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What's everyone using to store media offline these days? Lately with what's going on I think I'm wanting to store media I enjoy (gonna be fun ripping vcds...) in some hard drive or something.
Interested in what kind of capacity, number of drives and how your drives are setup.
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Last egg tart for the road! #food #singapore
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I read the email incorrectly. The build I sent in is fine, just need to make sure steam includes packages required by unreal and that should be it.
CC: @mondanzo
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Blargh so my game demo review failed because it needs to be standalone playable, need to figure that out.
EDIT: Read email wrong (read it on the go) - just need to include some distributable packages steam side and should be good to go.
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If people are taking calls on their phone via speaker or headphones, it seems there's no need to keep the specific shape of the phone anymore - they could design it in any shape. Or heck, if wireless comes into play the phone could be split into multiple parts. Phones optimised for photography, or abseiling etc.
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[#]mechwarrior #retrogaming #story
Marauders are also extremely dangerous mechs, but their primary source of damage, their PPCs (particle projection cannons) were slow to recharge and the charged particle bolts were slow to travel, allowing a nimble foe to easily dodge them.
A heavy mech like the Timberwolf is not nimble per say, but a few random jinks threw off their initial volley and I turned, focusing what weapons I had left on the marauder's leg. My mech was just a few strides away from the Marauder, its next shot impossible to miss at that range.
The seconds felt like hours as my lasers pounded into the reverse articulated joint of the Marauder. Somehow, my lasers managed to take out their leg before it could unleash its death upon me, and it collapsed to the ground.
The final Marauder stood before me, its armour fresh from a refit. I turned to present my left side to him, the only side that had any armour left, and took the brunt of its initial salvo.
The impact almost pushed my mech over, the damaged gyro somehow managing to keep us upright, and we passed into his left blindspot.
The larger marauder started to turn but it was too late, I was in an optimum position and I let loose all my weapons. The heat in the cockpit spiked. The heatsinks must have taken the brunt of the damage. Alarms sounded once more, warning that the mech would shut down in seconds from overheating.
I reached for the override and continued to pour laser fire into the Marauder's leg joint. Just as the electronics in the cockpit started to flicker in the heat, the Marauder keeled over.
I won? I won.
So yeah, I somehow won on the first time doing the final trial. Lots of embelishments of course but getting flustered and going toe to toe with the warhammer? How I was engaging the targets, the torso twisting, somehow surviving all those hits? Those were true. Pretty sure its because I was on medium difficulty. Still quite the fun experience!
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[#]mechwarrior #retrogaming #story
The falcons were decimated. All I had to do to become the next Khan was to complete the next combat trial. What mech would I be given?
I entered the mechbay to be greeted by a stock 75 ton Timberwolf. One of the best heavy mechs on the field, boasting great armour, a multitude of weapons optimized for various combat ranges, and good speed to boot.
I strapped in and powered up.
Upon firing up the miniature sun behind me, I was greeted by two assault mechs on the field already on the field. The nearest was a Warhawk, an 85 ton assault-class monster. The terrain in the trial was undulating, open stretches with small ridges were abound.
Even thought it would be deemed cowardly, I decided to hold back, and engaged it with my Long Range Missiles, arcing them over the ridge between us.
I fired multiple slavos at the Warhawk, but it was not taking damage for some reason?
In seconds, it crested the ridge I was hiding behind.
Flustered, I was barely able to switch to the group of shorter ranged lasers and just blasted at the torso of the Warhawk at point blank range.
Warnings rang in my ear as its superior weaponry punched through the armour to the right of my cockpit. The missiles in there cooked off, destroying its launcher as well as exposing the vulnerable core of my engine and gyro. Thankfully, most of the explosive force was vented outwards by the CASE systems.
I snapped awake and pulled away, forcing myself to calm down and think like a warrior. I adjusted my aim, and took off both the warhawk's arms before a lucky shot pierced its reactor. One down.
The other mech was somehow already damaged - it'd taken the missile shots meant for the warhawk, and with some precision shots, took of its legs.
The first star was done. I could leave now and be second-in-command of the entire clan. Or I could proceed and tackle the next group of mechs.
The decision was easy. I shot the one of the spheres floating above the arena. I was ready to lead the warden wolf. Or die.
At this time, I was at the top of a small hill, looking down over a small cluster of tents. My onboard AI indicated that it detected engine power up signatures. On my radar, 3 new dots appeared.
Shit. I didn't think this through. How was I supposed to fight three mechs with a third of my mech missing, with only bits of armour protecting what's left.
I held back once more, letting my lone LRM launcher spit out the last of its missiles to whittle the 100 ton Assault class Dire Wolf down. It walked through my missiles like they were sakura petals, returning my distant caress with deadly balls of charged particles.
There was no way would survive a fight with this monster head on. I turned and rammed the throttle to the max, placing a low hill between us. Even though my engine was damaged and my gyro was only barely keeping my mech upright, my timberwolf was still more maneuverable. I rounded the hill, the direwolf with its side towards me.
I let loose with what I had, taking off its arm as it struggled to turn to face me head on. Its other arm soon met the dirt of the arena, and a lucky machine gun round found its way to its exposed engine, taking it out.
How I survived was a miracle. The right side of my Timberwolf was a mangled piece of steel and myomer bundles, and the rest of it was just barely holding together. Two red dots were left on my radar. Two marauders. I charged.
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Haven't been on linkedin in a while and thought I'd pop in to shitpost. Saw lots of "ai" vfx tool posts and I am very impressed by the improvements over such a short time.
I was particularly impressed where a flipbook (series of unrendered, greyscale images) fed into an "ai" converted it into fully rendered output.
It wasn't good enough for actual commercial use, but how fast it's developed is very concerning.
Vfx is a very tough industry for artists - mostly contract based, so difficult to plan far ahead. And because it survives on tax subsidies, if the tax subsidies dry up...
I don't know where I'm going with this. Just sad to see this "ai" bs encroaching on the the livelihood of artists.
One of my mentors got sucked into this "ai" bullshit and is pushing out generated stuff. I don't have the guts to say anything.
I lucked out to have gotten in early (2007). I made my career change* 2 years ago, maybe it's improved since? Linkedin for sure is not representative of what goes down on the ground.
If there were any issues I have in VFX its probably the same with every job out there - loud, confident people who don't actually know how to do their job getting promoted.
And then having to take orders from people who don't know shit a first year student should know. (For those who know houdini: My lead didn't know how to setup collisions in dops. Are you kidding me.)
[#]vfx #humanmade #noai
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So I have my flight tomorrow, and that's all I can focus on. I need to get an updated trailer and screenshots up on steam but all I can think of is the flight, and packing for it. Graaaah why brain.
[#]adhd
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Curious: if I followed someone on an instance that shut down, would a bad actor who took over the domain name be able to pretend to be the person I followed?
#fediverse
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One last bowl of "tau huay" (beancurds) before flight tomorrow! #singapore
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When @somecat touches your wavetables... sigh.
[#]synthesis #furry
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Hot dang there's a spiritual successor called Kitten Space Agency (KSA!!!) sooo cool :)
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