In my house the water pressure is low. Really low. Extra rinsing hair, scrubbing, and even then it still feels ineffective.

There is the other meaning, too. Not a slur, but also not safe either.

And there was this art from 2.7.2:

Give me a little bit of a transhumanist (secular) cult, as a treat.

I need the durable (natural-fiber) clothes, vegetables, and no rent.

has at least a few friends

So… not everyone was born under The Bees.

Politician leans too close into mic: “WORKS AS INTENDED”

Reporter: “but this is a clear-”

Politician: “lmao wontfix”

Still gotta pay rent, for food, maybe more. The closest place to me isn’t near (for me) and charges $50 for a tour. EDIT: Can’t even seem to find that visit info online now.

Honestly, if you fear the EUC strawman (for pedestrians) and not the giant 3000lb+ metal boxes that can go 100mph+ standard (for decades) that’s a weird hill to live on. The momentum isn’t even comparable.

Just about anything around you is going to provide some protection from a stray EUC rider (a wooden fence, a bus shelter, a cemented mailbox), a car can barrel through a fucking brick wall. Yeah, EUC riders are probably more in-danger but they also probably are going to pass out on the pavement rather than on their accelerator. I’m guessing you’ll say some cars fix that (maybe if the surveillance tech is working right), but yeah not that used car they’re actually in because cars are expensive.

Also from what I see a medium-weight EUC is 60lbs and heavy is 80lbs, so I imagine a pedestrian crash with one would mostly result in leg/foot breaks. Assuming standing adult and no sweet jumps.

Maybe if life generally was mundane enough to match the idea of the premise. Like if USPS funding wasn’t an issue, the sort of timeline where junk mail was mostly solved and letter-writing was more commonplace.

NPR already exists for this niche but suffers the same sort of issue, and often is depressing when they’re talking about current events.

I was going to say something about the body being an extension of the brain (a very important one), though given some of your responses I feel like it’s more relevant that many areas of our society treats commerce as a higher priority than human ecology. Even ignoring statistics.

Do you want me to get Moby Dick out again‽ Does anyone want that?

Nope, sent it here. Guess it just doesn’t work for whatever reason, despite both instance being Lemmy. (also, Kbin was my previous instance, too).

Unfortunately I’m not that social so I don’t really have any other options.

Would love to hear your thoughts if you’d like to share them. If not, that’s fine too. Either way, good chat.

I sent you a message, not sure you got it (instance issues?).

A cheap convection toaster oven not really, it is half-way between an oven and air-fryer at best.

I mean if it’s good enough, keep using it as long as possible I guess.

I would say the exact opposite is also true (it being so unsuitable that you only exist), then again I wouldn’t describe that as ‘disinterest’ especially when it still comes with political awareness of how bad things are (also how long issues have been fought, who benefits, and how other places have solved particular issues at least).

Today, stuff gets exported in 4k and that’s it. No need for anything more.

I don’t think it’s as ubiquitous as you think. 1080p is pretty much standard (aside from old videos), 4K is still high-end and most uploading to that on YT are probably more tech-leaning channels who actually do use it. I even see new stuff from TV corps that’s still only 1080p.

4K if you’re using a full-raster workflow is taxing at every step. Display, CPU/GPU (for software stability, filters/effects), RAM and storage, internet upload speed, also camera (and fast storage there too) where relevant. Also backups, and maybe even higher-res workflow to allow room to crop/re-frame if needed.

I imagine it must be a disappointment to actually buy a 4K monitor for content viewing, stuck watching 1080p on new videos because the creators can’t afford that workflow or just don’t care. Even stuff that is 4K might have issues with encoding quality due to cost-cutting (or requires higher subscription cost).

8K is a thing too (but even more impractical), so the problem is repeated there too.

So yeah, I would say it is a meaningful difference that vector doesn’t have this problem.

A video has sound, can be exported from the animation software to a single file, and it can be played in a standard video player.

Animated SVG does not sound like it does that, and needing new paid* software isn’t great for adoption either. And honestly, I’ve never even heard of animated SVG (I’m well aware of SVG and that it probably could be animated with CSS or JS but that alone does not make it a thing).

The fact that vector works at resolutions (even if they don’t exist yet!) without the author even needing to think about it (let alone re-export) is an advantage. It can be great for many 2D aesthetics (many cartoons even used it!), the biggest complication is Adobe (and whoever is selling a subscription to what you mentioned).

Also that people are still developing things with Flash (even if it has to be ran via Ruffle) tells me again that the issue isn’t vector, it’s that replacing a format with ingredients is not an effective strategy if you actually want people to use it.

* yeah I know Flash was expensive as well (except y’know… other ways), but communities were already using it

You know how to use the tools

I don’t know how to use blender

I’m not new with it, but I am banging rocks together when it comes to using Blender. Not good with shortcuts and often have issues with modifiers. (I preferred what I casually started with a decade ago, Maya, though it is/was bloated both in terms of size and cost)

If there was other FOSS low/medium-poly software that works well for VC (+material(placeholders)) I would be interesting in trying it. But I’m guessing Blender is as good as it gets.

Godot, fine with that but not too keen on GDscript.

I got curious and searched your username and badgers and this appeared

I was confused at first, but figured that’s what you did (search only hit because of the alt-text as well).

I also have been doing exercises, but mostly coding stuff

I am interested in coding stuff too (a specific niche language), though I struggle with project viability even more there too and have put it on the backburner.

I wouldn’t call it ‘work’ yet, more practice than anything (lost some steam being unsatisfied with idea prompts though) and refining a workflow (palette, materials, import script, Blender default file). I’m unsure on actual ideas (that are viable for me), too.

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You keep saying ‘better’ like if heavier solutions have no downsides, like saying raytracing or gaussian splatting make all older rendering tech obsolete.

For individual animations sure data doesn’t seem to matter, but if you want to binge/download something like Homestar Runner at 1080p+ that data adds up when pre-rastered. The internet in the US isn’t always great (esp. rural, cost), even worse with upload speed.

Flash also had frame animation, with bezier curves and vector blob drawing… both of which are the big thing missing from modern solutions. Alternatives in modern engines aren’t quite the same and must be intentionally sought out, and also I don’t think that’d even be well supported by platforms (itch doesn’t even have an animation section) unless you’re fine with it being in a games section.

Newgrounds also still does Flash Forward jams. I wouldn’t say “better” things killed Flash, just that support was ripped away. There isn’t much of a choice. If you want Flash-style animation (and I don’t mean skeletal-only), it’s just Ruffle or maybe Wick Editor.

the internet moving away from

I see this as an implementation failure.

WebGL doesn’t have a container format, and a vector video format could exist (on Youtube, or played with an HTML5 video player) but doesn’t. The internet “moved away” because the key players who killed Flash didn’t implement things that would bring HTML5 to closer parity with what Flash did.

I could also see parallels made to other parts of life where the choice has been made for you many years ago.