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Aw man. Last week was my wife's spring break and I used her vacation as rationalization for not going to the gym. I quit drinking soda and I was doing really well for a while! Time to start going back!

Together you and your friend are an army. United you will crush your foes.

When my wife and I moved to San Jose a few years back, we found our apartment by driving through the neighborhoods we were interested in living in and looking for 'now renting' signs. It was probably not the most efficient way to find an apartment but because we wanted to live in the middle of downtown, landlords don't have to work very hard to advertise their vacancies thanks to SJSU students always needing to rent.

The thing I do to mitigate the internet temptation currently is I have my wife take the power brick for the modem with her to work when she leaves every morning. It is much harder to dick around on Twitter for half the day when the internet is not an option.

Last time i was at the asian grocery store they had sriracha mayo, and while I have both of those condiments separately and it is within my power to combine them at my leisure, dang if I wasn't still tempted by the convenience of having it in a premixed, easy-squeeze bottle.

We have Thai grocery stores near us, I've yet to see any Korean or Japanese ones - but they still stock stuff like kewpie mayo, dashi powder, and bonito flakes.

Not technically related to game development, but adjacent to it! Make some pretty renders!

Tonight I doubled this recipe to make a pile of eight okonamiyaki. Two of them were dinner for my wife and I and the rest are in the freezer so that we are now never more than ten minutes away from delicious okonamiyaki whenever. Although in practice we'll probably get super lazy about cooking for the rest of the week and just thaw them out and heat them up. Did you know that grocery stores sell shredded cabbage for okonamiyaki in bags now? For some reason they're mislabeled as coleslaw mix but I figure it's probably an error in translation the same way the Disney dub of Pom Poko calls all the tanuki 'raccoons'.

Is this larp? I think you just invented larp.

Oh my god this makes me so angry. It is not hard to cook a fucking chicken breast. In the age of google nobody has any excuse to not know how to properly prepare meat.

Ahh this is badass, I can't wait to see more progress on it!

Last time I priced out mattresses, foam latex mattresses in the king size tended to run closer to 2k. It's possible you can get them for cheaper. I am not an expert at buying mattresses. It only sounded reasonable given my very limited experience.

I learned how to drive as a teen and my first vehicle was a motorcycle because it's something teenagers in America are allowed to drive on their own with just a learner's permit (if you only have a learner's permit, you can't drive a car without a licensed driver in the passenger side), and also because my dad was grossly irresponsible. Everybody who knew I had a motorcycle at the age of 16 thought it was badass, but I hated it because I was certain I was going to kill myself on it. Also because I couldn't transport anything but my own body on it. HOWEVER. I also learned how a clutch operates by riding a bike, which made learning how to drive with a manual transmission easier, and I eventually became so used to driving stick that driving an automatic felt way weird to me.

Some rad webcomics people are kickstarting The Beyond Anthology, a collection of queer scifi/fantasy comics. It is already well past funded, but there's still 26 days to board that train:

Man I am really excited about the idea of a $950 king size foam latex mattress. Adulthood! Between like, Audible, Hover, and Simple, I think I've made more intentional purchasing decisions from podcast advertising than ads in any other form of media in the last few years.

Coming to this thread and discovering that Henry Rollins has a podcast has made me so incredibly happy. I can't wait to find out how it fails to live up to my impossibly high expectations! (Though honestly I suspect it'll taste roughly the same as Roderick on the Line, which is fine by me.)

I have no idea when or if anyone is supposed to get off the Adventure Time train but I hope it's not prior to the Jake is a Brick episode because that episode is a goddamned treasure. Also the Lemonhope arc. Actually I think the only later ep I didn't like was the life cycle of plants/caterpillars/birds one. Pretty much any episode involving Magic Man is kind of unwatchable.

When I was a teenager, I read an interview Jaron Lanier gave Omni where he talked about Virtual Reality and consequently told my highschool guidance counselor that I wanted to be a VR artist and that poor woman had absolutely no idea what to say to my doughy nerd ass. Today I can go on indeed dot com and enter the phrase 'virtual reality' and there are real actual jobs with that phrase attached to them, and what's up now, highschool guidance counselor. What's up now.

I am only speaking for myself here, but a prototype, regardless of jank factor, is a lot more convincing than a big impressive design doc. It's one thing to have ideas, another entirely to show evidence of having invested labor into realizing them. After that, though, for visual art, a shopping list of specific assets and specs needed for the project, along with possibly a moodboard with examples of the visual style you're looking for, would make the decision to jump in a lot easier than just "I made this prototype and I need an artist!" (also I know this thread is a year old, f the police)

What can you tell me about xdugef, I am looking for ways to incorporate it into my Maya workflow

I have hella time management/self-discipline issues, so I am going to try this out and see if it can help me. D:

I am also noodling with ue4! I am 'dawnchapel' in their instant messenger thing and I added everyone else upthread who listed theirs. I haven't done a whooole lot of work with previous iterations of Unreal editors but I used to teach UE3/UDK to teenagers at a summer camp and am looking forward to find out how much fun UE4 is in comparison.

Hello intro thread! My name is Root, I like to paint and make comics and make friends and have adventures. I started listening to Idle Thumbs a few months ago and I enjoy it a lot, and I kind of only just recently clued in that there was a forum. So uh here I am!

I would like to participate too, if anyone is willing to noodle with UE4. I'd like to teach myself the asset creation/import pipeline for the Unreal editor, so making some relatively simple 3d environmental art for whatever someone is putting together would be ideal for me.

Not too long after I started listening to podcasts, I noticed a few of them using the phrase 'yes-and' as a verb - they used it in Idle Thumbs #197 with Justin McElroy during the advertising segment for the chocolate-coated strawberries - and I learned not long after that the principle of responding to any joke setup with 'yes, and-' is a foundational element of improv comedy. Not surprisingly, many of the podcasts I enjoy listening to most are hosted by people who have some kind of comedy or stage background where they've been explicitly taught to keep a conversation moving with yes-and. (And the podcasts I wind up losing interest in immediately are produced by pedantic computer nerds who have that awful one-upmanship habit of shutting down other people with 'well-actually')