This makes my head hurt.
I mean, I literally have a splitting headache, now.
I remember the 1980s, when we also could have died in nuclear fire. And that would have been stupid.
But it wouldn't have been THIS stupid.
Give Godot a good look, though. God knows Epic has at least as many unsavory things attached.
I've been looking into Godot, and it seems like maybe it really will be the Blender of game engines, eventually.
And its scripting language is reported to be easier to learn and use, for us non-coders.
I'm 100 percent sure you can act that out in Fortnite, right now, with official character models.
There's huge quantities of resources on all three engines. Godot is the most free and open one, btw, in case you didn't know.
Wish you the best of luck. If i were you, I'd go on youtube and watch, like, the first tutorial videos on Godot, Unreal, and Unity, and pick which seems fit your vibe.
It's a LOT more visual. And being able to make your own assets, right from the word go? That's an advantage.
Slogging through the standard "hello, world" coding thing, where you learn to compile code, and you won't be touching anything but text-only input/output for a long time?
Not for you.
This, btw, is especially all true for someone who is already an artist.
The way modern game engines and their development environments is a lot like how Visual Basic worked, back in the day.
You design the game in a studio app, where you can basically drop your assets in, and make them do stuff.
Pick an engine and start smashing through tutorials for that game development toolkit/environment/engine.
If people say "oh, no, you should learn to be a general coder first" I AM TELLING YOU, THEY ARE ALMOST CERTAINLY INCREDIBLY WRONG.
Unless you foresee also being a web or app dev.
I'm gonna tell you the real truth: THE AMOUNT OF ACTUAL "REAL CODING KNOWLEGE" YOU NEED TO MAKE A GAME IN AN ENGINE LIKE GODOT OR UNITY IS EXTREMELY MINIMAL.
Those engines are DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENTS.
You do write code, yes. But picking up general "how to code" books IS NOT WHAT YOU SHOULD DO.
Actually that would go so hard. That needs to be a thing, like, right the fuck now.
Lemmings™ but with Pokémon™
Yo, this is what I'm talking about. I like your style.
In case you don't believe me, drive around a rich people neighborhood for a minute.
Their houses will still be bland, BUT THEIR CARS GET TO HAVE COLOR.
You will see it INSTANTLY. Orange cars, red cars, lime green, hot pink, electric blue.
Color is for our masters. We die in beige.
The real point is how ALL colors are now basically banned from life.
Cars: gray, silver, or black
Home interiors: white, beige, brushed metal
Home exteriors: beige, gray, greige, white
None of this is accidental. We are being deliberately subjected to a concerted campaign of depression.
I lowkey feel bad for that kid in the lower right of the photo.
Look at his face.
He has been ordered to to take part in this photo op by people who might actually eat him, if he refused.
The Biden Administration definitely should NOT have followed the law, in that circumstance.
The consequences of obeying it were too fucking crazy.
It's like a dude letting an SUV run over a stroller with a baby in it, because he would've had to jaywalk to intervene.
Probably Red Rock State Park, in Arizona. Based on the filename and the rocks.
I've been there, and I remember it being VERY impressive, but it was around 35 years ago, so I'm not sure if I saw those exact rock formations.
Yeah, it was nuts. And it was projected on a HUGE screen on the wall, too. Like, the WHOLE wall.
With the lights off, like you're in 4thh grade, finna watch a Land Before Time movie, except it's my innards.
I mean, the projector had a loud-ass fan, like a school overhead projector. Weird vibes.
I hasten to add that I had to drink a HUGE milkshake of contrast solution first. I think it's barium?
Pure white smoothie that weighs 8x more than a smoothie should weigh and tastes AGGRESSIVELY like powdered drywall.
I was like "wow, that's a damn dodgeball. they got it at fucking Kmart or some shit. it's a medical dodgeball."
It kinda looked like my guts were being slow-mo kicked by a ghost.
I got to see a live, full-motion fluoroscope projection of a doctor visualizing my entire digestive tract, one time.
He used, like, an actual dodgeball ball, to prod at my abdomen, so his hand-bones wouldn't get in the way, while he palpated me. Also, so he wouldn't get cancer from doing it a lot.
AI can't replace this shit, goddamn.
EXACTLY.
I always say I'm 98-99 percent straight, because there are definitely dudes I find attractive.
And I don't have a problem saying that. And I don't think a bronze-age sky/war/lightning god will punish me about it.
But these dudes have major problems with all that.
Again, this is NOT meant to represent what gay guys are like.
I know that's not what gay guys are like.
But these are freaks who insist they prayed their gay away, if only to themselves.
So this is what you get. Woman-thing that isn't attractive to anyone who likes women, but they don't realize.
My theory, and I'm sorry if it sounds offensive, is the old standard:
Most of them are VERY gay, but TURBO-REPRESSED, so they need a standard template of "yes, this is attractive lady, my male organ is so erect."
And the others all nod and go "yeah, she IS hot. We're totally attracted to women."
A future we can look forward to
One day, I swear to god, I'm gonna find one of those chairs and sit in that bitch, TO FINALLY KNOW IF IT'S MORE UNCOMFORTABLE THAN A DRIVEWAY WITH A FISTFUL OF GRAVEL SCATTERED ON IT, OR SO COMFY YOU'LL NEVER WANT ANOTHER CHAIR TO TOUCH YOUR ASS.
It's gotta be one or the other. No in-between.
This is how i access bluesky
I mean, I hasten to add that the "Something is intrinsically wrong with me as a person" thing gets MORE INSISTENT when I'm by myself, so roaming unincorporated land in the Square States would be a TERRIBLE idea.
But, ya know, self destruction is what we're talking about, here.
AuDHD with Boomer parents, but they weren't shitty parents.
If they had been shitty, I would probably be some kind of criminal?
Maybe one of those dudes who roams rural areas and sleeps in unoccupied hunting cabins, because that's how DONE with all society I would be?
