You know, I’m somewhat of a coding enthusiast myself.

Difficult to think of projects that I want to do that are also viable for me now. I settled on Minesweeper (/a dragonsweeper-like) though I lost momentum as I got a bit hung up on how to implement it in a way that’d allow dynamic map sizes. I suppose I should just make it as simple as I can and then differentiate it later.

Mostly been ignoring it though, instead making efforts to organize my room. Any personal growth is good, right?

I would also like an excuse to make some polygonal art (2D or 3D) but I don’t have many ideas there either, and many ideas of which would probably be an insignificant amount of actual coding compared to animation.

I guess I would boil it down to: I’m not using Linux on a touchscreen and am unlikely to any time soon. I’m not even sure if/when I’ll ever go beyond 1080p (and a small screen at that) because cost.

I don’t want a dock or full-screen apps menu. I don’t want to fix those (or missing features) using extensions. I do want to customize things*, but otherwise I don’t need my desktop to look new or exciting.

* I even made my own hyper-minimal XFWM window theme (which is honestly unneeded for maximized applications due to my XFCE settings anyway, but it does allow me to have a rolled-up music player always visible like an old-internet music widget).

just introduce new users to GNOME, that’s perfectly intuitive and even looks great!

Gnome 2 sure, modern not so much. I mean when useful features are cut from the GUI it just means it’s harder to actually do things. Like removing “open in terminal” made non-GUI stuff more difficult (esp. w/complicated directory).

I’d say XFCE or Cinnamon or anything else like those are better.

I don’t trust crowd-funding, particularly considering the publisher here. At the very least, they have 4 games on steam with mixed reviews.

Most people might not care, but also there was the Roots of Pacha dispute… plus the publisher doing unpaid promotion (using many accounts, and I suspect this isn’t great for devs). That and crowd-funding being a cornerstone of their business model (on top of community QA) on its own doesn’t seem right to me.

i think the significance of the ‘lemmy.world’ is the origin of the post… in this case [email protected] posted it to sh.itjust.works

Close, it’s where the image is hosted. The lemmy.world bit is a link to the image. Just like how any website link will say the domain of the destination.

I mean it probably is where a user is posting from, but sometimes it is not (not sure why but sometimes non-ml users will post images from ml)

If it’s everything (in a community/profile) maybe, particularly if they don’t have any contributions elsewhere. Or if it’s actually something heartfelt/personal I can see being more touchy about it, less so with bot-like aggregation or reposting old content etc.

Because otherwise, it’s not going to be obvious where the line is when you add in time and % of content. If you’re using a bot/script to detect voting, you’re likely going to ban users just for casual browsing (even if they could explain their votes). Especially as an instance ban purges a user’s account (to users of that instance) as if they’re on the same level as an SEO spammer. Does a voting disagreement mean the rest of their account is invalid?

I don’t know if it’s fedi incompatibility or just 0-transparency moderation, but dubvee might be doing this but it’s unclear as they seem to be just handing out silent bans (no ban reason stated).

just the ones they’ve interact with up to the time of the ban

I got banned from 10 communities on your instance (with no stated reason/expiration) and I’m pretty sure I haven’t interacted with most of those (EDIT: I’m remembering some now, though those were from months ago). So I’m not sure if I got marked by some bot or just said something some mod disagreed with.

This is not an appeal though as I don’t care beyond a casual mention.

EDIT: Actually it is an instance ban, with everything (no matter what instance/comm) purged.

Vector/polygonal, truly implemented for the technical benefits* and likely untextured**. Which will make it more niche than the early 3D stuff that did use vertex colors ( EDIT: such as Spyro (specifically skyboxes, LoD) and Crash Bandicoot (Crash’s animations are cool too)).

3D polygonal+vertex color actually isn’t that difficult to do. I’ve done some, the real issue (aside from making it good) is actually the animation/game around it. I haven’t done much and continue not doing much because personal stuff.

* less data while also rendering at native res without needing extra work (8K or even on a 50ft Billboard? Sure). MIDI (you can use higher-quality soundfonts) or other procedural stuff (sounds/sfxr, textures) are nice too.

** I’m not against not-too-many general-use textures, but I tried this (including a watercolor splatter texture I made) without mapping and wasn’t really happy with the results… plus normal maps won’t work with per-vertex¯ materials. So this probably takes a lot of effort/skill to work as-intended.

¯ not strictly necessary, but I don’t mind the idea aesthetically and a free optimization sounds nice even though low poly+vertex-color is already a low bar (unless per-vertex could help with webGL, mobile, VR, or really old devices etc?)

29 days ago:

What are the steps to reproduce an art style using computer programs and without artificial intelligence?

Emphasis mine.

Someone also commented

Still trying to figure out Hades?

which might be further context. So they might just be looking for inspiration.

Generally, I feel like it depends on how viable it seems to fix. Is this the same issue that people marched about 50+ years ago?

Specific elephant in the room, what possible fix within 2-4 decades is there when the right has most of the keys including a stacked supreme court?

Personally, I can’t really fight or leave. I am nowhere close to anything politically relevant… I have no transportation, income, or ID/passport etc. I am a shut-in with untreated health issues. I’m just letting the days go by.

I wrote an elaborate alt-text for this when I uploaded it in a comment:

But there is no alt-text there now unless I:

![Write it all over again, or find the comment to copy+paste](https://lemmy.cafe/pictrs/image/402062ff-a147-4b9d-be1e-b7cb69076c40.webp?format=webp)

Yes, but It doesn’t look like the alt-text is ever actually saved to the image, I would guess instead just passed onto the comment editor after that initial upload. At least I don’t see it in the uploads tab (neither the preview nor in the viewed link itself, except on the original comment on page 9 of my comments).

That could be fine if there were a dedicated copy-markup-link button. It would also be nice for the alt-text to remain editable from there.

Also an annoyance with the standard Lemmy software (clients may fix it) is that alt-text is handled only in markup (not saved with the saved media) so if you want to post it in a comment later you need to copy the markup (from the post/comment where you first posted it) each time rather than from your uploads. Probably an issue for most files hosts (not offering alt-text) too.

Unless there is some file host that handles this?

EDIT: Posting in a community like this helps with this, though still will suffer when organization becomes an issue and also niche/comment-reply memes that don’t really make sense as a singular post.

I’ve been doing that with juice too (also adding iced tea powder, other stuff like almond extract (cherry taste) for more/different flavor) but I can’t imagine watering down soda unless using something that’s also carbonated. Which I never really tried the other carbonation options due to cost (not really drinking soda often though, tapwater is free).

Well, I did try watering something down with club soda once but that was gross particularly because the carbonation was already gone.

It’s called being cultured, like cheese. Though art is a bit different as whatever shapes you does so long-term, even if you could zap away issues instantly the memory and thus influence will still be there.

Also health/brain issues for me are likely a bigger detriment than anything, resulting in me doing nothing most of the time (small chores on a good day). So anything created is a rare win in spite of that.

"Have you stopped to consider that Rocko is a silly drawing of (basically) a dog?

No, you are thinking of serious concerns." I say to Agent Smith before doing the throat flick.

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I like polygons.

No you don’t understand, JUST the polygons and in a countable amount too.

I don’t need the textures. It’s my aesthetic.

well yeah most people don’t have the hardware to play the pre-HD versions at their best

Maybe you mean an actual PS2, but IME using emu w/higher internal res on a non-stellar computer was a pretty good experience.

Meanwhile the HD version is data bloated (likely because everything is uncompressed for no reason, or multiple resolutions of FMVs including 4K) so the download would be painful for me. And really with Okami’s aesthetic especially, I don’t think HD is necessary (again, beyond just higher internal res and whatever other enhancements based on preference).

I think it would’ve been better to change the FMVs into in-engine if viable, I assume the ones that were pre-rendered was just a hardware limitation if not just some production thing.

I don’t see patient as “letting it slide [off]”.

These days I don’t really buy things ever, I mostly play free games if even that. Less hopeful of the industry, feel like I wasted money. Later purchases were more patient, but disappointment there only slowed it even further.

This is a me problem (and a lack of income), but I sort of see it as being patient to a fault.

something gets done and completed

I am talking within the context of mental/physical health issues and never having made anything close to a game. Personal despair, isolation, lacking viable options, collapse.

So it’s more of an existential crisis. I am guessing there are probably some idioms about learning/practicing survival skills when the ship you’re on is already sinking.