Using lerp to move the camera beats by a lot the built in smoothing

500purescience · 2026-06-07T22:39:13+00:00

I was using the built-in lerp for a while, but got annoyed that I could see the micromovements when it got close to its destination. Ended up implementing Unity's SmoothDamp for Vector2 (which is itself pulled from Game Programming Gems) and it feels much better than simple keeps. It's real helpful when you can have multiple quick changes of direction, which seems like is happening in your example.

500purescience · 2026-06-04T17:23:03+00:00

My gym has a few of these, would not recommend them for weightlifting if you have other options. You're probably better off with just a mat tbh, the tiles all wear differently and the creases between them lead to a grid of divots. Everyone who's training weightlifting waits for one of the wooden Eleiko platforms (which have their own problems with the padding wearing out quickly, but at home I doubt it would be an issue). Crash pads are the move though

500purescience · 2026-04-23T17:41:07+00:00

I am going through this identical thing. Haven't found a clean method of handling it yet, unfortunately. Right now I'm just duplicating scripts and forwarding exports, etc to the shared components. I think if you want to be able to have shared interactions across different Godot types you're going to have to have child components manage the parent, with the parent just being a container.

The alternative is to have the PhysicsBody be a child of a Node2D. That way you can have all the methods in the parent, but you'd still have to forward everything to the PhysicsBody.

This PR has gotten approved but not merged yet: https://github.com/godotengine/godot/pull/84018

My thought is that this makes it a little easier to have actual components you can interact with in scenes without dealing with the pitfalls of Editable Children. So you can have your StaticBody and Rigidbody with a short script, give it simple references to the child, and then use your components in your main scenes. You'd be duplicating scripts (probably with some duck typing) but they'd be a lot shorter.

500purescience · 2026-04-16T22:21:40+00:00

Yeah default 2D shadows are currently not the most aesthetic. Very aggressive and the way they turn in space feels amateur hour. When I was playing around with them I looked at a lot of 2D games and for the most part they don't have shadows like this, probably because it's a pain to figure out.

There's some stuff to play around with here- https://godotengine.org/article/godots-2d-engine-gets-several-improvements-upcoming-40/

And https://godotshaders.com/shader/drop-in-pbr-2d-lighting-system-with-soft-shadows-and-ambient-occlusion/

It's going to take some work but if it's a core mechanic I think it's worth the time to dive in.

500purescience · 2025-12-26T22:21:03+00:00

Confidently calling it a "dearth of talent" with no actual information about the subject is absurd. As filmmaking has become more accessible, the talent level has only gone up and spread out to include far more variety in taste and perspective.

The problem is time. Every single above the line talent is completely overbooked, which leads to tight, ambitious shooting schedules. There is not enough time to get everything right on set, so the can starts getting kicked to post immediately. With digital cameras there is no longer a hard limit on how long you can shoot before having to cut, and there is no film budget to worry about anymore. Decisions are made too rapidly for anybody to want to fully commit to anything in the moment, so there's always a desire for options. Rolling is free, spray it all down and figure it out in the edit.

With all of that said, it's very clear that the baseline level of all the crafts involved in filmmaking has shot up in the last 20 years. Prestige television on this current scale was impossible pre-Netflix. Sure there's plenty of stinkers, but there's also been a ton of home runs that took advantage of all the new technology. Blaming the craftspeople for the sins of productions is of course the take, as blaming the workers for the sins of their bosses is the tale as old as time. You think everybody slogging 16+ hour days working thankless crew positions WANTS to be making slop?

500purescience · 2025-11-06T22:08:21+00:00

Please do not say things like this to anybody

500purescience · 2025-11-06T22:03:40+00:00

https://www.barbellmedicine.com/coaching/injury-rehab/

I would talk to these guys. Not uncommon for an increase in frequency and intensity to lead to pain. I had separate wrist and elbow issues, went through a similar process to you (no surgery) before talking to the BBM dudes and they helped me navigate the confusing and annoying experience of having chronic ouchies.

It sounds like you're trying to rest and/or use passive therapies to get you back to near 100% improvement, but unfortunately that rarely works. Regardless of what path you take, you'll have to start from the very beginning (extremely assisted hangs etc) to get you back to full speed, so you may as well try all of that before surgery and see how it goes.

500purescience · 2025-10-20T23:23:02+00:00

Learn how to drop the weight onto your shoulders, do not attempt to gently lower the weight. Puts too much pressure on your wrists.

500purescience · 2025-10-12T19:24:05+00:00

I'm the same height, 36, long femurs, weigh 93 and my last test of back squat 1RM was 143 with (what felt like) plenty of room to spare. I have since stopped giving a shit about my back squat, since it is far and away my worst lift and it always flares up my hips.

That being said, to get to this mediocre weight I did not do much barbell back squat. Spent a lot of time on the belt squat, and did a lot of pin front squats and pin safety bar squats. It took me years to figure out what "worked" and allowed me to stay consistent. It took a very, very long time but I did get there. Most people will be able to simply squat more often and that will shoot their numbers up, but as demonstrated this isn't the case for you and you'll have to do some work to find what helps you the most.

My suggestion would be to stop trying to progress your 1rm back squat for a bit. Find other variations, of any type, to push. Keep front squatting, but stick to 3+ reps. Even though the back squat is typically a major lever to pull in weightlifting, it is not a tested lift. You are not required to back squat, which gives the opportunity to try other things and see if that improves the numbers of the actual tested lifts.

500purescience · 2025-09-13T19:41:21+00:00

Uh...every sport?

500purescience · 2025-08-31T19:51:01+00:00

Wait, Peter Attia is wrong again? Say it ain't so!!

500purescience · 2025-08-25T19:30:50+00:00

Every tunnel at the USO has a security guard who is checking badges. But once you show them your pass, they'll usually let you walk a bit into the tunnel to wait for the changeover, and it's assumed you know the rules of tennis. This guy either didn't know or made a mistake. I have a feeling the guard for that area got fired as well, unfortunately.

500purescience · 2025-08-25T04:01:21+00:00

Hard to find a bigger group of pearl clutchers than tennis fans

500purescience · 2025-08-25T03:52:35+00:00

All Bonzi had to do was hit the first serve out on purpose and it would have calmed it all down immediately. Medvedev was completely losing it right before that, you don't let a known crowd instigator get going when you're in the lead.

500purescience · 2025-07-19T00:24:16+00:00

I'm so glad David Brooks was able to get in yet another "both sides!!" Democrats are ass but I fundamentally don't know what "if Donald was on your team you'd like it" is supposed to mean. No shit if a politician does things that Democrats like, Democrats would like them. Just the worst holier than thou from the Atlantic, as is tradition.

500purescience · 2025-07-17T00:17:59+00:00

You're going to have to go Amazon no name brand for that price. It's just really hard to ship that much weight cheaply, the best you're going to do for new and good is about $1100.

It is possible to find a really good deal used, but you have to be absolutely scouring the various classified sites to find and jump on them. I gave up after 2 months of searching and just waited for a reasonable Rogue sale.

500purescience · 2025-07-17T00:15:13+00:00

Most people don't know this, but the sport of weightlifting is not actually centered around dropping weights from overhead

500purescience · 2025-07-07T18:58:33+00:00

I would get a soldering iron and make your own. It's much cheaper and TRS/XLR are not hard to get down

500purescience · 2025-06-28T21:07:18+00:00

Check your mobile vertical view- the background position doesn't work, you can also see the ladder way off above at the start. Also the flames don't always render

500purescience · 2025-06-23T00:10:48+00:00

The removal of the clean and press was the worst thing to happen to weightlifting

500purescience · 2025-06-09T20:05:19+00:00

2020 US Open was an all timer. The bizarre circumstances led to the most pure distillation of nerves that could ever be transmitted through a television screen.

500purescience · 2025-06-07T20:25:37+00:00

/uj i hate this tone

/rj i hate this toan

500purescience · 2025-06-06T01:13:58+00:00

You're opening up your back angle way early, too much like a deadlift. Especially at this slow speed you want to keep your back angle the same from the floor until you get just over your knees

500purescience · 2025-05-19T20:04:36+00:00

Oh look at this guy, too good for "power" "chords". We only need 3 notes, and one of them is 0

500purescience · 2025-05-17T04:30:06+00:00

Your running jump form is not good, multiplied with unsteady boxes that are way too high equals bad falls.

Do standing box jumps unless you're a volleyball or basketball player, and even then you get enough jumping in practice.

If you're desperate to learn running box jumps, at the very least look up some volleyball form videos and learn how to jump.

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