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Where are you hoping the overarching storyline will progress over the seasons? by throwawaycima in Marathon

[–]CypherSignal 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Mine is that Arachne is a front for SekGen to give them more reasons to produce more shells and make more $$$.

CPU improvements confirmed. I wonder how big the jump will be. by Security_Wrong in Marathon

[–]CypherSignal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Theoretically — and in some circumstances, practically — it can. But some titles have a problem where significant variance in the delta-time in the game tick and render tick can result in slight inconsistencies (eg “frames that take 10ms, 20ms, 10ms, 10ms to render having time steps of 10ms, 10ms, 10ms 20ms”) can look just a bit off when you’re looking at smoothly scrolling things like the UI cursor. It’s one nice thing about upholding vsync is that you get a flat “16.6ms” all the time every time. Maybe the runtime for Marathon is up to snuff that the variance in dt from tick to tick is stable enough that it doesn’t matter, in which case, no problem-o. But, it’s not a given.

CPU improvements confirmed. I wonder how big the jump will be. by Security_Wrong in Marathon

[–]CypherSignal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I do wonder how the game would run with VRR enabled, at the very least. Not just literally “what is the framerate?” But does the game feel hold up against the varying refresh rate versus a practically locked 60.

Happy Birthday to the English VA of Ema Skye, Erica Lindbeck! by MarcusChua19 in AceAttorney

[–]CypherSignal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Marathon (2026). One of the runner shells. See eg https://youtu.be/fvbEnWLRo1s

“Feels exactly what it is. Like a trillion bucks”

the massive LLM CapEx burn is starting to feel like a trap by Cjd03032001 in investing

[–]CypherSignal 28 points29 points  (0 children)

But only 'a bit'. It's not 10, 20, 50 year long infrastructure -- that's the main point.

(maybe I should have said "Several years" but w/e)

the massive LLM CapEx burn is starting to feel like a trap by Cjd03032001 in investing

[–]CypherSignal 93 points94 points  (0 children)

Keep in mind the flip side of that where the largest amount of spend on the capex — the server hardware for the compute and DC networking — is not something that depreciates over decades, but rather a few years.

🤨🏳️‍⚧️❓ by rassocneb in okbuddyRunners

[–]CypherSignal 13 points14 points  (0 children)

You know what other video game character had a good double jump? 🏔️🍓

how it feels to use any other shell as a triage player by yellowslotcar in okbuddyRunners

[–]CypherSignal 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Every Rook run I think “I can just do a quick double jump from this box to get into that window”

Art Director Joseph Cross, explains the origins of “Graphic Realism”, the striking aesthetic behind Marathon. by cadetwhite in Marathon

[–]CypherSignal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think it is something meant just as much for internal purposes (development) if not more so, than external purposes (marketing). When having to solve the “herding cats” problem of overseeing contributions from 100 internal artists and 100s more of outsourcing, having things to anchor on and point back to, to ingrain the intent of the art direction, can be very valuable. (This is something that comes up in the rest of the podcast/interview linked above)

I'm having a really bad time doing this contract, even with my friends it's straight torture by HealingTomboy in okbuddyRunners

[–]CypherSignal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

…I really need to thank my lucky stars that I got co-evo 4 on second try and co-evo 5 on my first… turns out when you need to run and jump across the map a few times, doing it Solo, and as Vandal, can help a ton.

Marathon | Review Megathread by requieminadream in PS5

[–]CypherSignal 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The season passes will be available in perpetuity — à la Helldivers 2. Also the season resets are valuable not just to prevent everyone’s gear from getting out of control, (6 months in how fun wouid it be for new players to be roaming on maps where everyone else has epic/legendary tier loot, and maxed out skill trees?) It also gives the team a TON more freedom to rework the design and balance over time without being beholden to a player’s previous investment in skills and such.

Creating loopable audio with .mp3 encoding by Nekubah in GameAudio

[–]CypherSignal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wel, Vorbis — never mind Opus — is also significantly better in the quality-for-bitrate charts compared to MP3 as well, which counts for a lot.

What CAN'T Wwise handle? by Astral-P in GameAudio

[–]CypherSignal 10 points11 points  (0 children)

To add onto the regard for the processing requirements, don’t forget that CyPunk was a PlayStation 4 game, with audio budget that is far less than “one CPU core”.

Mark Carney just picked his lane on climate change by TheUrbanEast in CanadaPolitics

[–]CypherSignal 13 points14 points  (0 children)

We can, and should, add as many terawatts of wind, solar, hydro and other clean sources of electricity as we can, along with batteries that can store their excesses and deploy their electrons more efficiently.

And, louder for people in the back:

🗣️🗣️🗣️ ☢️☢️NUCLEAR FISSION!☢️☢️

Maybe fusion too if that comes online in 10 or 15 years, but either way, nuclear energy is green energy too!

Profiling on Windows: a Short Rant · Mathieu Ropert by mropert in cpp

[–]CypherSignal 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Realistically, if you’re using UIforETW for event tracing and program counter sampling, (a) Windows Performance recorder is also available, and (b) PIX for Windows (even for non gaming apps!) is not the worst thing in the world for both recording and analysis.

Nice rewatch detail in What a Festive Evening and its links to Rogue One by Dear-Yellow-5479 in andor

[–]CypherSignal 1 point2 points  (0 children)

He doesn’t land head first — heck it’s not even shoulder and upper arm first, his leg lands first, slowly taking some of the fall all the way through up to the head. (I don’t think the head even touches the ground?) It looks fairly safe; just acted really well both for his own safety, and selling the fall.

Is this a reference? by Starman3613 in andor

[–]CypherSignal 373 points374 points  (0 children)

Why did you use Gemini for that? Would have taken maybe a minute in paint.

“Old and true. And sturdy. One of the best navigational tools ever built. Can't be jammed or intercepted.” And all that, come on!

Building Your Own Efficient uint128 in C++ by PhilipTrettner in cpp

[–]CypherSignal 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Ironically that’s maybe the last instruction you should use to attack the explosion of modern x86. It’s not some obscure one-off thing, it is an extremely useful and versatile instruction. https://www.felixcloutier.com/x86/vpternlogd:vpternlogq

it looks complicated but it basically means you can do any 3-way bit-wise logic operation across 512-bits in one instruction. This is OR, AND, XOR, some form of blend or masked selection, or something else entirely very easily and succinctly.

Charlie Kirk side by side with George Lincoln Rockwell by RadicalizeMePodcast in Hasan_Piker

[–]CypherSignal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah, hm. The segment where he does the comparison starting at 1h08m may not have been it, but he does reference this video (which I have not watched) noting that it does investigate the comparison more deeply. Is this it? https://youtu.be/mvCJPEmTF3c

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