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I only facepalm rude people, notably awful takes, and bad poetry.
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Elhemeer
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Then I shallI only facepalm rude people, notably awful takes, and bad poetry.
Make sure ya'll
Turn forehead red
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Elhemeer
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Not the worst I've seen here lol
(how am I still out of reactions???)
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I only facepalm rude people, notably awful takes, and bad poetry.
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I agree with you, and that is really the only way on the internet, but instinctually it feels hollow and unresolved.
Humans have had a system for thousands of years called shunning, banishment, exile, excommunication, disownment, etc.
But those are all in-person forms of, in a sense, ignoring. Here there is an endless supply of decent people for their need to cause havoc. being kicked out of your tribe or community or just being ignored by them is a strong way of correcting behavior but not here. We are all anonymous. we are not a community here in the real sense, but this is the new normal, and hopefully, we will survive this new world.
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UnoriginalUserName
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I've heard of all the others of course, but "sunning" was a new one to me, so I looked it up.
Mmhmm. Apparently it's got something to do with "tanning your anus" and a yoga pose.
Thanks, Google.
(I'll assume you meant "shunning".
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The Goddamn H on my keyboard is broken.
I imagine if you were sunning yourself in a park, you would quickly be shunned.
in my head, sunning is a way to kick someone out and tell them never to come back. I vote we make sunning that just to have a laughThe Goddamn H on my keyboard is broken.
I imagine if you were sunning yourself in a park, you would quickly be shunned.
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I always looked at the facepalm as a positive thing, myself, being more like you just used a bad pun or told a huge groaner of a joke or some such. IRL if someone says something I vehemently disagree with then I don't facepalm and shake my head smiling. I will either argue about it or walk away from it. In forums like these you can disagree with just about anything and as long as you're having a civilized discussion about it then it's fine, no matter how ludicrous you think that opinion is. You don't ever report someone for having an opinion different than yours. I only report spammers and angry/hate speech. If the discussion gets too heated or isn't going anywhere then you can simply walk away from it. There are superfanatic fans who can't bear any type of negative commentary about "their" game though. I ran into that on the Eternum thread. Eternum is a game that I quite like but I had some quibbles about the last chapter release and brought them up, thinking to discuss it. I got dogpiled by fanatics and facepalms for nothing, really. I had one civilized discussion, one set of heated retorts, and walked away from the whole thing. I probably won't frequent that thread much anymore because I have better things to do than argue with fangirl dickheads on an internet forum. Some groups of game fans are crazier than others. If they're not your brand of crazy then just walk away.
Honestly, people need to just lighten up. Nobody's entire existence should be validated by their total immersion into an animated video novel. It's supposed to be light fun. Have respect for the people you talk to and argue about anything you like with a light heart. Ignore anyone else. If your skin is too thin to even read stuff you disagree with then stay out of the forums entirely and find something else to do.
Honestly, people need to just lighten up. Nobody's entire existence should be validated by their total immersion into an animated video novel. It's supposed to be light fun. Have respect for the people you talk to and argue about anything you like with a light heart. Ignore anyone else. If your skin is too thin to even read stuff you disagree with then stay out of the forums entirely and find something else to do.
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Happy Monday!
I got a lot done last week in preparation for this week. This week I'm going to hammer out what is left with my Steam checklist, which isn't much. Some key things being resolving some minor CH4 issues (including the removal of the music from Chapters 1-3). Part of Chapter 4 work was me preparing for this change in music, which I had completely re-done the naming so the music files can be easily swapped for any future changes without breaking the code or redoing it. Just a matter of overwriting old with new. That said, back up these four files from the game directory and simply just paste them back in any future builds and that will restore the old music. I will do my best to try to replace the songs with more placeholders only because it just doesn't feel right. If Steam is successful, that is the first thing on my list is to begin work on the new soundtrack. I understand some people prefer no music playing at all in VN's and that's completely fine, fortunately, the mute option is still there. But for the rest, I will be doing my best to make Artemis feel whole again.
Keep a copy of these files somewhere and paste them over future builds. Doing this will restore the old music, until the official soundtrack is complete.
I also hope to remaster a couple of scenes that are just way too poor in quality. One of them being the flashback with MC's mom in CH1 being the main one. As much as I'd love to re-work the INK free-roam in CH1, that'd definitely be biting off more than I can chew this week. Though maybe in Ch6's dev cycle when Steam is no longer on my workbench, I can review it and see if it's something I can squeeze in. Fortunately, I still have all my scene files from CH1 so it's just a matter of correcting the lighting, updating any textures and re-saving. For the trailer, I remastered Cassie's shot and it only took me maybe 10 minutes to update everything in that scene.
Speaking of trailer, I was completely focused on cramming as much as possible last week for the render queue, I didn't realize I hadn't shared the trailer here. I do apologize about that and posted it on this DevLog. Huge thanks to fellow dev ClassyLemon for cutting this trailer together for me. It was one less thing off my plate for this development cycle.
Have yourselves a great week!
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Hello guys just started playing and certain animations lag while others don't. E.g. close up in first render is stuttering and chugging but first sex scene flows impeccably. How do I fix?
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Video slows down because of RenPy 8
There is no such thing in RenPy 7.
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This, while I have no problem, the moment Leap of Fate made the jump to the new Renpy version people with older systems started complaining that animations are laggy. Now I don't know what the exact advantages of upgrading Renpy are for devs, but in hindsight it seems to me not that good of an idea, seeing that most people play VNs on potato laptops, or questionable quality phone ports.
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I think collusion with computer component manufacturers. Video can't put that much load on the processor unless it's forced by software.
I am not an expert or so but my rig is gaming tier but 7 years old, external 4GB VRAM 960 GTX should be more than enough to play an animation flawlessly I think. Is it a matter of optimization of Renpy 8 with older VRAMs or something?
Short version: Basically yes, but more CPU related.
From some searching, it looks like there is an issue with Renpy 8 and some methods of encoding videos. The result is significantly more CPU load and animation playback issues. It seems to be more of an issue as the animation and game size grow larger.
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Here's a new trailer from the developer at Patreon:
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Yeah I just ran a test with Artemis bring up into workshop animation in Chapter 3, at rest my CPU sits at 10% 3+ GHz speed, but when the animation kicks in, it runs at near 70% with 2.55 GHz speed. My VRAM not affected at all. I don't know how Renpy works but it is a bit bizarre if it is a simple video file being played. Or does the engine compile the video from frames simultaneously? The same animation plays at startup of main menu and it doesn't lag. I am so confused. I think my CPU old enough to be bottlenecked by it.