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LouisIngenthron

@LouisIngenthron@qoto.org

Software engineering contractor/consultant in Florida specializing in .NET C# #WebDev, plus #Indie #GameDev in #MonoGame, #Stride, and #Godot.
I like complex simulations and enjoy writing procedural generation algorithms for fun.

#Pilot in training. Burgeoning fan of #Aviation in general.

Fan of #1A jurisprudence and the kind of #FreeSpeech that applies to everyone equally.

Pro-Democracy. Pro-Rights. Pro-Freedom. In that order.

He/Him πŸ³β€πŸŒˆ

High risk of rants, especially with the lack of character limit.

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LouisIngenthron, to acab
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Honest cops don't need PR departments #ACAB
https://nysfocus.com/2024/05/14/nypd-dcpi-tarik-sheppard-protests-pr

brody, to gamedev
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I'm not a "Linux Guy" really but I started re-evaluating it lately, and I think it might not just be for the Tech Weirdos anymore. It can absolutely be a daily driver for a lot of game developers now!

https://brodybrooks.com/posts/2024-linuxgamedev/

LouisIngenthron,
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@brody Been considering this same move more and more lately...

w7voa, to random
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Biden and Trump appear to agree on a timetable to participate in two debates before November's general election. https://apnews.com/article/2024-election-presidential-debates-biden-trump-6b1d1dbb2ed61c7637041b23662d7da8

LouisIngenthron,
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@JPummil @w7voa Once the pig becomes a candidate, that analogy falls apart.

LouisIngenthron,
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@BertL @w7voa Sure, but the right has been saying for years that Biden is too old and sleepy to do his job. So, he doesn't even have to do well at debating. He just has to prove that basic notion wrong for the people who haven't been paying too much attention.

shuttersparks, to random
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This happened to me today while reading negative reviews of a flip-phone on Amazon today. Let's just say quite a few people from the smartphone era have no idea how a non-smart-phone works. smh

LouisIngenthron,
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@shuttersparks Soon, we'll have an entire generation that has never heard the word "rewind".

LouisIngenthron, to random
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Two things can be true:

  1. Nobody has a right to prevent/stop others' behaviour that they find upsetting.

  2. It is polite to refrain from behaviour that upsets others, at least in their presence.

LouisIngenthron, to random
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This may be an unpopular opinion, but I think the sound mixing in Chris Nolan movies is terrible. He tries so hard to make it grandiose with thumping base tones that half the time I can't understand what anyone is saying.

LouisIngenthron, to gamedev
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Do I have enough inventory slots?

LouisIngenthron,
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@Hexa I did originally have that (and ears for earrings), but then I decided to remove them since, due to the art style, they wouldn't be visible on the characters and this is a non-magic setting so they also wouldn't be functional.

LouisIngenthron,
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@squipo Lol, correct, it is a single word wrapped to multiple lines and I didn't like how it looked with the hyphen. The saving grace is that the tooltip properly displays it as one word.

LouisIngenthron, to random
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Wait, are the movies Fight Club and Barbie opposite sides of the same coin, or have I been awake too long again?

LouisIngenthron, to random
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Outright villainous. If your business model relies on deceiving your customers, you shouldn't be in business.

https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/major-airlines-sue-biden-administration-over-fee-disclosure-rule-2024-05-13/

rysiek, (edited ) to random
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Whenever a manager at a company (especially a large one) says:

> I'm sorry, we cannot afford a raise for you at this time

…ask yourself if what they really mean is:

> I'm sorry, we cannot afford a raise for you and a huge payout (dividends, bonuses, etc) for the management and stockholders simultaneously, and our priorities are obvious.

You'd be surprised how often that's the case.

Oh, and get into the habit of reading any available financial disclosures before having that talk! Just sayin…

LouisIngenthron,
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@rysiek Except it's worth noting that your manager is probably just as screwed as you are.

When they say they can't afford a raise for you at this time, what they really mean is "Executive management gave themselves a bonus and froze my payroll budget."

LouisIngenthron, to random
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Isn't it weird how, when you get good enough at programming, that you can press build and know immediately whether it will succeed or failed without looking at the results?

Intuition is the freakiest of our senses.

LouisIngenthron, to random
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My god those dragonfly ships in Dune are stupid and impractical.

LouisIngenthron,
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"We need to fly through a dusty desert atmosphere!"

"Okay, no problem, I'll build a craft with four non-fixed vibratey wings that expel ten times the energy of a rotor or propeller, are much more likely to cut bystanders in half, and have multiple joints exposed to the harsh wear-and-tear of the endless sand."

"That sounds terrible. Why would you do that?"

"Because it will look cool!"

"Okay, let's do it!"

LouisIngenthron, to random
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Thinking about making a phone app where I can log my meat consumption and get an alert every time I've eaten a whole animal.

Would also work with vegetables, I suppose. "You ate 0.37 acres of lettuce in salads this year."

RickiTarr, to random
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So, what's the thing, what's the big thing no one can help you with? How do you cope with it?

LouisIngenthron,
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@RickiTarr

Powerlessness / Letting go.

andrew, to random
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β€œMore power to you” is a weird statement to make with such a casual inflection.

LouisIngenthron,
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@andrew Right, but it's usually invoked sarcastically, isn't it?

Like, when I say it, I don't mean the person should actually have more power. I mean that they should think they have more power if it gets them out of the way of me getting shit done.

LouisIngenthron, to random
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Nailed that UI, Google. Totally functional. πŸ€¦β€β™‚οΈ

LouisIngenthron, to random
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I've been cooking regularly for like twenty years. I'm decent with a kitchen knife, but I don't think I'll ever be able to do that rapid chopping you see chefs do in the movies. At least not without losing a thumb.

LouisIngenthron, to random
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Was planning to do some flying this morning, but it looks like mother nature has other plans...

LouisIngenthron, to random
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The favorite game of all pet owners:

Is that dark spot on the carpet a leaf they dragged in or a dead thing?

LouisIngenthron, to random
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I wonder if there's a measurable correlation between regularly driving in rush hour and general misanthropy.

18+ Lyle, to FreeSpeech
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It should be physically impossible for people using their first amendment rights in public to be struck by a deadly vehicle. Safety is a free speech issue and free speech is a safety issue.

LouisIngenthron,
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@Lyle We do have bollards in many places, especially public transport hubs. But you can't put them everywhere.

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