u/Didsterchap11

As a music dweeb I've horded a ton of music and have wanted to try setting up a bot to effectively be the radio station of my lil community. I tried Sinusbot as it seemingly does exactly what i wanted to, but was not able to get it to work, I'm told by the discord that it's an issue with discord encryption.

I'm basically after anything that will do what sinusbot does but actually functioning with discord.

As the title states, i kinda wish we had a way to measure distance in game for the sake of judging AOE bonuses and range increases. I'm someone for whom measuring by eye is pretty difficult, and with distance not easily conveyed in blocks i've always found it harder to judge how much ground abilities cover.

Also as someone who likes to make pretty little symmetrical patterns of my units, having a ruler will absolutely appease my autistic urge to make patterns out of my units lol.

I've seen a lot of buzz with the new edition citing that supposedly things will be locked down to fixed loadouts, but I seem to be missing exactly where this was stated. I'm not trying to instigate any kind of argument here, but i'm trying to pin down exactly what we do and do not know about this new edition. I can get how people are making the assumption, and supposedly the rumour mill is pointing to making the game more like kill team, but right now im being cautious and not trusting anything that does not come from GW's mouth.

Afformentioned post here, I recently got my hands on an Original Necromunda terrain set but the poor thing is feeling pretty rickety. What i was hoping someone in this community could help me with is if they could point me to some modern alternatives to use, As much as i adore the card I dont wanna take my chances damaging it given the box predates me by about 5 years lol.

Any and all help would be immensly apprecaited!

With mixtape coming out and the buzz of supposed controversy around it i've been lamenting the way games get discussed and how IMO a lot of people seem to fundamentally miss what exactly a critic's role is in media.

I have no attachment to mixtape, from what i've seen it seems like a solid interactive experience, but its kinda the first example to mind of this particular outrage cycle that seems to have formed around gaming news media. When something that goes against the grain of the "standard" notion of a video game and gets decent reviews you see people wriggling out of the woodwork consistently that seem to think positive opinions have been bought and/or that the review isnt "objective" because it doesn't meet their expectations.

And i know the short answer to a degree is that a lot of this ire is a mix of gamergate priming people to see game journalists are the devil, and the genuinely sleazy practices a lot of outlets use like running adverts for games they're actively reviewing. That latter part is a far bigger reason than the former of why a lot of major outlets suck but people are hesitant to ever really acknowledge that because instead the kind of channels that perpetuate this kind of gatekeepy stance instead would rather continue their performative rage because pretending to be angry at games you haven't played can pay your mortgage if you do it right.

But the thing at the heart of this that bothers me is the notion that a critic must be an objective reflection of quality who must reflect my opinion. Obviously this is kinda ridiculous, games are art and like all art, the experience of playing one is a subjective and often deeply personal thing and a review can only capture what a single person experiences from it. With this position stated you see why i brush up against the notion of objectivity in art so profoundly frustrating in how its utilised to dismiss experiences people don't engage with, and by the same notion treat review numbers as objective arbiters of quality and not just a reflection of common consensus.

To me the relation you should have to a critic is that they are someone for whom you make an assessment of your enjoyment of a bit of media based on what they say about it in relation to your tastes. To can see why going to the most common denominator and being upset that it doesn't reflect your personal experience is foolish, it expects the most generic version of a take on something to bend to your specific opinions.

Yo, i posted a couple days ago about wanting to dip my toes into photogrammetry and after the responses i got i began to try to set up realityscan on my PC and run it there. the immedate issue I've hit is that it refuses to calculate the model on account of not having an NVIDIA GPU, citing CUDA drivers as the issue. If there's no way around that what alternatives would people suggest using? I cant exactly afford a new GPU on account of being a student, so my options are limited.

my hardware is as follows:

Ryzen 7 2700X CPU

AMD Radeon RX 7600 8gb

32gb DDR4 memory.