I don't know who need to read this, but:
If you think a mobility aid can help you: take one.
No need to "But am I legitimate" "Other people have it worse" etc.
If you want to try one: try one (depending of possibilities, I know it's not that simple)
If you tried one and like it: take one. (again, depending possibilities blablabla)

Don't let anyone gatekeep you from a mobility aid

@wyatt this is so fucking cool. I’m guessing this wasn’t a common feature on laserdisc players, right? this is kind of a special feature on just the fancier ones?

Behold the Laserdisc player rotating head mechanism (I believe this was a pioneer patent but I don't know for sure)
Honestly I'd rather have two laser pickups, one per side, so that if one fails I can just flip discs and keep using the damn thing, but i'm sure that was expensive.

@salad_bar_breath I feel this so much. if I die and find out that heaven and hell exist then I’m going to spend eternity fighting to burn them both to the ground, guillotine God and his angels, and build something free and beautiful on the ruins of his palace of lies

Discord is getting absolutely fucking desperate for money. if Signal could stream desktop audio I would honestly relish the chance to watch their company burn to the ground while everyone (hopefully) moved to E2EE FOSS alternatives

as it is though, unfortunately I do still need that one feature of Discord so uhh… I’m stuck on this sinking ship :/

here’s a letter written in {what I assume is ancient Greek?} on papyrus from around 300 BCE. interestingly, the letters are joined. this shows that:

• the concept of cursive (or proto-cursive or whatever this is) existed at the time
• they had the technology to write on paper (or papyrus, anyway. that’s basically paper)

so what I suspect at this point is that the Latin alphabet probably always had two writing systems: cursive for quill-and-paper, and print for wax tablets, stone, clay, etc.

they had to adapt their writing system to two separate uses, which is why cursive was invented (not necessarily by the ancient Romans or Greeks). but then of course we invented much better writing tools like ball-point pens and cursive became pointless because there is no longer any compelling reason to prefer it over print, and it’s demonstrably much less readable. so it’s almost anachronistic at this point

okay yes so:

The origins of the cursive method are associated with the practical advantages of writing speed and infrequent pen-lifting to accommodate the limitations of the quill. Quills are fragile, easily broken, and will spatter unless used properly. They also run out of ink faster than most contemporary writing utensils. Steel dip pens followed quills; they were sturdier, but still had some limitations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cursive#Origin

but now the question is: did the ancient Romans (who, as far as I know, created the Latin script in the first place) write on paper/papyrus/etc. using {something like a quill}? I already found something saying that Romans didn’t write using cursive until the middle ages, but I’m curious if:

• the Romans just didn’t have the technology to write on paper with a quill, so there was no pressure to adapt their writing system to that task
• the Romans did have quills and paper, but chose to write in print anyway. either because they valued clarity that much, or because writing in that was was rare enough that there was no reason for them to invent a whole new writing system for the task

okay wait no I was right! the Latin alphabet started as only uppercase letters and cursive seems to have come much later

I wonder if printing is only possible today because we have ball point pens to write with. I wonder if whatever writing implement (quills?) cursive was originally developed for, makes printing very very impractical or impossible

okay so it occurs to me that I’m not sure whether print came before cursive of vice-versa. I had it in my head that print came first because the Latin alphabet was originally designed for carving into things like stone tablets of soft clay, but now I’m not entirely sure. I’m looking it up but haven’t found any results about the origins of print vs. cursive yet

I find the concept of cursive writing kinda funny. like who looked at print handwriting and thought “I wish this was easier to write but nearly impossible to read”?

GDC 2014: "Lighting Skylanders SWAP Force" by Sean Murphy of Vicarious Visions, Inc. https://gdcvault.com/play/1020341/Lighting-Skylanders-SWAP

I actually thought this was really interesting. This is given by a lighting artist, discussing the switch to physically-based rendering for a cartoony-game like Skylanders.

The first interesting thing was the way they discussed PBR wasn't about performance or BRDFs or the way it's usually discussed among programmers; instead, they said it was entirely for "consistency."

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@Shivaekul omg I was in this exact situation with my own project - although thankfully I didn’t need a database. infrastructure and hardware are honestly just the worst T_T I’d love to hear about your project though if you feel like sharing! but no pressure

@Shivaekul that is such a fucking mood omg. is this for work or something else?

@rowan that’s amazing! did they fix the progression problems where after a certain point you just hit a brick wall?

@rowan ooh what did they add?