Cyro

a vintage-style illustration of two figures too small to be seen clearly coming face to face with the far lands - a towering alien landscape whose forms look carved and stretched out. the sun blazes above them, and the left and right edges of the frame are obscured by parting fog.

far lands

#art #artsky #illustration #digitalart #retro #minecraft #minecraftart

Things seem to generally be working (mostly) but I'm still getting sluggish logins and failed/slow messages.

Overall no total outages yet, but I think that the performance of the API is still rather degraded even though there aren't any issues listed on the status site.

I mentioned it to someone else, but perhaps try restarting your client?

The issue persisted even through CTRL+R and update button reloads. I was personally having issues with guilds going in and out all day until I popped a full restart of the client.

I hope I'm not spreading some pigeon-hole rumor, but try actually restarting your client instead of pressing CTRL+R or relying on the update button.

I was having issues with guilds going in and out all day until I finally did that. Also try the web version if that doesn't work.

Still seems sluggish, but sluggish is better than a complete outage. I see the improvement.

Could I trouble you for what the addon's called? I was attempting to render clouds a good while ago for a skybox but the volumetrics took FOREVER to render. Anything making that faster is much appreciated.

Honestly? I'm more impressed by the volumetric clouds than anything.

Did you just eat the L of needing to render volumetrics for a gwagillion years or did you use some trick to speed it up?

I do think good lighting is sorely under-represented

Avatars tend to compensate for bad world lighting... but then look bad in worlds with good lighting!!

No remark against wearing the shader you want, but don't author for bad worlds, author for good ones like this. Stop adding min brightness!

Man our administration really wants to do anything to distract people from those files huh.

...When your country would rather wage war than prosecute rich people, that really says something about who's actually in control of it.

kknot 🥴

Something something "These things, they take time"

Though somewhat of a bother, I plan to stick this out. The API was behaving very well yesterday and it felt like a glimpse into what's to come.

If Fluxer is gonna feel that seamless to use versus discord, then this is gonna be worth the wait.

If you deem github unacceptable - then sorry. It's what we have.

If you want change, you'll have to work with us and what we have. Individuals coming to us and saying this stuff - it's not the way.

Lots of people care about lots of things. If people don't upvote to show us that, we just can't win.

Github is what we have - we have plans to streamline bug reporting but what we have right now is what we have. Saying it's not good enough won't change it.

If you already did the things, great!

But saying we do nothing isn't helpful. We need people to do the things so we can see what they want.

I'm curious if people simply just don't believe when we say that we see them? Because we do.

We've got a small number of full-time engineers, and a github with thousands of issues that all want the same attention you do.

Saying we do nothing is probably the most demotivating thing to hear ever.

explodes you with my mind

It's one thing to use an LLM to make terrible vibe coded garbage because you don't know how to program.

It's another to use a tuned local LLM to automate various NARROW tasks like copy/pasting docs from one format to another.

They're good for NARROW tasks. Not for containing the entire internet.

I think we're starting to swing a little far in the opposite direction in terms of the LLM hate tbh.

LLM-generated stuff has been a plague on the landscape, but it's usually from people who try to use it as a shortcut.

The Fluxer dev clearly knows their stuff, and uses like tool... as it should be

One of these is not a WEASEL. >:((((((((

...I'm not a weasel. >:T

(these are good animals thank you)

A bipedal red fox paints a rainbow across the sky. They have a determined look on their face. To the right of the rainbow are segments of text from newspaper articles about grim news for LGBTQIA+ folks, especially trans folks. On the left, there are flowers on the ground, with butterflies flittering about. The discouraging words are illegible faint smudges.

Word.

Well, words.

Drawing of a light orange maned wolf standing in a snowy morning graveyard with bare trees. The maned wolf has bone wings of which thin branches with red autumn leaves are attached. They are looking at a dying tree with only a couple of leave remaining on its branches and a pile of red leaves surrounding the base.

Contemplation of Fate 🍂 Commission for Lain.

Like some others here, I also dislike being told how I should feel on something (it's why I also dislike motivational/feel-good pictures)

...But your work shouldn't make you wanna die I think. :D

Wow, look at that, you don't just have to roll over like a fucking coward

graphic that says no ice in Minnesota itch.io charity bundle

The No ICE in Minnesota Charity Bundle has officially LAUNCHED!

There are 1,439 games to discover for a $10+ donation to Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota!

Purchase the bundle here: itch.io/b/3484/no-ic...

WinRAR is more profitable than OpenAI

"sorry, i havent finished a project in months, i've been at war with myself"

remarkably appropriate meme

This is correct. This is what everyone needs to hear and know in their hearts, especially right now.

floor time

If Midwesterners can show up to fight like this in -30° windchill, you can too. I'll be out there too in that same weather.

Minnesota is famously a very calm place. We have a lot of nature, the people are nice, and this attack is entirely unwarranted.

We're a blue state and self-proclaimed trans safe haven. Our immigrant numbers are extremely low compared to other states.

"Immigrants" my ass. This is fascism. Fuck off.

It pains me to not have the means to be out there with my fellow Minnesotans. I'm both lucky and unlucky to be a good ways away from any major urban centers.

If I'd heard a little sooner and had a vehicle, I'd be right out there with them.

I salute from the countryside, wishing I could join. 🫡