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Adding text to the quadmeshes was a hell of a lot easier than I was first a-feared of:

Turns out there's an actual Mesh Object ("New TextMesh," specifically) that takes whatever parameters, font, and text you give it and it turns it into 3D objects you can then slap onto whatever you need to.

It's usually gonna be one line of text on the longer trilons (the one showing "an answer here"), with maybe two lines at most on the taller, stouter ones ("a pithy category name").

Now, the question is, can I get the code to do everything I need it to do?

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A Status Report, Plus More Singing the Praises of this Cesspit (Affectionate)

There have been a number of World Heritage Posts from Tumblr that have made both an indelible impression on my mind and dent in my skull since I first read of them: Pukicho finding out that furry artists are liked more than doctors; "terrible job, everyone!" ; "well crunchity munchity do you think that'll stop me?" ; and a bunch of other stuff that would take entirely too long to list here for all the laughs and entertainment I have taken from this wellspring of intrusive thoughts.

But there were also a few that stuck with me for inspirational reasons, and god forgive me for "looking up who originally said this on tumblr.com" being too low on my personal depth chart given everything else currently on my plate:

This also gives me a little additional wiggle room on paraphrasing the message I took from those quotes, too, so... yeah.

"If you feel like a solution to a problem is stupid, just remember a computer is a rock we tricked into thinking. [...] Not to oversimplify things, I mean we had to flatten the rocks first and then carve runes in them to channel the lightning."

You know that problem I've been having with trying to subdivide the UV map so that only a certain portion of an atlas image shows up on it? I've been making the problem entirely too complicated. Turns out you can just add an extra quadmesh in the dimensions you need, and that way the shader can just focus on showing the correct index at the correct face. "Obsoive!" he cried in poor imitation of Curly Howard as he drew attention to the video he attached to the post:

The uniforms I've set up with this should give me an easy way to change the graphics through code, passing While I'm at it, I've gotten the whole "putting 3D objects in a 2D scene" down pat:

Next steps: Setting up the logic to change faces as needed by the game (e.g. covers for the prize board, text to the faces that need it, the logic surrounding the idea of shuffling three prize graphics plus a stop sign three times and distributing three of those shuffles across the three rows), as well as building the players' lower-thirds showing name, point total, trophies earned, and the associated animations involved thereof. Much later comes setting everything up in OBS to fix the shots and progression of the game. Much much later comes populating the CSV with the material I've written (and yet to write) to actually put everything together.

"If it's worth doing, it's worth doing poorly." -- the original poster was recounting something their college professor told them, and it's been the biggest motivator for wanting to get something like this going. yes, it's gonna be shit, i'm gonna make it anyway and learn to make it better next time.

"Nobody remembers that the wright brothers built the worst airplane ever flown."

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I never attribute to God what could easily be attributed to pareidolia.

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Go off, shit king.

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Fun fact I always love to mention every time I remember Tucker Carlson exists: there is a primetime game show that he hosted for CBS in 2007 called 'Do You Trust Me?' that was your typical early-ought, big-money bunkum after The Weakest Link hit the scene-- it had chrome, girders, vari-lights, snide condescension, the works.

It was also around the time when everybody and their cousins were doing prisoners dilemma bonus rounds because it fits with the snide condescension while also being a really handy way for producers to boast about the jackpot in promos while actually paying out a fraction of it, if at all.

There's a lot of reasons why a game show doesn't make it from pilot to air, and a lot of them come down to pure, dumb chance. But this wasn't a pilot that wasn't purchased, this was a series already pitched, paid for, and delivered.

Not having seen any of it (why would I? I wouldn't even watch that as a fucking goof), I would lay money on the idea that this was his first attempt in a television genre legally obligated to a higher ethical standard than he ever worked before and CBS, in seeing his performance, felt they would make more money from the venture by sealing the masters off in concrete, scrying sigils all over the sarcophagus, and renting it out as a source of dark mana.

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Seriously. Just kill your worthless self and stop wasting valuable oxygen needed for people trying to make ACTUAL change instead of whining on the internet about how no one supports you enough while you do NOTHING to make things better because you're too busy reblogging idiocy. You daft cunt.

Gee everybody I didn't realize "genocide is bad" was a fucking purity test, anonymous fucking coward. You sure showed me.

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"Right. Obviously, we made a wrong turn somewhere."

Texture issue is still an issue, which leads me to think something is busted in the UV itself. Given that Godot 4 doesn't have any way of editing the UV mesh "in-house," the most common suggestion for this was to open it in Blender and fix it that way. Which would be all well and good, but the version of blender (2.7.9) that will actually work for my computer (graphics-on-motherboard setup, it's a refurbished desktop) predates support .gLTF.

So now the back-up-and-punt play is to make three individual 3D mesh planes to size, and have them orbit the center. The thing I was trying to prevent it from doing when I first started this. I could try and maybe make the mesh in Blender first, but given the difficulty i'm having in one piece of creativity software, i don't think adding a another suite to my "let's learn this" pile right now would be the play here. Oh well, but that's how learning works I guess. I should have some better news on my next update.

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The Dems still control the legislature, but thank God they threw trans people and first responders under the fucking bus in order to make that happen.

If you still intend to support the party as they are right now you're missing the fucking point and deserve everything you have ever wished on a fucking MAGA chud because you are fucking indistinguishable from them, you stupid fucking douchebags.

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Another day, another scumbag Democrat blaming voters for the piece of shit nobody chose as their candidate. Y'all shoulda took the hint that she was garbage when she got fewer delegates than that racist piece of shit sociopath Pete Buttigieg, but I guess your plan was to just eliminate the pretense of democracy entirely in order to protect it from trump.

LiberalsAreCool is a piece of shit and I hope they get everything they have ever wished on a poor person.

The pattern of Trump bullshit is there.

Joe Biden and Democrats delivered an amazing economy, better than the world/G8, and were addressing housing, price gouging, gas prices, student debt, and expanding safety net policies.

In walks Trump and his misogynistic 'Kamala has no idea' bullshit, the media can't hold Trump to a standard, and here we are now with Trump so much less than Kamala with the White House.

An inferior conservative man is given so many advantages, it's our national disgrace.

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None of us are free until all of us are free. All of this shit is related.

so can we start hunting down white liberals now or what

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This is fucking freecell erasure and I won't stand for it!

for my fellow solitaireheads

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As far as I am concerned, every one of you fucking democratic party "allies" owe your queer friends an apology at the very least, if not the $600 brokedick Biden stiffed them on, but we know you ain't even got the fucking stones to admit how badly your team has fucked them because you pieces of shit are still blaming voters for not accepting your horseshit on just your word alone (which was already pretty fucking shitty to begin with, given how little you have promised and still under returned on that).

But the only apologizing you motherfuckers are capable of is for the IDF rape videos you got caught jacking off to, you sick fucks.

Reblog if you have a queer friend who could use $600 right now

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Properly cited shitposts are like the section of jazz musicians who do Coltrane changes over everything: it seems like an awful lot of effort for just memes, but goddamn if the world isn't a richer place for it all the same.

idk why but i feel like being a punk is for he/hims and doing ballet is for she/hers

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Imagine acting like a dude who consigned thousands to a prolonged and agonizing death from privation was unfairly treated when someone else made the arbitrary decision that they needed to end was unfairly killed.

The shooter quickly put two into the scumbag's back. If you were to ask me, the motherfucker got away with a lot softer end than what the Saw franchise would have me believe someone in deep sorrow over the unnecessary death of a loved one would execute.

If your paycheck depends on the deaths of others, you really don't get to fucking complain when somebody else decides to punch your ticket to glory.

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