ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
No bio...
User ID: 626
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
3hr ago
I can channel @ThisIsSin and say that there's actually nothing particularly arcane or hypocritical about it.
I'm not saying it's hypocritical, I'm saying it's insane. I honestly don't see how one is supposed to be a cause for a freakout while the other is not.
The "post-national" state is still ruled by the powers that be in eastern Canada
One way or the other you're still being displaced by foreigners.
Never give up clay if you can help it. Very old law.
Nations lost territory and survived, or even thrived. Full-fledged demographic replacement didn't usually end half as well.
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
3hr ago
I don't see the similarity. For one, Christians aren't actually that sure they will go to heaven. But more importantly, post-nationalism is not a promise of a utopian future, it's a policy of depriving the native populations of their sovereignty that is being implemented right now. The only argument I can imagine why it would be preferable to becoming a province of another country, is that it is happening more slowly, and gives you some hope of turning it back around before it actually happens.
On the other hand once it does happen it's a lot harder to reverse than loss of independence, and (again) more importantly, no one upset at the prospect of losing independence is upset at the prospect of having their nation deconstructed from above.
The actual analogy would be a Christian being afraid of getting shot in the face vs. a Christian cheerfully signing up for euthanasia.
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
4hr ago
and not just terror and anger at the idea itself.
Someone has to step me through the terror and anger at the idea itself. Canada is actively suicidal and self-hating, I honestly don't see what a postnational country is supposed to fear about losing independence.
The European reaction to the Greenland affair is similarly deranged.
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
5hr ago
I don't think it excuses violence against women. Finding a man hitting a woman funny is an unforgiveable sin, unless it is part of a kinky sex thing.
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
7hr ago
HE shells and fragmentation (this is the point that seems to be tripping its safeties)
I had a few western models nope out on generating a logo, presumably because of the title. They also didn't like depicting a corpse of an unfortunate bloke that the aliens got to. Thankfully the Chinese did a good job without complaining.
Can shaders handle flipbook animation?
They can, you just move the UV coordinates by particle lifetime. It's how I handled everything originally, including the monster animations. I was a bit hesitant to just throw a higher fidelity images at it to mind the resource use, but it looks like an entire flipbook from your link is like 4MB, so it should be fine. I'll play around with these.
That second explosion effect is a huge improvement, but flipbooks allow much higher fidelity.
You mean the second out of the 3, or the second shader effect (so third out 3)?
Technically shaders give you "infinite" fidelity, the limiting factor is the screen resolution (and much later, if you keep zooming in, floating point precision). That said I'm surprised how far a few extra pixels will get you. My textures were 64x64, these ones seem to be around 400x400, and look decent even at high zoom.
it looks kinda like a gradient scrolling outward from a polar coordinate + Perlin clouds to add detail, + alpha on a gradient or curve for the dissipation effect?
Sounds about right. The main effect I lifted from here, it does use perlin noise from what I can tell, and I used the smoothstep function to add the dissipation.
clustering smaller particles on top of your big one should be a cheap, easy way to add detail. color-shift them to simulate smoke or debris?
Huh, wasn't sure this was even possible, as I'm not doing this the standard way - since the main simulation (including projectiles, collisions, etc) also happens on a shader, it would be too costly to pass the results to standard scene nodes. I basically have to hack the particle system, and if I can't program it there, it would be too much trouble. Good news Godot seems to have an emit_subparticle function for it's particle shaders, so this should be doable. I'll give it a go.
Here's a random example,
Did you forget to paste a link by any chance?
Anyway, thanks for all the hints man!
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
23hr ago
Isn't misoginy actual no-shit hatred of women rather than vague institutional bias? Isn't lived experience suppose to enter the equation here somewhere, and even if they had "poor training", given the amount of TikToks with moms mock-strangling their children, wouldn't one of these women go "oh yeah, I totally went through that" on chance alone? Or are they all childless?
For a parallel case, in the feminism-in-publishing debate I similarly highlighted a whole bunch of male authors and male publishing execs, but it was rightly pointed out that ideology can exert structural influence at the level of funding, training, hiring, project prioritization, etc., even if you don't see direct malicious action by individuals.
And what did you think of that argument?
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
1d ago
This is the way. Literal win-win.
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
1d ago
Fundamentally we all thought Afghanis were just like us. If we bribed them and put them in schools they would become smart competent allies.
I think this was actually viable, and the problem was more liberalism than blank-slatism. Americans thoughts that if you copy-paste western institutions, you'll turn Afghans into good little westoids, when what was needed was authoritarianism and rather heavy-handed indoctrination.
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
1d ago
For the point that her lack of treatment is a symptom of misogyny, I can try.
- Rebecca Jollotta
- Julie Paul
- (Jennifer) Tufts
- Latiesha Dukes
...that's a curious case of misogyny...
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
1d ago
Which other people? Your parents?
Not just them, my fellow countrymen in general. Otherwise they'd be giving me the "don't bring shame to the family name" talk, which I also got on completely separate occasions.
That's wordplay and has nothing to do with my point
I don't see how. Morality is very often the exact same combination of exactly the same kind of aspirations and practical matters that you just described.
Such that it is reasonable to think less of or perhaps take retribution against all members of whatever the relevant demographic group is.
Doesn't "retribution" mean the kind of distrust that you've been talking about? Otherwise I haven't a clue what he's talking about. Reparations? That's the only issue I can think of that fits a stricter interpretation of "retribution", and it's a niche issue which to the extent it has any support, it's to a large part from self-styled liberals.
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
1d ago
Thanks for the hint, I saw some people doing cartoony shaders, maybe I'll give a few of those a shot.
I'm a complete zero when it comes to visual design.
Same... to the point where I'm often oblivious to issues until someone shows me a better version.
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
1d ago
No offense, but it still looks heavily pixelated. I assume that's still Work In Progress?
Including the ones in the later parts of the video? It has 3 explosion types: 1 texture-based, and 2 shader-based.
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
1d ago
That's you taking (additional) responsibility for your own behavior, and therefore categorically different from you taking responsibility for other people's behavior.
My parent's statement rested on the assumption that other people are responsible for my behavior. If we accept that no such responsibility exists, what they said is nonsensical.
"You're representing your country" is part aspirational, part practical, not moral.
"Part aspirational, part practical" is pretty much what morality is.
If you misbehaved abroad and then another countryman of yours comes in, the locals might distrust him (because you represented your country in the minds of the locals), but if they try to hold him to account for what you did, he'd be right to point out that you don't actually represent him.
In my opinion the OP is about the former, not the latter. He didn't say "I don't get why people do this thing where they hold someone legally liable for crimes they didn't commit, just because someone from their group did it".
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
1d ago
As applied to groups that aren't communities (but are sometimes thought of as communities when considered as identity groups, like "men" or "women" or "blacks"), it goes in the wrong direction.
I don't think I agree. The first time I went abroad my parents told me to be on my best behavior, because I won't be just representing myself, I'd be representing my entire nation. Were they wrong to tell me that? Or is an entire nation analogous to a community?
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
1d ago
That sounds pretty backwards relative to what happened. The blue-hair campus activist didn't use the taboos around sex to argue for political censorship, they spent the better half of the last century using the principle of free speech to take apart all taboos, including the ones around sex, and once that allowed them to get strong enough, they turned around to impose their own taboos on people they promised "liberation" to.
Even outside of that, they don't limit themselves to demands of being protected from views they find disgusting, they demand the right to impose their views on people who find them disgusting.
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
1d ago
I added collision detection with the player, and the grenade launcher. One thing I didn't like about the latter was the look of the shockwave / explosion was pretty ugly when it got big, as the sprite was only 64x64. I didn't like the idea of shoving a bigger texture into the particle system either, but then it hit me - why not use shaders here as well? Still haven't settled on anything, but initial results are promising. Might even change all projectiles (with the exception of the grenades) to be shader based.
How are you doing @Southkraut, still on vacation?
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
1d ago
The Monroe Doctrine says all foreign powers must stay out of the hemisphere. China and India are trying to sink their claws into Canada, and so is Europe. No, they are not allowed.
I was told that Russia operating under the exact same logic was being Literally Hitler.
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
2d ago
What about modern society gives you the impression that it is capable of working on that scale?
That I remember it working in a large city under a communist government that was high on modernism. This isn't a technological issue, it's a social issue.
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
2d ago
Talking about communities is missing the point. The groups in question "men", "women", "migrants" aren't communities at all, can't be or shouldn't be.
I don't see how it's missing the point. Men and women tend to act in pretty distinct ways, and healthy communities tend to recognize it,and set up social rules that take the differences into account. This becomes doubly impossible under individualism, first because it forbids you from even recognizing there's a difference between the groups, and secondly because it dissolves the community structures that would allow for setting up these social rules.
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
3d ago
It's not completely reddit's fault. There's an automated socmed link rewrite on this site. Twitter gets rewritten to nitter, reddit to old.reddit, etc. The link should work fine if you deactivate it (it works for me).
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
3d ago
Elon Musk's web app from the 90s that was merged and acquired and never seen again just wasn't impressive to me.
I don't recall ever bringing up his app from the 90's.
I think people only find him impressive because they wish they had the money, have just world bias and construct a narrative where he's a better man than them so he deserves the money.
I don't find him impressive at all, and I don't think he deserves the money. I'm saying that because of how he chose to spend it, he's had a massive impact on the shape of the world we're living in. That's all we've been arguing over.
Meanwhile they undervalue more impressive things like brilliant philosophy because there's no sex or money to be jealous of there.
Brilliant philosophy is brilliant. It's been a while since anyone has come up with any, but far be it for me to diss the one that's already produced.
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
3d ago
Are those billionaires me?
That's not relevant, the question shows the flaw in the general logic of "Otherwise we ought to talk about the making of money and not the buying things with it."
That was not the premise.
If you didn't mean "if he hadn't stolen that money from me", maybe you should say that other thing you actually meant.
If he behaved fully justly some philosopher-king would have the money and we'd have cool things with it instead of a buggy social media website, increasingly censored.
We were talking about whether or not he's a great man of history, not whether or not he behaved fully justly. Genghis Khan was a great man of history. Stalin was a great man of history. Hitler was a great man of history. They are not what I'd describe as behaving fully justly.
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
3d ago
The premise is if I did have that money
No, the only premise was that Musk is not given any money at your expense. So outside of a tax reduction equal to you contribution to the subsidies he received, you'd have no extra money regardless of how much he received.
Otherwise we ought to talk about the making of money and not the buying things with it.
Why? Lots of billionaires could have ought Twitter, and didn't.
Sure, and it would make sense if people were upset about both, the issue is they are upset about one, and call you a Nazi for talking about the other.
More options
Context Copy link