The process of generating fractal animations is a long and arduous one.

251 frames out of 1081.

May God have mercy on my CPU.

RIP a real one.

You got thsi chief.

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Why are you doing that?

Because I get things like this: youtube.com/watch?v=Iu2k9Zruvlw

You know, I question my sanity sometimes. Especially when I can RP an entire convo between to characters using two different accounts.

You know, I question my sanity sometimes. Especially when I can RP an entire convo between to characters using two different accounts.

I have done that too many times, you are good my firend.

@Drake Baku

I'm confused. Is there a reason the monologue is between action symbols?

14 hours into the fractal render.

14 hours into the fractal render.

Is there no GPU acceleration?

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Is there no GPU acceleration?

No. It's a laptop. And this is a fractal program. It's CPU intensive not GPU intensive.

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No. It's a laptop. And this is a fractal program. It's CPU intensive not GPU intensive.

Seems like you could parallelize fractal generation, since a lot of fractal formulas are independent math problems, aren't they?

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Seems like you could parallelize fractal generation, since a lot of fractal formulas are independent math problems, aren't they?

Um no? Not in Mandelbulb3D. People set up animations on entire machine farms and some still take days to render.

@Drake Baku

I'm confused. Is there a reason the monologue is between action symbols?

That was a misunderstanding from my part on the writing style rules
It stated clearly about cursive talking and actions between *
But i dont remember having seen anything about monologue/ thinking in the 2 times i read the rules
As such when i began writing i thought i had to put it between ** as well to show it is not talking (while having forgotten to use cursive) haha
Sorry i shall fix it, i assume it should be without any indications?
Asking to be sure, i will change it now but if i mess up again i can change it again haha)

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That was a misunderstanding from my part on the writing style rules
It stated clearly about cursive talking and actions between *
But i dont remember having seen anything about monologue/ thinking in the 2 times i read the rules
As such when i began writing i thought i had to put it between ** as well to show it is not talking (while having forgotten to use cursive) haha
Sorry i shall fix it, i assume it should be without any indications?
Asking to be sure, i will change it now but if i mess up again i can change it again haha)

How it works is that there isn't thinking—none of us knows what each character really thinks about the situation. The action symbols indicate that an observable action is taking place, like *Jumps into the air*. Anything that isn't in action symbols is assumed to be spoken aloud, unless modified by them somehow, like *Mumbles*.

The animation be done.

@ZAVAZggg

Ah, nice.

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How it works is that there isn't thinking—none of us knows what each character really thinks about the situation. The action symbols indicate that an observable action is taking place, like *Jumps into the air*. Anything that isn't in action symbols is assumed to be spoken aloud, unless modified by them somehow, like *Mumbles*.

No monologue/ thinking
That will be taking some getting used too haha
Ok i shall edit it again and keep this in mind

You know its a nice surprise finding an rp like this on this forum and not noticing any, to put it nicely, "unfriendly" remarks

I remember few years ago how i planned something similar taking the rp style from the one i started with more then 16 years ago.
Got no interests and only insults

So yeah a different style, a more old school like system like this having started up and active for a long time really is a nice surprise ^^
And having no monologue is as far as i know unique for a forum system so it is very interesting and adds a bit of realistic challenge as well
Nice^^

(Edit: i am on my phone so please excuse any typos i may have missed as that i have no spelling check's either on this thing)

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No monologue/ thinking
That will be taking some getting used too haha
Ok i shall edit it again and keep this in mind

Yeah, it's pretty different, but it works for us =). Thanks for taking care of that!

You know its a nice surprise finding an rp like this on this forum and not noticing any, to put it nicely, "unfriendly" remarks

I remember few years ago how i planned something similar taking the rp style from the one i started with more then 16 years ago.
Got no interests and only insults

So yeah a different style, a more old school like system like this having started up and active for a long time really is a nice surprise ^^
And having no monologue is as far as i know unique for a forum system so it is very interesting and adds a bit of realistic challenge as well
Nice^^

(Edit: i am on my phone so please excuse any typos i may have missed as that i have no spelling check's either on this thing)

I hate to hear that they were unkind about it; some people have hard preferences and push back against stuff they're not used to. We started up on a non-RP site years ago, so this style really lent itself best to where we were. And because we really like that it focuses on interaction instead of description, we kept it.

It was a rather bad time for rping i guess

It was way to common that people end up joining an rp, see an interesting one and just vanish without saying a word causing a lot of rps to die
Annoying as that was it was also normal that
The gm posts a bit of plot, they just respond to the given info and add nothing, it was basically reacting in character to the gm's story

So when i came with my attempt to use one of the styles i started with, which had a focus on all parties adding to the story and being active
They started calling me lazy and more (but if you ask me, being unable to add to the story and jusy follow everything on a whim like that is lazy haha)

Its a pretry huge step down from how i started
The gm thinks of a arc inside a bigger world, set the start up, plays a minor role and tries to guide the story into the right direction
While at the same time each and every other player had their own agenda, plot wish and ended up adding way more chaos (sudden monster attack or the way we were supposed to enter as given by the gm, well one player came with the idea that a fuel tank got hit and the entire tunnel was exploding, having to run back and find a new way in)
It was always a challenge to get your own plot back in while working on the main story focus
But it was fun, everyone together made such a great story
Having everyone working together on one big story to be called lazy and bad GM...

It was a rather bad time for rping i guess

It was way to common that people end up joining an rp, see an interesting one and just vanish without saying a word causing a lot of rps to die
Annoying as that was it was also normal that
The gm posts a bit of plot, they just respond to the given info and add nothing, it was basically reacting in character to the gm's story

So when i came with my attempt to use one of the styles i started with, which had a focus on all parties adding to the story and being active
They started calling me lazy and more (but if you ask me, being unable to add to the story and jusy follow everything on a whim like that is lazy haha)

Its a pretry huge step down from how i started
The gm thinks of a arc inside a bigger world, set the start up, plays a minor role and tries to guide the story into the right direction
While at the same time each and every other player had their own agenda, plot wish and ended up adding way more chaos (sudden monster attack or the way we were supposed to enter as given by the gm, well one player came with the idea that a fuel tank got hit and the entire tunnel was exploding, having to run back and find a new way in)
It was always a challenge to get your own plot back in while working on the main story focus
But it was fun, everyone together made such a great story
Having everyone working together on one big story to be called lazy and bad GM...

Fortunately, here there's no actual GM, so the direction it takes is based on all of us respecting each others' ideas.

That sounds like Fandom and Discord RPs to me.