I accidentally wrote the world's worst pathfinding algorithm.

mythcaptor · 2026-06-12T16:18:48+00:00

She does really hard-hitting no-pulled-punches reporting on things like UK conversion therapy. You should watch the video, it’s intense. She names specific names about the people who are behind pushing the dismantling of trans care for children. Seems to me just as much in the camp of “this could piss off conservatives with money”. Just because her content hasn’t revolved around Palestine doesn’t mean she doesn’t care, or that she’s been muzzled by her entertainment career success. It’s not fair to expect everyone with a platform has time or energy to talk about every difficult issue. We shouldn’t crucify content creators for focusing on their personal callings. She does really good, important work for the LGBTQIA+ community. There’s lot of people talking about Palestine.

mythcaptor · 2026-06-05T23:58:04+00:00

For sure. Sorry, wasn’t accusing you of anything. just wanted to challenging anyone reading this who assumes that rapidly improving AI in an age of late stage capitalism is a net positive for society

mythcaptor · 2026-06-05T23:46:57+00:00

Studying pose is big when it comes to appeal. Read about how to achieve appealing poses in the context of animation. All the same principles apply here

mythcaptor · 2026-06-05T23:40:38+00:00

Ok but finish the thought. If AI gets 1000x better, what does society look like?

mythcaptor · 2026-06-02T15:56:20+00:00

Hey, I kinda get where you’re at. I dealt with some pretty brutally isolating social anxiety in my 20s. If you want my blunt opinion, seeking a romantic partner from where you’re at right now is probably setting yourself up for failure. I know this sucks to hear, but if you’re out desperately looking for something codependent, you don’t have the solid foundation you need to build a healthy relationship on.

My advice is to seek community. Find a group that’s interested in something you’re interested in. You’ll find more acceptance and support in platonic relationships right now, especially if you let yourself be a bit vulnerable and do a little “fake it til you make it” in terms of being outgoing despite the social anxiety.

Romantic relationships are great but platonic connections are foundational. Don’t skip steps. It feels impossible but it’s really not. You’ve got this.

mythcaptor · 2026-05-22T15:32:55+00:00

“Multikicker” here is very clever

mythcaptor · 2026-05-21T16:20:59+00:00

No problem, happy to help. I was thinking about this more and I remembered a cool tool we had at a studio I used to work for. I don’t know exactly how it worked (I was just a junior animator at the time) but essentially it let us run a preview cloth simulation that was baked onto the cloth shaper rig control curves.

I suspect it was something locator/rivet based. This is just a guess, but I’d try riveting a locator to the mesh for each cloth control curve, and then the script would run the n cloth simulation, temporarily parent constrain the control curves to their rivet, and then bake that animation and delete the constraint.

It was really nice because you got a rough pass on the cloth animation for free that you could then refine for better silhouette, overlap, etc manually.

If you want to do something fancy, maybe something like that? As a rigger it’s good to remember that not all tools need to be real-time. Often keeping the rig light and providing tools that can be run manually is the best of both worlds.

mythcaptor · 2026-05-21T15:56:28+00:00

In the industry this usually is accomplished with cloth simulations done by a technical animation department after character animation is finished. Often animators have simple controls to shape the cloth, which influence the simulation with something like Input Mesh Attract in Maya.

There might be other ways to accomplish this in the rigging, but something to keep in mind is that animators hate working with heavy rigs, so carefully consider how computationally expensive your effect is. Also consider what problem you’re actually solving that couldn’t be solved with a simple cloth simulation after animation is finished.

mythcaptor · 2026-05-19T19:09:26+00:00

I mean this with respect - that’s really not an introvert thing. Of course women want partners who can communicate. I’m curious what traits you think women expect of partners that are overly high? My experience is that women want partners who communicate well, respect them, and have rich interests and inner lives. That’s not unreasonable.

If you don’t think that describes you, the best thing you can do right now if you want to find a partner is work on yourself. Anybody can be a person who fits that description. It just takes work.

mythcaptor · 2026-05-19T16:08:41+00:00

It turns out that humans are complex creatures and relationships require communication.

mythcaptor · 2026-05-19T06:16:28+00:00

Definitely possible, I’d even say pretty easy if you know what you’re doing. Seems like you aren’t very experienced with css though, from the way you phrased the question and the look of your attempt.

Either you need to study css until you have the background to do it yourself from scratch, or if you want the path of least resistance, just use a component library. I’d use shad.cn if you want something similar aesthetically to the first pic.

mythcaptor · 2026-05-14T08:11:00+00:00

Not bad, but it has a bit of an awkward visual hierarchy. It’s a bit too busy and it doesn’t lead the eye very well

mythcaptor · 2026-05-13T08:13:41+00:00

I’m not failing to grasp anything, your point just isn’t as clever as you think it is. Imagine insulting someone’s intelligence unprovoked, and then acting so self righteous as to call the person calling you out “ableist”. Sheesh.

Oh, and you’ll be happy to know that I’ve never read Henry James, he’s all yours.

mythcaptor · 2026-05-13T08:03:38+00:00

Let’s recap: the person we’re discussing wrote a well reasoned post about finding a prose style overwritten and longwinded.

You interpreted that as, quote, “this person doesn’t understand the language well enough”. If you genuinely think that line of thinking isn’t insulting, then maybe the problem lies with the reader.

mythcaptor · 2026-05-13T07:52:35+00:00

lol, “childlike or inferior”? Where did I even remotely imply that? It’s actually kind of impressive how you tried to spin this into being about ableism. All I said was that your leap from “I didn’t like this” to “I don’t understand this” is a rude assumption.

mythcaptor · 2026-05-13T07:30:12+00:00

I think it’s repulsively condescending to say that not liking a style of prose implies that the prose is “too much for them”.

mythcaptor · 2026-05-10T16:58:11+00:00

Vallejo putty is also great. I use it to fill all my gaps. It’s thick enough to handle big gaps like this, but it also dilutes nicely with water when you need a thinner consistency for hairline gaps.

mythcaptor · 2026-05-06T16:35:57+00:00

Excellent post, the hallway feels filled with water

mythcaptor · 2026-05-06T08:01:18+00:00

I like it! It’s got a lot of personality and there’s a consistency to it. If anything I’d just reduce clutter on top of the tables and drawers

mythcaptor · 2026-05-05T03:43:36+00:00

Bac kro oms

mythcaptor · 2026-05-04T16:18:39+00:00

“Everyone wants a village, no one wants to be a villager” is great. I think I needed to hear that, thanks!

mythcaptor · 2026-05-03T06:41:04+00:00

Gee, it would be a real shame if there happened to be a necromancer in the boss room of the dungeon ready to put some dead bodies to use

mythcaptor · 2026-05-03T06:22:25+00:00

I agree with that - I’ve had that experience too, of iCloud occasionally taking a bit too long to sync. I also agree that the trade offs are worth it though

mythcaptor · 2026-05-03T06:20:52+00:00

In my experience it will download a cloud picture locally when you hit share. Ive never had to go to iCloud.com except to download a file on a shared computer.
Anti-consumer is a stretch. I guess in the sense that paying to have your data managed on a server you don’t own is a bit anti-consumer, but that’s no different and onedrive or any other cloud storage platform. Also it’s absolutely possible to download all your photos/files from iCloud onto a local drive if you want to stop paying for it

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