Quoting: 14

Quoting: Cybolic

Quoting: 14Companies are for-profit, ya know? Go to church if you want more of a family feel. Companies are not your family.

I'm afraid I have bad news for you....

Sorta funny, but you're not claiming they're for profit, are you?

Looks to me like these churches have been actively gathering a lot more wealth than they spend. Isn't that what you'd call "making a profit"? Churches are not treated as business entities so obviously we don't apply the for-profit label. Not even to the sort of Christian offshoots that preach the prosperity gospel and exist to enrich their charismatic leaders.

Quoting: 14Regardless, if you don't like my example, my point still stands. Think of a different example I guess.

So if the point of the bit Cybolic quoted wasn't that churches are an ethical counterbalance to corporate greed, maybe it was that we can't hold businesses and their leaders to any ethical standard at all? That we should just accept that anything goes in the name of profit?

Any way you spin it, your point wasn't great. In my opinion, obviously.

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The first game was excellent. I'm hopeful this'll be just as good.

Goes straight to the bottom of my wishlist, below about 200 Linux games. I suppose I could get around to buying and playing it, eventually. In theory.

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Quoting: Vasya Sovari

Quoting: redneckdrowTurnip?! I just got used to potato meaning under-powered; now they have to throw brands named for other roots and tubers in the mix? I really hate modern internet slang!

It makes me feel like taking the A.P. English exams in my Junior/Senior years was a waste. No one seems to care about the language anymore, save academia.

I have to keep the Urban Dictionary bookmarked just to parse what some websites' posts mean!

This is inherent to the nature of the English language. I'm a 45yo native speaker, and new terms arrive so rapidly I don't even bother *trying* to keep up. If a sentence makes no sense I simply assume it wasn't targeted at me, ignore it and move on.

Every living language changes and evolves.

Specialist jargon can facilitate more efficient communication of ideas between people acquainted with the subject, so it's not a bad thing in general. Slang is more of a social phenomenon, and many of the common phrases and words we all use today were once what we'd have considered slang of one group/subculture or another.

This windmill isn't worth tilting at.

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Quoting: Geamandura

Quoting: ElectricPrismI'll beat the dead horse a little too -- stigmatized names like Gimp are going to sound offputting to donors. This isn't hard.

I personally donated to Gimp a large sum of money and have been using it happily for 20 years. You have to be woke out of your mind to invent this kind of first world problem that now Gimp software has an offensive name that will start bothering people.

It's not "woke" people who get offended by words that might mean something sexually out-of-the-norm. But I agree that most people or organizations won't mind the acronym. I certainly don't.

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Quoting: CatKiller

Quoting: tuubiMaybe I don't quite grasp what you mean, but I don't see how I could hold any of my modern gamepads in an upright position, as in the bumpers / shoulder buttons facing the ceiling, unless I pull the controller right up to my chin. I hold them on my lap, thumbsticks pointing up.

They aren't pointing up so much as pointing towards you. Modern controller grips fit into the palm so that the controller is oriented in a way that means that they're facing you wherever they are in a circle centred on your head/shoulders, which means they're generally going to be oriented at around 45° to the ground. You're looking at the face of the controller, not the bottom of the controller.

No, the thumbsticks definitely point almost directly upwards when I'm sitting in my comfy chair and playing a game. I'm not looking at the face of the controller. If I try to turn the controller up the way you think it should be held, I can't use the triggers with my middle fingers comfortably when my hands are resting on my lap. Please don't just assume you know better than I do how I hold my gamepads.

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Quoting: CatKillerAnd with controllers that don't have a perfectly clear, perfectly well defined, entirely-consistent-with-game-conventions-forever forward direction, it's only really the N64 controller that's commonly likely to be held horizontally; modern controllers are much more upright than flat.

Maybe I don't quite grasp what you mean, but I don't see how I could hold any of my modern gamepads in an upright position, as in the bumpers / shoulder buttons facing the ceiling, unless I pull the controller right up to my chin. I hold them on my lap, thumbsticks pointing up.

But forwards in a 3D game is "into" the screen, along the z-axis, not towards the top of the screen. And on the Deck that would mean towards the bottom or back of the device. It would be different if the screen flipped up like one of those laptop-shaped GPD devices. Or the Nintendo thingies with the flip screen. (Handhelds and consoles in general aren't my cup of tea.)

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Quoting: CatKiller

Quoting: benstor214Anyway, should I install Godot from Steam or from the repository?

There's no "install," it's just a bare binary, so you can just grab it from the website Windows-style if you want.

They're on itch.io as well.

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Quoting: CatKillerWhat it should be is that "roll only" means turning it like a steering wheel, and "yaw only" means pointing the Deck around the room to aim.

Their definitions kind of make sense if they consider the base orientation of the deck to be horizontal or flat on its back, whereas you (and I'm inclined to agree) think that it is upright, with the screen facing you. That would swap the axes like you're describing. I guess they forgot that the Deck isn't a gamepad.

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Quoting: CatKiller

Quoting: Philadelphus

Quote1€ Filter: Smoothed low level gyro noise without adding delay.

What does a "1€ Filter" mean? Is that some technical term I haven't heard of?

It's either that they bought a filter that only cost them €1... or it's mojibake for a "first order filter." They have had mojibake in their patch notes before.

It's actually the name of "a simple speed-based low-pass filter for noisy input in interactive systems". Check out https://gery.casiez.net/1euro/ for some implementations and the science behind it.

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Quoting: ElectricPrism

Quoting: shorberg

Quoting: ElectricPrismThe name Mono hasn't aged well, I could imagine CoronaGame wouldnt be too popular either. Corona Beer sales probably aren't too hot either.

I'll beat the dead horse a little too -- stigmatized names like Gimp are going to sound offputting to donors. This isn't hard.

I wish them well with their efforts to transform and safeguard their ethos and values.

Hmm... What's wrong with 'mono'?

eli5; It's another name for herpes

Mono is short for mononucleosis, which has no connection to herpes. Maybe you made that leap because people call it "the kissing disease". In any case, even though I spent a few days in a hospital bed once because mononucleosis made my throat hurt so much I couldn't swallow anything at all, that's hardly the first thing that comes to mind when I hear the word "mono".

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