[-] sp3tr4l 2 points 16 hours ago

Depending on your constitution for outdated nomenclature, both warehouses and whorehouses do involve workers moving boxes around in various ways.

[-] sp3tr4l 1 points 16 hours ago

That or they just die.

Ever walk to your corporate job downtown in the morning, and notice a blanketed lump in the alley outside your building?

Then when you're out for lunch, you walk by the same alleyway...

... and the lump is gone, replaced by two municipal workers with flamethrowers, sanitizing the liquid decay of the dead body?

Yeah, that caused me to have an existential crisis and radicalize, long ago when I was a bushy young corpo with a 'promising future.'

[-] sp3tr4l 14 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Dave Ramsey is possibly one of the best examples of a mediocre white man failing upward.

His entire origin story is literally failing multiple times at being a real estate investor until he finally got lucky and it worked out.

His life story illustrates basically perfectly that if you have enough money and luck, you can be pretty wealthy basically extremely easily.

I say easily because any fucking moron can spew self help bullshit.

Sure, the debt snowball is generally a good strategy, but the rest of his advice is basically slave away, sigma grindset (before that term came about), eat rice and beans for 5 years so that you can be well off after the best years of your life have gone by.

He is a walking talking manifestation of survivorship bias, and there have been many times he gets offended by the idea that everyone cannot be as lucky as him, which he incorrectly thinks is because they are lazy or stupid.

Anyway, Adam Smith should be but is not famous for basically deriding landlords as parasites.

They always leave that out of American Econ textbooks. I know because I have a BS in Econ and had to randomly stumble across this outside of my coursework.

It should go without saying that, as with any conservative, they know nothing about Marx beyond the Communist Manifesto (at best, usually its just 'Communism is when government gives money to the poors) which contains next to nothing of his thoughts on Economics compared to his other works.

It would take an actual Economist or something like that to explain to this insane number of ways that it gets easier and easier to make more money once you are already wealthy, the number of ways the average citizen pays in ways they do not immediately see to subsidize all kinds of businesses.

[-] sp3tr4l 3 points 17 hours ago

Trent Reznor was ahead of his time in many ways.

2025 for year zero, anyone?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-h13QYb7EA

[-] sp3tr4l 4 points 17 hours ago

The worst part is that those who do not understand this will tell you you are insane, catastrophizing, should just focus on your own life, and will get angry at you for really caring... while the ones who do understand, generally just get depressed.

Meanwhile, our political system implodes as we have passed the climate threshold. Rivers in Alaska are running orange as a result of permafrost thawing. That means we are releasing methane now, means its only going to get worse faster.

Thank god I have never wanted and do not have children.

[-] sp3tr4l 2 points 1 day ago

I too grew up in a humid environment and got used to using either a bread box or the fridge.

Then I realized that our bread was just cheap sugar infused garbage, and that if you pay a bit more for better bread, it does not mold anywhere nearly as quickly.

[-] sp3tr4l 18 points 1 day ago

I, for one, fully support any Mark V that wishes to transition to male, female or hermaphrodite, just the same as I support any adult human to do the same.

Sometimes you gotta make changes to fit your mission profile, and a person feeling comfortable in their own body is obviously mission critical.

[-] sp3tr4l 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I give it max 5 rounds before the front of the tripod dislodges from the window sill and either falls forward out the window or backward.

Assuming the window is not somehow fused into being one with gun.

Then I guess it would be around 5 rounds before also the window shatters?

Also the ladder would collide with the grips on the m2 for what seems like a lot of otherwise useable firing angles.

[-] sp3tr4l 3 points 1 day ago

I have no experience with the software involved in that, but I do know that generally, anything connected to a POS system probably should not be connected to a publicly accessible... anything.

Does this software even have APIs to do something like that?

Or could you just point a webcam at a screen or portion of a screen that the default software indicates open tab count on lol?

[-] sp3tr4l 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boogaloo_movement

Oh, you know, just in about half the widely publicized instances of right wing extremists committing hate crimes or domestic terrorism or what not since about 2019.

The incidents linked on this wiki page are far from exhaustive.

As wiki states, the term originated over a decade ago as basically a joke format, but was used with increasing regularity by right wing extremists in the lead up to and during the trump administration.

I guess you haven't watched much news in the last decade?

[-] sp3tr4l 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Every single GTA V or RDR2 centric discord I have ever been on is full of people who use the vernacular I described, to the point they will mock and then ban you for questioning it, as if theyve always been right.

Its possible I've just had extremely bad luck.

Its also possible that these people are primarily console players who just got computers to play only Rockstar games, I guess if you had 0 experience with PC gaming and 100% with consoles, it could explain only hearing the term modding as something illegal or cheating.

Or it could be along the lines that you've said: Younger generations just read official documentation and have near 0 knowledge of anything that came before?

[-] sp3tr4l 1 points 1 day ago

Thank you, this clears up nothing rofl.

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You could probably make a poptarts are sandwiches alignment style thing out of this.

Basically, any video game with an explicit goal, or set of goals is just a puzzle game with extra steps.

What buttons do you push, when do you push them, what does this accomplish, how does that lead you to your end goal, etc.

You could even argue that multiplayer tactics constitute a puzzle, a more social puzzle.

Yes, this is reductive, but this is a dumb showerthoughts post.

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In what he described as an "emergency broadcast" on Saturday, conspiracy theorist Alex Jones claimed that his far-right news company, Infowars', studios in Austin, Texas, might be shut down by federal authorities soon.

"This is going to be Infowars' last show, because I learned yesterday that they were going to padlock the door and kick us out last night," Jones said while on Infowars on Saturday.

On the same day, Friday, May 31, the news outlet published an article saying it might be shut down in 48 hours.

Newsweek contacted Infowars by email on Sunday morning for comment and any evidence of the alleged attempt to shut down the company's studios.

Jones said that he spotted "guards looking at me weird" at the entrance of the Infowars building and believed that his company was going to be shut down.

Basically, the entire studio has been repossessed, has guards around the perimeter.

You can currently find clips of him breaking down and crying on twitter, and the whole broadcast is viewable on rumble, but I don't have an x account nor am I going to post a rumble link.

He played out the end of the broadcast with, of course, 'My Way' by Sinatra.

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This is just a question.

In case you don't know, motion matching is the term for animating characters... basically in a way that smoothly blends minor and even major animations into each other, such that characters are animated much closer to life.

It is most notable in scenarios where a character rotates their axis of movement dramatically, or speeds up or stops suddenly. Instead of the more old school instant rotation or sudden transition from running to stationary, you get a dynamic and procedural animation. Perhaps most notably, feet and legs actually take steps, instead of gliding, during transitions.

It is not the same as inverse kinematics. That basically just matches feet and legs to the geometry they are standing on, for stairs or inclines. (You can use it with arms for things like adjusting arms during arm anims to better match individual weapons or other things, etc.)

Unity, Unreal and O3DE all have freely available motion matching plugins, and I know Unreal and O3DE have freely available prepackaged humanoid animation libraries. Unity probably does as well, though more expansive anim sets cost some money.

So... question is: Is motion matching even possible in Godot? Is there some plugin hidden in GitHub or somewhere that does this?

From what I've been able to figure out... the YMAA project... apparently? claimed to be working on this, but their repo has not been updated in months, their current release does not even have half the features they show off on their youtube channel, and they appear to now be making a machinima or something so who knows.

That is all I have really been able to find. A few other github devs and youtube channels have extremely rudimentary procedural animation in demos, but either they have not listed their code anywhere or its been abandoned for months or years, sometimes since before Godot 4.

So yeah, anyone know if there is a Godot Motion Matching plugin?

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