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north torrent
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How quickly corona-virus has made us forget about the time tRump was going around the literal globe willing to sell out America for any jirt they could illegally dig up on Boe Diden...

foggy path
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or russia still annexing ukraine

north torrent
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Or the terrorist attacks on Iranian government officials.

pearl elk
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Uranium government officials ๐Ÿ˜ฎ

north torrent
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Okrainian Uvernment Gofficials

pearl elk
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Scofficials

foggy path
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lol

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and what's that thing in Bolivia that Elon Musk thought was righteous

vagrant yacht
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If it was "paid" I wouldn't have mentioned it, but no, it's royalties ๐Ÿ‘

foggy path
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oh yeah the "Let's install a dictator to ensure we get lithium"

pearl elk
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wish I got royalties on lithium sales

north torrent
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I wish I got royalties on Boe Jiden.

pearl elk
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Trump doesnt support royalties, he just pinches all his campaign music off youtube

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Art isnt a real business anyways

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thats fake news from CNN

north torrent
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If I got paid a royalty for every time someone sued him for using their music, I would be able to afford to bribe Okranian Uvernment Gofficials.

pearl elk
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you might be able to afford Chernobyl soon

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then we can host the first real life hunger games

foggy path
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Didn't some Reagan related org ask him to stop using Reagan's picture or something in his campaigning lol

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I wonder if anything's gonna come of that one...

pearl elk
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Trump was all like but I invented the rayguns with my Space Farce

north torrent
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Ronald Reagan's daughter has done nothing but attack tRump and has fought to keep her fathers name not associated at all with the campaign.

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And Space Force was already a copyrighted name, and that is currently another lawsuit.

pearl elk
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We need the netflix of lawsuits

foggy path
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I hope Kanye is still running

pearl elk
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How can anyone run in Yeezeys, have you see those junkers

north torrent
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But there are several organizations formed by people working in the Reagan, Bush, and other Bush administrations that are completely anti-tRump.

And if you aren't familiar with US political parties, those are all the Republican presidents leading up to tRump... the party that tRump runs as.

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Back in 2016 every former US president still alive got together to try to stop tRump. Presidents from both political parties.

pearl elk
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Republican, thats the party which supports family values but is full of people who have been remarried atleast twice right?

north torrent
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Have you ever seen the Republican Jesus video?

pearl elk
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I support the BJs in the oval office party

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I mean that sounds like an actual party right

north torrent
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This basically sums it up in a short video.

foggy path
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Hngh why are there such arbitrary limitations on uobjects in BP's

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I was thinking of how to do separate attack types for some of my npc's and thinking oh yeah I'll just make a separate object so it's easy to choose what attack and what it does

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but then I remember you can't even do a line trace in a plain uobject...

rare sparrow
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Why can't the Gizmo work something like this? The number of times I've accidentally grabbed the wrong handle because the one I need is behind everything...

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Since that first one looks too confusing

quiet narwhal
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@foggy path its the way the system is designed, uobjects dont exist in the world so there is no world object for them to do a line trace with

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any reason the attack object cannot just be data only?

foggy path
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Yeah I figured there was some kind of architectural reason for it :) I think you can still trace in C++ tho but you need to get a world ref to do so? Anyway thanks for the explanation, I was kind of wondering about that the last time I ran into it and no one really seemed to know what was up with it

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I guess it could be data only, I have to think about how the different attack types are going to function

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There's gonna be a little bit of variation on how they function but I could probably parametrize them without it becoming too confusing

pearl elk
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If you check up the hierarchy a uobject will typically have an Actor somewhere you can use to do actor things

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It sounds like you might want to be using a component though if its an Actor ability

foggy path
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Components are their own can of worms

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I guess it could have a component per attack type in the BP and the specific component is just called to handle it

pearl elk
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Well I was thinking more of a single component which handles your objects, then you have access to the owning actor of the component fairly cleanly

foggy path
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ah

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yeah that would make sense but I don't think my system is going to be quite that complicated :)

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it's mostly just gonna have differences regarding how many linetraces are done per attack, bullet deviation from aim point, damage, maximum distance and such... so it's fairly easy to just have as data only

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sounds and particle fx as well but same with those, can put them in a data only thinger

zinc matrix
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Epic Launcher is such a shit

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WTF there is captcha if I have 2FA already? 3FA?
And WTF it said that signing failed and then it logged like nothing happened?

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How many Epic programmers are required to make a proper working launcher?

foggy path
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it's pretty bizarre

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it's not even doing anything particularly complicated

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and I know this because I've done these types of web based apps for like 20 years almost... :D

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I've started adding default values to my enums that have no meaning just because editing maps with enum keys is such a pain lol

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literally just have a value NOT_SET as the first/default for all my enums so that if I uset it as a key in a map, I don't have to deal with the editor not letting me add new values

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:P

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I wonder if it would be hard to fix this...

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Might be fun to just see how the editor code is set up for this and just fix it

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it can't be that complicated... can it? ๐Ÿค”

pearl elk
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Im so sick of being logged out all the time and even though I have remember my login clicked it never does

light spruce
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I'm sure that it can be that complicated. I was going to look at changing some stuff for the blueprint UI because I really don't like the visuals or the lack of node alignment... I opened up Visual Studio, started looking for stuff, and a part of my brain just screamed at me; I closed it, stared at my desktop for a full minute, and then went back to working on input handling.

foggy path
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:D

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I mean it already has like 95% of the logic

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It knows what values are in the enum, it's just not smart enough to pick another value from the enum as the default if the first one already exists

zinc matrix
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3

light spruce
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I seem to recall that a lot of the enum handling has just always had some weird behavior in general

foggy path
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I haven't really noticed anything particularly weird about it, it's just the default value handling when using enums as keys in maps which is a bit wonky :)

light spruce
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I've just been getting back into working with Unreal after quite a while away, so I can't remember specifics.

light spruce
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I have only the thumbnail and it's already upsetting

pearl elk
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Gamer Dude

zinc matrix
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true

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"gamer girl"

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annoyin phrase af

foggy path
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it could be a song by Aqua

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I'm a gamer girl, in a gamer world

north torrent
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As long as Karol isn't the environment artist of said gamer world.

pearl elk
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Dont need no plastic when you got instafilters

north torrent
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Though I guess if I was in Karol's gamer would I could use his lack of security to easily get $100,000,000,000 of gamer money...

pearl elk
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glitter n fleek up in this beach

tulip orbit
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I think I will upgrade to 4.25, so that I can use niagara for particle effects... instead of using the older system

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but first, I must clean up some assets in the project....

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no opposition to the idea?

pearl elk
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Heavy opposed

tulip orbit
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why?

tulip orbit
pearl elk
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I know you can hear my thoughts boy

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meow meow meow meow meow

tulip orbit
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hoorah for ForceDelete

pearl elk
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You cannot delete me

tulip orbit
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I can try!

zinc matrix
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e

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aeae

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eaeaea muhuhu monsunununu

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nfufu

north torrent
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This is why nobody likes you.

median wraith
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I'm asking Quixel

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how there is no a single fence texture ?

zinc matrix
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This is why nobody likes you.
why

light spruce
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Because everyone swipes right for a fence

winter zealot
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between people insulting and looking down on others all the time

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and people writing asdasdasd for no reason

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i'd friends with people writing asdasdasd any time

light spruce
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but when pizza is on a bagel, you can have pizza any time.

vagrant yacht
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Who thinks gameplay is better than story for a successful game?

light spruce
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That's a loaded and highly dependent question

north torrent
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Quixel gives you the wood and the nails, Mr. Hevedy. You just have to build your own fence out of it.

bronze axle
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I only track time for client work. It's necessary because I generally bill by the hour.

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For personal projects, I only track tasks, not time.

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Anything that's not client work.

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Oh, I mean I track tasks in apps like Trello, Notion, etc. Honestly, I track just about everything but time.

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Not sure if I'm a model citizen there, but it just seems to work for me.

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It depends on the scope of the project. If it's a very small project that will get done in a few days and require little marketing, I tend to use simple todo lists with no extra details. If it's a larger project, like a game or similar, I tend to get more granular. On Trello, for example, I like to use 4 lists: Up Next, Development, Review, and Completed. Tasks move from left to right as they progress.

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Yes, especially when collaborating with my partner. It provides a single place where we can both easily see where we're at and what's on each other's plates, which minimizes the need to have meetings.

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We communicate well, too. We work in the same office. ๐Ÿ™‚

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But it's very helpful, if not important, to have a place we can point to that isn't affected by memory slips, bad days, etc.

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Sure thing.

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Re: version control, I use GitHub for small personal projects and Perforce for client work and my one larger team project.

north torrent
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I just use a Pomodoro timer for my daily work hours and then the software tracks the hours.

I think having a schedule and knowing when I worked and didn't helps, but I don't spend too much time worrying about it.

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It is more just a way to motivate myself when working at home.

light spruce
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I didn't get anything out of tracking my entire day. I could see a breakdown of how long I spent working on what, watching YouTube, or whatever else, but I didn't have anything to do with it. And also the part where time and progress aren't associated linearly.

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You can spend hours on something and not really get anywhere... or maybe it's the ten minutes in a drive through that leads to you realizing, "Oh, shit. I'm an idiot. Here's how I should [insert thing here]."

zinc matrix
plucky pagoda
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Any good buys on SSDs?

carmine frigate
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well if you believe the marketing talk buy a bunch of ps5s and take the ssds out

plucky pagoda
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I don't recall anything being stated which applied to the drives themselves.

carmine frigate
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ow thats basically all a heared about the ps5s

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the ssd is super great and better than anything pc has to offer atm

plucky pagoda
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It's not about the drive.

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or at least not entirely

carmine frigate
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hmm i dunno , didnt really look into

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i do believe this time 4k is actually 4k tho

plucky pagoda
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It's a custom drive but there's more to it than just the drive itself.

foggy path
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Is Linus retiring?

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That's the only way that title could not be clickbait

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:P

carmine frigate
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he started smoking crack and doin callgirls ๐Ÿ˜›

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otherwize hes gunna build more rigs

zinc matrix
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e

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i tired

light spruce
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his thumbnails make me die inside

fluid bloom
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agreed

bronze axle
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I like their thumbnails and dumb humor; especially Linus' terrible segues.

light spruce
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I was never the biggest fan of Linus. One of the guys that works/ed for him was all right though. Instead, I'll occasionally watch JayzTwoCents or Gamer's Nexus if I want to see way more bar graphs than I'll probably care about.

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Then again, I'm a lot less enthusiastic about tech at this point.

light spruce
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Thanks for reminding me that I need to terminate some ethernet runs still

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At least I already ran the cabling before it was about 1000 degrees in the attic

halcyon lake
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Just switched from Google Chrome to Brave. Soooooo much faster and responsive.

light spruce
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I went from Chrome to Vivaldi to Brave. The one thing I miss is functional sync between devices

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(Also not a huge fan of their purple to orange gradients)

rugged storm
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I've already restarted a couple times already

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but I still get this message

rugged storm
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what are they

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it just says that pending restart variable is 1

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also already installed on visual studio

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.net framework 4.8 SDK

north torrent
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Should I watch Unreal videos on my computer monitor or on my TV?

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I have a sofa in both rooms...

zinc matrix
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ษ™

pearl elk
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I cant wait to watch Linus go grey and get the dad bod like Jayz ๐Ÿ˜›

pearl elk
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woah man this is reminding me why I hate building PCs

zinc matrix
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The runny nose struggle is real here

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Its too real for realism

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So now its realismism

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Monsununu

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@pearl elk i too getting a dad bod but I no dad

proud pier
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Can't believe how bugged PS4 controllers are

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in UE4

zinc matrix
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Victor !

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Mb they no bugged

plucky pagoda
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Are you sure it's not a driver issue? I use PS4 Dual Shock controllers almost exclusively for my testing.

proud pier
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@plucky pagoda nah

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I am using Android

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The "fixes" for windows, there are a few

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workarounds really

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Nothing for Android and probably iOS

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Feel like this could be handled easily by UE4's input system though

plucky pagoda
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Using a Dual Shock via bluetooth on android?

north torrent
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I'm going to watch Star Wars.

tulip orbit
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may the force be with you

zinc matrix
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HEHEHE

tulip orbit
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converted project to 425, got it to compile in VS, but now i"m seeing some fun errors in the log as it loads up ๐Ÿ™‚

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would load faster if VS would stop parsing the solution...

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whatever the fuck that means

plucky pagoda
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You don't have to wait for parsing to finish to do anything.

chilly igloo
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Guys, does someone know what happened with Ryan Brucks blog? Look like all text are missing โ˜น๏ธ

foggy path
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Looks broken, maybe something wrong with his CMS?

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maybe send him an email or tweet, possible he hasn't noticed

north torrent
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I haven't tried playing with collisions yet.

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I know, snow without collisions is so 2010... But it is just a prototype... I'll make it look pretty toward the end of the development cycle.

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The snow goes through my houses, yes.

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But I am just blocking things out to get a general idea of what all is going into the scene.

zinc matrix
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mao do u have covid

north torrent
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No, that's not really a thing here right now.

zinc matrix
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but i heard covid is trendy now u could use it to get some ladies

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eae em

north torrent
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I ain't nobody got time for that.

zinc matrix
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its ok if you got rejected in the past

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its not your fault

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always can try again

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|:]!

north torrent
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Anyone who has ever had a woman in their life knows that there is a certain time commitment involved. Some people find the trade off worth it, some people don't.

zinc matrix
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okok

north torrent
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Only Incels think that a woman will just automatically make their lives better and that every male in the human race must be out looking for females.

zinc matrix
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huh

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r u d e

north torrent
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That was the intent.

zinc matrix
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my sock too tight

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help me

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apparently

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Google shows my game has 3200 links from Reddit

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eaeem

foggy path
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did you buy spambots

north torrent
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As long as you keep going 'eaeem' all the time, I hope your game drops in the Google ratings until nobody can find it ever again.

foggy path
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my website only has 142 links on reddit rip.

north torrent
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My website would have more views if I had remembered to make it...

foggy path
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Still getting 200k pageviews a year on my site despite not having anything new in there in years ๐Ÿค”

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I wonder if I'll ever be arsed to do anything with it lol

zinc matrix
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what site

foggy path
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I used to write about JS stuff and before that PHP

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some of it was decently popular

zinc matrix
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php is still pretty popular

foggy path
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well yeah but I haven't worked with it in many many years so as a result I stopped writing about it :D

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last time I worked with it was around PHP 5.3 I think..

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wonder when that was even

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something like 10 years ago lol

zinc matrix
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liked web development back then?

foggy path
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Still do

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pays the bills too :P

zinc matrix
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Only Incels think that a woman will just automatically make their lives better and that every male in the human race must be out looking for females.
@north torrent ...what if they hated being men?

north torrent
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Who, the women or the Incels?

zinc matrix
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incels

light spruce
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I thought I heard a lot of people had moved away from PHP

foggy path
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Yeah PHP hasn't been "hip" for a long time now I think :P

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Ruby on Rails took a sizable chunk and then Node.js

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They are steadily improving the language though, the most recent iteration of the language has some form of static typechecking in it afaik

light spruce
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Yeah, I bet a lot of those same people who bitched about PHP getting too bloated absolutely jumped on top of node.js

north torrent
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If an Incel hates being a man is that really an Incel?

The key part of 'Incel' is the Involuntary part. Otherwise you are just voluntarily celibate which could be for many different reasons. @zinc matrix

light spruce
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Is this why people don't come to the lounge?

foggy path
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Possibly zomgmoFace

north torrent
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Likely.

foggy path
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Easy enough to ignore the conversations you don't care about I'd guess...

north torrent
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Except for the fact that people do come to the lounge. That is an observable fact, as there are 5 people here right in this moment.

toxic apex
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as someone who joined this discord literally 10 minutes ago, what the hell happened in here?

foggy path
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I don't really see anything particularly weird to have happened?

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Just a conversation about incels I guess? lol

toxic apex
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fair. Thanks for the welcome!

foggy path
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I find the concept of "incel" kind of bizarre tbh

zinc matrix
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๐Ÿ˜ฆ

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:\

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STAPH

foggy path
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like.. isn't everyone who would like to have sex but can't by default an incel

north torrent
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Basically, Karol was being toxic again. That basically sums up most of the weird things we talk about on here.

zinc matrix
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only u r toxik mao

toxic apex
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maybe it's whether you identify as one

north torrent
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That is the definition, Zomg. Just most people wouldn't wear it as a title. They would keep that stuff private.

light spruce
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yeah.. the lounge is basically shitposts and cat pics... sometimes it's... no, I think that might be it

toxic apex
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like... "i'm an incel" is a lot worse than "i want to have sex but haven't found a partner"

north torrent
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We have some in depth political conversations in here.

zinc matrix
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thanks for teling us about your desires

north torrent
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Conversations about gardens, kangaroos, cars.

foggy path
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sometimes games

toxic apex
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and incels. the obvious 5th category

foggy path
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lol

north torrent
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Did I tell you that I made two cats mad at me today, Mr. Ponkkis?

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There are a lot of in depth programming conversations in the lounge from time to time as well, but as most people only come to the lounge to get away from that kind of stuff they don't generally last long.

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Well, the cats at my apartment complex are very territorial, and these cats were messing with 'Doorstep Mฤo's' territory, so I shooooed them away. One of them was staring at me like he was going to murder me in my sleep.

light spruce
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Narrator: He will

foggy path
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cat fight!

north torrent
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Go back to your own door, I'm not feeding you you if you are going to get in someone else's territory.

zinc matrix
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mao but did you mark your teritory with pee

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cus if not then they didnt know

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you should mark it

north torrent
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It isn't my territory, it is Doorstep Mฤo's territory.

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I just give the cats food sometimes. But I respect the rules of cat territory.

foggy path
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you got like cat triads in there

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there's gonna be a horse head in the bed of one of the cats

zinc matrix
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he didnt pee enough

north torrent
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I would rather piss off two renegade cats than have the whole order or the stray cat mafia come down upon me...

zinc matrix
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do you guys use unreal or unity

light spruce
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Narrator: Doorstep Mao was what everyone called the older gentleman who everyone assumed was a hobo, when, in reality, he lost the keys to his apartment months ago but was too embarrassed to admit it.

north torrent
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That's Doorstep Mao.

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Very small cat, doesn't seem to be growing any bigger...

light spruce
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Narrator: It was not Doorstep Mao.

north torrent
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Look in the background.

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That black and white cat owns the apartment across from mine. He also owns a dog.

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This is the cat the wants to murder me.

light spruce
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I wish something wanted to murder me.

foggy path
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that should be fairly easy to arrange zomgmoFace

north torrent
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Sorry, not worth the trouble.

light spruce
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actually, I wish something would right now. Migraine happened in between taking amphetamines and them taking effect... so I feel like a dumpster fire currently

fluid bloom
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why are you taking amphetamines?

light spruce
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adhd and neurological damage

north torrent
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Maybe you need a cat.

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Or three.

light spruce
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But I already knock things off my desk

north torrent
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Does anyone want a greyscale color wheel?

light spruce
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kinda missing that critical piece of information about how those greys were arrived at

north torrent
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It's a color wheel.

zinc matrix
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ok

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hmm

light spruce
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lightness, luminosity, and average. And if you went into color filtering like you use in black and white photography, you'd get some very different results there too

north torrent
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Teddy Roosevelt was sort of the coolest dude ever...

zinc matrix
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true i guess

light spruce
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'He spoke for 90 minutes before completing his speech and accepting medical attention. His opening comments to the gathered crowd were, "Ladies and gentlemen, I don't know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot, but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose."'

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Kind of a badass

north torrent
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He was basically the most manly president in the history of the United States...

carmine frigate
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i usually alt f4 when i get shot

zinc matrix
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thing is capitalism, as its proponents suggest, should translate to civil liberties but you do get nations that are technically capitalist that don't have this

north torrent
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He had horrible asthma that he almost died from as a child, but he was just too badass to let that stop him.

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Capitalism without regulation leads to the corporations taking every liberty from the people.

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I may not trust the government, but I trust the government more than super corporate monopolies.

zinc matrix
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kinda same here i guess but it does depend on the govt. too

north torrent
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There needs to be regulation, and that isn't something that 'depends'.

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That is universal.

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Types of regulation can vary.

zinc matrix
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i would prefer governments to not be like that of the middle east at the very fkn least

carmine frigate
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u get 100.000$ when u turn 18 in some of those places ๐Ÿ˜›

north torrent
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I'm glad your standards are high, Mr. Suspicion.

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I would like my car to at least have 3 wheels Mr. Suspicion when he buys his next car.

zinc matrix
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u get 100.000$ when u turn 18 in some of those places ๐Ÿ˜›
@carmine frigate only if you're Arab and/or vaguely linked to the aristocracy

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my "gender-confused" ass would not see the light of day in those places

carmine frigate
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well cant give any tourist 100k when they have their sweet 18 overthere ๐Ÿ˜›

zinc matrix
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i'd rather not take their blood money anyway, and if i had to i'd rather use it on causes that would piss them off

carmine frigate
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its oil money ๐Ÿ˜›

light spruce
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I'd totally take blood money; it means they don't get to use it

carmine frigate
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ill take some bloody money aswell ๐Ÿ˜›

north torrent
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The United Arab Emirates seems to be the only country in the region that has its shit together and isn't constantly on the brink of imploding.

rigid shoal
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What about Saudi Arabia?

carmine frigate
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its the same everywhere ๐Ÿ˜›

north torrent
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I would figure you would be a fan of Saudi Arabia, Mr. Floss. Something about blah blah blah selling weapons to terrorists blah blah blah so it helps my 401k.

rigid shoal
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You guys ever see how the King of Saudi Arabia lives?

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I hate the house of Saud. I don't like the premise of royal families.
But otherwise, I love oil companies.

zinc matrix
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for those who are ok with the prevailing attitudes then i can't say anything about it but for those who aren't they're just being kept alive like cattle in a farm

north torrent
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I don't like the premise of selling out my countries morals because of my 401k, but I guess we all have different sticking points.

rigid shoal
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I also knew a lot of people who worked for Saudi's ARAMCO. Don't know why, but that makes me like Saudi Arabia at least a little bit.

zinc matrix
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as long as they keep threatening to kill atheists and the LGBT+ community and mistreat women the middle east is not a place i prefer to associate with.

rigid shoal
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You can make money against your morals. It's like a win-win situation for you.
On one hand, yeah, you hate them from a moral standpoint, but on another standpoint, you're making money from them.
Whereas, if you don't invest, you're not making any money, and they're still operating as they usually would. So, you're just hurting yourself.

zinc matrix
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if using that money could change their laws i'd do it in a heartbeat but sadly it won't

carmine frigate
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ppl mistreat women everywhere ๐Ÿ˜›

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ppl mistreat peopel period ๐Ÿ˜›

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equal rights overhere is pretty new aswell

north torrent
#

People have been doing mean things since people started.

zinc matrix
#

people don't deserve to thrive in that case

carmine frigate
#

child labour isnt illigal for that long either

#

in the scope of humankind

north torrent
#

Does anyone or anything deserve anything?

carmine frigate
#

40 years behind isnt that much

north torrent
#

After being blinded in one eye during a boxing match at the Whitehouse, President Roosevelt quit boxing and switched to jiu-jitsu instead.

carmine frigate
#

sounds like u have some weird master material setup

#

ahh u allready stated that

bronze axle
#

@zinc matrix That's one of my favorite funny videos.

carmine frigate
#

if you link a vid does it just take ur entire recommended with it?

#

u watch too much markiplier ๐Ÿ˜›

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me neither

bronze axle
carmine frigate
#

i used to skate a bit, thats quite soem skills

#

i usually snowboard now

north torrent
#

In the summer?

carmine frigate
#

there is glaciers in austria

bronze axle
#

Man, that makes me want to go on another vacation.

#

I just got back on Friday from hiking in the mountains and stargazing for a couple days. It was incredible.

obsidian notch
#

I hate dealing with biz-dev

#

Let me work on my game god dammit!

bronze axle
#

Mmm. Boring but very necessary.

obsidian notch
#

Definitely, I don't want to be known as the developer who doesn't pay taxes lol

north torrent
#

You mean all of them?

carmine frigate
#

i pay taxes on my beer

#

it adds up

obsidian notch
#

I used to ski, pretty scary though as the instructor relied on natural motion rather than explaining on how to plough. Which ended up on me being unable to stop and hitting a rubber pillar

#

No concussion though

#

Making a V-shape doesn't help when I can lay my feet flat like that, should have told me I had to dig into the snow lol

north torrent
#

Concussions are cool.

#

I'm changing my guitar strings.

#

My car is slow.

north torrent
#

I already bought my car so it costs me next to no money to keep it, even though it is in the United States and I am in Shanghai.

zinc matrix
#

is it electric?

#

interesting

soft night
clear sparrow
#

drop VR game ideas below

#

I'll poggers react you so that you get a dopamine response for your contribution

soft night
#

open world explorer game

rigid shoal
#

Sword Art Online.

pearl elk
#

VR game that you cant escape from... ever

north torrent
#

13 more minutes and the restaurants open to deliver food...

#

Well, I could order breakfast, but its China so breakfast food isn't really something I want.

pearl elk
#

raw octopus, you know you want to

velvet frost
#

I hope you're all having a wonderful evening.

crude pumice
#

Any plays apex legends over here

zinc matrix
#

I stopped playing games long ago

#

Trust me

#

I runny nose

chilly igloo
#

Its unbelievable how buggy Fortnite is. All that "Application Hang Detected" all day long. Simply unbelievable.

rare sparrow
pearl elk
#

Shame we cant have google powered search in all of the UE4 search bars

#

gotta be better than the terrible pattern matching it has atm

median wraith
#

hahaahah

zinc matrix
#

weird

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eaeaeaeaea

zinc matrix
#

i have

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cough

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runny nose

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time to make food.. hmm..

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but i drying feet

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no no corona

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allergy

sage tendon
#

top down?

#

that is something different

pearl elk
#

I cheated with that, I just made a umg with some hover over boxes on each edge and the corners

zinc matrix
#

@sage tendon hi cutie

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y u no reply

#

u going full no contact? y

sage tendon
#

Sure

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Why not

zinc matrix
#

does sit work

sage tendon
#

ยฏ_(ใƒ„)_/ยฏ

crude pumice
#

Does no one play apex ?

#

Legends

zinc matrix
#

we only play with remco's feelings

#

nah.. tbh todays battle royale like apex feel like league of legends to me

#

as in not really good game but good at fulfilling your ADHD and giving you some pressure/thing to do

crude pumice
#

No Need to tell me wy I play man

#

Lol

median wraith
alpine fern
#

maybe, but you also failed to follow unreal code style, so it only counts half that again

median wraith
#

cuz didn't gave one new lines for { ?

alpine fern
#

that, and lowercase variable names

median wraith
#

they name something about that ?

alpine fern
#

you probably noticed how all code in the engine uses ThisCase

median wraith
#

well this way you can use vars inside functions

#

that don't conflict the classes

alpine fern
#

but it's still wrong

primal spoke
zinc matrix
#

EAEAEEEAA

median wraith
#

@alpine fern Well, half of the marketplace have bad formatting and Epic give devgrants to content rippers

#

Maybe in a perfect world

#

๐Ÿค–

crude pumice
#

Oooof

median wraith
#

By the way Zeblo, the fact is not even Epic is consistent with their code style half of the engine have randoms, the other half is correct, like using invalid nulls calls, once they canceled a PR because where using their same file formating, and claimed were wrong the whole file had to be updated, still equal in 2020

alpine fern
#

yeah it's hard to be perfectly consistent when you have 1000 people write 15 million lines of code

#

they try though

median wraith
#

I think could be interesting if allow to reformat individual files to their style

zinc matrix
#

damnnn

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admin on polish discord didnt like my poop joke

zinc matrix
#

konki

#

< 3

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๐Ÿ’”

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admin on polish discord didnt like my poop joke
@zinc matrix That's very surprising.

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exactly

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so mr offline

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what are you up to

sage tendon
#

@zinc matrix i find your name offensive and discriminating

#

Maybe a @moderator could do something about the trolling here

zinc matrix
#

@zinc matrix animals are great

#

add more women in bikini

#

well

#

they wont run away then

#

i had women run away from me :v

#

i wasnt chasing them though

zinc matrix
#

konkki

next gust
#

yo question, what channel do I go to ask what kinds of games ppl are working on

rose tulip
#

Anyone got any game suggestions for games that work well with touchscreen laptops? Best Ive found so far is Civ V

mossy nexus
#

Missile Command.

thick thistle
#

Hi anyone knows how I can post on the job chanel? I'd like to post some info about what we looking for

foggy path
#

check the pinned messages on that channel, it should have the instructions

thick thistle
#

@foggy path thx mate.

zinc matrix
#

@zinc matrix my family want me to find job ๐Ÿ˜ฆ

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cries

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i worked abroad !!!

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in few fields

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you know

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big eae time

foggy path
#

you could get a job making games

zinc matrix
#

no i too dumbish

#

mmo jobs?

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doubt

foggy path
#

I mean I've seen the pictures of your game

#

you talk like a dum dum sometimes but it looks like you know how to make games lol

zinc matrix
#

lmao โค๏ธ

#

that was the nicest thing ive heard today

foggy path
#

I decided to start writing a document about how one of my game ideas would actually work as an actual game... because I just keep procrastinating on the idea and not doing anything because of lack of direction lol

#

I started with the basic idea earlier and while some of the game mechanics work the idea quickly ran into a wall because I couldn't think of a way to tie the mechanics into an actual game where you'd have some reason to play it

#

so I think I need to write something down to make sure I'm not going to run into problems like that :P

zinc matrix
#

i can feel u man, most of my players just leave quickly because they find it boring

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so i am working on new features x)

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you know, gonna give them things to do..

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OMG materialization worked!

sage tendon
#

@foggy path try to play it, its counter intuitive xD

foggy path
#

What do you mean?

sage tendon
#

Try it out

foggy path
#

Well yeah, I mean the problem was more that I had a number of game mechanic ideas that were disjointed

#

like you could do X Y and Z, but why would you want to do X Y Z

sage tendon
#

I mean John's MMO :P

foggy path
#

ohhh lol

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I tried

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It didn't work

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:D

sage tendon
#

Documenting before starting to program is always a good start

foggy path
#

I fucking never document anything before programming zomgmoFace

#

I live my life on the edge

sage tendon
#

Not even /* */?

foggy path
#

I document those during programming :p

sage tendon
#

Better that than nothing

foggy path
#

I'm usually pretty good about keeping the whole system in my head even when it's complex

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so with programming per se it's not the problem, but rather the overall reason why the player is playing the game

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like where does the game start, and how do you progress through it, and where does it end

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even if the game mechanics themselves are interesting, it doesn't seem like it would be interesting as a game if there's just a bunch of things you can randomly do for no reason

#

at that point it's more like a tech demo lol

sage tendon
#

I'm usually pretty good about keeping the whole system in my head even when it's complex
That only works for a fixed amount of time. Once you forgot what the general idea was you have to reinvent it

foggy path
#

If I stop working on it for a long enough time it happens yeah but as long as I keep working on it it's fine lol

#

I remember pretty much the entirety of the massive codebase we have at work that I've been working on for many years now :P

#

I guess that's why I can't remember anything else zomgmoFace

#

I mean yeah todo lists for sure if there's a lot of things

sage tendon
#

@zinc matrix wrong server

foggy path
#

Are you even allowed to share Flight Sim alpha content ๐Ÿค”

#

I haven't seen any anywhere so I would assume it's probably against the TOS...

sage tendon
#

Still, has nothing to do with ue4 or anything

#

This isnt a screenshot storage place :E

zinc matrix
#

huhu

#

Nice, there will be Bio version soon
@zinc matrix on topic , this one has keypad and pin as a security instead of biometrics https://onlykey.io/

zinc matrix
#

@foggy path i personally am allowed

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btw. i need nutrition fact for oat drink not-fortified!

foggy path
#

I need to see your Flight Sim permission slip from Bill Gates

zinc matrix
#

@foggy path and i would like to see the permission that im not allowed to do

foggy path
#

It's in the TOS lol

zinc matrix
#

i dont have any tos

foggy path
#

welp then whoever posted those originally broke TOS in the first place :P

zinc matrix
#

@foggy path and i love em for that

#

๐Ÿ™‚

#

u should too love nda breaches

foggy path
#

not really

zinc matrix
#

cause holding a game secret only leads to problems

#

see last of us 2

foggy path
#

breaching NDA is a great way to ensure the developers will not have a beta again

#

:P

#

I highly doubt any of the problems with Last of Us 2 was because people didn't breach their NDA's

zinc matrix
#

๐Ÿ˜›

foggy path
#

anyway I don't really know if there's an NDA like that with Flight Sim... it was just an assumption based on how closed betas usually are

honest sapphire
#

Does anyone here have arachnophobia?

#

damn

#

Finding a playtester for spider warfare will have to come another day I guess

zinc matrix
#

hi konki

#

go

#

maybe hes mimicking your irl posture

#

maybe you have mouse and keyboard next to your crotch

#

and you type like that

#

didnt do much today

#

i have the ship

#

no i mean like

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create big version of what was made

#

in that object

#

you see itss same shape

#

as the thing in 'ship builder'

#

now i need to spawn stuff like floor or walls

#

yes

#

its under

#

directly

#

not on back

#

now i need to spawn some ship stuff and let players "place" it on the ship frame

#

tru

#

u mean frame?

#

just rectangles

#

that resize according to start and end points

#

hha

#

lol

#

its very complicated

#

to actually do that in every direction

#

its hard

#

and then you have store walls (4 corners) sections (8 corners), corners, frames, etc

#

hard to manage

#

though maybe theres easier and less headache inducing way to do it

#

but i just butted through

#

anyway i think thats great feature because

#

i will share my little secret with u but i think players are full h.omo for games that let them build things

#

or for games that give constant pression like moba and Battle royale..

#

so i will include both of that in my game...

#

indeed

#

building is best

#

so i have to make it really really good

#

and multi directional

next gust
#

anyone here working on a RTS game?

zinc matrix
#

@zinc matrix i wanna make it like crossout

#

but in space

#

xD

#

and mmoissh

#

crossout was wild ngl

#

its cool until u realise its pay2win and really limited

#

but the idea is very cool

#

you construct very unique cars to then crash with each other

#

i liked making really weird builds

#

one thing i didnt like was that if i put more armor items, i had bigger general 'part score' so it matched me with people who had less parts but better tier weapons

#

i guess it was a way to balance

honest sapphire
#

After an agonizing process of modeling and animation I can now confirm that beer cans are now crushable

#

and a total of over 120 different types of beer are in my game all with different results

#

outer space just got allot more interesting

north torrent
#

Beer in space.

tulip orbit
#

could go for a beer right now

#

or most any cold drink...

tulip nova
#

yawns

bronze axle
#

Hey loungers.

tulip nova
#

\o

tulip orbit
#

๐Ÿ‘‹

bronze axle
#

I'm finally learning Niagara, for the purposes of doing sweet audio visualizations.

tulip nova
#

oooh nice

#

I need to actually learn it myself. What sort of audio ๐Ÿ™‚

#

(he types as he is playing guitar)

bronze axle
#

I want to make music videos for my songs, and a real-time vis for when I DJ on Twitch.

tulip nova
#

dang that sounds fun

bronze axle
#

Hell yeah, I'm stoked about it. Was so happy to hear about the new audio data interfaces for Niagara in 4.25.

#

Finally pushed me to start learning the dang thing. ๐Ÿ˜„

#

But hoo boy, it's a beast.

tulip nova
#

Haha yeah, I hope to dabble at some point, Havent had the need yet ๐Ÿ˜•

#

Yeah its big

#

theres a lot of it

bronze axle
#

It looks like Blueprint, but it's quite unique in a lot of ways.

#

I feel like a newbie all over again, trying to do basic things and getting error messages that are completely mysterious to me.

tulip nova
#

Yeah same here

proud pier
#

Who's watching The God of Highschool?

tulip orbit
#

i'm about to watch the simpsons

bronze axle
#

I've been watching Food Wars lately.

tulip orbit
#

I just watch a little simpsons while I eat dinner. only watched 10 min of the ep and back to work

proud pier
#

Food wars is good also

#

Haven't watched the latest season yet.

bronze axle
#

I'm still watching season 1, on Netflix.

#

It's perfect end-of-the-night viewing when I need something easy and fun.

#

Plus it speaks to my love of cooking and gets me all fired up to make awesome food.

north torrent
#

I'm watching this old 1970s movie called Star Wars.

pearl elk
#

Star Wars, thats like Sword in the Stone with laser swords right

#

Aquaman, thats like Sword in the Stone with a trident right

north torrent
#

They have mostly been using pew pew pew guns so far.

#

The young dude was practicing with a laser sword but then when they got to the space station he went back to using a gun.

#

The old guy and the bad dude with the black helmet had a sword fight, but that was about 90 seconds compared to like 20 minutes of gun fighting and 20 minutes of spaceship gun fighting.

pearl elk
#

so more like Robinhood

plucky pagoda
#

anyone know if there's a way to gift a game on epic store?

north torrent
#

Epic has a store?

broken sigil
#

nope

sour escarp
#

Anyone having issues with Epic games 2FA not sending the email code?

north torrent
#

Epic has games?

bronze axle
#

@plucky pagoda Not yet, but it's on the roadmap.

rigid shoal
#

Epic takes a couple of minutes sometimes to send the 2FA code.
It's like the only service I know of that doesn't send it immediately.

sour escarp
#

Unfortunately it's been ~10 minutes. ๐Ÿ˜

north torrent
#

Gotta scan it for the Corona.

rigid shoal
#

If you buy VAX on the weekend, they won't send you the code to activate it until a business day.
Mind boggling.

sour escarp
#

that's not automated?

rigid shoal
#

I can't really think of an explanation. ๐Ÿคท

foggy path
#

@sour escarp I've noticed it sometimes lags quite badly with 2FA

#

definitely had the same problem where it took so long that I forgot about it and then only later noticed it had sent it finally

#

usually at that point it was no longer lagging thankfully so I could actually request another one and log in

light spruce
#

I don't run into that issue since I use an authenticator app

#

and I scratched my cornea in my sleep again, so I am hating life right now

north torrent
#

Use the other eye.

light spruce
#

Look at this guy over here with more than one eye

north torrent
#

I ordered a salad.

sour escarp
#

still no luck with the 2FA code...

fluid bloom
#

use an application

#

when it starts working just switch to google authenticator or any similar app and you don't have to wait for emails

sour escarp
#

yeah I'm going to have to at this point. Didn't realize they allowed google auth when I first set it up

fringe sundial
#

@proud pier ive been watching God of Highschool myself

#

pretty damn good martial arts animation

#

tho the series im hyped beyond measure is Re:zero, which is highly likely to be a spectacular hypestorm this season once the drama starts happening

#

re:zero season 1 absolutely exploded in reddit and other anime communities, being completely unmatched everywhere until attack on titan season 3 happened

willow junco
#

Carl Wheezer

rigid shoal
#

vblanco, have you watched Kaguya-sama?
I didn't think it was my type of anime at first, but I gave the first episode a try and it's pretty damn good.

fringe sundial
#

watched it for a few episodes, its fun, but its not the style of stuff i like

zinc matrix
#

lmao he said its fun to avoid eventual hate

#

though he didnt think its fun

#

O_O

carmine frigate
#

i kinda liked monster strike the animation for VFX and animation

#

i still think the naruto shippuden ultimate ninja storm, cutscenes are as good as it gets

#

the game is real good aswell

zinc matrix
#

bro owninator

#

what made you pick that name

carmine frigate
#

i was named after my grandma, n00bkillah666

sage tendon
#

lol

zinc matrix
#

now i need to..

#

Make engine models eaeae

tender lily
#

a theoretical question for you all: imagine an alien race that is pretty much identical to mankind, but instead of ten fingers they have a square multiple of two, e.g. 16 fingers, 8 on each hand.

#

do you think such a species would develop computers faster, or more efficiently than we would?

#

all of our maths we learned way back from ancient civilisation is base 10 because... ten fingers

#

imagine how it might differ if our culture had maths based around base 2 or base 16, when it came to development and common understanding of a binary computer

fluid bloom
#

an octal system?

#

The octal numeral system, or oct for short, is the base-8 number system, and uses the digits 0 to 7. Octal numerals can be made from binary numerals by grouping consecutive binary digits into groups of three (starting from the right). For example, the binary representation for...

zinc matrix
#

Maybe if they had six fingers they'd figure out that some numbers can be best represented by one number instead of recurring decimals

fluid bloom
#

The Yuki language in California and the Pamean languages[1] in Mexico have octal systems because the speakers count using the spaces between their fingers rather than the fingers themselves.[2]

zinc matrix
#

Google duodecimal society or duodecimal system

tender lily
#

yeah its interesting to think how having a differen number of fingers on each hand might have positively or negatively influenced maths

pearl elk
#

I have 8 fingers so octal works perfectly

tender lily
#

lol, sure if you exclude thumbs

#

๐Ÿ˜„

#

fine, 'digits'

pearl elk
#

Good thing Im not all thumbs

#

Could it be why they are called digits ๐Ÿ˜ฎ

fluid bloom
pearl elk
#

What a noob, I created a Watch Dogs clone in the time it took to make this meme ๐Ÿ™‚

#

Youre just making a Ratchet and Clank clone

dull sparrow
#

Hey all, which is the right channel to ask about finding asset packs?

#

For a university project I'm wanting to design an underground TPS map, but struggling to find environment packs

light spruce
#

I'm going to break new ground and do an open apartment game

#

Oh, shit. It's an apartment ... but you're a cat. So all of that Ubisoft tower climbing still makes sense.

#

That's ... helpful.

#

I know I'll never forget 3d_other_uhpocesfa when it's used in 2035's contender for GOTY

plucky pagoda
#

@dull sparrow The marketplace has some really nice underground packs.

dull sparrow
#

Absolutely beautiful ones as well, but a little too expensive for this project :p Thank you for the heads up though

clear sparrow
#

Our indie team started work on a dayz-tarkov type openish world shooter for VR
This morning concluded with market research that the top 3 VR shooters have peak daily playercounts of 1024, 190, 80 players respectively. Our game likely couldn't live with <40 players on at a time, and what are the chances we land somewhere in the top 3? Likely slim ๐Ÿ˜‚

#

Almost as if we'd have to design for primarily single-player dayz-tarkov type gameplay, and have it fully featured for dynamic multiplayer sessions in case the game ever gets popular

light spruce
#

VR just has a lot of problems

clear sparrow
#

Mainly just waiting for the playerbase ๐Ÿคท it's proven itself in the market this year

pearl elk
#

You know there was a time when MP games came with a fully featured SP component ๐Ÿ˜›

light spruce
#

You have a chicken/egg problem in a lot of cases... not enough adoption, so there aren't enough larger experiences... because of that, there isn't as much adoption. It's still not cheap to get a decent experience on. And some people can't tolerate it, whether it's sim sickness, how terrible an HMD is if you wear glasses, or, if you're me, the inability to ignore the screen door effect and Fresnel lenses.

pearl elk
#

Make a small MP game and add millions of hats, problem solvered

light spruce
#

To me, I think the best part about it is the potential to easily do certain types of controls that would be a pain in the ass to do with mouse/keyboard or a gamepad.

pearl elk
#

But seriously, its a pretty tough market out there for MP games, even great MP games end up dead because of the big players. People are going to go where the players are and if that isnt your game, ouch

light spruce
#

It's a tough market period.

#

I'd probably focus more on smaller-scale multiplayer stuff. Things you play with people you already know.

fringe sundial
#

if you want MP, make something with coop

#

or with bots that are fun to play against

#

@clear sparrow you are also missing PSVR, which is the biggest vr market

#

honestly dont even bother with PC VR, its dead, and will stay dead for a few years

clear sparrow
#

I agree that coop is a good idea, story that is naturally against bots but opens up to MP as well.

I guess it's relative to what you define as "dead"; VR daily users has been growing almost exponentially in PCVR alone, for the past two years. I would define that as 'developing', or 'growing', not dead ๐Ÿคท ๐Ÿ˜‚

foggy path
#

What's "hot" in PSVR?

#

I literally never hear anything about PSVR so I was under the impression PCVR and Oculus Quest was really where it was at..

fringe sundial
#

@foggy path psvr is still quite healthy in vr

foggy path
#

are there any interesting PSVR exclusives or any particular titles that are popular for it?

#

tbh I'm pretty out of date with most VR releases since I mostly just play racing sims in VR and Beat Saber :D

zinc matrix
zinc matrix
#

idk why people use unreal

#

it too complex and hard

#

Unity โค๏ธ

#

google code, copy, paste

#

Done eaeaea

#

nah nah

zinc matrix
#

for lounge

foggy path
#

he got banned from the Unity discord or something zomgmoFace

zinc matrix
#

no

#

because

#

theres no lounge in unity diskord

light spruce
#

I love lamp.

#

"You feel around in the hole for a bit ... then pull out ... a rabbit! ... Well ... Not really. But wouldn't it have been neat if you had?"

zinc matrix
#

hihihihi

median wraith
#

Get absorbed by the wormhole

#

๐Ÿค–

azure chasm
#

so the most important part, the denoiser, was not covered in todays webinar?!

lucid walrus
#

holy shit... just found a five year old complaint that matches a bug report I got officially confirmed a few days ago... the difference? the initial complaint was on answerhub and mine was made on UDN...

#

๐Ÿ˜ฆ

light spruce
#

Yeah, always a good time when you run into that

pearl patrol
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Yo how do I post crap in looking for talent? Sorry im new here my friend said i can find coders here...๐Ÿ‘‰ ๐Ÿ‘ˆ

thorny dock
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Read the pinned in the looking for talent and work

pearl patrol
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Thx slim

thorny dock
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destroy all humans is out now, another gem for unreal engine, can't wait to play it

light spruce
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was it a sweet potato?

thorny dock
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it was originally unreal 3, on the original xbox, it was GTA except your an alien destroying all humans lol, it's got a silly story too, all around it was a great time, certainly pushed the limits of the original xbox for the time

zinc matrix
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ยฃ24.99

rich quiver
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it interesting the only way to lower store 30% fee is by force from congress

foggy path
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what can you do when they have a monopoly

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no one else can really dictate terms for them at that point

north torrent
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Trust Buster Tim Sweeny can! He can use that Fortnite money to give away free games, buy exclusive titles, and break up your Monopoly.

When your government won't help you, look to Trust Buster Tim Sweeny.

rich quiver
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the last time that epic and valve speak on anything steam stop marketing 2 years of future games for coming soon games

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this wasn't in place before EGS

winter zealot
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even if 30% is way too much it's still easier to publish on IOS than EGS which makes IOS better

rich quiver
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steam marketed future games with years in advice for years

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before this change

winter zealot
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EGS is just for the 1% of developers allowed to publish to it

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it's absolutely a fact that apple is enforcing a monopoly and it's wrong, but so far EGS is only doing worse

rich quiver
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Simon Carless information on the industry are very important

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since the amount of data he uses

winter zealot
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yeah he's amazing

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and i'm absolutely willing to take back everything bad i've said about EGS if and when i'll allow for open publishing just like steam

foggy path
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I wonder if their plan is to curate it first to keep a better quality to build up users with that

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Steam didn't allow everyone to publish games there originally either

winter zealot
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yeah possibly

foggy path
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^ that is just a silly comparison

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look at the trash that's on steam...

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:D

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you can't call those games crappy in comparison

rich quiver
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there quality assurance still no perfect to them to open up for the masses yet

winter zealot
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no platform can 100% guarantee against crappy games

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not everyone thinks like this but I think that a platform's job is not to curate crappy games

light spruce
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though you can do better than a majority of asset flip shovelware

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if there's not a useful way to discover titles on a storefront, there's really not any particular advantage in being on it

winter zealot
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how do you know your game won't be identified as shovelware ?

foggy path
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it's kinda hard to say... I almost never "discover" games by browsing a storefront

winter zealot
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also, I agree with Justin on the discovery thing but that's not achieved by curation

foggy path
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so I don't really know if my opinion on whether the storefront should or shouldn't be curated makes sense

light spruce
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whether you actually had people specifically responsible for curating one or you have some kind of algorithmic suggestions, you still have an easier time if you aren't having to dig through a full dumpster

winter zealot
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yeah but those are custom curation lists maintained by users, it's not actually enforced by the platform

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you can still publish on the platform regardless

light spruce
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Well, yeah, in the case of Steam's curator system, it's a half-ass (at best) thing that I'm not particularly sure accomplishes anything at all

winter zealot
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I'd say it's better than store-level curation...

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it has a democratic component to it and you can choose the curators you trust

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and you can be on the platform regardless of the curators choice, that's why I think it's better

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to me, a platform's mission is that you can provide opportunities for both players and devs, that doesn't include curation

foggy path
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I wonder do people base their purchase decisions on curators ๐Ÿค”

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it's another feature I've never used...

winter zealot
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me neither tbh, I use reviews

foggy path
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I've seen curator reviews and lists on the homepage from time to time but it's pretty much just memey shit like "Darth Vader recommends this game" or some shit like that

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:D

light spruce
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I don't know if it's any more useful than when I tried to use it. I thought that it largely sucked.. so I definitely wonder what the level of engagement on it is

foggy path
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I think it could work if you were some sort of gaming influencer on youtube or something and had your recommended games in the list or something

light spruce
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I know that by not having really any standards at all, stuff just gets totally buried all the time unless it's some major title

foggy path
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but then again TotalBiscuit was the only gaming youtuber whose reviews I actually used sometimes to see if I'd like something or not :P

light spruce
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I don't have time to follow anyone streaming

winter zealot
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the problem of games being "buried" by content happens in every platform regardless of curation

light spruce
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I already don't have time for things that have editing involved in them

rich quiver
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too much white noise in the system

winter zealot
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discoverability is achieved by marketing, and then ratings, cross-plays recomendations and all that

light spruce
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that's because you need some kind of standards

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Yeah, even doing that.

foggy path
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I have nothing but time lol

light spruce
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We all have a finite amount of it. And we generally don't know how much.

foggy path
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I mean unless you have kids I don't really know where people's time go

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It's understandable if you have family obligations but at least for those who don't... I dunno :D

light spruce
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We all choose to allocate it to something

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I know I've certainly wasted a hell of a lot of it

foggy path
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yeah, so it's not really like you don't have time, you just choose to spend it on something already

light spruce
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that's generally what most people mean, yeah

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And we'll find ways to justify poor decisions... like how I've spent most of today watching TV because I feel like shit and I'm hoping it's just my allergies and not that I'm dying.

foggy path
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It seems a lot of people who complain about lack of time seem to have this idea that being unproductive is bad

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I waste my time all the time and I don't care because I enjoy it so as far as I'm concerned it's time well spent lol

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so I don't really ever feel like I needed more time to do something else... I can always do it tomorrow if I really must

light spruce
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engineering, construction, and firearms are more my speed than chemistry

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sometimes I watch a guy paint model tanks

foggy path
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they are interesting mechanically

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I've never shot one but it's interesting to learn about the mechanisms

light spruce
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back when I did modeling, I had to learn about them. Found the engineering and history interesting far before I ever really got into shooting.

foggy path
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yeah the history is also interesting in some cases

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like why certain design decisions were made as a result of something that they needed to achieve with it

light spruce
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Also some of the hilariously stupid things people tried

foggy path
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lol

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terrible guns are some of the best stuff on forgotten weapons for example

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loved his video on the zip22 lol

light spruce
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Gun Jesus.

thorny dock
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HA your worries about your allergies possibly meaning your sick? Try reading a study where they found that clear mucus coming out your nose constantly could actually be your cerebral fluid leaking through your sinuses, thatโ€™s where Iโ€™m currently at.

foggy path
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lol

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did you know there can also be holes from your nose to your eyes!

thorny dock
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Omg just stop

light spruce
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mattv..fuckwhatevernumbers had a few on the Zip 22 before Ian ever got around to that awful thing

thorny dock
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Iโ€™m already paranoid enough hahaha

foggy path
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tbh I'm not a 100% sure on that Slim I just vaguely remember reading something about it a long time ago

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but it was more like a thing that just happens with some people and it's normal, and not like a health condition or anything

light spruce
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also, if your CSF is leaking out of your nose, you'd probably know because you'd have the headache from hell

thorny dock
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Ahh I see, did I mention that by โ€œread an articleโ€ I meant โ€œread a headlineโ€? Ignorance is one of the pitfalls of my paranoia

foggy path
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lol

light spruce
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I've had a lumbar puncture done before... causes a drop in pressure, so you get a terrible headache that either goes away or recedes when lying down. It's also improved by caffeine, so the actual medical advice I got for it was "drink a lot of Mountain Dew and go to bed"

foggy path
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you seem to have had a lot of fun things like this happen to you

light spruce
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I have a colorful medical history

foggy path
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meanwhile I'll get a lil cut on my finger and be panicing zomgmoFace

light spruce
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yeah, stuff like that mostly just pisses me off

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have to stop what I'm doing, disinfect, have a bandage on it that will inevitably wind up doing some combination of getting stuck to something else and peeling off

north torrent
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Lose one finger and you still have 7 more.

light spruce
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at least I got smart enough to start wearing a glove when I solder stuff so I wouldn't burn myself anymore

foggy path
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are you a cartoon character Mao if you only have 8 fingers in total? lol

north torrent
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Humans only have 8 fingers in the English language.

light spruce
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Who has two thumbs and two thumbs?

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This guy.

foggy path
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wait is the thumb not counted as a finger? :P

north torrent
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No.

foggy path
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English dictionaries describe finger as meaning either one of the five digits including the thumb, or one of the four excluding the thumb (in which case they are numbered from 1 to 4 starting with the index finger closest to the thumb).

light spruce
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be an asian woman?

foggy path
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Wikipedia suggests it could be either way tbh

north torrent
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Kind of depends on context.

light spruce
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because I'm not an Asian woman?

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I'm using a keyboard that I just replaced most of the switches on, so, yeah, I've done some soldering.

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It's not because I don't know how to do it. It's because my left side isn't always where my brain thinks it is.

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Other than the part where she's holding the iron by the tip, doesn't have any solder or flux?

north torrent
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After testing positive to the Corona, Representative Louie Gohmert went to his office, without a mask, to inform his staff that he has cCorona-virus and won't be coming to work this week...

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I'm eating dried strawberries...

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I am morally against using Twitter.

light spruce
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I'm morally against this timeline

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why'd you roll the die, Jeff?

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... kinda weird stuff

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so, like... is decapitation a "minor head wound"?

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the reddit thread I saw about it was pretty fun at least

thorny dock
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you don't believe in the lizzard people?

north torrent
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He is a lizard person.

thorny dock
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whats so farfetched about a small reptile being able to shape shift into a full fledged human?

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/s

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don't worry, you won't be punished as long as you leave a bag of live crickets outside your door

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I just needed another word for duel ๐Ÿ˜ฆ

foggy path
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lol

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those are quite... interesting synonyms for it...

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google suggested something more useful

light spruce
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a Roman holiday sounds like some kind of lewd sex act

zinc matrix
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Ok Justin

pliant urchin
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wow megascans really has everything covered

foggy path
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lol

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can you imagine scanning that...

fathom wadi
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it's a shitty job but someone has to do it.

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ever get the feeling that you should have been a Roblox developer? they are paying out $250m this year to devs.

thorny dock
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this week on dirty jobs: Quixel, megascanning where the sun don't shine

zinc matrix
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woah

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roblox devss get so much mony

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and i get nuttink

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but why eae em

median wraith
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How in this world you got horse poop and no a single fence material

zinc matrix
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hebek

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is you game nise?

sage tendon
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"Im making a 3d scan of horse manure but its shit to be honest"

fathom wadi
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"photogrammetry? More like photocrapandpee"

bold fulcrum
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Manure.. that is an exquisite and noble way of calling it.

sage tendon
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The question if life was on mars was already answered and its a yes...

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Weird tho, that NASA put that question in the title as one of their job descriptions actually say that NASA is not allowed to pursue the search for life outside of Earth

wraith solar
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When was the life on Mars question answered?

zinc matrix
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i'm feeling iffy about how my parents have subscribed to some printing plan - unfortunately they and my sister need it quite a lot even with lockdown

pearl elk
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Depends on what your definition of life is

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If its the left over food in your fridge thats been there for over a month well yes there is life on Mars ๐Ÿ˜›

north torrent
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Could be the cure for the Corona.

pearl elk
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Alien Virus, maybe it'll help us create the master race

north torrent
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Or cheese that doesn't grow mold.

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Does food even mold in space?

pearl elk
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If there is air, perhaps but I think there needs to be bacteria and I think there are air scrubbers in space

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You know when you taste fully filtered water and its like wtf this has no taste because its so clean? The air is probably like that

wraith solar
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The atmosphere of Mars is the layer of gases surrounding Mars. It is primarily composed of carbon dioxide (95.32%), molecular nitrogen (2.6%) and argon (1.9%). It also contains trace levels of water vapor, oxygen, carbon monoxide, hydrogen and other noble gases. The atmosphere...

soft night
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the name of the rover is something funny for finns

north torrent
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Mars doesn't have a magnetosphere so if there ever was air on Mars it has been blown away by the sun's radiation over millions of years.

pearl elk
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Yup air is the least of your worries

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Which reminds me, I gotta watch that new season of The Expanse

bleak topaz
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XDD

soft night
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have you meet the Graig? @bleak topaz

bleak topaz
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Who? @soft night ๐Ÿ˜„

bleak topaz
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Ahhhhhh looks similar ahhahaa ๐Ÿ˜„

north torrent
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In the project I was doing with my elementary school students, they decided they would put a giant nuclear generator on the north pole of Mars and melt the ice caps.

This created an ocean in which 3 students got trapped in because they didn't think about bringing a boat with them...

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They then decided that living on Mars sucks, so they just built a giant space yacht and decided to live in 5 star luxury up on their space yacht and only go down to the surface of Mars to do research.

carmine frigate
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space and other planets basically suck hard as far as we have seen

soft night
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there is MonsoPlanet where everything is Mons

carmine frigate
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north pole is basically super comfy compared to other planets

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also more easy on logistics

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i like sitting in the sun, but i dont want to sit inside the sun ๐Ÿ˜›

inner cloud
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"Take-Two and Rockstar issue takedown notice to trailer for indie remake of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas in high definition with Unreal Engine."

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what

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I thought someone just made trailer for fanart level in UE4

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and they are taking it down ? ๐Ÿ˜„

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oh they had patreon

pearl elk
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Probably not a good idea to name it GTA either

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Its not like its one of the largest gaming franchises ever or anything

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I'll just call my game Star Wars, no one will notice right ๐Ÿ˜›

inner cloud
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ye seems like patreon brings more a ttention to things like that

pearl elk
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Im gonna start a potatoreon for buying me a new potato farm

soft night
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Mons the Legendary Franchise

light spruce
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I'm going to remake Final Fantasy 7 in Unreal

sage tendon
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Isnt that already done?

light spruce
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#whoosh

sage tendon
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Good story

carmine frigate
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just name it grab that auto

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i actually dont know how that works when u short the title to 3 letters

zinc matrix
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hello

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Gents

zinc matrix
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@thorny dock me ???

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i never made fun of covid victims my man

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proof or lie

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i think youre full of anger and hate

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and should work on your little personal issues

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nope

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why would i make fun of covid victims??

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and i never talked bad about unreal users or any people here

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stop LSD