I believe the children are our future… unless we stop them now!

“Win if you can, lose if you must, but always, always cheat.”

I’m told this creed is an invention of a family member, but if I’m following the message it’s almost certainly stolen from somewhere.

I’m also a big fan of “Anything worth doing is a worth doing half-assed”

For the bones in your mooth

The licensing is going to depend largely on what model or service you use. I imagine the website will have an About or License page which will detail your uses.

If the license isn’t permissive, it would be somewhat ironic since it’s an open secret in the industry that those models are trained with stolen images.

Asking this question on lemmy is probably going to give you a spicy time. Many of us despise AI.

Can I use it as inspiration and make my own assets that are similar but not the same?

Legally, I don’t imagine this would give you a problem. You’d be using the prompt as a reference and then creating your own assets. The generated image is likely to be watermarked in some way, so I’d recommend tracing it.

I’d really recommend you drop AI and run though. I suppose many people don’t really care, but in the indie gaming community you could be burning a lot of goodwill by using it

If you’re considering assets, you can get free ones from Kenney or Open Game Art. They might not meet all your needs, but they’re an excellent tool for prototyping or supplementing your other assets

Counterpoint: if people feel like they can’t talk about these things then they’ll never talk about them and the condition often worsens.

I also feel pretty powerless to help in a meaningful way. But I’m not going to shun someone who’s struggling either

Oof, I feel you. My program was a little different, but when we had to do reports and documentation I really struggled. It just doesn’t have the same pizzazz as the code itself, you know?

I don’t have any tips to offer, but still, good luck to you!

Ooh, well that’s interesting to hear then.

Thanks for double checking!

Ah bummer. At least I have my rats

May the Emperor protect

Each knuckle resembles a d4, two knuckles per finger looks to me like at least 10-40 or average ~25 piercing/bludgeoning damage per strike.

If you have Improved Unarmed Strike then you can take an extra jab as a bonus action!

Can I play Darktide in a private lobby with friends yet?

The game looks like a banger, I’m a big fan of Vermintide, but that’s unfortunately a deal-breaker for me.

Gotcha, thanks for clarifying

I probably shouldn’t distract you from it, but I’m genuinely curious. Do you get to define your own project, or do you have to follow a specific guideline / requirements list?

If it’s the former, I might be able to point you towards some Godot projects where you can copy a video game and change it just enough to call it your own. Whether that meets academic guidelines I offer no guarantees, but with a good tutorial you could crank out a complete game in a day.

Is this a Non-Exam Assessment?

As you advance in your career, you’re going to appreciate when people define their Three-Letter Acronyms (TLA)

Well of course the victim is going to play the victim. That’s just good marketing - and what is marketing if not propaganda?

Your comment reads as though the invading state’s actions aren’t propaganda. This is the whole reason why I came here to warn people to be skeptical of what they read online.

In an ironic twist, here’s an online source about the Russian disinformation campaign telling citizens that if you play Stalker 2 you’ll be drafted to fight in Ukraine against Russia.

Again, you should be skeptical of what you read online. In a vacuum, I’m inclined to believe the victim of invasion. In reality, I know that the situation is more nuanced - although the credibility of the aggressor is extremely suspect.

For what it’s worth, my impression on the game is that it’s yet another over-hyped game that couldn’t possibly live up to its expectations. The developers are financially incentivized to deflect that criticism through any means available to them. But that doesn’t mean I don’t acknowledge that malicious actors are also trying to discredit the game.

There’s lots of schools of thought on how you should write your diary, but imo the most important thing to keep in mind is that diary is for you.

I primarily use my diary as a coping mechanism to deal with stress and to reframe my outlook. This means I don’t think very hard about what I’m writing, I’m just putting my feelings onto a page. Then once those thoughts are on paper they become easier to deconstruct.

My primary diary pulls double duty, and I use it to plan out the following day. When I reflect on how today went, it’s easier to make a plan for tomorrow. And at least in my experience it’s easier to make a plan the day before than to wait and see how I feel the next day.

Some people like a themed diary. I keep a separate gratitude journal where the only rule is to write things in it that made me happy. This is helpful on bad days when I can’t think of anything good going on in my life

If you’re into mental health and self improvement, there’s loads of literature on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) online. CBT is the gold standard of psychiatric care currently, and is primarily self directed through journaling exercises. Searching for these exercises could give you a framework if you’d like to follow something a bit more rigid

They’ll pay you peanuts to protect their gold. The only gold trickling down is a shower

It sure is nice of those cishet white dudes to make history for us

They’re displaying the AIDS memorial quilt on the white house lawn

The administration approves $5M grant for queer kids with eating disorders

I’m not unhappy to see these things, but they’re not his stories and he doesn’t really have that much involvement with them.

People in traffic often seem to be in a big hurry and drive recklessly so that they can end up waiting at the same red light as you

I recently started a new job which I think is going to destroy my health. Standing on concrete all day, ugh.

So to counter the incoming joint pain, I’m doing lots of stretches and yoga. Bringing lunch from home is also helping the diet, that should hopefully pay off.

Ironically, I took this job because I thought it would be better for my mental health. Less stress, gets me out of my basement (I was working from home), and it’s much more physically active.

But gosh, my bones hurt. I might have to leave this job too for my health. Maybe the lesson here is that working for the man is bad for your health

When I was a kid, I only heard people say Godspeed on TV and in movies. Star Wars was on a lot in our house, so I thought it was something like lightspeed, but for religious people

I haven’t played Stalker 2 so I don’t really have a dog in this fight, but it’s very politically charged and has Russian state sponsored disinformation campaigns running against it. I’m not sure that you can get a truly accurate read of it online.

The developers are Ukrainian, and development had to be paused because their office literally turned into a warzone. The fact that the game came out at all is extremely based, and that certainly adds to the mythology around the game. But again, I haven’t played it, and gameplay-wise that doesn’t actually indicate anything about the game.

I want the game to succeed because of the developers’ existential struggle. The people causing that existential struggle want the game to fail. Neither of us have actually played the game, so again, there’s all this bias around it and we haven’t even looked at gameplay yet.

Be skeptical of anything you read online