Alex Battaglia

Yeah - Higher average capacitx but also less immediately useful. It can literally only be used for storage due to how linear the read is on it.

YouTube video by Game Industry Conference Physically Based Rendering: Putting Pieces Together - Paweł Stolecki || CD Projekt Red ||

Nice introduction (or refresher) to PBR: "Physically Based Rendering: Putting Pieces Together", Game Industry Conference 2024 presentation recording www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwyM...

Apparently it is like 1/4th the speed over internal PATA than it is over external port. So yeah lol why would you?

Had a surprise today opening up a PC when this bad boy was hidden behind a panel in a 5.25 bay: an internal iOmega ditto 800 Tape backup drive. Quite the find for not expecting it hidden away there! Anyone have any experience with internal tape up storage on 90s PCs? Seems nifty!

Foroglio!

Still working on it, I swear 🙏 Taking it slow as a solo dev dude

Also Luzern Dinosaur Museum does not fuck around.

I know this pain - the recent amount of sun has forced me to wear a hat, but I lack any good ones that would fit my usual style so I wear a random black baseball cap. It immediately turns me into a "middle aged guy who maybe listens to metal rap and or Nickelback".

Ja es ist unglaublich teuer. Um Geld zu sparen war ich mit dem Zelt auf Campingplätze unterwegs. Es ginge sonst nicht mit normalen Hotels und bei jeder Mahlzeit in Restaurant.

Leaving Switzerland after nearly a week there. Quite the place visually! I know it is stupidly on brand for me, but the natural details big and little did make me think a few times "real-time rendering sure has some ways to go before it looks this good!"

during my post studio shutdown life I have been using open source / free / cheap as fuck alternates for a lot of the apps I normally use, and I have to say, Inkscape is really fucking good.

Like maybe I dont go back to illustrator ever really good.

Looks clear - lacks preview images unless you can see the background well.
No Ray Tracing options thougb in 2025 after BF2042 and BFV had it? SSR and SSAO just do not look good these days with complex AAA art.

Boomer Merch 👌

The USA is so fucked that literal Naziism is so socially acceptable these days. How does someone go to a death camp and find it an opportune moment to do this? What viele scum

Profiling without Source code – how I diagnosed Trackmania stuttering A very common side effect of working as a programmer is the constant frustration of not having source code access to all the software you use. Bugs, problems or missing features in your own work ca…

My new blog post is there, and it's a bit different from usual: Fixing stutters in your own code is hard enough, but this time I try to fix performance issues in a closed-source game. No source code or debug symbols, but a lot of guesswork. larstofus.com/2025/07/27/p...
#gamedev
#Trackmania

Absolutely killer shot!

The RTX Remix Competition is underway on moddb and I have made a video highlighting just a few of the submissions that caught my eye. Path Tracing in Black Mesa, Call of Duty 2, Star Wars: Republic Commando, and Need for Speed: Underground. A lot of amazing work!

youtu.be/I4cywtyU-II

Nooooooo 😰

In my case it is an old 2005 XP machine - If a Hacker wants to "take that over" I could not possibly give a shit

this is genuinely the worst rebrand I have seen in a long, long time but on the upside @warpstormer.bsky.social probably doesn't have to sweat any legal backlash to their T shirt designs any more

"Uncapped framerates in cutscenes (PC Only)"
And thus god smiled upon us. Awesome change here to Assassin's Creed Shadows in a future patch.

Amazing Work - Wish I could See it in Person!

Clearly the peak of real-time CG.

Turned the PC on, plugged in an ethernet cable and directly connected to server manually "/connect XXX.XXX.XXX.XX:XXXXX" using a community list in an internet browser. It was rather straight forward!

This video is quite the doozy! I had never heard of this variant of the Nvidia "6800". Massive air quotes on that "6800" there though as Nathan describes in the video. This early to mid 2000s period had so many of these types of cards that were deceptive to the buyer. Awful time for the uninformed.

Call of Duty 2 Multiplayer on PC still alive and well with community servers. I loaded it up on a Windows XP machine from 2005 and it worked like a charm. I had a huge grin the entire time while playing. Just reinforces to me how important @stopkillinggames.bsky.social is. Sign the EU petition!

Here is an instance where Europe desparately needs its own credit cards. Yes debit via v-pay is universal here, but actual competition and a Transfer of customers would be good punishment for auch BS

Justice Department Told Trump in May That His Name Is Among Many in the Epstein Files Bondi told president at the meeting that Justice also decided to not release more Jeffrey Epstein documents because of the presence of child pornography and the need to protect victims.

Exclusive: The Justice Department told President Trump in May that his name is among many in the Epstein files.

Hideo Kojima meeting people in real life: Ohhh, she’s named Jennifer English because she speaks English.

Looking incredible!