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  • Yeah. ~7:10 after he talks about Palestinian famine, the last line of which before the clip:

    that we in-fact enabled this ongoing atrocity

    and the clip cuts off just before:

    but Netanyahu’s extremist government has not just waged war against Hamas. Instead they have waged an all-out barbaric war of annihilation against the Palestinian people.

    Very questionable. OP has been pro-Palestine (+anti-Kamala) in the past too, so it does look like a flip. The only other thing I could think of would be if they somehow got off-by-one when grabbing a pre-made clip from C-SPAN or something like that.




  • it would be indistinguishable from standard racism….

    my money is on, fake as fuck and modded by actual white racists

    There’s a video by F.D Signifier (“Spike Lee tried to warn us…”) where he talks about contextual use:

    these communities did not turn a blind eye, or forget how these individuals behaved and how their actions hurt other black people.

    Thus within those communities, these minstrel actors-or moreover-black people that embody that minstrel aesthetic and ideology by trying to ingratiate themselves to white people at the expense of black people… were often forced to carry the names of these characters

    I’m not part of that community (nor do I even look at Reddit anymore) so you could be right, though.


  • When I tinkered with Raylib (diff bindings) instead of a game I made a (2D) polygon format+loader. Probably to a usable state, though clunky esp. w/2 polygon formats (fan vs. strip).

    I probably would get further with more experience, though also Godot w/bindings seems like a no-brainer (for editors, systems) considering it’s still pretty light compared to the Un- engines.

    (Not that I’m doing much with Godot either, viability and motivations are mismatched)


  • alarm-clock-applet allows custom commands. So put systemctl suspend into a timer, bingo.

    rtcwake to wake the computer up, for-better-or-worse the music will still be playing.

    Someone else mentioned android, VLC there does have a sleep timer (just to stop the music) I didn’t see an equivalent option in the desktop version (at a quick glance) though.

    In SMPlayer I do see the option ‘shut down computer’ as a sub-option for `close when finished playback’ (general options)



  • Some parts of those governments do have proportional representation (like Scottish Parliment where the SNP has the most representation).

    Other than that, I would guess there are a lot of small reasons… like differences in structure/operation/rules, that recall elections are a thing, larger gov’t bodies, and election frequency. From the outside, I’d also guess that some of these parties do/have held power for a while until they mess things up and the voters switch it out.

    Also a lot of the issue here is with US presidency, and the electoral college cements it even further. That is where it is the biggest inevitability as it’s a big race that largely decides the next 4 years (also a partisan senate and house can enable or stall legislature, also how the right stacked the supreme court).

    This is also a long-term imbalance (as shown by the video I linked) that intensifies over time. Other systems having different factors may be what prevented it from being a huge issue there, and it probably helps that they are older/more-stable (and less individualistic) countries.



  • I think so, but that’s also has massive tradeoffs on its own. If I did that, it was probably mostly Robot w/Ser Junkan runs.

    I probably would prefer a mod that makes active items only show up in shops (or perhaps chosen selection/loot-table at the start or per-character). Also: have the RR leave junk when taking some items (not ammo).

    I do see one mod (Justice) to alter spawning which would probably help a bit (depending on the character, still not perfect early on). Plus I have other games to be bad at, some of them free (and slightly less frustrating).





  • Spyro’s skyboxes, too. (+vertex colors for LoD models)



    I think vertex color can be used even more extensively for modern indie dev, though I haven’t done much more than tinker with the workflow itself.

    I tried adding non-mapped textures (including a watercolor speckle image) but am not sure I like the effort/tradeoff-to-result ratio*. I’m leaning more towards textureless now especially with Godot 4.4 having per-vertex shading (though I already ran into an issue where it seems metallic per-vertex isn’t ready yet).

    * aside from maybe generated noise for a metal material’s normal map




  • After seeing the bird-flu cows story, I made this reference:

    “There are things you must know. The village is dying; the signs are everywhere. Withering crops… dying brahmin… …sick children.”

    Particularly because of the other headline about the outbreak of measles in Texas (children) and multiple possible interpretations with crops (not getting picked due to deportation/fears of workers, forced dam release onto fields, drought/heat/fires)