You have to leverage the situation you're in, but something that works well for me is go climbing gym > compliment someone on their climb > strike conversation > if it goes well, ask for their insta (semi-public info) > slip into DMs (wanna go climbing again?) > make a move
Between each >, it's obviously only a step you can do if the vibes check, but it's one example of something that works. Also I won't lie doing this is a bit difficult, but you get better with practice. It also works great if you go to busy climbing gyms in different places at different times, since you'll always see new people. Final caveat is I do this for friends, since I'm already dating, but it works the same way to catch a bf/gf
Usually I see non-technical people throw ideas like this and they're stupid, but I've been thinking about this for a few minutes and it's actually kinda smart
The website looks really good but holy smokes that's a lot of screenshots for a landing page
Bro dont organize nothing in your work place, its common sense.
I understand your sentiment, but you're basically asking people to be only protest in places it's easier to ignore
People have been talking about third parties for months, but there's always an excuse
Obviously Israel would stop killing Palestinians if they knew we wouldn't support their existence. They know we'll continue to support them, so that's why they're still killing Palestinians
That's obviously not true since Raegan stopped bombing in (I believe) Lebanon with one phone call
Do you want Trump to win? Because that's how you get Trump to win
Tbh that's a fair point, although careful what you wish for since that could get him elected
The elections haven't happened yet. Withhold your support for Harris until she changes her mind on Gaza
Granted, I don't know much about the conflict. I've read about it on Wikipedia and it gets more and more nuanced and complex at every turn.
HOWEVER.
There are candidates who advocate for stopping the killing. This is not a high bar. This is a bar I would like to see Kamala reach.
"How dare you protest!!!"
Literally all Kamala has to do is announce a plan to stop war crimes and gain these votes back. The fact she won't is on her, not on the people concerned over Gaza.
By the way, I don't support Trump, I don't think you should vote for Trump, but if you want to protest by supporting third parties until Kamala changes her policy you have my full support
I thought you were joking, but yup they actually started quizzing eachother on WW2.
It's not the end of Linux by any means, but that's gonna be hard to work together afterwards
Jeez I really feel like I live in a democracy! I have all these parties to vote for, but only 2 can be elected. Also I can't vote for one because they're facist. So I live in a democracy but I must vote for the Democrats, regardless of whether I want to.
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Also it's the Democrats telling me all this. But the Democrats aren't facists. The two parties aren't the same.
This was my mistake, but I don't think people recommended Debian as a desktop OS - I believe it was recommended as a server
If everyone voted third party, we would elect candidates who actually want to end the war, so yes voting third party does help end the war.
In a more realistic world, it pressures the Democrats to change their mind about Gaza to get the third party voters back
You would have made a pretty penny if you bet on Trump in 2016
My statistics professor did, which is what got me interested in the space. In general, he said, the betting odds are more reflective of reality because the further they are from the truth, the more money to be made by people who can detect that.
So even if the odds are off, the chances of them being off by a significant amount are low.
(And yes, it was unlikely for Trump to win 2016. The fact he did win doesn't change that fact)
Mmm yes, one more article like this is what we need to convince people to get out and vote
Voting strategically is only voting Democrats if you live in a swing state, otherwise it's voting third party to popularize getting out of this duopoly
Why do you all pretend to hate Trump but then make advertisements for him in your spare time
Anyone know of a store selling high quality FOSS swag?
I've got a really nice Ubuntu sweater and I used to have some other high quality t-shirts from various open source projects (mostly Ubuntu tbh, but also other stuff). I like spending a bit of cash for stuff that lasts and is high quality/doesn't degrade in the wash. Anyone have good recommendations?
2009scape - Recruitment Drive Released
2009Scape - Play Runescape from 2009. Multiplayer and free forever.
Want to make games for Blind people - Looking for thoughts/suggestions
Hey blind folks on Lemmy!
I'm an ex-mobile game dev, and noticed while searching today there's about 45 million fully blind people in the world, but I couldn't find much about games targeting blind folks.
It seems like there's mods on existing games to assist blind people, but in my quick search there's no dedicated groups to making games for blind people as their top priority.
I have a few questions:
First, do you think lots of blind people would be interested in playing games? Think for like an hour or two a day.
Second, what sort of games would be good for blind people? Are there any games you think would be fun if someone made it for you?
Third, how would blind people like to play games? Would they prefer a phone with like one big button (i.e jump) with haptic feedback and sound, or would they prefer something like on a laptop and a screen reader?
Forth, right now I'm thinking about making a competitive math game; you have one minute to answer as many questions as possible. I was planning on using audio/screen reader to output the question, but similar to the third question, I'm curious on what's the easiest way to input the answer.
Ruffle (Browser Flash Player in 2024): Optimisations, Text Input, Tab Focusing and More!
We really should start making these posts more often, because phew there's a lot that happened in the last 8 months!
First Thoughts on Godot (From a Unity Dev)
Finally got around to it and been playing Godot for an hour. I've been following Brackey's How to make a Video Game - Godot Beginner Tutorial and I'm about ~40 minutes in.
First impressions:
- Jesus christ that downloaded fast
- Holy crap that opened fast
- I love right out the gate it let me pick what renderer I want to use (alongside the pros and cons)
UI:
- The UI is a little bit confusing. Having the Script and 2D window be something at the top, but to the right of your traditional window dropdowns - is very jarring
- Mousewheel is a weird default: Control-scroll moves up and down, while regular scroll zooms in and out. I believe this is the opposite of most programs
- Modifying the collision points on TileSets was weird - I would modify one, then any new tile I click would get the new collision points, so I kept accidentally overwriting the collision points on tiles when I just wanted to select. But then I also couldn't copy a previous collision point.. so I had to like carefully plan out which tiles would have the same collision points because I couldn't copy them... I didn't want to get too specific on something minor, but that was frustrating.
- Overall, the UI is still less cluttered than Unity, so despite being a bit unintuitive and having some frustrations, it's worse but not a showstopper
"Let me make a game!" vibe:
- For reference, my base point here is Flash, with ActionScript. The dead simplicity of that framework let developers pump out awesome games in under a week
- Godot seems to have better support for 2D games than Unity. 2D feels "first class", and I'm not getting weird collider issues on corners like Unity does
- When following a tutorial (that is only 4 months old), I already ran into cases of UI changes and deprecated features. That's a big issue with Unity, and not something I look forwards to in Godot
- As far as vibe check goes, this one is also on par or slightly better than Unity
*****
Overall Rating: Good enough
My world has not been shaken - but I'll use Godot for my next game. First impressions have Godot's editor on-par with Unity, but the real win is it comes without the clown show that is Unity Technologies itself. For the first time in a while I'm excited to get back into making games, I just need to make the time 🙃
A Review of The Latest Updates to Darkan (2024)
A Runescape remake written in pure Java. Experience the fun of Runescape in 2012!
Someone Just Made an Insane Pull Request in 2009scape's Client; Effectively Adding a Runelite-Like Version
It's a big one. Features: XP Tracker Loot Tracker Hiscore Lookup (with rightclick support) Live plugin variables if they...
