Notices by Jacek Wesołowski (jzillw@mastodon.gamedev.place), page 8

@aniav @siwa Mogę podzielić się hipotezą ws. Brytyjczyków. Do szortów przy 2C nigdy nie dotarłem, ale np. w ogóle nie posiadam "zimowej" kurtki. Sekret polega na tym, że spędziłem wczesne dzieciństwo w mieszkaniu bez centralnego ogrzewania.

Today's small victory is having learned how to do a thumbnail renderer for my custom assets in Unreal.

I had to piece together information from two different user posts explaining the process. The process itself isn't complicated, but Unreal is notoriously poorly documented. It's crowd-sourcing at its worst, especially given how Google search results are no longer reliable.

@georgetakei JD Vance wouldn't last a minute in front of a medium-sized left-wing European protest, and I'm saying this as a left-wing European protest organiser who has always taken care to not provoke or encourage violence.

@aniav And that's ok. Myślę, że było to błędem i wypaczeniem startupowych socjalek, że próbowały być od wszystkiego. Przedstartupowe socjalki (tj. grupy usenetowe i fora) były z definicji tematyczne, człowiek zapisywał się tylko tam gdzie go interesował temat, i to było w porządku.

@fatsam @quixoticgeek @itnomad I think I'd pass. Without nukes, we have options (granted, mainly because we have allies with nukes). With nukes, we run the risk of enabling our own fascists here in Poland. They won't nuke Washington or Moscow, but they might try it with Vilnius, Kyiv, or Berlin.

Large amounts of non-US-sourced conventional arms, on the other hand...

I've clicked one thing too many and now YouTube thinks I'm interested in AI-generated "real life" remakes of 2D images (mainly portraits) from old games.

Turns out "the AI" can generate as much detail as it wants, but it just can't help itself being incredibly creepy.

(not to mention generic, it actually loses a lot of detail in the translation)

@quaithe Why worry about something now when you can worry about it later is the entire Polish ruling class' catchphrase.

Note to self: in order to see a newly added Asset Action (that makes an asset of a given class) in the right-click menu of the content browser in the Unreal Editor, you need to *also* create a factory class for that asset..

@wariat @Chrabia @siwa Jako radykalny deskryptywista stoję na stanowisku, że jeśli poprawnie rozpoznaję, co powiedziałeś, to znaczy, że powiedziałeś poprawnie.

Fonetyka zna zjawisko polegające na tym, że wygłaszając jedną głoskę "uruchamiamy" w mózgu inną. Np. w standardowej wymowie drugie "w" w "Wesołowski" zmienia się w "f", ale mózg nadal "myśli" że to "w".

@siwa Tak zupełnie serio to zgadywałbym, że to jest dialektowe lub może znak jakiejś ewolucji języka. "Prjorytet" to chyba sam mówię. "Pucie" nie, ale "pcie" mi się zdarza. Oczywiście nie robię tego specjalnie, samo tak wychodzi, tak samo jak, dajmy na to, "Wesłoski".

@cstross Sounds tough. In video games (specifically the PC/console segment) the rule of thumb is you have 15 minutes. The elevator pitch is just for the publisher. I guess it helps that video games have (moving) pictures.

@cstross So this first sentence is essentially an elevator pitch.

@smallcircles @cstross I've lived through eight years of authoritarian rule (not counting the old Communist regime, which I barely remember), and one thing I've learned is heroes are all around us, and they pop up everywhere. The measure of good leadership in a crisis is their ability to manage grassroot heroism.

(the leadership here in Poland has largely failed at this, which is why the situation remains precarious)

@quaithe In all seriousness, I can only imagine that everyone's been counter-intelligeting the hell out of the US for the simple reason they have a very large potential to do harm *and* Trump has already been the president once.

@quaithe I'm kind of hoping they're going to hire the guys who exposed Newag to find them all, and I'm only half-joking here.

(on the one hand military-grade encryption is most likely out of a civilian hacker's league, but on the other hand US military engineers are known to have been sloppy in the past)

@siwa Ja się autentycznie czasami zastanawiam, jak oni sobie, kurwa, wyobrażają ten sojusz przez ocean z pominięciem dwóch tysięcy kilometrów krajów pomiędzy.

(ale może właśnie już nie trzeba sobie tego wyobrażać, skoro Trump postanowił być w sojuszu z Rosją, tylko jechać w drugą stronę)

Are indies going to save the games industry? No, it's not that simple. But experimentation is going to yield new ways to connect with audiences, for example, and experimentation is easier with small (i.e. indie-ish) projects.

I just wish I could afford to experiment.

If someone ever asks why there are so many comments in my code, the answer is it's because that's how I procrastinate when I'm testing.

@oleksandr Yes, the Polish for prdel is "dupa", while "ja pierdole" is a common (vulgar) idiom for something akin to "I can't even".

You can say so much without ever resorting to kurwa!

@ScrimblyGames This is by no means a no-brainer. One game I worked on had about 20x as many "no source" lights as it did the ones you could point your finger at. A lot depends on your tools, workflow and intended visual result.