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when you clean a vacuum cleaner, you become the vacuum cleaner.

when you get a larger bed, you have more bed room but less bedroom.

does anyone here have suggestions for some basic kits? I've built two cheap ones (like $15-25 kits) and wanna try another one.
are the neon genesis evangelion kits decent? I see lots of unit 01 models online and I love that show

legend of dragoon when lavitz died

half of my steam library

persona 6 when??

game developer. I didn't give up on it since I do it as a hobby, but technically it's not a job at the moment since I don't make any money yet.

who would win in a dance off.... cloud or kiryu from yakuza??

this ones still my favorite lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQmNVyQREPs

get some thick, insulated sweatpants, there are even styles that look like track pants/joggers. they're really comfortable, some have cargo pockets, and most importantly they're warm. even regular fleece sweatpants are warm if you have a mild winter (5-20F on average) in your area.

wait I thought that stamps pay for the mailbox?

leave the pumpkins alone!!! leave them alone!!

Metalsonic66 posted...

James and the Giant Peach

scariest movie in this topic

nah, still no ads with adblock plus on firefox.

its because Halloween movies are better than Christmas movies. It's just a cooler holiday overall.

I think it's good for fast food, and I'd rather get panda over mcdonalds or something, but it's not great compared to any of the local Chinese takeout places I go to.
Like, if I get food at the place down the road, I'm 100% convinced they put crack in their food because I'll eat all of it even if I'm full, it's just plate after plate after plate. but with panda? I'll eat half or something and be like "okay, that's enough of that"

hard to pick a favorite, but these are some movies i like to rewatch around halloween
evil dead
constantine
dark city
in the mouth of madness
dark water
lake mungo
prince of darkness
primer
vivarium

big fan of john carpenter, sorry for the long list but i'd 100% recommend all of these movies

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but beer poops give a really unique sense of accomplishment once they're over with.

rude jude

adjl posted...

We're never going back to a paradigm of having like four different magazines you can read and that being the main way you find out about games, simply because there are so many better ways to get a game out there than that and far, far too many "hidden gems" for a small number of media outlets to cover all of them.

That was just an example. We're in a time with AI, limitless information, and people constantly being connected with their smartphones. There's really no reason for indies to have a larger reach than they currently do, it's more a matter of people being lazy and opting for convenience.
Like, yeah, 90+ percent of people will only find out about games from facebook, twitch, etc. but there's no reason to just accept that those have a monopoly and give up.
But, then again, the only person I've seen make an effort like what I'm imagining is videogamedunkey with his big mode games, and I don't think anything has released through that yet.
And also I can't really have room to talk about people being lazy because I'm saying all of this and making no real effort on my part to do what I think devs, indie publishers, etc. should be doing. Like, I make games and I've never ever once made a youtube video or even actually released anything lmao, so I suppose all that I'm saying ultimately boils down to wishful thinking.

adjl posted...

If indies "take over," they'll be just as bad as AAA. The evils of the AAA market are inherent to high-budget projects; the things we like about indie games are a function of them being smaller projects that people can take risks on without having investors to answer to.

nah I don't mean take over like a handful of indie studios replace AAA just to become the same thing, but for AAA to go away or get more obscure, and things like indies are given more consideration from word of mouth and stuff. Like, how there is a "before you buy" or "top 10 new games this year" thing, but it's always for a AAA game. yeah there are channels that do this for indies, and even some indies get in with the AAA games sometimes, but it's either extremely niche (like, top 10 indie roguelike deckbuilders) or the "big" indie games that probably have some prominence already from past games, or have some form of publisher/large enough marketing budget
basically what I'm saying is that, I hope that indie games go from niche with outliers finding mainstream success, to how I'd find out about games 10-20 years ago, where it was just some random person suggesting it or a magazine. So, in short, I'm hoping for AAA to be seen by more people as just a money grab doing very little to push the gaming industry forward, and for more people or groups dedicated to finding random good indies and giving them some form of publicity. Like a larger "DIY culture" surrounding indie games.

momma llama

on one hand, I don't come to this site often and can go months without even thinking about it
on the other hand, the reason I appreciate this site is because it still feels like "old internet" from 2000-2013ish, which is in my opinion when the internet started taking over life and got weird. I don't like it. so, it's like a living time capsule which is cool, and not too many sites out there give that feeling.
sure, there are other forums that are way more expansive like reddit, but I never really feel like posting there. like, the best comparison I can make about reddit is my aunt. she's a really cordial person on the surface, but when she says things you can tell there's something "beneath it all" if that makes sense, that's the vibe I get from reddit, like the posters there try to curate or type their posts in such a way that it "fits" the reddit way of talking.

I feel like a lot of fads either evolve into something else, or kind of fade away. but scene kids kind of disappeared out of nowhere.

I'm not complaining, just wondering. It seemed like everyone and their mother had some semblance of "scene" fashion when I was in highschool, but BAM! out of nowhere it was gone for good. Every other fad had stragglers for a few years who were hanging on to the past, but it's obscene that scene got left in the dust.
And what's worse, is that it's all like some weird fever dream....like, were there really teenagers running around with big, leopard print hair? yes, there was. but whenever I ask someone at work or wherever who is around my age, "hey, remember scene kids? whatever happened to them?" they'll act dumbfounded as if I'm making up the fad that defined my generation.

and on that note, what happened to big obnoxious skate shoes and those stupid flat billed caps with sesame street characters on them? those were weirdly popular at my high school to the point that I thought it was an incredibly elaborate joke, but nobody remembers those either, even if I show someone a picture of them wearing that outfit 10-15ish years ago, they'll deny it and say its a photoshop or AI image.
am I crazy or am I getting mandala affected?

all I want is for AAA to fall off so that indies can finally take over.

I use Belkin surge protectors and have never had issues. I have pretty frequent power outages during spring months since it storms a lot and have never had real issues other than the power being out, just make sure it has an adequate joule rating, like 4000+ or something. Just, if you have power surges or outages often, make sure to replace them every few years cus the protection won't last forever.
UPS might be overkill, I'd personally only find one useful to have time to save documents/projects/whatever in the event of an outage (that said, a UPS will generally provide better surge protection than something that is only a surge protector. generally, not always)
have you tried other outlets or tried other power cables, btw?

do top music lists even matter? i couldn't tell you what's number one or what any of the recent number one songs have been.
like, when was the last time there was even a song that was popular enough that pretty much anyone you'd ask has heard it? I don't even know anybody in real life who listens to the supposed popular artists, besides the obvious ones like taylor swift.

I like how his evil half is called "Big Bad Harv"

so I have two cats, one cat I've had since he was a baby cat like 12-13ish weeks old and is 9 years old, and my other cat was a stray cat who kind of just moved into my yard a few years ago then moved full time into my house like two years ago...she's at least five years old cus the first time I ever saw her was 5 years ago.
they both like me and they'll like sit on my lap and other cute cats hanging out with you things, and sometimes they'll be cool with each other and do cat things like they'll clean each other, sleep next to each other, etc.
but, usually the new cat will hiss and attack my older cat. she'll randomly walk up to him and then hiss and swat at him. usually he doesn't do anything and just gives a look like "wtf??!? lol, anyway" then go back to what he's doing (he's way bigger than she is, she's teeny tiny and he's half mainecoon half bengal so he's pretty big (like he weighs around 20ish pounds and is lean)) but rarely he'll jump out at her then run away, but he does that to me too where he'll go up on the fridge then jump onto me.

so yeah, basically, how do i get my newer cat to like my other cat? how do i help her get over her ptsd of her life of being a stray cat and treat my cat like a big bro who'll show her the ropes of life at my house

CarefreeDude posted...

Are we talking video game sonic or archie comic sonic?

early 1990s animated series sonic

its truly the worst allergy. at least with lactose intolerance you just get a stomach ache in most cases; so sometimes eating dairy is worth it...but with a nut allergy? you're pretty much guaranteed to at least break out into hives or worse

The thing I don't get is that a lot of people cannot afford homes, even if they're making decent money for their area. Then also lumber prices are up, like I was going to rebuild my deck last year and decided to wait, and this year it was significantly more expensive....So I'd imagine the cost to build a home is way higher too. Then there's war everywhere, so not only is the lumber costly but the fuel is too. Meaning cost to buy a brand new home is probably way, way up compared to an already constructed home.

But, with all of that in mind, right now in my city there are 12 new neighborhoods being constructed. Not like a one-off home being built in a lot, but 20-30 home communities are being built. They're not even cutting down the woods or anything in my area (which I think they would to at least re-use that local lumber), but are instead just building them in vacant fields.
It makes absolutely no sense to me, but it seems like new neighborhoods are constantly popping up. There was one that finished being built 5 years ago and there are a grand total of two families living in that neighborhood that I've counted. I ride my bike through there all the time and it's some weird, creepy ghost town and they keep building more and more.
I don't like the look of the neighborhoods, either. They all look like that movie "Vivarium" if anyone is familiar with it...which doesn't fit aesthetically at all with my area, which is the stereotypical midwestern small-medium sized city.

I don't really know what kind of replies you're expecting to get when you start a post with "I don't care about what you have to say; your opinion is irrelevant...if you'd like me to elaborate, then I can, but don't argue with me" as if people will just inherently agree that you're the arbiter of truth when it comes to cyber sec right after you said there's no way they can have any modicum of knowledge on the subject because reasons.

pretty much the second i opened this topic.

seconding either a shared LAN folder and/or google drive. it's probably the simplest solution. you could also make an HFS (HTTP file server) which would require some setting up on your end

Yellow posted...

I recommend against using Monogame tbh. I used it for a while, it's faster to use a game engine to do anything.

Unless you feel like doing something particularly custom. I remember being very jealous of Unity developers cranking out a full demo in a weekend like it was nothing.

Plus I've been waiting 6 years for them to implement WebGL.

yeah I'm mostly just interested in it because my AP computer science class back in highschool used XNA which eventually turned into monogame. It was fun at the time, but looking back compared to Unity it's really limited. I think that, overall, the limitations of monogame (and even Godot, because while good it's still not quite there in my opinion), will help people become better programmers and game designers.
I think I might just stick with Unity, and then learn Unreal on the side. It's silly but what I really want to do is make a portfolio so I can maybe someday get a job at a studio

sweet gonna buy this now

you could always try milk of magnesia, that stuff works wonders but it tastes pretty bad unless you get a flavored kind. it also works really great to cure canker sores by just rubbing some over the sore

C_Pain posted...

reddit is worse than gamefaqs imo

I like it because whenever I search oddly specific problems, I almost always find a subreddit where people are talking about that (or something close enough that it helps)
but the culture of reddit is kind of a drag. I feel the same about here, which is why I only come back every so often. It sucks because I either close my accounts or forget the login info, so I have to make a new one every time... I should've just kept my original account from 2007-2008ish..
Sometimes I don't know why I even post, cus of what RVallant said about cliques is true, no matter what I do here or anywhere I don't fit in, so sometimes I wonder why do I even post? Lol.. Oh well.

pretty much everything on your list i buy in bulk, especially if its on sale or something. like meats i'll buy a ton of it on sale, and just freeze it to use for the next year. i even have one of those vacuum sealers to make sure that my meats and stuff don't get freezer-burnt.

the only things i don't buy bulk are things that go bad quickly, so like fruits/veggies, yogurt, and stuff like that. i'm also that person at the store who has dozens of coupons every time, because i was raised to be super frugal and always live way below my means, so bulk shopping + coupons seems like the way to go.

I'm still using Unity

but I might change to Unreal or MonoGame after my current project(s) are completed. Probably Unreal because I like C++ the best of any language and my computer is finally powerful enough to use the Unreal editor without any issues.

yeah, why not? maybe i'd win a trip to the slurm factory

its kind of crazy to see, I work at a pizza place and around half the staff are in the zoomer generation. they're all 100% glued to their phones and it seems like every few days there's a new fad going on.
i had to get away from the smart phone world a few years ago, it sucks on one hand because since i have just a dumb flip phone, i miss out on a lot since tons of people even in my age group (mid-late 20s) only talk via snap chat, so my peers kinda scoff at me if i tell them i just use a flip phone...but it's nice because i think that i'm kind of immune from the onslaught of the internet. it's kind of lonely, but i suppose i chose that.

nah, I don't really initiate contact with people. maybe that's why I don't have friends anymore.

Judgmenl posted...

If this were about animation we could have different conversation but it's clear it's not.

There's no reason it can't be about animation in general. the topic was a grand total of one sentence in length when you originally posted, so why not move it in any direction? What's your favourite animation, either film or show? Mine's between Paprika, Mind Game, and Redline
EclairReturns posted...

But seeing as the target audience is the teenage demographic, I probably cannot complain.

That's my problem with a lot of modern animated series, they lean too far into whatever the target demo is and kinda ignore everyone else. At least with the 90s cartoons they were geared towards kids, but had writing that adults could appreciate.
Maybe that's a thing with the times, because everything is so easily accessible it makes more sense to make t hings hyper-oriented towards kids, or adults, or whatever rather than taking the time to craft something that goes beyond generations.

Judgmenl posted...

I haven't watched a cartoon in like 20 years.

but surely you have a favourite from the past? even if it's fueled by nostalgia?

SoreChasm posted...

It's a 50-way tie for me, but I unfortunately don't have the time to list all the series here.

do you have any suggestions or anything? i'm mostly looking for new shows to watch because i'm both bored and maybe a little depressed (okay, definitely a lot depressed and need a distraction)

For me, it's a 3-way tie between
Batman: The Animated Series
Justice League/Justice League Unlimited
Adventure Time

I've never actually played a mario game

counter clockwise. its the only normal thing I do, i wear watches on my right wrist.

I don't know what that is and I don't want to.