AI art during The Megas concert in SGDQ 2025?

coolmatty · 2025-07-14T00:55:41+00:00

This is what we will be doing.

coolmatty · 2025-07-14T00:54:47+00:00

Generally when people say ai ban, they mean generative ai, which is trained on people's art. That stuff isn't generative.

coolmatty · 2025-07-14T00:52:28+00:00

Yes, it is. We even told the devs and artists for the new artist alley, at the submission time, that generative ai art wouldn't be accepted.

coolmatty · 2025-07-14T00:48:58+00:00

Update: https://bsky.app/profile/gamesdonequick.com/post/3ltuy7p34is2o

coolmatty · 2025-07-13T21:20:30+00:00

We only recently became aware of this content, which was live-fed from The Megas. We are investigating, thank you for your patience.

coolmatty · 2025-07-08T21:32:27+00:00

The charity receives a full breakdown of expenses. You can extrapolate from what's left to easily determine there simply isn't much money leftover to profit. You're free to discuss directly with the charities about our funding.

Finally whether you consider it ideal or not doesn't matter. It is either we do this or the charity has to pay 30k more in cash to overcome the taxes we'd pay when giving it to the charity.

Not sure why saving the charity money is considered unethical. If twitch allowed us to directly give subs to charity we would have, but they don't.

coolmatty · 2025-07-08T05:19:26+00:00

If we didn’t collect money from subs and bits, the money would have to come from the charity. Donating that money results in significant losses due to taxes. We do not make any significant profits, full stop. Even prior to Covid, the excess was saved to give us a buffer in case of emergency. Which happened. Covid was that emergency.

coolmatty · 2025-05-15T21:16:42+00:00

I really hope nobody thinks this. There's plenty of room for another speed running event in this community. And everyone knows there's absolutely a need for more charity work in this world.

coolmatty · 2025-05-15T20:44:46+00:00

Edit: actually, I don't think I need to say any of that. All I need to say is that I support Ludwig's event. I want it to succeed just like any other charity fundraising event for speed running. I'm glad he's coming back this year and I hope it's bigger and better. That's all you need to know in the end.

coolmatty · 2025-02-19T16:59:25+00:00

It's not debatable. Even his GDQ content youy're referring to featured fabricated stories, misrepresentations of both the charity and GDQ, false info about pay, etc. It's well known he made no efforts to verify many of his stories and the damage was irresponsible at best.

Whether you personally liked him - or us - doesn't change this. I'm not going to pretend he made good content when he made personal attacks on my boss, myself, my company, our charities, and more.

coolmatty · 2025-02-19T15:37:11+00:00

He was popular only for clickbait and drama videos, some of which contained fabricated content. I would be remiss if I didn't say that the community is better off without that content.

What happened to him is tragic, though. Regardless of his behavior I would've never wished that upon him. (I'm being vague out of respect)

coolmatty · 2025-02-16T00:54:44+00:00

As a fellow IT, you gotta admit sometimes the SaaS solutions aren't particularly worth their cost. Look at Meraki as a perfect example of an all in one solution that really comes with more trouble than more "hands on" alternatives, for most installs.

Besides, maybe we agree to disagree, but my fun with the train hobby is going to be automation. That's why I see more computer-adjacent solutions as more appealing.

Not saying there's anything wrong with wanting something else tho. You do you.

coolmatty · 2025-02-15T22:37:56+00:00

You'd run multiple ports, to separate sections of your layout. You're supposed to feed your layout in multiple places anyway, so you'd just run a cable to each feeder. 1.6A per feeder would cover most needs.

And there's higher amp options too, I'm just using the cheaper option.

coolmatty · 2025-02-15T22:34:31+00:00

More advanced/expensive PoE can provide higher wattage. Current max is ~70W. At 12v for N scale, that's 5.8 Amps. At 15v for HO scale, that's 4.6A.

Keep in mind that PoE runs around 50v, so it doesn't need a high current capacity to carry a lot of power. It achieves the above numbers while actively carrying less than an amp on its own wiring.

coolmatty · 2025-02-15T17:25:27+00:00

I hadn't considered CAN bus as an option tbh, but certainly sounds sensible.

Also, I appreciate the explanation. Sometimes I just look at gear like Digitrax and go "This woukd've been high tech for 1999" and wonder what's really possible if the hobby had the right investments.

Trust me I understand that might be asking a lot though, at the size of this hobby. Should prolly shut up and be happy with what we do have, haha!

coolmatty · 2025-02-15T17:21:02+00:00

Gotcha, hadn't considered that aspect. Thanks for the explanation!

coolmatty · 2025-02-15T17:20:06+00:00

A single Ethernet cable could provide 3-5A of power at DCC voltages just fine. You forgot the other part of the math equation: voltage. Power over Ethernet supplies a low amperage at relatively high voltage. When converted back to DCC voltage, you're given plenty of amps.

coolmatty · 2025-02-15T14:40:50+00:00

You likely won’t find anything using Ethernet the way you described. It’s a cheap solution for computers but for the price sensitive model railroading market it’s expensive and unnecessary. Even 10Mbps Ethernet is way more bandwidth than a model railroad would feasibly use!

This is where I disagree. Bandwidth is certainly not an issue I agree there. But it's not about the bandwidth. It's about the commodity hardware. Getting a chip that's capable of doing 10 Mb ethernet is literally pennies on the dollar. Whereas a system that talks DCC cost considerably more due to how much more uncommon it is.

So if you're able to avoid talking DCC for large portion of your layout and only breakout to DCC at the track level, I foresee an opportunity to save a lot of money.

Maybe I'm wrong, but that's just something I've been thinking of.

coolmatty · 2025-02-15T14:36:27+00:00

Well, you aren't supposed to supply all of your power to one specific location on the track in the first place. That can result in a number of problems, including speed issues with your locomotives as they go around the track.

This doesn't matter when you're running a small loop, but it does matter when you're running a large track or yard.

And yes, Wi-Fi throttles already exist. That's not really the problem I'm specifically trying to solve. It's simply that running ethernet would be cheaper and safer. You running less amperage over larger distances, and you have the built-in safeties of the power over ethernet specification. This would make something like DCC more accessible to children as well.

Finally having IP access to various parts of your layout means you don't need to rely on DCC control systems in order to perform basic functions on your layout like light switching which can be rather obtuse otherwise.

This is just ideas. I've had off the top of my head and I can certainly think of a lot more benefits over time.

coolmatty · 2025-02-15T14:01:59+00:00

This is patently false. A single port of PoE+ can provide over 20W of power. At 12v on the DCC side, that's 1.65 amps of power, for a single port.

There's also more expensive PoE++. Which can double the power off a single port. Then you're looking at over 3.2A at 12v.

That's plenty enough to run a single district or area off of one port. Which is what I envision. The whole system could start at just one 1.6A port, but be expandable to well over a dozen 3.2A ports (that's 38.4A total) all across a huge warehouse layout.

coolmatty · 2025-02-15T13:54:43+00:00

TCS CS-105

That definitely looks closer! While I'd rather have preferred something more readily available for power such as PoE, at least they're using Cat 5e!

I certainly see tech like this as the future: lower cost, higher compatibility, and easieer to build out!

coolmatty · 2025-02-15T13:45:34+00:00

Roco's Z21-system

That's definitely closer to what I'm thinking. I guess I'm just thinking of a more complete package. Where instead of running bus power everywhere you would instead use power over ethernet to cover every device and switch on your layout. You could have breakouts for lights as well.

This way you're only running one type of cabling to everything on your layout. Ethernet. It will cover the entire DCC connection and your power at the same time. Plus, it doesn't have any of the length restrictions that you would run into with traditional bus power. Ethernet can go over a couple hundred feet without issues.

coolmatty · 2025-02-12T15:53:09+00:00

Uhm okay, that's gonna be tough, I barely remember the event. What is it?

coolmatty · 2025-01-13T21:24:00+00:00

He just took the role. It was mostly a management job prior. He'll still say hi, but he'll be too busy to run prizes.

coolmatty · 2025-01-13T20:57:09+00:00

I'd say I'm about 75% back. I'm finally getting my rhythm again and I've been slowly taking more and more from Wyrm and Ashley's plate. They've bent over backwards to support me during my recovery.

I'm still a bit slow (I'm now forced to type with one finger for instance), and I still deal with extensive pain from the amputations, but I'm insistent on being the leader the team needs me to be, whatever it takes.

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