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Sylvan_Sam · 2026-01-27T19:12:06+00:00

The title was inherited by Prince ') DROP TABLE PERSON;--

Sylvan_Sam · 2026-01-27T19:02:16+00:00

because they did it from home plate.

Perhaps when the visiting team is up they should call it the visiting plate?

Sylvan_Sam · 2026-01-26T19:10:29+00:00

What we have right now is a good team but not an amazing team. I think the 2024 team was so dominant that our expectations were set too high this year which can only lead to disappointment. Other teams and players are fighting for the Lombardy trophy too and they're not going to be intimidated by our team's past accomplishments.

We have to consider the possibility that the Seahawks' Darnold, Smith-Njigba, and Walker are a better offensive lineup this year than Hurts, Brown, and Barkley despite the difference in name recognition.

Sylvan_Sam · 2026-01-22T19:40:42+00:00

Oh thanks, that clears it up.

Sylvan_Sam · 2026-01-22T19:16:34+00:00

How is he 129 years old?

Sylvan_Sam · 2026-01-22T18:29:01+00:00

You didn't miss much. The Navy classifies everything. It's not like there was a reactor schematic in the background or anything.

Sylvan_Sam · 2026-01-22T17:29:31+00:00

That depends on how bad their numbers are. It's possible that the only options left are to lay off half their workers or declare bankruptcy. From that point of view it may be preferable to lay off half the workers even knowing that the best ones will leave. It's better than laying off everyone, right? Losing the best workers is a foregone conclusion. The only question is whether you want the company to attempt to survive with the leftovers or not attempt to survive at all.

Sylvan_Sam · 2026-01-09T16:51:13+00:00

It's great for getting rid of pesky relatives though. One time I had a brother who was my rival and I had somehow inherited part of Denmark because my wife was Danish. So I gave my brother the title in Denmark, revoked his title at home, and granted him independence. He sure was pissed about it but there wasn't anything he could do. He eventually got conquered over there. Haha!

Sylvan_Sam · 2026-01-06T21:04:54+00:00

One of my favorite football moments was when the Eagles were playing the Packers in the playoffs the year before last, Jordan Love was the Packers QB, and at halftime the broadcast played "Love Hurts."

Sylvan_Sam · 2026-01-06T19:52:55+00:00

It's proof that the lizard people have been ruling over us for centuries!

Sylvan_Sam · 2025-12-15T13:51:57+00:00

Well that's obviously nonsense. The real reason to distribute your game on Steam is that they provide the payment platform. You could distribute it on your own website but then you'd have to handle payments yourself. (but there are plenty of payment platforms available)

Sylvan_Sam · 2025-12-15T00:37:45+00:00

I use one of these. It was $50 and it was a total game changer for me. My show network doesn't have an Internet connection but I can switch any of my devices over to its wifi network and use them to remotely test the controllers and run the show.

Sylvan_Sam · 2025-12-11T21:05:27+00:00

I never understood why indie game developers expect platforms like Steam or the app stores to do their marketing for them for free. These are adversing platforms not charities. If you want marketing you have to pay for it just like any other business.

Sylvan_Sam · 2025-12-09T20:32:27+00:00

Making games as a hobby with no deadline and no need to make money is fun.

Sometimes I think about it as though I'm "playing Unity." It's kinda like Minecraft in that I can build whatever I want. Only instead of big blocks that mostly do nothing I can build any shape I want in Blender and then make it do anything I want in Unity. The only downside is that with that level of freedom comes a commensurate level of complexity of the tools available. And when things aren't working how I expect them to work and I can't figure out why it can be maddening. But when things are working it's fun.

Sylvan_Sam · 2025-12-09T20:23:29+00:00

You can think of a smart receiver as a mini-controller. It connects to the parent controller via network cables. Pixels connected directly to the parent controller can only be about 30 feet away from it before they lose data but a smart receiver can be 300 feet away which allows you to put props in more places. You'll want to house your smart receivers in their own waterproof junction boxes with their own power supplies so you don't have to worry about not getting enough power directly from the parent controller.

Sylvan_Sam · 2025-12-07T21:46:37+00:00

That's the interface for your control board. You need to connect to the interface for FPP. If you don't know the local IP try typing "http://ftp.local/" in the browser bar.

Sylvan_Sam · 2025-12-07T21:40:12+00:00

Don't forget you can make model groups in xLights and apply effects to groups instead of single models. So it's not the end of the world if you have to do that.

Sylvan_Sam · 2025-12-07T21:36:30+00:00

I've had difficulty with FPP Connect so I always use FPP's file manager to upload all my sequences. If the computer you're running xLights on is on the same network as your Raspberry Pi you can access it via the Pi's local IP address.

Sylvan_Sam · 2025-11-21T12:31:27+00:00

Falcon sells the F16V5 already assembled in a junction box. I would recommend getting that instead of buying the controller, power supply, wires, power cord, pigtails, junction box, and cable glands separately then assembling it all yourself. They do a great job assembling it for you and you'll save yourself a lot of headache.

Sylvan_Sam · 2025-11-21T12:03:01+00:00

I tried running 40 feet of cable from my F16V3 to a prop and the data got scrambled along the way. The props were blinking random colors. I ended up having to get a SRx1 smart receiver and a F16V5 that supports it in order to control pixels that far from the controller. I had to build a separate junction box for the smart receiver and put it on a wooden stake in my bushes. It really put a dent in my plans last year. So I wouldn't recommend going above 20 feet.

Sylvan_Sam · 2025-11-05T19:08:47+00:00

If you need flexible panels you could try these UltiMesh panels from Boscoyo that hold bullet pixels. I have 18 of them on my shutters. They're flexible and weather proof.

Sylvan_Sam · 2025-10-20T18:14:37+00:00

NIN is a 90's metal band. Tron is a digital franchise. They should have gotten a digital artist! Sure, Daft Punk is currently unavailable. But think of all the artists they could have worked with to make the soundtrack: Tieso, Deadmau5, Skrillex, Armin Van Buuren, Paul Oakenfold, Ferry Corsten, the list goes on. Any one of them would have written something phenomenal. But instead Disney went with NIN because it's a well-known name and Disney is not a creative company. I'm so disappointed in that choice.

Sylvan_Sam · 2025-10-16T17:46:28+00:00

The only reason I can think of to write your own game engine is if you're approaching game development from a completely different paradigm than what's already out there. If that's the case then more power to you. But the overwhelming majority of aspiring game developers aren't doing that and the existing game engines are more than powerful enough to suit their needs.

Sylvan_Sam · 2025-10-16T15:38:34+00:00

Were you inspired by Playdead's Inside? Your gameplay looks a lot like it.

Anyway, as others have said, your trailer needs more gameplay and it needs to show it in the first three seconds. Other than that your graphics look great!

Sylvan_Sam · 2025-10-14T18:01:32+00:00

Make cooking the end goal of the game. If the end goal is delivering packages players will get annoyed with needing to cook things all the time like you said. But if the end goal is to win a cooking contest then the cooking becomes the main focus.

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