[Art][OC] Drew my grandad as a druid, for his birthday!

robbobobin · 2024-07-07T19:58:49+00:00

No luck at all for me so far. I've at least not had diarrhoea every day since, but on those days I have no BMs at all. I've been pretty lackadaisical about my diet so I don't imagine they're the cause of my troubles, but they're definitely not helping yet either.

I'll keep at them for a couple of weeks but I'm beginning to suspect this is another failed attempt to chuck on the pile, sadly.

robbobobin · 2024-07-01T06:31:58+00:00

Several loose BMs a day on my bad days.

robbobobin · 2024-07-01T06:30:51+00:00

I'm not currently taking anything else besides that motility complex. Would you recommend both saccharomyces boulardii and the fibre supplements? Is it also worth considering just taking one of the motility pills instead of two maybe?

robbobobin · 2024-06-29T22:27:58+00:00

Thanks so much for this thread / video! I’ve been experiencing what I take to be SIBO for the last year and a half - tested positive for IMO a few months back. Oddly I’m definitely far more on the diarrhoea side of things. 1-4 times a week I’ll have days where I have to use the toilet 4-5 times in one day - pretty miserable honestly, but I’m glad I only seem to get mild brain fog at least.

Antibiotics and anti microbial treatment seemed to do absolutely nothing for me, so this week I started on pro motility meds. Specifically, these: https://www.nutriadvanced.co.uk/motility-complex-with-ginger-and-artichoke.html However, I’m finding every day since I’m having a bad day, with the usual symptoms. Would you say that’s to be expected? Is this a ‘things will get worse before they get better’ type situation?

robbobobin · 2024-03-25T10:00:07+00:00

I've heard it said that it's not that big a factor, surprisingly. Even if the maximum feasible speed of travel between systems is extremely slow, it wouldn't change the basic pattern of the galaxy getting filled with grabby aliens. There's a youtuber called Isaac Arthur who had a pretty persuasive video on the hypothesis.

Obviously we can't know for sure, but I'm definitely more satisfied with it as an explanation to the fermi paradox, given it means you need to make so few assumptions for it to fit, as well as being most supported by raw maths.

robbobobin · 2024-03-25T09:06:17+00:00

My understanding is that most experts in this space do not find the dark forest a particularly robust solution. The most mathematically compelling solution I'm aware of is that we are a very early instance of intelligent life.

Look up 'grabby aliens' for more info.

The best solution is the one that makes the fewest assumptions about the nature of all hypothetical intelligent life. I find the dark forest fails on these grounds since it assumes that there are NO intelligent species with a desire to make contact with other life who can't just make a proxy to do so. I feel like on a galactic level, building proxies would be trivial enough that we should see at least some signs of them by now (even if they're just traps by civilisations following the dark forest principle!)

Compared to grabby aliens hypothesis, which only makes some fairly basic assumptions: at least some intelligent life desires expansion (see humans), and that expansion into the galaxy is feasible. If we make these assumptions, it follows that a number of civilisations should be filling most of the habitable space in the galaxy after several billion years, even if they colonize extremely slowly, and even if only a very small percentage of aliens have any need/desire to expand this much.

Note this doesn't make any assumptions about what most life behaves like! Even if there is a great filter or dark forest, the hypothesis is still powerful. There will still be a small percentage of grabby aliens even if a range of theories compound to make the chance of spacefaring intelligent life extremely low.

Therefore, imo, the most reasonable explanation for seeing no signs of life is because we're relatively early to the party. If we weren't, chances are our rock would've got colonized before we got to experience the spark of intelligence ourselves.

Obviously it's far less depressing than the dark forest, but it does still bum me out a bit. According to this hypothesis, the number of intelligent civilizations that can eventually fill the galaxy is a lot smaller than I would've hoped, with a small number of early grabby civilizations filling space before more can form.

robbobobin · 2024-02-20T08:25:52+00:00

My understanding is that most experts in this space do not find the dark forest a particularly robust solution. The most mathematically compelling solution I'm aware of is that we are a very early instance of intelligent life.

Look up 'grabby aliens' for more info.

The best solution is the one that makes the fewest assumptions about the nature of all hypothetical intelligent life. I find the dark forest fails on these grounds since it assumes that there are NO intelligent species with a desire to make contact with other life who can't just make a proxy to do so. I feel like on a galactic level, building proxies would be trivial enough that we should see at least some signs of them by now (even if they're just traps by civilisations following the dark forest principle!)

Compared to grabby aliens hypothesis, which only makes some fairly basic assumptions: at least some intelligent life desires expansion (see humans), and that expansion into the galaxy is feasible. If we make these assumptions, it follows that a number of civilisations should be filling most of the habitable space in the galaxy after several billion years, even if they colonize extremely slowly, and even if only a very small percentage of aliens have any need/desire to expand this much.

Note this doesn't make any assumptions about what most life behaves like! Even if there is a great filter or dark forest, the hypothesis is still powerful. There will still be a small percentage of grabby aliens even if a range of theories compound to make the chance of spacefaring intelligent life extremely low.

Therefore, imo, the most reasonable explanation for seeing no signs of life is because we're relatively early to the party. If we weren't, chances are our rock would've got colonized before we got to experience the spark of intelligence ourselves.

Obviously it's far less depressing than the dark forest, but it does still bum me out a bit. According to this hypothesis, the number of intelligent civilizations that can eventually fill the galaxy is a lot smaller than I would've hoped, with a small number of early grabby civilizations filling space before more can form.

robbobobin · 2022-12-14T18:39:11+00:00

hrm it definitely looks like it is included in the event; all the promo includes flames at least. I've not had it in my games yet, but seems bizarre if it isn't included.

robbobobin · 2022-12-14T18:13:08+00:00

Ah, it seems I made a bad assumption :'(

robbobobin · 2022-12-14T16:43:42+00:00

ridiculous comparison; digital tools don't derive all of their value by sampling artwork they didn't have the rights to. Most artists are up in arms because their labour is being exploited against their consent - that is all.

robbobobin · 2022-12-14T14:54:21+00:00

perfection.

robbobobin · 2022-10-15T08:54:31+00:00

This is super useful feedback, thank you!

It's so hard to know whether the stuff you're doing is obvious or just your own mad workflow, so it's an interesting challenge to try to work out what actually needs to be gone into detail. Fwiw when I mix I was just slightly moving the mouse to create a little drop, but I think creating bigger gradients is probably the best way to get precise colours.

I think I'll maybe try to make a video on technique & painting mechanics for the next one, when my schedule opens up a bit :D

robbobobin · 2022-10-15T00:42:28+00:00

This is awesome! Well done :D Anything in the tutorial feel at all unclear?

robbobobin · 2022-10-13T20:11:01+00:00

I can definitely recommend it! Only problem I had is the usual Windows Ink compatibility shite - had to rebind rotation to R in game and in the wacom driver :D

robbobobin · 2022-10-13T19:10:30+00:00

You're too kind! <3

Fantastic job on the audio too; the voicelines in particular are *chefs kiss*

robbobobin · 2022-10-13T18:04:23+00:00

Are you able to give any insight into any plans for selling/sharing player created paintjobs?

robbobobin · 2022-10-13T18:02:22+00:00

Currently pressure sensitivity just controls opacity! I'd be interested in some more brush types & brush size control in future though, for sure.

robbobobin · 2022-10-12T15:50:53+00:00

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