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Finally added something that I should've added at the start: a debug menu. I don't know why I keep on putting off doing this. Debug menus are so useful, but up until now, I was debugging levels by modifying save files instead.

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Brian Merchant summarizes his reasoning for why the Generative AI hype is now beginning to implode.

"One persisting headache will be generative AI being wielded as job automation technology. It’s going to remain as a threat to artists and creatives because it really can cheaply pump out derivative images and text. The tech companies may lean further into enterprise use cases, insisting it can generate efficiencies if employees are properly trained to use it, for a while yet. It will be used to flood social media with dumb and occasionally disorienting images. And the AI companies may increasingly lean on winning military and government contracts, where a lack of results can be better obfuscated or at least play out over a longer period. So for all those concerned with the deleterious impacts of generative AI, we’re definitely not out of the woods yet."

(Original title: The great degeneration: Is this the beginning of the end of the AI boom?)

bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-gr

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October could be one of the most tumultuous months that we have seen in a really long time. Here are some things to look out for.
https://www.activistpost.com/2024/09/3-major-problems-which-are-looming-over-the-u-s-as-the-month-of-october-begins.html
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The number of scams involving precious metals is proliferating. Criminals have always targeted gold and silver because pretty much nothing is easier to fence at or near full market value. Con artists know the promise of gold can play to a victim’s greed.
https://www.activistpost.com/2024/09/sophisticated-scammers-using-gold-to-fleece-americans-for-everything.html
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With inflation at a high, the dollar losing its purchasing power, average people are losing faith in the financial system altogether.
https://www.activistpost.com/2024/10/goldbacks-arent-just-as-good-as-gold-theyre-better.html
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Just in case getting supplies isn’t expensive enough (or difficult enough in the areas hit by Hurricane Helene), now the dockworkers from Maine to Texas have gone on strike.
https://www.activistpost.com/2024/10/heres-how-the-dockworkers-strike-could-affect-us.html
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It seems like Godot lost funding, after the recent controversy, despite gaining 11 backers.

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Lets start with all the amendments after 10, then in 5 years we can revisit and see if we want to go further.
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developer politics are tiring I think a lot of devs just want to tinker cool shit. which is why they just hired someone else to manage the people.

it's annoying that we have to basically employ counter extremists now
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You can’t see it, or smell it, or taste it, and nor can children, but lead could be causing a host of detrimental effects on kids. Moreover, no one knows how many public schools don’t have safe drinking water.
https://www.naturalblaze.com/2024/09/how-much-lead-is-in-school-drinking-water-alarmingly-no-one-knows.html
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so apparently raid shadow legends sponsorships were like $10-$20 thousand. that's insane. i don't blame youtubers for taking that deal at all.

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The Irish Government has announced it is scrapping its plans to introduce significant updates to Ireland’s existing hate speech laws, as there is not enough support for the proposed legislation.
https://www.activistpost.com/2024/09/new-hate-speech-laws-scrapped-in-ireland.html
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NULLIFY THEM: Jefferson's Rightful Remedy from the American Revolution
“A nullification of the act is THE rightful remedy.” That’s how Thomas Jefferson said we should respond to any federal act that goes beyond the limits of the Constitution. But here’s the thing - Jefferson wasn’t inventing something new in 1798. He was reminding us of principles that were at the heart of the American Revolution - ideas the people used to resist tyranny. And today, those principles are more important than ever.

Path to Liberty: September 30, 2024 https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1687555352930816015
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regardless of whatever the programmers or managers of godot say or think, or who they ban from what, the fact remains that it is open source and publicly available. this is one reason why open source is so important, so that the software can be detached from the ones who made it. if this were something like unreal engine then they could simply revoke your license to use the engine if they so desired, but with godot that's not an option. so keep using it if that's what you like to use because it can't be taken from you.

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the world population count is a linear count up with preset variables, it's based on nothing. the few places places that make up the bulk of the number are corrupt or unable to measure anything accurately. no way there's 8 billion people atm. there is global disinterest in child rearing and infertility from "modernity poisoning" in rural settings.

In the wake of the Godot situation, I am here to recommend alternatives. Not all of these are engines. Some of them are frameworks, but all of these are FOSS and general purpose.

2D:
* SDL - libsdl.org/
* SFML - sfml-dev.org/
* Allegro - liballeg.org/
* Gosu - libgosu.org/
* Love2D - love2d.org/
* Pygame- pygame.org/
* FreeBASIC - freebasic.net/
* raylib - raylib.com/

3D:
* Irrlicht Engine - irrlicht.sourceforge.io/
* OGRE - ogre3d.org/
* ioquake3 - ioquake3.org/
* Panda3D - panda3d.org/

Both:
* MonoGame - monogame.net
* GDevelop - gdevelop.io/
* jMonkeyEngine - jmonkeyengine.org/
* Lightweight Java Game Library - lwjgl.org/

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