Carnelian

joined 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Very cool stuff! Thank you

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

Wow what a read! Is this a published article from somewhere or your original work? Really great storytelling, do you have some links for further reading?

[–] [email protected] 40 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Thank you for creating non-fiction!

[–] [email protected] 63 points 20 hours ago

I think just meeting? Why don’t they meet on discord? This is all very confusing

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

After all this time friend, you still have me confused with someone that cares about your interpretation of events?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Congratulations on proclaiming yourself the victor of whatever this was! It’s quite fitting that in the end you have decided not just to put words in my mouth, but indeed have chosen to decide the opinion of all future readers as well

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I don't want to make a strawman

You seem quite compelled nevertheless! Sheesh. You wrote quite a lot of nonsense after being repeatedly warned that I’m not interested.

You can scroll up and read your own comments

Sure can! As can anyone else. It makes your ludicrous sensationalist gaslighting totally transparent

My own personal experience is corporate propoganda?

I don’t know you. Wouldn't be that surprising. You think they make propaganda just for laughs? It’s worth considering the dangers inherent to your process, friend.

These are genuine questions

Lmao

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Gen Ai is the same

It’s not lol. It’s amazing how many people will argue for AI by listing the merits of actual creative tools, then just try to package AI in there as well.

I believe the massive VC bait marketing push is to blame for this. It’s been fun in real life learning who is and isn’t hooked into the corporate propaganda IV.

I'm not perverting any argument

You continue to pervert in fact, by saying random things and talking to me as if I said them. Like I said, don’t care, go nuts.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

There’s a balance for sure, again tho I would caution against “knowing” things about your work beforehand. I consider that to be a trap. Skyboxes in particular you can do amazing stylish things very quickly by blowing up unexpected textures and adding a few grounding elements, but we don’t need to drill too deeply into any particular element. Doors don’t open for you if you never try the handle

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (8 children)

Yeah similar to above my friend, you are simply incorrectly framing the issue rather than exploring reality as it is.

You are merely saying the words “you will either use GenAI or your project will fail, there is NO WAY to economically address any of the problems that crop up during game dev without using it”. This betrays fundamental misunderstanding of what creativity is

It is also ahistorical. What you and seemingly all proponents of the technology seem to forget is the meteoric success of the industry and indie games in particular prior to the AI nonsense.

Finally, I am not even slightly interested in addressing your ridiculous perversions of my previous points. Anyone can easily understand what I’m saying and it’s very telling that you feel the need to misrepresent me so extremely. You may continue arguing with yourself if you wish, I trust that any reader worth reaching will easily be able to distinguish between my words and the strawmen you are compelled to present

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Ridiculous and obvious mischaracterization of the point. I’m not gonna waste my time arguing with the random ideas you invent

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

How do you mean no? Is there some further statement you feel you have left unsaid? This is a public website my friend, please feel welcome to express yourself

 

About a month ago I posted excitedly that my gym had installed a new plate loaded belt squat machine.

I was eager to program it in, and now finally having had the chance to use it, wow!

It’s very comfortable, once you find a good angle. At first, my instinct was to sit very far back and upright to make it more like a hack squat motion. This provided a great quad stimulus, but the belt actually applied a ton of unwanted pressure to the inner thighs, and my training partner and I both ended up with big bruises on our adductors lol.

So the following week, we stepped forward, and angled our torsos to mimic a traditional squat posture. Despite this, the belt continues to dramatically reduce pressure on the back compared to a barbell squat, which is great. The belt and pulley also has much more room between your legs, so it glides freely without causing any bruising.

After finding my flow with the machine, I Iove it!

I’m someone who prides myself on being able to bring sets of heavy barbel squats to failure, but it has its downsides. For one, it’s just very mentally demanding, and there is a fear factor to overcome. Setting the weight down on the safeties after concentric failure is highly technical and while I believe it’s worth learning and practicing, it’s something I hesitate to teach others.

But the belt squat? Forget about it lol, you got one more! Take every heavy set to failure with no fear in your heart. The machine is also very easy to spot- you basically just stand opposite the person and deadlift the plates up. With that in mind, it’s actually also an amazing machine to do some super maximal eccentrics as an intensity variation. Once you hit failure, have your spotter minimally help you out of the hole, then do another super slow eccentric.

In that manner, it has several big advantages over a leg press/hack squat. I really haven’t found a way to meaningfully help someone out of the hole in a leg press. The belt squat also allows for complete freedom of motion, so it should work well for every body type.

All in all, 10/10! Very excited to progress with it for the rest of this program. It can also be used for many other exercises, such as RDLs, rows, shrugs, and more. I’ve taken to using it for standing calf press, which looks quite odd but is very effective. Since this is not an advertisement I don’t want to name the machine, but I will mention the plates travel directly up and down a tower, and it has a 1:1 weight ratio throughout the range of motion. Many other machines use a large lever to move the weight with a variable force curve, so I can’t comment on that style

 

I started seeing cakes appear on people’s usernames, and I realized that it’s been a full year now since the great debacle through which many of us discovered lemmy.

Seeing them all start to pop up at once has made me a bit nostalgic. Memmy was such an exciting and important project during that time, I believe for many people it is the reason they stuck with lemmy in the long term.

So, cheers to the devs, and to anyone who still checks on this community from time to time when memmy crosses their mind.

 

So, I noticed that a couple of my image uploads made using Voyager now just show a “?” graphic. Looking around this community, I’m seeing a lot of other people’s posts are like that too.

In other apps and via browser, the images are also missing. Is anyone else experiencing this/do we know what’s happening?

 
 

I noticed while scrolling All that whenever these posts are displayed, the app lags out significantly, but then returns to normal a few seconds after they’re off screen.

I suspect it’s actually just the top one because it’s a gif. Running latest test test flight version

 

Behavior started a few updates ago for me. If I go to answer a text or check any other app, when I come back to Memmy the app won’t let me click on posts for 10-20 seconds

 

Lemmy.world was experiencing authentication issues yesterday, making it difficult to comment and vote.

These issues were resolved some hours ago when lemmy.world updated to 18.02, but you may still be experiencing issues with your account on third party apps such as memmy.

If so, everything will start working normally if you remove your account from the app and add it again! Possibly just reinstalling will also achieve the same thing, but I haven’t tested that personally.

 

It feels weird having it there in big bold letters all the time. I sometimes want to show someone a post or talk about lemmy in general, but I’m apprehensive about them learning my account name.

 

In Apollo, there was this really interesting feature that let you disable the gestures for voting/replying/etc. If you did so, then you could use the entire screen to navigate between posts instead of needing to swipe all the way from the side.

I struggle with a repetitive stress injury and this feature helped me a lot! I managed to grab a screenshot of the exact setting before Apollo shut down. It would be awesome if something similar could be implemented in Memmy

 

I’ve been sleeping on the same one for a few years but it’s become really lumpy. I don’t mind spending a little money, but are the modern “high tech” pillows really worth it?

 

I noticed I can save posts from the app but don’t see where to view the posts I’ve saved

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