Nunca digo mentiras pero escribo mucha ficción #PuertoRico Born and living in the oldest colony #GameDev Old enterprise programmer trying to make small games #FlashFiction Dreams are my favorite literary device I lean left, but as the product of Reagan era colonialism, lack appropriate education in the matter. Money makes us inhuman. I believe only in hugs. Both science & empathy are important. I'm just a dude and I will get distracted by boobs. #mdMT
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Last Notes npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 @nprofile…gnen that sounds like me at a couple of places I have worked at! npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 @nprofile…p560 The thing is that "AI" is not culture, as it does not have intention. At best "AI" can only be the macnuggets of culture, blenderizing everything, adding some coloring and presenting it as something edible but unheallthy. npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 tl;dr conclusion after thinking about women vigilantes, and those exploitation/revenge films from the 70s: there are not enough women serial killers npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 @nprofile…lht5 Thanks for the answer! npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 I finished the latest season of the animated Vox Machina show and now I am playing the opening theme on repeat. npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 @nprofile…vkr8 Thanks. It's almost par for the course at this point. Tooting it makes it not fester in my mind, or fester less at least. npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 So power came back, but the water was cut. #ExtremeColonialismLiving #HardMode npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 @nprofile…w9rc Slop dial? Misslop? npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 @nprofile…4p46 Yes, that's how I have solved thi in the past. I was just hoping there was something similar to the 2d nodes z-index property npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 @nprofile…vmag Yes, avoiding co-planar positioning was my go-to to solve this issue. But I was wondering if anyone had an in-engine way to avoid it. Sort of how you can do it for 2D nodes with z-index npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 These MeshInstance3D are all the same size and at the same level... Understandably, there's an amount of flickering going on when they overlap. Question for the Godot folks, is there way to tell the Engine how to prioritize the drawing of meshes in order to eliminate this flickering? Short of making every mesh slightly different, or changing the position by a tiny amount, what's the best way to handle this? #GodotEngine #SeriousQuestion https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/116/826/416/425/361/902/original/9e25d1f9e957b08f.mp4 npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 @nprofile…nzr6 The personal note. Before this update you could just type. And it would edit/save automatically. Now you have to click once to bring a dialog to edit a note. Or worse, to ADD a note... it... I don't even know where it is... hopefully it's not more than 3 clicks away from something. npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 Oh, is MicroSlop not confident in the future of gaming or are they so "AI"-pilled they don't care? Or are just giving up? npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 @nprofile…e245 Tell you what, I have never ever not once for even one second considered in my life ever moving to Finland. Until I read your post. npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 @nprofile…lht5 have you read the short story based on the movie? npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 Pick a movie that has no sequel, but should. It cannot be a franchise (Marvel, Star Wars, Star Trek, etc). What is the movie? What is the sequel? And what is the sequel about? npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 I really like when people put all the hashtags at the end of the post. Because, at least on the default Mastodon website, the hashtags will be neatly tucked away where they don't steal my mental focus. npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 Dark Souls but mashed up with A Bug's Life I'm surprised there isnt a famous* "bug themed" soulslike out there already given how stuff like Hollow Knight exists and thrives. Imagine Hollow Knight 64 and it is a soulslike thorough and through. ___ *that I can remember right now! npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 Wow, Tifa in Street Fighter 6... Seems like Capcom is doing everything right this time around. Oh what! All the fighters are new!?? That's amazing. That is so amazing. I am happy for SF6 future. #StreetFighter npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 sigh guess it is needed again today... Periodic reminder that granting statehood to Puerto Rico is NOT the progressive policy that you have been led to believe it is. #PuertoRico npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 This might be a weird opinion on my part. But I have grown a huge distaste for series/movies that weaponize popculture songs to induce nostalgia or other deep held feelings associated songs. Specially when the company that is bankrolling the whole thing owns the rights for the music already. This is one of the reasons I just couldn't into Guardians of the Galaxy (both the movie and the game!). How easy it was for Marvel to engineer positive feelings towards obscure superheroes with a soundtrack npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 Since Anthropic has not given a couple million dollars to sell out. Yet. Here's a genius idea for them. Or for your startup. "AI"... Enabled... Elevators! No more dirty button pressing. No more waiting for doors to open and close. "AI" automagically understands when and where to go up or down without ANY care for human input. oh wait that person fell and their arm is trapped by the elevator doors elvator going up anyways oops! OK another idea "AI" Enabled... Arm prosthesis! npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 Dark Souls 2 worst mechanic is the weapon degradation. I feel like it is bad mechanic in every game (yes, even that one that you like) that I can remember that has it. But especially so in DS2, it discourages weapon mastery, weapon optimization, stat optimization, clearing sections, and clearing several sections at once... I do not understand what problem this mechanic is trying to solve. I wonder what they were thinking. npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 The Missus played a documentary about Kylie Minogue. I asked, "Wait, is she famous!?" The Missus proceeds to demonstrate her deep reservoir of popculture knowledge for well over 10 minutes. And I said, "I knew she was a singer, but I think I only know her from the bad Street Fighter movie." npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 This has become one my favorite YouTube channels. I already knew some stuff about movies he mentions here, but still the bits about Spirited Away gave me a kick in the feels. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKDxdciwufA PS: Also, he almost never shows his face on his channel and that only makes me like the videos more. npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 I sync my Godot projects across several machines*. It's fairly fast for my small projects. And!... With the Godot Engine executable being so small I should just sync the exe too. I should have thought this sooner. 🙃 npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 I have been watching Street Fighter 6 tournaments but somehow they are not as fun for me as Street Fighter IV tournaments used to be. I wonder if the amount of ads that I have to dodge now has something to do with this lower enjoyment level. On the other hand, I cant deny it's amazing watching tournaments in real time at 4K60fps; and something I could never imagine 25 years ago. #StreetFighter npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 Something tells me I play FromSoft games the "wrong" way. I have a lot of fun playing them nonetheless. And that why the thing that kills me the most is falling from ledges 🤷♂️ npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 noai.duckduckgo.com is not perfect by any stretch, but perhaps the best option without having to take out your wallet. npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 Stolen to add alt text. (if anyone knows the source, I am keen to know it, do tell) https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/116/609/170/795/108/347/original/512f3450188afd68.png npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 @nprofile…swwf El Mariachi or Desperado? npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 @nprofile…wfxk Self-hosting is a great idea, no doubt... But the problems that arise from self- hosting are too numerous for me to even care about trying to list them all, not to mention try to mitigate even the security-concerning ones. npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 The last dozen times I have asked I did not save the reccomendations, so I am once again asking for instance reccomendations that have a larger character limit so I can make one large CWed post instead of spamming several. Also, if the instance has basic text formatting that would be great. Also also, that using Spanish occasionally is not frowned upon, or the occasional CWed politics post, or the rarer horni-posting. Or f-bombs. Or... Dammit, I'm gonna end up hosting my own instance, right? https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/116/601/259/927/842/901/original/84d010b5e5fed795.jpg npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 @nprofile…x8tq Justin Hammer? https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/116/597/932/343/765/407/original/6d407288e907a5f5.jpg npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 @nprofile…7xqy if you make youtube give me a thousand dollars every time it re-enables video previews against my will you will have my votes for forever npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 Dark Souls but ... it's a combination of monster rancher, stardew valley, and satisfactory. You don't play as the Chosen One, rather you have to sweep the environments of detritus then recicle the materials to make the destructible crates, the moss bulbs, the arrows and throwing daggers. Then you can go into mob husbandry and rearing. The more items/mobs you create the more Chosen Ones you can support (or kill) at the same time. You get the souls when the Chosen One fails retrieval. npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 What is your favorite hair conditioner that you can get at Walgreens, bonus points if it smells extra nice? ____ Please note: Reply guy, please just dont. I will block you. This is a very simple and specific question that has only one type of answer. Im not interested if you hate walgreens, or chemicals, or if you are bald, none of those are relevant answers, what is wrong with you, man!? Don't have an answer, then boost, try empathy today, how about that! npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 Seriously, this motherfuckin Monday needs to end... Yes, I know which day it is, fuck this Monday! npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 @nprofile…78k5 should I be offended by this? lulz npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 @nprofile…acvs So my toots are not good you are just confusing me with someone else!? Heartbreak! 🤭 npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 Backups are done-ish npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 On my Series X, I have Sniper Elite 2. I liked the most recent ones ones a lot, so I thought I would try this one again since I played it very little. Bruh, even on medium difficulty it's pretty difficult for me now. But there is one thing I dont like, Im guessing limitations of time mean some enemies spawn after or just as you reach a section. That means if Im not mistaken that you can't sneaky snipe levels completely or almost completely like in recent entries. npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 @nprofile…qe94 🫥 npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 Who do I have to talk to to make a big media show about proposing marriage to my new "AI" girlfriend in exchange for a few million dollars. I'm totally willing to sell out at this point. I mean it's not like mas claass consciousness is developing and the rich are at risk of dissapearing are they? I still don't see guillotines everywhere... npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 @nprofile…gzdz I wouldn't know. I don't think they even exist over here. npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 This is how you make me buy your candy bar in 2026 🤭 🤭 🤭 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73rkqkTY6dA npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 It took me this long to follow the #noai hashtag but I am glad I did https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/116/522/664/578/819/557/original/d2d61306a0301989.mp4 npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 BTW: I feel like there must be way more movies besides Battle Angel Alita and Elysium that make the class differences into a physical manifestation in the story. Where the poor and the rich are completely separated. But off the top of my head I cant remember any others. There's Snowpiercer, but they are all on the same train. The Platform(?) but it's like a some sort of hell. District B13? npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 Halo + Battle Angel/Elysium + ASOIAF + Wings of Honneamise Science fiction animated film about humans where humans live in concentric space rings. The outer dystopic ring where poor people die working, and the inner darkly utopic where elites live forever. Everyone in the outer ring wants to "make it" to the inner ring. Everyone, that is, except our hero, Hiro, who wants to escape the rings altogether and travel to the edge of the solar system and beyond... npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 Reading comprehension is pretty hard. I think this is why "AI" convincingly fools so many humans. They don't actually read what is written, but what they think is written. I feel like, the less languages a person knows, the more susceptible they are to succumb to "AI" psychosis. Maybe a study will investigate this in the future. npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 @nprofile…grp6 IDK... I might be wrong... I'm not as connected as I was (the reason behind my question)... but I have seen nothing so far that tells me this is real npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 @nprofile…grp6 oh, is that really coming out? I... I'm sorry if I was mistaken... but I thought it was vaporware. npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 Besides GTA6 or a game you are making yourself, can you tell me which videogame coming out in 2026 has you hyped or excited? _____ PS: Please this is not a discussion on why you hate GTA, or Rockstar, or why you hate videogames, or why you aren't excited about anything... I just want to know what, if anything, are you looking forwards to, in videogames. npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 @nprofile…ljc0 Im not surprised it's bad. 85% of whatever Netflix touches tends to turn into trash. npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 Oh my Luigis... There's a Netflix Death Note movie? With William Dafoe!?!?!??!?!?!?? Double WTF!!! npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 Extremely hot and incredibly uncomfortable... npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 NEGL If Anthropic wanted to give me many millions of dollars I would probably haappily wear a Claude tshirt. I would know that I am unequivocally an asshole. But an asshole that can afford a proper house/apartment, and I wouldn't be willing to reject the money because being a sellout would bother me less than having my own fucking bathroom and have my home office be just a few steps away on its own room with its own door and its own lock that only have the key for. I'd sellout for sure. 😕 npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 "I am giving up on Windows", seems like a recurrent sentence I just utter aloud now. Linux isn't perfect but Windows continues to be so bad. So so bad. npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 Excuse me are you Medusa? Cuz your ass is making me hard, babe! That bra is stronger than Atlas. No Morpheus could make a dream such a you. Thanatos erases me whenever you walk away. If only Ares and Kratos knew who you are, humanity would be at peace with no war! npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 People over process. Workers over billionaires. Empathy over cynicism. Can you give me any other ones like this? Not "clever" or "edgy", but kind. npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 @nprofile…4eh0 https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/116/494/921/551/603/806/original/971d08284ba44c8a.mp4 npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 I have pretty much weaned off political comedy. I appreciate what John Oliver is trying to do. And I like Josh Johnson's often edifying comments at the end of his comedy videos. But I think political comedy, specially when it's being wielded by millionaires, or wanna be millionaires is a political dead end. I am not saying making jokes is bad. Or that people can't laugh. And satire, the real kind, is sorely needed. But these comedy "news" shows ain't it for me. npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 @nprofile…e245 Torches always go on the left. So when I want out I make sure the torches are on the right. npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 @nprofile…e245 oh, can I tell you what I do? (Though it might not work for you depending on how you delve I guess) npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 I think I just swallowed a lemon seed. Now I'm gonna be lemony the rest of my life! npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 @nprofile…lc73 I think dick measuring is a real problem in Western culture. And something that is fostered by individualism/capitalism/zerosumming. "I have to be stronger, or my team needs to be stronger. Or I have to know more. Or remember more. Or work more. My numbers need to be the best numbers." And that reflects, I think, in how men communicate. In how *I* miscommunicate. Does imperialism/etc factor into it? I wouldnt doubt it. But I don't really know. npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 You, yes you, very very probably do not need this link. But maybe it would be good that you keep it in mind. Just in case someone near you needs it. Just in case. https://leavingmaga.org/ npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 I just don't understand why fellow men rush to explain things that no one has asked them to explain. It literally boggles my brain. PS: Please note that I am not directly or indirectly asking for an explanation. Thank you! npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 I really hope the Godot devs are aware how people are receiving the news that Blender is accepting "AI" corpo money. npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 Semi serious question, looking for hopeful thoughts amongst the everything: What does post-capitalism look like to you? npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 Also the "placement" of the reference shape in relationship to the target shape affects where the skew takes place. Sorta like these bad drawings but inagine them in 3D. 4/? https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/116/471/783/071/387/726/original/595dae84857c9039.jpg https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/116/471/783/929/929/337/original/ee82c5ffd9658d4b.jpg npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 And you will say, "afreytes but a cube primitive does not have enough vertices to make the aproximation" Yes thats why I want to have a target mesh that would be used as a basis for mapping vertices onto the cube (but it can be any mesh not necessarily cubes) so that then the deformation can take place. I think this exists (right?) but I dont know what this process is called beyond skew/morph npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 Imagine this cube primitive again. Normal. I want to only deform the top of the cube. Like before but only the top. Could I have a sort of "target" mesh that the cube will aproach to look like after a certain process has been performed. This is not mesh blending. But more like mesh skewing another mesh. To make a specific example imagine you have assets for a room. Then you can deform those mesh assets to look like ghostly deformed versions of themselves? npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 I'm gonna describe something badly, but I would like to know if such a technique exists and what its name is, also if the undetliying math has a name for concepts or associated processes. Basically the keywords I need to know to search for this process/technique. Imagine a cube primitive. I want to deform the cube such that it look like the sides are bulging. Or "suck in" the sides so the cube looks deflated somewhat. Wait! Read next toot! 1/? npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 @nprofile…ua5u donde encuentro eso? npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 I almost gave up again on Dark Souls because of that one root/fire boss. I literally lucked into defeating it after running back many many more times than I care to admit. npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 The best thing I got from Street Fighter V was to learn to never ever preorder any videogame ever. The second best thing I got from Street Fighter V is to never ever ever get hype for a fighting game until after it has been released and in the hands of a majority of players. That being said... Everytime I see something about InvincibleVS it makes my hopium rise up. npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 @nprofile…r9em I don't know about benefits of... But I imagine a person saying "I dont use AI" in the same way as a person saying they wouldnt touch fast food, or use public transportation... A measure of (imagined) self worth. As sort of class differentiator. Im not saying this is the only way that that sentence can be interpreted. But that it might become one of the ways it may be interpreted in the future. A maybe. npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 Not sure about this, and I can't be more specific about the reasons why I'm thinking this. But I wonder if, in the near future, it will be a sign of privilege to say: I don't use "AI" Or are we there already? Also, I wonder if a white person using "AI" will be viewed as entrepenurial, but a person of color using "AI" will automatically be branded as lazy. Again, I might be overthinking any/all of these scenarios. It just... "AI" might be harmful in ways I don't fully grok yet. npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 This. #NoWarButClassWar https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/116/456/023/509/142/127/original/56fadd1c5fb92ea0.jpg npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 I think I might have said this before, but the Diablo IV story trailers are spectacular to me. Naysayers might say it's average CGI fantasy imagery but they are wrong. I can't explain it well but they are so... "crunchy", "weighty"... The moving versions of those fantasy paintings we love so much but with a certain je ne sais quoi that make the images look plausible and realistic. Kudos to the teams that make them. Amazing job. npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 I've never had to use the word lackadaisical in a sentence, or aloud Yet there it is, occupying some amount of neuronal space in my brain. I must haave read the word somewhere, in Catcher In The Rye maybe. And it just got stuck in the innards of my brain I don't know it's actual meaning beyond some mythos I assign to it, which are probably wrong. This isn't a problem. You don't need to tell me waht it means. There is no issue. I just wonder how many thibgs I have forgotten instead of it npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 In the span of hours, I have read no less than five toots with negative sentiment towards email. Please note, I am not saying this sentiment is not valid. But my naturally conspiratorial mind is like, "uh is there something specially wrong about email today?" LOL Cause, it wouldn't surprise me to see "news" about email being "the worst thing since communism" and then the same "news" saying that email is better now if you only add "AI". npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 Sleep should be a switch. npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 I have never seen the Ghost In The Shell hollywood adaptation... Is it bad? I think I would like to see it for the cyberpunk-scifi vibes... npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 What is the actual benefit of having age verification at the OS level? I feel like there must be some economic reason why Meta/Zuck/USia/UKia/colonialism/fascism/capitalism wants this to be so. The reason need not be real, or ethical, or even logical, but there must be some perceived economic gain for this to have become an overwhelming drive lately. Any thoughts beyond the rehashed "news" floating around everywhere? npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 @nprofile…v9vp doubting myself, you mean? Sadly, that's my baseline! 😭 😭 😭 npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 I'm not saying I am infalible*. What I am saying is that if something makes you doubt, It's better to get some distance between you and the thing. _____ *but I am also not not saying that! 🤭😇 npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 There's a fairly popular sciency channel on YouTube that I stopped watching a while ago. I stopped cuz the vibes were off. And then one day one of the videos was almost maybe probably somewhat adyacent to MIL propaganda. And now I have just watched a video explaining about private equity buying up popular YouTube channels. And lo and behold other channels I stopped watching were also bought. Sometimes I can't quite put my finger on why I dislike something. But I'm almost never wrong to doubt. npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 There's an animated short where a man is the sole survivor of a localized but deadly event. Everyone within miles and miles is dead or gone. He then tries to reach his home but is confronted by increasingly bigger and more hostile military forces. Does this ring a bell for anyone? npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 Not so serious question: In your* opinion, what would you consider is the musical equivalent of pastel colors? #AskFedi _____ *Your opinion here means that I am NOT interested in what "AI" says or a link from any search engine. I want to read your own thoughts. Also, if for any reason you don't understand the question, or if you do not have an answer, then considet boosting this post instead of leaving a snarky comment or trying to argue why you don't understand the question. npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 Perhaps you are tired of me trying to push you to watch a semi obscure cancelled streaming series that is only available on Prime that cannot by now possibly live up to the hype I throw at it... But I gotta tell ya, I also love the opening song on the first season... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_cZyavt06U npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 I have only seen the Stargate original movie. Is the Stargate series just copaganda or copaganda adyacent? Before you knee-jerk answer it isnt because it is your favorite show or because it doesn't have cops think about it a little... Does it feature a USian armed force and make them look good and/or sympathetic and/or well behaved and/or smarter than everyone else and/or being inordinate heroes and/or being the best at using technology to eliminate threats and/or infallible and/or telling oth npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 @nprofile…vx4e 👀 npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 Semi serious question, (please do not ask "AI") I can do web searches just fine so please answer from your own experience: In English, you have "four letter words", these words have four letters but are perhaps not to be used in polite communication. Are there any other "group of words constrained by arbitrary rules" in other languages? Mind you, it doesn't have to be an offensive group of words, but more like a grouping outside the traditional language syntax. #AskFedi npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 @nprofile…gzdz oh, surfacing the tutorial according to last time played sounds great, sure hope Sony doesn't patent that npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 I hadnt used my Series X since I unsubscribed from GamePass... I hooked it up to a big TV today and I had forgotten how gorgeous games look. Anyway I launched Dark Souls... A game I have never finished. I do not remember anything. Feels like I forgot how to even walk. (cue to a post I made rencently about games needing a re-introduction to basic controls mini tutorials) npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 For the fifth(?) time, I am not making my own fedi client, but if I were... I would put in a special feed that is only images and videos, a media feed, but only the embedded media and not whatever is linked to from outside "news". I think this fedi media only feed, obviously depending on the people you follow, would be a really nice, even calming, feed. npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 @nprofile…j6ty I wait, I haven't finished it, but the Chinese adaptation of Three Body I feel is much much better than the Netflix one but may be culturally a bit jarring. It is way longer also (why I haven't finished it I guess). npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 @nprofile…0r39 IANAE pls do not use this to answer exams. As I understand it, the term Big Bang is largely incorrect in the imagery it evoques... There's no explosion into bits. There's no balloon getting large and spilling its helium. It's more like everything was balloon and then VERY RAPIDLY expanded at the SAME time EVERYWHERE and now the expanded balloon has all these properties which we call spacetime, energy, and matter. Take this with a grain of salt, I could be very wrong.