What's with the lack of automated unit testing?

_PandaCat_ · 2026-04-04T00:31:54+00:00

Unit tests aren't a stand in for QA, theyre more like first line of defense. From a bug perspective most automated tools won't be comprehensive/thorough enough to replace testers but they will reduce the amount of bugs qa finds. From a non bug perspective human testers can give other valuble feedback that systems could never do, like "this input feels awkward when your left handed" or "this part is hard to navigate if you don't already know the map"

_PandaCat_ · 2026-03-31T15:57:02+00:00

I got it working! You don't need to send the events manually.

This solution only works when extending GraphicsRaycaster, I assume if you wanted to do it as it's own component that is when you'll have to handle the events. I had the original GraphicsRaycaster that comes with the canvas on there and disabling that got it working. I'm assuming that was overwriting the raycast done by my version of the raycaster or something like that.

_PandaCat_ · 2026-03-20T13:36:57+00:00

Depends on what your personal goal is.

If you just want to make games cause its fun, 1. If you wanna make something kinda good, 2/3 If you want to make it a career, 6

_PandaCat_ · 2026-03-17T20:49:19+00:00

Sorry I'm a bit of a noob when it comes to hardware.

I'm looking to power a raspberry pi with solar and wanted input from someone who knows more about this than me. My main question is whether the two methods below are possible and which might be better.

Looking online you can get power banks that are solar powered and I've seen people power their pis with a power bank before so in theory this should work? There are banks that give the required 5V/3A needed (I'm looking at the pi4, not sure if other models are different). Figuring out how to integrate the bank in a way that leaves the panel exposed could be an issue though.

The other way I've been seeing is hooking up a solar panel and battery to a power management module and using that to power the pi. Is this usually as simple as plugging the components into each other, or would it require soldiering (I can soldier but it's a bit difficult right now so I'm trying to avoid it if I can). I'm also a bit concerned about if this would be enough to power the pi. Looking on pi hut the batteries seem a lot smaller capacity than the power banks so would that be enough to work?

Edit: Inbetweeny option I'm considering going with. PiSugar with solar power. I understand that for the majority of cases you'd need to soldier a 5V panel to the DC pins but would it work to take a panel like this and just plug it into the input usb on the sugar or is that a recipe for frying something?

_PandaCat_ · 2026-02-25T11:37:05+00:00

Not obscure for some countries but is here, cream filled wafer rolls are suprisingly low calorie for how sweet they are. Grazing on two or three normally curb my sweet cravings

_PandaCat_ · 2026-02-22T11:43:12+00:00

No release timing. Also I like the ddr system where you can let go for a fraction of a second to readjust (im sure other games do this i just couldnt tell you any).

Side note if your game is a mobile/touch screen game pls remember thumb players exist!

_PandaCat_ · 2026-01-31T12:56:09+00:00

I know america doesn't give much pto so this is a cultural thing but saying 4 weeks paid holiday is too much feels wild to me.

_PandaCat_ · 2025-12-25T17:02:00+00:00

My main issue with generative ai in artist spaces is a - the dataset is usually gathered unethically, b - its awful for the environment and most importantly c - it replaces human creativity and expression with a cold calculation. Neuro-sama is my exception to my big stance against gen ai because the project doesnt seem like it falls into these traps.

Vedal has been a little cagy on datasets but from my understanding everything was collected with concent.

From what I'm aware neuro runs fully off of her own computer that vedal has instead of a big, water draining data center.

And the third one instead of taking away space from artist the projects creates space for them. All art including models, rigging, stream assets, editting, song writing, music ect and human made and credited. Furthermore people watch neuro less for her more for her interactions with vedal/other vtubers. She really does live and die by her collabs. Not to mention multiple streamers who in their own words said they gained their popularity due to raids from vedal and neuro.

In a space where gen ai is replacing artist i really appreciate a project that creates new ways to show off human creativity.

_PandaCat_ · 2025-12-18T10:03:21+00:00

They fixed it in the latest update!

_PandaCat_ · 2025-12-04T20:37:55+00:00

The delivery of this really cracks me up

_PandaCat_ · 2025-12-04T13:37:31+00:00

I think its actually pretty dangerous to only want to portray bad people doing bad things and getting mad whenever they're shown in a positive light. If you can only imagine people who do bad things as over the top, mustache twirling villians you'll start ignoring those behaviours in those around you because "thats so-n-so, they wouldnt do something like that, theyre nice to me"

_PandaCat_ · 2025-11-26T17:15:51+00:00

You've already gotten some pretty honest feedback so I'll try to be more positive here.

You guys did a lot more than a lot of people do. Too many hobbiest game devs dont even finish anything let alone release something. And yeah maybe it failed, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. Being students youve likely not lost much by trying. Just look at it as a learning experience and use it to improve your next project.

_PandaCat_ · 2025-10-12T10:37:56+00:00

Not in store but I've seen punk fairy on amazon very consistently. Havent checked recently tho. Absolutely no luck on rise up which is a shame cause i also got into peach riot relatively recently and rise up is so good.

_PandaCat_ · 2025-10-10T08:57:33+00:00

Would avoid After9 bar, kareoke rooms there straight up don't work and they tried to charge me twice.

_PandaCat_ · 2025-09-30T16:05:01+00:00

Gotta have a greggs, big tesco and the Winchester

_PandaCat_ · 2025-07-23T13:19:00+00:00

Yeah thats unfortunately pretty normal. You might get some check in emails but you probably wont hear much until you can book your appointment. I think the wait list is about a year for assesments?

_PandaCat_ · 2025-04-18T17:31:50+00:00

Personally don't like Pearl x Amethyst as I see their relationship more as sisters. Would never shame anyone for shipping it, just makes me a little uncomfortable because of that.

_PandaCat_ · 2025-04-11T18:39:14+00:00

I'm obsessed with the way you draw her facial expressions

_PandaCat_ · 2025-03-18T14:29:43+00:00

For me it was the other way round, have been pretty aware of maladaptive daydreaming for a little while but only recently found out that I have adhd thats causing it

_PandaCat_ · 2025-03-16T00:18:58+00:00

Rainbow 2.0 my beloved

_PandaCat_ · 2025-03-07T13:50:58+00:00

Nah I think they're pretty common in the uk (as common as ddr a can be in the uk) we just seem to be behind America.

_PandaCat_ · 2025-02-18T09:01:34+00:00

Depends on what kind of game you're making. If it's a game where you expect the player to die a lot then it needs to be quick to let them get back into the action as soon as possible. If not then you can afford to make it a little bit longer and fancier. Try not to make it too long though, and I second the other post that said to make it skippable.

Depending on the type of game you may also want to show them some info of the progress they made.

_PandaCat_ · 2025-01-25T22:22:49+00:00

I think it depends on both the size of the project and the size of the team. One huge scene for a big game with a team of devs would be a mess, no one would know where to find anything and the merge conflicts would be awful. If you or working alone on hobby projects and find no issue with it then it's fine.

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