US cable giant Comcast has submitted the winning bid in the auction for broadcaster Sky

Time I switched to another ISP, methinks!

Procedural Planets

Very pretty.
Also costs $85.

I've noticed that if you want any extra-fancy graphics, game mechanics, or the like in your Unity games, you have to shell out lots of money, or make it all yourself.

IronDuke wrote: ↑

Mon Sep 24, 2018 6:17 pm

shell out lots of money, or make it all yourself.

IronDuke is a professional counterfeiter, of this we can be certain.

Well, its still much cheaper than paying a freelancer to do a custom version of that tech.

True enough, though I have yet to get an asset from the Store that I could just plug straight in, so I understand why people would pay more for a freelancer. Every single one of them needed work, sometimes hours, before it would do what I wanted, either because it wasn't the exact feature needed, conflicted with existing stuff, or needed content added to function. Still, way way less work than making it myself, and way cheaper than a freelancer. It's a nice middle position. I just wish the really awesome assets weren't all so expensive :/ I don't make any money to speak of with what I develop, so it's hard for me to justify paying for pretty much anything...

Playing around this evening with some flight code:

shuttle boom
other shuttle

Fiddling around with n-body physics, and about 512 objects.
Ignore the text top left, that's a hang over from the last stage of development, and will be useful again once I get into the next piece.

DM (to the bard): The six cultists shove you to the ground, bow to the massive green dragon, and say, "Oh Great One, we have brought you this gold and this human sacrifice as tribute to your greatness. Please accept our offering."

Rest of party, looking on from a distance: Welp, he is so dead. RIP

DM: The dragon thanks the cultists and asks if you have any last words.

Bard: I look up at the dragon and say, "I have brought you this gold and these six cultists as tribute to your greatness."

Rest of party: OH WOW

DM, who clearly did not expect that: ................roll persuasion.

Bard: 17.

DM: The dragon says, "I like you. Duck."

Bard: .....I duck?

DM: The dragon blasts a fiery breath over your head, incinerating the six cultists, and leaves you alive, flying off with his treasure.

Bard: Oh man, I thought I was dead.

DM: So did I. :/

I mentally replaced "DM" with "Tal," "Bard" with "Buck," and "Dragon" with "Hiltorel." The Cultists remain. As does the gold. And the fire.

Hiltorel can fly and breathe fire? Yikes!

F4wk35 wrote: ↑

Sun Oct 21, 2018 10:40 am

Hiltorel can fly and breathe fire? Yikes!

Buck probably thinks they can.

Dragons probably think humans are weird as heck for being able to create water in our mouths. :V

IronDuke wrote: ↑

Mon Oct 22, 2018 7:24 pm

Dragons probably think humans are weird as heck for being able to create water in our mouths. :V

This... is a valid point...

Full on science fiction moment at work yesterday, with this article ; at first it's a regular article about the real estate market, until you realise it's about how it will change with self driving cars becoming the norm!
At first, I was kinda bored like you are at work on Friday evenings, but then I was amazed that a technology which we still saw as complete sci fi material a decade ago is now changing very concrete, "real life" things. I don't know why exactly, but it feels great to see the future becoming the present.