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@SamaHoole I love how they are all things that's promoted to pregnant women and breastfeeding mothers... And to start babies on....

For anyone who still hasn't had the memo: - Oatmeal = sugar - Quinoa = sugar with a marketing degree - Brown rice = sugar wearing a tiny bran cardigan - Wholewheat bread = sugar that went to a wholesome photoshoot - Sweet potato = sugar the wellness influencers agreed to forgive "Complex carbohydrate" is one of the great triumphs of food branding. It sounds like something that takes effort to break down. Something virtuous. Something earned. It's a chain of glucose molecules holding hands. The chain breaks in your gut within minutes. By the time it crosses into your blood, it's the same glucose as a spoon of table sugar. Your pancreas has never once read a label. It doesn't care that the oats were steel-cut, organic, and recommended by a man in running shoes. It sees the glucose. It pumps the insulin. Same response. Every time. The packaging is for you. The bloodstream isn't fooled.

@SamaHoole Sweden is now wanting to limit meat in schools to 125g per week. 12-15 meatballs.... Per week. Push more vegan and vegetarian diets..... I got sent to cps/social services for wanting to keep my daughters diet grain and cow dairy free.... (goat is fine) according to our home diet.

The most committed carnivores I know are all ex-vegans. They did the experiment. Five years, ten years, fifteen years on the diet, watching the symptoms accumulate: the brittle nails, the thinning hair, the periods that stopped, the libido that vanished, the fatigue that no amount of B12 supplementation would fix, the anxiety that crept in like fog and never quite left. They ate the steak in desperation, expecting nothing. They felt different inside an hour. They felt like themselves inside a week. They were back inside a month. They spent the next six months processing what had happened to them, what they had been told, who had told them, and what those people had to gain. By the time they emerge from the recovery, they are unshakeable. They have done both sides of the experiment in their own body and the data is undeniable. You cannot persuade them with a study. They have something better than a study. They have the contrast. Every vegan who has ever eaten a piece of meat after years off it is a future carnivore. They just do not know it yet.

If you are an aspiring 3D environment/prop artist, it's very important that you understand the scarcity of texture memory. Production artists go to great lengths to squeeze the most from the least possible amount of textures. If you are building a portfolio, include pieces that showcase: - trim sheets, - vertex paint masks, - utilization of multiple UV sets, - tiling textures and how you hide their repetition. These works won't get you hundreds of likes, but they'll show that you have the right sensibilities. You don't have to be a tech artist and build an entire pipeline. Just showing that you are aware of those concepts is a strong signal to your future lead. You do need pretty renders and hero props to get likes, establish your name and attract recruiters. But don't ignore the biggest pain point of every single graphics-heavy production. My favorite resources on the topic: - The Ultimate Trim: Texturing Techniques of Sunset Overdrive — Morten Olsen (Insomniac Games) Elegant and lightweight pipeline, almost an art form in itself. - Behind the Art of Battlefield and Battlefront — Joel Zakrisson (DICE) My personal favorite. Love the double UVs and the detail normals. Revisited this article many times over the years. - Cyberpunk 2077: A World Full of Substance — Krzysztof Krzyścin (CDPR) The gargantuan scale of CP2077, vast sightlines, high detail density — CDPR created a miracle. - Driving Innovation: A New Vehicle Pipeline for 'The Last of Us: Part II' — Matthew Johns (Naughty Dog) Helps drive home the actual sizes of used textures. - Building the World of 'The Ascent' — Tor Frick (Neon Giant) Teaches you what does and doesn't matter in production. Shows you how much data you can squeeze from an asset (color masks, mesh maps). - Seaside Town UE4 — Vytautas Katarzis All-time classic. Hyper-optimized doesn't mean ugly. - Old Freight Car — Aleksandr Silantev Very thorough breakdown that takes you deep behind the scenes. - Modular Wood-Shack Kit: Insurgency Sandstorm — Vuk Banovic Beautiful little example of how far you can take a single texture set.

Developer Zoicware released a PowerShell script that removes AI features from Windows 11, including Copilot, Recall, and other built-in tools. Download here: 80.lv/articles/devel…

holy sh*t. this is hands down the coolest website i have ever found in my life. it's a live feed of the freaking Hubble Telescope AND James Webb Space Telescope. and the resolution is honestly so incredible i didn't think it was real. unbelievable. spacetelescopelive.org

@RupertLowe10 I guess there's a reason the rest of the western world calls the UK a third world country...... Can be better

Are we seriously suggesting that allowing hundreds and hundreds of unvetted Eritrean men to freely roam our streets is a good idea? We must stop importing medieval attitudes. These men have their own culture, and that's fine - they can practice it, in Eritrea. Not here.

@elonmusk Sweden has a nice system for social security numbers. Granted, might need some tweaking for larger masses, but it is birthyear/month/day (6-8numbers) + number of place where you were born + male/female + verification number. Easy to remember and used for everything. Not random..

Just learned that the social security database is not de-duplicated, meaning you can have the same SSN many times over, which further enables MASSIVE FRAUD!! Your tax dollars are being stolen.

It's been a wild ride but after a year we're very happy to be able to share this game with all of you!

@MichaelG_3D I think the answer is 'it depends'. Does showing different styles mean that you show that you are not 'proficient enough' in either, or that your focus is split (or feeling desperate) then no. But if you're showing strength in both, mastered foundation.. Then yes

Is it ok to have realism and stylized in your portfolio? I know I was told to not mix them together because a stylized company wouldn’t care about the realistic stuff and vice versa

This happens all the time. Universities very literally are not training you for a job as a software engineer. They are training you in the academic field of the science of computing.

Here are some alternate angles of the mouth shapes in Luca. It takes a lot of work to get it to look that simple!

Women are told from childhood that a man is the prize & a wedding will be her one special day. And men go out of their way to ruin it. The way men punish women (& perform for other men). And they wonder why women are realizing this isn't for them & won't bring them happiness.

Photographs taken in the right place at the right time, intentionally or by chance - a thread 🧵 1. Wilma Hurskainen

@rowan_crossing @ThatEm_ Look up 'ryse moss tutorial' on polycount :) it's the same way how we do fur - shells :)

ah shit... well i've joined the pool of people looking for work... with a 3 week old baby too its a bit of a worry!

I hate how every time I ask/talk about remote junior roles I get the "well in office is better for juniors" spiel. I know. I would if I could. I am disabled. x

@Palle_Hoffstein This looks fantastic! Beetroot with goat cheese with a dagstidning combo. But I have never tried it with scallops! How was it?

Dawna likes to cook pink things for valentine's day. Beetroot risotto with scallops, goat cheese, thyme and asparagus.

@MichaelG_3D 3d artist by day trying to move over to traditional art instead as was my initial passion. Doing commissions :)

What kind of artists are you? Show me! :)

@BeddowsDesign I tell them that 'as a senior, I'll tell you not to work weekends and overtime. Take care to have personal time and boundaries. But that I'm not the one in the situation, and when I was, I worked OT as that is what felt like the right decision @ the time. I just advice caution".

Something I have always struggled with when giving advice to juniors, it feels very disingenuous to say 'dont work weekends' when i know I put in a lot of extra hours to get where I am. So any of my peers have advice on how they tackled this topic I would love to hear 🙏