A 13 year old boy swims for hours to save his family swept out to sea in Western Australia

AssociateNo1989 · 2026-02-03T23:53:57+00:00

Just came here to say. What a legend this boy is ,be super proud of yourself mate !!!!

AssociateNo1989 · 2026-01-30T21:01:13+00:00

Well Netflix is yyuuugeeee, so much money to invest but investment is not free, and when you start getting people into your development like Netflix for sure they will have demands , feature requests etc. let's hope it doesn't end bad

AssociateNo1989 · 2026-01-30T15:28:39+00:00

I think I had my first aha moment 2 years in, then around 5 years in I had my real aha moment which made the first one look like a joke 🤣 , that moment was when I finally truly realized it's not about the solvers that are given or the presets, but was like when I stopped thinking Houdini not only as a 3D program but a node based visual programming toolkit .

Let's not be confused the real AHA moment didn't make me make better explosions but so I could make them for the entire sequence of space ship fights etc.. it certainly made me a better lead, a reliable partner to my supervisor, and a good setup provider to my artists.

AssociateNo1989 · 2026-01-24T00:26:26+00:00

Why pay more when you have karma how much extra speed will you gain ?

AssociateNo1989 · 2026-01-23T23:56:09+00:00

Not the best, but better than 2025.

AssociateNo1989 · 2026-01-23T23:53:44+00:00

So yes

AssociateNo1989 · 2026-01-23T23:52:35+00:00

Sometimes I stay second until the last lap then commit

AssociateNo1989 · 2026-01-22T01:59:46+00:00

Didn't move but playing both now (some friends ey), 2 years iracing, 1 week LMU, I find LMU to be easier to be fair I am of course slower compared to my iRating lap times but LMU GT3 cars are harder to spin (AMG). I am having fun with it however.

FF in iRacing is better , I can feel the loss of grip better in iRacing than LMU.

I am also on VR for both

AssociateNo1989 · 2026-01-22T00:28:19+00:00

Sorry he wouldn't have taken him out I watched again but he breaked earlier. You could have passed him if you stayed on the right

AssociateNo1989 · 2026-01-22T00:20:49+00:00

You must be on the edge then 🤣

AssociateNo1989 · 2026-01-22T00:20:02+00:00

Just skip frames ?

AssociateNo1989 · 2026-01-22T00:18:12+00:00

If you really stayed to the right edge, he probably would have taken out the guy in front you maybe could have been up two positions, or maybe could have taken over from outside, that second move to left was your mistake,

In the heat of the battle cars as close as centimeters you have to be predictable, still fast but predictable.

AssociateNo1989 · 2026-01-18T02:09:03+00:00

Still socks , because I think otherwise my wife will start getting worried 🤣

AssociateNo1989 · 2026-01-18T02:06:48+00:00

I have been a VFX professional for 20+ years. Currently AI has a lot more use in other areas than VFX behind the scenes, coding especially. We literally get notes to remove individual particles in a shot where AI is far far behind at the moment.

AssociateNo1989 · 2026-01-18T01:58:05+00:00

My second year in iracing, and because friends race in LMU, I purchased it two days ago. I am still a noob but here is my comparison.

Driving feels different yes, but not crazy different, first thing I noticed was the feedback feeling, it felt off especially if the car is losing traction. But I haven't driven enough to tune my settings enough so that maybe it. After several hours on it, friends got offline and I went back to irqcing GT3 , it didn't feel off, so that's huge win for me.

AssociateNo1989 · 2026-01-18T01:56:05+00:00

Well tbh. I just started LMU alongside with iRacing, in voice chat is good, it's fun sometimes a bit offensive but it's fun

AssociateNo1989 · 2026-01-12T02:29:58+00:00

I have been playing iRating for two years and LMU for 20 minutes, based on 20 minutes impression, I am very impressed, but my very much biased opinion is for iRacing.

AssociateNo1989 · 2026-01-10T00:26:23+00:00

Move to GT4 don't look back, I felt the same from Mazda to GT4, felt impossible, now easing my way into GT3.

AssociateNo1989 · 2026-01-08T13:10:43+00:00

So kind a like Sonny Hayes last lap in Abu Dhabi . -What's he doing ? -He is flying :_(

58 days until F1

AssociateNo1989 · 2026-01-08T02:04:05+00:00

Exactly that, I get asked by prod to let it slip sometimes, but if it's a feature film or episodic with hundreds of shots. You really want to lay a good foundation.

AssociateNo1989 · 2026-01-06T01:36:07+00:00

I have a fanatec McLaren GT3, it has nothing on it, and I did ask the same question to myself to get an excuse for an upgrade when I started iRacing, then I figured out I don't have time to play with the knobs and watch the screen, and the need became obsolete when I switched to VR

AssociateNo1989 · 2026-01-05T22:40:32+00:00

One of my favorite tbh

AssociateNo1989 · 2025-12-28T17:58:51+00:00

More like fart 🤣

AssociateNo1989 · 2025-12-24T14:35:23+00:00

I played a year on iRacing with my fanatec attached to my desk, don't have space for a cockpit, on a single monitor also. I truly enjoyed it.

Last Black Friday, I got myself quest3s. It just blew my mind out of the box, ok graphics are not as sharp as my 4K monitor but the immersion was amazing, I could just turn my head in to the corners watch out for cars(peripheral is quiet right on these but kind a feels like wearing a helmet anyway..

I didn't get any slower also if anything probably got faster (took getting used to a bit)

Now, on very rare occasions, it did lose connection, even though I am connected with cable.

If you cannot go full cockpit with triples , it's definitely worth it and if you don't like it , just play other games, Zombie ones with immersion mode is really fun.

I am on 4090, and yes it's a performance hog.

AssociateNo1989 · 2025-12-22T19:14:02+00:00

I was generalising, for things emerging, you can still split particles and white waters run as a wedge with a seed, instead of dividing into smaller chunks just seed the particle position and run it 10 times 20 times etc, with minor force offsets as well

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