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

One of the ways in which politics and work intersect each other in my case is how I can no longer even consider going to the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. With my track record of doing left-wing things and taking part in anti-authoritarian protests I'd probably not only lose my stuff, but also waste a few months in some detention centre in New Mexico.

@williampietri @cstross The rewards were there from the start. I'm thinking about John Romero, whose "exploits" are fairly well documented, Cliff Bleszinski (whom I never met but my coworkers did since we were working for Epic at the time), Peter Molyneux (the ultimate over-promiser), Ken "let's make our voice actress cry" Levine, and many may others, and don't even get me started about pre-Witcher 3 CD Projekt.

@williampietri @cstross I've been involved with the (PC side of the) video games fandom since mid-90s and I've been working in and around gamedev since 2002, and the terrible people have always been there. As much as it pains me, an archetypal hacker and a techbro are two sides of the same person. I've seen one turn into another when subjected to certain pressures.

I've played "Indiana Jones and the Great Circle" for a few hours, and it's a fairly basic, but overall competent and enjoyable immersive sim that does a better job of balancing stealth and action than some others.

This is partly because they know you want to keep punching fascists, so the game treats it as a choice and not as a last resort.

@Natasha_Jay Operates entirely on fuzzy logic.

@siwa @aniav Znam to, ludzie są zaskakująco wyczuleni na rzeczy odstające od założeń / oczekiwań / przewidywań, nawet jeśli odstępstwo w niczym nikomu nie wadzi.

@aniav @siwa Z mojego punktu widzenia jak inni mówią, że jest zimno i trzeba się grubiej ubrać, to ja nie odczuwam zimna, a jeśli ubiorę się "tak jak wszyscy", to się pocę i przegrzewam.

@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)