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This is just a temporary description until I get the motivation to write a better one.

@foone for some reason my brain went to "gender but as in cable connector" which I can't stop thinking about now and so I guess feet are the male connector and shoes are the female. Is a mannequin foot actually just a "male shoe"? Are socks just a very short cable connecting your foot to the shoe?

@foone the main thing that comes to mind is doing this as a keyframe animation or something similar. With each person's location charted with at what times they leave a room and at what times they arrive at the next so you can either do a pre-determined path between the two rooms or just interpolate between them.

I could imagine doing this in Unreal Engine and setting it up so that each "person" is an object on a separate timeline within the animation with a sync to a media playback component. Just rigging the thing up as one big "animation" so it can evenly match up to the video's current time and you could jump around without causing any issue (just make it so forced updates to the playback time simultaneously set the animation's current time)

But that's obviously a bit overkill, unfortunately I really don't know any software that would be better suited to something like this. I think the concept of making a list of "keyframes" for each person's position is probably the right way to go at least.

@futurebird because their lead designer got tricked by a "charge your phone using a microwave" video and decided to make it real.

@foone adding "Open Save Directory" and "Open Default ROM/ISO/etc Directory" to that list of demands too.

I hate having to dig through settings to find where it saves things, and sometimes they don't even bother listing so they just expect you to know that "Documents/[appname]" or "Pictures/Captures" or whatever is where it dumps everything.

@Natasha_Jay this is almost exactly a joke from an SMBC comic too. Life imitating art I suppose
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/lesson
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Lesson

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Lesson

@nixCraft
"Can you explain this gap in your resume?"
"Oh yeah, you know that billionaire that did the Nazi salute on stage and hung out with Epstein? There was that bit of time where he got put in charge of the government and fired my entire team (and hundreds/thousands of others)"

@malwaretech That's degrading to toasters, they're consistent and often reliable.

It's more like a couple Magic 8 Balls in a tumble dryer.

@roxy
Could you at least list some advice?
The C fandom: "We don't do Lists here"
@foone I've used one of those for a while and it's weird that it still *works* with the bindings being so strange. I never would've guessed it was that jank under the hood lol
@soatok I thought you were only technical if you had a mounted machine gun installed in the back of a pickup truck