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How do I get started with game development? (Godot specifically)
  • Sorry (ok maybe not) but Godot uses an internal script that resembles Python, with optional .net bindings.

    The .net bindings are c# native.

    You could use f#, but if you're still learning the ropes that's setting yourself up to fail, since it'll limit the use of documentation and add a high hurdle to clear

  • Gaza authorities say 700 Palestinians killed in overnight strikes as Israel intensifies bombing campaign
  • Why the down vote? Average age in gaza is 19 (yes mean is not median but still). This means that you have a good chance that a large proportion of those killed were kids (and almost all weren't of voting age last time gaza had an election).

  • Autoroute Castres-Toulouse : 61 % des habitants du Tarn et de la Haute-Garonne seraient défavorables à l'A69 selon un sondage IFOP
  • Les differences semblent être que:

    Pour les pro-autoroutes, la récolte a été fait sur une période contenant 2 weekends et sur des zones desservies par la future autoroute, tandis que les anti-autoroute ont ratissé plus large (l'ensemble des 2 départements) et sur une période en semaine.

    On peut supposer que les pro ont récolté plus d'avis de personnes qui travaillent et qui vont bénéficier de l'artère de communication, alors que les anti ont pris principalement des non-actifs et des personnes non concernés directement.

    Conclusion?

    "Il y a trois sortes de mensonges: le mensonge ordinaire, le parjure et les statistiques."

    Chacun à fait un sondage en cherchant à obtenir la réponse qui soutiendrait son point de vue, et on n'est pas plus avancé.

    dilbert

  • Wear pink but don’t cry - "Men under 25 are less likely than their elders to feel comfortable hugging another man or weeping in front of them. What happened?"
  • For me this is the crux of the issue:

    To Galloway, neither the left nor the right — which can seem compelling to rudderless young men — are providing a genuine alternative. “The far right conflate masculinity with cruelty,” he says, referencing Tate and Vladimir Putin. “The far left thinks that men should, quite frankly, act more like women. Neither of those is productive.”

    Men, especially young men, today are stuck in a no man's land where they know that the toxicity of the past is not what's socially acceptable, but no one's giving them a model of what they can be. They are collateral damage of the culture wars.

    Andrew Tate (just writing that name feels dirty) and his clique are exploiting this to cultivate hate and toxicity, but the traditional feminist approach that "Men should get in touch with their feminine side" will leave them isolated socially from their peers and emotionally.

    The middle road will not be feminine and won't be the traditional masculine role that's still very present in culture, but will be a place where men can confidently own their vulnerability.

    Edit: spelling

  • ‘There Was Definitely a Thumb on the Scale to Get Boys’ - Declining male enrollment has led many colleges to adopt an unofficial policy: affirmative action for men.
  • Well no, but Title IX was only ever fair as a stop gap measure until various groups can get their footing anyhow (eg to counter act the issues that red-lining are still causing).

    If there's declining male enrollment, the solution is going to be to look earlier in the school system to work out why buys aren't getting as much as girls out of class and looking to fix it. IIRC, one idea was to have boys start school a year later to counter the developmental age gap.

    In any case, tipping the scales at the university level is only ever going to mask the problem. I understand the need, but by itself it's not going to work long term.

  • What is one show you wish wouldn't have gotten cancelled when it did?
  • Honestly? With the benefit of hindsight, I'm actually pleased it wasn't given the chance to become a Dollhouse.

    The movie gave closure, and we left the characters in a good place.

    Dollhouse gave us 5 seasons of content in one, and ruined itself in season 2, and many other shows have just run until everyone was sick of them, before getting an anticlimactic ending anyway.

  • Vulnerable young men, masculinity and extremism | The Strategist
  • The answer is in the article I think.

    These groups thrive in the void that is self help for men.

    The classic feminist discourse doesn't speak to men as it was designed by and for women to allow emancipation.

    The disconnect with classical feminism is best evocked by the trans community where trans men explain how surprised they were at the reality of being a man in today's world.

    There isn't much if anything around to help young men learn how to be a man in the 21st century, so they are inevitably drawn to the simple but toxic solutions people like Andrew Tate and Jordan Peterson provide.

    This void used to be filled with the pick-up artist community, so this issue isn't new.

    The obvious counter would be for feminist groups like ours to also provide non toxic solutions to the issues boys and men face so that they can go into the world.

    There is a way to be manly and tolerant and express your needs and wants healthily. We're learning it the hard way. We need to make it easier for the next generation. I'm saying this as a father of 3 boys.

    Pet peeve, but even the name feminism is going to be a hard sell when you're trying to explain to boys how to be men.

  • [DISCUSSION] Weekly Discussion Wednesday - "Boys and men have been told from birth on to believe that at some point they must be violent, to prove that they are men"
  • I see your point and I agree with it, but that is not at all what I read in the quote where the author dismisses the assertion that most men aren't violent by asserting that they are "programmed from birth" to be violent, and as such the fact that they haven't been is no reason to not treat them as if they had been.

    As for the expectation of violence in media, I'd say that the expectation is, today, far more gender neutral as we have violent and non violent protagonists of both genders in media. In some respects, the expectation is for men to show more restraint since inter-gender violence is not seen the same way depending on the gender of the aggressor (the fact that men are topically stronger obviously plays a role here).

    That said I agree with you that better role models are needed (we need more loving male protagonists and we need to see them triumph over situations where muscle fails). We also, as you shared in another post, need to do everything we can to get more men into services and care, as those men will be on the front lines to help give boys a more nuanced view on what it means to be a man.

  • Gender bias deters men from healthcare, early education, and domestic career fields, study suggests
  • 100% this. One of things I'm greatful for is that my son has a male teacher this year.

    It is really important to encourage diversity in what are currently female dominated areas. Doing so will not only help with the gender pay gap, but will also help vehicle a healthier masculinity as a role model for up and coming generations.

  • [DISCUSSION] Weekly Discussion Wednesday - "Boys and men have been told from birth on to believe that at some point they must be violent, to prove that they are men"
  • This is a textbook example of "Men as a threat" and stereotyping, and is why a lot of boys and men feel lost. You can't find your place in society if society rejects you as a threat.

    People are, once again, portraying boys and men as a broken by design and pile on the blame rather than helping them grow.

    Boys and men aren't monsters programmed to strike, and they will naturally resent being called such.

    You will also immediately lose them as a target audience, and shouldn't be surprised that you've pushed them into the arms of toxic influencers.

    It would be unthinkable to make such a sweeping statement about any other group today.

  • Thunder in Paradise

    Lots of fond memories catching this in France on a Saturday....

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