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It’s a little weird that one of the most well-known and revered Christmas films of all time came out twenty years ago and stars Will Ferrel, right?
about 5 months ago from web -
Think I might see the new Sonic later today
about 5 months ago from web -
good lord do not ever let me make a video game, i am certain i am violating every coding best practice
about 5 months ago from web-
@zeldatra At least you got practice, even when it's not the best. I'm a software developer for over 7 years and in my last project (ended a few days ago) it is littered with crimes I did. Mostly because I was not given enough time to do it properly. It is of great value to know which "technical debt" one has caused and how to mitigate it next time. There are only a few principles one has to follow to write good code like writing modular code that has as few dependencies as possible to solve the problem, naming the variables and functions and classes clear enough such that they convey their intent unmistakably, and writing code that can be reused. The last point is a nice to have but for a small project it is probably too much hassle except it is really needed more than once in the program. Otherwise software is malleable enough to be rewritten with the power given by the knowledge of hindsight, meaning good ol' refactoring.
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Kaito never enters a building in Lost Judgment that requires him to take off his shoes. I learned this when his feet suddenly disappeared after I entered a shrine in Infinite Wealth.
about 5 months ago from web-
@zeldatra In the Kaito Files DLC he has socks on when he enters the Doctor's home. https://youtu.be/gAqdA1D9YJM?t=11438 I believe that they are socks and not shoes. They are very dark and featureless.
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@adiwan His Kaito files model is stored in a separate location for whatever reason, I think I grabbed his base game model by mistake.
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Also Yagami (and Kaito’s) entries in the party database seem to genuinely stem from RGG just adding protagonists sequentially with each new game going back to Yakuza 6; Kiryu is 1, Majima is 2, Yagami is 3, Ichiban is 4, and his yakuza 7 party + Masumi Arakawa fills out the remainder before we suddenly start getting LJ side characters; seems the ones who follow you around worked internally like Y7’s party members even though most of them don’t ever join you in combat.
about 5 months ago from web-
@scribus ironically perfectly in line with a recurring theme in his first game that he is not number one despite his name implying otherwise
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http://rainbowdash.net/url/876675 Kaito’s here now too just because I wanted practice
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“Suck Up!” is the right way to do a generative AI-based video game. No stolen art assets, no cheap Unreal Marketplace sets with a shoddy text to speech voice actor, just a whole lot of fun attempting to gaslight a neighborhood of ChatGPTs with their own personalities.
about 5 months ago from web -
Well... Got a cheap burner so I can lay my old Blackberry to rest
about 5 months ago from web -
Cities Skylines 2 is so great, I love how the entire town will all choose one road to drive on so no matter how many new highways you build they will all decide to clog up a suburban street forty miles away because they all decided that is the best way to work
about 6 months ago from web-
@scribus I tested it by building a second “express” highway that covers the same distance and takes you STRAIGHT into key locations with no exits, inspired by I-66 from Virginia to DC where the USDOT did exactly that, and nobody took it. They all preferred to drive on the original. I’m guessing the only calculation the game makes is distance traveled and not “does taking this road actually save me any time”.
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Psychics and astrologers should know better not to advertise here.
about 6 months ago from web -
12 hour work days effed me up. I'll probably sleep through the whole weekend.
about 6 months ago from web -
Hello Chat
It's been years, and I'm 2 years on HRT. Life has been hectic but great.
What's up?
Also grug, can't upload image on phone >:(about 6 months ago from web- dezzie again likes this.
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@metaltao Been a while
One of the two life paths for pony fans lol -
@nerthos Dude it's good to see you! And lmfao yeah
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There are theories about a hollow earth, which are obviously stupid. I have have also a theory on my own: the hollow head theory, which shows more and more signs each day that provide evidence that it might be true.
about 6 months ago from web -
Ah... Projects that search for people who can do EVERYTHING THE BEST. C++, Java, Python, Bash. Everything at expert level and at least 5 years of DOCUMENTED JOB experience. Also at least of 3 years of experience in transportation and logistics related projects. DUDE... I can rather deliver a unicorn than these specific requirements. I'd like to get into that project, however the project owner is very strict with these requirements.
about 6 months ago from web-
@adiwan And this new standard coming out next year? We'll need you to have three years experience in it by then.
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One sleep later I'm not less angry and baffled by Amazon's Like A Dragon series.
about 6 months ago from web-
@adiwan I get not wanting to tell the exact same story in the exact same way again, like what's the point of that, but if it's not AT ALL the original story then what's the point of THAT?!
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@scribus There are some clever alterations, and some character backgrounds got streamlined and more fleshed-out, which I can appreciate, as well a character that got only mentioned in the games and is somewhat integral to the story has more of a spotlight. For me it's a problem that given what we got in the live-action series is vastly different in the core of all. I can glance over some things like Kiryu emoting heavily and him not being an ordinrary money-collecting Yakuza. It makes me want to watch the adaption from 2007.
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wait so many of you still exist on here what. what
about 6 months ago from web-
@dezzierose What "what"? lol
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@scribus its been a decade my brain is having trouble processing it
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@dezzierose that's what i'm saying
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Lots of people on Twitter going CRAZY over the fact that somebody got phone camera footage of Rockstar North’s lobby from the window and wondering how he did that. You do realize that’s a video game company and not the Pentagon, right?
about 6 months ago from web-
Like it’s a public street. The biggest threat to your wellbeing for a heist of this magnitude is campus security rolling up and telling you to knock it off.
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@zeldatra It is as exciting as shooting a video of the entrance of a super market. What do they expect? Spoilers leaking from the offices that are behind secured doors to the lobby area by themselves? I got juicier stuff from the companies I worked for and that is already somewhat public knowledge.
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Tomorrow is the day of the live-action Like A Dragon series. Definitely gonna see it with subtitles and original Japanese audio track.
about 7 months ago from web-
@zeldatra Right! We, the fans, demand Pocket Circuit Racer! On the same note I'd like to see Kiryu giving pocket tissues to a poor soul on the public toilet, Kiryu trying to get a Bun-Chan plush from the crane game, him giving up on Mahjong, searching the city for lockers, and Kiryu getting lessons from Komaki.
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making a video about wokeness, feel like it’s an untapped market
about 7 months ago from web-
@zeldatra Plot twist: It's about problems getting proper sleep which in turn increases the likelihood in developing cognitive and perceptual problems resulting in poor judgments, hallucinations, feeling irritated by minor things to the extend of being actively hostile and feeling too tired to make changes to help against those problems.
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What happened? It's already Wednesday? Where did the time go? Where is my free time? Where is the time I wanted to spend on my hobbies?
about 7 months ago from web-
@scribus Where is the "slippery when wet"-equivalent sign? I need someone to sue for the time slipping.
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Did anybody get to see the recent aurorae?
about 7 months ago from web-
@awl Envy, lol. They were supposedly vivible from about an hour away from my house, but I didn't trust that I would be the only one making the drive, kinda expected a horde of headlights to drown it out :-/
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@scribus yeah you’re far enough down south people would lose their banana over it. I had seen them off the north shore last two years living in the car.
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@scribus AURORA BORABALIS?
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Mostly, though -- it's that battery capacity
about 7 months ago from web-
Scribus likes this.
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Well it doesn't have a keyboard, but it does have seven times the battery, cooling fans, and a projector that I otherwise would never have even considered to include but actually does seem kind of fun https://www.unihertz.com/products/tank-3-pro
about 7 months ago from web-
@scribus A mini projector seems kinda gimmicky. I can't see myself using it more than a hand full of times during the device's lifetime. The battery size might be big enough to not to be allowed on flights.
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@adiwan Ah... It's close to the allowable limit. Might still be a problem if other devices are on the flight as well.
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@adiwan Yeah, I was more thinking along the lines of, "It's not a 5G with a keyboard, but it is 5G from a company that does make keyboarded phones." And it's not like I need the projector but it might be a fun party trick, lol
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I'm glad this website's popularity peak wasn't during the AI art boom. That would have been hell to moderate
about 7 months ago from web-
@thelastgherkin Probably worse in any considerable metric than the pony generator of the olden times that was written in Flash https://www.deviantart.com/generalzoi/art/Pony-Creator-Full-Version-254295904
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@adiwan I hunted this program down in 2023 to come up with a character design for SF. SUE ME.
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@zeldatra A tool is a tool. A tool is as useful as it fulfills a purpose. I meant it was used by people who did not knew its limitations in the aesthetic department.
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colorful cartoon pony with a symbol on its flank annoying a system administrator by hanging up posters of ai generated ponies on a server rack (AI generated) https://i.imgur.com/u7EqESb.jpeg
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Oh my User the UPS application process is practically a lottery at this point ;_;
about 7 months ago from web-
@scribus I still have a background check in progress from Door Dash dating back to when I had nothing to do during Covid and tried to use my free time to earn extra cash with low effort gif work. To this day if I go to check the app they tell me my background check is still in progress.
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@scribus it hasn't completely escaped my thought process that the background check shows that i've never had any kind of legal judgment made against me, not even a speeding ticket, and somebody simply didn't believe that could be correct
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I bought a foot switch pedal. I intend to use it for the push-to-talk function for voice chat in Discord. I got myself a metal one for industrial applications for 11€. I'll connect an arduino Leonardo (Atmega 32u4) to the switch inside and it's practically done. I've already written the few lines of code, just a simple interrupt for the raising and falling edge of a pin that triggers a button press and release. I don't need any configuration of the key during runtime. There are foot switches for the PC available but they look cheap and I don't trust their software. Also I want it to use on my work pc so I can't say if the software will be blocked or trigger the dumb anti virus software.
about 7 months ago from web-
@scribus It's not in my use case as I need just the ON/OFF function of a button. I guess it'd be possible to use a program like Voicemeeter or Sonar to be controlled by an analogue input for a distortion effect. I don't know how to implement it (in concept I know but not in practice).
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Aw man... My Blackberry battery is so cooked that it crashes when the charge is at 30% upon getting a call.
about 7 months ago from web-
@adiwan I am seriously contemplating just accepting that the Unihertz line is a couple OS versions old, it's still newer than I've got ATM
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@scribus Yeah. It's pain. Agony. Suffering. At this point I'm giving up the keyboard dream as the battery pain is steadily increasing and no real alternative is in sight.
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I do not like the standard character sheet design of the 2024 edition (5.5e?) of Dungeons and Dragons. Maybe I'm way too used to the 5th edition but there is a kind of visual business that makes the new one unappealing. Unappealing in a way the transition from 4th edition to 5th didn't.
about 8 months ago from web-
@adiwan A lot of character sheets seem unpleasant IMO, I ended up reaching a point where I just use blank paper and an almost NPC-like simple stat block.
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@scribus I created my own character sheet when my group played in person. It was a modified 5e character sheet that squeezed more frequent stuff on the first page and the lesser updated and used ones on the other, like for example one page for equipment and money, one page for spells, one page for class features. The front page had the usual stuff like AC, HP, Temp HP, skills, ability scores, and a hand full of attacks. I did it because the box I used to store my character sheet and dice was smaller than a sheet of standard A4 paper. I repurposed a wooden slide box and put a felt lining in there so I could use one side as a dice tray. During my 4th edition days I was full custom as the character actions could be easily organized in card form, dailies, encounter, at-will. So it made sense to do the rest of the character in card form so it could fit easily into a deck box. Our DM also gave us our items in card form which was also convenient for tracking who has which item.
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Aaand Futurama got stupid again. The newest episode is a riff on children mystery adventure books. It was the most incoherent dumbass crap only Family Guy could produce.
about 8 months ago from web-
@scribus Yeah. They used children mystery novels as the theme of the episode. Nancy Drew, Hardy Boys, Tintin et Filou. My reaction might be harsh but it was quite disjointed and too illogical to follow. A lot of jokes are for those who know the book series but a lot more were just random for the sake of being random. I might be wrong but the way the episode was presented rubbed me the wrong way. On the positive: they did a great job adapting the art style of Tintin et Filou.
