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I will continue to submit fixes to Valve, but this is a great way to provide players with a better experience sooner. It also helps to test and evaluate the changes, and show their value in real gameplay. Think of it as an unofficial beta of some sort!

Got a beta website up for my TF2 mod! staging.mastercomfig-site.pages.dev/tc2/

wow, browsing bsky today proved very nice! im really happy with how this community is growing!

Some charm shenanigans before I start promos & bugging other people to make charms.

Async compute all the things GPUs make work parallelism very easy by design: each drawcall/dispatch shader instruction operates on batches of vertices, pixels, threads in general at the same time automatically. On the other ha…

New blog post discussing Async Compute, various experiments with pairings and task overlapping and performance impact. interplayoflight.wordpress.com/2025/05/27/a...

A simple orange notification bell icon.

Genuine life tip:

If you don't NEED notifications for an app or service, disable them.

If you need them for a time (e.g. waiting for a delivery), enable them only temporarily, disable them afterwards.

Facebook Allegedly Detected When Teen Girls Deleted Selfies So It Could Serve Them Beauty Ads A recent tell-all by a Facebook insider reveals the insidious nature of Facebook's advertising empire, and the dangerous consequences.

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It definitely sucks that all this much anticipated and passionate work is at a standstill, but I don't see an obligation for Valve to give up on protecting their IP, nor how this is turning their back on their consistent history of supporting modding.

This is a totally expected result from them, and in any case, fans will see some sort of faithful recreation of classic Counter-Strike from the community, either through a Source SDK version (CS: Legacy), or if Valve decides to make a custom game system for CS2 like Dota 2.

Although I know where the anger and disappointment is coming from, I don't see the justification for what in my view is an entirely reasonable situation coming from Valve.

In this case, Valve should be okay with it, though I know they did raise concerns about using the legacy CS:GO client.

The best solution for the team is to create some form of installer or instructions which does not distribute anything from Valve, and publish it on ModDB or their own site.

I don't see these problems as unsolvable, but they either require more time from Valve or a little bit of technical ingenuity from the team. As I understand it, the main issue is distributing Valve's intellectual property through a medium that doesn't have a license for its use.

My take on the whole CSCO thing is that it's obvious ZooL and the entire team did a lot of work over a long period, and it is genuinely cool! However, the distribution method and format have some problems.

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

this might be simple but im really getting into evaluating the nutritional density of every food i eat nowadays. i feel like it helps a lot to optimize positively for a diet (higher nutrients per calorie) rather than optimize negatively (lower calories).

In comments Sunday to ministers at the weekly cabinet meeting, he said, “I completely agree with President Trump’s sharp criticism of UNRWA. UNRWA is an organization that perpetuates the Palestinian refugee problem, and perpetuates also the narrative of the so-called right of return, whose goal is the elimination of Israel. For these reasons, UNRWA should be shut down.”

See here their motives said in plain terms: www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-ba...

Israel has long sought to delegitimize UNRWA, as it affirms Palestinian right to return. This is a project spanning a decade or more, with the goals said outright for years, even before all this baseless nonsense from Israel.

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The leaked prerender scene featuring a trans story line that Disney/Pixar removed from their new show Win or Lose.

(sped up a bit to meet the upload limit)

I'm particularly proud of the work I did in this shot, greatly refining the cinematic's materials for Kez, the new hero!

I worked on several key areas, including character materials and bringing armor, skin, wings, etc. to a cinematic quality while still retaining the Dota art style, rendering enhancements to lighting, shadows & more, and some support work on color spaces in render and post.

Dota 2 — Crownfall & Kez (spoilers!), Lost Cosmonauts Lost Cosmonauts had the everlasting pleasure to work with Valve in creating multiple cinematics for their special Crownfall Dota event. We worked on Kez's reveal cinematic, which premiered at the Inte...

www.artstation.com/artwork/ZlPYD1

YouTube video by DotaCinema Crownfall ACT 4 ending cinematic Dota 2

I had the pleasure of working with Valve on the Crownfall Act 4 cinematic, as part of the Lost Cosmonauts! www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yyX...

A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #301,619, mastercoms ‪@mcoms.dev‬, joined on Jul 14, 2023"

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #301,619!

Threatening to withhold a vote is different from actually doing it come election. Fight for the things you want, but choose the best option when it's time to do so.

Yes, democracy is about accountability, not fealty.

this is all it is lol, simple but neat idea! so it's nice to see it get popular!

Yay! I actually have a Fortnite map that's hitting it off a lil!!

the second people started calling being someone's friend "emotional labor" we were fucked as a society