Alex
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Alex
@IyamAlex
Father of three, Software Engineer, Game Dev
Georgia, USA Katılım Ağustos 2011
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LOL Stephen Colbert is making his band play licensed music during his final show so CBS – who fired him – will get sued and have to pay millions
"Anyone illegally using that music is gonna have to pay through the nose--"
[band starts playing]
"Oh no! I hope this doesn't cost CBS any money!"
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@artofsully Is there a plan for more precisely matching the shape eventually? Something custom ordered? I don’t know a ton about hardware but I’ve raspberry pi’d a little
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THIS IS WHAT AN INDIE GAME LOOKS LIKE
Monkey Strike Games@MonkeyStrikeDev
THIS IS WHAT AN INDIE GAME LOOKS LIKE
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Hoy una industria entera dejó de tener sentido.
Un tío publicó en GitHub un repo que convierte cualquier foto en un mundo 3D explorable: meshes con físicas, splat del fondo, audio ambiente. Todo.
Una imagen entra. Un mundo sale. Cinco minutos.
La gente que se pasó diez años aprendiendo Blender lleva todo el día mirando esto en silencio.
Se llama image-blaster.
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While we were tightening the belt and looking for ways to cut costs in order to save up the 20% down we needed to buy our first homes, H1B's were getting 3.5% down loans and they didn't even have to come up with that 3.5%...that was given to them as well.
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Robert Sterling@RobertMSterling
During the Biden administration, H-1B visa holders were buying houses with 97-100% financing. 97% would come from the FHA, with the rest coming from state first-time home buyer programs. Zero money down. Thanks to programs that were supposed to be helping low-income American families buy their own homes. FHA loans to non-permanent residents quickly grew to represent 6% of mortgage issuances. The percentage was undoubtedly higher in places like the DFW area, where H-1B visa holders are disproportionately concentrated. I don’t have anything against people in America on H-1B visas. I’ve said it before—and I’ll say it again—that I’ve found many of them to be great people on an individual level, and I wish them all nothing but the best. Individual immigrants—especially those here legally—are not at fault for flawed US immigration policy. But this might be the most radicalizing thing I’ve ever seen. Not only are American workers forced to compete for jobs, they’re also forced to compete in the housing market against people bringing 0-3% of a house’s cost to the closing table, versus the 10-20% most people have to pay. First, companies import mass numbers of H-1B visa holders, largely in "back office" white-collar fields like IT and accounting. This essentially imposes a lower ceiling on domestic wages in these job categories. Next, these workers—who are generally concentrated in certain geographic areas—create more demand for housing (especially in good school districts), driving up home prices and the cost of living. Then, to top it off, they don’t even have to save up money for a down payment. They can close on a $500k house with $0-15k plus a 97% FHA loan. Meanwhile, ordinary American families are forced to come to with $50-100k for the same down payment. I don’t care how you feel about Trump or what your preferred immigration policies are; there’s no defending this. It screws over hard-working American citizens several different ways over, and it’s yet another reason why I will always be glad Trump won and Kamala Harris lost in 2024.
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Everything and I mean every conceivable chart for quality of life peaks or has its final peak at 2007.
If only we could figure out what about 2008 ruined life in the west...
Hedgeye@Hedgeye
🇺🇸 U.S. Fertility Rates peaked in 2007
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@alightinastorm Talentless. I can start and sputter out on a project without ever even touching ai. /s
Haven’t kept up with your project in particular, but AI is a tool like anything else. Making stuff with it is cool. Keep it up.
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damn i just found out i was mentioned on reddit
i don't get it, what do some people expect? i am building in hyper public, almost on every commit i'm recording a progress video and a devlog
i set an insane goal of achieving AAA quality, which usually takes millions of $$ and huge teams
3 months in, i've achieved quite a lot and whenever i encounter a new problem space, i take a break from the game's development and develop a tool oss to make it happen, for everyone!
Recap:
First Demo: Figuring out as many problems as possible during "raw vibe coding" (cli/chat only)
-> World modeling: Tested different AI harnesses for constrained modeling, from generative floorplans + extrusion to more sophisticated level editors with AI integrations
-> Building character state machines is not a very good fit for code-only, as small changes require a lot of context for AIs, but may be solved with rewiring a node visually as a human. So i built the character + animation studio apps
-> Iterating quickly across scenes and reusing assets: Built a vite-framework which connects the level editor and character studio to iterate faster
-> Cheap but high quality vfx: Nothing exists, everywhere i searched (google, yt, forums) everyone seems to just happily pay embergen or houdini money to do it
-> Higher fidelity of 3D human models: Tripo and other ai model generators are really great for props, but they won't get you to really high quality (and decent topology) and the biggest bottleneck currently for higher quality human characters is, YOU HAVE NO FREE HIGH QUALITY OPTIONS. Metahuman is pseudo-free.
In between these breaks i always come back to the game and use these tools
There's still SO much missing, from clothing for the models, to having a good default animation library (also here, mixamo is free but it is missing SO many animations!!)
And more, so so much more. It's funny how i am actually very transparent and share the process daily and have to speedrun horizontally through all fields necessary, yet being compared to the influencers that show oneshot slop!
My progress hasn't really slowed down, i'm hitting bigger problems which require more time and energy, even if vibecoded
anyways new updates on the human creator soon, god forbid a robot takes a day off 😂
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@YutXxgamerxx @GreekNME Because the way it is. /s
I actually like it quite a lot.
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Jason Kelce’s wife Kylie reveals her Kelce household rules that were made because of Jason & Travis being absolute MENACES 💀🤣👀
“No one’s playing in the car”
“Because Travis drove it through the garage?”
“Or when someone took a dump in the trunk… I have taken into consideration how our knives are stored.”
“Because we used to throw knives in the air?” 😭
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What's the game that helped you realize you wanted to make videogames?
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Sub 85 IQ moron
-no job
-collects 2100 a month for 80% disability from the VA and is applying for 100% to get 4000.
-disability is "tennitus" "back" "PTSD from drill Sargent being mean"
-never left the country and was a cook in the army
-served 1.5 years and got "honorably discharged" because his commander "didn't like him"
-games 15+ hours per day and is in 90+ discord servers
-wants to move to the Philippines and continue to collect disability to date Filipino women
-is dating a 600 pound woman
End VA disability and force everyone to reapply, anyone who does not have a combat injury has to go before a review board to get it back.
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Happy #CincoDeMayo! The best taco bowls are made in Trump Tower Grill. I love Hispanics! facebook.com/DonaldTrump/po…
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Apple just invented not replacing your CEO with an indian guy what will they think of next
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it doesn’t have to get done, it just has to be perfect.
- the ADHD proverb
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Ah yes the human/computer slop known as photo bashing
Remember kids, even though it looks the same as ai, it is better because it took longer to make
TK@TKDesignzs
No AI Slop Art process🎨
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