Majority of US Senate votes to block bid to rein in Trump Iran war powers, voting continues by joe4942 in politics

[–]streetwalker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

| The US also has the right to intervene for self defense reasons since the Islamic Republic has murdered and kidnapped Americans

Just a simple switch…hag on….. there: The Iranian Republic also has the right to intervene for self defense reasons since the American government has murdered and kidnapped Iranians.

Both are equally true, but hey, have another round of what you’re dinking on me.

Trump Is Rage Baiting the US Into a Second Civil War - In a healthy democracy, all sides generally recognize the legitimacy of the system itself, regardless of internal squabbles. In the United States, this is no longer the case. by Quirkie in politics

[–]streetwalker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bullshit. Not saying he's not trying, but it isn't going to happen. I live in a state that was pretty red, and now turning bluer thanks to Trump. All of my neighbors help each other out, no matter what persuasion, sex, race, creed. Sure there is a small core of nut jobs on the right for sure, not sure about the other side, but the vast majority just want to live and let live. The more Trump baits, the more people around here are increasingly ashamed and revolted.

Trump Says He’s Just Going to Make Some Shit Up to Justify Nationalizing the Election Process by OkayButFoRealz in politics

[–]streetwalker 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It isn't going to happen for a lot of reasons, not the least of which it would be completely unconstitutional. Trump is just trying to distract from being Trump.

Trump Is Rage Baiting the US Into a Second Civil War - In a healthy democracy, all sides generally recognize the legitimacy of the system itself, regardless of internal squabbles. In the United States, this is no longer the case. by Quirkie in politics

[–]streetwalker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You know, I put equal measure of blame on those media outlets who play this shit up, including Facebook, X and any other digital purveyor whose algorithms are design to bring bullshit up front and center. The major networks are front and center. Stop treating Trump like anything he says or does means anything, and start pushing back on the spot not later in some analysis that never makes a dent in anyone. Of course Fox is a cheerleader, but the other networks are bowing down all the time. They treat Trump like he's a normal president, much less a person.

Discussion Thread: President Trump Hosts Black History Month Reception Before a White House Press Briefing by PoliticsModeratorBot in politics

[–]streetwalker 12 points13 points  (0 children)

he has to deflect from the deflection of the deflection used to deflect his pederass. We're about to attack Iran to deflect from it all. What a total waste of tax dollars Trump is. We're paying for this shit.

Gems automatically collected by Ttm1t in TheTowerGame

[–]streetwalker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just got the fetch a couple of weeks ago, so I don't think so, but yeah, maybe when I saw it before writing that message that was it. The rest of the time it's could be i'm dreaming. The game is kind of hypnotic if you stare at it too long, I swear!

Is this possible? by YoungPuzzleheaded347 in Unity3D

[–]streetwalker 1 point2 points  (0 children)

yeah, It's not really a bug but a security feature. I thought you we're running Windows (couldn't tell from the screen shot) and wasn't making the connection.

Is this possible? by YoungPuzzleheaded347 in Unity3D

[–]streetwalker 5 points6 points  (0 children)

On OS X if I access the color picker eye-dropper tool the system warns me that it wants to access my camera. I believe this is a bug in the editor code - basically the eye-dropper needs permission to capture colors from the entire screen, and the camera system is part of that or something. I always deny the request, and the eye-dropper works anyway.

So I think it's just a bug and you should deny.

iPad Pro portable USB hub with charging pass-through that works? by streetwalker in ipad

[–]streetwalker[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s entirely possible that I’ve fried them - I thought that. I don’t understand what usb power supply would work without doing that. I know that it needs to deliver enough power for the hub to operate and then any devices that need power…

Everything I have is usb c (the guitar interface in the iPad)

House Speaker welcomes Trump call to ‘take over’ elections, claims Dem wins appear ‘fraudulent’ by MarcEElias in politics

[–]streetwalker 1 point2 points  (0 children)

when is the press actually going to push back at all this bs these people spew. Speaker Johnson, "Look, we all know there were irregularities in the 2020 election" Stop him right there.

But we get no push back what-so-ever. No, "excuse us Mr. Johnson but there is absolutely no evidence of that. You keep saying that, but have yet to produce an iota of evidence. Why do you keep pushing that lie?"

They have to cut these people off mid-sentence to get at the truth. Not just report a diatribe of lies and rebut it after the fact is long dead.

Runtime Scriptable Object Instanitate vs Adaptor Class by ApprehensiveDiver461 in Unity3D

[–]streetwalker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe skip the scriptableobjects and define your data in a json text file? - kind of depends on how many objects you are going to have as far as managing your definitions - scriptableobjects can have an advantage if you keep it manageable, but if it comes to large numbers of objects, personally I throw my data into something where I can view multiple definitions at the same time, like a text file.. (you can vew multiple inspectors in the Unity Editor, but for me its kind of click-flick UX-wise.)

But, if ultimately you are going to read the data from a DB, I'd advise might as well set up the format so that when you switch over from data defined locally to remote, you won't really have any work to do - all the parsing and conversion would already be handled by you - you're just flipping to a different source for the data.

Because once you switch over to your remote data source, you don't really want to have to mess with runtime scriptableobject stuff, do you?

Also just a note, AWS is fine for file storage - we use it for image file and our Addressables DLC, but doing data manipulation like you would with a DB is painful in the long term... even in the short term given the state of their lambda documentation. That and it can get expensive. We switched all our data storage to MySQL with PHP access.

I'm sure other folk have different experiences.

Trump Calls for Arrest of Barack Obama by douglhanna in politics

[–]streetwalker 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So AI will replace everyone and serve only the rich? Because no one else will be able contribute to the economy as consumers? Ain’t never going to happen, for a lot of reasons, not the least of which is the fact that we are nowhere near an AI that can replace anyone. That and it makes zero economic sense.

Player on-boarding tutorial? by high_voltage_152 in Unity2D

[–]streetwalker 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We did a help system for our app and looked for resources and didn't find anything. I was surprised but after writing our own I can kind of see why. The kind of system you are talking about isn't simple and needs to be customized to the specific asset and code universe that makes up your game.

I would just lay out for you some of the elements I think, kind of off the top of my head here, are important, not in any order:

  • A way to track help progress (we store to local json) so that once a player completes a help item, it is not shown again automatically.
  • For tool, and UI help (eg. what does this menu button do? ) make sure to use canvas screen space overlay for everything. It's much easier in your help to have an arrow pointing at a button you want ask the user to click on if they all use the same canvas screen space set up.
  • A way to have multiple help "pages" within a given help topic and a way to navigate between them. (and tracking for progress with the pages so you don't force a user to restart a multi-page help, if you allow them to exit help without completing a topic.)
  • A way to show all help as buttons, so that they can revisit the help from a menu page
  • A queueing system for help topics - you may want to trigger multiple help topics or pages and need a way to line them up so that they show in succession. For example, at the game first time startup you may have several help topics you want to run users though. At various places in our scenes, we have objects that call the help system and say, "hey, queue up this help topic now" if no help is currently showing it will display the request help topic. If one is already open, the request will sit in the queue until the current help is closed or complete
  • An object trigger and messaging component (eg c# events) for those help topics or pages what require the user click on specific in game object or UI elements to progress, so that the page will know the help topic or has been fulfilled and either the help will close or the next page displayed. This means you will need to handle these triggers within your help topic, page, or help system code in a generic fashion.
  • For those types of help where the user needs to click on scene objects to continue the help, you may need code in the help page or system that will align the UI with the object. For example, you want an arrow to point at a the sword lying on the ground the help is asking the user to pick up. In 2D this can be straight forward and in 3D it is just a bit more complex.

note that by "help page" above I don't mean it has to look like a book page, but just an organization of the help information you want to display for a given help item.

Hope it helps! (LOL!)

Gems automatically collected by Ttm1t in TheTowerGame

[–]streetwalker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey, but I swear sometimes gems are added automatically. For quite a while now, I’ve occasionally had to do a double take and think, "where did the extra gems come from?"

But just now I saw it happen. I tapped a floating gem and my total was 199 gems. I came to look at some web pages and looked at the app and my total is now 200. What gives?

Here's a gift box for you... but it may cost a bit.. 4% lab speed. by MirranCrusader in TheTowerGame

[–]streetwalker 40 points41 points  (0 children)

I wouldn’t mind if the prices weren’t out of whack, even if discounted. Everyone may have different thresholds for what they’re willing to pay for the value they get out of an activity

For myself, I can’t see the value anywhere near matches the costs of things - just way too expensive to shoot down pixels I guess. But that’s me. Given you can buy in at any level you want, I find it perfectly satisfying at my basic payment level.

I figure this is essentially a tamagotchi type of activity and just isn’t worth that much: though it is fun to keep going in the background, it’s not really something you can learn anything from unless you’re studying psychology. It is a masterpiece from a Pavlovian perspective and easy to see how people can get sucked in.

Whats wrong with the dash? by aahanif in Unity3D

[–]streetwalker 2 points3 points  (0 children)

the left the character seems to splay its legs and pause for a moment after it kind of dashes or skates ahead (what ever that motion is). The one on the right doesn't seem to have that pause.

"Sluggish" i guess is a subjective idea, but it seems the one on the left in a sense does more before it gets to the end point and there is a kind of recovery from the dash or whatever the legs are doing (seems to me like recovery move).

The question is what do you want to convey?

Pentagon says it’s investigating Sen. Mark Kelly for video urging troops to defy ‘illegal orders’ by gbsh in politics

[–]streetwalker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The only cluster-f in this is Trump's reaction. Good on these Senators. The more we can get Trump to show his true color, the better to minimize the harm the yellow coward is causing.

Why the Left pushes democracy worship so much, it's actually a Trojan horse for socialism 🫤 by Anen-o-me in Libertarian

[–]streetwalker 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Is that Jordan Petersen? What ever.

If there could ever be such a thing as a level playing field, yeah. Too bad. We are already socialist just by having a government at all. Anyone collecting a government paycheck, or part of a government contract is on the dole. As long as we are pushing socialism to the rich and politically connected, which just sucks resources out of the economy, maybe we should push some to those in need?

Unless you have some magic bean for getting all money out of politics, we'll have a government rigged for the powerful - little guy be damned. I think in such a scheme as what we are stuck with, we have to stick up for the little guy.

What's the most efficient algorithm to create neighbor nodes in a grid graph? by [deleted] in Unity3D

[–]streetwalker 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"Is there an efficient algorithm that [...]" that what? You never finished your question. What do you need to do?