Southkraut
The rain fell gentlier.
"Behind our efforts, let there be found our efforts."
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Southkraut
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2yr ago
Nice.
Southkraut
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2yr ago
Some of them, sure. But we'd still be dissolute, atomized materialists with no ability to generate culture, and ideologically captured and committed to the most outrageous Wolkenschlösser*1 and we'd still be wallowing in self-hate over muh nazis. Foreigners cause many problems and prevent many solutions for other problems, but blaming it all on them is facile and off the mark.
*1 Cloud-castles, i.e., ideas with no chance of being implemented.
Southkraut
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2yr ago
They absolutely will. Maybe not if you ban sugar entirely.
Southkraut
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2yr ago
What did you perceive as dark or pessimistic about it? Sincere question.
Southkraut
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3hr ago
Played around some more with physical movement in Unreal. Figured out the algebra for it, wired it all up, and I think it downright works. I am making boxes float and point at each other and jink sideways pretty much as inteded. So long as they don't bang into obstacles and end up going into spins. I'll need to add some kind of self-righting behavior, too.
So I added guns to the boxes, and allowed them to fire those as soon as they're pointing at the enemy box. And that didn't work at all. First off the guns are the wrong size and in the wrong place (some kind of relative transform issue?), they don't follow their parent box (parenting doesn't work like I think it does?), and when they fire the guns, the bullets have the same problems of wrong size, wrong place, and not actually moving. Also, when I attach the same gun to my player character, it just gets catapulted all over the map (collision resolution?).
So, yeah. Not exactly hyperrealistic drone warfare, and not exactly working.
Southkraut
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6d ago
Some minor coding, preparations for future "features", but nothing visible.
Southkraut
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12d ago
And there's a very large degree of difference between what seems to have been the historical reality in 19th and early 20th century Germany and what I assume most people would imagine when they hear "a legacy of democratic norms".
Southkraut
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20d ago
No tinkering whatsoever this week. Family maintenance consumes all. Thanks for asking and please keep it up.
Southkraut
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26d ago
Some concept work, some coding. No great accomplishments; just some basic refactoring to make working with Unreal C++ a little less painful. Working my way out of some Unreal problems, while failing to solve others. Not much, but I'm happy just go get anything at all done.
Southkraut
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28d ago
Fair point, good input.
Southkraut
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30d ago
I somewhat doubt Unreal will let me do that, but will look into it. Thanks!
Southkraut
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1mo ago
Been getting a little time in, actually. Not much to show for it; I'm mostly just experimenting with procedurally instantiating objects in Unreal and marvelling at how they don't behave how I expect and at how difficult it is to do anything with the Unreal editor.
Southkraut
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1mo ago
Suppose two men at cards with nothing to wager save their lives. Who has not heard such a tale? A turn of the card. The whole universe for such a player has labored clanking to this moment which will tell if he is to die at that man’s hand or that man at his. What more certain validation of a man’s worth could there be? This enhancement of the game to its ultimate state admits no argument concerning the notion of fate. The selection of one man over another is a preference absolute and irrevocable and it is a dull man indeed who could reckon so profound a decision without agency or significance either one. In such games as have for their stake the annihilation of the defeated the decisions are quite clear. This man holding this particular arrangement of cards in his hand is thereby removed from existence. This is the nature of war, whose stake is at once the game and the authority and the justification. Seen so, war is the truest form of divination. It is the testing of one’s will and the will of another within that larger will which because it binds them is therefore forced to select. War is the ultimate game because war is at last a forcing of the unity of existence.
Edit: A mis-post.
Southkraut
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1mo ago
Please elaborate.
Southkraut
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1mo ago
Ah fair enough; on a strict reading you did say as much.
Newspapers don't say, or epxlicitly claim it was random.
Though the Tageszeitung (https://taz.de/Herkunftsdebatte-nach-Attentaten/!6087003/) deplores the obvious racism in the discourse surrounding this event.
Southkraut
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1mo ago
I for one expected a post about the social integration and cultural assimilation of immigrants.
Southkraut
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1mo ago
I guess so.
Southkraut
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1mo ago
If you steal something from someone and he doesn't notice and he doesn't need it, is it still stealing?
If you kill someone but nobody misses the victim, is it still murder?
Southkraut
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1mo ago
100% busy with family stuff. I think of tinkering a lot, but never get around to actually do.
In the gaming communities I sometimes visit (i.e., Battletech, Starsector, Nebulous etc.), there are no men, only "girls" and "dogs" and a few tolerated minorities without pronouns who know better than to say anything on the subject of women.
Southkraut
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2mo ago
What is hot chip?
Southkraut
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2mo ago
I have not. Will take a note to do so.
Oh, pedantry! Income is monthly, grocery shopping is weekly.
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