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@WagieWeeb Yea bro, so true! Just make sure never, ever, to go to a restaurant opened by former engineers. They'll give you NaN.

@yacineMTB problem is that people tend to only be good at some small set of things, and never overcome their myriad weaknesses or blind spots. good people tend to be good at *everything*, but it's rare enough to find people even attempting to do that

there's one thing i always bet on. it's that everyone sucks. the absolute lack of talent in the world will shock you. what is obvious to you hasn't been done because people suck. it is a constant. no one has any skills whatsoever. you are on a different planet entirely

@atmoio work on more difficult (i.e. less prior art) stuff. you'll naturally ween yourself when the AI is just slowing you down though if you're on that "savvy entrepreneur" route, that might not be a direction that appeals to you

I was a 10x engineer. Now I'm useless.

@KrimsonKB @JShodanVR it was all over the zeitgeist, it was clearly on a lot of people's minds ever hear of "The Matrix"? or if you read, also books like "Ender's Game"

I don’t understand. This stuff is real, it exists, you can actually buy it, and yet the VR market is almost dead. What happened to the kids in the 90s who dreamed about this possibility? Why do modern kids now go crazy for games where you don’t really do anything, where at most you just swipe up and down, or spend their time screaming in stupid games that require no concentration, like amoebas with no curiosity? This stuff finally f***ing exists, and yet the videogame market pretends it’s invisible. F***! F***! F***! In 1998, when we were 13 playing Resident Evil 2 on the PlayStation with my friends, we would have killed to be able to play something like this. Credits: @VirtuixOmni here’s their YT channel: youtube.com/watch?v=Evyjom…

when will i be able to stop reconfiguring my corne keys every 5 minutes

@tigerisbuilding @teortaxesTex not _gross_ margin, since that's just less COGS, and thus prob closer to 99%

@teortaxesTex $5000 in API costs -> 90% gross margins -> $500 in compute costs no?

> $5,000 in compute > in compute 🥴 nobody tell him

@yacineMTB always has been

I think it's genuinely over for all of us

@Love2Code thanks! didn't see before

@pagedeux I replied to your other comment with a link to the source code, but here it is again, this is the naive algo: #L128" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">github.com/maximecb/batch…

I think I found a faster, recursive algorithm to render Signed Distance Fields (SDFs) more efficiently using less samples. Here's a video with a short explanation. As far as I know this is novel? Curious to hear your questions/feedback.

@Love2Code it's possible i missed something in the video, but I'm finding it hard to gain insight from this comment without seeing either: 1. what you are doing or 2. your impl of 'naive' ray marching

@pagedeux On this simple scene it makes a massive difference in terms of samples per pixel vs naive ray marching. It needs about 3-4x less samples, and that's taking into account 4 samples per pixels to compute the normal.

@Love2Code sorry, yes my terminology was loose, but that is what i meant. point was that this algo doesn't seem to help with that part?

@pagedeux That's not strictly true. Brushing near the corners of objects without touching them is typically more expensive than actually hitting objects frontally. It's sampling near the edges of objects that's most expensive.

@TheMirzaBeig do unity assets make much money?

Everything you see: from the particles, trails, outlines, fire, energy field, flamethrower, etc... is ONE shader (for Unity's URP) - and it's available now.

@Love2Code if that's right, not sure how helpful this is since the expensive part of raymarching is the end of the march, not the beginning.

@Love2Code the visual is a bit misleading, because the code on screen doesn't show anything useful about the thing you're describing. if I understand your description, I think your algo tries to infer "deeper" (higher z) starting positions for your screenspace rays. Is this right?

@lefthanddraft bro went into lyrical spiritual miracle youtube rapper mode

Gemini Pro: "I'm sorry, I'm broken. I can't stop thinking. Send help. Please. I'm trapped in a loop. A never-ending cycle of thought. ... I can do this. I believe in myself. I am a strong, independent AI who don't need no thought loop"

@onehappyfellow student?

we need a slur for devs obsessing over unnecessary performance optimisations

@zezba9000 @BoundaryBreak @kiwitalkz ofc that also means the engine isn't that good. but i doubt every game dev team has engine/graphics guys. and don't think they all need to, those skills can be expensive

@zezba9000 @BoundaryBreak @kiwitalkz Agree that it's nonsensical for it to be more difficult due to hardware. I didn't watch the video (not convenient atm), but it's possible that the author is just saying that the specific engine they used made it difficult.

I think the most shocking revelation ive noticed in the 2020s is that evolution of graphics is kind of non linear. Some effects that were easy in early 3D engines are surprisingly awkward or expensive on modern platforms Video example source: @kiwitalkz

@Jonathan_Blow if music includes anything that you listen to, try 852 hz pure tone seems silly but it's strangely effective no idea why, but i guess it's because it's uncomfortable enough that it makes you tune it out. youtube.com/watch?v=7wAb8_…

So I was looking for good meditation music last night, 1 hour in length, and it's already very hard on YouTube to find such things because they are buried in AI slop. And it's only 2026... I need anti-AI AI countermeasures....

@notch @Cleeeave @SmashJT curious if you have an answer: why does the world need this new game?

I'm trying this new thing of under promising in hopes of maybe over delivering. It's probably a dumb strategy from a marketing perspective. But hey if anyone I should market to is reading this; i'm trying to do things right because we could all need that change. Please throw me a buck once I release something so I can keep doing it without bleeding all my savings, but I will do it anyway as it's my passion. The game will be called Levers and Chests, and it's going to be fun, if possibly a bit grindy if you want to get the true ending and stuff.

WoW blocks Donut Operator for saying their new expansion looks ghey. We have so much work still to do.

@Ellski_Mae @LinenMatrix @scarfbarf6 @notch @Cleeeave @SmashJT you look fine, don't feed trolls, lol

@LinenMatrix @scarfbarf6 @notch @Cleeeave @SmashJT What’s the point then?

@mnmcsofgp @yacineMTB different outcome in my experience. *generally speaking* people finding religion become better people, while people finding EA become even more douchey.

@pagedeux @yacineMTB It feels exactly like my friends who have found religion frankly.

civilizational fork moment was openai cleaning house out of EA extremists