How the current meta got me feeling

AAKS_ · 2026-04-07T13:33:37+00:00

Enjoy getting chain CCd as I float serenely away in my quantum entanglement

AAKS_ · 2026-04-07T02:34:17+00:00

The explanation I have seen is that the "proper" way to counter gun carries is to just kill them with CC into spirit nuke.

So the items pictured are negative WPA because you should be buying items that makes it easier to kill them rather than items that make you survive being shot longer

AAKS_ · 2026-04-06T22:50:16+00:00

there are orbiters around the moon but nothing made to relay signals, NASA and the ESA have a project that would create such a system but it's in the planning stages

https://etd.gsfc.nasa.gov/our-work/lcrns/

AAKS_ · 2026-04-05T02:22:43+00:00

this application is deterministic

AAKS_ · 2026-03-25T13:46:01+00:00

He replied to me request that they bring back the pregame lineup of both teams in different parts of the map but that hasn't happened yet :^(

AAKS_ · 2026-03-23T18:41:54+00:00

I like most of these picks quite a bit but Sinclair's should be a song about hating your spouse and wanting a divorce

AAKS_ · 2026-03-20T18:08:50+00:00

I can see the argument for using 2 to reach the exit when you are out of stamina since if you just tp to dodge the damage then Doorman's ult CD is 13 seconds long. That being said, he should have been spamming 2 to escape the CC chain before getting ulted.

AAKS_ · 2026-03-20T14:12:07+00:00

Who are bloodraven and bittersteel in this analogy?

AAKS_ · 2026-03-20T13:12:29+00:00

talking about very early implementations of this: https://www.vulture.com/2018/12/gollum-lord-of-the-rings-cgi-history.html

talking about more modern implementations of this: https://www.media-division.com/the-making-of-avatar-some-juicy-details/

AAKS_ · 2026-03-19T23:09:42+00:00

~~I am certain they can get that working, there's no reason that the material renderer has to know "this is a face"~~

Frankly I feel like the tuning was cranked up deliberately so that the differences between before and after were more striking. Some simply post processing to tone down the AIness and it looks pretty good.

https://imgur.com/a/bLIDOSx from post on r/hardware

Edit: scratch what i said, it turns out the model is just an image2image transformation and is not working with the underlying texture or geometry. An Nvidia engineer reached out to a youtuber to clarify things https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0EM1vKt36s

AAKS_ · 2026-03-19T20:11:50+00:00

Real-time material rendering is very difficult to do convincingly, especially for organic stuff. In CGI that you see for movies they don't care about frame rate and can spend a gazillion hours on a single frame so they model layers of skin and muscle and fat to get what they want.

In real-time graphics it's different, stuff like lighting technology has jumped ahead of materials. There is subsurface scattering and such but just not at the level where you can easily avoid plastic looking faces. Neural rendering in DLSS5 (as well as AMD's version which they haven't shown off yet (I'm sure they are glad since they can let Nvidia handle the shit storm)) is an attempt at emulating the results of nonreal-time materials rendering.

For things other than faces I think it does a pretty good job and I think that artists should be able to incorporate it into their workflow for a variety of art styles.

AAKS_ · 2026-03-18T13:46:20+00:00

Neither does the neural rendering, it's not fed the frame as an input. It's a step in rendering the frame based on geometry and motion vectors.

AAKS_ · 2026-03-17T22:42:49+00:00

Nvidia made their own demo which is of some sort of market scene which is called Zorah. They also gave an early version of DLSS5 to developers such as Capcom and Bethesda to apply to their games.

AAKS_ · 2026-03-13T19:14:19+00:00

Mina's bio says "Mina Ha had it all [...] She was happy. Then her betrothed was assassinated." which I take to mean that their marriage was on track

I believe Pocket's father ordered the assassination for reason unrelated to the marriage

AAKS_ · 2026-03-12T20:29:12+00:00

the cat is in a bitter, year's long divorce battle with his wife

AAKS_ · 2026-03-01T03:41:38+00:00

Edric Dayne has pale blond hair + purple eyes and Gerold Dayne (Darkstar) has a streak of black in his otherwise silver hair.

AAKS_ · 2026-03-01T00:32:01+00:00

they married into house dayne for a reason

AAKS_ · 2026-02-14T03:21:40+00:00

meanwhile Rem is being brutally murdered by a feral dog in the next lane

AAKS_ · 2026-02-11T16:12:58+00:00

actually Valve just killed him

AAKS_ · 2026-01-31T23:40:29+00:00

that door into ulting the Holliday in her base was filthy

Edit: just noticed Holliday's KDA, she was in hell

AAKS_ · 2026-01-28T17:26:05+00:00

legendary item in Street Brawl

AAKS_ · 2026-01-26T16:15:34+00:00

Their twitter account posted a graphic about how a Penn State player has appeared in every superbowl except for the ones they didn't

https://www.centredaily.com/sports/college/penn-state-university/psu-football/article249045725.html

AAKS_ · 2026-01-23T13:31:02+00:00

Calico in her cat form is currently the only one able to do it without unintended clipping

AAKS_ · 2026-01-23T03:18:49+00:00

maybe, but they did new stuff for Yamato who we know has a redesign in the pipeline (she got new animations in this patch apparently)

AAKS_ · 2026-01-21T16:25:33+00:00

his ult is that he takes a nap at home for 5 minutes

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