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I’m a huge fan of Doom Eternal. It really proved what movement shooters are capable of.

Haven’t played Dark Ages yet, and I’m not super eager to play it.

I expected Dark Ages to be a middle ground of 2016 and Eternal, but it seems like they’re straying away from movement shooters with the ”stand and fight” tagline. That’s disappointing, because I feel like there’s so much more to explore with movement shooters. Just look at Ultrakill for example.

I will wait it out a bit. It still seems like a fun game. Next on my play list is Expedition 33.

One thing many forget about critical thinking is to also be critical of your own thoughts as well. Too many people think it’s only about attacking other people’s opinion.

Don’t forget about the access to free workforce in slave camps.

Ads will be hijacked into any media content through AI. Watching a video essay on YouTube? Ha! YouTube will seamlessly hijack 1 minute of this video and now your favorite essayist will talk about how great Dunkin Donuts is. All without their consent.

Internet will be truly dead. Nothing is authentic anymore. Everything will be AI slop. If it isn’t AI slop, then it will be injected with AI slop ad reads sooner or later. Some ads will be injected by the service provider. Others will be injected by the web browser. Maybe some even by the operating system itself. Even comments like this one can turn into an AI slop ad read. It reminds me of the unbeatable experience I had the other day in Dunkin Donuts. I don’t know what it is, but something makes Dunkin Donuts that much better. Does anyone know what it can be? IMO, everybody deserves to treat themselves with a little Dunkin in their lives. So good!

I was stubborn and refused to look up guides on how to solve it. I finally managed to solve it by applying some permutation math I learned in university.

Just some default wallpaper. I have never really cared about the wallpaper. I just pick anything that doesn’t distract.

I suppose it tells I’m a boring person.

”Hello fellow kids” vibes

Toilet paper shortage in stores was a global phenomenon. It’s seems like during times of crisis, people buy toilet paper. The grocery stores just weren’t prepared for everybody to buy toilet paper at the same time. They couldn’t keep up with the restocking.

There was no real shortage in toilet paper in terms of production.

Sweden. I pay 150 SEK (~16 USD) for 8GB/month.

Unused data is transferred over to the next month, so running out of data has never been a problem for me.

Then there’s the Mega Drive game Alien Soldier that comes with two difficulties: ”Super Easy” and ”Super Hard”. The ”Super Easy” difficulty is actually quite difficult.

Most of that cost was unlikely for the hardware itself, but rather Nintendo greed. Most of it was probably for the early access to Nintendo’s next console and possibly support from Nintendo directly.

Interesting paper. I skimmed through it quickly, but it seems like they wanted to avoid relying on ray tracing.

Minimal ray tracing. Many non-local lighting effects can be approximated with texture maps. Few objects in natural scenes would seem to require ray tracing. Accordingly, we consider it more important to optimize the architecture for complex geometries and large models than for the non-local lighting effects accounted for by ray tracing or radiosity.

Most of the paper is way above my understanding, so I’m not qualified.

They used top of the line hardware specialized for 3D rendering. Seems like they used Silicon Graphics workstations, which costed more than $10k back in the day. Not something the typical consumer would buy. The calculations are probably a bit off with this taken into account.

Then they likely relied on rendering techniques optimized for the hardware they had. I suspect modern GPUs aren’t exactly compatible with these old rendering pipelines.

So multiply with 10ish and I think we have a more accurate number.

Did Toy Story use ray tracing back then?

AFAIK, A Bug’s Life is the first Pixar movie that used ray tracing to some extent, and that was for a few reflections. Monster’s University is the first Pixar movie that was fully ray traced.

I think the big problem is when companies apply for patents but never utilize them. In my ideal world, patents should quickly expire and opened to the public if they aren’t being used. Like, what’s the point of protecting your idea if you have no intention to use it anytime soon?

That could deal with the patent troll problem as well.

I agree.

Here’s what this agreement taught me about b2b sales:

Truly the art of the deal

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China has everything to gain from a weakened America. These tariffs will hurt China short term. Long term it’s America that will be hurt the most.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake