Not quite, I would definitely still have a mortal brain (remember: no copies).

I’m sure if it could go this far, keeping my brain alive to 110yrs+ would probably be possible (and cyborg elder/geezer might even be a bit cool) though I also expect I wouldn’t get that far if there were any reason for me to be in dangerous situations.

Not that I would even want to be immortal, anyway.

Nothing. I’m not spiritual, though I do sort of believe some things like that in a non-literal fashion. I don’t believe I am part of some sort of unity, though I would say that yeah in an abstract sense I am just a complex multi-cellular organism and in most cases cooperation with other multi-cellular organisms is preferred. With the systems how they are now though, I am not participating (even if it is to my own detriment).

Design? It would require a bunch things that likely won’t happen in my lifetime. Basically a transhumanist re-do. Get my brain somewhere and somewhen better, get it going again ideally with a mix of symbiosis+tech that allows existing comfortably. This could take a lot of forms too (many that others would find too alien/isolated), though not too hopeful about the future and that I could actually have a place in it.

Real time poly animations.

Just want to post this: This page allows to playback some cutscenes (higher-res than Genisis)

Not perfect, though I imagine it’s probably a fault of being designed 1:1*. Perhaps there is a better version (allowing modern res), though the Steam version uses an upscale filter instead (maybe because the maps aren’t polygonal?). Another World seems to have a better treatment (though Steam says 800MB, so not sure if they rastered it or if they just made the audio uncompressed).

* For a similar problem, some people (One being ‘Old Man Yells at Code’ on YT) have made newer videos about how classic Sierra games were actually polygons (…at least lines/fill) but don’t always properly connect when rendered at higher res (and attempts to re-interpret the data).

I think to myself, only half-ironically, “textures were a mistake” (pre-rendered cutscenes, too). Or at least the practice of unique textures on every model being the standard rather than the exception. It adds a lot of workload, and IMO is probably diminishing returns in many cases.

Sure, I get that it was a logical/necessary step when a texture/sprite saved on polygon budget. These days I think (visible!) vertex color is a very practical technique that didn’t really get used to its full potential. It even makes a lot of sense when making a model to think about color via geometry. There’s a lot of room for aesthetic choice with meshes, colors, materials/shaders, character/map design, and yes textures if they don’t become bloat.

This is also why I dislike the idea of many remasters/remakes. Losing arguably the smartest* and most scalable solutions and switching over to much heavier (data and rendering-wise) replacements. Sure they made it visually stunning, but now I don’t know if I can comfortably download/store/run a game that probably still has game-design warts from 20+ years ago (and new glitches added).

* For example, Spyro’s vertex color skyboxes being replaced in Reignited. The original were iconic, aesthetically pleasing, they had a gamefeel reason (portals, seamless fly-into portal+fly-into-level), free by modern standards (so a toggle should be viable) they’re just mesh globes! I could even see even some verts added to improve, or use of layers or more distant geometry to give it more depth.

That’ll save money but I don’t think it nullifies parts being expensive. My GPU is now legacy (1050Ti) because I didn’t upgrade it when I did my 2019 AM4 build (sale prices were great). Ryzen seems like it’s more expensive now due to its success.

With how prices are I’ll probably keep using these parts until I stop using a computer.

I wish their name, community they created, and other post with a link in it could give some insight to what their purpose for creating an account was.

Seems to be fine for the question itself. Doing it this way is common, though typically the opener talks about premise more with the example being a short second paragraph.

Though I could definitely see having it as a reply due to length, also at least to stop non-answer top-level replies and at most to get engagement with their self-answer.

Hard for me to know what to be interested in with the info (titles+thumbnails) there.

First thing that jumps out to me is FRAG, I haven’t seen much on that. Steep competition here with Godot and Raylib bindings available.

I haven’t done anything in a while… thinking about a mesh painter (see my last post) maybe, if there’s a library that makes a good starting point (generate triangle grid, export .glb). Treeform’s gltf (and maybe just allow smaller-sized grid cut from template rather than generating)?

Mom would be sad (it might delay the curtains she ordered a week ago).

Not a lawyer, but if you put the name into wikipedia it redirects to the historical event both games are based on/inspired by. It’s a generic name, I can’t imagine a side being picked here (both change or neither change).

I’ve always wondered for compiled languages, but I’d imagine you’d need some sort of Linux compatibility.

It might be easier if you get more limited/creative, off the top of my head I suspect using something like TIC-80 might be viable. Doesn’t quite interest me and I don’t even have wired keyboard capability (not just keys, I don’t think I could do much of anything at any appreciable speed/reliability on a virtual keyboard).

I’m guessing that like unemployment, you just aren’t counted in the numbers if you are too far beyond struggle. Not so much as a check-up in 10+ years? Must be perfectly healthy! No? Uh…

I know it’s because I don’t have many, but my subscriptions are pretty much dead (somewhat niche stuff). More general stuff (like this comm that is not hard to find anyway due to activity) feels like filler and some other comms I might visit might have stuff I don’t want to commonly see (like new accounts made for blatant self-promotion).

Relates to @[email protected] and @[email protected] (why someone would be browsing /all)

Posted by MutantTailThing…

Hmmmm…

Although yeah, people posting the stuff they like generally works like that. Stuff you gotta block. And yeah not an easy task blocking each community.

Don’t you have blurring turned on at least? I think that’s default right, and it would certainly help with that adorning problem you mentioned while not disabling all NSFW.

I don’t know if it’s different elsewhere, but as a mainly-comments poster I’d add (w/Lemmy) that the ‘uploads’ section doesn’t store alt-text (e.g. copy markdown) either. So if you had a reason to use an image multiple times in comments it’s either re-write or copy it from an old comment source. Putting multiple images in a post might handle that better (things other people might actually use too), not so much for niche and/or personal art/technical stuff… and it also assumes a user can still find it.

Also, it probably doesn’t help that it isn’t given a tooltip when hovering over an image in a comment like it does for post icons (average users will only notice the lack of alt-text if they specifically check for it with: 1. view source 2. inspect accessibility properties).

I do try, sometimes I don’t add it especially when it feels complicated to describe and/or I it seems like there’s probably enough words for context already. That and I’m more likely to do it if I made the image. Tenor is an exception because there is possibility of it providing a content description I can copy or at least re-work, but half the time it’s garbage.

“Are you living in the real world?”
“Do you have a comrade?”
“Do you have a plan?”
Me:

Forenote: image text unrelated, but somewhat relevant.

Me, not updating my system in many months due to a box of various issues:

~7Mbps shared internet, Arch expecting regular updates (and me not setting up the timer stuff to prevent those issues), and most recently before this my 1050Ti becoming legacy and Arch moving the legacy driver onto the AUR (I updated stuff from the AUR even less, so this is a blocker for me).

I probably need a new distro at this point, but not convinced by any. In any case an AMD GPU would also help, but also probably not happening on my terms either.

I kinda get it, the pedals on the image shown seem a bit questionable and it does seem like a poor replacement for an electric < Kei truck / Tuk-Tuk >. Maybe with very light cargo and very good (expensive) gearing/drive-train, but that’s really stretching benefit-of-the-doubt. I could see stuff like that making more sense for special-use stuff like catering, moving, low-density waste transfer, or any sort of food-truck thing (that needs empty space) etc.

Compare it to something that looks more reasonable to pedal/handle like this:

I’d imagine these 2 models would handle significantly differently when empty.

Hope that image works, found by searching e-quad cargo. Also, made by Mumbea Mobility but I also see similar-sized models by Fernhay.

Yeah, that’s the other-side-of-the-coin of your question but much more interesting. For instance, there’s a list of examples on the wiki page for typecast: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typecasting#Playing_against_type

In a different language that uses whitespace:

proc blank_map*:void =
 mines_placed = 0
 row8 = newseq[uint8](width); game_map = newseq[row8](height)
 row16 = newseq[int16](width); sum_map = newseq[row16](height)
 rowChar = newseq[char](width); state_map = newseq[rowChar](height)
 for h in 0.uint8..<height:
  game_map[h] = row8; sum_map[h] = row16
  state_map[h] = rowChar

I’m allowed to do it, it’s allowed

(I don’t use it a lot and I’m sure many dislike this because longer lines especially if they have less display width for whatever reason)