e0qdk @ e0qdk @kbin.social

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!cursedai might like this

I was getting 404 on /login itself for a while, and then finally got the login page after seeing this thread. Logging in at that point returned a 404 after submitting the login form -- but it did actually succeed at logging in, it just didn't redirect me correctly to the main page.

After logging in, I'm still seeing tons of 50x errors. e.g. had to reload the "reply" link about a dozen times to get the comment submission form to show up; I think something is timing out when I get that sort of error. Maybe that's part of what "For the next few hours, there might be issues with communication in the fediverse." means in ernest's message?

I'm also seeing 404 when I go to https://kbin.social/newest?p=2 -- which is rather strange since https://kbin.social/newest?p=3 works.

Not OP, but I made a version of red-braised pork belly roughly following this recipe a while back with results I enjoyed. I had to make a few adaptations to the ingredients to substitute in things that were easier for me to get -- e.g. sherry instead of shaoxing wine, and just used 1/4 cup of my regular soy sauce since I couldn't get both light and dark soy sauce -- but it was still tasty.

Back when I was a kid one of my neighbor buddies told me about a strange toothfairy-like being (that I'd never heard of) associated with Halloween in his house. Unfortunately, I've forgotten whatever the hell he called it, but "Candyfairy" gets the idea across, I think. Basically, if he left a bowl of candy out after trick-or-treating, the "Candyfairy" (or whatever) would come and trade it for presents in the night. He came over the next day and showed me a game he'd gotten; I tested this myself too that same night after he'd told me about it -- my parents, of course, had never heard of this being either though so all my candy was still where I left it the next morning...

How does this relate to Summer in Mara? Are you expected to play SiM first? (Or is it better if you don't play that first if you haven't already?) Is this an independent story in the same setting?

Thanks for the suggestion. Seems to be in Early Access still. I'll keep an eye out for when it's done though!

Hmm... I'm pretty sure I started both of them way back when, but I don't think I ever beat them. Dusting off the classics and seeing if I'm better suited to them now with the benefit of a few more years of experience is not a bad idea... Maybe I'll give that a shot after I finish Hell Pie.

Thinking along those lines, there's also Super Mario Sunshine, of course, for anyone else looking. (I definitely beat that one though!)

Thanks. I've already played Psychonauts (and Psychonauts 2!) but that's a solid suggestion.

Thanks for the suggestion. I'll take a look. Toilet humor isn't my usual goto, but I can enjoy it from time to time; I mean, that boss from Conker's Bad Fur Day -- you know the one, if you ever played it -- is among the most memorable encounters I've ever had in gaming...

Edit: I'm a few hours in now, and I'd say it's kind of like the developers took Conker's Bad Fur Day and A Hat in Time, ground both up with a meat grinder, shoved the mix in a pie tin, added a dash of Ford Cruller's Secret Blend of Psitanium and Spices, and baked in the oven at 350 degrees until well done. I'm enjoying it so far. Fair warning to anyone else reading who is thinking of trying it that it's much more tuned to Conker's style of cartoon violence (with blood and gore) than to A Hat in Time's.

Wow, that's a heck of a lot cheaper than I expected. I mean, it's still more than I'm willing to pay for it on my own, but it's not the "haha no way could I ever buy one" level of impossible I was expecting. My boss probably wouldn't bat an eye if I asked for one to stick in a workstation... Hmm.

OK, that's fun and all, but how much does that crazy SSD cost? :p

I could really use another A Hat in Time, honestly. Not the Death Wish part -- I've still got Dark Souls 3 just sitting there waiting for me when I'm ready for that... -- but the chill, cutesy, fun main game part. Anyone got some recommendations?

You could crawl the Fediverse looking for instances and communities of the sort that your instance understands, but new servers and communities can show up whenever, so you'd have to keep looking continuously. Stuff also gets interesting because different servers have different views of content.

I've seen posts from users on two different servers talking in a thread on a 3rd server asking other users to help proxy messages manually between them because one of the servers was defederated from another and the messages were only going one way between the two users... I'm not sure in that case what the communication pattern was between the three servers (never mind me on kbin.social -- which isn't a Lemmy server at all -- also able to see the conversation), but it seemed like a big headache.

I've manually gone to different instances to make sure my posts show up when I make them; kbin is often pretty bad at getting new photo threads to federate out and sometimes needs a bit of coaxing... Looking at my profile on those instances though shows wildly different thread and comment counts sometimes. As of the time of writing this (before posting this comment) I have 30 threads and 85 comments listed in my profile on kbin.social. lemmy.world shows me as having 30 "posts" (threads) and 78 comments. lemmy.mindoki.com (your instance) shows 0 posts and just 10 comments!

There's also users on Mastodon and Misskey which show up for me as part of the regular experience of using kbin but which are a bit more awkward to interact with from Lemmy, I think? If I manually put in a mastodon.social user's account into lemmy.world's user lookup, for example, I can see some of their posts, but I'm not sure if they would ever actually show up anywhere on Lemmy without manually looking for a user?

Nevermind the other parts of the Fediverse like Peertube and AP-enabled Wordpress blogs and whatever else is out there... You can probably get a decent view of most of the Lemmy/kbin-like communities if you have a good list of servers to scrape community lists from and subscribe to everything you find regularly, but I think you'll still have some problems in practice.

I'm currently regularly posting to:

• !animepics
• !fangmoe

I'm mostly posting screenshots and other people are mostly posting fan art when they post.

It's not very active, but I've also been posting (when I have content) to:

• !animeirl (https://kbin.social/m/animeirl)

I'm following with interest and occasionally commenting on:

• !imageai
• !stablediffusionart

There are some really fun images being generated over there lately with a lot of variety!

I like random art popping up in the sidebar from time to time on kbin. I'm not actively following but have seen some fun imagery occasionally pop-up from:

• !imaginarydieselpunk
• !megumin (https://kbin.social/m/megumin)

So maybe take a look at those as well if they sound interesting.

I'm also subbed to a bunch of other communities, but not interacting with them very much; no content of my own to post right now and they're either (mostly) dormant or the people who are posting are not posting the sorts of content I'm interested in engaging with currently (but I might be interested in the future, so I subbed):

• !JRPGs (https://kbin.social/m/JRPGs)
• !visualnovels
• !programming
• !gamedev
• !gaming (https://kbin.social/m/gaming)
• !whatisthisthing
• !communitypromo

I joined that last one to hopefully find other interesting communities as well.

Occasionally I'll interact with other communities when they pop-up in the newest threads feed on kbin.social -- e.g. !196 or other meme communities. Sometimes people post things like technical problems they're struggling with in !cpp or wherever and if I see the threads and have time I try to answer them.

If you find a community that looks interesting but is dormant, start posting regularly (like maybe once a day). If you get upvotes or comments, there are still people around who just don't have content to interact with!

Edit: I should also add for the off kbin/lemmy part, I'm also on Hacker News (news.ycombinator.com) under a different username -- although that has a tendency to piss me off, so I'm cutting back on reading it.

I didn't finish it because I wasn't quite sure how to handle the data of trianglefan (looped) vs. trianglestrip

I went a good way down the rabbit hole of reading papers on triangulation before finding earcut.hpp which solved the "how do I triangulate polygons with concavities without going insane" problem effectively enough for my needs. It doesn't do quite what I'd like for self-intersections, but otherwise was pretty good. (Good enough for all cases where I care about the output anyway; self-intersection and degenerate stuff being a bit weird was OK for my goals as long as it didn't crash.) I'm not familiar with raylib (other than having heard the name before), so not sure how hard it'd be for you to integrate, but it's something you might take a look at if you're interested.

Self-intersection failure example: https://files.catbox.moe/tz38c8.png
Wireframe geometry example: https://files.catbox.moe/w59izh.png

Ah, I see. I wasn't reading carefully enough.

Your links reminded me of some projects I was poking around at a while ago. I wanted to make tools for creating complex 2D shapes that could be interactively animated with OpenGL as well as for experimenting with different elements of things like anime-style eyes. I was thinking offline (for games on desktop) rather than for web, but maybe that stuff would have value for web if I ever get back to it... I got a pretty good way into it before I ran out of steam. You could dynamically click to insert new control points anywhere on the edges of complex outlines and really quickly translate/rotate/zoom with keyboard and mouse combos and it redrew everything every frame in realtime on my 10 year old desktop... but someone who's actually good at art would probably have still been more effective just digging up an old copy of Flash than what I'd gotten working. :-/

Bezier curve chain editor screenshot: https://files.catbox.moe/bk4zhz.png
Eye example: https://files.catbox.moe/4ywrpi.png

I mean something like this probably could work live-rendered in the browser

It is indeed possible to emulate Flash in the browser now and people have already done it -- e.g. Badger Badger Badger emulation

It looks like it's 10MB (w/ compression) + the SWF file to get all the WASM and whatever to run the player. Fullscreen (from the right click menu) seems to be buggy at the moment in my browser but YMMV.

You can search for other classic Flash stuff here: https://flashpointproject.github.io/flashpoint-database/ (use the "Play at 9o3o" link at the top right of an entry to launch something in the browser).

Do you have systemd-initiald configured correctly? :-)

Kind of reminds me of Berri from Conker's Bad Fur Day (although this character isn't blonde).

Given the amount of progress on getting 3D games to work well under wine/proton lately, I wonder if it's possible/practical to run 3ds Max under it yet? The only test results I can find for it are ancient.