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Clockwork Gate

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it’s been a year since you became one with the stars, but you’ll always be in our hearts forever.

carrie frances fisher october 21, 1956 – december 27, 2016
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       ❛ I trust myself. I trust my instincts. I know what I’m gonna do, what I can do, what I can’t do. I’ve been through a lot, and I could go through more, but I hope I don’t have to. But if I did, I’d be able to do it. I’m not going to enjoy dying, but there’s not much prep for that.
                                                              carrie fisher                                  october 21, 1956 – december 27, 2016
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Compiling Unreal Engine 4.18 with Nvidia’s Waveworks

I figured I’d try my hand at making a fairly simple exploration game. [There’s no such thing.]

I decided on Unreal Engine for my platform. The concept is an island in the middle of an ocean. So I made an island.

That left me short an ocean. I did some research and found the best option for my tastes is Nvidia’s Waveworks. It’s GPU-agnostic, so it can run on an AMD video card, which is really cool. There are other options you may be happy with, including OceanProject, which is a free community project. There are also some options you can buy in the Unreal Engine Marketplace.

I’m a complete and total noob when it comes to programming. I have absolutely no experience. I’m writing this for other complete and total noobs who are starting this process like I did.

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I haven’t been at all active here. I also haven’t done anything remotely creative in ages. But recently, I’ve been trying to learn something new:

To get to this point, I used these programs:

eOn Vue

World Machine

Quadspinner’s Geoglyph

Photoshop

Unreal Engine

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“It’s no secret that some humans are homosexual, but did you know that the behavior is also very common in the animal kingdom? In fact, studies suggest that around 1,500 animal species are known to practice regular same-sex coupling - from insects and fish to birds and mammals - with the actual number likely being even higher.

“Being homosexual is very common and no problem in the natural world at all. In fact, we see more heterophobia than homophobia in the animal kingdom,” Jasper Buikx, biologist at Amsterdam’s ARTIS Zoo, told DW in an interview.

There are many reasons why these animals engage in homosexual activity. Sometimes, it’s due to a lack of heterosexual partners, other times it’s just for pleasure and in still other cases it’s about forming social bonds or settling fights.

Most of these animals aren’t purely homosexual - they  also mate with the opposite gender, at least for procreation purposes. But there are a few examples of long-term exclusively gay relationships in the animal kingdom, with some of them even ending up forming a family.

Read the full piece here

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You may have seen these fliers going around on social media and just to be safe I’m warning you all that this is false. It was posted maliciously on reddit and spread around to get undocumented immigrants to disclose their documentation status. Likely thinking that some would get reported on or whatever intentions that were had here. It’s spread so much that Starbucks even sent out memos to all their stores about this rumor. Spread the information that it is FALSE.

Just an update but they people who started this went to Twitter to impersonate Latinx people to spread the information, posted it in Spanish as well, and some pretended to be managers at certain Starbucks locations stating that they will still be honoring the “promotion.” So if you see a “ Starbucks manager” saying something like this over Twitter then they are most definitely fake and trying to lure people to that particular location.

The intention (which originated on 4chan, not Reddit like I initially said) was to hurt a liberal business.

“How about we meme “Undocumented Immigrant Day” at Starbucks into existence? Announce free coffee for all illegals on a certain date. August 11? 11 looks like II (for Illegal Immigrant). I’m open to suggestions there. Name a liberal place for all illegals to go at once and demand free stuff.”

Quickly other people on the /pol/ board saw this as an opportunity to call I.C.E. and they are clearly still trying to get people to go to certain locations with that intention. There’s a reason why certain people on 4chan are trying to lure undocumented immigrants to particular locations so be wary & spread this info!

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Uncredited Photographer     Jewish Partisans Near Pinsk, Belorussia, USSR     c.1944

The girl in the leopard print

That’s Faye Schulman! She’s known for her work photographing the Jewish resistance movement in eastern Europe - and, of course, her fabulous coat. As of July ‘17, she’s still alive! Check these out:

Bloody iconic, mate.

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This is the greatest progression of events I have ever read, where’s my historical gay romance novel about this

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ariaste

KING JAMES, CAN YOU CHILL?

Local King Cannot Stop Promoting His Boyfriend

where’s the lush period drama about this series of events?

fun thing about king James, this guy was fairly public about his bf (more public than what was acceptable). He threw lots of extravagant parties with his man on his arm. It pissed off the church obviously so to get them off his back, he’s the one that ordered the third translation of the Bible from Hebrew to English (the King James Version aka the Authorized Version) so the Bible every hot blooded all American Christian reads today was literally just written so a very gay king could fuck his boyfriend in peace.

oh my god this is hilarious

“guys, guys. I know this looks kinda gay, and i promise i have a good explanation for all this, but have you considered… that jesus… is also gay? checkmate, heteros.”

LOL the rumor that james was gay was hotly denied by the kjv crowd.

i wonder if the lord led him to promote his bf too

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it occasionally occurs to me that pretty much all sj issues can be summed up as “don’t hurt people” with a sidenote of “you can hurt people on accident, but they’re still hurt so apologize and learn from it”

basically at the core of it, it’s similar to “if you bump into a stranger, apologize and try not to do it again”. And people not only debate it, but some go out of their way to bump into strangers and scream “Awww are you hurt?! are you crying!! did I upset you!!” as a weird hobby

also true of like 90% of what gets called “political correctness”

there is a difference between language that sugarcoats and language that is specifically designed to not hurt groups of people who are targeted all the time

knowingly using words that hurt them isn’t edgy, it’s mean