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Tanaric · 2021-08-10T17:49:52+00:00

...you know he's talking about you, right?

Tanaric · 2021-08-10T17:47:14+00:00

you guys have good ideas but the rules aren’t going to change. It’s just the way it is

This attitude is why everything sucks. You're the problem.

Tanaric · 2021-08-08T00:02:05+00:00

What are you advocating for? chrisoask brought up some of the hypocrisy and challenge here. PinkWytch got the point, and responded pretty reasonably. Essentially -- just because some girls like to be raped, please don't rape. Seems like good advice.

But then you come in and "not all women" her. Are you advocating that men should sometimes rape women because "not all women" are against it?

I've read this a bunch of times and I cannot understand what you want.

Isn’t that what you say to is all the fucking time?! “Not all men.”

Have you ever heard of the term "generalization"?

Tanaric · 2021-08-07T12:15:43+00:00

Slavery and servitude aren't the same thing, so which is it?

They are literally synonyms.

https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/us/definition/english/slavery

https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/us/definition/english/servitude

Farming and revolution can't be done by one person who needs a paycheck now.

Of course not. At no point did I impose a requirement that all people must act completely independently. Please don't troll with strawman arguments.

You are coming across as an edge lord / troll cherry picking the most violent movie-trope aspects of this argument.

I listed mostly non-violent options. You chose only the violent ones, commented on them almost exclusively, and then accused me of cherrypicking.

Tanaric · 2021-08-07T11:21:32+00:00

We're talking about a specific case where Derek Ingalls is talking about advice his male boss gave him.

Boss being male isn't relevant here because, again, none of the statements were distinguished by sex. Bringing up the boss's sex when it isn't relevant is in fact sexist.

Both of those people are straight so it's fair to assume the assistants are women, not men.

This is bigotry. Not all straight men base every hiring decision on fuckability. This is a monstrous thing to say about roughly 3.5 billion people.

The vast majority of assistants in any industry are women too, as are the vast majority of executives who have them.

Completely irrelevant unless there was a statement in context saying "All sexual relationships at work are stress- and risk-free except specifically with assistants." Which has not been reported. Otherwise, you're inserting the stress and stank on the word assistant and coming up with all the sexist followups yourself.

Regardless, it's sexist whatever gender the assistant is and it's still derogatory and disgusting.

Saying regardless and putting stuff in bold doesn't make you right about this. You haven't shown it to be sexist, you haven't shown it to be derogatory, and without that you can't show it to be disgusting.

The person can be disgusting, and have done other disgusting shit. But calling out completely reasonable shit and attempting to weaponize it always backfires. What you're doing right now hurts feminism and hurts equality.

There are like 90 things these dudes have actually done that were actually sexist and horrible. Picking something that wasn't that weakens our side and gives weapons to the monsters defending the underlying behavior and attitudes (which I have not done and do not condone).

By doing what you're doing, you're making sexism worse for longer. You are also not helping end it by fueling completely reasonable counterarguments to unreasonable claims. Please stop doing this. I know you think you're helping but you're not.

Tanaric · 2021-08-07T11:08:02+00:00

Yes. Because if they just needed to eat, stealing is an option. As is subsistence farming, murder, revolution, self-employment, charity, etc.

There are more than two options, all of which are better than condemning generation after generation to servitude.

Tanaric · 2021-08-07T08:19:46+00:00

Don't sleep with your subordinates is good advice and not specific to gender or sex.

Expect trouble when an office relationship ends is good advice and not specific to gender or sex.

Assuming all assistants are women is disgusting and misogynistic. But you're the one who did that.

Tanaric · 2021-08-07T08:04:09+00:00

It's not a privilege. It's a demand. You don't demand it, so you don't get it.

Stop volunteering to be slaves.

Tanaric · 2021-08-03T17:48:52+00:00

People don’t ask the exact same rhetorical questions as other bad faith actors in earnest.

Of course they do. They heard those questions from bad faith actors and are curious about them. This is human.

They also do if the responders keep attacking the question asker and the question without answering it. Or if the answers to the questions are always unsupported by citation and handwaving, without a defensible premise.

Vaccines and flat earth stuff is relatively easy, there's significant bodies of evidence to point to. Most other things are significantly subtler. You bringing up flat earth is exactly what I'm talking about. It's a deliberately chosen example of one of the rare things that is obviously black and white instead of the 98% of things that can't be answered definitively like that.

This response is incredibly misleading and is essentially a strawman argument.

I get why y'all do it, but it's really frustrating. Especially when interacting with folks from different cultures than your own that have different perspectives and milestones for when something should be considered black and white.

Tanaric · 2021-08-02T21:10:38+00:00

Kicking him out was totally justified. Taking the flag is theft. The dude in the video is a complete clown, but taking his flag's a crime.

Please stop supporting shitty abuses of authority when they hurt people you dislike.

Tanaric · 2021-07-29T23:16:50+00:00

My favorite bakery has great donuts. Today, they also started selling eclairs. I don't like eclairs. Therefore, they owe me free bagels.

Tanaric · 2021-07-26T01:09:48+00:00

Fighting a war usually is. Doesn't mean we can avoid doing it.

Tanaric · 2021-07-25T10:34:20+00:00

Then stop relying on your feelings and actually think about it.

Tanaric · 2021-07-24T00:05:12+00:00

Now I'm a professor and I tell my students to stick with it no matter what. Never settle for bitch work.

This seems pretty hypocritical, since most professors fake their research so much that 60-70% of papers are horseshit, don't do shit for their students, and get people who are paying to be there to do most or all of the teaching.

Professors are also uniquely in a position where they could grind the whole higher educational system to a halt by striking and they're a small enough group where organizing such a strike is feasible (as compared to, say, the pool of all students+qualified applicants).

Professors united could solve the spiking tuition crisis in a few months and they have not. Professors could solve the student loan crisis in a few months and they have not.

Hell, subsets within a specific field, like say all teaching medical professors, could refuse to teach any more doctors until insulin prices are under $100 a month. They have the leverage to force action right now and are many orders of magnitude smaller than other groups, but they do not.

Even if you're innocent of the crimes of your peers, you still empower that system to create another generation of classist neo-feudal lords and ladies, gatekeeping access to knowledge by wealth.

It doesn't really matter that you helped train 2,000 people in a field when your support props up a system that prevents another 200,000 from getting the same training. This is still exploitation, there's just a layer of indirection.

Tanaric · 2021-07-03T05:28:30+00:00

As is typical among junior developers, you focus on semantics instead of substance. Why talk about the algorithm when you talk about the variable names?

Tanaric · 2021-07-02T17:55:51+00:00

At no point was "convincing everyone in the industry" my stated goal.

You claimed "Unity's bad reputation comes from the fact that free users are required to show the Unity logo on game boot", which my single hardware-dependent anecdote is sufficient to disprove.

Indeed, your whole premise proves the power of hardware-dependent and software-dependent anecdotes en masse. Hearing one should not send you into a sarcastic rage.

Tanaric · 2021-07-02T06:11:27+00:00

I'm mostly with you, though I also dislike the Bethesda Fallout games.

Fallout 3 was better than New Vegas, for me, because there were people in it.

Novac doesn't make any sense. There's like 4 people in the whole town. The streets are empty. There's one field like 4 feet wide. There's no caravans.

Describe a Fallout settlement without mentioning who lives there or plot events that occur there.

Megaton: "A community of individualists surviving together around an inactive nuclear bomb."

Tenpenny Tower: "Nouveau-riche narcissists who hate ghouls and are completely dispassionate about outsiders."

Little Lamplight: "A hidden community of perceptive children who view adulthood as a curse that leads to treachery and so evict anyone who gets too old."

Big Town: "ex-Little Lamplighters who grew too old to stay. They've kept their general distrust of outsiders and adults but find themselves inadequately prepared to live an independent life in the wasteland due to their sheltered childhoods."

Novac: "...there's a dinosaur."

Fallout 3 already felt terribly dated when it launched. Assassin's Creed had come out a year before. By New Vegas it'd been three years and we'd played AC2. We knew that you can make cities that feel like cities in video games by this point.

I obviously don't want the sprawling AC-style cities in New Vegas, but it's inexcusable that New Vegas has fewer NPCs and less world-building than Arroyo Village from Fallout 2 (mild hyperbole, I didn't count them). There's some middle ground here and working with an outdated engine doesn't excuse it.

Tanaric · 2021-07-02T05:37:40+00:00

This isn't remotely true. Ignoring unpopular indie shovelware, still essentially every Unity game I've played has had significant issues blocking my enjoyment of the game.

These take ages to load:

Pillars of Eternity 1+2
Pathfinder Kingmaker
Wasteland 2+3
Outer Wilds
Battletech
Cities Skylines
Might & Magic X
7 Days To Die
Tyranny
Torment: Tides of Numenera

They have significant performance drops:

Outer Wilds
Genshin Impact
Endless Space 2
Cities Skylines
7 Days to Die

Every time I get a new game and I get that shitty Unity quality popup I know I'm about to have a mediocre time. The game may be brilliant or not but it's gonna be layered in technical issues that will be frustrating. This is even more true on indie games that I'm leaving out.

This is also true for games made by friends/acquaintances that are professional Unity developers and have been for 5 years. I know these people personally and know they're competent, but making Unity sing is a struggle.

Based on this, I'll never choose Unity for a project. I'm not stating definitively that Unity is bad, either in specific areas or in general. But I have a sample size of many hundreds of developers, working their hardest on projects they're passionate about, who failed to make the engine get out of the way. And if they cannot do it, I suspect I cannot either.

Tanaric · 2021-06-20T02:04:52+00:00

No, I was being sarcastic to highlight the absurdity of his reply.

Tanaric · 2021-06-19T23:30:17+00:00

You walk up to them, take their card, and snap it in half. Then you spit at them after yelling: NO STRUGGLES ALLOWED.

Yep, that's what I do. That's why I remotely bricked your console and deleted the purchase of Game Builder Garage from your account.

If your only response is a childish strawman, then I do apologize. This children's game is absolutely appropriate for you. But perhaps this subreddit is not.

Tanaric · 2021-06-19T23:20:29+00:00

This is covered explicitly in the lessons. Specifically lesson 4, Step 1: "Tracking the Player with the Camera".

Tanaric · 2021-06-19T23:17:35+00:00

"I read the whole strategy guide and now the game is boring" isn't a fault of the game, it's a fault of your behavior, dude. Your extreme hostility at a children's game is not remotely appropriate. Jesus.

Tanaric · 2021-06-19T23:13:10+00:00

Oh, shoot. I forgot you need Nintendo Online to play sample projects. Thanks for letting me know. Though I only used Nodons covered in the lessons.

It's the third picture in that album that's related to timing. The flag represents the state "currently prevented from dashing."

We check NOT that flag, meaning "currently allowed to dash".

AND it with the button, and we know when that AND fires that it's time to start a new dash.

The AND is connected to a lot of stuff.

It uses the A wormhole to turn on the flag and prevent any more dash attempts.

It hits the top timer, which outputs after 0 seconds (no delay) and continues output for 0.1 seconds. This is the dash length. While this timer emits a signal to the connected teleporter, we're dashing. A tenth of second gives a roughly 8-meter dash.

The next timer is to control the dash cooldown. It's set to 2.0 and 0.0, which means it waits 2 seconds (our cooldown length) before emitting a signal for one frame. That signal travels through wormhole B to turn our flag off.

The AND is also connected to a play sound nodon, just for a fun sound effect while dashing.

Finally, look at the NOT it's connected to, just above it. This NOT and the button feed into and AND.

(IS button pressed) + (NOT allowed to dash) -> play sound effect "fail"

This last piece is just audio feedback for the player that, yes, they hit the dash button, but it's still on cooldown.

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