kano
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It's not that we enjoy picking on AMD, it's just that this particular config is gonna end up in lots of cost-sensitive computer builds where anything short of $300 for a graphics card and you might as well just insert a graham cracker into the PCIe slot.
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The trouble with excessive TDP though is if you want to build a small form factor/ITX computer for travel, you are limited in the size of cooler and airflow.
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re: shadow maps and the awesome new volumetrics. Anyone else noticed that the sky is not affected by them? E.g. stand under a volumetric and look up at the sky. You can see it clear as day. Engine limitation?
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Did I mention how absolutely grateful I am that TDM didn't get (and can never be) assimilated by a huge company like Microsoft, as is what happened to Minecraft?
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Yes, I too like that The Dark Mod is not crappy, overpriced bug-ridden gruel.
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Somewhat unrealated, but I told some woman about trying modding in TDM and then she sad that sounded what her doughter was doing in Minecraft. Ugh, this is when you remember not to talk to people about this outside the intrest-range.
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That's the major advantage of FOSS of course: all the money in the world cannot take over the project (since it can just be forked for continued community development). Although for some reason FOSS games seem to be extremely rare apart from arcade stuff like Frozen Bubble.
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Pulling twice as many watts to barely beat the 5950x in Blender is hilarious. But that being said, we do seriously owe Intel a massive thank you for bringing down the price of Zen 3 and specifically the 5950x by overtaking it in the gaming space with a slightly more significant amount, gaming tending to dictate pricing for consumer products.
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Personally I would really love to see the materials updated so that grates and things which are made up of a transparent texture can cast checkered shadows onto the walls, rather than blocking all light as if they are solid. I could swear I've seen this feature in one mission or two. If I understand correctly shadow maps are required to allow this, and also of course one must be careful to not break missions by making there be light where there shouldn't be, etc. It is probably best left up to the FM authors to decide to enable this feature, rather than making it default on already-released missions. I imagine a tickbox or something that says "allow transparency for shadows" when a mapper adds a great to their mission. PS: I love the new volumetric shadows (also exclusive to shadow maps), they look really awesome. I'm just thinking of other ways to milk shadow maps for all they can do.
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(fixed) Strange mouse warping issue on TDM 2.10 with Linux...
kano replied to kano's topic in TDM Tech Support
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Greetings. First I would like to say a huge thanks for the continued support of this game and for TDM 2.10, it loads much MUCh faster now. However on Debian Linux I have an issue where the mouse occasionally just warps. It happens both in the game and in the menus, though obviously when it happens in the game it is quite disorienting. Anyone else experience this? I never saw it in 2.09... EDIT: Seems to have gone away when I switched window managers.
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Never imagined that sprites casting shadows would work so well. EDIT: Better video.
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https://www.flatpanelshd.com/news.php?subaction=showfull&id=1648829114 If somebody told you this was going to eventually happen back in 1990, you would have laughed at them and called them crazy, and, here we are!
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Actually sad that I missed out on and never played this game back in the day.
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How come (most of) the sounds on this machine are quite good, when it only has 4MB of samples, compared to a 4MB soundfont on the PC, which generally sounds like crap?
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It's a slide-show. lol
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More people seem to be catching on to the mantra of "You will own nothing and be happy." I see it popping up more and more around the Internet. Big business will own everything forever, and people will merely rent it. PS: If I ever had to fight in a war and I lasted long enough to attain the rank of General, I would go by "General Jackass". It has a nice ring to it.
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https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/europe/7-russian-generals-dead-one-of-them-run-over-by-own-men/articleshow/90466929.cms Holy crap... Reminds me of Goldeneye 007, running enemies over on the tank levels made such a great sound. I can't imagine how nerve-wracking and disturbing it would be, to be out there on a battlefield with a bunch of guys who really don't want to be there, and might decide to run their own commanding officer over on a whim. I mean the concept of fighting in a war is already disturbing enough, but when you know that even your own side isn't actually on your side, it would be way more frightening.
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Glad to hear that, because I've a feeling that if Russia successfully takes Ukraine, they won't stop there.
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This game with ray-tracing would be cool. I rather like the artwork.
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I really love this song because of the atmosphere. The melody and beat are somewhat simple, but there is a lot going on in the background. Best listened to with headphones on.
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The person who did this could, and should, be prosecuted by authorities in the country they reside in. If it doesn't happen, then others will get the idea that this sort of thing is okay. Logic bombs are not cool.
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Holy hell! https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/big-sabotage-famous-npm-package-deletes-files-to-protest-ukraine-war/ On today's episode of "How to destroy your career in a day".
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https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/16/doom_pi_pico/ Doom on a micro-controller -- Most of the time when Doom gets ported to something, it is massively overpowered, beastly hardware for the job. Such is not the case here.
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As an American, if we do go to war, our missiles will probably be stamped "Made in China" on the side. For those who don't get the joke, nearly everything we use is made in China. EDIT: Also, for those who haven't realized yet, one casualty of heightened international tensions, are cloud services. You as an end user can wake up and find yourself banned from things you rely on, even though you as an individual have done nothing wrong. https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/15/mongodb_terminates_russian_saas/ We never had that problem with purchased, boxed products. I seem to recall a quote from the original Deus Ex game about how wrong it was to assume that a kill-switch, once implemented into anything, would not be used or abused. I think it was referring to Paul, when his was activated. That bit left a lasting impression on me, and I refuse to buy products that can be arbitrarily switched off by someone else.
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Probably had the brightness on the monitor pumped up way too high. Although CRTs can produce good black-levels, it's still not going to be zero.
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I used a CRT back then. Those have great black-levels, though they also have some ghosting/persistence of vision, and generally cannot achieve the brightness, speed, or sharpness of an OLED. Actually what I would really like to experience in person, in a dark room, are those new micro LED displays that don't strictly have per-pixel lighting, but there is a huge array of LEDs behind the screen, allowing for localized dimming. The first time I saw the industry's older solution of providing black-levels by just dimming the entire back-light of the screen, I laughed (because this also limits the maximum allowable brightness at the same time).
