I immediately heard this in Link’s voice.

I can imagine a sparrow hopping back and forth now:

“Hup, hup hup, (wing flap) hyaahh!”

Wait, you’re totally right! I had it turned around!

Quaternions avoid the gimbal lock issue, and are more efficient overall, but they’re a bit more complicated to understand.

Euler is more user-friendly on the editing side of things, and easier to understand, but it’s got some shortcomings. (Maybe that’s why I thought this, perhaps some tutorials were telling me to use Euler at first…? Hm.)

Both are an option in Blender and Godot for instance, because one might suit a given situation better than the other.

Oh sweet! That’s the magic that makes rotations work intuitively in Blender and game engines! :D

… Still can’t say I understand it but I sure am grateful!

What a coincidence! I had a very similar path! My elementary mis-education was largely a fundie school using Abeka as well. Their weird religious nationalism was so crazy when I look back on it. It’s amazing they could actually publish this crap.

I wish I still had all the old books we had to get because that would make for a good laugh (and possibly an embarrassment campaign.)

Like c’mon we were kids how were we supposed to know? But also it just felt so bullshitty, like a written form of that awkward feeling you got when it was really obvious adults were lying to manipulate you and thought you were stupid.

It was in California, so eventually I had to move to the state curriculum also, around middle school, for my grades to actually count.

Honestly, that requirement saved my intellect. I went to a secular charter school where I was pushed into interacting with so many different people of different perspectives, and I would be a much crappier person without that experience.

Even today the damage isn’t gone, there’s still so much untangling and deprogramming to do.

These “curriculums” are child abuse.

After all that, I still kept my faith, not because of that upbringing, but in spite of it. That being said, I’m a Christian anarchist now. I make a point to counter this anti-intellectual, anti-Jesus, pro-fascist propaganda mongering wherever I can.

For what it’s worth. . .I’m glad we both made it through the other side of being exposed to that slop.

9 months later:

Wife: (goes into labor)

now playing: E1M1_At_Hell's_Gate.wav 🔊

🎵doo-doo, doo-doo, doo-doo🎵

Those are all really interesting factors to consider and I appreciate the response!

I’ll come clean, when I wrote it, I was just making a funny, like… A “decaying vacuum” would suck less over time. . .than a black hole. Lol XD

To your point though, less likelihood of finding other life is such a wildcard, for sure. (Less likelihood of meeting cool benevolent spacefarers…but also less likely to be spotted by something like Mass Effect’s Reapers, or accidentally bring home Xenomorphs or extragalactic pathogens lol)

And…not being able to ever see the beginning of everything…my curious mind says that’d be such a bummer but also…oddly beautiful? I’ll have to ponder that…

Well, that might suck slightly less in the long run?

“Hwat in cornnashun!?”

Holy coconuts it REALLY DOES! That’s some weapons grade level snark right here LOL. Wow that “controversies” section…

Honestly great move to immortalize when fascist strongmen act “weird” and embarass themselves to the world by sharing their true thoughts.

I thought Link Time Optimization usually involved at least an ocarina…

From the genius and his whipped minions that brought you MechaHitler after some “fixes and improvements”…

…Comes the same AI that offers to “fix your code.”

Wow. Simply astounding. A magnificent feat indeed, to waste so many finite precious resources over such garbage.

Kindly Ctrl+A and shift-delete “All your code files”, sir.

Believe it or not, mathematics majors who didn’t put “engineer” on their resume. :(

(This is a joke not meant to insult anybody, aside from whomever is responsible for this “degree market value” idea.)

I would hope, but on the whole you’d almost think they deliberately purged home computing from the mainstream consciousness, with how tragically ignorant the average person is about anything that isn’t a little poke-driven rectangle that screams at you all day.

anime without dimming

So that’s the secret! When I first noticed this happening I thought I was a little bit crazy lol.

Unfortunately same with Bill Nye. He seemed so pissed at getting recognized by people at a symposium.

Like geeze dude sorry you inspired people as kids and encouraged them to pursue science and they’re excited to meet you.

Hehe me sitting here with my 9800 GTX++ wondering what the heck to do with it. 😂

Kinda wanted to make a retro gaming machine but, sheesh I bet it’s such a power hog these days!

Stability aside, I loved ME’s personalization stuff, all the themes and sounds and icons and everything they included out of the box to encourage you to make it feel like “yours.”

I wish they had kept with that into later versions.

Thankfully KDE fills that void for me now. :D

“Everybody’s going to the party, have a real good time… … Dancin’ in the desert, blowin’ up the sun-shine…”

–System of a Down, “B.Y.O.B”

This made me laugh way more than it should have rofl