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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

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(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this)

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[–] self@awful.systems 7 points 1 week ago (3 children)

speaking of the Godot engine, here’s a layered sneer from the Cruelty Squad developer (via Mastodon):

image descriptiona post from Consumer Softproducts, the studio behind Cruelty Squad:

weve read the room and have now successfully removed AI from cruelty squad. each enemy is now controlled in almost real time by an employee in a low labor cost country

[–] self@awful.systems 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

and also speaking of Godot — does anyone doing game dev right now have a good source for placeholder assets? I just finished all the introductory tutorials for the engine and now I want to flex what I’ve learned a bit

[–] hrrrngh@awful.systems 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Itch and Kenney have good ones:

https://itch.io/game-assets/free

https://kenney.nl/assets (all CC0)

Synty also has a nice placeholder pack for $7. The post-it notes are kind of adorable:

https://syntystore.com/products/polygon-prototype-pack

I don't think most of these are made for Godot, so you may have to mess around with import settings or set up tilesets/materials yourself

[–] self@awful.systems 3 points 6 days ago (3 children)

nice! it seems like Kenney’s a pretty popular choice for this kind of thing. I’m kinda tempted to grab their Asset Forge tool to quickly bang out some lo-fi semi-custom models, but I don’t know how its workflow looks for animations and materials. in the worst case, maybe it’ll save me from half of the spiral learning curve that is Blender?

the synty pack looks really good! at a glance it seems like their assets come rigged for Unity — maybe there’s a converter that’ll allow me to convert that rigging into the format Godot’s animation system wants

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 3 points 6 days ago

was curious and threw some search queries at the internet. looks like there are a couple of convertor tools out there, although I obvies can't comment on relative merits worth a damn without spending some time staring at innards and docs/usage

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[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 3 points 1 week ago

chef's kiss, no notes

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 7 points 4 days ago

25071 + Oct 12 GitHub ( 20K) Your free GitHub Copilot access is ending soon

lol

guess how soon?3 days.

oooh how I'm looking forward to frog-boiler api adjustment pricing season, there's going to be so much cope

[–] rook@awful.systems 7 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Today's entry in the wordpress saga: seizing plugins from devs. The author of this one appears to be affiliated with wpengine, which possibly signals more events like this in the future.

We have been made aware that the Advanced Custom Fields plugin on the WordPress directory has been taken over by WordPress dot org.

A plugin under active development has never been unilaterally and forcibly taken away from its creator without consent in the 21 year history of WordPress.

More details here: https://furry.engineer/@cendyne/113296240801713427

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 6 points 3 days ago

Has wordpress matt had a stroke or what? This is off-the-wall.

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] rook@awful.systems 6 points 4 days ago

Ahh, looks like the important stuff was already there. I could have sworn I checked, but apparently not!

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 5 points 1 week ago

Just remembering this banger from back in the day.

[–] rook@awful.systems 4 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Proton continuing to do pointlessly stupid and self-destructive things:

https://infosec.exchange/@malwaretech/113257047424000919

They're basically admitting they didn't pay an influencer to spread misinformation about public wifi in order to sell VPN products, they just stole her likeness, used her photo, and attributed completely made up quote to her.

But it was a joke guys! We did a satire! I’m totally certain I know what satire is!

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