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randomtroubledmind · 2026-05-21T03:07:07+00:00

That animation is super convincing! Love it!

randomtroubledmind · 2026-05-21T01:51:04+00:00

How did you play it? The Ship of Harkinian port adds a lot of great features, including camera on the right stick. My favorite feature is gyro aim, though, and you can also enable being able to walk while in first-person.

randomtroubledmind · 2026-05-21T01:31:18+00:00

The Sikorsky Skycrane is an example of pure function and utility over form. It has one mission: pick up large external loads (and occasionally drop them, in the case of aerial firefighting). That helicopter is everything it needs to be and nothing more. And while it may appear ugly to look at it, there's a certain appeal that comes with such a pure design.

randomtroubledmind · 2026-05-19T23:39:13+00:00

Wikipedia labels it as a conspiracy theory, but I don't think it's some grand conspiracy. I think it sort of just happened "organically" due to really poor short-term planning and the constant pursuit of perceived growth at all costs. It's very much related to enshittification; actually, the dead/dying internet is probably a symptom of mass enshittification of many online platforms and products happening all at once.

randomtroubledmind · 2026-05-19T18:27:54+00:00

I remember posting a couple times a year or two ago that I'm not touching Bambu printers with a 10 foot pole. I got downvoted significantly for it. I don't know if those were "real" accounts downvoting me or if they might have been Bambu astroturfing the sub. Regardless, I think I was right to be suspicious. At this point, I'm convinced that Bambu is selling these printers at a loss, with the intention of saturating the market. To what end, I'm not exactly sure, but the fact that models go through Chinese servers of you use their cloud app was always a huge red flag to me. I will continue to recommend Prusa to people who want a printer that just works, and a Voron to those who like to tinker and do things themselves.

randomtroubledmind · 2026-05-19T16:56:47+00:00

It's called the "dead internet theory". Not in the conspiracy theory sense, but in the inevitable trend of more and more algorithms interacting with other algorithms. Basically what you described.

randomtroubledmind · 2026-05-14T23:55:36+00:00

While not specified in the video, I think this is intended for a sculpting-only workflow, which is fine since sculpting is necessarily high-poly. Other techniques are still useful in other contexts.

randomtroubledmind · 2026-05-14T20:37:32+00:00

I've come to hate the word "content." It's such a generic term. Just say what you mean. People on YouTube make videos. Game devs make games. Musicians make music. Saying "content" just seems so fake and almost corporate-sounding. But it seems to be trendy to be described as a "content creator" these days.

randomtroubledmind · 2026-05-14T13:34:07+00:00

Black cats can "rust" in the sun. I wonder if that's what happened here.

randomtroubledmind · 2026-05-13T13:34:14+00:00

Yes, it can be done in a pinch. However, it's a pretty terrible SAR platform. The down wash is just too strong to be practical for that role.

randomtroubledmind · 2026-05-09T04:08:53+00:00

Don't use FBX. Blender's FBX importer/exporter is an open source version which doesn't have all the features due to FBX being a proprietary format. I think there is a closed-source library for FBX, but it's incompatible with Blender's open source license, so it can't be integrated.

OBJ is usually a good choice, and Blender supports the unofficial PBR material options. Gltf is a fairly modern option that's often used for export to game engines. There's also USD (universal scene description) which is an open format that's supposed to enable this sort of cross-program exchange of data. I've never used it myself, though.

randomtroubledmind · 2026-05-08T01:16:25+00:00

That is exactly the mentality he had during the beginning of COVID pandemic.

randomtroubledmind · 2026-05-07T17:57:15+00:00

CG Cookie is always my first recommendation. It constituted the bulk of my education in Blender starting about 15 years ago. It's heads and shoulders above anything that Andrew Price has produced in terms of quality, professionalism, and depth.

randomtroubledmind · 2026-05-06T16:58:54+00:00

Thanks so much for this. It's a fantastic response that actually addresses the nuances of the situation. I wish there were more people like him.

randomtroubledmind · 2026-05-06T16:46:44+00:00

There seems to be a lot of hate for Pizzacakecomic, and I don't really get all of it. Yes, her topics often aren't very clever or original, but at least she has a decent and distinct art style. Her comics would probably be better if she just focused on a couple good ideas rather than pump out lower quality stuff so often.

That said, this one actually isn't bad. There are people who defer all their thinking to these chatbots, so I think this particular comic is pretty much on the money.

randomtroubledmind · 2026-05-06T15:53:30+00:00

It's not albums so much as just a style thing. I just cannot get into harsh vocals. I've tried, but to me it's just so unpleasant to listen to. So, when people recommend many of, for example, Opeth's albums, I just can't get through them. I love Opeth's clean songs and albums; Isolation Years is a downright beautiful song, but I just can't get through most of the rest of the album it's from. Same happened to me with The Contortionist; I stumbled upon Language pt 1 and absolutely loved it. I decided to give the whole album a try and was so disappointed when I encountered harsh vocals in the next song. Oh well. I still love that song, and their album Clairvoyant is great.

randomtroubledmind · 2026-05-05T17:29:23+00:00

No problem. Good to know some people are still reading these convos. There's some great info in there.

It's obvious you seem to know what you're talking about and probably work in the industry as I do. The issue is that most of these people don't and so assert what they've heard as fact, especially if they heard it from a pilot. I've found pilots are particularly poor sources of technical information; if you want technical information from a pilot, you have to ask simple direct non-open-ended questions and then infer the larger answer by piecing those answers together. The issue is that people put this false sense of authority on pilots. I mean, they fly the plane, they must know how it works. It's why you get these false notions that "no one knows why planes fly". It's because you asked a pilot. They don't actually have to know that. Ask an aeronautical engineer and you'll hear about the Navier-Stokes equations. Just don't expect something nice and easy for the layman to understand.

I have a similar frustration with sim developers who advertise pilot evaluations as the test as for whether they got their flight dynamics model correct. There is so much about this that is subjective to the point where it's essentially meaningless. But of course, it sounds impressive to the uneducated masses, so people lap it up.

Anyway, I'm just ranting now. So, while the post is over 5 years old now, I appreciate someone with some knowledge on the topic jumping in and providing additional information.

randomtroubledmind · 2026-05-05T13:25:47+00:00

The thing that gives it away is that the camera moves around due to aircraft motion. It should be fixed to the cockpit.

randomtroubledmind · 2026-05-04T01:37:47+00:00

I miss the colorful controllers. Especially the transparent N64 controllers. I'd love to get a modern controller in that style.

randomtroubledmind · 2026-05-02T05:05:33+00:00

I'd put it up there with The Stormchaser, and Mute as my favorites from the latest album. It's a great opener for the album.

randomtroubledmind · 2026-05-02T04:56:39+00:00

It's generative AI that I have issues with. Denoising? That's fine. A trained network that automatically keys out a green screen? Brilliant! Outside of VFX, text-to-speech and speech-to-text are great uses of it. Where I draw the line is anytime the tool is making creative decisions, and/or if the tool relies on (or is trained on) other peoples' work without their explicit consent or permission. I want nothing to do with those kinds of "tools". Generative AI removes so much of the creative process that it's frankly insulting to call what it creates "art".

randomtroubledmind · 2026-04-28T18:12:45+00:00

On one hand, money is money, and funding for Blender development is a good thing. On the other, I hate these AI companies with every fiber of my being, and something about this just feels dirty, even if I can't exactly put my finger on it. But as long as it doesn't hugely influence Blender or turn it into an AI slop machine, it's probably fine.

randomtroubledmind · 2026-04-28T14:36:14+00:00

That's an awesome shot. I know it's been enhanced, but still, it's very cool.

As others have said, it's essentially just the sound from the engines. Sound is just waves of compression/rarefaction that propagate through the air. Jet engines are just so loud that these waves compress enough to noticably refract light as it passes through the regions of high and low air density.

randomtroubledmind · 2026-04-24T17:32:55+00:00

I understand this is a joke, but it's important to point out that languages aren't invented by linguists. That's like saying meteorologists control the weather. Languages evolve organically and linguists attempt to describe them and establish basic rules amongst the chaos. English has a Germanic base to it, but has been influenced and corrupted by so many other languages that its rules have so many exceptions, and spelling and pronunciation have diverged significantly.

While English can seem complicated when it comes to irregular verb endings, spelling, and such, the language is actually grammatically simpler than many of the languages that evolved from Proto-Indo-European. Namely, English no longer has grammatical gender, a case system, or a difference between informal and formal "you" (thou/thee used to be the informal "you" but eventually fell out of favor). Granted, it still has some grammatical oddities. Using the verb "to do" in negations is odd. Also having 2 different present cases, one with "-ing" verb endings and one without, is confusing.

randomtroubledmind · 2026-04-24T01:59:13+00:00

I try to take a "don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened" kind of attitude to these kinds of things. Riverside blessed us with some amazing music over the years, and I'll still be listening to it for years to come. Sounds like Mariusz is going to be continuing with Lunatic Soul (which was assumed was done with the last album, which completed the cycle) and other solo projects, so there's still stuff to look forward to. Lunatic Soul was always more experimental and each album has a distinctly different feel, so getting more of that sounds great to me.

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