MonkeMischief
@MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
- Comment on Apparently your hobbies becomes less interesting if you're forced to do them all the time? Who knew? 39 minutes ago:
I love 3D art, and I want to make games eventually. I remember using my cracked copy of 3D Studio MAX to experiment and try things “just to see real quick!” when I was supposed to be doing more boring homework like report writing.
I even kept my obsession after a community college semester with the most joy-killing professor on the subject you could ever meet.
I dropped out of college because of life and found Blender, and kept learning as much as I could because I thought it was my ticket to a real job that didn’t involve “How may I help you?” every single day. It was going to be my way out.
Well, just a year or so ago I FINALLY got paid to do a freelance character sculpt. And…It took way longer than I hoped, I hammered on it like every single day, and I haven’t touched Blender since wrapping that project.
I really want to get back to modeling, but it made me realize I definitely don’t want to be an “industry” 3D artist making stuff to someone else’s exacting specifications for money. I still would love to sell a game on Steam or something some day.
…But I put a lot of skill points into these skills already, following what I love…so I’m kinda lost. Business and work is a realm that just makes me nauseous and anxious to think about as the water keeps rising, so to speak.
So I guess I’m saying: don’t make the thing you love your lifeline to surviving capitalist society, because unless that thing is “making money”, doing it for money or clientelle chokes the joy out of most human endeavors.
- Comment on Roundup of Roundup 3 days ago:
…and the kid who drew the orange was paid like, a TON by the…local orange juice cartel, or something…
- Comment on A rogue object so strange, scientists aren’t sure what to call it. 1 week ago:
Oh that’s really cool! I’m gonna search for that! Maybe my library has it, or I can bug them to get it. :)
- Comment on A rogue object so strange, scientists aren’t sure what to call it. 1 week ago:
That’s awesome! Thanks SO much for pointing me to that! I too wonder what the 2GB size is. It looks like they have two different sets of packages, one being a “source archive” that’s just a raw CD dump.
I can see it, since the game was on like, 4 or 5 CDs back then, and involved a lot of heavily compressed video!
I have a fun feeling that maybe I can run this really well in Bottles, it ScummVM alone doesn’t do the trick. :D
Here’s a link I found to the soundtrack in “CD Quality”, with a download link, if you’re interested.
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbSFnTrLHtkp8Yj7bSdaN_…
That 90’s crystal-synth is the most gorgeous thing…it reminded me very much of the soundtrack to Journeyman Project 2: Buried in Time. :D
- Comment on Literally though 1 week ago:
So much this, although I really regret not just finishing college whilst all this crap was still in its infancy. Student exploitation is absolutely nuts these days.
“Turnitin”, the “Lockdown Browser” and its fellow RAT rootkit malware ilk, one time use serial codes to do the “homework” in $300 textbooks.
It’s absolute insanity. Especially nowadays when schools and wider society forgot what education was about, and run with the idea that it’s all to earn a lottery ticket to potentially landing a job that might one day pay off that exploitation.
- Comment on The Fuck Jar 1 week ago:
This is the secret to where Roy Kent gets his power!
- Comment on A rogue object so strange, scientists aren’t sure what to call it. 1 week ago:
I still need to read the book! My main familiarity with RAMA is the 199(5?) PC game that was mind bogglingly obtuse with math puzzles but the world was SO fascinating! I need to figure out how to play it again with my grown up brain…
The soundtrack was INCREDIBLE…
- Comment on Assumptions 2 weeks ago:
LOL sounds like that game gets it right too! In Cataclysm DDA there’s something called an “antlered horror.” Basically undead moose.
Sheer. Friggin. Terror!
Obligatory:
“A Møøse once bit my sister …”
“Mynd you, møøse bites Kan be pretty nasti…”
“We apologise for the fault in the subtitles. Those responsible have been sacked.”
- Comment on It improves the morale of the future worker. 2 weeks ago:
Thank you so much for sharing your story.
I’m grateful to your mom, and I’m glad you’re here. <3
- Comment on Assumptions 2 weeks ago:
Anyone who’s played Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead will tell you: Moose are NOT to be messed with. Hoo boi.
In the season, if you see them across the map, pray they haven’t seen you.
I imagine this models a healthy respect for real moose(s?) too lol.
- Comment on Insulin 2 weeks ago:
It truly is amazing how an entire industry makes billions by literally avoiding delivering the most basic service it’s paid for at every possible turn.
- Comment on Insulin 2 weeks ago:
Unless I had already reached my annual deductible, that is.
“Hey good news! After about 35% of your annual income is spent on medical bills on top of your triple digit monthly premiums… That health insurance starts to kick in!”
(Until it resets at the end of the year. Teehee!)
- Comment on Insulin 2 weeks ago:
Either that, or maybe they don’t have diabetes there. (Lol joking)
- Comment on Stupid sexy raft 3 weeks ago:
That’s awesome. Like he was really hoping for some dismal and dark exposé on “savage human nature” a la “Lord of the Flies”, and at every turn, proven wrong by people who were happy to just get along and cooperate for mutual benefit…
… Which should come as a complete shock, social species that we are! /s
I think these desperately dark tales of people turning on each other in sociological contexts is another propaganda tool to put this idea in our heads that without “qualified leaders” we’d all just be grunting and beating each other over the head with rocks.
Nah, someone to gain has to motivate us to fight each other. What if we just said “lol, anyway” and kept getting along on the raft?
- Comment on snail lyfe 1 month ago:
Sounds like they were designed by a Spore player. 😂
- Comment on Fight me 1 month ago:
So does our Colombian red tail boa! :D
- Comment on Smells Great 1 month ago:
It got dissed.
What it did to deserve that, we might never know. . .
- Comment on Just answer the question you fuckin' nerd 1 month ago:
Okay, so eat the fucking coffee cup. I’ll wait.
Bortus enters the chat.
- Comment on Just answer the question you fuckin' nerd 1 month ago:
Let me know so I can hand them my Blender models I’m too lazy to RE-topologize. Ugh! Lol
- Comment on Just answer the question you fuckin' nerd 1 month ago:
“BEHOLD. A MAN!”
- Comment on Anon uses GOG 1 month ago:
I remember everyone freaking out when Spore was gonna have SecuROM that limited it to like 5 installs on a disc, and you were gonna have to ask EA for more if you needed them.
Some of the oldest DRM was weird little cipher wheels or puzzle books required to answer a challenge every time the game booted before it would actually start.
I dare say what GoG is doing is better than we’ve ever had it!
- Comment on Anon uses GOG 1 month ago:
Heroic is so freaking… Well… Legendary. :D
- Comment on Mid Career Marine Biology 2 months ago:
Fantastic reference :D
- Comment on oh cool 2 months ago:
Much appreciated! Have always loved wacky ass sci-fi things! :D
- Comment on oh cool 2 months ago:
Appreciate it, thanks! :D
- Comment on oh cool 2 months ago:
That looks kinda like the guy who played Ragnar in “Vikings.”
(cautiously checks for weird features like too many fingers, armor features that make nonsense, or other visual anomalies before cautiously asking…)
What’s this from?
It looks pretty rad.
- Comment on Scientific unprogress... 3 months ago:
Oop oop hrk! >=[
- Comment on Scientific unprogress... 3 months ago:
In this regard, I absolutely have come to agree.
I always say: “The Internet should be for anyone! But it shouldn’t have been for everyone .”
- Comment on Scientific unprogress... 3 months ago:
There it is. Now you can all see it! This is the violence inherent in the system!
- Comment on Scientific unprogress... 3 months ago:
You’re right, I try to remind myself to marvel at the incredibly cool science we wield every single day.
But I’m also pained because I understand where the “boring future” folks come from too:
Where would we be if all this incredible technology was actually designed for humanity and not simply for profits at all cost? If optimizing for humanity was the target instead of exploiting it?
Smartphones, for instance. Small, networked computers! In your pocket! Wow! I’ve always wanted a pocket laptop! But they sure don’t feel like it. They’re designed to be content (mainly ad) delivery devices and data miners first, and useful machines second.
(There are some tiny niche actual-computer palmtops now which are pretty cool.)
I think that’s the part that gets people kinda depressive about modern science breakthroughs. The coolest stuff, the working folk don’t even get to tangibly feel much benefit from.
Discovery is locked behind paywall research journals and implementation is marketed in the interests of capital and used against us to make us work harder for longer hours for less pay.
What’s happening to space is a VERY stark illustration of all this. NASA unifying humanity and working globally on projects like the ISS was INSPIRING.
Now it’s all about private interests and their stupid desires, like space hotels for the elite.
I bet we’d marvel at technology designed for human beings, and not sheer exploitation.
