Say I wanted to do #3Dmodeling (for #3Dprinting), which #CAD software should I go for? Maker, selling some stuff. Parametric is a must.
I use #Shapr3D which is great but getting pricier ($300/year). My subscription is up for renewal and I’m on the fence. I don’t know if I want to get into #Fusion360 because I don’t trust Autodesk (free for <$1000 profit, $680/year otherwise).
Oddly enough, #SolidWorks has a maker version now ($48/year for <$2000 profit, a bajillion otherwise).
@brianokken another trick: if you have kids, encourage them to work in a restaurant (ideally a non fast food one) for a few years as their first job. They will learn valuable cooking skills (as well as organization, timing, accountability, and of the satisfaction of hard work) all of which they will use for the rest of their life to feed themselves and their own family and might even be able to cook for you when you grow old :]
Coworkers and I were cracking up over how we hate certain email closings like "Best" and "Warmly," so we tested out some alternatives:
"Moistly"
"Indifferently"
"Relentlessly"
"With gravest concern"
I know there are some brilliant ones out there. Tell me your best ones.
"Just be very careful of the game-design equivalent of having produced Schindler’s list, and then someone pipes up and says ‘couldn’t it be a bit more upbeat’? All entertainment should be driven by the emotional force of a single creator. Anything else risks becoming mediocre."
This is why there is only one director per movie,
one maestro per orchestra and one general contractor per construction project: Mixing to focus on two or more visions makes all of them appear blurry
NASA uses 3.141592653589793 for the value of Pi in all calculations. "The calculated circumference of a 30-billion-mile (48-billion-kilometer) diameter circle would be wrong by less one centimeter."
@grumpygamer So, in a few thousand years, when we are an interplanetary and intergalaxy species and when some expensive spaceship crash-land on a gigantic planet faraway from here because of that one centimeter discrepency, someone can misquote the NASA guy in a "Bill Gates"-style meme saying "15 decimals of PI ought to be enough for everybody" :blobcatshrug: :]
Just got to play it a few days ago and finished Shadowking yesterday.
Figured I'd give Outbreak a go tonight and got to the chopper but since I was almost invincible, I figured I'd just stay around the chopper for a while and just rake in the chits.
If you could do something kind of shitty to other people and make a lot of money and if you got caught the worse that would happen is you'd have to stop. Would you do it?
Well, 58% of people want me to wallow in despair. 24% want me to finish Skeleton Key. I'm going to Whidbey Island this weekend and I'll take the book along and give it a final try.
@grumpygamer You didn't say you would abide to the result of your poll (like Space Karen) so screw despair and just relax, everyone says life is short so might as well enjoy it shrug
@gamingonlinux That native package managers should be only used for system packages and AppImages be used for user apps because snaps and flatpaks creates more problems than they solve? :]
As an ethnic Chinese... anti-China rants wear you out eventually.
It is the land of my ancestors after all, and it hurts to see people not understanding my culture.
I usually dont engage in such posts. But today it just felt a bit much. I want to yell at people to stop rattling their sabers cos as a South East Asian, it is scary to see the citizens of US so anti-China. Do you know what's going to happen to us if war is sparked in this region?
@scottkillen@liztai Agreed that the only sensible position is not anti-China nor is it pro-China, it's anti-war. The only game where nobody wins and everybody loose.
When I started making games I used a .txt file as a todo list, then I moved to Trello, after that I used Notion and now I'm back to .txt files. I crave simplicity.
@paintedsky@abban@grumpygamer In case anyone is looking to replace Notion with an open source alternative that runs local (sqlite db) or that you can self-host: Focalboard by Mattermost is not a 1:1 Notion replacement yet but it's getting there