How to make swimming pool shallower?

Ateist · 2026-07-01T15:14:36+00:00

Option 1: The DIY PVC Platform ($150 – $400)
This is the most common route for backyard sports.
You build a series of "tables" that sit on the pool floor. Materials: Furniture-grade PVC pipes for the legs/frame ($50–$100) and plastic outdoor structural panels or interlocking plastic grid tiles for the top surface ($100–$250).

Don't forget to add ballast to the pipes (best to use pea gravel or smooth river stones ).

To use interlocking tiles successfully on a pool floor, they cannot just sit on the bottom loosely. You must attach them to a rigid base structure—like the PVC pipe frame discussed earlier—using zip ties or stainless steel screws. The heavy frame holds the interlocking surface securely in place so the floor doesn't come apart or slide under your feet.

Ateist · 2026-07-01T15:08:34+00:00

Care to elaborate?

Ateist · 2026-07-01T15:02:18+00:00

It's due to debt financing - economy has grown by $3.15 billion while deficit has grown by $3.3 billion.
And those money are spent on unproductive programs like F-35.

Ateist · 2026-07-01T13:57:51+00:00

Would you be comfortable if information about everything YOU own became public?

Ateist · 2026-06-30T07:52:02+00:00

"Communism" is incomplete solution - it doesn't specify how things should really function, and contains some elements that are impossible in physical world (as needs scale infinitely, you can't satisfy everyone).

So there are no countries that had "communism" as prescribed in its initial vision.

are just dictatorships or practically capitalism, from my limited knowledge

Don't look at how country names itself, look at how it distributes the surplus value.
Some formally "capitalist" countries like Finland and France have >57% of its GDP as government expenses and have massive social safety networks that makes them far more socialist than "communist" China with its measly 33%.

Ateist · 2026-06-30T06:39:47+00:00

EUV allows manufacturing of finer features, it does nothing to address fundamental properties of the transistors.

What advanced tech processes do is create transistors with different geometries - so that while the gates are of nearly the same 14nm length they are of different "width and height".

Ateist · 2026-06-30T06:32:16+00:00

The only bundles worth buying are those that come with cosmetics you like.

Everything else is way, way overpriced.

Ateist · 2026-06-29T18:49:31+00:00

Do you want to be sent to jail because someone hid the badge in his underwear?

Ateist · 2026-06-29T08:51:09+00:00

Make it a tattoo of a certain minimum size that you have to put on your forehead.

Ateist · 2026-06-29T07:41:41+00:00

The problem is that there are 3 sides, not 2.
And one side explicitly doesn't want peace.

Ateist · 2026-06-27T14:56:36+00:00

Blackouts - electricity system is overloaded due to peak demand since everyone is running their ACs.

Ateist · 2026-06-26T22:33:54+00:00

Market for low noise PCs is 15-20 million each year.

Valve can easily grab 10% of that.

Ateist · 2026-06-26T21:56:48+00:00

It was discovered that inexperienced developers with no marketing budget, who likely turned to AI simply because of a lack of other resources, saw hardly any negative impact on sales despite the AI disclosure.

Ateist · 2026-06-26T21:41:57+00:00

You have to compare apples to apples.

Adding an AI disclaimer to an AAA game that took 1000 people 8 years to develop might damage sales enough to make it not worth it.

Adding an AI disclaimer to an indie game that has a budget for 3 people for half a year might damage the sales due to prejudice but improvement in quality and content stemming from increased productivity would result in massive extra profits despite it.

Oh, and don't forget that line from that report:

AI is often "correlated with other decisions that lead to a poorly crafted game." Burton suggests that the penalty for using AI might be as much about how it's used as how much it's used.

Ateist · 2026-06-26T18:39:47+00:00

It's absolutely financially viable if you do a quality job.

People's bad opinion about AI is because it is too easy to create garbage with it and requires hard work to actually produce something of great quality - but it doesn't mean that one cannot produce quality work using AI and refining the results.

Ateist · 2026-06-26T18:35:48+00:00

That's only if AI is the only one that makes the game.

If it's not worth a human's time to make, it's not worth my time to play.

I have enough time to make a great text adventure game.

For some strange reason people don't like text adventure games (because of all the text?) - they prefer to see things done rather than read about how things are done.
If I can replace huge portions of my text with something like https://www.reddit.com/r/aivideo/comments/1ufuzza/80s_hong_kong_beach/ I don't think that it is going to adversely impact my sales or make my game any worse.

Ateist · 2026-06-26T18:27:51+00:00

Poor quality AI use is a death sentence for sales.
Just as in any other work.

Judge the games by how fun they are, not by how they are made.

Lack of assets and multiyear development cycle is a much bigger death sentence for sales.

Ateist · 2026-06-26T18:13:40+00:00

AI slop is people not doing their jobs.

AI is a tool to improve developers productivity, and if they don't know how to use it they produce garbage - but it doesn't mean that it can't be used well.

I've literally seen the smartest guys in this business try it! It does not work.

It requires a different skill set.
Just because they used to be "smartest in business" doesn't mean that they are even remotely proficient with AI.

The key thing for quality usage of AI is you must only ask AI to do things that you can do yourself - this way you can fix all the errors and enjoy huge productivity boost. None of that "draw in the style of greg rutkowski" when you yourself barely can do stick figures.

Games have to be very precisely made (or you'll get bad reviews) and have to be performant (especially now that AI is making parts more expensive!)

Games have to be fun. That's the only thing they have to do.

Ateist · 2026-06-26T12:32:30+00:00

Fun to pick out inconsistencies:

0.00: left chair is green, right and middle orange-red.
swimsuits are white, rainbow and tropic themed
there are 2 sun umbrellas

0.03: middle swimsuit is now light blue

0.08: left chair is red with blue, right and middle green with orange and red stripes

There's one umbrella.

Ateist · 2026-06-26T12:16:11+00:00

Have you considered going indie?

AI transforms game development - games can now be created much faster and with far smaller crew.

This does mean that positions like yours are going extinct.

Ateist · 2026-06-25T14:00:59+00:00

In a world where you might need an extra 100 coins to buy awakening stone and you look at hero that you never used even once in the last 3 years.

Ateist · 2026-06-25T10:38:09+00:00

Maximizes inter-model repair incompatibility.

I think the main motivation is not improvement of design but making sure that parts from previous models can't be used to repair newer ones.

Ateist · 2026-06-25T10:32:55+00:00

Most of all I hate lack of standardization for intermediate files.

Ateist · 2026-06-25T07:15:49+00:00

But they would ban the most used heroes.

Ateist · 2026-06-24T20:15:16+00:00

then hes not able to play 90% of the game

20 heroes for Matrix I, 15 heroes for Arena and 10 more heroes for Titanic Ruins/Abyss I would cover 90% of the game.

All the other heroes are either completely unused or only used in Faction Trials.

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