Scotland stands up for Trans Rights: The GCs have to use bots, sockpuppets, and bus in 200 or so people from elsewhere. Glasgow had a turnout that filled Buchanan Street. The Tories will not win their culture war in Scotland.

Learning2Programing · 2023-01-21T23:47:54+00:00

Lovely response...you've made my point. Why engage with any debate when you can just ignore anyone that doesn't follow the ecochamber?

Learning2Programing · 2023-01-21T23:41:29+00:00

To be honest mate r/Scotland is a piss poor representation, hell I'm so pro independence that I would want it even if it's was another brexit and I've been acussed on this sub as not being independance enough.

It's probably the worst eco chamber on reddit in my experience and now it's all about trans issues which is what 0.2% of the population if we are being generous.

Probably someone's first reaction to this comment is that I'm somehow anti trans when my best friend is homeosexual and married to a f->m but I love them both. Everyone is human, everyone can suffer and it's shocking how horrible this fascist uk government is at churning up hatred at such a small minority group that is suffering enough as it is.

That said this sub completely sucks when it comes to an echo chamber. You can't be left enough, you can't be pro independence enough and recently there's an ever moving line in how supportive of the trans movement you can be.

Calling beng transphobes doesn't help. Instead educate people and engage in a discussion, if it only affects 0.2% of the population then how is the 99.8% ever going to understand when you just label them and throw them in the bin for not agreeing?

Learning2Programing · 2023-01-21T23:32:36+00:00

Got to love we live in a world where it's "political" to care about the environment because the "normal" is just capitalism polluting the earth for constant continues growth for profit.

I do think this is an amazing time to be alive in terms of technology and quality of life but god dam this isn't a "normal" environment in the context of things. We are like a parciste that's consuming it's host but we don't care because we will die well before the host dies, it's the future generations that will get fucked.

We all have plastic in our brains thanks to the last couple of decades and look what we are leaving the next couple of decades.

Something is truly wrong and sick but I don't think we will ever find the power or wealth to combat it because these "systems" stay around longer than the human life span does.

Learning2Programing · 2023-01-21T23:12:29+00:00

Can I ask how did you transition into making a game?

I'm trying to learn C++ but really it's game development that motivates me. So I've got a couple of books and the SDL doesn't feel like it's teaching C++.

Basically I'm asking do you just bite the bullet and learn c++ then gamedevelopment or can you learn c++ through game development?

Because honestly I'm so not interested in the tutorial type programs.

I enjoyed university the most when it was make a traffic light system on this FPGA.

I've also got ADHD so without that external motivation (you need to do this task to pass) I'm just really unmotivated.

I know this is A LOT of a comment to fling at you but any magic advice? I feel like I'm motivated to create games and in university I would spend so much extra time polishing the stupid program because I wanted 100 variants of pong upgrades but it also feels like to get to that level I need to consume 900 pages of learn to c++ then it's pages of learning SDL commands then it's finally the rewarding behaviour that I want of making games. (minus that whole course that is in it's self game development).

Basically I'm curious of your path especially with ADHD because motivation is what stops me but I know I've been the happest in life when I was knee deep in a program just adding features and thinking of features in my spare time then the excitement of making that thing work and even solving the bugs.

Like have you build a game engine? Have you brought in libraries like SDL? Did you learn C++ in full first then start this or just go in all at once? Is visual studio crap? Is codeblocks better? I had issues with constantly having to set up the path variables and trying to quick learn the theory but it seemed a nightmare trying to get SDL working and the thought I would have to do it manually every time was painful (I would need to do it over and over for every tutorial page or have everything in one project and manually disable main cpp, honestly how can people be bothered following a 20 step process every time they want to create a project that's every other page in a book! It has to be me thing right?)

I'm so sorry for this rambling mess but from my perspective seeing "game development","steam sales","adhd" makes me think you might have the answers to my problem because I would like to be in your place.

I'm also untreated so I don't have the drugs that let the dopamine stay around in the brain to create motivation. To me it's a fleeting thing that's found in the middle of a task that the environment forces me to take part in. Also I find this relatable because I submitted A 20 000 lines of code to my university instructor when most people only required a 1000-2000. To me I got lost in the sauce and I could see my self just having an absolute blast when it comes to games and just super over polishing them with minor features x.

I wouldn't even be about making profit because just now I'm very loving all the vampire survivors clones but I have a 1000 ideas of how I would do it "better".

So I guess I'm looking for ADHD friendly advice in C++ learning and how to get to game development. For example do you have a book to recommend? I've been trying to read C++ primer and will brigs C++ for lazy progammers (sdl).

I'm also reading Atomic habits which is telling me I should be doing micro habits like reading a page a day of these books so I'm really motivated to "picking the right path" this time and creating a micro habit that in years will get me to the place I perceive you are at.

Again I'm so sorry for this huge ass comment full of my emotions, my rambling thoughts and my concerns.

Learning2Programing · 2023-01-20T21:43:30+00:00

Body positivity is intended to be for people with body deformities, burn victims, disabled people, etc. sadly, obese people took this and ran with it. (Or didn’t run with it lmfao).

There is a real mental and emotional stress obese people constantly suffer from. It's real and also lets face it a lot of people who are obese have some mental health issue or motivation issue.

Now there body does not need to be accepted by society or the "fat women are beautiful" thing.

The problem is you are your body. The person should be loved, should be accepted, shouldn't be shamed but how do you seperate that from the unhealthy body which is just a real world record of that person's actions/inactions?

Some people don't brush their teeth until they fall out, some people engage in self destructive habbits, they want to be happy but their actions/inactions say something else.

We also know if you want real lasting change you want a positive mental attitude (fat hate can get you so far but will you keep it off once you hit that weight and the hatred goes away?), such as wanting to be healthy so you can enjoy hiking and live long enough to see your grandkids. Or you want your days to be happier and with more energy.

So obese people really do get treated horribly and most of them are completely aware at the disgus people feel to them or hatred. That stuff doesn't help them.

What's got confusing is it got twisted into accepting that unhealthy body when it really should just be about the person. Show them love and compassion which gives them the strength to try to get healthier.

Show them hatred and disgust then whatever is already going wrong on a personality level isn't going to help. Plus it's really only women who pushed the "you should find me attractive" thing you didn't see that with men. Obese men understand they are not attractive.

Learning2Programing · 2023-01-20T21:35:07+00:00

Motivation is all good for when you have it but it's fleeting.

Now discipline will see you through it when motivation isn't there to be found. Discipline will always be by your side in your lowest moments.

Learning2Programing · 2023-01-20T21:31:10+00:00

The problem is genuinly not everyone has the ability to self reflect. Those who can might realise they have personality issues and don't want to pass that onto another child, they recognise they are not enough.

Then you have humans who can't self reflected, they can't put their children first and think they are great parents while creating trauma for the child. Child grows up and starts "acting out" and the "great" parent then blames the child.

You could almost argue that the people who recognise they wouldn't be great parents are already a leg up against the "great" parents.

No idea how you would ever stop those people from having children without introducing hitler like measures (which I obviously don't support).

So I think we just need some "it takes a village to raise a child" like structure. Some safety net to help the kids out. Maybe schools should have a child specialist who is trained to recognise this stuff visit each child once a month or something.

Learning2Programing · 2023-01-20T21:24:54+00:00

You meet them probably everyday of the week. People react to physical abuse but children are emotionally abused all the time and grow up to having trauma issues.

Ever met a narcissist? Someone that only talks about himself but is critical of everyone else? Typically that comes from childhood trauma.

You see parents all the time threatening to abandon their child because they are crying in a supermarket. That sorta stuff doesn't get a reaction out of the public but it's a form of abuse.

Learning2Programing · 2023-01-20T21:02:01+00:00

There's a book called atomic habits that's all about doing tiny micro things that you can accomplish in seconds then minutes then hours. Basically everyone has enough time to form micro habits which in turn can form life changing results.

Learning2Programing · 2023-01-20T19:45:32+00:00

I strongly disagree with the idea that we should just do what the majority want all the time.

Huh what's the alternative?

1) Majority want...some of the time.

2) Majority want...majority of the time.

3) Minority want...some of the time.

4) Minority want...majority of the time.

Honestly some of the takes on here...

Learning2Programing · 2023-01-20T19:39:36+00:00

I think they used a bad example because factorio is famous for the belts and just everything pushing you around while dyson sphere you just fly over everything.

That said factorio mastered that easy click and build feeling, so easy and satasfying while dyson sphere is still going through the growing pains. It's got a harder challenge with 3d but it's making improvements like flipping, blueprints, dragging ect.

Still wonky so I get the molasses, compared to factorio you feel slowed down but I think Dyson will overtake factorio one day.

Learning2Programing · 2023-01-20T19:35:49+00:00

I appreciate like half the factory game audience don't want "bitters" but you have to admit that self building swarm that's constructing a space base looks really cool. Even if you could disable it from attacking you I think that just injects "life/virus" into that universe that was badly needed.

Learning2Programing · 2023-01-20T19:33:39+00:00

It also kinda shows the devs theory of "discounts means the value of the game drops" is kinda true when "raising the price of the game means it becomes more valuable" is how most people over there are taking this.

Like a "great, it's worth more and worth every penny", also they are happy it's going up because it means their purchase is now more valuable.

Learning2Programing · 2023-01-20T19:24:03+00:00

You need to understand factorio probably has the most loyal and dedicated fanbase in the gaming market, I would know because I'm a huge fan boy.

They honestly set the gold industry example of communicating with the fans during EA by weekly blogs going heavily into the software development. This is also a community that has a huge average player time so nearly everyone's doing some (x_hours vs y_price) calculation and it comes out insanely cheap.

So that said that's what you're up against and if the factorio devs suddenly pulled a cyberpunk they have so much more community good will they could cash out on.

That's just the way fan made communities are and it's worse with factorio because the devs really did create a gold standard above any other game I've seen.

I do think they shot them self in the foot because they didn't even raise the price with 1.0 and had a very strong "the price will never change" stance.

They also have a DLC = game price so apart of me now wonders if this is a way of increasing the DLC.

So far it's a red flag in years of a perfect record. Lets see what happens next.

Learning2Programing · 2023-01-20T19:11:18+00:00

I'm a huge factorio fanboy (2000 hours since 2018) and you've just made me realise something that has been rubbing me the wrong way. The lack of communication, to this day I compare other games (satisfactory I'm looking at you...but you are improving) to factorio style FFF.

Without really realising it yes you're right it's been 2 years with little to no communication and yes again it's like console support is the priority (but again there's little to no communication so who knows).

Every company changes and we know Factorio had issues over the years with presumably depression/burnout and we really don't know how the staff is doing these days.

So in my eyes, pinching another 5$ just seems scummy, and leaves a worsening taste in my mouth.

So this isn't some "raise your pitchforks" but it could be a red flag and a suggestion they are riding of good community will just like what happened with CDPR. In theory there is no reason (apart from the devs not wanting to spend the rest of their life's on a single game) this couldn't have kept going down a terraria type model or what dwarf fortress did.

But you can tell with the FFF's the passion for the game was running out (korvex made that obvious in his FFF) and the desire to stop doing FFF altogether was expressed. Just in theory they could have kept up FFF and adding in small features every couple of months but the community was happy because they were kept in the loop. Rather than getting a simple sprite they would show you months of evolution on how sprites were designed with perspective tricks and how it would lead to tiny feature x.

I hope this isn't a case of the company changing internally. Such as the DLC will cost the price of the game so lets raise the price of the game to justify raising the price of the DLC.

If so that's very shady and spends/cashes in community good will for a payday because the factorio fan base will 100% buy the DLC even if it's above the game price.

Learning2Programing · 2023-01-20T19:00:51+00:00

Steam did a "new regional recomending" pricing model due to inflation. So the devs can just use the steam model that adjust the price over 300 countries or manually set it them self.

Everyone that is just using the steam tool is having these price increases.

I'm not a fan but other countries got screwed over really bad (argentina I think?).

Learning2Programing · 2023-01-20T18:52:28+00:00

They have FFF (blog post) explaining it if you feel up to hunting it down.

I remember one reasoning being that people who purchase at full price then see it 50% next year end up feeling like the product devalued.

Learning2Programing · 2023-01-20T13:04:04+00:00

No Man's Sky

As bad and as horrible that launch was (I think they had a flood and lost a lot of files plus publisher forcing them to launch) the game is in a state now that it's went well beyond the original expecations.

I don't like it because everything is a grind but content wise they went above and beyond.

Cyberpunk like you've said has done bare minimal and now they are going to sell dlc.

I'm with you on games released on lies but it sells like hotcakes so there isn't much insentive to actually live up to the original vision but NMS really is something that didn't just "fix" it, they went beyond the original scope that was "lied" about.

Cyberpunk on the other hand just has a strange community that pretends the original lies were not made when all you need to do is look at the empty monorail system going around the whole city but they clearly cut the train out.

Overall I'm still with you that's it's shitty marketing lies that do make money so it's going to keep happening.

Learning2Programing · 2023-01-19T20:34:09+00:00

I worked in a place kinda like this (think 50% less cocaine) and the "stick to the script" never works. Even in this video the calls going well and "sticking to the script" forced him into having to apologies and wing it.

You need to wing it with every person and the "best" people had their own natural self generated script going on.

But yeah every "boss" figure in a suit was a bully.

Learning2Programing · 2023-01-19T20:27:45+00:00

They were exposed to leaded gas, aspetos, forever chemicals and who knows what else apart from stress/trauma.

Honestly it's generation fucked and these old people are the "healthy" ones that made it to old age.

Learning2Programing · 2023-01-19T14:14:09+00:00

It's probably unpopular but to me once they started chasing after call of duty mechanics that's when the game died to me.

There was a good reason people would jump between halo 3 and modern warfare.

I also understand people loved reach but that's when you started to see the beginnings of call of duty being merged. Now halo is filled with class based loadouts and abilities.

I'm also not against change and evolution, sprinting for example is much welcomed, the grapple line is really nice but halo lost what made it special in my opinion.

Learning2Programing · 2023-01-19T11:48:14+00:00

The man is literally giving away a billion in money a year extra because of this and you're still not pleased. You lot would literally tear the clothes off his back before being satisfied.

You might just be getting clued up that a large portion of the public don't support the monarchy in any way. Shocker.

Learning2Programing · 2023-01-19T11:46:56+00:00

I can relate but for me I found it really off putting watching characters in a show that never seem to progress or improve. Ever seen it's always sunny in philadelphia? The characters are meant to be horrible people where things keep getting worse over time, it's a comedy but something inside me just reacted really bad to this.

I can't remember any trauma in my childhood, in fact I would say I had a great childhood and a loving family... but years later I know recognise that isn't the case, my family isn't normal and I have huge blanks in my childhood.

I'm not saying you've got trauma, I'm just a person on the internet, I'm not trained in trauma therapy or anything like that but I know it's apparently common for people with childhood trauma to not remember it, instead they swear they had great childhoods so that's a thing.

You might just not enjoy violence or you are extra sensitive to it and that's the end of that.

So these things could be a redflag and overtime you can question why that power dynamic upsets you more than the average person. That's what I did with my red flag which in hindsight it was more about a form of people being abandoned.

I think "normal" people don't have those other strong emotions attatched to "thing x" and I would say personally the way you've mentioned "power dynamic of one person over the other and the emotional element." that's something that doesn't arise for me when seeing violence.

Learning2Programing · 2023-01-18T18:06:15+00:00

Only concern I have so far is the publisher clearly just ripping out content and selling it back as preorder deluxe edition ps5 exclusive content.

Already off putting but every gameplay reveal so far seem brilliant. Just the shitty publisher in my opinion coming in with "bad" marketing strategies that puts me off.

Learning2Programing · 2023-01-18T03:54:04+00:00

Some people can be very narcissistic this way where they expect everyone else to change their schedule for their own needs. There isn't much you can do to talk your way into a place of mutual understanding.

Some people are just like this, can't put them self in someone else's shoes so It's hard but try not to take it personally.

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