somewhat. I'm not sure how to fix the effect really. Do you know a better way than duplicating the image 3 times and splitting the RGB ? Also is there an order of RGB colour to aberration?

[mild gust]

Is the book a horror?

[fathom wadi]

no. it's more of a thriller with twists. There is one horrific event that the book involves though

something that happened to someone my wife knew 20 years ago. So she's had this idea to write a book around it. The last 10 years shes been scribbling things down, making connections, etc. A couple of years ago she started writing and now she's finished after 180,000+ words.

She made an AI cover but nobody wants to see that so I took her concept and remade it with some artistic license

The wife said "it's not a backroom's thing. It's more David Fincher, sev7en, etc kind of stuff"

yeah I thought that too. It was one or the other I guess. I could thin down the scale of the scanlines but you would barely see it then

[soft night]

https://giphy.com/gifs/star-wars-may-the-4th-be-with-you-VBBPfM4Me1fZC

[mild gust]

But but

[soft night]

https://giphy.com/gifs/percolategalactic-yoda-the-force-may-4th-l4HnUoCy5oCXwrxKg

[summer cedar]

Yay! West Bengal and Assam go to the BJP. 😄 Good. Hopefully, the change will lead to much progress in the two states.

[mild gust]

May they interbreed and make lovely babies

[summer cedar]

We have enough of those, thank you. I hope they improve the public safety and policing in the state, not to mention quick legal resolutions.

[mild gust]

No need more kids

Must breed

We all need to have 5 kids each

[summer cedar]

Yes, I know. But that's a feature here, remember? 😄

It doesn't need to be part of policy.

[mild gust]

Boom!

[summer cedar]

But yeah, I hope West Bengal prospers. It is one of our key states and it's been in limbo for far too long.

It might be too much to ask, but I hope the new government stamps the bandit queen out.

[mild gust]

Would you be this down bad to see the sun/ sky? https://vxtwitter.com/MarioNawfal/status/2050887340437262822?s=20

Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal)

🇨🇳 This might be the most futuristic thing you’ll see today:

Artificial skylights that use LED panels + nanotechnology to create hyper-realistic blue skies and sunlight in completely windowless rooms.

You can even switch from bright midday sun to warm sunset glow with a remote.

We’re now simulating the sky indoors because real windows are apparently too much to ask for in dense cities.

This is either peak innovation…or lowkey dystopian. You decide.

▶ Play video

vxTwitter / fixvx · May 3, 2026, 10:37 AM

[summer cedar]

Are those expensive? If not, yeah, I'd support them.

There are too many apartments that get no sunlight, these days.

And there are also many who do not wish to leave their houses. We must bring nature to them and torture them unto eternity.

[mild gust]

That's crazy

Maybe if you live in one of those chinese tiny apartments

[summer cedar]

No. The actual size doesn't matter.

If you're surrounded by other buildings, the sun is cut off.

[mild gust]

That's why you zone properly.

[summer cedar]

Don't be too happy for me. I'm sure there are a legion of Indians who hate the incumbent central government. 😄

[mild gust]

They are traitors

[summer cedar]

Doesn't help unless you live in one of those low population communities.

I am not saying you never see sunlight.

You just don't get 'direct' exposure like you used to.

[mild gust]

Just replace the nanolights with UV

Everybody wins

[summer cedar]

Aye, and nay. I am not big on the BJP's religious agenda either, BUT there's no denying the technocratic progress and judicial reforms we've enacted in the past ten years.

There's no denying the foundation built by previous governments either, including the opposition, but life is FAR better for my class now. Faster, easier, more comfortable.