Well I’d prefer to avoid the right wing kinksters, but… fine. Fine, maybe the time has come to finally make a fetlife account… grumble grumble

From what I’ve been able to gather browsing through the not Craiglist personals in my area… most of it seems to be ~45 yo married couples looking for a black unicorn to cuck the husband, or single dudes looking for a transwoman.

Definitely not beating the stereotypes for a pretty solid red area…

Yeah, there does seem to a dynamic like that at play… a bunch of people just say shit about themselves, that they think will make other people like them.

It would be nice if people were actually self aware and honest, with both themselves and others, but apparently that isn’t the meta.

That being said… converting to fundamentalist Christianity?

That’s some legit insanity right there, either that or a person who is deeply insecure and needs validation/meaning imposed on them.

No.

To the best of my knowledge there just isn’t one, in or near my current location, pretty solidly red, conservative area, and back when I was in a bluer area… well frankly back then I didn’t have any need to specifically join a community to try and find people interested in sex.

And/or if said community involves making something approximating a Facebook account, ahahaha fuck no, no I actually value Palantir and the NSA not knowing exactly who I’m fucking and precisely how.

That basically means:

We want someone who is good enough at reverse engineering that they can intentionally design something not reverse engineer-able.

Think of a code breaker being asked to design an unbreakable code, a lock picker asked to design an uncrackable lock.

Its less so that it is or isn’t simple.

A lot of this stuff actually is fairly straightforward.

It is moreso that a lot of people are sophomoric idiots, wise fools, people who don’t realize that they are just around the peak of Mt Dunning Kruger, people who do not realize the extent of what they do not know, what can go wrong.

Either that, or their boss/manager is there.

A lot of these things are obvious and well known to people with moderate levels of actual technical experience… where they actually pop up and become relevant.

Buuuuttttt… not everybody actually experiences, in significant detail, that kind of problem actually popping up, depending on exactly what that prior experience is. Also, the nature of many many game studios is that those people with moderate or more experience are basically treated as contractors and shuffled around, and as a result of this, they just do malicious compliance, they do exactly what they are told.

Because either the managers are egomaniacs, unwilling or unable to actually listen to good advice… and/or the entire team generally develops a toxic positive hugbox culture, that hand waves away valid and legit problems, and calls you an asshole for being persistent about bringing them up.

You can infact raytrace your way into reliable and robust and efficient visibility culling that even works with servers/multiplayer environment. Many succesful games and engines do exactly that.

Its just that you have to be quite clever and nail this down pretty early on in the dev cycle, otherwise, technical debt and timeline problems compound geometrically.

And, what make line on stock market go up != what make line fly around smart and clever in video game.

May your raycasts be compute-inexpensive and functional, and may the dark spirits of vector algebra vex you only minorly, lol.

Sorry, tone is somewhat difficult to convey via text sometimes… I am basically trying to sigh in acknowledgement/agreement with you, lol.

Yeah. Yep. Basically that is what I’m talking about.

Oh dear god do not do the donkey punch, no no no no, noooooo.

I’ve never been asked to, but I knew guys who were, and like… doing the equivalent of that in a competetive martial art would get you heavily penalized, potentially forfeit the match or functionally end your career.

Very not safe.

You really don’t wanna go there, because it involves donkeys, ‘justified’ murder and rape, and pedophilia, as axes.

I am a guy who is a genuine switch.

I’ve only ever met a single genuine female switch, and she was literally a diagnosed nymphomaniac.

I’ve met other guy switches, uncommon but not too uncommon… never ever met another female switch.

Swear to flying spaghetti monster its a curse, its the type O- of sexual styles.

Entirely anecodotal but:

Nearly every woman I’ve met/dated/etc that’s described themself as a pervert or a freak or extremely kinky, that’s a significant element of their personality?

They’re the absolute most boring, plain and lazy in the bedroom, and they also tend to have fairly to extremely serious mental/personality disorders/problems.

Conversely, not all, but far far more of the ones that do not describe themselves as that?

They are actually quite often the most active and creative and willing to try new things, actually reciprocate effort in the bedroom.

Absolutely no clue if this is any kind of representative sample, but it is my experience.

The literal only exception to at least the first half of this was the actually diagnosed nymphomaniac, who was, other than that, a rather meek and reserved person, 95% of the time.

Also I guess for the record, I don’t consider myself ‘perverted’, just sex positive and I guess kinkier than your average bear twink.

I can also promise you that at the end of this, I will have a yacht and bunker, and you will probably have impostor syndrome.

Fair deal eh?

A very well reasoned take that I entirely agree with.

I mean yeah, as a stereotypical semi-insane/delusional solo dev myself… can indie devs make awesome shit?

Absolutely yes.

Can they make something on the scale of production value / plain ole scope of a well paid AA or AAA team?

Fuck no, not unless you count ‘they took 10 actual years to do it all, basically by themselves’, or, basically sold out somewhere before year 10 to get an actual team and resources, for way way waaay above a reasonable price.

But yeah, its basically a tragedy, but a seemingly capitalist realist unavoidable tragedy, at least untill somebody sets up the equivalent of Mondragon as a game dev studio/publisher.

To me, the absolute worst thing is that basically every AA team just does eventually get gobbled up and shit out by a megacorp.

There are very few counterexamples to this, on like a decade timescale… they tend to be the ones that are firecely independent and dedicated to basically one game, that they just keep updating… everybody else that does a seemingly pointless sequel?

Basically, they do that because they could not afford not do, they spent or otherwise lost too much money.

And then even like Unity gets enshittified.

Its a fucking mess, we’ve got MBA brained sharks making all the decisions, and basically, they’re evil idiots who care about nothing other than line go up.

Oh fuck, yeah that’s another great example!

Remember back when it was basically just EA that was notorious for killing every studio it acquired, via ungodly incompetent management?

Now its just the industry model… do everything you can to have to most idiotic people managing everything.

They’ve managed this with Fallout 1 and 2, as far as I can tell. I think basically the same at this point with STALKER?

Or if its not, and its popular enough, and basically insane people spend half a decade+ reverse engineering the netcode… SWGEmu, or TitanFall2, or something like that can happen, lol.

So you either get two monitors, or one that can actually play games… ? lol?

I have to imagine that somehow, this is the fault of X and/or Wayland … but anyway, I’m glad that at least the game is working now.

Now dont change anything, lol.

Ok, I just did an entire write up and then shit canned it half way through because there’s a question I need to ask.

I naturally use Nvidia’s Linux drivers.

… which… ones?

Because PopOS has its own way of doing Nvidia drivers.

https://system76.com/support/articles/system76-driver

Installing the System76 NVIDIA Driver for Systems with NVIDIA GPUs

If your system has an NVIDIA graphics card, use this command to install the System76 Driver with NVIDIA graphics drivers included:

sudo apt install system76-driver-nvidia

In addition to the standard packages, this package also pulls in the System76-supported NVIDIA drivers and all related packages needed to take full advantage of your dedicated NVIDIA graphics card

If you are manually trying to do your own Nvidia Linux driver install, on PopOS, that could cause some nonsense problems, where you would be in a state of essentially having 2, or kinda 1 and a half… sets of drivers installed at the same time, which would/could lead to bunch of extremely esoteric configuration problems, possibly including what you’ve reported so far.