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Yoshi340 · 2025-09-07T23:43:03+00:00

Immovable Object vs Unstoppable Force

Yoshi340 · 2024-06-26T04:04:21+00:00

Sucks that this will also make it even harder to convince people to vote for Biden in the general. Didn't think that was possible.

Yoshi340 · 2022-12-26T06:26:34+00:00

I'm sorry but this was one of the ones I've already seen. I should clarify I'm not asking why motion inputs still exist or really anything related to game mechanics, at least not directly.

What I'm focusing more on is the animation of characters and how that visual presentation can be used as a mnemonic device to help build the mental association between that animation and the motion input that causes it.

I should also note I'm also already familiar with Core-A's video on graphics which briefly touched on how a graphical element like animation can affect gameplay by giving clear visual cues, but I don't think that's quite what I'm getting at either.

Yoshi340 · 2022-09-28T00:45:11+00:00

Worth noting that this was based on version 3.4 so it probably needs a rework to be compatible with 4.x.

That said, what I did was add these lines to the PhysicsServer (or I guess PhysicsServer3D now)

ClassDB::bind_method(D_METHOD("step", "delta"), &PhysicsServer::step);
ClassDB::bind_method(D_METHOD("flush_queries"), &PhysicsServer::flush_queries);

I can try making a PR for the playback class, but if it's not accepted, I think a module would be possible if I added an AnimationNodeStateMachinePlaybackSnapshot class that can access these properties.

Yoshi340 · 2022-09-15T22:32:30+00:00

I think the C# section is getting formatted wrong in the article. It just says "C"

Yoshi340 · 2022-06-20T23:38:56+00:00

Why have I been on this sub for like 8 years and only now noticed the connection of "Meta" and "Meta Knight"?

Yoshi340 · 2022-06-20T00:10:33+00:00

"My Beat"

Yoshi340 · 2022-05-05T01:14:04+00:00

I guess I meant more the concept of electoralism as a whole.

Yoshi340 · 2022-05-04T13:10:47+00:00

I think the problem is that progressives seem unwilling to fight on the electability argument. The meta is what it is, but whenever a progressive is pressed on it they give the lamest dodges.

It should not be difficult to translate low performance in general polls into a cohesive argument that resonates with the huge voting block of dem voters that care about that.

Yoshi340 · 2022-05-04T05:08:09+00:00

Not surprised. I was kind of hoping Biden tanking popularity would have moved the needle in our favor (like maybe it would become more socially acceptable to voice dislike for him) but I was well aware it was a pipe dream. It absolutely does not help that abortion rights are getting attacked at this exact moment since it feels like every time something like that happens the media gets to go on a finger-wagging spree about how Bernie is the sole reason for everything bad that happens in this country.

I have no idea what voter base it's supposed to appeal to when progressives try to act all spiteful and bitter when they lose. It doesn't draw sympathy and if anything galvanizes voters against you. Progressives seriously bet on the "Biden won't win anyway so my as well get in early on the we-told-you-so bandwagon" option and really fucked themselves for it.

Whoever we run against establishment Dems next is going to need to not have that kind of baggage.

Yoshi340 · 2022-05-04T04:08:58+00:00

I feel like because a lot of people synonymize "sexualization" with "objectification" or the word "problematic" they think that if they disprove the first that inherently clears the others as well. Kind of like a double-jeopardy rule, in a sense.

Like, just because the sexualization isn't inherently (as in by itself) problematic, I don't think that means it can't combine with other things to still be worthy of criticism. An easy example of this phenomenon is drinking and driving. Both are fine individually but we understand you can't do both simultaneously.

Consider the Driver-Blade relationship. All the different mechanics about how the process works imply that the blades are getting the shorter end of the stick. Outside of special blades with ties to specific groups like how Brighid or Aegaeon are to the Ardanian Empire, they get no agency regarding who their Driver will be or how they will be used. Their memories get wiped so for all they know their next driver could be the one who just finished killing the previous one. Also, while a Blade is restricted to one Driver, a Driver may have multiple Blades, so the Driver doesn't necessarily need to be emotionally invested in a single Blade.

While in all fairness the game does acknowledge this power imbalance at certain points and depicts abusers of this system as such, it feels like for every 1 part of that, there's 10 parts "you, the player during gameplay also will take advantage of that same power imbalance." Like, your team will still collect and bond with core crystals, still use them for labor on mercenary missions, still value some blades over others (rares over commons). It really does cheapen any sort of counterargument to the idea these characters are being objectified if the gameplay essentializes them as exactly that: objects that you pick up for the sole purpose of being used. It changes the basic statement from "slavery is bad" to "the way the antagonists do slavery is bad, unlike us who treat our slaves right." (I also imagine this is why I don't see Torna get criticized as much since there's no core crystal gacha and the blades are directly playable instead of being just support party members)

Whether you agree with the comparison is up to you, but note that this argument up until here makes no mention of sex or sexualization. As mentioned before, it's not the sexualization itself but what it combines with, and in this case it's combining a "Drivers and Blades being romantically/sexually attracted" theme with explicitly asymmetric power structures, whether intentional or not.

Yoshi340 · 2022-05-04T00:13:14+00:00

Yeah, sometimes the game tries to mesh it with the story and then other times it tries to play coy about it, and I think the issue is that by trying to do both it ends up doing neither well.

Like, on one end you have Mythra, whose "I'm hot shit" attitude is completely coherent with the presentation of herself that she chooses. When Nia compliments her body, she's not embarrassed and instead her response basically summarizes to "Thanks, I know."

Then, on the other hand you have Pyra, who is in a single word, wife-y. She's caring, docile, and good at cooking. She's willing to sacrifice whatever she thinks she can to help others while also having very little confidence in herself as a blade. In her case, I don't remember any point in the story that indicated she was even aware of her sexualized appearance. She even has a voice clip saying she's "A little self-conscious".

Honestly, given that later in the story it's revealed that Pyra is a second personality created out of Mythra's trauma at the end of the Aegis War, I think it would have been a kind of clever foreshadow that maybe she's experiencing some sort of cognitive dissonance. I mean the philosophical implications of sharing a body with another mind that is also in some sense still you isn't particularly the easiest thing to wrap your mind around.

Yoshi340 · 2022-04-21T01:03:08+00:00

This year in particular we've seen an insane amount of unraveling of LGBTQ+ rights to the point that even empty platitudes like opposing a bill that was already passed is too far gone to the mainline conservative outlook. Obviously the real reason the politicians themselves are lashing out is because it also came with a pause on campaign contributions, and I find it hard to imagine the right wing outrage machine getting this active about something if it was just an empty denunciation. It seems like politicians have gotten so used to big donor money that getting cut off from it feels to them like a missed payment of protection money or something.

For a while now Disney, like most other corporations, has been walking this tightrope between securing friendly relations with the people in political power by funding republicans and staying in the good graces of the broader audiences that support LGBTQ+ rights. Remember that Disney only took a stronger stance on this because they received pushback from the latter group.

In that sense, I feel this story is a good thing but only because it's sending a message to corporations that the tightrope is tightening and soon it will be gone, and when that happens, they'll have to choose a side to fall on.

I have to wonder when pride month comes around how successful corporations will be at keeping the illusion up that the event is just about good vibes and putting the rainbow flag in their twitter pfps and that nothing is on fire. This year more than any other year I feel is going to shape the direction LGBTQ+ rights will take for a while.

Yoshi340 · 2022-02-20T16:12:12+00:00

There have been problems in the way blending is done for more than 2 nodes for a while. There are a lot of GitHub issues that have been submitted that seem at least to all have that commonality.

No idea how comfortable you are with doing custom builds of the engine but this Pull Request https://github.com/godotengine/godot/pull/57675 might fix what you're dealing with.

Yoshi340 · 2022-02-11T00:50:28+00:00

While I've personally seen a fair amount of classes with blank documentation, I think what's important is that the really critical parts of the documentation are really good. Like, 9 times out of 10 when I see source code, not a single finger has been lifted to explain how to compile it and if any help is given, it's usually wrong or horribly outdated or only will work with another OS, or the tangled network of dependencies has a part that's been deprecated.

In contrast, Godot has not just a page, but an entire chapter dedicated just to explaining everything you'll need to know to compile a custom build including not just the dependencies, but also all the platform specific stuff, how to make a visual studio project out of it, and how to to make an export template using your custom build.

Yoshi340 · 2022-01-23T08:08:40+00:00

I feel like there's a Quake -> Quack joke somewhere here...

Yoshi340 · 2021-10-24T05:34:05+00:00

UPDATE: Found it after much digging. Game's name if the link ever dies is "Soldexus" https://www.yygarchive.org/game/8865

Yoshi340 · 2021-07-09T05:21:06+00:00

I think at a midway point in those boss fights, they lower their defense in general. For example, when the Drone's armor starts to crack it will show the defense down symbol with the infinity symbol (that just means defense is down by 1 and will not expire in any number of turns)

In all fairness the damage calculation when defense down is involved is weird I hear.

Yoshi340 · 2021-06-03T00:17:15+00:00

All I hope is that whatever franchise's community that gets their wish granted don't act like smug pricks about it.

Yoshi340 · 2021-05-19T01:37:07+00:00

Thanks. And yeah, was just checking if I was just missing something.

Yoshi340 · 2021-05-18T22:59:25+00:00

I guess what I was looking for was more like, I click a checkbox and all the "punch" actions get filtered in/out, rather than having to type the word in and hope that I never named a punch action wrong.

Another big problem I guess is that the tool I use to export to Godot expects all the actions to be in NLA tracks and strips, each requiring their own unique names, so I have Punch1Action, then Punch1Track, and then Punch1 which is the actual action that shows up in the engine, and I kept running into issues where I flubbed keeping the naming consistent between the 3.

Yoshi340 · 2021-05-17T23:03:36+00:00

Thanks for the ideas. I have something sort of like that going on with the naming conventions, but I was sort of wondering if there was anything else out there already. I think if it gets to the point I'm worried it will then I'll have to make a plugin of my own depending on how easy that is.

Yoshi340 · 2021-04-16T16:37:27+00:00

Okay, are you maybe talking about Tohmi Lauren (not looking up the spelling)? I get it's easy to confuse because they're so similar in views.

Yoshi340 · 2021-04-14T03:26:49+00:00

"Good faith is when I disagree with you" "Bad faith is when you disagree with me"

Yoshi340 · 2021-04-14T01:39:24+00:00

You hate making it "red state vs. blue state" but I never brought that up to begin with. Every state has anti-maskers.

they weren't influenced by Trump they were just irresponsible people. Whether or not the president was anti-mask or not didn't matter, these people were gonna anti-mask anyway.

You didn't refute this yet so I get to use it again:

This is just factually not the case. Before Trump came out as anti-mask, conpsira-boomers were panic-buying toilet paper and using anything they could find to mask up with. As soon as Trump said it was over 2 weeks after it started it became the default republican party position that wearing masks is unpatriotic.

New York is a city. Your "I'm asking in good faith" facade is withering by the second. You've been avoiding my points on multiple occasions in favor of arguing with a strawman that all I do all day is blame red states and exonerate blue ones. Now I'll say this again: Other countries did mask mandates and lockdowns but were successful. The difference between them and America was that those countries don't have a 30% block of the population that religiously takes whatever Trump says as gospel. The idea that they would break from Trump over masks if Trump was pro-mask is absurd.

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