I would say: even if it’s just a free video, C.Y.A. (wear some pants). At a minimum.

In other words, distance yourself from anything that ties to any sort of intellectual property. Don’t use their names in a title/description, don’t use their pixels (especially not in a thumbnail), use original designs and even add your own ideas or changes/improvements etc. Define, generalize, and abstract.

Keep any hint of it off of the internet until it’s finished and released.

I think OP is seeing the wrong correlation in a very not-all-rectangles-are-square sort-of-way. The correct attribution being the type of people who engage with the culture war (with some ties to masculinity or status).

My parents eat way too much meat (even though they often get tired of it, especially when it’s primarily cooked meat) and are the type of people who would say with a straight face that a side of edamame (soybeans) is basically HRT. They do eat vegetables but it’s still very meat-and-potato centric, less vegetable if I wasn’t always pushing for it (including proving to them that roasted carrots are good).

I like steamed broccoli, spinach or chard on a pastrami sandwich, I sauté vegetable medleys (some mix of: carrots, squash, onions, peppers spicy or not green, celery, mushrooms etc) in butter. I like cabbage in meals (such as egg rolls) though don’t cook with it often.

It’s free (and legal!) real-estate.

I have watched playthroughs as a substitute before, and honestly I don’t feel like I’m missing out for most games as they are linear (or close enough to it). Add in common annoyances I have (things like inventory management, hunger, backtracking etc), and I will likely enjoy the playthrough more (with talking/video themes especially). In fact, there are a few games I tried after LPs and that still held true.

Then again I also have no problem watching an LP of a game I’ve already played, and I may even see something new (or forgotten).

Again, going on the trail was my idea of travel/meeting people… though even when I’m able* to ride I don’t see much around here. I suspect the people I’d fit with are not here, or even if they are they are at home (or just not on the trail).

* 300+ miles so far (over a few years), admittedly that’s mostly ~1-2mi trips to a bridge/bench area when I can’t plan anything better, and my most realistic trip besides that is just to a local grocery store to buy old bananas and maybe some produce to fry.

Go for it if you want, especially if it’s (mostly) in-reply to my higher-level comment.

In hindsight I guess I should’ve depersonalized my comment more or just abstracted it completely (yeah that is the dream or something).

I do what I can, I have my ups and downs too. You did better, good for you… maybe if we swapped you could fix my life, or maybe it’s just an anecdote and there is no way to tell.

Yeah, I know I need a lot of things (including healthcare and therapy) but healthcare is a mess here especially rural and if I could use any programs now (especially with waiting lists etc) I expect said access will be cut before needed follow-ups are done.

You can pin the blame on mentality all you like, but it doesn’t make the country any less of multiple unmitigated disasters.

Ah yes, walk it off. Very helpful. Do you think real issues don’t exist? Especially in the US now?

“If you feel like shit, just grind bro”. Doing what, exactly? Lots of options are oversaturated or having layoffs. Rent is a racket and there are people who work full-time “essential” jobs (like professors and nurses) living in their car. I cannot even afford nor do I want a car, and if I was living outside where I’m at I’d be at risk for heat stroke because my body cannot sweat enough for even mild heat. Also, I am nearly nowhere.

I can prepare and sauté vegetables, sweep, carry things, do various computer things. Is that enough to live off of? Even at my best, probably not! Could I maybe work something out with people? I’m a shut-in with the social skills of a rock, so that’s not likely either. EDIT: forgot to say bike riding, but again that’s also difficult with heat

Have I already lost? Yeah maybe, but the issues (both internal and external) are more than excuses. It if got me out of here I’d be a shitty cook on a boat (I also probably can’t swim, no ID/passport) but it doesn’t work like that anymore. Solo projects and crowd-funding are just as delusional.

I don’t live in that world. I have too many issues for any of that to work, but even if that weren’t the case I probably couldn’t travel to wherever would be better for me.

Side note: you might be better off using said sauces at the end of your fry when your dish is basically done, not to replace oil but just for flavor (and to cook some of the vinegar out of said sauce). I do that with some Japanese barbecue sauce when frying vegetables, but it’s also a thin/vinegary sauce (I wouldn’t try it with something made for dipping).

I did mean both… Newgrounds is known for animation, too. Have you never seen a flash animation?

Also wouldn’t blender be better suited for vertex colored animations?

I make the models in Blender. Animation itself could be done in either, but a mix of the two probably makes more sense (Blender for character animations, in-engine for more dynamic/combined stuff or scenes etc.).

Blender-only would probably be fine if you can export to Blender Game Engine but I’m not sure it’s really a thing anymore. Godot has exports for multiple platforms (also obviously, interactivity). Though anything that could render a scene could work, Raylib or other frameworks/engines.

I feel like in either case the point is lost though since it’ll have to be rasterized eventually.

Not quite. The major point is that it’s being rendered on the user’s computer as-needed rather than the rasterized result being loaded for every pixel on the screen for every frame. The data difference can be huge, particularly as the frames/animations add up.

The most “real” implementation also allows zooming and transformations whereas something like a runtime-rasterized SVG might have ugly pixellation if you do that (haven’t tested Godot’s new SVG oversampling) or even just from bezier conversion with too few points. So I prefer real minimal polygons over rasterized-solution SVGs.

The 3D version of this isn’t even anything exotic. It’s just a 3D game without textures, using old techniques that actually still have some support thanks to being in the 3D formats. It’s an aesthetic choice that is also an optimization.

I miss Flash for vector reasons, both for animations and games. My internet is still slow enough to matter, especially with streaming speed/stability issues.

WebGL is a thing but a bit of a mess, especially downloading. Ruffle or using Wick editor are options… but even Newgrounds doesn’t highlight this (unless you find it first and go to info page from there). I assume most animators just render their animations now.

Have tinkered with vertex color (untextured) models in Godot, I see workflow possibilities there (also for 2D to a lesser extent) but good luck if it’s gotta be me. Some chunk of development is also different from the content it allows.

Does the water give fish arms and legs?

Actually scratch that it don’t matter. How much river water do I have to drink until my pollution stops? Or maybe not if it makes me piss more. Isn’t that pollution? Some kind of sick game you’re pulling here, buster.

Get me out of here. I already use FOSS*, tell me what license to use and I can also do testing (both bug reports and medical/biomech stuff).

I know, probably not even close to a real option. Same as it ever was.

* Godot, Blender, Krita, Linux etc

I don’t think I have any federation issues (at least directly), but yeah I don’t get replies probably because what I post is too niche. On 3 posts so far at least (~8 upvotes each) in 3 different communities.

Well, looking back most anything I post is probably doomed this way no matter the instance, unless maybe it’s something more general or eye-catching on a bigger community.

On paper sure they are villages, but I think a US village and one from elsewhere would likely feel drastically different. Lacking actual community (see Bowling Alone), or just look at all of the things that the village lost (shops, train station, industry etc) and what it still has(franchise dollar store, gas station etc).

It could just be coincidence, though “retirement village” is a term (also ecovillages) so maybe not. Aside from decay, I’d imagine the common perspective of blink-and-you’ll-miss-it (unless you stop for gas/maybe breakfast) probably doesn’t help with image either.

I feel like if it’s not every day+not a money issue+well below combustion+not putting a significant risk on others (driving) then it’s probably not too bad.

Having usage that is less instant, less portable, less potent, less common, or more variable may help too (ritual, not habit). Also if your stuff is low-quality (cheap/free) you probably won’t worry so much about wasting it if you let it sit.

Or maybe that’s a cope from me in a similar spot. Though either way things are not changing for the better for me, aside from maybe the small (mostly sustaining) steps I’m still doing.

This would require both the air and surface to be free of dust. Maybe in a lab that could be true, but probably not in the real world.

I doubt anything would work for me (even for just friendships) with where and how I exist.

Then again I’ve never had much luck with connection (my brain isn’t built for that).