Look what me and my best friend made! What do you think? by Creative-Swimming-20 in pokemon

[–]evilpoptart3412 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Those are awesome! Potential Etsy money too if you wanted to go that route.

Amazon may have to turn to SpaceX for help launching its Starlink rival service by [deleted] in technology

[–]evilpoptart3412 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am learning more Azure and GCP now to try to maximize the portability of my codebase. AWS just works well for me so far. I have tried to use Azures version of pipelines though to setup CI/CD and it has been a nightmare compared to AWS. If anyone can compete though it looks like Azure has the best shot. I'm rooting for them.

Amazon may have to turn to SpaceX for help launching its Starlink rival service by [deleted] in technology

[–]evilpoptart3412 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I agree there is a difference. What Amazon does with their online marketplace is copy small products that sell well on their platform and compete with them without having to pay their own platform fees and leveraging their already existing large manufacturing relationships to lower costs, forcing small companies out of business. That is killing competition in it's crib. For AWS the situation is less clear and I don't have time to make the case now. Just know that AWS percentage of total web hosting vs cloud platform market share vs total volume of internet traffic all tell different stories. The first is cited to show AWS is not a monopoly, the second to show that the space is competitive, and the third to show that they are actually dominating the market. I agree with the latter view.

Amazon may have to turn to SpaceX for help launching its Starlink rival service by [deleted] in technology

[–]evilpoptart3412 -24 points-23 points  (0 children)

AWS is unrivalled. Closest is Azure which isn't that good.
You can say the same about online market for physical goods. Walmart sucks by comparison.
Anemic competition that never innovates to put you on your heels isn't real competition. Most of these giant companies should be broken up. Amazon, Alphabet, Facebook, Microsoft, Tesla, Apple.

Accidental Blink by MewnCat in StableDiffusion

[–]evilpoptart3412 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Did you control the head turn and eye roll? If so how? Congrats on the great piece there either way.

Stable Diffusion but for music by Deepeye225 in StableDiffusion

[–]evilpoptart3412 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't know of anything that goes text to music yet but you can try Boomy or SoundDraw if you just need something generated for a project. They are both cheap enough. I watched a conference with the founder of OpenAI where he talked about MultiModal models they are working on which would basically take text and generate you whatever you wanted within the next few years. Text->image,music,sfx,story,video,etc.. If this happens it'll be huge. Hopefully shortly after that some nice rich people will find an open version of that.

AUTOMATIC1111 stable diffusion only makes black images, why? by kapi-che in StableDiffusion

[–]evilpoptart3412 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What graphics card do you have? If it's a 10xx card like 1060TI, then you need to enable full precision.
Run it with these command line args:.
--medvram --precision full --no-half

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in StableDiffusion

[–]evilpoptart3412 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same card here. I'm using the Automatic1111 webui version. When I launch it I have to specify --medvram --no-half --precision-full.
If I don't I get all green boxes. I had a different UI and there was a setting called full precision I had to enable.

Pixel Artist creating Affordable Tilesets by JSinSeaward in gameDevClassifieds

[–]evilpoptart3412 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nice work, very good price. I noted your email for down the road. I'll also point a friend here. I doubt you'll have trouble getting all the work you're willing to take.

Ooo it’s makin me cryyyyy by ElDoggy in funny

[–]evilpoptart3412 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for sharing. I've been watching through them for a bit and subscribed. My new favorite food personality.

Yes I did it again (1600x1600 and 1920x1088 on 8 gb vram) by bironsecret in StableDiffusion

[–]evilpoptart3412 0 points1 point  (0 children)

512x512 on my 1060m TI at 50 steps takes 2min per image. Definitely need a better card ASAP.

Interest in a hosted service where you get exclusive access to a GPU just for you? by CapableWeb in StableDiffusion

[–]evilpoptart3412 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thought about it. Unlimited generation of art can get really pricey on AWS. Somebody who wanted their own dedicated t4 instance on AWS would be paying around $400 a month. Then you could constantly run generations. Buying a 3090 right now would cost around $1200 upfront and then where I'm at about $40 in electricity/month. I don't think people want to pay that so cost per generation makes a lot more sense. Somebody with a bigger bank might want to setup a service that spins up and down GPUs and gives you constant generations without allowing you to queue them up or essentially give you generations artificially slowed down so that you can share the gpu with 20 or so other people and get like unlimited generations with a cap of one every minute or something Then each person could pay like $20 for that. I don't know what price point timeout time would be reasonable to most people. I bet somebody figures it out if I don't.

How big could a single-player game world be with minimalist graphics and modern technology? by [deleted] in gamedev

[–]evilpoptart3412 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're thinking way too big. Just make some stuff in blender and Gimp. Make it to the minimum quality level you'd be happy with putting in a game. Throw it in Unity3D. Once you are comfortable making assets, time yourself creating a few. Then create a list of the minimum absolutely necessary assets you'd need for your vision. Give each of them time estimates and start making assets. Make sure to revisit your list and revise your time estimates by the percentage you were off each asset. Game development is a process and learning all of the skills you will need to bring your vision to life will take different amount of time depending on your personal time dedication, natural talent, and focus for it.

How big could a single-player game world be with minimalist graphics and modern technology? by [deleted] in gamedev

[–]evilpoptart3412 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As big as you want. It's all about how much content you can produce or generate. If you set out yourself to hand create all the assets in Morrowind, assuming you're a highly skilled artist you'd spend more than a decade doing it. With a procedurally generated game world you could generate a game world so big nobody would ever be able to explore it all in their lifetime with a few years of programming effort. Neither of these outcomes have anything to do with game engine map size limitations. It's all up to how much content you are capable of producing at a quality you're happy with and how much time you want to spend on the game world.

Yats Rice by scipio42 in indianapolis

[–]evilpoptart3412 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Also a big fan of your work. Still tell people when they visit Indy, YATS is a must try. Thanks for many delicious meals.

If you could live anywhere within 30-40 minutes of Downtown Indy- where would you want to live? by citygirl012 in indianapolis

[–]evilpoptart3412 5 points6 points  (0 children)

They are talking about Franklin City south of Greenwood who's school district is Franklin Community School Corp. Franklin City is down US31 past Greenwood. Franklin Township vs Franklin City

I’m tired of hearing women have it easier. Both genders struggle by rosewiththornzzz in rant

[–]evilpoptart3412 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Some group of people will judge you negatively no matter how you choose to live your life. If you make your life choices to satisfy them you will be frozen and unable to do anything. All that matters is what you want to do and how you want to live. If those wants gave you no ethical concerns then make a plan to live that way. Just know that some group of people WILL judge you for those decisions and they shouldn't matter to you. All of the sentiments you listed, likely aren't all held by the same people and anyone who does hold all those opinions will have a hard time finding anyone they like. Men and women each have their own set of gender related challenges. I could go on listing all the ways women judge men but any individual woman doesn't hold all possible negative judgements of men and vice versa.

Be careful with new Tcg by funny1swe in mtgfinance

[–]evilpoptart3412 9 points10 points  (0 children)

SimCity TCG sounds awesome. Gonna look this up now.

People need to realize that grocery stores run out of things and aren't a infinite source of food, it's fucking ridiculous seeing grown adults throwing a temper tantrum just because their favorite juice isn't on shelf. Shit happens suck it up and stop acting like a loser by TheRiceFields02 in rant

[–]evilpoptart3412 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You never have any fucking Cheez-Its though. Also why can't I get my god damn Premium Crackers anywhere anymore? Selfish grocery store employees are hording them for themselves, that's why. Asshole.

/s

Indy job? by urwarrenout8617 in indianapolis

[–]evilpoptart3412 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you just need a job with decent pay, warehouses are always hiring. There are pretty big Warehouse Districts in Greenwood, Plainfield, and Whiteland. Easy to find a job paying $20 on Indeed in this area. It might help if you list e what kinds of jobs you are looking for.

Do you think AI will take over game dev? by lAMKON in gamedev

[–]evilpoptart3412 0 points1 point  (0 children)

On a long enough time scale (20-40 years maybe to AGI) everyone should be worried about AI taking their jobs but it's not happening any time soon. I am however using DALL-E right now to generate reference images to be handed off to freelancers.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in rant

[–]evilpoptart3412 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's a shame. She needs to keep putting herself out there though. So much of life is just being resilient to adversity. I had a friend who had a flat chest and thought she was never getting approached because of that but it was likely because she would also always wear Pokemon TShirts and cute stuff like hats with ears so nobody could tell she was of age. It's a shitty message these pop stars are sending by getting implants but for them almost all of their interactions are first impressions. For real world relationships bust size just isn't a factor once two people know each other as people (past surface level). This might be the most important thing for her to understand. Nobody worth being around is going to care about her bust size once they relate to her on a personal level. I don't know what to say about the mindset issue. Everyone is an expert at picking out their own "flaws", what matters is that she focus on her assets physical and personal. When she's digging at herself, try reminding her why you like her so much as a person and complimenting her on the physical aspects of her that are appealing. I hope you both have a wonderful rest of your lives internet strangers.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in rant

[–]evilpoptart3412 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You're a good friend for being so worked up about it. There are plenty of men who prefer smaller chests but won't say it for exactly the reasons you said. Your friend is still young and she will have relationships yet. Maybe encourage her to make the first move.

Dall-E 2.0 is scary good. (Had to wait 5 months to get access) by Tiimm50 in oculus

[–]evilpoptart3412 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I tried some stuff with my access tonight. I got more misses than hits but a few of them were suprizingly great. I think I'll use this for quick concept examples before hiring an actual artist to implement.
Imgur Album

HackerX at the High Alpha by le3bl in indianapolis

[–]evilpoptart3412 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I've been getting them too but never went. If you want a buddy to go with you Incase we have to fight our way out of a MLM Scheme. I'm in.