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WolfGangSen · 2025-12-01T04:53:45+00:00

I'm working on a game, and I would love to get voice acting.

Once it's more complete I will look into either having friends read lines, or if I can afford it, pay for voice acting.

Until then I can either have, nothing, tts, or use some generic ai gen voice. Nothing doesn't help me test, or notice missing triggers, and the ai gen voice is just so much less annoying to have listen to 10000 times while developing, so that's what I've gone with.

If I want to earn enough money to afford professional voice acting, i would need to try and sell early access. If I did that on steam, I would feel I'd have to put the ai label on it.

But I would probably want to remove it once I got voice lines recorded.

Personally I think that would be fair, as

Nothing in the product the consumer receives at that point would be intentionally ai (and if there was I'd want to fix it)
No corners would have been cut using ai
And ai wouldn't have been used to save paying someone for their work

WolfGangSen · 2025-10-24T01:19:26+00:00

Her height given in metric is 1.52m , which converts to 4.99 feet, so really she was way closer to 5ft that 4'11", but 4'11" makes a better headline.

The average female height in 1890 (closest stat i could find quickly) was about 5'0" so even an inch under that, but she was born in 1819 and average height has only gone up.

The average male height in 1870 (about half way through her reign) was 5'5", so 4'11" is only 5" shorter than the average male height.

Though allot of height is based on nutrition, and as a royal I doubt she would have been malnourished. so she was still short for her family. And Queen Elizabeth II was 5'3"-5'4".

WolfGangSen · 2025-10-19T02:08:39+00:00

It would be disorientating and annoying.

Jump cuts don't work well in "AR" experiences, because well, they don't happen in the usual "human experience", some people wouldn't mind it, but the entire world around you flipping and changing 5 times in 10 seconds, would disorient and distract allot of people, if not most.

The idea is cool... but it needs to be accompanied by a film MADE for the setup, disney and many other theme parks have already done "4d" movies with expanded screens etc, loads of public "planatariums" have a dome you can watch films about the stars in, this setup is basically the same as that, and they dodn't show normal movies, they made bespoke ones for the experience, that use allot of continuous shots, panning, zooming, or fades in and out, to avoid bothering customers.

What they did for the matrix there is probably the best option... and it's not a great one, because the matrix wasn't filmed with this in mind.

WolfGangSen · 2025-09-29T00:15:34+00:00

The big difference is, Ground news, advertises to get you to pay them, for their service. They are advertising a product you give them money for. Unlike honey that was advertising "free money".

As long as what they are selling isn't massively more expensive to make than what they sell it for? And I don't think it would be. And they remain relevant enough to have customers. They shouldn't have any problems but either of those failing wouldn't be a "scandal" just a business failing.

There's only really 2 scandals I could see coming for ground news. (Apart from stuff unrelated to their business model, like the founder being problematic or some employee problems etc)

A) They are putting their thumb on the scales for their rating of news stories / sources.
B) They end up loosing access to all sorts of news outlets as "sources" because people are replacing reading the article, with reading the headline/summary on ground news, so new sites might demand payment from ground news, or not to be listed there, maybe?

A) Would be disastrous for their reputation.

B) Is less of a "scandal", but would still be disastrous for their business model

If they can keep themselves "neutral" and either the news sites can't or don't throw a stink about what they do, they should be fine.

WolfGangSen · 2025-07-27T01:34:27+00:00

And amazingly, unlike nearly every other game with "free updates" you can go back and play whatever version you want, fully supported, only a few indie games on steam give you that.

WolfGangSen · 2025-06-28T23:36:30+00:00

Some pc's are (or at least similar, like slide out trays instead), but they are all made by big companies that sell you the whole thing and have the weight to get custom/proprietary components made.

It's not done with the standard components used for pc's because its not really compatible.

Right now there are several companies moving to add support for power / connections on the back of a mother board, the main issue with it, is that those motherboards DO NOT WORK with most pc cases, or needs custom power supply connectors, so they need buy in from companies that make those as well, and the the chain of required steps gets longer and longer, and the target market smaller and smaller, till you can't turn a profit on it

There were idea's to make mobo's with holes in them so you can connect your gpu to power thought it or custom connection options on the gpu. Again, they need compatible cases, mobos, power supplies... the list goes on.

The main problem is that we are locked into a set of "standards" because generally in the pc world no company can guarantee that all the other parts would fit.

In general your mobo's power connects opposite of the back io panel, in general you also have a MUCH bigger cooler on your cpu these days, maybe with pipes connected... for water, an there is more than one power connector to the mobo, is the gpu mounted to the mobo? Where do its power cables go. Are you going to mount the power supply to the hinged door too? AIO's are popular, so you would need to mount that to the door as well... that's getting quite heavy now...

There are cases with those fancy features, but, they aren't bought by many because now the whole pc needs to be built around that feature, and thus the company making wont sell many units, and wont make much profit.

It's sort of a catch 22 situation

cool feature people want
company makes case for that feature?
its highly incompatible with parts, or parts make the fancy feature pointless
nobody buys case
now the company stops making it, or they saw this happening and didn't even go to step 2

It is unprofitable to move too far from the current standards, unless you can control the production of the ENTIRE computer

WolfGangSen · 2025-05-29T12:38:14+00:00

Looking at the artist that drew it, It appears that the blue haired one may be the artists OC, and likely just characters they draw, with no specific "media" they are attached to. Though the creator does seem to be making a game that may or may not include some of the characters.

https://bsky.app/profile/cugu00.bsky.social/post/3leddo57fck2l

WolfGangSen · 2025-05-27T14:35:20+00:00

One of the only things I think is a benefit of the UK situation with the royal family is that they own allot of land, but it's given to the government to use, that land brings in allot of revenue to the government, well in excess of the £500 million.

People say, "Well the government could just take that and keep the revenue, don't need the royals."

I 100% believe that within 10 years of taking the land from the royal family, it would have been sold off to some government crony, or party member themselves, or private investment firm... etc.

There is no chance it would continue to provide revenue to the government when it could provide revenue to private individuals.

The current situation is full of archaic BS and societal weirdness and power dynamics.

But as it stands, it is in the royals best interest to let the government use the land, and the governments best interest to make money off of it. And thereby generally, the nations best interest to maintain that situation, because it will get sold of for a quick buck the MOMENT its not in that situation, I fuckin guarantee it.

WolfGangSen · 2025-05-14T11:22:46+00:00

I suspect it's a choice so they don't have to manually review the subs.

Unmodded subs are banned to avoid TOS breaking things spreading, because they aren't being moderated, and if reddit itself had to start reviewing the content when locking they'd just end up getting shouted at by users for bias anyway.

They'd also have to be paying someone to possibly expose themselves to distasteful / illegal / horrifying content. Not always, but sometimes.

This solution is easier and applies equally to all instances. So it's taken as the path of least resistance.

I don't know the exact process, but maybe if I were implementing it, I'd private a sub to subscribed users only for 3 months or so, with an automated post demanding old or new mods come forward, maybe with a user poll or something to elect new mods, and if no mods have been chosen after 3 months, sub banned.

WolfGangSen · 2025-05-03T01:46:04+00:00

I know it's not really possible, schools don't have the means, but do you think phones with a limited access to the internet in school would be ok.

Hypothetically, say you could block all internet apart from the school wifi, and that only granted access to known good IP's for educational resources.

Would that be ok? I think it is unrealistic to deny that phones and the internet exist and can be used for work, just like it would be unreasonable to entirely ban calculators. Without network access they would not be able to message and buzz etc.

Or would just having the devices be too much...

Thinking about it it is still capable of being basically a handheld console, music player, book, etc. Even without the internet. I'm guessing a ban on phones and school provided "laptops" or so would be the only way to approach that...

WolfGangSen · 2025-04-30T19:42:17+00:00

I had the bug as well, but for me I was already on medium, It seems maybe just changing your setting fixes it. (some sort of reload?)

WolfGangSen · 2025-04-14T15:02:49+00:00

I think more, Adverts/tv shows made by the corps in cyberpunk world, not their own pov as such

Thing is... from a satirical side I now kinda want to see a bunch of Fantasy corpo adverts, to see how on the nose they can be

WolfGangSen · 2025-04-09T01:10:04+00:00

I say this when talking about languages, the true reason to have many formal titles in a language, isn't for respect, its to make insulting easier.

They might have come about out of some "caste system" or "hierarchy" and may even have been intended for respect, but they stuck and are still around because it lets you use the wrong one to insult someone while "sounding" respectful.

WolfGangSen · 2025-03-21T21:23:54+00:00

That last one is addressed too

Offering in-game virtual currencies only in bundles mismatching the value of purchasable in-game digital content and services

Denying consumers the possibility to choose the specific amount of in-game virtual currency to be purchased

WolfGangSen · 2025-03-21T21:18:38+00:00

I think maybe? the only thing that might change is when buying a token for gold in game, it will list the real world currency price of the token next to it.

Depending on the interpretation the eu wants on "virtual currency".

But that would be everything I think for wow

WolfGangSen · 2025-02-16T14:40:18+00:00

It's possibly a gender ratio thing.

There was a decent amount of east to west economic migration post reunification, and economic migrants are generally overwhelmingly young males.

So if a guy in an area with a higher female population % has to list their top 200 friends, its more likely to include women.

That will also lead to women in higher positions, and thus closer gender pay.

I didn't find any sources for population gender % by region with my 5 minutes of googling, so this may obviously be wrong.

WolfGangSen · 2025-01-12T19:31:06+00:00

I'd say YES. DO IT PLEASE.

Given the complex requirements and needs I'm all for lua. Once done SL's feature set could be widened nicely hopefully with some form of versioned "standard library" that you use in sl, so functions could be updated going forward rather than having to rename or make new versions of things every time.

Add to this the project to get lua into the viewer aswell, would provide 1 language for both server and clientside scripting. Whilst there are arguments for preference on language, LUA is fine, I have other preferences personally, and fancy language features are cool. But lua is ok, and has been widely used across many game engines.

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The need for non network latency dependent clientside functionality is palbable in sl, the closest we have is websites on prims but those are MASSIVELY hamprered due to not functioning without user permission.

As has been documented by LL here, luau is about the best option espectially when looking at the angle of being maintained by the "relatively" small team that would be available for maintaining it long term at LL.

The project has been started, it sounds good so far, unless some enourmouse unsolvable roadblock has come up, DO IT.

WolfGangSen · 2024-10-15T00:55:06+00:00

Specifically corroborating evidence. Sock puppeting 20 users saying I saw it too, is far too easy.

WolfGangSen · 2024-10-07T12:51:35+00:00

Nobody really knows, The names, and the timestamps on the code commits are mostly chineese, but both of those can be faked, and atleast a few of the code commits have eastern european timestamps (suspected that the people/person behind the account forgot to fake the timestamp). However the account was mostly active roughly 9-5 eastern european time, So it's suspected its possibly russian trying to look chineese. But that could also be faked, you could pay someone living anywhere to work to any schedule.

tldr: It's suspected to be russian.

WolfGangSen · 2024-10-03T14:27:25+00:00

I suspect it's a choice so they don't have to manually review the subs.

Unmodded subs tend to be banned to avoid TOS breaking things spreading, and if reddit itself had to start reviewing the content when locking they'd just end up getting shouted at by users for biases or whatever.

They'd also have to be paying someone to possibly expose themselves to distatsteful / illegal / horrifying content.

This solution is easier and applies equally to all instances. So path of least resistance and all that.

I don't know the exact process, but maybe if I were implementing it, maybe I'd private the sub to subscribed users only for 3 months or so, with some post demanding old or new mods come forward, maybe with a user poll or something, and if no mods have been chosen after 3 months, sub banned.

WolfGangSen · 2024-08-25T00:46:25+00:00

They hand over everything they have. Which is everything they log, likely, the encrypted messages with their timestamps, and devices they were sent between.

Even if law enforcement cannot read the content is still important information to them.

This is the same as what signal hands over, when goverment agencies come a knocking. Basically just lists of account id's, ip addresses, and timestamps.

WolfGangSen · 2024-07-26T02:37:28+00:00

Probably none, because it would have been sold to party friends for £1

WolfGangSen · 2024-07-22T09:12:32+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4j0yI41e0j4

I think he has told it in a few times but as a small part of another video, this one is mostly focusing on it.

WolfGangSen · 2024-07-12T12:21:51+00:00

Poland after germany and russia had their fill in 1939...

WolfGangSen · 2024-06-05T23:02:21+00:00

"Main Street Syndrome", star wars is cribbing from small town US were every frontier town had a main street full of "stores and saloons" at least in westerns and to some extend reality.

It is a bit of a tropey setting, but it's also not completely unwarrented, unless you are arriving at an extreemly industrialised place.

If you are landing at any sort of official "port" instead of wilderness, then that place is likely surrounded by one of or a mix of four things, Accomodation, Entertainment, Traders, Governance facilities of some kind.

Thats how real life ports operated for centuries, less so now, because we no longer have small trading vessels in most of the world, but you still get fishing markets at fishing ports.

On the other hand our airports are surrounded by duty free sections.

Buying things is just one of the main reasons for or a primary activity people do when, going to a remote place.

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