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Alter-Fox

Over the past few months I've noticed that when I've had bad days in my real life, being on this site has made them worse and not better. I need to take a step back to reexamine some things, and that's going to be much easier to do without that weight on my back. So I'm going to be taking a break ...

Alter-Fox

I did get a little heated after Jeff's post misrepresented the entire point I'd been trying to make. If that was indeed a genuine misunderstanding, I do owe him an apology, and I apologize. From where I was sitting, at the time, it looked more like he had picked out one sentence and deliberately ...

Alter-Fox

Your notion that the only value in a debate is for your opponent to adopt your position is... ...Is the exact opposite of what I actually said. I'm sorry if you're offended by your own opinion of what I meant, but it's plain to see that in this instance that's fully up to you. For your information ...

Alter-Fox

Debating even without expecting to change anyone's point of view can still be worthwhile -- however, even if all you intend to do is defend your position, without objectivity or common ground you're not even doing that. It just might feel like you are -- right up until the moment the next person ...

Alter-Fox

@LightWolf, mostly Just gonna pop in here and point out that this whole discussion looks like a massive illustration of my point from the end of that other thread. To someone like Krom or others here, or even moreso to the experts who aren't here, but nevertheless actually feel it's worth dedicating ...

Alter-Fox

oh, I'm probably not, but I'm game to find out sometime

Alter-Fox

What? But without murderous AIs how will anything ever not be boring?

You never realize how much fun you're having, until suddenly you realize your life is in danger, and you think, "nobody could make this up!"

Or do you not want fun stories to tell the grandkits?

Alter-Fox

I've always found the idea that the environment where life can form is not the same as the environment where it can grow complex interesting, Krom, 'cause so many peoples' ideas of how much life there might be in other places in the universe seems to be "if the planet is habitable for complex ...

Alter-Fox

Right now I just have a screenshot of the editor that's too big to post... let's see if I can quickly fix that before I leave work. Looks like I can! playing around.jpg I've added a little more since this but it's still fairly accurate to what I've got so far. About 225 segments for all this. If I ...

Alter-Fox

Aaaah, no no no, you see I was just trying to use euphemisms for the conclusions people reach when they weighted the evidence of one over the other (evolution and creationism) and to try and avoid derailing the entire thread and... well, you see how well that worked for us. XD I did not mean to ...

Alter-Fox

Re: Lightwolf Uh, dude, I never said "religion vs science". I may choose not to be religious but that doesn't mean I don't see value in it. I just used the two worldviews as an example for how the same type of thinking can take two different people to two wildly different conclusions, and why both ...

Alter-Fox

Hey, long time no see, you old bastard you. :lol: I still actually see a difference here. In your statements, if you take God out of the religion, the statements still make sense. The light shines. The seasons work. It's minimal, sure, but it doesn't require further questions unless you actually ...

Alter-Fox

Well, see, now you're making an argument that your worldview is the only one that could possibly explain everything. For one thing that's not so different from what TG is doing. For a second thing, I wouldn't be so hard on him. BM has a well-earned reputation here for being a... how will I put this ...

Alter-Fox

What, you didn't notice the slightly increased levels of awareness and self-parody?

Alter-Fox

I think that's still overly simplistic, LW, that example you're giving is more down to two groups of people having a different definition of what qualifies as "evidence", rather than coming to a certain conclusion based purely on personal upbringing. It's more about that upbringing influencing how ...

Alter-Fox

Eeh, you know, if you get an essay I do too. It's only fair. Let me ask you a question: if you could choose between doing just a little bit of work to secure a good place in life for yourself and your (current and/or future) children; or doing a shit-ton of work to secure a good spot in life for a ...

Alter-Fox

I see a lot of words. You want to really prove things to people, you need math, and you need evidence. I thought you would understand that at least one of those things was what I was asking for? The closest you came is claiming that a video of a ship exists somewhere, without actually showing it ...

Alter-Fox

Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight. If the contradictions that video points out are so basic why don't you address them for us, then, Mr. Highly Esteemed The Honourable Sir Not-BM? If you've done that research, come on and shut us up once and for all! Or is your brain also censored ...

Alter-Fox

Have a slow weekend at work, I started playing around in DLE with combining mars-ish textures with the brimspark palette, something that might turn into a suitable replacement for Naptha's tracking station if I can manage to finish it.

Alter-Fox

"Can I prove it when all proof is a lie?" How about the hundreds of objects we've sent up, sending back results consistent with the patterns of what stars do (mathematically and observationally), and consistent with each other? Or the sheer amount of people with competing interests who would have ...

Alter-Fox

No, no, BM, my dude. Lightwolf asked you to prove the thing. You cited a book that's about faith. In point of fact, the guy that book is about even says at one point, to this bloke Thomas, that the book he's in doesn't really do that whole proving of things. Not really what this guy's about, you ...

Alter-Fox

Burlyman wrote: ↑Sun Dec 26, 2021 7:41 pmTry me.

Well, I tried telling you yesterday, but then we all had to reset your memory when you started gibbering. It took all night. Definitely not doing that again.
So you'll just have to take my word for it.

If it makes you feel better, your mind lasted longer than anyone expected.

Alter-Fox

Oh, you wouldn't believe me if I told you.

Alter-Fox

I think the real question is -- who here actually knows your real name? I know I don't. But that's what a big research paper would be published under, isn't it? Meaning even if everything you said was true, and you showed me your paper, and I actually was able to follow all the math and physics-y ...

Alter-Fox

Oh, poor mouse.
Whatever gave you the impression I was asking permission?

Alter-Fox

Burlyman wrote: ↑Sun Dec 19, 2021 10:25 pm Answers about physical reality are supposed to make sense.

Thoughts? :3

Woooow, that sounds like a really boring physical reality you think you've got there.
Glad I don't live in it.

Alter-Fox

Lol Burlie, why am I not surprised this is you?

Maybe I can have some fun with you after all.

Alter-Fox

I think it's probably worth re-opening that one level slot Naptha's still got claimed, yeah.
Does it need to be fire-themed, or was that just the way he had planned to do it?

Alter-Fox

I've been doing it.
I think without putting a reactor object in a reactor segment, the countdown length might be altered and some of the endlevel "door open" triggers might not work properly.
Although exits obviously still do....

Not 100% sure

Alter-Fox

And then change the subject to the weather. Where they will immediately say "Climate change is a hoax!" and deny it has anything to do with Minnesota having Tornadoes in the middle of December. Oh well... what about traffic? There has to be *something* so mundane they can't twist it into a spy ...

Alter-Fox

One of my co-workers believed that the vaccine had a chip in it. He also still believes it changes your DNA. He also believes he was forced to get vaccinated or else he'd lose his job. I told him he had the choice. He denied it. I said you could have said no and suffer the consequences of your ...

Alter-Fox

Yeah, trouble is when people this threatened by rational reality decide you are a particular threat, you’ll be very lucky if it's just a little annoying. They'll mob you like a flock of ravens, only without a raven's sense, a raven's ability to figure out when to stop, or... a raven's brainpower in g ...

Alter-Fox

Still leery of spending that much money on something that's barely worked for me for years... maybe in another year.
I already have loads of synth plugins I wish I was using more.

Alter-Fox

I have trouble getting Arturia plugins to work properly with FL, but I do have one of their physical synths that I put in absolutely everything.

Alter-Fox

I remember seeing a bug in version 1.0 of D2 where a specific type of bot (Lou guard) would very very occasionally shoot an earthshaker... which it obviously isn't supposed to be able to do. Shouldn't be happening in any source port, though, because they are all built on the 1.2 source code, where I ...

Alter-Fox

Yeah, should have clarified -- having to jam single notes when the pitch-changer is set to full is only for low notes on the seventh string. If I start from the sixth string or higher I can still play power chords clearly. And if I've got the mix level on the "pedal" anywhere below three-quarters, I ...

Alter-Fox

I think the main library branch here in Winnipeg has something similar, though I haven't been there since it was announced (right before Covid hit) :E Also! Purchased Neural DSP Archetype: Gojira during the Black Friday sale. The pitch whammy sold me, it really does have a lot of versatility ...

Alter-Fox

I have a tough time playing games without some kind of music, 'cause all the sounds in the real world around me distract from the game and ruin the immersion. Plus, atmospheric locations are a lot more compelling when there's music with the same atmosphere. In an abstract sort of world like Descent ...

Alter-Fox

Hard to say for a specific level, but I've got a small pack I've been working on for Overload almost since that game came out -- partly because I kept interrupting it to build other levels for the two community DLCs and JosheM's challenges, and partly because my free time situation isn't really what ...

Alter-Fox

I think it'll be okay if we add a full map (which I've already done).
I'll keep that in mind as an option when I get around to fully populating, though.

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