lounge

[fathom wadi]

yeah I kinda saw that coming too. It always made sense. I'm no render tech though so I couldn't have implemented anything without a huge amount of self study

I see what Ponkiss does and it feels like magic to me

[pearl elk]

Its because of the investment, artists invest huge amounts of time learning all those tricks for those pipelines so when everything moves they are stubborn to move quickly

[fathom wadi]

yeah that makse sense from the financial side

[pearl elk]

they have to justify that investment, like oh I spent all this time learning projective UV mapping etc

for me its always, well we have this now, that might still be useful somewhere else

[fathom wadi]

R&D should be budgeted in to any large scale development system if you ask me. Look at what some of the indies do when they conceptualise some new way of doing things. When the suits don't have the say, we improve rather than normalise.

[pearl elk]

I think thats one thing people arnt taking much into account with AI, they see it as an end result thing not a pipeline thing

[fathom wadi]

or they see it as me inciting people to viiolence according to that facebook dude from the UE group 😄

[pearl elk]

ahh the facebooks, dont miss it much

[fathom wadi]

Im not into it but I do like to help people and its one avenue for that. Plus its about the only way I keep in contact with some family.

[trail ore]

ive had this stupid idea of trying to make yet another minecraft clone ™ with meshlets. because, you know, if you do the usual mesh chunk, you kinda loose the ability to occlude most of the chunks, because usually some parts of it is visible, but if you do meshlets and cull per meshlet you could discard quite a lot triangles before rasterization. idk how great idea it is, but i think it would be interesting to try. generally meshlets/mesh shaders are still a bit slower than traditional pipelines, but maybe in these cases it could be more efficient.

[pearl elk]

depends on the size of your voxels too, they are typically pretty large and chonky but if you can optimize then you might be able to make them smaller

but if you made everything voxels, including the sky and clouds maybe use a negative space rather than positive 😛

[trail ore]

the usual problem ive had when trying achieve long draw distances is only that youre pushing too much triangles to the system. ive tried doing this volumetrics where each chunk is basically just a cube, but those just introduce massive overdraw and thats not good and its hard to do collisions and other stuff.

[pearl elk]

vlods

Voxel LOD with Octree Compression

[trail ore]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1-KBtIuRz4 this was one volumetric test, but i used godot, and im not really a godot enjoyer and dont know how it works. but it ran pretty well on gtx960. it just had the worst threading system known to man because i didnt understand gdscript

but this also has no culling and whatsoever

[pearl elk]

I keep thinking of Simcity and RCT how they did the slopes on their terrain, part of the issues with cubeys is the janky edge but if its one of the larger angles its easier to batch

theres also a sign flip, you turn the cube I think so its 5 bit then about 3-5 angle bit

[trail ore]

recast uses voxels to build nav meshes, it can do pretty nice slopes, but i dont remember how those games were so maybe not related

[pearl elk]

take the heightmap and compress it to jpg 😹

then only render closest to the camera with higher detail heightmap

that only works for convex though

but thats probably what Id try is using some sort of mipmapping

[trail ore]

if you do something minecrafty scale voxels, you probably dont need lods, just greedy mesh it. but this is what might make things weird in my meshlet idea, because you do a "naive" mesh chunk e.g. dont do faces that are visible, then you merge all the adjanced faces to reduce the poly count, then you feed it to something that does the meshlets. its lots of steps to compute 😄

[pearl elk]

well the entire surface of Mars @ 100m pixels is 11GB tif

and Minecraft resolution is higher than that with its voxel size

thats not including thats not just terrain its all the voxels that might be under the top most ones

[trail ore]

yea, idk about those. this is probably reason people do perlin noise sampling etc for height

[pearl elk]

I was always more of a Comanche guy than a Minecraft guy tbh 😹

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UMcB8dTxPQ

[trail ore]

i think ive watched some comanche clips when i got into these things. they had some cool terrain generator?

[pearl elk]

yeah voxel space engine was pretty full on at the time

I guess Minecraft makes sense for the type of game it is but I feel like thats the fundamental thing. What type of game are you making then you can tune your methodology to that more specifically, I think thats why Minecraft works is both were tuned together

Obviously a game like Teardown took a different approach but Im sure they tuned the voxels to be what they needed them to be. Pretty sure they dont always conform to a grid in that one

[trail ore]

yeah. i think its interesting that polygons did win eventually, but now we are seeing voxels again everywhere. like nanite has some voxel thing for representing lower lod foliage if ive understood it correctly. ive seen some Valve leaks that theyre also working with voxel stuff (not sure how legit it was), hytale and some other voxel games are pretty popular. and that enshrouded looked pretty cool

what makes it interesting for me at least, is that its fun that everything (almost) is kind of something you can interact/modify

[pearl elk]

Well its a common technique to convert to whatever format suits the process best. Under the hood alot of DCC tools use voxels for poly workflows because the operations are better done in those. Same with gaussian splats etc

An unfortunate side effect of Minecrafts popularity is alot of people just want to look like that game without considering that polygons can still do all of what Minecraft does. That interactivity and modification is largely on the game end, we've got plenty of building games that use polys, even terrain mod and infact the best destruction Ive seen is in polygon games

Thats not to say voxels arnt interesting, Im sure they are plenty capable but perhaps held back by Minecraft brain

Unfortunately I dont think we'll see that same lightning in a bottle for awhile, I guess with the rise of streaming, youtube etc it just hit at the very right time culturally

[trail ore]

yea, destruction if you can even call it that in mc is kinda dull. teardown did it pretty well. i guess part of original mc charm was the mystery, you didnt know how to build portals and whatever unless you read wiki or watched some youtuber. i guess thats one way of building community for your game, but now thats basically gone since theyve added so many tips and hints which also might not be a bad thing because you probably want to play the game and not browse wiki..

[pearl elk]

Its not like its a bad thing, they were just focused on other aspects of the game where Teardown its a core pillar of what theyre doing. I actually really enjoy the smoke and all that in that game, its cool how it finds the holes

but look at the marching cubes for CS2s smoke, I wouldnt call that polys 😛

its rare to see polygon games done in a similar way to those voxel ones where they all share the same underpinnings, all the one system treating everything the same from say terrain, building, vehicle and character destruction

Theres always very clear distinctions, this is a static mesh, this is a skeletal mesh, this is foilage etc

[trail ore]

cs2 smoke kinda put games like valorant in shame 😄 but, theres nothing stopping you voxelizing the space youre working with and mix things up

[pearl elk]

Ive always been a huge fan of volumetric effects and lighting, it always gives this really nice presence versus something like a flat corona

they did some really cool beams in UT2004 for example but could you imagine those all voxelised and small voxels

Teardown cross Noita cross UT... make it so!

[trail ore]

idk about UT i was quake guy, but beams and what not can be done with ray marching and volumetrics or just cheat with sprites

if someone makes 3d noita that would be cool but i dont think we have enough horsepower. its still struggle in 2d sometimes

[pearl elk]

Quake 1 could totally be voxelised tbh

pretty sure there were plenty of attempts but that would be so cool because the textures are low res so it could match 1:1 almost lol

256 colours so pretty optimized 😛

but it does need some sort of nanite voxel equivalent because you really dont need to be rendering anything smaller than a pixel, that subpixel depth isnt really going to do any favours

[trail ore]

this is where mesh shaders are handy. you can go as deep as triangle culling and just discard those if theyre too smol

but you can also make it silent hill and add fog and do distance culling which is much cheaper

[pearl elk]

Im doing that with my polygon game 😅

[summer cedar]

What customer info?
'We are dumb'
'Our messiah is a criminal'
'Fleece us. We are easy targets.'
That kind? 😄

---

Good morning 🌞 ☕

[pearl elk]

https://tenor.com/view/sora-ai-ai-dog-sora-ai-dog-dog-ai-ai-gif-1966252135688010824

[summer cedar]

Oh, wow! The Game Pass app splash screen is very cool.

[summer cedar]

Ah yes, word to the wise. Installing other NVidia apps after installing NVidia Broadcast, breaks Broadcast and requires it to be reinstalled.

[summer cedar]

Met a new student. He's a Computer Science major researching compilers. 💻

[mild gust]

Nice

[mild gust]

Wtf lol

[summer cedar]

Doggie Dogameha! 🌊

[pearl elk]

https://tenor.com/view/aunt-may-may-parker-spider-man-explosion-reversed-gif-14580976912125554154

[pearl elk]

Only a tiny bit of usage

[summer cedar]

Had another new student. She was a defend-y employee.

I am getting my foot in hallowed doors!

[median wraith]

The hell GPU is that

[summer cedar]

3090/4090/5090 - one of those.

[mild gust]

Ain't no 4090

[soft night]

https://giphy.com/gifs/omg-fishy-JPOaQ5e1ZmEmc

[proud jay]

people will claim it's ai

[unborn lotus]

100% AI https://tenor.com/view/its-black-its-white-michael-jackson-video-gif-8810946

[summer cedar]

They'd be wrong.

Dogs throughout the eons have been known to exhibit powerful dsychic powers.

[proud jay]

MJ has been keeping it from us

[summer cedar]

So, I got my money back from the scammer electronics seller AND my sales tax refund has been credited today! 👏

All's right with the world. Time to get back to the grind. ⚒️

[soft night]

https://giphy.com/gifs/disneyplus-the-mandalorian-disney-season-3-xn3ZnP5FUj3nFyfs5E

[soft night]

when i saw this i cant help to notice the puppeteerint https://youtu.be/q_MGZcXowTA?si=y6gREXQ9Dad7oxvO

[summer cedar]

#food message - Today's bakery raid.

[proud jay]

who's gonna eat all that

[summer cedar]

I have eaten eight pieces already.

And also, me. 😄

[proud jay]

bro how hungry are you

[summer cedar]

Today, a bit. I skipped lunch with just a coffee to tide me over.

[trail ore]

naked and afraid game got some procedural lightning bolts that people with epilepsy will probably dislike

also, dont watch if youre sensitive to flashy things

[proud jay]

strange that it bolts in front of the camera instead of in the world

[trail ore]

it is indeed in screen space

which is little weird. because it doesnt move when the camera moves lol

[summer cedar]

I am glad to see the hero has become powerful enough to withstand rain. Pure Body Resist Level 5.

[trail ore]

thunder undies

[summer cedar]

Legendary item.

[trail ore]

i dont think i can make it any better than this. epic.

[summer cedar]

Too many meta-humans there. Also, they should spawn in with proper, lumen-boosted vfx.

[soft night]

dune awakening so good with self-hosted

https://www.youtube.com/live/U3TK78TuBAE?si=r2CV5iMyDgXo6Yo0

[median wraith]

you can make to random show a thunder in screen each x ones, so don't spam the screen

[trail ore]

it is randomized, i just cranked up the chance for the clip. its like very rare to happen. i dont like flashy things too much either, but thought it would be nice to have something

just need to make it less thickkkkkkk and its fine for now

[median wraith]

Why the AI is never useful for real purposes?

Why cannot create icons really, it generates real bad things

[summer cedar]

Isn't Fab full of AI-generated icons, as people have been complaining?

[median wraith]

oh lord

[median wraith]

yeah the FAB and Unity store etc

[summer cedar]

So, you should be able to find at least one icon you like there.

[median wraith]

I wanted icons for my apps for editing usually there is nothing

say like the icons that blender have

[summer cedar]

Then draw the icons you want on paper, scan it, and feed that to Gemini Pro or Chat GPT.

Tell them to generate an icon based on the image.

You'll get what you want.

[trail ore]

https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5821 probably good idea to update drivers if you already havent and use nvidia

[summer cedar]

Ah, yes! Software is very safe indeed.

[median wraith]

usually terrible too

[summer cedar]

Did you ever do it?

[median wraith]

yeah

[summer cedar]

very sus you are.

[trail ore]

if you draw it already.. why feed it to gippity anymore?

[fathom wadi]

The Onion is like my digital spirit animal lol

[summer cedar]

So you don't have to colour it with crayons, because crayons are expensive due to tariffs and inflation.

[summer cedar]

What do they mean 'on top of' a sick child?

[soft night]

the sick child have to carry whole datacenter all the time

[trail ore]

is this similar situation as in twitch?

[summer cedar]

Yes, the world has asses.

[soft night]

next you hear that openAI datencers become hounted

[median wraith]

is getting better

[summer cedar]

Yeah, when you work at it.
AI isn't supposed to make you lazy. 😛

---

F00kin$ theme builder elementor block's settings are f00kin$ stuck. @#$@#$@!!!

[trail ore]

you probably get faster and better results if you draw them in aseprite or something

[summer cedar]

Actually, chisel and stone block is best.

[trail ore]

better than ai for sure, but theres tools that makes things easier

[soft night]

hev svg

or let groku draw it

[median wraith]

now the real question

can use CC-BY-SA

on commercial projects?

[summer cedar]

yes

It's allowed.

Google says so.

[trail ore]

why would you tho? thats not a dog

[median wraith]

yeah but if you make changes you have to release just the icons using the SA or the whole project?

like GPL nightmare

[soft night]

https://giphy.com/gifs/us-relief-relieving-n5iPVLeA1fvb0IYU5W

[summer cedar]

Just whatever you want to use, nothing else, as far as I know.

Who are you stealing from?

[median wraith]

https://ui.blender.org/icons

blender SA

not stealing but trying to better use those lol

[summer cedar]

Gemini says:
What You CAN Do
Use them in Blender extensions/add-ons
Modify them
Distribute them

What You MUST Do (The Catch)
Because the GPL is a copyleft license, it carries a strict "hereditary" requirement:

Share the Source: If you distribute a program, application, or extension that bundles or embeds these icons, your project must also be released under a GPL-compatible open-source license.

You cannot lock these icons into a closed-source, proprietary piece of software without violating the license terms.

---

Basically, release your project under GPL and don't make the icons inaccessible to others.

You can sell the project, make money, whatever. But, the code has to be open source. That's it.

---

Oh great, F@#$!! block stopped working.

Then, it suddenly started working again.

😒

[median wraith]

what the hell is the addons related here with anything lol

[summer cedar]

That's referring to plugins you make for Blender.

[median wraith]

the font is CC-BY-SA not GPL

I'm not making an addon

it for my Qt tools

[trail ore]

legal advices from lounge and ai smells little fishy

[summer cedar]

Yeah, but the icons in that link are governed by Blender's license.

[summer cedar]

That's why you have to do your own research and die from desperate drunkenness.

[unborn lotus]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GM9kkxFjXlk have you seen what happened to the tangy td guy because of ONE asset he found online

[summer cedar]

Did he change flavour from tangy to alcoholic?

[trail ore]

@median wraith have you looked if kenney have any system icon packs? those are usually cc0

[median wraith]

na

[summer cedar]

Oh, great! In the middle of designing the page, Wordpress pushes an update. 😒

[trail ore]

i read him tweeting about this some time ago

[summer cedar]

What the heck? The update notification disappeared, along with the install button. 👀

[summer cedar]

Was it a stolen asset that he found mislabelled, and used it?

[trail ore]

he probably explains it on that video

[summer cedar]

Yes, but I am working, so....

--- WordPress 7.0 introduces the foundation for AI across the platform ---

Ok, but this was already there in the previous version. 😒

This inspires confidence in an update.

[unborn lotus]

no, he just used a pixel art of a goblin from google and recreated it

[trail ore]

i should probably throw away soon the stardew valley assets i use as placeholders 😅

[summer cedar]

Recreate as in, hand-drew it? Or Photoshopped it in pieces?

[unborn lotus]

yes I think so

[summer cedar]

I see.

He should be able to fight the take down, then.

If he so chooses.

[unborn lotus]

already did and the game got reinstated

[summer cedar]

There we go.

[unborn lotus]

but they drilled him about his new goblin having a club

ridiculous

[summer cedar]

Obviously.

That's how the law works.

90% of it is intimidation.

[unborn lotus]

and once the game is taken down, it appears as unavailable in steam wishlists

so he lost tens of thousands of wishlists

[summer cedar]

DID YOU SNEEZE AND CAUSE THAT OLD LADY TO FALL?!!!! DID YOU?!!!!!

The sheer fear prevents you from sneezing in front of old ladies ever again.

[summer cedar]

He'll get them back over time.

It's the business.

Gotta deal.

[unborn lotus]

a lil bit extreme

[summer cedar]

Ok. This is stupid. WP is giving me updates ONE-at-a-time.

Like, I update one thing. Hit refresh. Then there's another update pending.

Crazy internet.

[summer cedar]

It's how it works.
It's one of the reasons a vast majority stay clear of the police, most people hate lawyers and accountants, etc. etc.

Otherwise, the system would break down from the sheer volume of work.

Fear prevents the plebians from doing wrong things - or it's supposed to.

Digital tech kind of loosened the reins a bit.

They are now trying to tighten it, but the old codgers don't know enough about IT to make proper laws.

See. I am pr0 designer.

Well on my way to becoming the next God Todd.

[trail ore]

https://tenor.com/view/family-guy-css-open-window-annoyed-pissed-gif-12014506

[soft night]

https://giphy.com/gifs/cat-kitten-computer-3oKIPnAiaMCws8nOsE

[summer cedar]

https://www.msn.com/en-in/money/topstories/noida-ceo-fires-senior-employee-for-asking-him-sir-tell-me-what-to-do-next/ar-AA23yMWh

Interesting take.

[summer cedar]

https://creativecommons.org/cc-licenses/

It says you can use CC BY-SA commercially. No problem. You just have to share the adapted icons under the same license.

So, whatever new icon you design will also be CC BY-SA, if it was adapted from the original.

---

Lol. Mein Farter is getting ready for Operation Cuban Cigar.

That Castro fellow has been indicted by his stooge lawyer.

🕵️

Bombing to follow soon. ™

[trail ore]

here we go again

[summer cedar]

That demo game also has similar visuals. 😄

Anachro-something. Lemme find it.

dammit. Can't find the game. I forgot its name. 🙁

[fathom wadi]

Anachronox?

[mild gust]

Arachnophobia

[unborn lotus]

Aquanox??

[soft night]

https://giphy.com/gifs/frutiger-aero-aqua-nosalgia-QjkkR8Nn0clgYcnOtC

[lavish tendon]

ornstein and smaugh destroyed me

[fathom wadi]

Ike Willis died 🙁
If you know, you know. If you don't. He was part of Frank Zappa's ensemble and a legendary musician. Not well known in the mainstream, but regardless a legend.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts1XqI5dfGE

[trail ore]

another one? man.. we go in waves

[fathom wadi]

I know right? It seems like every week I'm posting a rest in peace video on my facebook

I like to think Ike is up in heaven, playing this imaginary guitar solo now with Frank.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3cu8sDa90Y

[trail ore]

that was good song. went to bookmarks. ive heard about frank zappa but never really listened their songs

but ive been digging "old" songs lately. never really listened to gerry rafferty either, until i heard about it from some old fart programmer stream lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fo6aKnRnBxM kinda epic sax

[pearl elk]

https://tenor.com/view/saxophone-the-lost-boys-movie-tim-cappello-joel-schumacher-gif-11663940

[fathom wadi]

yeah Baker street is a classic

mind you, I still believe is a classic too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdaaGlyu7EQ

[pearl elk]

I like Crowded House tbh 😅

[fathom wadi]

yeah good band

[pearl elk]

Gunners and U2 are overrated 😅 🙀

[fathom wadi]

U2 around The Joshua Tree era I can handle. Not much into the rest

[pearl elk]

I almost didnt mind Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me

[fathom wadi]

yeah I liked that one

[pearl elk]

if only it was alittle heavier

[trail ore]

that was from some movie, right? i remember my sister was into that few days ago

[pearl elk]

Batman Forever

only the best Batman ever made 😹

[fathom wadi]

Nippletastic Batman !

[trail ore]

oh, that one. it was good movie

[pearl elk]

I quite liked Nicole Kidman and Val Kilmer together

and how cool is Chase Meridian for a name

reminds me, I gotta watch The Shadow again

https://tenor.com/view/alec-baldwin-the-shadow-the-shadow-movie-baldwin-shadow-hand-gesture-gif-17650202

ComfyUI is wierd, its all like oh you need this hardware to run it but then you load it up and its all like here buy tokens for datacenter hardware

[trail ore]

https://tenor.com/view/meow-catwoman-batman-returns-gif-25345448

[pearl elk]

Probably one of the best trilogies tbh if we ignore Batman & Robin exists 😛

There hasnt been a Catwoman that came even close to her performance in all those movies since

[trail ore]

i was horny teen when i saw it first time, so i might have balanced view, but i think danny devito was good penguin. it was little creepy character

"little" as no pun intented

[pearl elk]

lol oh shes hot, penguin on screen...

https://tenor.com/view/ruh-roh-gif-3705150628844125211

[trail ore]

dude ate someones nose. that leaves mark to your brain too 😄

[pearl elk]

90s super hero movies were the best

when I watched The Dark Knight I was sure Id seen that pencil bit before then finally I saw someone compare it with The Crow

worlds all too bright and chirpy for a really good anti-hero

its funny watching the NYC subway over the years, start of the 80s it was full grot, graffiti everywhere etc, now its all nice clean platforms etc lol

they had to make a fake one for The Matrix just so they could make it all dingy

[fathom wadi]

I can't watch The Dark Knight and enjoy it. I know its a good movie, but everytime The Joker is on screen and he sucks up his spit because his mouth is deformed, it hits my misophonia and I reel back

[pearl elk]

I dont like the bit with Tokyo at all, I mean its not bad but the inconsistency in the story telling to jump across the ocean just to do one stunt and jump back to the US in the space of about 8 mins bugs me

but I think The Prestige is Nolans best work hands down

[trail ore]

i think ive watched it once. i remember the joker dude was good, but i dont remember anything else about it. i think the old ones were better, or its just memories from young me. jack nicholson was more memorable for me

[pearl elk]

The thing about Jack Nicholsons Joker is he paints the real face on, there is no Joker mask because that is his face

Its a subtle difference but it really goes to the psychology, the other Jokers its a persona they put on not the core of the character. Hell that latest one the musical that completely disowned itself from any real Joker

[trail ore]

https://tenor.com/view/joker-batman-big-gun-gun-jack-nicholson-gif-13724041

yea, he was insane but also kinda funny guy

[fathom wadi]

ever dance with the devil in the pale moonlight?

[pearl elk]

Github was hacked too 😮

[fathom wadi]

luckily I don't use it for my portfolio like it seems most coding jobs require.

I have a couple of things up there tho

[pearl elk]

I wondered why I got some odd request for extra Cursor permissions after uninstalling it. Apparently about 4000 people had private repos compromised

[fathom wadi]

https://github.com/Doublezer0/TinyFileDialogsUE4 I put this up a few years ago but that's about it. It was for free so it felt like a good place to put it

it's kind of moot now really. But I guess if people are still on UE4 it helps

[trail ore]

i learned neat trick today; i had bunch of different shaders in my rendering pipeline, e.g. static things, trees, grass. theyre all little different because animations. starting point was 166 draw calls. first thing that i thought was uber shader and pass the sprite type as uniform, but changing uniform in the middle of committing a batch of vertices flushes the state, thus you need to make another draw call. but, since this is 2d game, i can snuggle the type into the z component of the vertex position and no state changes needs to be done. draw calls are 33 with 2 branches in the shader now.

https://tenor.com/view/charlie-sheen-winning-smoking-cigarettes-puff-gif-16438882

[fathom wadi]

I wish I had that kind of knowledge but I'm just a mere mortal who has to really push past limitations to get good at what I know. But somehow the graphics programming thing (beyond basic shader stuff) absolutely does not inspire my mind to solve issues.

I guess thats why I've always been a gameplay logic kinda person. That I can handle

making plugins for editor tools is something I seem to do ok with tho

[trail ore]

i like these things. graphics programming in a nut shell is: on cpu side you want to push as much data as possible in one call, then on gpu side you want to discard as much of that data as possible before it goes to the actual drawing part. its little wacky.

[fathom wadi]

I would say I'd be happy to get trained up do that kind of thing but I'm 50 next month. I doubt anyone would invest in someone my age for a young man's game (so to speak). It's bad enough trying to get jobs these days when I get filtered out for no reason. But that I could see a valid reason to filter me out

[trail ore]

if you know game math, like vectors and matrices its not that bad. but problem is that there are few different graphics apis, none of these are very user friendly and they all are different. and theres no sane way to debug things. its actually pretty absurd how difficult it is to draw something on the screen..

[pearl elk]

you need to implant AI in your brain

[trail ore]

i dont think ai will solve this because it will just add another layer of complexity to all the existing complexity

[fathom wadi]

I understand matrices and vectors and trigonometry and some calculus (I forgot calc a lot tho so I just know what to look up and how to convert functional maths into code). But applying it within the constraints of the apis is probably where I fall short. Like you said, drawing to screen is hard enough. Getting complex with all the tech we use today is another level

[pearl elk]

I guess if youre doing it the old fashioned way but if you use something like Tauri and Three.js in the window its pretty fast to draw things, I wouldnt call it the most performant route though

That actually gets you running multiplatform in a heartbeat

[fathom wadi]

https://tenor.com/view/clint-eastwood-magnum-force-harry-callahan-dirty-harry-a-mans-got-to-know-his-limitations-gif-20203377

speaking of which, anyone wanna fund me to make Dirty Harry game? I got plans ¬_¬

[pearl elk]

bruv man dem be baddadan dem odda Dans

https://tenor.com/view/here-payday-stacks-got-money-paid-gif-14953147

[fathom wadi]

oh top Boy. You were too real to be truly entertaining. You can live in London and live that entire series first hand

[pearl elk]

there was that scifi one which was basically Kano riding around on an EV bike cuz future 😹

[trail ore]

thats because they do the hard work for you. i can use something like raylib and draw things to screen in minutes, but its opengl and you dont get the modern features. webgl also dont have these. then you go into the rabbit hole of modern graphics apis. 😄

theres sdl but it doesnt quite support all the cool things either, so you most likely end up writing things from scratch

[pearl elk]

who needs modern APIs to make friendslop games with shite graphics 😛

loving this R9700, I can do so much AI stuff but the real trick is automating the inbetween workflow stuff

not sure how it all works internally but KSampler seems to make everything ramp up

[mild gust]

Did you guys see that AI girl that is half black half white.

Named Evadelonne

[pearl elk]

yes I did, I saw some tiktok with her at some sports event

[mild gust]

I first saw her on Instagram

Ngl it got me at first

Then I watched a few more clips

Her vitiligo or w.e was not consistent.

[pearl elk]

yeah pretty realistic but obviously fake

the line would not be that perfect if it was real

[mild gust]

Unless she used lots of makeup

[pearl elk]

like God decided one day to draw a straight line because he didnt use any anywhere else lol

well thats true, she could blend it

[mild gust]

I mean if someone had an extreme case like hers.

I imagine they would want it to look like that

[mild gust]

Damn...

[mild gust]

https://vxtwitter.com/wartirnes/status/2056951196477530561?s=20

War Times (@wartirnes)

Canadian Artillery Wake-Up Call 🇨🇦

A Canadian soldier falls asleep beside an M777 howitzer during field training… while the rest of his crew decides to give him the worst alarm clock imaginable.

The entire crew absolutely lost it 😂

▶ Play video

vxTwitter / fixvx · May 20, 2026, 4:12 AM

Got em!

Low.... https://www.thegamer.com/grammacrackers-81-year-old-minecraft-youtuber-swatted/

At least she had fun lol

[woven wing]

"Dead Rising, but on a mega cruise ship"

[mild gust]

Hantavirus creates zombies

[summer cedar]

Good morning! 🌞 ☕

[mild gust]

Oi

[summer cedar]

Hough!

More videos from Path of Exile 2 - more changes.

GGG are a bunch of insane devs. 😄

[mild gust]

Even that TD dev be playing it

[summer cedar]

Google has changed Gemini's plans from 20th May. No more free credits for paying subscribers, too. Everything's charged - for Flow and Antigravity.

I guess all that AI infra is costly to run. 🤣

This foro3d.com is an interesting site.
A newcomer to CG news, but I am suspicious of the uniform formatting of its articles.

Everything's practically the same length and uses the same tone. Still, whoever wants light reading, I guess. 🤷‍♂️

---

https://gamerant.com/unreal-engine-5-worst-things-about-ue5/

LOL.

I guess the worst things about UE went away after all. 😄

https://www.technetbooks.com/2026/05/ci-games-epic-games-separation.html

Divorce!

Amicably....

https://www.creativebloq.com/3d/video-game-design/how-unreal-engine-5-helped-thick-as-thieves-build-its-gorgeous-magic-punk-world

[errant raven]

Was realism really ever anything to begin with tho

[summer cedar]

I am surprised.

....that they haven't blamed him for using AI all over the place already.

[mild gust]

Yes

[summer cedar]

New free, free stuff on Fab.

[mild gust]

Your late #unreal-news

[summer cedar]

I know. I saw it yesterday, but still...

[errant raven]

Nuh uh

[mild gust]

Ree

It's not updating

#unreal-news

[errant raven]

[summer cedar]

Okay. Caught them all.

[mild gust]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqpmnWP1M8M

[summer cedar]

Trump Phone's finally out, apparently.

And the US flag on it has two fewer stripes.

[mild gust]

Right after the data leak? 😂

[summer cedar]

Yes, made with American values 'in mind'.

by Chinese labourers. 😄

[mild gust]

Ready for those battery fires

[summer cedar]

Hehe. Your words are prophetic. Google what just crashed in Pakistan. 😄

[mild gust]

What can I say

[summer cedar]

That your real name is Lucydamus.

[errant raven]

What the fuck is my recommendations

[mild gust]

Bruh you think that's bad

[errant raven]

Not bad, fucking disgusting and weird

It's only hot when the chick is hot

[mild gust]

Why

[errant raven]

Because that's how being hot works

[mild gust]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/818501591190470656/1131004367361806396/image0.gif

[proud jay]

and then he's gonna wonder why he dies alone

[summer cedar]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ty5bKxGm6C0

Solid 10/10.

[soft night]

https://giphy.com/gifs/on-my-way-omw-the-frog-mage-JeN6aDuZBExGC1MPXX

[errant raven]

Nuh uh

[proud jay]

so you know why you're gonna die alone?

[errant raven]

Yeah, because the odds of dying with my significant other is pretty low

Unless we go out in a plane crash or car crash

Or a house fire

[soft night]

https://bespinbulletin.com/star-wars-eclipse-development-update-provided-as-studio-cancels-their-other-game/

[summer cedar]

🛠️ Managing tags and posts, and websites is.... 😅 fun.... 😅 yes, fun. 🛠️

[mild gust]

What about a missile

[summer cedar]

YOU!

[mild gust]

https://tenor.com/view/dogs-doge-dancing-dance-dancing-doge-gif-9215522312687196262

[summer cedar]

You're up early.

How come?

[mild gust]

Havn't slept yet

About to

https://phys.org/news/2026-05-white-hydrogen-billion-year-canadian.html?ref=thefuturist

[summer cedar]

It's 7:36 AM over there. You haven't slept a wink all night?

You'll get a heart attack. Go to bed.

[mild gust]

Very soon

[summer cedar]

Why did you stay up?

[mild gust]

Habit

Anyways to be continued

[summer cedar]

https://www.msn.com/en-in/money/news/c-creator-says-ai-writes-rubbish-code-senior-coders-preferring-retirement-instead-of-dealing-with-it/ar-AA23Dola

Senior C++ devs are quitting. We might see more indie game devs soon ™ .

[trail ore]

you think they start making games after retiring?

[white oxide]

i mean what else are they going to do during the day

[trail ore]

enjoy life

[white oxide]

make us some awesome games that arent AAA-Ai slop?

i mean i use it to help me, but mostly cause when it comes to code my brain usually shuts down

[pearl elk]

Who writes code with C++ anyways, terrible language 😅

[summer cedar]

Depends.

The Indian ones are paid so much, they'll just kick back and start an automated farm (veggie farm).

The foreign ones probably will, given living costs and the desire to do something.

[summer cedar]

BP master race, huh?

[trail ore]

i dont think theres any sane person that likes blueprints

[summer cedar]

That's why I asked Calamari that question. 😛

[trail ore]

i think mons uses some heavenly script

[summer cedar]

Does explain all that lightning in Nudist Bullet Heaven.

---

Yay! 👏 Finished integrating two payment gateways, so I can accept international payments! 👏

[unborn lotus]

i like blueprints

[trail ore]

we cannot be friends no longer

gaming in current year is.. pretty interesting

[soft night]

https://giphy.com/gifs/NVIDIA-GeForce-jensen-nvidia-rtx-RwEywJKrAZb2ItBWb4

[unborn lotus]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4072240/Woman_Simulator/ 😔

Steam

Woman Simulator

In the game, you will play the role of a housewife and experience all the household duties firsthand. The incentive is a tyrannical husband who will watch you and punish inadequate quality of work.

You will have to cook, wash the dishes, do the laundry, iron and dry underwear and socks, vacuum and mop the floor, scrub the toilet and the windows…

Release Date

Q2 2026

[boreal pilot]

Interesting

[trail ore]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=li_VOrsByss moar games

[soft night]

warhammer skulls 2026 showcase was good

[soft night]

https://youtu.be/q1TaMnMA4gg?si=oZGgfq5gII0_c-s4

warhammer skitarii

[fathom wadi]

now we also have https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWWpzY6FifY

it does annoy me they only release with 4 armies tho. You can smell that expansion/DLC pricing coming

and no Chaos on release? Whoever decided that was a good idea needs to be thrown into the eye of the warp

oh lord. One of the dlcs to tide people over (and reduce their wallet size) adds Blood Angels. They already have Space Marines in general. Why not add what half the bloody fanbase wants. Ideally it should have launched with Space Marines, Tyranids, Orcs and Chaos. Then add Elder/DarkEldar, Necrons and then start feeding into factions.

[soft night]

https://youtu.be/dBfwSd8bZzI?si=IseoU3gt28-iVfRC

on stream poeple said "skitariii today"

[fathom wadi]

what is this? 40k week?

sorry. 40k WEAK

At least we know Owlcat games next 40k game will be interesting

oh god another one.

You flog that horse Games Workshop. Flog it like you do the people who into the stores and buy your over-priced sets

the feed listened and gave me another one

Lets divert my 40k posts into something a bit more educational for the game devs around here 🙂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J91NYC31yKU

[trail ore]

ive heard that one sentence so many times that its most likely true

interesting that people are mentioning arc raiders, but theres games before that who took advices from big streamers to change the game more suitable for them, and left the majority of player base aside. thats how they killed h1z1

[summer cedar]

The best part of this is that all these games will come to Game Pass, and I can play them for free. 😄

Froggy Hates Snow

This is a great find. I loved the demo. The gameplay has a nice balance between chill and skill.

It has a bullet-hell auto mode, but it is better enjoyed with manual attack.

[fathom wadi]

This day of IGN posts was sponsored by ....

[summer cedar]

I am glad that they know their proper place.

To worship the Emperor is the right of all righteous folk.

And all righteous folk duly exercise their right, righteously, at the right time.

... which is all the time.

FOR THE EMPEROR! ✊

[fathom wadi]

bloody welfare god. Sustaining dead folk for his own social security. For the slavemaster !

[rare sparrow]

https://www.bungie.net/7/en/News/Article/d2_may_21_2026

[fathom wadi]

yeah that kinda sucks even though I only play it now and again. I didn't even finish the last 2 expansions (although The Final Shape was entertaining, the Lightfall one was truly boring though).

[pearl elk]

I thought it was delightfall

[fathom wadi]

I did enjoy the struggle of the fight with the leader from The Red War. That was one of my favourite single player experiences, then they deleted it.

[summer cedar]

Until Destiny 3.

[median wraith]

damm this icon its like someone died in the gym

[summer cedar]

Only if that barbell was slightly tilted right downwards.

RIP George - Smashed his own head in.

[trail ore]

why....?

[summer cedar]

Then you can download the malware that'll make you click your head against the monitor, to unlock your system.

If you click your monitor with your head ten times, you'll unlock an even more powerful system.

[median wraith]

click-turbation

[summer cedar]

you really need a girlfriend.

a.s.a.p.

[median wraith]

actually

got one now

https://klipy.com/gifs/happy-kid-18--k01KS606Z40NEB4C43HXGR66JRK

[summer cedar]

at 50% discount?

[median wraith]

without discount

[summer cedar]

Yay! 👏

[zinc jewel]

Hahaha!

[trail ore]

i tried ai that is supposed to sound like overwatch from hl2, but this sounds like some old lady who is near climaxing at the end. why cant these things be usable?

[median wraith]

I tried once a rain sound

and made a trailer of rain sound

[zinc jewel]

You guys are nuts!! 😆

[summer cedar]

Ok. Look, stop using NSA gadgets to spy on old ladies.

[soft night]

https://giphy.com/gifs/starwars-star-wars-the-phantom-menace-l3fZSoeCYIWFdS5Pi

[fathom wadi]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHnjeUyMexU you can steal my rain sound if you like 😄

[median wraith]

wait where you took the audio from?

[trail ore]

freesound? it sounds little similar ive used in some old project

[fathom wadi]

yeah it was a licence free sound. I forget where I got it but I ensured it was usable

Youtube slapped this on my video lol
Like yeah... it's digital art. I altered it from polygons and shaders. I also credited the alley scan and character model I used (because I was in a rush to do a piece so I figured why not.) The real learning experience was making the rain which took the longest.

[errant raven]

The climax goes to the person who gets the full ration reward, in the meantime she's just edging

[trail ore]

half horny 2

[fathom wadi]

so good they are hiring twice

[mild gust]

Lol, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXch3N4CBIE

[pearl elk]

we're talking about a country where people go squatching

https://tenor.com/view/the-x-files-i-want-to-believe-trust-issues-trust-gif-5016443

[mild gust]

Making crop circles to trick your local town folk

[pearl elk]

the term "drinking the koolaid" is very specific geographically

[mild gust]

Bring back Jonestown

[pearl elk]

no one accuses people of drinking the cordial

[mild gust]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNubSXwE0sU

[pearl elk]

you... yes you, youve been drinking the java juice again havent you!

[mild gust]

Song about drinking kool aid and dying with dignity

[pearl elk]

and creepy clowns, another geographically specific thing damn juggalos 😛

[mild gust]

Cyanide and LSD mixed into a bowl

[pearl elk]

https://tenor.com/view/magic-how-do-they-work-magnets-ho-wtf-gif-15717467

[mild gust]

Yo they be family

https://tenor.com/view/icp-insane-clown-posse-juggalo-juggalos-gathering-gif-15401107860486611292

[pearl elk]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIOot-YqP6M

Loop it through Jones is one of my best AI techniques 😛

see Jones was in the military so he has all the highest level clearances

[mild gust]

Another game dead on arrival? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kG-hjedhXw

You will own nothing and be happy

[pearl elk]

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/valve-asks-new-york-court-to-dismiss-counter-strike-lawsuit-says-people-enjoy-surprises-and-equating-loot-boxes-to-gambling-is-nonsensical/

I like how when EA does it, it becomes a huge meme but when Valve does it... radio silence!

[mild gust]

Lol

Hot take remove loot boxes and any gambling from every single game.

Make gambling taboo again

[pearl elk]

but that means you'd have to remove all lootdrops ever

[mild gust]

Good

Make them locked to who ever had them

Shut down the systems

[trail ore]

subnautica 2 sold over 4M copies in 5 days. wouldnt say its dead game

[pearl elk]

BL4 would only have a bazillion guns not a kajillion

dunno why anyone would buy a game anymore

[mild gust]

Just a bunch of reviews complaining about the EULA

[pearl elk]

guy looks like he's about to hatch some dragon eggs

[fathom wadi]

I'm all for getting rid of the gambling training systems of video games. The problem is though, what about adults? Shouldn't adults be able to spend their money on what they want?
So protecting the children so as not to train their minds into gambling should be the focus.
First stop, take the ESA and PEGI and shut them down for letting EA (via their sports titles) sell a slot machine to ages 3+. That is the most disgusting thing to me. I'm an addicted gambler, and when I played FIFA 16 and spent £300 in 2 weeks gambling on lootboxes to get a team together, I realised it was the same psychological tricks imposed. So then I never spent another penny on Ultimate Team and packs. Even though it completely gimped my ability to beat the whales.

[trail ore]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2QKA6OdID9U @median wraith i found solution for you. youre welcome.

[pearl elk]

If it wernt purely for greed then I dont think anyone would really mind but they wring every last drop of blood from the stone

[fathom wadi]

I think whoever runs the ESA/PEGI and didn't spot this needs to be held accountable tbh. Considering they practically blackmail people to get a game on the shelves.

[pearl elk]

I think PEGI have been abit better than ESA, ESA is basically EA with an extra letter 😛

[fathom wadi]

they both did it though so I can't separate the disgust

[pearl elk]

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cge84xqjg5lo

yeah but PEGI are getting better, doesnt excuse the turtle pace

[fathom wadi]

We give our kids spending money each month. Do they buy new games with it? Something outside of computing? Nope. It goes straight on Robux.

well the EU has been lobbied to prevent lootbox exploitation and have to be seen to be doing something. It's a start I guess

Currently the new ratings will only apply to games released after June.

[pearl elk]

you should put them to work in the roblox mines

yeah retroactively rerating all those games is a big cost

least those sports game force people into a yearly upgrade loop so it'll catch the next ones

[fathom wadi]

One guy stated its down to parents to enforce this themselves also, which is absolutely correct. This is why we limit our kids spending money so they can't get crazy about it. If they didn't have the opportunity to play Roblox it would be too harsh. The games themselves aren't usually the issue. Just paedos and gambling.

we taught them to handle the paedos but the gambling is just damage limitation

[pearl elk]

children dont have the same inhibitors built into their brains as adults, youre barely self aware even as a young teen

thats why advertising targeted at children was banned until Reagan, theyve known this stuff forever

back in the day they used to have to make the ads for adults who are buying stuff for their kids

which makes a whole lot more sense but I guess the kiddo guilt trip was too emotionally manipulative to pass up

[median wraith]

Dang thanks

[trail ore]

im also not responsible of any flood damage that may occur

[pearl elk]

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/21/openai-paul-erdos-maths-problem-breakthrough

[fathom wadi]

That is literally how I see neural networks when I visualise them. So no surprise a neural network figured it out 😄

[trail ore]

i saw that in april, back then it was 60 yo problem. funny how things move fast. but its not exactly proved yet to be true.

[fleet tangle]

The pair of times have moved to a closer configuration.

[fathom wadi]

Time wastes our minds, and our wits.
But we waste time, so now we're quits.

[summer cedar]

Good morning! 🌞 ☕

[mild gust]

Just in time, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRvWlAGx7EM

[summer cedar]

It's YouTube, TikTok and other sources of idiocy. Best to ignore them.

https://store.steampowered.com/sale/skulls2026

FOR THE EMPEROR! ✊

---

Umm, I can see a 100% discount on Gladius: Relics of War. Is that true for you, too?

[mild gust]

If I didn't already own it yes

[rare sparrow]

It was already free at one point. I know since I already own it, but I've never purchased a Warhammer game

[summer cedar]

BIIIIIG ✅

For the Throne! 🔫

[summer cedar]

https://youtu.be/j-72JsJko5c

Enjoy! 🙂

[cursive heart]

Huh theres warhammer vampire survivors?

[mild gust]

Yes

Warhammer survivors

Very original

[summer cedar]

One could argue Vampire Survivors is the true copy and that WH Survivors is the true, holy artefact.

For, even before the Vampires, the Imperium existed.

Even before the blood-drinkers, the universe was at war.

Glory to the Golden Throne. ✊

[summer cedar]

Did you notice that the healing item is 'glue'?

[soft night]

yeah some use healing glue to seal the wounds

[tawdry aurora]

damn... was a game dev, but he got scammed out of his own account, this is what he sent me...

We need a moment of silence for our fallen game dev comrade 😔

[summer cedar]

https://www.msn.com/en-in/money/news/ai-s-deep-dive-china-drops-world-s-first-2-000-server-data-centre-into-the-ocean/ar-AA23KcQF

Well, I guess we found a use for the ocean after all.

[trail ore]

we can now accelerate climate change by generating dad jokes. thats pretty cool

[median wraith]

Artists now releasing tools made with js

The same ones against AI how suspicious

[pearl elk]

https://tenor.com/view/mabo-vibe-law-court-lawyer-gif-25922636

[median wraith]

That's strange scales on the video

[trail ore]

this is definitely human-made procedure. 😄 does exactly what it says..

[pearl elk]

repldififnotreexist

[median wraith]

need linux for the profiler

[trail ore]

isnt qt supposed to run on any platform ever made?

[soft night]

https://giphy.com/gifs/cbs-criminalminds-3oz8xDBGAlKKtw7EYM

windus seems doing same what microsoft is doing

https://natick.research.microsoft.com/

[median wraith]

Made the app with Qt

Turns out at the end it takes as many mbs base to run lmao

About 120mb just the binaries

[summer cedar]

This is nice. 🔥
This is fine. 🔥
YT Studio backend is broken. 🔥

[trail ore]

still smaller than empty ue5 game

[summer cedar]

Just 400-460mb difference. Very small.

But given storage prices now, might be a life-changer.

[trail ore]

300-120=400. seems legit

[summer cedar]

550-ish for me.

You got it to 300?

Or is it 5.8 preview? I haven't installed that.

[trail ore]

til godot is also launching asset store. currently in beta.

[summer cedar]

becoming a godot-boy. traitor. 😛

[trail ore]

i might give it a shot one day

[summer cedar]

Maybe UE game will be 50MB by then.

Neural X-555 compression.

[trail ore]

ue4 was minimum 50 megs, i dont think ue5 can go below 150 easily. which is why they needed to edit megajam rules for tiny modifier

[summer cedar]

I am sure TimAI will figure something out.

[trail ore]

he is too busy fighting apples. again

[summer cedar]

Pity. Apples are nice fruits.

Now, if he fought oranges, I wouldn't mind.

[trail ore]

i think theyre buddies. they even went for a snack together last year

[summer cedar]

Terrible news. I will sell Tim 🪙

Being non-n00b designer is good.

I did surgery on background color. X stitches.

[trail ore]

i like the colors. very swedish

[summer cedar]

We might invade that bIIIIg country to the right. 🤞

This whole make-quality-products-for-your-customer philosophy is a pain in the arse, for sure.

There is a small corner of my mind that wants Grok to design a black and white page with a BUY button that drains everyone's credit card, and be done with the whole thing.

I swear there was a 'progress bar' block in this design palette. It's not there anymore. Is the universe telling me to be lazy?

[trail ore]

nah, making a progress bar is hard work. its like two rectangles, value and color. dont burn yourself up

[summer cedar]

That colour part is certainly a problem. Have to choose between something called Arr, Jee, Bee.

Sounds Latin.

[pine hill]

if its so easy then why has nobody ever made one that is actually accurate ?

1% loading -> 99%

[trail ore]

found another good variable name

[summer cedar]

Don't forget good ol' (my_game_will_never_be_done: *blackhole}.

It's a classic.

---

Amazing that despite a world-centric, country-governed ISBN structure, we still don't have a globally indexed ISBN search system.

[fathom wadi]

what is even worse is, depending where you live, getting an ISBN number costs either nothing or something. Why is that?

[summer cedar]

It depends on whether or not the government is willing to fund the ISBN agency's salaries and running costs.

In some countries, they are, to encourage reading, literacy, that kind of unimportant thing.

In other countries, they believe anY education ought to be expensive.

[trail ore]

WriteFile on Windows is kinda bananas when writing lots of small data chunks vs one buffered write. i think this was a W as kids these days would say

[summer cedar]

Chunks ought to be chonky. Checks out. ✅

[summer cedar]

Meanwhile, I am trying out different shortcodes and HTML recommended by AI, and finding out just how inaccurate AI code can be.
Thankfully, I know what I am doing, so I am not messing up my site. 😄

WTF?! 👀

AI WAS RIGHT?!!!!!

Wow.....

Okay....

[trail ore]

yea.. that bjarne strawberrysoup dude was right. its not very good at it unless you do something super basic stuff

[summer cedar]

Well, damn, thanks Gemini!

Now, all I have to do is verify the PhP snippet is entirely secure, and doesn't transmit my residential GPS coordinates to North Korea, or Ponkkis.

[trail ore]

time to change git platform ig

[mild gust]

https://vxtwitter.com/clemmygames/status/2057552363410305264?s=20

Best Indie Games (@clemmygames)

This indie developer is making a designing and organization game that allows you to visualize your Steam Library.

How insane will yours look?

It's called BOXROOM, are you getting this?

▶ Play video

vxTwitter / fixvx · May 21, 2026, 8:01 PM

https://vxtwitter.com/NoCatsNoLife_m/status/2057668209285673329?s=20

No Cats No Life (@NoCatsNoLife_m)

The security level for the Indonesian president’s cat is on another level, and the whole country loves this cat. 🇮🇩🧡

QRT: NoCatsNoLife_m
http://x.com/i/article/2057625946434256896

▶ Play video

vxTwitter / fixvx · May 22, 2026, 3:41 AM

Cat has more protection than Donald Trump

[summer cedar]

Dang. Gemini rocks!

Of course, I had to verify everything it did, but still.... saved me 2 hours' work.

[trail ore]

Meta doesnt seem very attractive place to work. if it ever was.

[summer cedar]

That won't be just Meta.

A lot of the AI big-wiggies are now like that.

AI or bust. Everyone else retire and become indie devs.

[trail ore]

8000 people jobless is kinda big

[summer cedar]

It's already much, much more than that, Ponkkis.

I mean, across the world.

Speaking for India alone, the unemployment for freshmen is, what now, 23%?

[trail ore]

yea, no shit. i was talking about meta alone

[fathom wadi]

Oracle laid off 10,000 people this year too

[summer cedar]

I think they (meta) already laid off another batch of people before, no?

[mild gust]

Replace juniors with AI

Ez clap

[summer cedar]

But what will you do about Cockroach Janata Party?

[mild gust]

Bring some spiders to kill them

[summer cedar]

Won't work. The members are humans.

[mild gust]

Only good roach is a dead roach

[summer cedar]

Those unemployed young people.

[mild gust]

I stand by my statement

Bring super venomous spiders

1 and done

[summer cedar]

Cool. All done.
Payment gateway buttons configured. 👏

[mild gust]

Down with fraud! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbEaiRnLwZg

Millions of dollars for fake day cares

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atF243qjeEs

[fathom wadi]

Shrodinger's whinge. On one hand, don't steal music to train AI. On the other hand, don't let the people who own the music use AI to allow people to stem songs and make covers. You can't win with anti-AI people.

[mild gust]

Apparently this is opt in

So artists have to allow their stuff to be accessed by the AI

But still wack

Also it's only artists that are under UMG's licenses

From what I understand

Can change I'm sure

[fathom wadi]

yeah I have zero issue with that. Also, the music community has been asking for industry access to tracks for easy stemming for decades. That's why we have so many bits of software to do it without permission.

[mild gust]

Same

I'm okay if it's with consent

[summer cedar]

That's enough work and AI-coding for today! Good night. 😴
Thanks for the help, AI Lucifer. 😄

[fathom wadi]

It's funny that the same people who crap all over AI and say it's taking jobs, are the same people making bank from crapping on AI for videos. So technically it gave them a job.

I dunno. Some points are valid, I'm not for stealing without permission. But you can't have it both ways.

[trail ore]

i think im done too. went from previous 42ms to 14ms to save 1M entities from my game. loading takes little longer. sadge.

[fathom wadi]

https://tenor.com/view/dr-evil-gif-26650047

[trail ore]

https://vxtwitter.com/Julia_CaSsian/status/2057911248025432483 dang

Julia (@Julia_CaSsian)

Reposting the Forza Horizon 6 bug i encountered, which deleted my progress after the collision. It was mistakenly marked as adult content, i want to see if it happens again

▶ Play video

vxTwitter / fixvx · May 22, 2026, 7:47 PM

[fathom wadi]

That wouldn't even bother me (too much). You get so many rolls on the slot machine and can find supercars in sheds. Or simply do donuts for an hour and afford most anything in the game.
Part of me wants to play it, but part of me says "you already played it with FH4 and 5". A very impressive engine and rendering system though.

[soft night]

https://giphy.com/gifs/xbox-game-xbox-series-x-s-GCEcc7I87GfYkG4ONH

[summer cedar]

Good morning! 🌞 ☕

@mild gust https://discord.com/channels/187217643009212416/1500982848910266489 - Check that water.

[mild gust]

Looks like fluid flux 🤔

[soft night]

be the water

[mild gust]

https://www.envirolink.org/2026/05/22/deadly-floods-force-mass-evacuations-across-eight-chinese-provinces-as-climate-crisis-intensifies/

Stay safe in China

[summer cedar]

Just wait until you find out about the purposeful floods around the capital.

😈

[mild gust]

Woah

[summer cedar]

Yep. If you google it, you can find the report of how Beijing opened the flood gates purposely last year, flooding the surrounding towns and villages in order to 'save the all important capital and centre of the Empire'.

That flood system of theirs is built specifically to ensure that they can sacrifice the plebians to protect the government.

[mild gust]

Makes sense

[summer cedar]

Indeed. But I haven't got to the best part of the story yet.

That flood system wasn't build by the CCP.

It's an ancient system built before the current Qin.

[mild gust]

They planned ahead

Even better

[soft night]

https://giphy.com/gifs/LoU3nWgTQcCJHAIOuD

[pearl elk]

https://tenor.com/view/menatwork-downunder-vegemite-sandwich-vegemite-gif-25594639

[pine hill]

every time u post i crave calamari 😭

[pearl elk]

I do like me a good mushroom sauce

Theres one I get from a resteraunt here, chicken funghi 🤤

[soft night]

https://youtu.be/kObf7-IjEeA?si=85HUZz82bnHdgzsR

[summer cedar]

Did good coding with Gemini, today. 🙂 👏 Productive day. More to come. But now, time for khAAk 🍰 .

[soft night]

i did some smal codking today

[summer cedar]

<@&213101288538374145> Make this West ^ set in the East, please.

Thank you.

[trail ore]

ai now even retire faster than senior devs

[summer cedar]

No worries. Tomorrow's news: Starbucks CEO replaced by AI. 😄

[summer cedar]

<@&213101288538374145> They are here again ^

[pearl elk]

https://tenor.com/view/spaceballs-alien-john-hurt-not-again-gif-11959503622929029280

[summer cedar]

Did you see the Trump buffalo?

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/bangladeshs-rare-donald-trump-buffalo-becomes-eid-sensation-2026-05-22/

[summer cedar]

@mild gust ^ @proud jay ^

[mild gust]

Nice

[summer cedar]

The value of the cow has apparently increased as a result.

But, it is scheduled to be slaughtered.

[mild gust]

Save it's head

For science

[mild gust]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T8x5antlnc

[summer cedar]

Did you count the number of stripes?

[mild gust]

The news guy did apparently

[summer cedar]

I wonder which AI designed that flag. 😄

[trail ore]

is there TrumpAI? that would be cool

[summer cedar]

There is TrumpCow - #lounge message

I can't offer more, sorry.

[soft night]

https://giphy.com/gifs/reactiongifs-h55EUEsTG9224

[deft token]

my god there trying with spiderman again

[fathom wadi]

https://tenor.com/view/spider-spider-dance-dance-spiderdance-spider-costumer-gif-14357114683293314026

[deft token]

ha

until they make him like robo cop where he get all blown to shit and then into a hard core character they should just kind of give up

you know that scene from the fly when he has the shotgun to his head lol

[trail ore]

i bought this pretty house, but the roof leaks 😦

[half canopy]

https://youtu.be/Q2f-rM8CdhM this guy said he seen women in cages, thats pretty serious

Teeny tiny https://youtu.be/cg181A63G0Y

[half canopy]

https://youtu.be/GJK4o84lGxc

[pearl elk]

Do you think Linus is still gonna have braces al try to look like one of the cool kids at 60?

Im already getting a hint of tech billionare trying to recapture their popularity of past vibe

[half canopy]

im sure the cold cuts refering to Jesus and his bread https://youtu.be/XGPEFnDIQjw

https://youtu.be/BOgfjwDQbiY

[half canopy]

https://youtu.be/RBWch_e2G1g

[mild gust]

Very much so

[half canopy]

https://youtu.be/OOPjFkVJbew

https://youtu.be/9Z1ihWslSTk

[half canopy]

https://youtu.be/SUZyNLZZjMs

https://youtu.be/VGF3kjgCaMQ

[lavish tendon]

havent seen the video but is it ai

[summer cedar]

Good morning! 🌞 ☕

[mild gust]

Enhanced games start soon! https://www.nbcnews.com/sports/track-field/new-sporting-events-controversial-pitch-performance-enhancing-drugs-we-rcna345709

[summer cedar]

Oh, wow. I guess super-soldiers are next.

[mild gust]

Finally

[mild gust]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWg2bnAqW6k

They love stealing from old people!

[pearl elk]

https://tenor.com/view/meme-how-do-you-do-fellow-kids-gif-6576432567202084239

[summer cedar]

What're they stealing?

[mild gust]

200k+ worth of lego

Basically a familys savings in lego

They gave it to this company to sell it for them then they took it.

Well the business switched owners first.

Then the new owner saw the value of the lego and flipped

[summer cedar]

Ah. Auctioning gone bad.

Yeah, that's a risk. You have to hire a contract lawyer for such things.

[mild gust]

They had a contract

[summer cedar]

No, no.

You need a contract lawyer.

[mild gust]

New owner ignored it after saying they would honour it

Don't worry Reckless Ben fucked the company over pretty good

[summer cedar]

😄

[mild gust]

Guys a legend

[summer cedar]

It's a note to everyone who wants to sell their legacies.

ALWAYS hire a contract lawyer.

Preferrably one with a couple of goons to boot.

[mild gust]

Tricked the manager to pay like 5k for every time she called the cops on him

[half canopy]

my dad wanted to hand over my Lego to someone with kids, i was keeping it for the same reason but said fck it hand it over al get my kids teckincs lmao. all jokes was a big sack of lego/tecknics couldnt say if i had any sets as they were lost in the rubble

[mild gust]

Some of those things are so hard to find now to

[summer cedar]

https://angelgrovestudio.biz/downloads/ember-tell-e-p-r/ - Look at ma sexy, dexy product page naow! 😛

There's more to do, but I'm happy to get this far. 😄

[soft night]

https://giphy.com/gifs/will-smith-willow-abbey-ot4GiknOIswWk

[median wraith]

Gooodddd morning kidssss

[soft night]

hev power armor for hevedy landing this year with half-life 3?

[unborn lotus]

Hey kids whats for dinner

[pearl elk]

oh wow, Forza Horizon is so much nicer with the voices turned off 😛

[summer cedar]

Tell us you hate humans without telling us you hate humans, roo. 😛

[pearl elk]

I hate what they call millenial writing, can confirm as a millenial its not for me

more of a zoomer smartphone thing I think, probably start seeing ghosts if they dont have someone talking at them

[mild gust]

Do they say things like skibitty kappa?

or no cap

[pearl elk]

nah thats gooner noob energy, only main characters in this game

[mild gust]

Oh? https://www.youtube.com/shorts/oj4wYbiP6V8

[median wraith]

No food today son

[mild gust]

Want a pop tart

I got some extra

[summer cedar]

That's what happens when you don't use AI.

The fate of the starving jobless.

At least generate your own food. 😛

[mild gust]

Start 3d printing it

[pearl elk]

spaghetti is basically filament

[soft night]

https://giphy.com/gifs/boomerangtoons-boomerang-garfield-and-friends-orVCf20E9iXpZIVHya

[summer cedar]

@broken sigil How are you doing, Blue?
I am rocking CSS code with Gemini. 😄

[tawdry aurora]

https://x.com/hybridherbst/status/2057976264363843603?s=20

herbst (@hybridherbst)

Casually rendering ~a hundred million triangles, in the browser.

All thanks to @sea3dformat's cool Nanite-style renderer for @threejs.

I've added GLB-to-meshlet and PBR rendering to it, very exciting to see where this is going!

X · May 23, 2026, 12:05 AM

nanite style renderer

[summer cedar]

My business contracted a software company for a coding project. 👏 👼 I am a happy contributor to the national economy. 😄

[trail ore]

gemini is pretty amazing. nice improvements since last time i tried it.

[tawdry aurora]

better than chatgpt 😉

[trail ore]

thats like comparing whose poop smells better

[pearl elk]

tech billonares dont poop and if they do it gets piped down to us plebs

[fathom wadi]

sounds like shitting down economics

[pearl elk]

I find it so strange these guys in public theyre just regular boomer looking types, no flashy robot assistants, no amazing AR or other cool custom wearables... just boring broke lookin boys

I mean Elon Musk is in China celebrating tech he pulls out a regular old iphone to take a video like wtf dude, dont you have infinite AI

why the hell is he using that piece of junk and not some James Bond Tony Stark super spy stuff

[fathom wadi]

not gonna lie, if I were a tech billionaire, I'd have the simplest phone you could imagine. Mobile Phones are literally tracking devices that listen to everyone in the room. That would be really bad if you were in high business meetings

I refused to see my therapist if there was a mobile device in the room

[pearl elk]

yeah but you could literally make your own phone with proprietary chips

[fathom wadi]

true thats why my phone would be a simple phone

[pearl elk]

Elon Musk has a super computer thats actually kinda better than Jarvis was in the OG Ironman

and factories full of literal 3d printers

[fathom wadi]

even Smart TVs listen to you now. We live in a truly f-d up world

[pearl elk]

and whats he got... an iphone

[soft night]

https://giphy.com/gifs/xbox-game-xbox-series-x-s-xMBtW34fPrkL6SsMDO

[pearl elk]

you forget whos listening

[soft night]

soulkiller is listening

[pearl elk]

if youre a tech billonare youre not spying on yourself

[soft night]

calamari own netwatch

[pearl elk]

highly doubting Elon is logging into Twitter with his Google account

and Tim Cook logging into his iphone with his Microsoft account

[soft night]

fresh mon calamari trillionare every day

[pearl elk]

If I had access to that level of tech from my wearables Id be Batman

Batman with an AI Robin

you wouldnt get near me without my satellites scanning you

[soft night]

https://giphy.com/gifs/jukeboxsaints-kraken-tentacles-sea-monster-BUr2bF47czHJTpEuZs

[pearl elk]

but aye, the inner monkey always wins right thats why its high tech low society

[median wraith]

"There is simply no vibe. In Thief, you actually felt like a thief who sneaks through sewers into the houses of the rich. Here, I feel like I am playing a mission made in Fortnite from someone who really likes the color purple."

Promise you I didn't made thsi game

Actually before Fornite got released I though the game would be different

[summer cedar]

which game?

link it.

[median wraith]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3341000/Thick_As_Thieves/

[summer cedar]

Yeah, I get it. That doesn't have a thief vibe.

It has stealth, but it's not thief-y.

Too much flash and show and vfx.

[median wraith]

I think never played a game made with UE that used the UE Ai systems with an interesting AI unsure if by limitations or whats the reason

"From a technical point, it is amazing how such a basic looking game with really bad lighting can fully take up a RTX 4080's computing power while only putting out around 100 frames per second at 1440p."

XDDD

Lumen things

[fathom wadi]

the last decent AI I ever played against was The Hunters in The Division games. Those things were cracked in a really balanced way. They were tough, they used tactics to get around your build, they worked together to flank and cover. Yet they weren't so difficult that you felt it was unfair.

[pearl elk]

such sexism, where the Luwomen

[summer cedar]

Works fine here.

Have you paid your AI bill? 😄

[trail ore]

making it randomly do wrong answers is even worse

[summer cedar]

Well, I THINK I am done working with Gemini on e-commerce CSS code for now, at least until my contractor returns with a patched plugin as per my specifications.

Everything looks good and functions well.

Time to move BACK to adding content. 😄

[trail ore]

thats fun. im in same place. i think my engine is "done" so i can just throw new things to it. except the raining inside.. i didnt think that one through 😅

[summer cedar]

No reason Nudist Bullet Heaven cannot have pass-through roofs.

[trail ore]

luckily that is simple fix and i can also use it to do low pass filtering for audio so it sounds like its in interiors

[soft night]

https://giphy.com/gifs/lVBtp4SRW6rvDHf1b6

[soft night]

https://giphy.com/gifs/GeminiManMovie-movie-gemini-geminiman-J54pPXrkPUFdjES9nt

[pearl elk]

if only Will Smith could go back to that fateful night and slap himself

[fathom wadi]

I used to enjoy his stuff but since that day I can't watch anything he's in.

It's a shame really. He's a great actor, but holy moly.

[pearl elk]

https://tenor.com/view/men-in-black-mib-will-smith-u-saw-nothing-kharter-gif-12731469441707899432

[fathom wadi]

hah an appropriate position to cover the word and give the real result of these meddling neckbeards. I'm all for fair rights for gamers, but their ideas they put forward to the EU will literally kill games.
The whole "when a game shuts down they should pay back the customers what they paid" idea was the most stupid thing I heard from their half-logic filled rant. What publisher or investor is going to throw money into a game when they will be expected to pay all their revenue back when it shuts down? I can't get my head around that one.

[pearl elk]

Well some games dont even last 3 months so in that case I think refunds are pretty justifiable but after say 10 years maybe not

The main thing here is letting the customer know in advance what the expectations are not sort of selling it then when it doesnt go so well be like oh well too bad so sad.

The businesses should not be offloading their risk, its up to them to operate the business not the consumer to become an investor

In the case of The Crew, Ubisoft is big enough and ugly enough to have had a shutdown plan, this game is costing us money hit the off switch isnt a good plan... Hence Ubisofts current state

[fathom wadi]

since when did gamers read the EULA though? That's just a protective method against ignorance more than anything. I'm all for them making it all legal and legit, but no way gamers are going to read that.

[pearl elk]

Most of this is front or back of the box type stuff not buried in EULA

This Game Requires Online Connectivity is basically bend over in alot of peoples minds

[fathom wadi]

I could definitely do without that for single player games. I think that's more of a DRM issue and they have the right to protect the product from being stolen, but I still don't like it.

[pearl elk]

You cant even rely on staple studios to give you the value either, theres plenty of examples where those have failed or completely shafted customers

Well the issue is they are removing the game from sale entirely so you cannot get it, they are purposefully obsoleting perfectly good games and bricking them

Just so they can sell you a sequel, a remaster etc

[fathom wadi]

Sometimes that is a tech licensing issue, not always but I can see why it happens from time to time. Definitely an issue to resolve though.

[pearl elk]

Which lets be real, rarely meets the expectation of the original

There definitely are larger issues, licensed music expiring and stuff like that but that still doesnt excuse the fact they dont tell consumers that and be transparent about it

[fathom wadi]

The current Destiny 2 issue is probably a good starting point for GAAS situations where people have invested a lot of time and money into the game. It's getting a lot of content from streamers who invested their career in playing the game too. It's not being deleted however, it's on maintenance mode. That can end up in a resurgence of interest. The Division 2 has been in maintenance mode for a few years now but they keep making these updates and roadmaps because the playerbase still hangs around and new players come when the sales are on or it's free via XBGP.

[pearl elk]

Destiny 2 really bugged me as a late comer because half the game is missing

I went through a tiny intro and then ended up in like year 12 content or something silly

[fathom wadi]

its even worse as a player from day 1. I stopped playing for a couple of years because they sunset all my work and the content I paid for.

I've had my money's worth though.

[pearl elk]

I just enjoy stories so I guess those sorts of games arnt really the best place, they are great if you keep up with the jones you get all the experience

but they are designed that way on purpose to force people into adhesion instead of just making a solid product

I played a fair bit of Neverwinter and the ghost towns in that are insane when the seasonal updates move on, I can only imagine WoW being even worse

[fathom wadi]

The story arc in Destiny 2 was half expansion based, half seasonal content based. So if you didn't farm the game full time you didn't get the whole story anyway. It became like a job.

I never liked that

They used to get lazy too and repeat seasonal content

I still think it's a good game, but without The Red War (which was the first story arc) a lot of it makes zero sense.

[pearl elk]

thing is you talking about farming but its the customers being farmed right

[fathom wadi]

yeah no shit. I paid to catch up on expansions and it was not cheap. I didn't even like one of the expansions at all. I couldn't finish it I was so bored. Plus it was heavily interactive with the seasonal content and that was all gone by the time I played through it.

What they did with The Final Shape was excellent though. I thought it might be a resurgence in my interest but then the seasonal content started and I was like "meh cba"

[pearl elk]

Im currently making an online game, I hate to call it online service but it does have a part of that but its easy enough for me to make delegates if those official servers arnt there then the game is still functional in self hosted servers

I can still have special content unlocks for official spaces without players losing everything, thats not even getting into database migration which so many companies manage to screw up. Thats even if the sequels use a different database at all, probably just an excuse to wipe like the artist formally known as Overwatch 2

[fathom wadi]

I returned to Overwatch recently. It's in a way better place now so I can't disregard their efforts. Even though I paid for OW2 on the provision of the single player content which appeared for something like 2 missions before being made redundant.

[pearl elk]

I think the last thing OW needed was a relaunch but apparently there was acouple of streams of development before the first game even launched

but they kept it going so thats something, you cant really go into live service thinkin youre gonna win with no backup plan

[fathom wadi]

Did you see the Lex Freidman interview with Jeff Kaplan? Very interesting details on how OW went down.

[pearl elk]

Yeah I did actually, I watched the whole slog lol

I think I would have played Overwatch if they got what they wanted to done

Valve managed to do really fun PvE for TF2, you needed tokens though

[trail ore]

https://www.twitch.tv/kintsugiyama/clip/BraveBreakableSmoothieWOOP-4pqqn-PI2EdJWZ-V i like jeff. he is funny guy.

[trail ore]

https://www.twitch.tv/kintsugiyama/clip/CautiousSincereMinkDuDudu-u4wm5cw7HHyUtcHZ he also some gives good game design tips sometimes

[fathom wadi]

My neighbour has decided he wants everyone to listen to the football match he's watching. Now I know it's daytime so daytime rules apply, but listening to meatheads shouting "go on son" every 5 minutes whilst his tv is on full blast seems a bit excessive :/

[summer cedar]

Find out which team he is supporting and shout for the opposition with a megaphone in his direction.

Also, get a gong/bell from a nearby Buddhist temple and bang it loudly outside his house.

Say you are celebrating the release of the Martial Artist.

[pearl elk]

hack the wifi and sent cat vids to his TV

[lavish tendon]

https://x.com/i/status/2058589943501594868

Wario64 (@Wario64)

Rocket League reveal - Unreal Engine 6 https://t.co/SfJ82ld0b8

X · May 24, 2026, 4:44 PM

What?

[trail ore]

i recently learned that gooner can also mean arsenal fan.

[fathom wadi]

Not gonna lie, I've had that idea before with noisy neighbours.

[pearl elk]

go on son 😹

[fathom wadi]

I taught the wife how to cast to the tv from her phone a few weeks ago. Now when my son is watching stuff she trolls him by playing Rick Astley. Technology is fun.

[median wraith]

Unreal 6

but the 5 still don't have all they promised do it?

technically I skipped all a whole engine version?

didn't last long less than 5 years

4 was about 10

[trail ore]

its ue5 + verse basically. its all there

• some uefn/metaverse things

[median wraith]

AI integrated and the verse lets see yeah

and maybe end the 50% of the plugins in alpha state

dont feel real because where is the ghosting trails of Lumen in this video?

[pearl elk]

500% more plugins

[trail ore]

question is, do i really want to learn new language just to use ue? probably not. not after seeing what the language looks like

[lavish tendon]

UE6 now even blurrier

[pearl elk]

no one has to learn a new language ever again, thats what LLMs are for

[median wraith]

Im fine if they port all the assets to flat text

at this point is a nightmare for the actual AI systems and a pain for version control still

[fathom wadi]

you don't learn Verse. You just know it. It's one of the most simple languages outside of Python

[median wraith]

UE6 before GTA6

[trail ore]

have you actually seen how the language looks?

[pearl elk]

UE6 before RTX6000

[median wraith]

I though rocket leage was on fall or something

@trail ore I'm having my own nightsmres with QML + C++

[fathom wadi]

yep I did some time with UEFN to learn it. Obviously this is a more extrapolated version (as UEFN is locked down tight) but I don't see it being too much more complicated.

[pearl elk]

still bugs me they didnt call it UF

[trail ore]

im just gonna leave this here.. 😄

[fathom wadi]

Free Unreal Coding Knowledge would have been my acronym based name 🙂

[fathom wadi]

see that makes me appreciate C++ more, and I'm not a fan of these scripting languages per se, but demand to know it will be high eventually so I have to learn what I can

[pearl elk]

you could do a tutorial on how to use your plugins: Kinematic Navigation & Orchestration World System

[median wraith]

Still don't know why need that custom language at all

[pearl elk]

I liked UScript cuz it was like Java, Angelscript is basically a better C++ so Im happy with that

[median wraith]

but its funny that the last layer was Blueprints because are "easy to use" and now are the worst nightmare for people using them and with or without AI

yeah UE3 scripting was okay

still angelscript COD like was better for me

[fathom wadi]

I didn't mind Unreal Script either. I spent 4 years learning and using it, only to have it swiped away and had to learn C++. Fortunately the similarities were apparent, especially in the structure of classes in general

[median wraith]

even if you add C# like thats kinda the same at this point

[trail ore]

gdscript is pretty sane scripting language. thats is way closer to python than whatever this thing is

[pearl elk]

I like how pythons only usable in the editor

[median wraith]

yeah I just don't like python spacing and such error prone to me

and worst thing to me the decompiling of Godot projects

[pearl elk]

Toyota game engine ftw

[trail ore]

definitely easy to make mistakes. unless you use static typing, that helps little bit

[fathom wadi]

it only helps readability though. It makes no difference under the hood so I never bother with it

the only people reading my code is me so yay

[pearl elk]

well thats it isnt it, soon we'll all be writing code in our own shorthand and the machines will write the machine code part

[trail ore]

soon since 2022

[fathom wadi]

I'm gonna write an AI Agent called "Finish-It.ai". You give it a half done project and it finishes it for you based on what you have already done and your intention for the final product. That way I can run it though the 30 or so unfinished projects I've got lying around on external HDDs and on my Unreal drive.

[pearl elk]

Well its still not quite there yet, the intgrations between AI and tools like compilers is getting better though. Codex for my webapp is able to compile rust, check for errors, boot up a server to test the app and do the smoke tests on its own

[fathom wadi]

I've seen some pretty cool stuff with MCP interaction within Unreal Engine. Nothing special because those using it tend to be people who don't know what they are doing, but I see the potential

One of my acquaintances ran into one issue though where his token usage was about 10x what it should be because he didn't prompt it properly so it was iterating at an extra-ordinarily redundant level. But he didn't mind as he's on a monthly plan and wasn't running out of tokens. He was wasting hours though which felt a bit silly to me.

[summer cedar]

As long as AI won't write a BP that lets players enter the first leve portal and skip straight to the last level boss, I can sell the game for $100 and five DLCs.

If it DOES, then I'll sell the game for $10 and half a DLC. Compromise.

[trail ore]

i tried codex 5.5 not very long time ago. it burned half of my tokens trying to think how to do simple 2d collision tests. it left me broken project, despite running tests and me giving it access to all functions needed to do the task. that was a waste of couple hours.

[fathom wadi]

The wife has been trying to tempt me into making some slop to make cash. I'm almost tempted because we have been broke for 2 years now and it's really putting pressure on me. I'd rather work on a rev-share for a solid team than put out some solo slop tho.

[pearl elk]

I really dont understand that tbh, like why do you need an AI to write BP when it can write C++ quite well

[fathom wadi]

I say the same thing

[pearl elk]

You can just get it to write BP libraries and then use those in your BPs, if you want entirely AI gen then just get it to gen C++ all the way

[fathom wadi]

I'd rather have AI writing C++ all day, every day because we know what happens when you mess around with structs and logic in blueprints. It gets difficult, messy and can break.

[pearl elk]

well its wasting tokens doing layout instead of actual code