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this site needs to get about 20% cooler
Sunday, 01-Oct-23 03:51:09 UTC from web-
@liquidusmira ah, that should be fine then, i guess
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@mushi MUUSSSHHHHIIIII!!!!!!
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@scribus scriiiiiibusssss
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Silksong Never
Monday, 25-Sep-23 01:07:20 UTC from web-
@scribus boo
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@liquidusmira the real silk song is the friends we made along the way
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@mushi that's the FAKE silksong
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Soo... how 'bout that Unity blowup? !vgp
Sunday, 17-Sep-23 00:44:43 UTC from web-
@scribus Unity is in the red for years and buying Weta wasn't cheap so they were grasping for the most stupid decision to gain (repeatable) revenue by choosing to get paid by the amount of installs of the games. The problem is that indie game developers have very little profit and it can cost more in the long run than it gained profit. Also the way to determine the amount of installs is not clear. The last information I heard was that Unity wanted to use a heuristic to guess the amount of installs. Also Unity did that decision out of nowhere and tried to cover their tracks by sneakily removing paragraphs in their license that would hinder that license change. Unity had image problems (being used for asset-flip games, taking a lot of time for updates and being behind on the technical side) before but that was a huge kick in the balls to devs and all people who bought games made with Unity.
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@adiwan their president also sold 2000 shares just before the install thing was announced, adding up to about 50k in the preceding year. seems bad
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@zeldatra Him being at EA before that goes great with that... I read that that amount of stocks was only a very small percentage of his stock holdings. Still looks scummy.
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Very cool and normal that you need to limit your game to only use two CPU cores in order to do the fishing minigame, SEGA.
Friday, 15-Sep-23 02:50:56 UTC from web-
@zeldatra What, the "Turbo" button doesn't work anymore?
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@scribus game crashes if it has access to too many resources on this one minigame in this one version of the game so I have to throttle it to keep from going insane while I’m fishing.
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@zeldatra So it's a little more involved version of the same old problem, lol
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Weird thought I just had: do you think someone who doesn't know sign language would have an easier time understanding ASL or something improvised by another non-ASL-knower?
Thursday, 14-Sep-23 04:43:53 UTC from web-
@scribus Typed an entire response about how ASL would probably be the harder one only to realize that my reasoning applies to braille, not ASL. I found ASL somewhat easy to learn (could not use it today, though) and I’m crazy bad with foreign languages so maybe the answer’s in there somewhere?
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@zeldatra According to 2 people on a discord server I'm on, one of whom has a non-verbal child, improvised is easier (and the ASL sign for "Hallway" and "Focus" are the same except for the eyebrows)
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If you played all the Yakuzas as they were coming out, starting from Yakuza PS2, by the time you get to Yakuza 0 it probably starts to look like Kiryu actually died and the games that followed (in order, a samurai spin-off starring a real life historical figure with Kiryu’s face grafted on where he meets other real life historical figures who look like his friends and enemies, a prequel set in the 80s, and a remake of the first game with stuff that didn’t happen in the original release) are just his brain coming to terms with death
Wednesday, 13-Sep-23 19:54:28 UTC from web-
@zeldatra *actually died at the end of Yakuza 5
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There are no restrooms in Washington DC metro stations. I had to venture into the city on Saturday to find a bathroom. Found a Macy’s. It was close enough. What I’m mad about is that in DC you get charged your fare when you leave the station rather than the way it works in Europe where you pay for a distance up front, so I basically paid $2 to use the bathroom.
Tuesday, 12-Sep-23 13:35:35 UTC from web-
@scribus In my city there are some but you have really look for them, as most of them are hidden. I used google maps today to look up where they are and I'm surprised that there are more than I thought. Even a place I regularly drove by had one and I didn't know until now. There are no big signs or like that. Most of them are near parks and they are hidden behind bushes.
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@adiwan And you're sure that isn't just sneaking off behind the bushes? lol
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@scribus Haha. Nah. I think they are there to reduce the eye sore of the out of place looking buildings.
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IE about to get hit by a hurricane, what even is anything
Saturday, 19-Aug-23 04:32:55 UTC from web -
That’s Yakuza 3 out of the way, would’ve finished it sooner but due to the way combat works it takes roughly two hours to do one random encounter of beginner level thugs
Tuesday, 15-Aug-23 13:09:43 UTC from web-
@zeldatra And no more "Aniki!" being shouted constantly.
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@adiwan my completion rating is pitifully low because I couldn’t stand the dated gameplay any longer lmao. I’m enjoying Yakuza 4 much much more.
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@zeldatra I know that feeling. It felt like a breeze starting 4, as if someone released the hand brake.
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Now we are targeted by Golf SPAM. I've not seen this before, ever. Not even in my email inbox.
Wednesday, 09-Aug-23 11:32:12 UTC from web -
Hmm. I may end up cutting contact with my father.
Thursday, 03-Aug-23 19:33:08 UTC from web-
@scribus samesies
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If I were famous, I'd try to get the casual karate gi to catch on as fashion
Sunday, 23-Jul-23 22:45:10 UTC from web-
@scribus better than what I’d do if I were famous!
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OK well Moho keeps basic, fundamental necessities like "manipulating bezier handles" behind their $400 edition so I think they can mango themselves just on principle alone
Monday, 10-Jul-23 22:58:33 UTC from web-
@adiwan Then why can every other godrotten POS application handle it just fine??
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@adiwan Like, I can get that over the scope of a 3D or even 2D "world" that the *absolute* position of a player character's sword swing is much less relevant than the (...well...) /relative/ position of the sword to the character. God, I wish it could just snap, or use guidelines, or snap to guidelines, or *any* kind of precision that's been available in draw programs since at least 1995. Ugh :shiver: I can't abide loosey-goosey, nosiree, not in this context at least. :p
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@scribus Welp... Time to program a new tool with blackjack and hookers
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Anybody online who might maybe be able to talk me down from self-inflicted head trauma, please?
Monday, 10-Jul-23 06:00:45 UTC from web -
I think a big part of it is in bad practices in Corel and/or Inkscape with my SVG vectors
Wednesday, 05-Jul-23 19:01:03 UTC from web-
@scribus my CGI models are all built in an incredibly stupid way that would make any other 3D artist pull their hair off so for this pilot I’ve had to go in and clean up some things in the event that somebody else has to look at it.
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@zeldatra Know anything about Cartoon Animator by Reallusion? Looking for something that isn't OpenToonz or a massive monthly subscription for mostly one-off, here-and-there kind of little things.
Monday, 03-Jul-23 18:35:32 UTC from web-
@zeldatra One major thing I've got is just a simple geometric pattern I want to have rotating externally and counter-rotating on the internal designs, which tbh I could probably write in like eight lines of COBOL or something equally outdated in concept, lol
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@scribus Moho or Blender would be your best bets probably, with the latter you could just prep the images in Photoshop or something like that beforehand you could just import each element into Blender as a plane and just have the camera looking at them flat from above, with a sun lamp pointing straight down for uniform lighting.
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@zeldatra 2 days into the demo and I think I may end up saying that I hate moho as much as opentoonz and I could have just made 360 god damned individual batcaveing exports from CorelDRAW by now for apple's kiwiing sake
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I thought this site was dead for the last 6 months cause I kept getting this error. I tried different browsers and devices and same thing but today it finally worked. Anyone else have this issue? http://rainbowdash.net/attachment/876377
Thursday, 22-Jun-23 02:11:30 UTC from web-
@macpony55 I always get this with almost any browser I use. Only way I can get it to load conisistently is by using this macos app called fluid. Other than that it’s almost inaccessible for me lol. I don’t mind though, adds to the charm :)
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@macpony55 Concerning. Looking into it
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@thelastgherkin this is unfaithful because the thing being alleged is actually happening
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I’m questioning the wisdom of airing a COVID episode during the new Futurama season in much the same way somebody twenty years older than me probably wondered what the hell that Bush tax cut episode was about
Wednesday, 28-Jun-23 18:20:34 UTC from web-
@scribus More so in the sense that it was old news by the time the episode aired - the rebate was a pre-9/11 initiative, the episode aired in 2003, & even on the DVD commentary the writers acknowledge it was a bit of a dated topic at the time. Of course everyone gets the COVID episode, but it feels a bit LATE to do a COVID episode.
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@scribus (I have been staying up way too late lately, that math should have been much more obvious)
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@zeldatra oh, that would make sense. I'm terrible at comparative chronology or whatever, dates were always the worst part of history class lol
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A local elementary school recently paid someone who was very obviously a furry to draw their mascot and now a bunch of cars are driving around town with some guy’s fursona on their bumpers
Thursday, 22-Jun-23 16:51:47 UTC from web-
@adiwan wait this sounds so good I’m gonnna try this lol
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@chomper Older me says: Basically you can also eat multiple differently flavored gummy bears at the same time without the hassle of disassembly and assembly.
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@adiwan I think the Dutch abide by the same philosophy based on the food I ate while I was there
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so like what should I post about on here? should I use it more like livejournal with long introspective effortposts about what’s going on in my life, or more like twitter and just spew off short little jokes and thoughts as they come? I feel like what excited me about having a place like this when I rediscovered it was being able to share my thoughts, feelings, and ideas without having to contribute to an already congested and overstimulating platform like twitter that vampirically feeds off your attention, but now I’m realizing I don’t know what I want to even say lmao.
Tuesday, 20-Jun-23 21:01:23 UTC from web -
Just got recommended a TikTok titled “non-binary fashion”, and like, I’ve been drawing my nb character in a t-shirt and some jeans, am I doing it wrong??
Friday, 16-Jun-23 19:28:58 UTC from web -
Futurama’s society has no conception of how, when, and where the moon landing occurred, but they have video of Rudy Giuliani putting a bunch of garbage on a barge and pushing it out to sea. What were the standards for the retention of information?
Thursday, 15-Jun-23 22:10:04 UTC from web -
The Outlast Trials is a very fun co-op game but it falls unfortunately short on actual scares, probably because actual scares are not really that conducive to a fun co-op experience.
Wednesday, 14-Jun-23 02:36:36 UTC from web-
@zeldatra the opening tutorial sequence is pretty unsettling but as far as scares go you see just about everything the game has to offer in that first sequence and the rest of the game afterwards is a co-op extraction stealth game where you drop into a map, achieve a certain number of specific objectives while avoiding enemies, occasionally get jump scared by a body you thought was dead or an enemy hiding in a locker (and these scares become tiresome very quickly as the same animation is SWF every time and they always occur under the same circumstance), then make your way back to the starting area with one or more of the enemies from the level either chasing you or waiting for you by the exit, and then you and your friend leave. It’s fun for what it is but the survival horror aspect from the first two games, which I initially purchased the game for, is almost completely gone and replaced with Jigsaw-level gratuitous gore and shock dialogue the hunters give you when they’re patrolling.
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Half-Life 2 VR is a very fun experience and I think anyone who has the equipment should give it a shot
Sunday, 11-Jun-23 04:56:45 UTC from web -
…and I think I created my account when I was in the UK because all of my rates are in pounds which means that the licenses are actually more expensive than I think.
Tuesday, 30-May-23 13:13:26 UTC from web-
@adiwan it sure would be great if they’d let me change my region then. :/
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@zeldatra I could swear I saw where to change the region in the google settings. Ad-hoc I can only see the help page for the Play store https://support.google.com/googleplay/answer/7431675?hl=en&sjid=2903081056934453095-EU
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@adiwan nah, I’m talking about my music clearance service, which exclusively shows me prices in pounds and says my location is the United Kingdom (but the company is headquartered in London, so. Maybe that’s why)
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Number ten: Full frontal nudity
Sunday, 28-May-23 05:32:32 UTC from web-
@zeldatra Cross-platform multiplayer, but anyone non-Nintendo can only play a monster?
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@scribus tears of the kingdom not being multiplayer is a wasted opportunity in general tbh, the amount of insane papaya you’d be able to do with the Rust building mechanics… you don’t even need to justify a second Link, the game does it for you with the Naruto shadow clones that everyone seems to be able to use now.
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@zeldatra Man, I have got to overcome my Fallout New Vegas addiction so I can get addicted to Tears of the Kingdom already
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I am Irish so it’s perfectly okay for me to say racist things about the Irish (but I’m also trying to get an Irish studio to co-finance something for me so maybe I shouldn’t)
Friday, 19-May-23 23:11:48 UTC from web-
@adiwan which really just means I’m double oppressed when you think about it
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@zeldatra It's the duck typing principle: If you walk an American and you talk like an American, then you're American. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_typing
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@adiwan I didn't know ducks could type
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Ireland is kind of like if J.R.R. Tolkien was God
Thursday, 18-May-23 00:11:13 UTC from web -
OK.... Tears of the Kingdom... What does "tears" refer to? Is it the liquid coming out of the eyes (for example while crying) or is it the edge of two pieces of a material/object that has been ripped apart (for example tearing a piece of paper in two pieces)?
Friday, 12-May-23 13:18:20 UTC from web-
@thelastgherkin Aaah... So it is not derived from the German word "Tier" (plural "Tiere"), which means "animal".
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@adiwan Wait wait, is Link turning into a wolf again?
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@scribus Good lord I wish, the previous game indirectly mentioned the events of Twilight Princess exactly one time and that seems to be the only acknowledgment Nintendo is willing to give that game.
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Heard that Bud Light made some 'phobes angry, so I bought a 12-pack
Wednesday, 19-Apr-23 07:35:18 UTC from web-
@scribus People who think they value freedom of speech actually hate the freedom of speech of others.
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@scribus no vandalism at my store yet but it’s coming I think, a group of Trumpers came in last week and stole literally every newspaper reporting on his arrest so they could trash it before anyone could read it so I’m expecting those same guys to try some apple with the Bud Light too
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@scribus The masterminds at Budweiser came up with the perfect evil plan: if you don't buy it you're a somethingphobe, if you buy it you have to drink Bud Light. With this masterful move, they can cause suffering to all peoples of the nation.
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