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@Lexdevnet Thank you! Makes sense.

Great video by @oliemack ! The single frame drops in cutscenes are frames we render but not present to warm up the temporal caches after a camera cut.

Aside from some image quality faults, the PS5 version of 007 First Light is in great shape - but PS5 Pro offers the premium experience.

@Liv_Agar To my white surprise

The true "Jeskai Revelation" is that the white working class has no revolutionary potential

@PopBase Not really enjoying the new charli but i do appreciate it when an artist alienates their audience. I did like Thy Slaughter though so maybe i will like it in time

Charli xcx releases new single ‘SS26.’

Apple’s MacBook Neo can’t quite outrun its limited specs - but it proves a surprisingly versatile computer in typical use. youtu.be/WOGwpt5IkiE?si…

Do we actually need next-gen path traced visuals? How much of an upgrade are they? Will Switch 2 ports have issues when next-gen consoles arrive? Just two of the questions in this week's Q+A show: youtu.be/acafE6oCifk

DF Direct Weekly #263 is now live, discussing the Switch 2 price hike, Star Fox, COD dropping last-gen support and Nvidia's GTX 10-series Pascal 10th anniversary! youtube.com/watch?v=JvYOHd…

@SnarkingIsLegal I wasn’t there on day 1 but I started by the time they released episode 8. I had been reading/watching Nick for a couple years at that point and was thrilled he had launched a podcast.

Exactly ten years ago on May 11, 2016, Comedians Nick Mullen and Stavros Halkias started a podcast called ‘Cum Town’

@opinali Yes that would be concerning!

@oliemack So this was even more confusing than I thought :) And I hope you're right on it being a game-specific decision, because it could be a guideline from Apple that's new so this game would be just the first to adopt. Apple loves to hide low-level HW details from users.

What the hell is this (in DF's review of Control for Apple devices), identifying rendering resolution in Megapixels? Is this some idiotic standard for games in Apple platforms?

Control for iPhone is remarkable. This AAA game with advanced ray tracing, upscaling, and frame gen pushes out the boundaries of mobile tech. youtu.be/1UKEavpN-R0?si…

@BasicAppleGuy Ugh this is so awful. If/when the M5 models come out there is going to be an insane run on stock.

Apple removed the 256GB memory option for the M3 Ultra Mac Studio. Only configuration is now 96GB.

@ninajirachi Thank you for coming to van!!!

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@KelseyTuoc @bigblackjacobin He just demonstrates very poor understanding and argumentation. I don’t know why people take him so seriously.

@bigblackjacobin The issue with Zitron is that he repeatedly gets important numbers wrong, that he's been calling the top for years, and that he throws too many arguments (which contradict each other) up to develop any of them well.

the day before this FT report dropped, I read this meandering essay insisting Zitron's read of the AI buildout was unmoored from reality. a few days earlier, Zitron had written a lengthy analysis of why Stargate probably didn't exist (and why it couldn't w/o threatening Oracle)

There's a certain thin, compressed quality to these AI songs with hard to differentiate instrumental elements that I've noticed. Also, typically the artists will have no releases prior to about last year, and to the extent they appear to have featured artists on vocals, they won't be credited.

@mitchellmclain open.spotify.com/track/1ZVjrE1m…

Chat, I think I'm cooked. Got obsessed with a couple of tracks from an artist that showed up in one of my Spotify playlists. Tried to do some artist research... there is no info. Very possible that I'm addicted to a couple of AI tracks by an AI artist. I also had to employ AI to help figure this out. It's over, I'm done. Verified by Spotify can't come soon enough.

@sarobertsonca @1800ghostman Privatizing airports is one of the biggest crank obsessions on the Canadian right and Carney is deranged. He is trying to strip the copper wiring out of this country.

Avi Lewis on the government's plan to privatize airports: "Workers always pay the price in privatization schemes and the public always ends up paying more in the end ... history is littered with examples of the failures of privatization."

@TorontoStar Totally horrific plan

Carney government eyes privatizing airports to attract investment, cut travel costs #cdnpoli trib.al/txiI337

The big Steam Controller interview. @oliemack talks tech with Valve: digitalfoundry.net/news/2026/04/w…

Valve’s Steam Controller is a great all-purpose PC gamepad - and a revelation for some mouse and keyboard games.

@infounderscores Crazy for a demo to sound this amazing! Reminds me of Capsule.

[▶️] cutescores (˶˃ ᵕ ˂˶) underscores showed the first demo of “Do It” on her livestream just a little while ago!