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@jplebreton@mastodon.social to be clear, even if it was able to read 94% of characters as they claim, that means it's getting more than half of all license plates wrong.
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GIMP spent a decade sucking the oxygen out of open source image editing because open source advocates would say "just contribute to the porn sextime fetish sadomaso image editor" and people would say "uhhhh. I'll just keep using Photoshop, or maybe donate my coding to, uh... a mouse driver or something..."
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@Blender@mastodon.social Didn't reword the whitewashing paean to the corporation on your website, though. You'd whitewash anyone.
Pathetic.
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And what do you put on your resume. "Put in 5000 hours developing GIMP!" "Proficient in GIMP!"
And the companies - donate to RedHat? Sure. Donate to Fedora? Sure. Donate to GIMP?
Why do so many people refuse to see this obvious, obvious issue. It's not theoretical, it's why GIMP died.
Rant grumble rant grumble.
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It appears this really was the hot take of the day. Stick around for long threads on boring shit.
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@CatsOfYore@mastodon.social @Bobbins@bobbinsrobots.com i like how tightly packed they are, like we used to be penguins.
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@eniko Well, they're owned by the guys that own the social media platforms, so obviously the platforms are sacrosanct.
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@britown@mastodon.gamedev.place I think the easiest way for towns to profit from AI is to surprise-inspect their facilities and charge them through the roof for their illegal activities.
Took my first high-speed spill on my electric bike. High speed by my standards, not by eBike standards, I know these things can go like 40 mph if you jailbreak them.
Dragged myself home battered and bruised. It is super nice to have a bike with a motor for that. Last time I did this, I had to actually pedal home with a busted rib, that sucked.
I don't think I busted anything this time, but you know, the body can take a few hours to compile its after-action reports.
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@grickle "I've assembled the adventuring team! I don't know why I have two dowels left over-"
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@Thad i think a better name would have brought more faces and a more lively current to the project. Stagnation breeds mosquitos.
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@kimhu@mastodon.social Don't worry, you can be that famous here!
... By which I mean the five likes. That's fame here.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@Blender/116500344542861927
Well, it's nice they can flinch, at least.
Blender's policy of "pay us and we'll whitewash you" is now cemented, but but at least they aren't CURRENTLY considering doing AI stuff, according to one suit who may or may not be lying or misinformed. Or, the AI that he told to write the letter is unable to be informed or tell the truth, as it is an AI.
We will see.
There's this interesting line in art, where if you suck in the right way I'm super happy to see it, but if you show a little too much competence the part of my brain that cares about implementation turns on and goes "nah, below par here here and here- and here too blunt, here too weak-"
Sometimes I find an artist that falls on both sides of that line depending on the project, which really reveals how much of it is just my taste.
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@waltertross sure, but the english as a first language world drove a lot of open source contributions and art program usage, and that's my point.
It stagnates because a big chunk of their userbase and potential contributors didn't want to see the name, even if others didn't care.
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@waltertross i think it's probably too late for that project, but I am no arbiter of open source wisdom.
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@intrepidhero i think the existence of GIMP chilled the image editing open source environment enough that alternate projects struggled too.
By the time people gave up on it, open source was far behind and the market was consolidated.
imo.
Where did this suddenly-popular game genre term "extraction" come from? What kind of gameplay does it mean, exactly?
I presume it's a kind of gameplay I hate, or I would have seen it coming from games I've been following.
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What kind of secret magic did I stumble onto and just assume would be trivial to do again? I can't find a single way to get the depth of a transparent object in a #Godot shader now, and it's only been a week.
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@glassbottommeg@mastodon.gamedev.place See, pivoting to game dev is pretty much the only immediate software task that isn't fascist scams.
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@jplebreton@mastodon.social it's ridiculous how nearly everything frames exploitation as the fault of the victim. And when they can't blame the victim due to age, they still refuse to stop the exploitation, they just put up another form of exploitation in a ring around it.
I post long threads! Sorry. Here's my advice:
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@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place I really enjoy the difference between the crunchy and CRT versions, it really reminds me how much modern pixel art is intended to be viewed crunchy and is a love letter to emulation rather than the OG pixel experience.
Nothing wrong with that, it's just interesting how it's nostalgia of nostalgia.
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Aight, officially muting the thread. Have fun, ya nerds!
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@luxliquida i only do sketch/paint art, not photo editing. I have suggestions for those, but I've never chased photo editors, sorry.
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@ajroach42 I can't advise, I'm 10 years out of date. Definitely look up footage of whatever cons you think would be similar.
And definitely bring food bars and a first aid kit, that part wasn't a joke.
Walking down a big street, the crosswalks are blocked by construction, there's a brief break in traffic-
And literally everyone jaywalks. Both sides, for hundreds of yards, everyone walking down the street glances over their shoulder and crosses at the exact same moment. Syncronized jaywalking.
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So here's a simple writing tip for solo devs making indie games:
If you plan to have a joke in your scene, and you're worried it might go on too long: just make it an option for the player to chase it.
If the player volunteers to push the joke, they'll live with the time it takes to tell it. If they don't, move on with a light touch.
Just be clear it's not a meaningful choice. Wouldn't want them to think points are attached.
Ahah. I see the updated Godot did not preserve my settings and is back to "enter means PLEASE AUTOCOMPLETE ALL THE TIME FOREVER ALWAYS PLEAAAAASSEEE!!!!!!!!! I HATE CORRECT LINES OF CODE PLEASE CHANGE THE LAST VARIABLE TO SOME RANDOM 90-CHARACTER STRING OF GIBBERISH!!!!!!!!!"
Still a fuckin' trash default, but if you're not aware, the setting is in a subtab off of editor settings.
The only reason I monitor BlueSky is to see indie games. None of those devs ever show up here, even the ones that are theoretically active here only post game dev on BlueSky.
But it does mean a huge number of the posts I see on BlueSky are people doing gamedev things that make my teeth hurt.
Like "noooo, you REALLY don't want to do it that way - I know you've spent 500 hours implementing that, but you need to throw it away-"
Well, I'm sure a lot of you have heard this basic-ass medical advice before: if you're getting old, get a doctor to shove a camera up your butt.
I don't think people are properly informed about how useful just one middle-aged colonoscopy is.
Not only will it tell you whether you have cancer and the state of your insides, butt they will also casually remove precancers and tell you how often you should get your butt maintained.
It's super easy for you, the patient. Two thumbs up for butt cams.
Whoa, House Flipper's free?
You should definitely play around with it. It's a genre progenitor despite not being that old or popular.
I think one of the epitomes of "Dark Souls Thinking" is Kenshi. It has a reputation for being super hard, but it's a grind with only a few failstates, like more or less any RPG.
The concept of "it's super hard unless you grind" is a strange one, because the second half is left quietly unstated.
"This game is so hard!" crows a player. "I'm going to, uh, 'get gud'-"
(Game gives him levels for playing)
"Look, I'm so gud now!"
Sure, bud. Welcome to the most basic-ass RPG mechanic.
I saw a post about post-scarcity in Star Trek and what it means in terms of just giving stuff away, and it's a very fun thing to talk about.
A lot of society is already set up to give things away. For example, plumbing and roads. It's conceptually pretty trivial to expand that to more or less any staple.
What's really interesting to me is giving away art.
I think what differentiates fictional utopias is how they handle this question.
My boss sent an email with a list 1 2 3 4 5
I replied with a few suggested edits 1 2 3 4 5
When I look at my reply in Gmail, it reads 1 * * * *
...?
When I hit reply to edit it, it shows 1 2 3 4 5
Look at the reply 1 * * * *
... ??????
The fact that so many base-builders have a high-level meta of "DON'T GET RICH!!!!! STAY POOR!" is both annoying and hilarious.
It does mean that a lot of settlements are annihilated because they got a breeding pair of goats or chickens, though, because "rich" and "poor" are not determined by any kind of actual excess of wealth, but by the amount of military murder warkillfighter readiness you have.
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@ajroach42 Oh! I would ask them what they expect to see, then.
But this is diiiiceeeeeey. First year cons run by a new team are always a mess, even if they are affiliated with an established group.
Bring water, food bars, and a first aid kit, hah.
I love indie games. I love not knowing if I've glitched out the game or if it's intentional or what.
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@ajroach42 I did some anime art stuff quite a while ago, the rules are probably different now - but first thing I'd do is look up pictures and video of that exact con and showroom from the last few years.
That will tell you what THAT CON expects and how their foot traffic works.