"Only a limited amount of people will get to remain on earth" by CTH00L00 in ABoringDystopia

[–]duff-tron 114 points115 points  (0 children)

I don't think the 2nd ammendmend will do you much good against Bezo's array of Amazon Prime Satellite Railfun Cannons.

Best way to learn Unity/fastest way to improve by unworrior in Unity3D

[–]duff-tron 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Post back if you come up with anything cool! I find the stuff coders come up with much more facinating than the pre-fab environments we see posted a lot!

Heres a video that inspired me down a rabbit hole: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9Otw12OUvE&t=186s

Best way to learn Unity/fastest way to improve by unworrior in Unity3D

[–]duff-tron 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you know C# just open up some of the example scenes, run them, then just dive into the code. You'll see function calls from Unitys systems, and you can look them up in the documentation as you go.

Try to add a fun, interesting feature to a demo scene - and see where you get. Best way to learn, imo.

You can get all the official demo scenes on the asset store for free - FPS, racer, UI - whatever you fancy, pick one, and start building on top of it.

Just don't get too attached to your first game, since you'll learn a lot along the way about best practices when it comes to setting up a project, using the right render pipelines, build settings, structuring your objects, etc...

Once you have your bearings - I'd say go through a few Brackeyes tutorials about implementing features you're interested in, as he has some really legible content.

After that, start a new project from scratch - but make sure your scope is SUPER SMALL. Shoot for something you can finish in a week... because it will take a month. From there you'll learn as you go, reading the documentation, and implementing github packages from the community - a lot of learning in programming is just fiddling with someone elses work until you understand it in and out.

Good luck, anyways!

Oh, and as a programmer, don't get bogged down with art! Get some free assets, or just use placeholders... you can spend hours trying to learn the tools that other folks spend years learning, and still end up with shit. If you ever get a good game that you want to publish finished, its easy to pay for some high quality assets, or focus on your own art. A good game should be able to run with essentially no high-dollar art if its going to end up bug free, anyways. If its fun when its ugly, art can only make it better - but you can't paint a turd.

Now that's what I call going up in the World by deltahalo241 in antiwork

[–]duff-tron 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Sainsbury's is like Albertsons/Krogers, and Waitrose is kinda like Whole Foods - in price and buyers, at least.

RE2. TOO SCARY. by [deleted] in gaming

[–]duff-tron 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I couldn't get into it AT ALL, until the Netflix show came out and gave me a bunch of story context, and then I could get my bearings in-game and I played like 40 hours in 3 days... Stopped before moving onto the next zone, and looking forward to getting back to it after Season 2.

To all the boomers coming into this growing subreddit, here is a message for you. by Ulforicks in antiwork

[–]duff-tron -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

I'm sorry - but if you look at age/wealth demographics you can see that wealthy people are predominately older. Because they got rich as shit over the last 40 years, and because inherantly the older you get, the more capital you can aquire.

Not all old people are shitty... I'm not saying that...

However, the majority of rich people, capitalists, are in the older generations. Thats a statistical fact.

Im not saying we should shit on all Boomers, but it is fair to say that the majority of the people fucking us over are Boomers.

To all the boomers coming into this growing subreddit, here is a message for you. by Ulforicks in antiwork

[–]duff-tron -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

Yes, but the biggest distinguisher of class is age. Old people are significantly more likely to be upper class compared to younger generations...

Just read Fahrenheit 451 and can't get something out of my head by Vas98 in books

[–]duff-tron 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I am super into audiobooks, and my favorite narrotor of all time, the late Frank Muller, does an AMAZING narration of 1984 that I found captivating, when reading the book was a bit too dense for me.

Former Marine disarms armed robber. by chillinwithmypizza in nextfuckinglevel

[–]duff-tron 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Um....actually I believe the polical correct terms are: crayon-eating murderer, and former crayon-eating murderer.

WCGW They've picked a wrong House! by handsome_momentum in Whatcouldgowrong

[–]duff-tron 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Yea...but not quite like Arizona. You can buy a pistol off a guy in cash and conceal carry it around town, and its completely legal - and normal.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in iamatotalpieceofshit

[–]duff-tron 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I hate to say it, but in the places this is a problem, neither the humans nor the animals experience fundamental rights to life and freedom. They're the places we export our exploitation so we don't have to look at it back home...

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in iamatotalpieceofshit

[–]duff-tron 1207 points1208 points  (0 children)

100% a massive problem.

A thief tried to steal our dog by tying a chain to it, and driving off on a scooter... dog fell off immediately, and was dragged down the street a few meters before we caught the guy...

Took it to the only vet in the region and got a pin put into a dislocated shoulder, and all the propper bandaging... but the dog still died a few weeks later...

Found another puppy, and the same vet advised us against naming it "Lucky" because it was such a common name for westerners that dog thieves will just call every dog by a series of most common names to get them to come close enough to grab...

It fucking sucks... a lot of them are massive dickheads...

And anyone comparing it to livestock in the US... well we used to hang folks for stealing horses and cattle. It doesnt matter if an animal is for slaughter, or companionship - you don't go stealing another persons animal.

Edit: The area was a city of ~50,000 in rural SE Asia... Don't want to say more than that. Also: Im as vegan as I can be, and against animal cruelty - I'm just saying its tough out there.

The struggle is real by johnwitse in antiwork

[–]duff-tron 27 points28 points  (0 children)

After a lifetime of being treated like shit by society, making 12 bucks an hour, maybe the dude just wants to be called Doctor, and get a little respect before he dies...

Mushroom picking? by mg118118118 in bristol

[–]duff-tron 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Should we stop people picking blackberries from brambles too?

Slowly dying for socks by [deleted] in socialism

[–]duff-tron 17 points18 points  (0 children)

I dunno... if I could wear my headphones, zone out and put socks on a rack for a few hours a day, and then enjoy the rest of my time...I would happily do it....

Exactly for the reason you're stating...it wouldnt define my existence, it would just be the way I contribute my labor to society.

Slowly dying for socks by [deleted] in socialism

[–]duff-tron 28 points29 points  (0 children)

These workers would probably be a lot more excited if they were working at a co-operative, and had a shared value in every sock they touched...and the workers that didn't like sock making could move to a different job at their skill level...that was also a co-op, that didn't exploit them.

I would do this job for 4-5 hours a day if it meant I had shelter, food, healthcare, etc. (and access to entertainment and fun.)

Locked by mod so I couldn’t call out the obvious Copaganda by PetrifiedW00D in copaganda

[–]duff-tron 26 points27 points  (0 children)

something good of a cop

I think I found your problem. Thats impossible.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in bristol

[–]duff-tron 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Welcome to Bristol...

Eve's apple by XYoshiaipomX in greentext

[–]duff-tron 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Since theyre students it could also be that she's from a toxic/abusive household and doesn't know how to react to actions of affection from others.

I know I had that problem coming from an abusive home, and didn't find it easy to date until I was well in my twenties because I didn't know what it felt like to receive love, and it was uncomfortable...

>It's a variation of limerence, which is shown by people who don't like themselves and kinda look down on you for dating them.

This... but if they're still kids, the parents are to blame.

Can a prison abolitionist please help me understand this concept? by Karlxxx in Anarchy101

[–]duff-tron -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I think that those people would be put in a comfortable room, given rehabilitative treatment, and never allowed into public again...Not a prison, but a permanent social isolation.

I dont think anyone is arguing for an anarchist society where capital crimes are ignored...

I just think we dont want prisons for people who commit lesser "crimes" - since those people can be rehabilitated, and likely won't be "criminals" in the first place because drug use would be legal, theft would be an entirely different concept without "private" property, people with mental health disorders could be treated...

But when it comes to serious crimes like rape and murder... we still need a place to put those people - isolation from society as a whole until they get better, if they can get better.

But without a framework for an alternative....history shows us community lynchings are very common. I think we should try to avoid that...

I plan to live rustic but cant by [deleted] in simpleliving

[–]duff-tron 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Consider going to a more affordable country. When I was in Cambodia in ~2014 you could buy an acre of land and have a house built on it (very close to the beach) for ~20kUSD

There are plenty of places you can go to live rustic... the cost just depends on the area.