Sure thing! So glad I could be helpful! :D

I don’t blame you. It’s the only thing I’m keeping a Win10 dual-boot for right now, and to their credit, it does work quite well in Windows. We’ve had a ton of fun with our set.

In the meantime, I’m keeping up with the project but not actively tinkering with it myself, because it’s exciting but also not quite there yet. It’s at least given me hope that it can be done though! I’m confident we’ll see significant gains sooner rather than later. Hats off to them. (Once my income stabilizes I’ll gotta pitch them some funds…)

Envision has made it VERY convenient to get set up, but the whole process still saps more time than “Fire it up and play.” So maybe play with it at some point, but either way definitely keep your ear to the ground. :)

I’m hoping in the future we’ll get to use it for things like Godot XR or Blender integration. :D

Ah I see, yeah you’re right!

That is something that occurs to me too. It’s weird to me now, imagining couples separating to go to work or whatever, and you just gotta believe everything is gonna be fine, and if there were an emergency, someone has to be near the right landline.

Although I grew up with earlier cellphones and pagers, I got my first cell way later than a lot of highschool kids.

But yes, definitely, If me and my wife couldn’t reach each other during the day, that’d be a ton of anxiety! The world’s too insane these days to not have rapid communication on hand.

I only wish technology evolved as a tool for the user and the people, rather than primarily as content consumption and surveillance devices.

Then it would be more normal to have a setup like we do: We chat on Signal and can send our location voluntarily and it stays between us, without a dozen third parties quietly listening in, analyzing, and selling that information.

I do however, think there would also be a certain serene peace in being unreachable by undesirable contacts but not by loved ones.

For example, it’s dystopian how non-emergency jobs evolved to expect that they can just zip a message to you whenever they feel like, and you’re almost coerced to receive it and respond, and setting boundaries against that can be risky. It brings an unwanted cop or nanny into our personal lives.

And cheers to you for mentioning that 2018 Substance is still useful!

…Yikes, I hope I kept that license key somewhere, I’m sure I did…

If only to learn it because it seems to be a hard requirement with so many artist positions. =\

(Although…if we really blew them away with Blender tools and they couldn’t tell the difference, would they really care? Hm…)

Well, I’ve got 99 opportunities to succeed…

…but management ain’t one!

No respect. I tell ya!

Sounds like he could be the next Ash Williams who works on over in housewares at S-Mart!

Swear that sounds like the inside of my brain sometimes lmao.

It’s so weird seeing the reaction they’re having to this noxious…erm…“dish.”

Weird because I guess I’ve been blessed enough to have very few memories of smelling something so bad it made me actually want to vomit. Like it’s hard to relate to and yet terrifying imagining how bad it must be.

When I saw someone comment something like “That is an aggressively country child.” I laughed so hard lol

We reference this all the time now. It’s a permanent memory artifact. XD

“Ah, Moses but a pirate.” Is not something I was planning on thinking today LOL

May the laughs and memories last forever XD

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eN6jkWxxm2Y

See Also: My digital games collection

It seems the Ukraine conflict and the U.S’s plans to counter China’s push on Taiwan indicate that the future of warfare is:

…Just…a gazillion, never-ending swarms of coordinated, “cheap”, militarized drones…

doesn’t make any sense.

My theory?

The real conspiracy: It always goes back to the desires of capital.

Why is it always that climate change is a huge con job and it’s all a secret control plan that we…need to stop burning and breathing known carcinogens?

Oh, because the evil shadow government orgs like the EPA and OSHA want to take all our good ol’ jobs (tey derk er jurbz!) with their “regulations” and “standards” and “penalties for pollution” right?

And they’re trying to make America “less great” by no longer being a mass-polluting post-war economic powerhouse! Think of the lost profits! Think of the widespread misery and poverty wrought by a secret New World Order of…(Paper flip) corporate regulation! What’s next? Unions?!

Yes, chem trails are ultimately a path to such horrors as a less wealthy C-suite and not putting clean air on the commodities exchange market. (gasp)

…And all these conspiracies are seeded and peddled by the very sources that told people to take veterinary dewormers or inject sanitizer to cure a virus, have brought us the highest unemployment rates seen in a century, dismantled and fired safety regulation and watchdog agencies (deh DERK-A-DURRBS!), are trying to bring back child labor and company towns, and conveniently rail against taxation which they dodge anyway.

EDIT: Sorry for the essay LOL.

I really appreciate your take and efforts to be compassionate about the loads of people who simply were let down by a lack of, or sometimes learned cultural opposition to, education. We’re paying for it so hard right now.

I mean, yeah, MK-Ultra was a very real program, for instance. The Cold War Era was loaded with shadowy nonsense conducted by spooks, all over the place! Real conspiracies totally happened!

But people on the whole crave sensation and don’t have the logic or education to discern between whistleblowers and grifters.

I think the part that is so painful is that there’s just so much noise.

It feels like conspiracy theories generally used to be…More harmless? More often the stuff of kooky neighbors and not always dangerously deluded basement militants and chart-topping podcasts.

Now it’s a carefully engineered, algorithmically driven pipeline from the former to the latter.

Now, thanks to social media, they’re politically weaponized psy-ops: Get the masses all riled up about aliens, mind-control vaccines, and satanic child-farming underground pizza delivery chain networks…

…And they won’t bother to focus their energy any real and “boring” conspiracies, like monopoly-forming, price fixing, shrinkflation, planned obsolescence, cop unions, the insurance industry, manufacturing consent, stock market manipulation, wage theft, billionaire bunkers, car-required civic planning, surveillance normalization, gerrymandering, Cambridge Analytica, McKinsey, class warfare, too-much-to-list about Boeing…

Because those are very real problems perpetuated by very bad powerful people, and they take a ton of very risky work to fix.

And those conspiracies are so very boring and predictable, because it’s a massive shell game with a million little nodes that all lead to countless instances of “Someone is doing these bad things to amass more money or influence.”

Last note: It’s also really odd and telling how the ones who are SO adamant about government conspiracies don’t tend to care much about corporations.

Government mind control chips in water (to make us more… subservient or something?) Totes!

But ad companies listening to your devices to figure out when you’re at your weakest to push ads for foolish purchases?

Naaaaah!

And sometimes like this!

I learned this word from Roller Coaster Tycoon as a kid lol.

Weird tangent on the main post but I just got one of those “bum guns” off one of those unsold merchandise auctions and it’s been life-changing. Ridiculously simple to install. Literally like one of those kitchen sink sprayers just T-jointed onto your toilet water supply. Why isn’t this standard?!

I now no longer fear the bizarre crisis reaction of the masses that is "Make a mad rush to hoard all the TP."

And I’m hoping being nicer to myself will avoid unnecessary embarrassing future doctor’s visits…

Reportedly this is where some kids found gems like Roller Coaster Tycoon in just a CD jewel case, too. :D

Alright, folks lock the thread, we have a winner. Lol

God, there’s a huge part of me that hopes this isn’t real, but I’ve also been on the 'net long enough to know better.