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by corysama 5y ago
Related: ArtBreeder has some features specifically for generating starter concept art for games https://www.artbreeder.com/i?k=f8ea23c50937080453a657514304
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by corysama 5y ago
I'll show you mine if you show me yours ;) https://www.reddit.com/r/bigsleep/comments/o3sefy/victorian_...
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by corysama 5y ago
I have been playing with this quite a lot over the past few weeks and posting my results on Reddit. https://www.reddit.com/user/corysama/submitted/?sort=new There is a small community on Reddit doing the sam
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by corysama 5y ago
The Switch is 90% an Nvidia Shield Tablet. One of the best Android tablets ever and it barely sold. Get Nintendo to market it and it sells at a rate matching 50% of the global tablet market every year.
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by corysama 5y ago
One thing the PS1 did have going for it was a MDEC jpeg decoder chip. Pretty much all of the FMV in PS1 games were MJPEG (a stream of independent jpegs). Between that and using the rasterizer to apply motion vectors and color interpolation
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by corysama 5y ago
I remember back around the time of the iPhone 1 seeing a “this is the future!” commercial featuring a lady using a tablet. She was making lots of vague gestures that didn’t correlate to anything on the screen and the tablet “just knew” to d
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by corysama 5y ago
We used PentiumPro PCs to run SPIM to write a VAX-subset emulator in MIPS asm. VMs all the way down :P
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by corysama 5y ago
Same. Only recently replaced my 6+ with a 12. I used my old phone constantly for 6 years. And, it was still pretty useable at the end. Amortized over that much time the new one is a reasonably cheap upgrade.
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by corysama 5y ago
Yep. I saw some article about "British naval vets share how they fall asleep anywhere instantly". TLDR: Body scan + mindfulness meditation. I'm sure being exhausted helps in their case too! Body scan: Lying still in bed,
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by corysama 5y ago
What happened in 1981 that bent and smoothed the curve?
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by corysama 5y ago
They are used widely in games. But, not so much elsewhere. Non-game-app designers get upset by the artifacts. I've shipped games using them for UI. We were hapy to tolerate the artifacts in exchange for the 8X memory usage & me
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by corysama 5y ago
Also, the Xbox Adaptive Controller deserves a lot of respect. https://www.xbox.com/en-US/accessories/controllers/xbox-adap... That’s not a token effort or a cash-in. The team behind it really gave a damn.
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by corysama 5y ago
If you haven’t been listening to their “On The Metal” podcast you are really missing out! https://oxide.computer/podcasts It’s all fun stories from people doing amazing things with computer hardware and low level software.
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by corysama 5y ago
Continuous LOD research dropped off dramatically when GPUs got vertex shaders. At that point, having the CPU touching the vertex data at all became more expensive than it could be worth. Instead, 3 or 4 static LODs have been the way to go.
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by corysama 5y ago
Yes, and: in return you get documented guarantees about how much time certain operations are allowed to take. As opposed to “We work hard to make it fast most of the time. But, no promises because sometimes stuff happens.”
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by corysama 5y ago
Which is funny because Lua got it’s 1-base from FORTRAN which, I believe, adopted it to make TRANslating math FORmulas easier.
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by corysama 5y ago
All great points as well. Thanks for putting all this together.
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by corysama 5y ago
> so we’re on the hook for handling things like computing finite-difference gradients for texture sampling, interpolating attributes, and computing barycentric coordinates (either via intrinsic/SV_Barycentrics or manually). > Wh
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by corysama 5y ago
Years ago I heard of experimental elementary/high school classrooms where students were expected to watch lecture videos at home and what would be “homework” would instead be the focus of the whole time in the classroom. Students were
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by corysama 5y ago
https://m.imgur.com/xA8LLRu Is a reference to both the many enthralling presentations Carmack has given and to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X68Mm_kYRjc
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by corysama 5y ago
An OLED TV. I work in computer graphics and the image quality of my TV makes me smile every day. HDR is a much bigger deal than 4K. The pure blacks of OLEDs make them hard to beat. Not only for the global contrast level. The pixel by pix
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by corysama 5y ago
From what little I know, they were mostly influenced by who showed up. A lot of Rusties participated.
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by corysama 5y ago
If you are interested in material like this, check out https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMakingOfGames/
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by corysama 5y ago
The IRS wants their cut of your profits. So, if you buy $10 US worth of euros, spend half of them, the dollar tanks, and you exchange the remaining half back for $6 US, then you profited by $1 US and the IRS wants part of that one dollar.
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by corysama 5y ago
People forget that Winamp was instant on a 60Mhz machine with a spinning rust drive. It’s difficult to buy a computer that slow these days. Modern CPUs modulate their speeds by far more than that as part of their moment by moment power man
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by corysama 5y ago
You might like https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/PDP1_MiSTer :)
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by corysama 6y ago
This looks pretty awesome. First thing I notice is that scrolling a tiny bit fills my browser back button history with one address per scroll tick? That rather rude.
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by corysama 6y ago
The MiSTer FPGA project is bringing FPGAs to the attention of a whole lot of techie hobbyists. I know it’s got me thinking about learning a bit.
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by corysama 6y ago
In my experience, people who downplay debuggers don’t have the option to use effective debuggers. Debugging C++ and especially C# in Visual Studio is wonderful. Debugging Java in Eclipse can be great. Meanwhile GDB and most other language
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by corysama 6y ago
This is the classic chicken-egg problem inherent in starting up a new game platform. Why invest in your game's controller experience and compromise the touch experience when billions of players have touch and a negligible amount have

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