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How James Cameron Sells a Movie?
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Blender DumbassA lot of people know James Cameron as the director that makes the best films. But a lot of those people don't realize that his films aren't actually the best. I would always consider Steven Spielberg a far better director. And people like Aaron Sorkin or Quentin Tarantino far better writers, than James Cameron. His movies are not even the hardest out there. Just take Werner Herzog's Fitzcarraldo, for example. But, that said, a lot of people still have this elevated idea of James Cameron. An idea that makes him a lot of money. So how does he do that?
Why you should care about Dani's Race?
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Blender DumbassDani's Race is a pretty to look at, open-world game. Is this a good enough reason to care about it? No. It's not. There are plenty of good looking games out there. And Dani's Race is not even close to some of them. Dani's Race is a Libre "GTA Clone". Okay... so what? It's not the only one. And it is not even that GTA-like anyway. Yes, you can get in and out of cars. Yes, you have an open world. Yes, the levels are structured into missions. But so what? Why should you give a damn? What's so special about this game in particular? Well...
Let's start with a square.
With AI you are focusing on the wrong Fear of Missing Out
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Blender DumbassVibe-Coders, people that use LLMs for programming, are found at a such high levels of stress these days, that they end up in a hospital over it. They believe that they need to keep up-to-date on everything regarding the endless AI updates, to the point that it literally deteriorates their health. We all know a person in some field that feels like they would not necessarily want to use AI, but in the same time, they don't want to "fall behind" the rest. That they must know how to "use" these tools, or else they will have no chance what so ever, in the market-place. The problem is, they are focusing on the wrong Fear. Especially when it comes to the market-place.
Strongly Worded Rant about AI
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Blender DumbassArtificial Fucking Intelligence! The brain-rot born out of a different brain-rot, called "capitalism" causing literal brain-rot of a society. A thing so rotten and so utterly despicable that calling it "slop" is to give it a compliment.
Difference between RØDE NT-USB Mini and RØDEX XCM-50
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Blender DumbassI had used both RØDE NT-USB Mini and RØDEX XCM-50 and they are not exactly the same exact mic. And I'm not talking about the color.
The Structure of Dani's Race Codebase ( July 10th 2026 )
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Blender DumbassThis is less of an article and more of an overview into how Dani's Race ( a game I'm developing ) works. Note, there is a date in the title of this article. Anything here is subject to change. But I don't think a lot of it will be that different in the end of the day.
AI is Box-Office poison
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Blender DumbassWhy do people go to cinema? A billion dollar question, isn't it? Well, if you ask the Austrian School of Economics you will see that people tend to buy things they value more than the money they need to spend to buy that very thing.
Winning Dani's Race ScoreBoard on WINdows
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TrolerI want to get the scoreboard working on Dani's race, but I'm using Winblows operating system. That means a lot of things are broken. That's because Dani's race was developed for the Tux operating system.
So Why The Hell this math NaNs out? Help me!
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Blender DumbassWhy does ( 1 / ( D ( ( T - carD"prevT" 2 ) ) ) result in a NaN? What is going on?
AI users are Fake-Nerds
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Blender DumbassThis is just a thought I had the other day thinking about why I dislike AI so much, while also having a problem with the concept of copyright. Strange, right? I both hate copying restrictions on things I want to copy or share. And both hate biggest copyright attacker in the history of copyright attackers: AI. How's that? Well I hope my "Fake-Nerds" analogy will be helpful.
Never Agreeing To Agree
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TrolerThe constant tugging from different sides caused me to become restless. I couldn't find peace in any of the ideas, it was impossible. To admit of one being true, would mean rejecting the other. So I had to pick a side. And I did. I chose those that spoke that the truth was hidden, obscured from me. 'Twas easier to believe that I've been lied to and embrace the truth. For some time I was gratified with what I believed in.
Dani's Race and notgit.py ( Updater )
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Blender DumbassNot so long ago I decided to forgo the wisdom of using
git for this game. Instead, most changes will be recorded via the notgit.py program I wrote for fun the other day.
Have I given up on Dani's Race?
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Blender DumbassDani's Race development has been halted. The last changes to the project I've done maybe more than 6 months ago. The game still contains a lot of bugs and only 3 story missions. And it still runs like ass, averaging 20 fps on average laptops.
The Character Arc and Drew DeVault
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Blender DumbassIn movies and books one dimensional, boring sort of characters, are those that never change throughout the story. Good stories contain character growth. A change in the character's world view. Think of Jake Sully in Avatar: He starts as a marine, ready to shoot and kill every living thing on Pandora. And end up being the leader of Pandoran resistance.
On the internet people tend to think that other people are set in stone when it comes to their believes. That other people are one dimensional characters without character growth what so ever. If one is born with a flaw, or has a recorded history of a flaw, therefore, using the logic of the citizens of the internet, this flaw is unremovable, untouchable, and unchangeable truth representing this person's every second of existence. That is so silly. The world is full of character growth. The world is full of people learning new things. The world is full of people that change their mind.
Part X: Developing a Way to do Action Scenes Without Money | Example Scene
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Blender DumbassI don't really know if all articles in this series are equal. So it could be part 4, or part 6 or part who knows what. But today I want to dump my thoughts about this video I did recently: