insomniac_lemon
@insomniac_lemon@lemmy.cafe
- Comment on What art style you want to reproduce? 2 weeks ago:
Vector/polygonal, truly implemented for the technical benefits* and likely untextured**. Which will make it more niche than the early 3D stuff that did use vertex colors.
3D polygonal+vertex color actually isn’t that difficult to do. I’ve done some, the real issue (aside from making it good) is actually the animation/game around it. I haven’t done much and continue not doing much because personal stuff.
* less data while also rendering at native res without needing extra work (8K or even on a 50ft Billboard? Sure). MIDI (you can use higher-quality soundfonts) or other procedural stuff (sounds, textures) are nice too.
** I’m not against not-too-many general-use textures, but I tried this without mapping (including watercolor) and wasn’t really happy with the results… plus normal maps won’t work with per-vertex materials¯. So this probably takes a lot of effort/skill to work as-intended.
¯ not strictly necessary, but I don’t mind the idea aesthetically and a free optimization sounds nice even though this aesthetic is already a low bar (unless it could help with webGL, mobile, VR, or really old devices etc?)
- Comment on What art style you want to reproduce? 2 weeks ago:
29 days ago:
What are the steps to reproduce an art style using computer programs and without artificial intelligence?
Emphasis mine.
Someone also commented
Still trying to figure out Hades?
which might be further context. So they might just be looking for inspiration.
- Comment on Is it better to leave a country, or stay behind to fight for it? And what about the ethics of fleeing instead of staying behind? 3 weeks ago:
Generally, I feel like it depends on how viable it seems to fix. Is this the same issue that people marched about 50+ years ago?
Specific elephant in the room, what possible fix within 2-4 decades is there when the right has most of the keys including a stacked supreme court?
Personally, I can’t really fight or leave. I am nowhere close to anything politically relevant… I have no transportation, income, or ID/passport etc. I am a shut-in with untreated health issues. I’m just letting the days go by.
- Comment on I'm high and there's nothing you can do about it 5 weeks ago:
OP, is this you?
- Comment on They're gonna have to be really cool about a lot of stuff real quick. 5 weeks ago:
BRAIN: “You are tasked to consider the evidence, and whether it proves BEYOND a reasonable doubt: whether my client is undateable. Is my client… a perfect man? No-” ME: “She can kill me, yeah.”
- Comment on If any external factor made you create art, would your art be created by that factor? 5 weeks ago:
It’s called being cultured, like cheese. Though art is a bit different as whatever shapes you does so long-term, even if you could zap away issues instantly the memory and thus influence will still be there.
Also health/brain issues for me are likely a bigger detriment than anything, resulting in me doing nothing most of the time (small chores on a good day). So anything created is a rare win in spite of that.
- Comment on Kamiya Critiques Wii Version of Okami | Retro Gaming News 24/7 1 month ago:
well yeah most people don’t have the hardware to play the pre-HD versions at their best
Maybe you mean an actual PS2, but IME using emu w/higher internal res on a non-stellar computer was a pretty good experience.
Meanwhile the HD version is data bloated (likely because everything is uncompressed for no reason, or multiple resolutions of FMVs including 4K) so the download would be painful for me. And really with Okami’s aesthetic especially, I don’t think HD is necessary.
I think it would’ve been better to change the FMVs into in-engine if viable, I assume the ones like that were just a hardware limitation if not just some production thing.
- Comment on Events are occurring! 2 months ago:
<Scientists holding their ears to the ground>
- Comment on For an alien race that visit us, humanity as a whole would be furries. 2 months ago:
What if aliens have no bones so they call humans bonies?
And they do an impression like “Oh look at human me… don’t think about biosphere collapse. Uhh, sure hope I don’t slip on solid water and break my bone legs in the tax-filing business parking-lot! (my body is not proficient at such recovery and I cannot afford access to medical machines)”
- Comment on The key is to match the 4/10 pain with a 8/10 high 2 months ago:
Detective
I actually was going to say something like that but got bored with it. I’d rather watch NWAR again for the detective puns.
- Comment on The key is to match the 4/10 pain with a 8/10 high 2 months ago:
The name’s Diff… Diff Fective.
You think I’m Abe Normal? No, but I have a lot of respect for them, really pushing the meta strategy further than ever.
- Comment on The key is to match the 4/10 pain with a 8/10 high 2 months ago:
I’m built diffefectively 🫠
- Comment on Have you tried coping harder? 2 months ago:
As someone untreated (and shut-in), the grass isn’t green here either. I don’t know what the here-and-now alternative is, especially as a well-understood and very-effective med that can be taken irregularly is probably an exception rather than the norm (esp. for something serious/underlying).
I take more issue with the cost and hoops of the US health-insurance system (+other stuff like transportation). It’s a failure even by “pick two” standards… if it’s “you try this first” or 4 appointments for testing/specialists before one step is made it would be much better if bureaucracy weren’t also an issue.
Specifically with the gov’t imploding now (and the impending rug pull) I’m not sure what I could ever do unless there was a real change someone will let me be a test subject for physical brain preservation (and they’d move my brain some other not-imploding country).
- Comment on Have you tried coping harder? 2 months ago:
Go into a local field and tame a wild horse??? Probably healthier that way anyways (all-natural, soul-bond)
- Comment on Have you tried coping harder? 2 months ago:
But did you know that women who own horses are likely to live on average 15 years longer than women who do not own horses? Why wouldn’t people get a majestic car-sized animal to improve their well-being, are they stupid?
- Comment on Because we are knitted into the fabric of the universe a global change to the nature of universe could change the entire consequence of out lives. 2 months ago:
Damng, I never understood Dr John P. Wheezer’s song as much as I do right now.
- Comment on Current day America has proven beyond a doubt, humanity is the only animal that wouldn't jump out of a slowly boiling pot of water. 2 months ago:
Water? Preposterous!
A giant pot of delicious soon-to-be stew, however… mighty tempting, doc! You’ll have to treat me right though, you wouldn’t want to get food poisoning from stringy meat would ya?
- Comment on A Pivot To Indie won’t save us [AURAMBLES blog] 2 months ago:
I don’t see patient as “letting it slide [off]”.
These days I don’t really buy things ever, I mostly play free games if even that. Less hopeful of the industry, feel like I wasted money. Later purchases were more patient, but disappointment there only slowed it even further.
This is a me problem (and a lack of income), but I sort of see it as being patient to a fault.
something gets done and completed
I am talking within the context of mental/physical health issues and never having made anything close to a game. Personal despair, isolation, lacking viable options, collapse.
So it’s more of an existential crisis. I am guessing there are probably some idioms about learning/practicing survival skills when the ship you’re on is already sinking.
- Comment on A Pivot To Indie won’t save us [AURAMBLES blog] 2 months ago:
The topic and community have an unfortunate overlap for me, “patient” probably means I’m not doing it beyond some scattered attempts.
I have lurked with the ideas on different low-resource solo-dev specializations. I feel like the pieces are mostly there for me (Godot 4.4 will be closer to that), though I still need to put a lot of work in for no clear end-goal (I don’t really want to really sell something, even if I could).
And thinking about the future (gestures broadly) just makes me feel like
- Comment on What's the deal with male loneliness? 3 months ago:
See Bowling Alone.
Personally (and from a US shut-in perspective!) I’d take it further: the social contract is broken. When society has been molded to almost exclusively generate money, the closest to winning there is when you’re broke is trying to spend the least amount of money possible which surely will be solitaire confinement.
I don’t think there’s any easy fix, moving to a better area is an individual thing yet is also the core issue when it comes to transportation+rent+cost-of-living.
- Comment on Vegan drink Oatly can’t call itself ‘milk’, judges rule 4 months ago:
I would go with cereal water. It’s what it is, and something it can be used for.
- Comment on Four Thieves Vinegar Collective | an anarchist collective dedicated to enabling access to medicines and medical technologies to those who need them but don’t have them. 4 months ago:
I’m hoping more for brain preservation (non-upload, lower cost like chemical fixation+non-cryo). Get me out of here.
- Comment on flouride 4 months ago:
I mean you can buy it here in a normal store. So I’m not sure if you mean a dentist can’t use/sell it, or if you’re thinking about the nano forms of it.
- Comment on flouride 4 months ago:
For other toothpaste that still strengthens enamel, there is toothpaste with hydroxyapatite (which can be ingested, at least that specific ingredient). Though it is probably more expensive.
- Comment on flouride 4 months ago:
It could likely be replaced with hydroxyapatite instead (it also can be used to remove lead and other things from water, which makes searching about being added to municipal water difficult). Good for not only teeth, also bones.
I also wonder if adding other vitamins would make more sense (just enough to stop deficiencies) if we’re talking about health outcomes, though the first idea I had with vitamin C came up with results of that messing with the chlorine in the water.
- Comment on What do you create? 4 months ago:
Me: “If I make a new mascot platformer with vertex colors, maybe someone would get me out of here? What are the chances and outcomes? Would I even have enough time to make something decent with current conditions?”
Blender, Godot 4, player controller in Nim-lang via gdext-nim, and on top of the 3 hats I need to learn I don’t have many viable ideas.
Also somewhat related to the social isolation thread in showerthoughts, I live on the edge of nowhere and don’t even want to drive.
