#unity and progress

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[jordi-ahava]

f*** the fear. i love my identity.

[magichats]

all the news going around with unity's really got me worried for games that are already several years into development like Hollow Knight Silksong and Billie Bust up.

Just rough because I don't suppose a whole lot of games are going to be able to pivot game engines, let alone so late in development. Like it is easier said than done to pivot early in development but i've been following the development of several games that are years in at this point and the fact that they're grandfathering older titles into this is just... it's just bad.

The potential loss of games in terms of archival on such a massive scale....

[comrade-onion]

A Critique of the Western Left

The Western Left has been marred by infighting in recent years, effectively crippling any capacity it has to fight back against the vicious capitalist system it rightfully opposes.

In my eyes, I see two main contributing factors to the general incompetency of the Left in the Western world. Infighting and ineffective campaigning.

Infighting between sects within the left along niche ideological lines stunts its ability to grow its membership and influence by making the movement look irrelevant, hostile, and elitist. The right isn't divided along small ideological lines. They can and will cooperate to spread their collective hateful ideologies. To combat this effectively, we need to put our differences aside and unite along our common enemy: the capitalist system. Only when the abolition of capitalism has been undertaken can we afford to disagree on minor policy and theoretical differences.

Secondly, Leftist campaigning is so focused on ideological niches that it no longer appeals to the working people. The average worker is not concerned about who Gonzalo was. They are too busy worrying about food, about rent, about utilities and education, and safety. We need to campaign issues that are affecting the people the most. We NEED to appeal to the masses and embrace left-wing populism to garner the popular support needed to oppose fascism if we want any chance of facilitating positive and lasting change.

We have a common enemy, and we must not fight each other. Instead, we must work together for the good of the people and for the good of the planet.

[ruvviks]

hey if i actually started developing my video game idea would you guys be interested if i posted about it on here

[makitakesphotos]

WIP: Rio Tsukatsuki (Blue Archive)

Work In Progress.

[limeadeislife]

AOC and Jill Stein are fighting on Twitter?!

[andbloom]

Sketching some ideas for my steam page.

[tia-indie-dev]

my first fps

I began coding my first fps game in the unity engine 4 weeks ago. I'm really happy being able to present following progress I made:

basic character controls (movement/shooting/aiming)

animations(for running/crouching/shooting)

enemy AI(aswell health for player, enemies are animated)

a second weapon(weapon switching code)

simple sound design(shooting, walking and reloading sound)

polish(muzzle flash, sparks, impact effects, blood effects)

I'm really happy with the weapon animations, it actually looks realistic. I also thought about a unique game mechanic and ended up with a power that makes u invisible for a few seconds. You'll fight against a lot of enemies at the same time, this mechanic would be really useful, especially if you have to reload

I'll release a devlog tomorrow on my youtube channel, if you are interested please check it out :)

[starscompass]

Some of the first assets in Unity! Yes, I'll re-do the minecart. I'm sorry. It's horrendous :((

And a fun WIP of some plants! ivy, and European wild ginger!

My little brother said my wip looks like a realistic minecraft shader mod >:(( exploding him

[codingcorgi]

Day 13-14 coding progress. Well got a migraine last night and passed out, and had my game development class to teach today, so I finally got time in the evening.

Yesterday I made a sword in Asset Forge for getting things ready for the upcoming game jam! Today I decided to get back to my Maui app which is now called Puppy Tasks. I am having issues as you can see... I can't get my Moods enum to show up correctly. I've tried 2 different ways of implementing this and I'm so frustrated. Any help would be appreciated.

Tomorrow I'll be working at this problem more until it's fixed

[eugenedebs1920]

When the party of inclusion and equality is shunned by half the country it means one of two things. Either half the population is a bunch a pricks, which is highly possible, or somewhere along the way that party went largely astray.

Think about it. Other than racists, bigots and homophobes, who’s going to look at a sect of the populous and be like ‘ God! I hate those guys, always being open minded and trying to embrace all peoples! They suck!’. Yes. There probably is maybe a quarter of Americans who may think that way due to prejudices and intolerance, but that means somewhere along the way we lost the other 75%.

How did that happen?

I grew up in a very liberal environment and turned out as such. My first election was Gore v Bush, and I have voted Dem ever since. There came a time though when I wasn’t all that proud to pronounce that I was a Democrat.

I can’t pinpoint the dates exactly, but it was after the Me Too movement, which I believe was justified and appropriate. There was this shift in culture though.

I remember going to protests against the invasion of Iraq under the second Bush regime and liberals where dirty hippies (like myself) anti establishment punk faulkers (like the majority of my friends) blue collar workers (which I turned out to be) and intellectuals, scholars and teachers (alas, not myself).

Then liberal causes became these young, whether male of female, Karens. Offended by every word anyone said. Like the overly dramatic character in an old movie that faints when they see something mildly disturbing.

When the term “woke” entered the scene, it became an incredible trigger for some. There’s whole opposition to it, the “war on woke”. Woke triggers me and I’m a liberal! Can we PLEASE drop that word and go back to liberal!? Liberal; adjective. willing to respect or accept behavior or opinions different from one's own; open to new ideas. The definition of liberal is beautiful, and fits like a glove our perspective and purpose.

There is a time, a cause, and a place to be offended and stand up to injustice. Ab-so-fuckin-lutly! That time is when injustice is happening.

We all heard the story, the boy who cried wolf. That story holds relevance to what I’m trying to pontificate here. By decrying everything as a grave injustice, by ostracizing people as bigots for the slightest thing, by creating a cancel culture where everyone has to tiptoe about, the power that once was in the pursuit of justice and equality had gotten diluted.

Like I said. I’m very liberal. A bit rough around the edges and sh*t talky, but I believe in equality. I believe in acceptance and inclusion, I believe that, as long as you’re not hurting others, you should be who and what you want to be without being afraid to do so.

It got to a point where my liberal ass would feel like I engaged in a hate crime if I called someone mam, or sir. Like, ‘sh*t I don’t know if that’s what they go by’, but in reality I was being polite. ‘Yes mam!’, ‘yes sir’. Not trying to be insensitive or rude, simply expressing common courtesy. When did that become inappropriate?

Think about it. Me. An open minded, inclusive, caring liberal, feeling like I was walking on eggshells with every random interaction. Now imagine you aren’t some bleeding heart liberal. You’re more center of the road, maybe leaning right, have your opinions on things, but mostly keep them to yourself, you go out and call someone sir and get disapproving looks. It’s not going to sit well with you. No one likes being told what to do, and no one likes being publicly called out for their mistakes. If it’s a friend or family member and they perhaps were a bit insensitive, express that to them later and in private.

In my late teens, early twenties, my friend group was eclectic to say the least. This lesbian couple, who the one girl was my best friend, we’d poke smot, eat dose, play hackysack, and chill. Her partner became a mentor to me, “kidnapping” me and taking me on Phish tour when I was 16. We’d sit around, listen to music and just talk, try and solve the world’s problems.

A topic that often came up was the concept of free will. Can free will exist when one person exercising their free will, impedes on another person’s free will. It’s a topic I still often ponder.

Where I think liberals went wrong, is in our pursuit of justice and equality, we demanded perfection. No ifs, ands, or buts, about it. We insisted everyone, all the time, be this picturesque version of an American citizen without question. If they faltered in this mold we constructed to fit them inside of, they were targeted and labeled as a racist, or a sexist, or xenophobic, or homophobic, when in actuality their transgression did not fit the punishment received.

Thats not to say that some people aren’t all those things and deserving of the criticism and consequences therein. I’m simply saying, by making everyone whose ever told a racial joke, or used a pronoun, or said some sh*t they probably shouldn’t have said in the heat of the moment out to be a tyrant, we have both lessened the power of calling out social injustice and alienated large swathes of society. When I say “we”, I mean some of y’all.

Now! Because of the crusade for justice being turned into a cancel culture movement, the punch is so watered down with crying wolf, ACTUAL, injustice is happening. Nazis, openly and without masks (some of them), having f*ckin parades, waving swastica flags, weekly in Nashville for months and months, recently at a showing of the play, The Dairy of Anne Frank, then again parading around Ohio. They have boat parades and storm the f*ckin capital.

WHERES THE CULTURE WARRIORS CALLING THAT OUT!?!

It seems like a good amount of that social injustice campaign was for show. A facade to get clicks and likes and make people feel superior to the lowly bigots who would dare tell a harmless joke. Thats where we went wrong.

Standing up for what’s right, what’s good, what’s just, should have ZERO to do with this, popularity contest, social media, vain exercise of self indulgence. Put your damn phone in your pocket!

I’ve been to a few, and seen a good amount of coverage of various protests, marches and rallies of late, and it’s embarrassing to see nearly every single younger person has their phone out, videoing. It’s one thing to record the event, or if things are getting wild, or there is brutally, but to just be selfie recording yourself during a march for justice to impress people you don’t know, or do, contaminates the whole movement. It gives the appearance that you’re there for the self gratification of showing people you were there, as opposed to being there because you felt strongly about the cause, the movement. Again! Cheapening and diluting the reasons behind it.

I know there wasn’t cell phones at the time, but think if in the footage of the march to Selma, a huge amount of the participants were selfie recording themselves to later post the video on some social media platform. It would lessen the potency of the struggle.

I’ve always felt that helping someone who will never be able to return the favor, without anyone but you and them knowing about it, makes it the purest, and strongest act of kindness one can engage in. Do what’s right because it’s the right thing to do. Not for bragging rights and to appear like a kind hearted philanthropist. Otherwise the act is tainted and a gesture is for oneself as opposed to being out of doing good.

As liberals. We need to do some soul searching. Our cause is just. Our approach is off. We’ve become what we were in opposition to. Discriminative.

Shunning, and alienating our fellow Americans, and humans, will not bode well for us. Acting elitist and entitled, will only hurt our cause. Scolding and correcting everyone for every little thing, will only push people farther away.

If we are the party of inclusion as we claim to be, it’s time we include people. Engage with them. Rather than criticize from afar, diplomatically debate as to the reasons why. Why they feel immigrants are poisoning blood, why they feel America isn’t great already. Converse as to why they’re so angry and hostile. INCLUDE them in the conversation.

We have segregated them, or ourselves, from the discussion for a while now. Unless we want to end up like the open minded, non hate filled, German people in the 1930’s, we better do that soon. Because with the way the tide is turning, with the hostile, rising populist movement at hand, if we don’t, it will get real bad real quick.

[usatrendingnews24]

Middle East latest: US envoy arrives in Lebanon to meet with officials about possible cease-fire

By  THE ASSOCIATED PRESSUpdated 7:25 PM GMT+6, November 19, 2024Share

A U.S. envoy has arrived in Beirut to meet with Lebanese officials about a possible cease-fire in the Israel-Hezbollah war.

Amos Hochstein, a senior advisor to United States President Joe Biden, arrived Tuesday, a day after Hezbollah reportedly gave a positive response to a U.S. draft proposal to end the war, which has been ongoing for more than 13 months.

The U.S. has been working on a proposal to end hostilities that would remove Israeli ground forces from Lebanon and push Hezbollah forces away from the Israeli border. More Lebanese troops and U.N. peacekeepers would be sent to the buffer zone in southern Lebanon as part of the deal....Read More

[cai-tan]

Say hello to the new Burn Chips system! This is replacing the old Doom-style powerups with a more Duke-esque pseudo-inventory mechanic, holding one charge of each unique type of powerup. Simply tapping the Burn Chip button will use the currently selected Burn Chip. Holding the button lets you use the scroll wheel to choose what Burn Chip to select.

Speaking of which, here's the current planned Burn Chip list. Some of these were already known and planned, and there's a couple more that make more sense with the new inventory-based system.

Weapon Amplifier: Increases fire rate and damage, and adds a small chance to not consume ammo.

Servo Booster: Increases movement speed and melee damage. (originally named "Stimulant Booster" à la Titanfall, but that made less sense as an electronic component-based powerup like the rest of the Burn Chips)

Smart Sights: Enhances certain weapons with target-seeking capabilities.

Regeneration: Recovers health over a short period of time.

Overshield: Temporary energy shield that protects you from normal damage.

"Invincibility" as a powerup in and of itself is probably getting left on the cutting room floor, sadly. I may still think about implementing invisibility, though that's always a hard one to consider given the impact it has on complicating enemy AI programming.

Edit: Looks like the video is compressed to hell on Tumblr, RIP. I have a YouTube version of it up if you want to see the better version of it.

[craigtowens]

Links & Quotes

Some links and quotes that caught my eye this week.

Psalm 133 tells us that in order for us to sharpen others—and for us to be sharpened by them—we have to be around other them. Christian saints put a high priority on spending time with others. I have lots of new content every week, which you can check out on my YouTube channel. From Desiring God’s Here We Stand series comes this great snippet from the history of the Reformation: “[John] Calvin…

[personal-blog243]

I think I am beginning to understand a major philosophical misunderstanding that a lot of conservative Christians have about people in the left.

In my observation there are some conservative Christians out there who believe that deconstructing certain beliefs or having a worldview that is not conservative is antithetical to the concept of “truth” itself. They stereotype people with other beliefs (especially leftist beliefs) as people who just believe whatever they feel like and truth doesn’t matter or even exist, so of course that supposed worldview doesn’t make sense to a conservative Christian.

I don’t know jack shit about “postmodernism”, but this seems to be what a lot conservatives think postmodernism is, and they seem to associate this philosophy with “leftism” 🤷🏼‍♀️ for some reason.

I don’t know if any of that makes sense, and I’m sure some conservatives are just willfully ignorant and like to “straw man” leftists by making them seem stupid, but there MUST be some way we can fight this narrative.

We NEED to get conservative Christians to understand that being against war, authoritarianism, poverty, prejudice, and environmental and public health destruction doesn’t make someone a weird, stupid person who doesn’t believe in the concept of absolute truth.

IDK what about fighting for justice and freedom for oppressed people looks like “not believing in truth” to them but what do I know? 🤷🏼‍♀️

All I know is that identifying as a more progressive type of Christian instead of a conservative one doesn’t necessarily make one’s theology “weak” or incompatible with truth. At what point are you just worshipping the concept of “truth” itself?