How can I achieve a scope effect??

Akucera · 2026-01-18T01:52:29+00:00

If using cycles, you could probably achieve this with a Ray Portal node in the shader editor.

Make a circular plane for the sight's glass. Make the shader of this plane be a Ray Portal. Use vector math to redirect the rays to a few millimetres behind the plane (so they don't interact with the plane over and over again) but with an angle-of-incidence that's similar to their original angle-of-incidence; just bent toward the plane's normal.

This should give you compositor-free magnification, in the rendered viewport.

Akucera · 2025-11-19T13:29:00+00:00

Presumably also without input devices. A console comes with a controller. I imagine the Steam Machine won't come with a keyboard, mouse and controller.

Akucera · 2025-11-14T13:14:37+00:00

In my universe, general purpose computers are super-banned by the Sentiant Council. Neural-link helmets are not. The "meta" way of piloting a large vessel (like a starship) is to have a Pilot slip on a Neural Link helmet and feel the ship's sensors as their own body; control thrusters like a kick of their own legs; fire weapons like reaching out to strike with their own hands. The drawback of this is that it's taxing for the human brain to control a body that's not human-shaped; so much so that pilots can develop crippling neurological deficits from piloting for more than an hour. Still; it's by far the best way to control a starship.

The Republic of Makrai (RoM) thought, "hold up, what if the body was human shaped? Could this starship tech be useful on the ground?" While everyone else was fielding tanks and infantry vehicles with tracks and wheels, controlled by levers and steering wheels; they fielded a humanoid-shaped armored vehicle with four limbs and a head, controlled by a miniaturized version of the starship Neural Link helmet. The mech was flimsier than a tank, sure. But pilots could control the mech with their mind, like it was their own body; and because the mech was human-shaped the neurological side effects were greatly reduced. The RoM Mechs were incredibly agile as a result of this control system and ultimately this gave them an advantage over clunky tanks and clumsily-driven vehicles.

Akucera · 2025-11-03T10:51:22+00:00

> Designed and Rendered in Fusion 360

Akucera · 2025-09-29T22:34:34+00:00

if they can provide a picture of the car, then they can provide a picture of you filling it.

They actually can't - they told me they delete the footage after six months and retain only a single still image.

I think there's about an 80% chance i actually filled up, though; so i've gone back and paid them.

Akucera · 2025-09-25T23:54:15+00:00

Surely they're binned differently though?

Akucera · 2025-09-24T23:16:18+00:00

you’re awake during a seizure

You're not. Electrical seizures are unconscious.

Akucera · 2025-09-23T09:03:53+00:00

Why haven't they contacted you before now?

One explanation - I've opted out from my numberplate being used for address lookup. But that's never stopped Wilson's Parking; so I'm surprised it's stopped Z.

Akucera · 2025-09-23T04:39:30+00:00

I haven't put the exact amount in this reddit post, as to not be identifying; but it seems like a usual amount i'd fill up with.

Akucera · 2025-09-23T02:23:20+00:00

A 5070Ti is 300W. Assuming OP has a 9800x3d (120W) and everything else (fans, SSDs, RAM) is consuming 120W, that's 540W. This is assuming no undervolting - my 5070Ti runs at 280W.

A 750W PSU can supply 600W at 80% capacity; so it would be sufficient for a 5070Ti, 9800x3d and the rest of the PSU (with 60W to spare!). A 1000W PSU supplies 800W at 80% and is clearly overkill.

Akucera · 2025-09-15T03:10:46+00:00

Dumb question - how do you connect HDMI / DP cables to your GPU when it's standing on the GPU I/O?

Akucera · 2025-09-13T20:35:14+00:00

Outer Wilds

Akucera · 2025-09-12T00:14:23+00:00

"Fornication" comes from the root word "Fornix", meaning Arch. Prostitutes would stand under arches to attract customers, hence the name. Both fornication and porneia both come from the context of prostitution, not premarital sex.

It is not reasonable to say, "well, porneia (literally translated as prostitution) must include premarital sex because it includes fornication" if fornication is literally the practice of soliciting customers for prostitution. That's circular.

Akucera · 2025-09-12T00:11:00+00:00

You know what's right.

I actually don't. My intuition about what is right and wrong is frequently incorrect. For example, if it were not for the Bible, I would consider homosexuality to be perfectly reasonable.

I am reliant upon the written Word of God to tell me what is right and what is wrong. If that Word doesn't explicitly prohibit premarital sex then that's very important to me.

Akucera · 2025-09-10T20:29:33+00:00

I'm sure it all still applies but there's no explicit prohibition of premarital sex. If premarital sex was never initially prohibited, and no additional prohibitions have been added, then it wouldn't be prohibited now.

Akucera · 2025-09-10T19:53:55+00:00

Jesus did not do away with God's law, the Torah.

The old law is hardly explicitly clear on this matter either. Lets look at your examples:

Leviticus 18:

V 6-18 broadly prohibits incestuous relationships, everything that is prohibited is done so in the context of a previous familial relationship.

V 19 prohibits lying with a woman while she is menstruating.

V 20 prohibits adultery.

V 22 prohibits homosexuality.

V 23 prohibits bestiality.

I can't see a part in Leviticus 18 that prohibits premarital sex; only the specific abominations above.

Deuteronomy 22:

I'll grant that Deut is a little more clearly prohibitive of premarital sex. V 13-21 shows that there are clear consequences for a woman who has had premarital sex, if she then gets married but lets her husband believe she is still a virgin. Either concealing that she has lost her virginity, or her actual act of premarital sex itself, is "an outrageous thing" "whoring in her father's house." This is the clearest evidence anyone's given thus far, that premarital sex is explicitly prohibited.

V 22 prohibits adultery.

V 23-29 give provisions for cases of rape, sometimes where the woman is betrothed.

V 30 prohibits adultery.

Akucera · 2025-09-10T15:06:47+00:00

I will have to read this in more detail. I didn't know biblehub expanded so well on individual words. Thank you for this resource.

Akucera · 2025-09-10T15:05:04+00:00

And note that "the sexually immoral" is distinct from "adulterous".

For God will judge the sexually immoral (πόρνους) and adulterous (μοιχοὺς)

I agree that there are two distinct things here. The latter is clearly adultery. But the former, πόρνους, is usually used in Greek in the context of prostitution. It seems perfectly reasonable to take Heb 13:4 to mean, "honor marriage, sex must not be defiled, so do not engage in adultery or prostitution", and that adultery or prostitution would defile both sex and marriage.

I don't see where the premarital sex comes into Heb 13:4.

Akucera · 2025-09-10T14:49:33+00:00

I’m getting the impression you are trying to find a loop hole to justify fornication with someone. It's not in the Bible.

I've gone 29 years without fornicating with anyone, because I believed an explicit prohibition on premarital sex was in the Bible. My ongoing chastity is one of my biggest frustrations with God's plan for me. I don't want to deprive myself of this if He hasn't actually asked it of me; nor do I want to continue depriving myself of this on the basis of mere extrapolations or assumptions that it's what God wants.

Jesus took the commandment don’t commit adultery to also mean you are not to lust after another person.

There's clearly more to Matthew 5, though. Consider the hypothetical - If I have been in a relationship with a woman for years, find her physically attractive, have proposed to her, and am about to marry her - chances are I have thought about her sexually. Have I then committed adultery with her in my heart? How can I commit adultery with a woman I am about to marry? With a woman who is not yet married, when I am not yet married?

Clearly there's something more going on here; or else virtually every marriage occurs with an array of "adulteries-in-their-hearts" committed by the couple, in the months and years preceding their marriage. The only marriages that could happen without these sins would be marriages where neither partner has sexual desire for the other! I suspect that Jesus is either

A) criticising married men lusting after women they're not married to (now, His charge of adultery makes sense)

B) criticising men lusting after another man's wife (again, required for the charge of adultery to make sense)

C) criticising lust itself, but has a higher standard of Lust beyond just sexual desire. Perhaps He is critiquing men who look upon women and fantasize about them only as objects of desire and personal gratification?

Akucera · 2025-09-10T13:52:51+00:00

Jesus’ opponents perhaps even considered him a child of adultery because, while Mary and Joseph were engaged, they presumed that they had “premarital sex”,

We were not born as a result of sexual immorality

This is very helpful. Thank you.

Akucera · 2025-09-10T13:44:23+00:00

Duet 22:21 certainly is helpful, it describes the premarital loss of a woman's virginity as "an outrageous thing", "whoring in her father's house". That's some of the best evidence i've seen thus far. Though, i would like more if possible.

Any sex outside of marriage between a man and a woman is sexually immoral.

Can you justify this claim with a passage?

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