I pop this on the telly for my kids when they have nightmares. It's interesting enough to distract them, yet gentle enough to lull them to sleep again.
It seems pretty fundamental, but fighting games have had pretty much the same basic UI layout since Street Fighter II. Before then there was a degree of variability as to how the different elements were laid out. Since SFII, it's always been Timer in the middle and Health bars on either side of that.
If you have at least one of each piece remaining, then yep - it's easy!
The technology you're after is called photogrammetry, and there are two inexpensive ways that I use often (there are more, but these are the two I rely on)
KIRI Engine - I have a subscription, but I think there is a free tier. You take about twenty photos of the object from different angles, upload for processing, and you get a 3D model back that you can print.
TRELLIS - take a single photograph and upload to here:
You will receive a 3D model back that you can import into Blender, run a mesh operation to merge by distance (to create a watertight model), export as STL and then print.
KIRI Engine requires more work upfront, with all the photos, but is the best at recreating existing things accurately.
TRELLIS requires more work at the end, because it doesn't automatically create printable models, and it isn't a finished product yet, but it is the closest thing to actual witchcraft I've experienced.
People are still people, and money is just there to facilitate transactions required for the stuff you need.
Part of the problem is that a bunch of not-rights have decided that instead the point of money is to accrue it like some kind of high score.
If you are so rich that you no longer experience the normal problems associated with being a person, such as bad hair days, then you've probably become a weirdo yourself.
I'd have paid off my student loans and mortgage already, as that's the first thing I'd do as soon as I received the money.
I guess a typical Friday would involve me waking up at noon, pottering about in my pyjamas for a few hours, then working on whatever project I have on the go. I'm one of those people who has an obsession-of-the-month, and I can't imagine that would change.
I'd have more time to spend with my kids and partner than I do, which I imagine would be nice.
On the whole, I don't think it'd be wildly different to how I live now - only that without the pressure that I have to work so many hours a day, I'd have more time to spend with my family.
Approaching this cynically, all right-wing politicians blame groups as others as being the cause of their country's societal ills. That's just how it works.
Jewish people were just one of the targeted groups, along with LGBT people, disabled people, and communists.
One universal truth throughout history is that it's hard to unite people behind a common goal, but it's easy to unite people against a common enemy.
Listen to any right wing politicians from around the world - their plans for making things better all start with getting rid of someone (be it a group of people or a governmental department).
I don't understand what you mean "still getting plenty for free".
I agree that there shouldn't be this kind of wealth inequality, and it's madness that people are starving in countries that are so prosperous, but it's a little disingenuous to ignore the fact that wealthier people pay more in tax. They're not getting stuff for free, they're getting stuff for more than it costs poorer people.
The invention of production lines didn't mean that nobody appreciated hand-built cars any longer - it just meant a cheaper option was now available to more people.
The invention of phonographs, records, cd etc, didn't mean that nobody appreciated live music anymore - it just meant that there was now a more accessible option available.
Every job in arts and engineering can, has and will be automated to some extent - it doesn't mean the death of those industries, or a lack of appreciation for the creativity involved.
I think the real benefit comes from when the creatives use the tools to do the heavy lifting. Every new innovation sees a glut of low-effort money-saving cash-ins. After a while, however, these fall to the wayside as the people who actually have the skills take over again.
More than ten years ago, I wrote a song for my daughter. I recorded it, animated a little video, and uploaded it to youTube. I'd written several more songs for her, but had never found the time necessary to actually record the songs and create videos for them. Because of AI tools, I've finally been able to make significant headway on a couple of songs/videos that I've had rattling around in my head for years.
We're just in a transition period. Like George Lucas's over-reliance on CG in the prequels - although it looked pretty great at the time but now looks thoroughly artificial.
Speaking of the nice paint job, it's a good job you guys made that Eagle thing official. That makes it nice and clear that you're not at risk of transitioning from democracy to dictatorship.
If so, what do you want me to prove? That religion exists? I mean, it does - there are loads of them and the very oldest evidence of a prehistoric settlement is a temple complex, suggesting that religions have existed for over ten thousand years at least.
I've already said that the existence of a god can't be proven or disproven.
The only thing I'm arguing with you about is letting people practice religion if they find comfort in doing so.
You've advocated institutionalising and using surgical techniques on people for their beliefs. And then called me mentally ill and a danger to society.
I pop this on the telly for my kids when they have nightmares. It's interesting enough to distract them, yet gentle enough to lull them to sleep again.