@TheBrandedSwordsman not too far bud, maybe 15 - 20 miles away. Out of the city into a bit of countryside basically. The missus manages maintenance in various sectors and its just crazy at the moment but she'll be fine no doubt.
Thanks for your thoughts in regards to my relative, it is appreciated... and well done on your recently mastered guitar technique. I never played anywhere apart from mine and my friends houses really. Never really had any illusions that I'd be a rock star or anything but I did enjoy playing. I might end up getting Rocksmith if it releases on PS5, just to get back into it a bit.
@TheBrandedSwordsman Haha! Oh yeah that’s an awesome clip.
I like basketball, and a little American Football. Everything else I’m pretty ignorant about. I watch hockey and baseball sometimes, and even less of soccer, cycling, motor sports, etc.
So, sorry for carrying on there with the detailed description of team building for setting up a championship dynasty. 😅
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
@TheBrandedSwordsman We’re done with the instruments now and we’ll be going back in for vocals in August (a little break just due to scheduling). It’s the new Leash Eye album, so I’m mostly playing the organ
Dared to go into the NLife forums for a hot minute and general gist of the current conversation was ‘I have nothing against homosexuality, I just don’t like it when it’s shoved in my face’
@Voltan I said "heterosexuality" :') not that I particularly want any kind of sexuality shoving in my face, truth be told. I'm a man of the world but I also appreciate my personal space.
@TheBrandedSwordsman I'm all for Covid safety but it wouldn't make much sense to do all that in the studio. We treated it as a workplace, so masks off once inside. There was nobody there who wasn't currently needed though.
The Covid situation here in Poland is pretty good lately (down to ~100 daily new cases from as high as 30k back in March and April) so I'd say it was a low risk. Also I'm currently fully vaccinated myself.
@Thrillho Have you been following England's Twenty20 and ODI's against Sri Lanka? What do you reckon of the result? I'd say it was a bit of a walk in the park for the victors but the losers' side hasn't exactly been strong in recent years.
@Kidfried We're not past it, sadly. It's just the old "do whatever you want behind closed doors but behave yourself in public" mentality given a lick of paint. "I just don't want it shoved in my face" is rarely used in relation to actually having anything you're not comfortable with forced upon you, and rather just homosexuality - or whatever it is - existing. I think, in part, this way of thinking is aided and abetted by use of the word "tolerance" when talking about people of other orientations, races, etc. as though it's something to aspire to.
Tolerance. What a terrible word. I tolerate people's screaming kids in a restaurant. I tolerate new shoes feeling a bit stiff for the first week or two. Seeing a couple holding hands isn't something you should be tolerating.
Online discourse will always be a bit of a cesspit thanks to the dubious gift of anonymity, and if you throw that in with people from all different backgrounds and cultures and upbringings mixing together then it's a recipe for disaster. I frequently have my finger hovering over the "post reply" button - mainly on Twitter, honestly - and then think better of it because the drama probably won't help anyone. But I'd be lying if I said I wasn't frequently aghast at some of the things I see people say on forums or Twitter or whatever.
@johncalmc Bet you and the other mods on here are having a collective sigh of relief that you don’t have to deal with the mess that the NLife mods have been wrestling with. 670 comments has to be some sort of new record.
@nessisonett I'm not a mod, thank the Gods. I've been a mod on other sites in the distant past though and it's a thankless task. Fortunately I think it generally seems pretty cool here. I check in on the forums every day whereas pretty much every other site I've ever been a part of I've posted my article or whatever and scarpered. The Internet can be a hive of scum and villainy.
Tolerance. What a terrible word. I tolerate people's screaming kids in a restaurant. I tolerate new shoes feeling a bit stiff for the first week or two. Seeing a couple holding hands isn't something you should be tolerating.
This is what I do it for. The adulation of the crowds.
I’m not sure where to post this, since it’s a broad question that applies to really all gaming consoles I guess. So this thread is as good as any…
First off, I apologize for how ignorant I am about the technical aspects of computers and have no plans to ever pursue formal education and training in the technological realm. But gaming is my hobby, so I think I should have a surface level understanding of some things. So here goes —
Can anyone explain what a gaming engine is? I mean the technical term we use a lot to describe what developers use to create their games. I see the different engines thrown around (Unreal Engine, Frostbite Engine, Decima Engine, Fox Engine…) and I have a basic understanding, but in the most elementary and simplistic terms, what does it mean and why is it important? Is there an easy analogy in the concrete world to help me wrap my head around it? Like, is it akin to a carpenter’s toolbox when he’s trying build something? Or more like an architect’s blueprint when building a house? Or more like the foundation of a house before it’s built…?
I feel like I should know this. I hear and read chatter about these engines and it seems to be important, but it only seems to pop up in game conversation occasionally. And I’ve never felt like while playing a game that as a player that I feel the difference when playing games made from different engines. I would never know both Death Stranding and Horizon Zero Dawn have the same engine, for example.
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