The Incels of Computing: The Depressive Defense Mechanisms of Free Software

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With all the progress that has been done with liberating the digital space there is a sense of self defeating, depression. A kind of defense mechanism of sorts. As if the people settled for something and gave up trying to do anything else. Which in itself causing lack of morale, lack of vision, and with it lack of actual movement.


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Release: Dani's Race v25-09-24

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Dani's Race version 25-09-24


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#FSF just dropped a #tutorial on how to open a #GNU / #Linux #Terminal

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Meta Argues: Art is so Easy it is Uncopyrightable

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Meta ( allegedly ) tried to hire 3D artists to justify in court that 3D art is apparently so easy and quick to make, that it is uncopyrightable, so they could not ask for permission from 3D artists for training their AI.


#Meta #Ai #Blender3d #Facebook #AiArt #Art #3DArt #b3d #Mastoart #Copyright #Effort

Love Clone is a suprisingly good sudent film from Africa

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There is no budget to this film. Yet with all the limitation, Dilman Dila makes a gripping, suspenseful, sci-fi story that would not be too far from the works of somebody like David Cronenberg, if Cronenberg didn't have money.



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I came into the film without any knowledge that this film is a musical. I failed to see the obvious foreshadowing to it. The casting of the singer Björk for the lead character, the word "Dancer" included in the damn title, the beginning of the film, where Björk's character prepares to dance in a stage-play. All of that went over my head. And when the first musical number started I was pleasantly surprised.

https://blenderdumbass.org/reviews/why_dancer_in_the_dark_is_unique_

Bad Boys 2 is Michael Bay's Magnum Opus

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Similarly to Michael Mann's Miami Vice Bad Boys II is about love, man... It is about how both Will Smith and Martin Lawrence love Gabrielle Union. And how they are willing to do international terrorism and kill many many people, to save her. True love bro!


#BadBoys2 #BadBoys #MichaelBay #WillSmith #MartinLawrence #Bayhem #Action #Film #Review #Movies #Cinemastodon

Transformers 5 is Too Good to be Good

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There is this satisfaction when it comes to animation, that I know from personal experience where the longer you work on a shot, or a sequence, the more details there is in the animation, the more satisfying it is to later just watch this insane level of effort simply wash over you one frame after another.


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Poster depicting the four essential freedoms of software.

https://blenderdumbass.org/posters/4_essential_freedoms_of_software

How I Made Car Crash Animation in Blender for Moria's Race?

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There are more than one crash in Moria's Race. But the most exiting ones happen during the race of the movie. And because this kind of thing was hard for me when I was starting out with Blender, I suppose it will not be a terrible idea to write about how I did it.



#MoriasRace #Blender3D #animation #VFX #CGI #3dArt #mastoart #b3d #simulation #cars

Very Soon We Will Need to Prove that Our Art Isn't AI

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I'm currently recording the screen of my computer to make a proof that this article is written by me and not AI generated. Maybe this proof will be enough. But I am afraid. I'm scared that in not so distant of a future, even a video of typing an article will not be a sufficient proof. So lets talk about it... Shall we?


#AI #AIart #Art #NoAIArt #CGi #VFX #MastoArt

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UPBGE - What is Depsgraph? And How to Optimize for Depsgraph?

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You see things like "Physics", "Logic" and even "Rasterizer" and you immediately understand what you need to do to optimize you game. But "Depsgraph"?... It looks like a mysterious thing that nobody knows nothing about. Yet is it one the most problematic things there is in your game. And you are going mad just trying to figure it out.



#DanisRace #MoriasRace #Game #Gamedev #UPBGE #blender3d #animation #GTAClone #programming #python #project #performance #depsgraph

Is Lars Von Trier Really an Edge Lord?

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There is a certain sense among cinephiles that the danish filmmaker Lars Von Trier is nothing but an edge lord, making his films simply as a sort of pornography designed to outrage people. It does not help his case that his films are some of the hardest films to watch. And it doesn't help that his movies tend to touch upon uncomfortable things in very uncomfortable ways. Yet I don't believe Lars Von Trier does any of that for laughs.


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Yesterday #DanisRace got a new #car on the #livestream.

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Frequently Asked Questions

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This will be a section where I answer questions people are often asking me. This is not a list of meaning of words I often use, for that please look at glossary.


#faq

Why Night Scenes in Video Games are so Hard to Make Right?

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Until yesterday I thought that street lights was impossible to make, so I was trying to find some kind of other ways to brighten up the frame at night, so at least it would be visible, but yesterday I stumbled upon something that might work.


#DanisRace #MoriasRace #Game #Gamedev #UPBGE #blender3d #animation #GTAClone #programming #project #light

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Revenge ( 2017 ) is a kind of movie Nicolas Winding Refn would masturbate to

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Obviously I watched Revenge because it was directed by Coralie Fargeat, the director of current world-wide phenomenon The Substance. Even though Revenge is her directorial debut, I didn't not think it would be a bad film going into it, based on what I know about The Substance. And my expectations were pretty much met exactly.


#Revenge #Revenge2017 #CoralieFargeat #MatildaLutz #NicolasWindingRefn #Film #Review #TheSubstance #Horror #Action #Movies #Cinemastodon

1941 is the Ultimate Steven Spielberg Film

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1941 ( a 1979 Steven Spielberg action comedy film ) seems like a parody of Michael Bay. The film's credits literally have explosions happen all throughout, under the scrolling text. There is so much colorful destruction, so much over the top action scenes, so much loud over-bombardment, that I believe this is the Ultimate Steven Spielberg film.


#1941 #Spielberg #StevenSpielberg #FilmReview #Film #Review #FilmMaking #Cinemastodon #MichaelBay #War #WarFilm #1941film

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$500 Billion Industry That Causes Not Only The Loss Of Freedom But Also Increases Anxiety

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It is estimated that by 2030 the child-surveillance industry will grow to $500 billion. An industry that capitalizes on bogus fears and causes anxiety in parents and children ( for different reasons ). And an industry that is both directly and indirectly causing the privacy nightmare that we are experiencing. On many levels the industry itself is causing much more damage than good. Here is a short summary of the damages it is causing and how to deal with them.



#privacy #surveillance #freedom #philosophy #kids #letgrow #freerangekids #paternalism #MentalHealth

Huge! Speed Dreams is Now on Git

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And I'm happy to tell you that Speed Dreams announced today that they are finally moving to Git. This is huge!


#SpeedDreams #gamedev #FreeSoftware #Gnu #Linux #OpenSource #gaming #SimRacing #Git #Programming

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So I Cleaned Up Some Spaghetti from Dani's Race Code

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A few days ago I had told you that I'm stopping with making the police station in my game Dani's Race because it had a Spaghetti Code Problem. The main() function in the Main_Update.py file was 1683 lines of code long and contained way too many things in it. At the moment, the same function is down to 641 lines of code. This is still way too much stuff in the main() but this is a hell of a lot of reduction.


#DanisRace #MoriasRace #GameDev #FreeSoftware #Gnu #Linux #OpenSource #GtaClone #Programming #Python #SpaghettiCode #UPBGE #blender3d

Alien: Romulus is too good to be scary

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The film suffers from the same problem something like War Of The Worlds by Steven Spielberg suffers from. It is too good for its own good. You have so much dopamine from the good stuff that it overshadows any Norepinephrine from the scary stuff.


#alien #AlienRomulus #FedeAlvarez #film #review #horror #RidleyScott #HRGiger

The Paradox of The Paradox of Tolerance

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For me personally the word "Tolerance" means something akin to patience. Therefor I don't understand how we arrived at using this word to talk about Freedom. I have already written an article suggesting that it is perhaps a wrong word to use, and something like "Hate" or "Lack of Hate" would be a much better word to describe contemporary politics. But then I keep hearing about this concept called The Paradox of Tolerance which has to do something with the current way the word "Tolerance" is used. But if the word itself is incorrect, how should the paradox make any sense? It is like we are having the paradox of the paradox of tolerance here.


#paradox #philosophy #freedom #tolerance #politics #TheParadoxOfTolerance #KarlPopper

EFF Is Not Opposing Age Verification Hard Enough

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I shall complain a little bit on a stance from EFF and how I think they should be pushing harder. Not so long ago Australia decided to ban any platform where users can upload things, to anybody who is younger than 16 years. This is an ageist, paternalistic atrocity and has to be fought with viciousness. Yet EFF seem to only understand the secondary problems with this law.


#EFF #Australia #Ageism #Paternalism #AgeVerification #SocialMedia #Privacy #Freedom