Aceticon
@Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on Hot in the car today 2 days ago:
It was supposed to be a fart but it came with friends.
- Comment on Anon makes a modern game 3 days ago:
I’m actually making a computer game that takes place in space, within solar systems and is in 3D with a (somewhat) realistic style - a big mistake given the time I’m having to spend in 3D modelling even though it’s mostly empty space :/
It would be near unusable with realistic lighting, especially further away from the system’s sun, because in most places there’s just this one decent light source which is the sun and this extremelly weak “lighting” from the background which is mainly black with stars (since it doesn’t take place near the center of a galaxy, that background has about the same star density as the night sky on Earth). If I was doing realistic lighting only near planets would it look good and that only on the sunny side of the planet (because of the indirect light from the planet), not the dark side.
To I’m having to fake it using ambient light, otherwise most objects would just be entirelly dark most of the time (it would be that or putting lots of little lights on them).
Anyways, the point being that most space scenes in Sci-Fi films are also total complete bollocks for similar reasons: almost everything would be pretty much black almost all of the time or at best have very sharp shadows everywhere but near the illuminated side of large stellar objects. (There’s actually a scene in Star Wars - Rogue One where they purposefully use realistic illumination for effect and the scene starts with a stary dark background and suddenly a star destroyer stars em«erges from the total darkness as more and more of it comes out from the shadow of a bigger body).
In all fairness, in my journey learning game making, lighting turned out to be an unexpectedly interesting subject and actually fun, though it’s unusual to have the change to really use it for effect (well, the rings around the planets in my game do look pretty stunning merely from the interplay of light and shadow as long as I don’t align them in the same axis as the sun).
- Comment on Yes 3 days ago:
My mother used to work for a company that made magnetic core memory.
That’s the kind of memory that predates semiconductors and it was assembled by hand using gold wire and tiny ferrite rings.
She does know how to use a PC and has a tablet, though 😀
- Comment on Anon makes a modern game 4 days ago:
The top right image is at sunrise or sunset, and if the game is going for natural illumination (rather than the so-called “Ambient lighting” which isn’t at all realistic) low-light times will look pretty bad because most light will be coming from indirect lighting so amongst other things the colors you will see are affected by the illumination being just light reflected by nearby objects which themselves have color and thus don’t reflect the full light spectrum.
The top left image is with the sun high in the sky so most things are being illuminated by direct light. Further it like it’s relying on the Ambient Lighting trick, which means shadows too will be better illuminated (and hence not realistic) because even though they’re not hit by direct light, that ambient light makes everything look like it’s getting light by a weaker light that is unaffected by shadows (and also projects no shadows) coming from all around.
- Comment on 'Andor' Season 2 Debuts to Nielsen Viewership High With 721 Million Minutes 6 days ago:
Pretty much the last 3 episodes were about tying it all together with the beginning of Rogue One.
I would say that the story of Andor can only be judged independently of external concernes by excluding those last 3 episodes.
- Comment on 'Andor' Season 2 Debuts to Nielsen Viewership High With 721 Million Minutes 6 days ago:
It was good at all levels - not only did the characters had real human depth as did the story, but it even had details like creating a Gorman language and an actual detailed Gorman fashion, so the Production quality matched the quality of the Script, Direction and Acting.
It’s unsurprising that some (maybe many) think this is the best Star Wars ever, at least adult Star Wars.
I saw Rogue One again just after the last episode of Season 2 and whilst they’re almost seamslessly linked, you can absolutelly notice the change of pace and story telling style from one to the other: you go from a story of people in the Rebellion to an Action rollercoaster with an almost symbolic bit of background story.
Mind you, both are a pleasure to watch in their own ways, though Rogue One is mainly “chewing gum for the brain” as entertainment goes whilst Andor is a far grander meal.
- Comment on Some people have it worse 1 week ago:
“There can be only one”
- Comment on Who needs it? 1 week ago:
- Comment on Nicole Kidman Has Now Worked With 27 Women Directors in 8 Years; She Urges ‘Financial Mentors’ to Invest in Unknown Female Filmmakers and ‘Take a Risk’ 1 week ago:
We are CURRENTLY in a situation where people from the “wrong” social groups are discriminated against, and that’s a problem. People who are less qualified are being hired over people who are more qualified. Denying that is either ignorance or bad faith.
The solution to that problem is to hire people ON MERIT ALONE
Gender is not merit and is not competence, and yet here you are claiming unironically that to “solve” the problem that people are chosen on the base of gender, people should be chosen on the base of gender.
How about making sure that people are not being chosen on the basis of gender?!
Your “solution” just moves the unfairness around, still hiring because of chromosses they were born with some who didn’t deserve to be hired and not hiring because of the chromossomes they were born with some other people who did deserve to be hired, fully preserving the unfairness of gender-based hiring, but being unfair for others (and not those who gained from previous unfairness, which would be just, just those who happen to have been born with the new “wrong” chromossomes).
As I wrote earlier, you can’t Discriminate your way out of Discrimination.
- Comment on Nicole Kidman Has Now Worked With 27 Women Directors in 8 Years; She Urges ‘Financial Mentors’ to Invest in Unknown Female Filmmakers and ‘Take a Risk’ 1 week ago:
The article itself clearly and unambiguously wants gender-specific hiring, so clearly some people believe that the problems of Discrimination are solved by Discriminating in a different direction.
The way I see it, more Discrimination with different beneficiaries is not an easy shortcut to fix the problems of Discrimination and the only way to fix it is the hard work of cracking down on the causes of Discrimination.
Judging not just by this Article and also by many discussions I’ve that view is definitely contentious, often because people think that “counter”-Discrimination will correct the effects of past Discrimination, which at times it does, only it does so by moving the problem around as the new Discrimination is itself unfair for both people who were never victims of the past Discrimination and don’t deserve the gains they will now get and for those who never gained from past Discrimination and are now unfairly sidelined by the new Discrimination.
- Comment on Nicole Kidman Has Now Worked With 27 Women Directors in 8 Years; She Urges ‘Financial Mentors’ to Invest in Unknown Female Filmmakers and ‘Take a Risk’ 1 week ago:
Is it wierd for me to not want people to be chosen for a responsability that has nothing to do with gender (unlike actors and actresses, were the character being played usually is gendered) based on their gender?
If there is a gender inequality problem in this, I bet it’s the same as a lot of other areas with a similar kind of gender inequality: were people are given opportunities based on who they know and who their parents are - i.e. Cronyism - and those networks of mates mainly contain people of the male gender because of the enviroments were the form and the profession currently being dominated by that gender. However such an environment doesn’t explicitly disciminate against women, it discriminates against anybody who isn’t friend with the “right people” or doesn’t have the “right parents”, quite independently of them being male or female.
Maybe “Financial Mentors” should invest in Unknown Filmmakers in a gender agnostic way and “Take a Risk” - I bet that a lot of great new filmmakers who aren’t part of the “mates network” and happen to be female would gain from it, right alongside those who happen to not be female.
- Comment on “This script is fantastic. Let’s get Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman.” 2 weeks ago:
“Israel is saving me from Hamas”
- Comment on “This script is fantastic. Let’s get Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman.” 2 weeks ago:
I was going to suggest that it would be done with lots of tearful emotion, but then I remembered that Gal can’t actually act, so maybe it would be more of a “after saying the words, turning and looking towards the horizon in an heroic pose” medium shot moving into a panorama showing little children in the background.
- Comment on “This script is fantastic. Let’s get Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman.” 2 weeks ago:
If Hollywood ever did a film about Gaza they would unironically use Gal Godot in the role of a Palestinian woman.
- Comment on butt mogged these zoomers today 2 weeks ago:
You’re off by at least 2 decades.
- Comment on butt mogged these zoomers today 2 weeks ago:
Is it just me whose reaction was “So?! What’s the big deal?”
Don’t get me wrong: good for her for having a big booty. It’s just that I don’t have any expectation of the girls in the picture being shocked, nor am I myself shocked or otherwise impressed by her crouching position emphasising said big booty.
For me the whole thing is a kinda normal teen/young-adult showoff pose, hence no big deal.
- Comment on RIP obsolete tech 2 weeks ago:
Doesn’t it make more sense use harddisks?
I mean, the ultimate long terms storage medium seems to be tape, but that stuff is very expensive, but outside that harddisks seem to have the best balance of accessibility and shelf life.
- Comment on Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit 3 weeks ago:
Copyright if elements of the game such as 3D models, images and code have been copied.
Trademark if the name of the game is used (i.e. “Stardew Valley Romance Sims”).
Patents for game mechanics.
As a side note, personally I think that game mechanics shouldn’t be at all patentable
- Comment on Makes sense 3 weeks ago:
Ah, grad school and academia drove him to madness. Makes sense.
Further, that explains the Nutty Professor stereotype.
- Comment on Ubisoft Accused of 'Secret Data Collection' in Single-Player Games 4 weeks ago:
In Lutris there’s a “Command prefix” configuration option both per-game and in the global config with the dfeauot for all games which is where the firejail command line goes (basically sandbox with firejail you’re supposed to run “firejail firejail-options original-command original-options” and putting firejail and its options in “command prefix” does that).
Note that there are other sandboxing options that run in the same way as firejail but I found firejail to have more straightforward options.
Also note that this won’t sandboxes the actual setup of a game, only the running of the game.
- Comment on Ubisoft Accused of 'Secret Data Collection' in Single-Player Games 4 weeks ago:
I run all my games in Linux and everything but Steam goes via Lutris which I configured to, by default, launch them inside a Firejail sandbox with no network access (plus a bunch of other security related limitations) something which I can override for specific games if needed.
It’s interesting that Steam games are actually the least secure to run in Linux and with a configuration as I have it’s literally safer to run pirated shit downloaded from the Internet.
- Comment on Winning 4 weeks ago:
I’m curious about that too.
My life experience includes environments (Physics at University level) with a significant number of exceptionally intelligent people and in my observation they weren’t any more “flawed” than everybody else, just with different quirks than most people.
Granted “smart and perceived as intelligent” isn’t actually the same as high IQ, but I’ve also worked in environments with lots of people like that (Investment banking) and again they weren’t any more “flawed” than everybody else and just had different kinds of quirks than most people.
One think I did notice was that more intelligent people tend to have more “compensation layers” over their disfunctions than less intelligent people.
That said, all this is my opinion from my own life experience, so just as unsupported as the previous poster’s.
- Comment on Winning 4 weeks ago:
Also one might be aware of the problem but not actually understand the underlying causes.
One can be a bloody genious and still be unable to self-rationalize one’s way out of certain negative behaviours because they’re driven by things at an emotional level (fear, pleasure, habit, need for approval, low self-esteem and so on), because they became entrenched as behavioural patterns when one was too young to understand any of it (as a child or teenager - it’s not by chance that a lot of Psychology “blames” one’s parents) and because without the distancing that comes from looking at it from the outside with no interest in seeing certain things rather than others (nobody wants to see elements of one’s personality as negative) it’s extremelly hard to spot certain things which for an observant trained outsider are very obvious.
Also I totally agree that one shouldn’t be going into it wanting the therapist to like you: people who worry about the impression they make on the therapist are likely not being fully open and honest about themselves to him or her, which kinda defeats the point of going to theraphy (if one was 100% perfect and all qualities, why go to theraphy).
- Comment on 34% of the US population doesn't vote. Why do polticalitcians cling to the idea that these voters can't be reached? 5 weeks ago:
From my own impression as a member of a small political party in my own country who joined not out of tribalism but simply because they seemed to mostly want the same things as I do, party members live in a bubble of people who are heavilly into politics and understand the importance of politics, whilst the leadership specifically in addition to this are also mostly surrounded by generally unquestioningly hero worship from the common party members plus they tend to have quite limited life experience outside the party as they’ve joined it as young adults (maybe when they were at university and involved in student movements) and it and its internal environment have always been a large part of their lives.
Those people usually see the supporters of their political adversaries in the same way as fans of a sports club see fans of other clubs, and don’t really “get” the point of view of people who don’t vote at all.
- Comment on Just Beware 5 weeks ago:
“Beware of shape-shifting murderous alien” would’ve required a bigger board, so it’s cheaper to put it like this.
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 5 weeks ago:
I think that in the database space MS-SQL was never the best option at any level or at least not for long.
Oracle could be said to still be the best amongst databases for high performance and very large datasets, but in my experience in the smaller and mid-sized databases space things like Postegres and even No-SQL databases surprassed MS-SQL already back in the late 90s, early 00s.
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 5 weeks ago:
The Apache Web Server
- Comment on I hope she found herself 1 month ago:
“Curious how the name of the person we’re calling for is the same as my name”
- Comment on I hope she found herself 1 month ago:
When it comes to finding oneself, the journey matters more than the destination…
- Comment on You cannot learn without failing. 1 month ago:
I don’t know.
The whole thing sounds like it will lead into fights amongst true book clubs because the members of each will think theirs is the true book, not the other ones, and the fights might even be worse between the true book clubs that were originally the same. I all sounds kinda dangerous.
Plus, how would I know if the book of your true book club is in fact the one and only true book if there are other true book clubs which like you book also claim to have the one and only true book and its a different book?
