I do trail running primarily these days so my actual distance I’ll just pull from the trail map.

If you do roads you can actually just drive the route in a car once, and use the trip function. You can also plan a route with a map or map app.

But the other, easiest thing to do would be to actually switch training paradigms from distance to time. Right so instead of running a 12k, or hitting 50km per week, you could say “On this training day I want to run at a tough but manageable pace for an hour, and I want to train 6 hours a week in general”

From there you just mix in some track days (or days you run any familiar route with a known distance) to get an idea of how far you might be running in those intervals of time, if you feel like you really need to.

You have to remember portable gps tech is an extremely recent thing compared to how long runners have been training. I’m not against progress for progress’s sake mind you but I just genuinely don’t believe the introduction of these apps and trackers, with their many flaws, has improved the quality of people’s training. The old ways also cost nothing and have no privacy or security risks which is a bonus for many people

Seriously, this. The things are genuinely useless. They can’t even measure your heart rate correctly (seriously look it up. They use algorithms to “estimate” your heart rate. Different brands give different results. People wear elaborate chest strap setups to try and get an accurate value and even then it’s subject to a huge margin of error).

Get a $10 dumbwatch with a stopwatch function. Run or cycle a familiar route once in a while to track your progress. Find different ways to challenge yourself. Do some runs all out. Hill sprints. Do some longer runs a bit slower than you would think, so that even if your breathing is a little heavier you could still hold a conversation with someone while maintaining that pace.

Ignore all the senselessly overcomplicated 5 stage heartrate zone V02max aerobic astrology bull that these companies advertise to you as a big benefit of their product. Having a 3d map of your route is not going to make you a better runner. Having a virtual leaderboard where 99% of people you compete against are using a wonky cellphone gps that teleports them 1000ft off course isn’t going to make you a better runner

Sounds like the Fire Emblem games would be perfect for this!

After all this time friend, you still have me confused with someone that cares about your interpretation of events?

Congratulations on proclaiming yourself the victor of whatever this was! It’s quite fitting that in the end you have decided not just to put words in my mouth, but indeed have chosen to decide the opinion of all future readers as well

I don’t want to make a strawman

You seem quite compelled nevertheless! Sheesh. You wrote quite a lot of nonsense after being repeatedly warned that I’m not interested.

You can scroll up and read your own comments

Sure can! As can anyone else. It makes your ludicrous sensationalist gaslighting totally transparent

My own personal experience is corporate propoganda?

I don’t know you. Wouldn’t be that surprising. You think they make propaganda just for laughs? It’s worth considering the dangers inherent to your process, friend.

These are genuine questions

Lmao

Gen Ai is the same

It’s not lol. It’s amazing how many people will argue for AI by listing the merits of actual creative tools, then just try to package AI in there as well.

I believe the massive VC bait marketing push is to blame for this. It’s been fun in real life learning who is and isn’t hooked into the corporate propaganda IV.

I’m not perverting any argument

You continue to pervert in fact, by saying random things and talking to me as if I said them. Like I said, don’t care, go nuts.

There’s a balance for sure, again tho I would caution against “knowing” things about your work beforehand. I consider that to be a trap. Skyboxes in particular you can do amazing stylish things very quickly by blowing up unexpected textures and adding a few grounding elements, but we don’t need to drill too deeply into any particular element. Doors don’t open for you if you never try the handle

Yeah similar to above my friend, you are simply incorrectly framing the issue rather than exploring reality as it is.

You are merely saying the words “you will either use GenAI or your project will fail, there is NO WAY to economically address any of the problems that crop up during game dev without using it”. This betrays fundamental misunderstanding of what creativity is

It is also ahistorical. What you and seemingly all proponents of the technology seem to forget is the meteoric success of the industry and indie games in particular prior to the AI nonsense.

Finally, I am not even slightly interested in addressing your ridiculous perversions of my previous points. Anyone can easily understand what I’m saying and it’s very telling that you feel the need to misrepresent me so extremely. You may continue arguing with yourself if you wish, I trust that any reader worth reaching will easily be able to distinguish between my words and the strawmen you are compelled to present

Ridiculous and obvious mischaracterization of the point. I’m not gonna waste my time arguing with the random ideas you invent

How do you mean no? Is there some further statement you feel you have left unsaid? This is a public website my friend, please feel welcome to express yourself

What’s settled here?

You and me!

You sound confident in your assessment of the facts, yes? I am equally confident that any reader will easily be able discern what your assessment is worth.

In this manner, we have reached the end of our discussion, yes? We are thusly settled?

You’re welcome! It’s very easy to “dox” someone who uses random non english words, just so you know

Anyway, your easily disprovable misinformation has been presented. Congratulations. Are we just about settled here, then?

Median engineer’s income in your country is 58k. Lots of information available for you for free on google

You can’t “discuss” with someone who baldly asserts that musicians need to be making nearly double an average engineer’s salary in order to barely achieve comfort. You’re absolutely trolling if you expect someone to engage with that

Your assertions carry nothing

I’m very glad that people found ways to make games that got beyond telling stories with colored rectangles

You and I both are limited in what we are capable of appreciating. The limiting factor is our taste. My hope for everyone is that we always continue to see the value in developing our taste, because the art we engage with affects who we become

Artists need to make a stable hundred and twenty thousand euros a year to be viable?

But my apologies, my framing of this idea was underdeveloped. You as a listener are not supporting every artist you listen to via like patreon or something.

Essentially, from the perspective of the band itself, you just need to reach a critical mass of fans that will buy your albums, come to your shows, want to pick up a t shirt, etc. And that number is much lower than you would think. Not for becoming a millionaire with a mansion mind you, but to make your project self sustaining

that can result in a very different scope of game.

That’s exactly the point. Sometimes you shouldn’t even try to do certain things. The 15 minutes you spend shimming your AI assets into the game are ironically stealing your time from the 15 minutes of thoughtful consideration that would have resulted in a manageable project. Again my friend; your first thought for the project is not the point when you have finished the important thinking for your project.

Anyway we can keep going back and forth about your narrative framing of the technology all day, but you say you don’t really care, so why try to justify anything beyond that? If the devs don’t care about the phenomena I’m describing, and neither do their players, then of course it’s a match made in heaven. Please feel free to enjoy your pastimes without any concern for these conversations. People who think like me will occasionally meet you with scrutiny (we obviously think you should care very deeply about the art you choose to fill your life with) but I suspect in time our groups will naturally just see less and less of each other

A beautiful post, thank you. There’s a lot in here that I could further clarify my positions on but I don’t disagree with you.

My hope is that enough people will emphatically reject it in order to keep things alive. A band doesn’t need ten million listeners to thrive, even 1,000 people who buy your albums and come to your shows can keep you moving. It may be that we become a counterculture of a bunch of artists who support each other.

But I do also have confidence that human ingenuity will always be more powerful than the slop that literally anyone can churn out on their phone in two seconds. So the scene may change but I think there will always be a somewhat large market for when people want more than just inoffensive elevator music