Been on Linux for gaming for almost a year now and completely windows free since November last year. It’s glorious.

I use Arch, btw.

Thanks for the recommendation! I’ll check it out.

Disco Elysium for me! Didn’t understand it and thought it was weird. On the third try, it was amazing. I finally understood what it was trying to do. It was an art piece and I don’t think I’ll ever have that same journey again for a long while.

The cost keeps increasing. That’s hilarious.

But of course he was building a bunker. There’s literally no surprises there. It’ll be the new den of rape for sure.

And it’s so bloody frustrating!!! Not only have the Americans got us by the jugular, the Zionists have as well.

I think this question pits parents and others against each other, when it shouldn’t. Parental leave is necessary to raise a child. But at the same time, workers in general need leave for mental health among other things.

I also think this is more of a problem for places like America where leave is really, really unfairly distributed and there’s basically no worker protections. There should be plenty of medical and annual leave, as well as government support in case medical leave isn’t enough to get better.

I’m painting an iron maiden for my misbehaving dice. Had to share it with my TTRPG group.

I hope this is the tip of the iceberg for what’s to come.

Seize your country back!!

The first step is always the hardest after decades of oppression and misinformation!

Yes, because usually the people using generative AI for rapid concepts like these are the higher ups with no art experience, just a vision. Then they send it to a concept artist to ‘make it work’ without understanding processes or complexity or feasibility of what they’re asking.

AI had essentially become a tool for people with no high level skill to simulate high level skill, but without any of the understanding that comes from years of real world practice. Often it costs more money because the concept artist now has no control of the workflow and has to sink more time into trying to make a shit concept work properly with the medium.

Case in point: the upcoming Zelda movie’s concepts were all done by generative AI and there’s only one concept artist (usually at least 100) trying to make the shit concepts work for film.

They can’t do anything with landlines though, so i suppose that’s what it’ll eventually happen after age checks for everything.

I was actually talking to teachers at my old high school today about this. I didn’t realise this was how bad it got. The system is being held together with toothpicks.

Why are private schools getting anything if this is the case? Like, I’m literally working on projects for both private and public schools and the differences are astounding. $5mil for an entire school in Altona vs $30mil for a new performing arts precinct?

We need reform. Now. Education should be accessible to all, regardless of background.

Well, unless he’s going around saying that he inherited all this money but wants people to think he earned it, your friend is in the clear.

But, again, why? All this is applied post production, so there’s no control from the artist’s perspective on what the player sees on their end. I’d much rather a static pipeline where I’m in control of the look and feel, while also providing the player with options for accessibility like gamma adjustment.

But if a tool enhances a texture in a specific way, for instance sharpening lines along a garment, or adding shadows to an object under a lamp, how is that different than existing texture mapping algs?

We already have all that. This ‘feature’ literally adds nothing of value to our pipeline because it is all applied after the product is shipped and on the player’s computer.

Further, because it’s a filter, it obfuscates what’s actually happening underneath. Why learn to predict what the filter will do when you can just not work with it and create scenes exactly how you want it?

This whole thing is providing a solution to a problem that doesn’t exist simply to recoup their investments. It’s a complete waste of energy, materials, processing power etc. Absolutely unnecessary.

But… Why though? As a dev, why would I go through the ideation process only to have it filtered through TWO GPUs? For what benefit? This type of filtering is completely out of my control as a developer, and I wouldn’t want my game to be attached to third party parasite companies and basically split my player base into two classes.

That photo has a really nice composition

Very interesting. I’ve never really noticed the difference.

And this is why indie games will probably have a second golden age.

Talk to your PC is just going to be Denholm Reynholm from IT Crowd.

Exactly, right? I remember streaming on discord was a pain because of all the lag and TeamSpeak + pigdin + Overwolf was so much better.

Now i use Legcord instead until my friends switch, which I hope is soon.

Some of my friends have registered on Flux but still use discord. It’s sort of just there until discord makes it unbearable for them to use but discord will never do that. They’ll just slowly tighten the noose until you get comfortable.

They pay for nitro, which to me is bonkers.