u/mankrip

▲ 127 r/aliens

This is not Disclosure. This is Acclimation.

Many people are feeling let down by the first two releases of the PURSUE initiative, because they were expecting clear-cut full Disclosure. Others are seeing those releases as a positive thing.

Let me tell you, both sides are correct. Those releases are not Disclosure, not yet. However, it's the first time that the Executive branch is actively engaging in UAP transparency without dismissal or stigma.

It's clear that many people in the US government thinks the public isn't ready for Disclosure yet. The purpose of these releases is to guide the emotional reaction of the public. This is why no undeniable proof is being shown yet.

Up until now, the stigma made people outright dismiss any UAP information. Also, there are way too many people who would never believe anything Trump says. This is why the Executive branch decided to use a "let the public decide" approach: it's the only way to make it impossible for the public to outright dismiss these releases, because there's no concrete allegation to dismiss.

Having broken the barrier of outright dismissal, they're capturing the curiosity of the public. And with the public becoming curious, the public is starting to actively seek for more information on their own pace. Over time, this will allow the public to not be surprised by further official releases anymore, because the public will have already figured most of it out by themselves.

And THIS is when Disclosure will actually happen: When the public at large will not be surprised by it anymore. Nobody will be shocked by it, nobody will panic, nobody will change their day to day lives, and nobody will overwhelm the government and the financial markets.

Actual UAP & NHI Disclosure will happen when it's a self-evident "meh, whatever" event. And this is not a bad thing, as long as the government keep positively engaged in it.

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u/mankrip — 5 hours ago

Veins of Iron, a new FPS in development for the Super Nintendo

From the author ( veinsofiron on X ):

A brand-new horror experience for the Super Nintendo.

Built from scratch in C and 65816 assembly.

Running on real hardware.

Powered by a custom cartridge.

Designed the hard way… the way it used to be.

Kickstarter campaign with another video and a lot more info: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/modevii/veins-of-iron/

The newest video on the Kickstarter page shows textured floors and ceilings, a first for a SNES FPS.

u/mankrip — 16 days ago
▲ 21 r/quake

Is for the Strogg to look more robotic, instead of guys in armor.

Quake 4 tried to look more "modern" by eliminating the blocky parts of the enemies, but it were those blocky parts that gave them a silhouette that's instantly recognizable as non-organic.

There are exceptions, of course.

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u/mankrip — 16 days ago

I have yet to find an image generator where I can upload my own image, ask it to make the image tileable, and get correct results where I can use the resulting image as a seamless repeating texture in a 3D surface.

This shows that the companies developing genAI tools have ZERO knowledge of the actual needs of game developers. Sure, I can get some nifty results, but getting those results to be actually useful in a game still requires a massive amount of tedious work that the AI should have taken care of.

It's even worse for videos, because not only all the genAI tools I tried can't generate tileable videos, they also can't make the videos loop seamlessly from the last frame to the first.

Does anyone know a tool that actually works, or is the situation really this bad?

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u/mankrip — 23 days ago
▲ 269 r/AliensRHere+1 crossposts

Someone decided to make a massive bid on Disclosure this morning. Shortly after, it was counter-bid back to the previous value, but this movement is still suspicious.

Meanwhile, the Disclosure-themed coin I'm tracking keeps rising steadily for over a month and a half, surpassing the previous local high of February and showing more strength than the overall market.

These are very good signs of market confidence in Disclosure happening this year.

u/mankrip — 24 days ago