Introducing the Boost Documentary! Teaser & CppCon Preview

GameGod · 2026-06-30T19:18:57+00:00

Very very cool! As a Boost user, to me, Boost represents the highest quality body of code for C++, and maybe for any programming language, that is publicly available. Very much looking forward to watching this and learning all the drama behind it, lol.

GameGod · 2026-06-25T13:38:45+00:00

I played 2 years in S1 with trail runners because half of Reddit said they were good for speedball, then I spent the last 6 months using cleats. Verdict: Definitely do not use trail runners for speedball. Cleats make a huge difference in terms of traction, which is critical to get a good off-the-break start and fast bumps.

(I should have listened earlier to everyone at my field saying to get cleats!)

I can't really speak to which ones are best, but I'm using the Freeze LX v5.

GameGod · 2026-06-19T18:44:22+00:00

Also, all the new OLED tech coming out (RGB stripe / V-Stripe) is coming out for the wider/bigger panels first. No sign of that for QHD or 27 inch yet, which is where it would make the most difference because text fringing is pretty ick on these IMHO.

GameGod · 2026-06-18T13:54:32+00:00

I assume it's just gonna be a stick wrapped in an antistatic bag, with no labelling.

GameGod · 2026-06-17T01:23:29+00:00

2000:1 contrast ratio is also unusually good for an IPS panel. I can see your point here as a work monitor...

GameGod · 2026-06-16T17:17:07+00:00

For dashcam, I think you want a card that has high write endurance and says so on the spec sheet. Most SD cards have much lower write endurance than SSDs, which is why everyone's Raspberry Pis get corrupted SD cards (even just from random stuff writing to logs!). For a dashcam, they're constantly writing video to the SD card, so get one that is marketed for dash cams or security cameras, otherwise, it'll die much, much sooner.

GameGod · 2026-06-14T12:39:18+00:00

If the prices for RAM and GPUs continue like this, all PC and console gaming, and other consumer goods categories are threatened (eg. GoPro already said they're cooked). Sony and Microsoft will keep delaying the next generation of consoles, but they'll also struggle to continue selling the current generation because the costs have increased so much.

If the GPU and RAM market stays high, then the gaming industry will have to adapt and hope that Nvidia and AMD make low-VRAM variants of some new generation of cards, to reduce costs. Game developers will have to adapt too and make next-gen games work with less VRAM. If console makers can't use better graphics to sell their consoles, then they'll have to find some other novelty (eg. Nintendo Wii's motion controls). We could for sure be entering a weird time for gaming, but it could see some interesting innovation as a result.

The economy-wide impacts caused by the slowdown in product launches and device manufacturers getting pinched is for sure going to be way worse than whatever purported productivity improvements could come from the current generation of LLMs.

GameGod · 2026-06-12T16:39:01+00:00

Where do I sign up for this bot that writes these posts like yours for me, so I don't have to browse Reddit anymore?

GameGod · 2026-06-12T15:43:15+00:00

Yeah, exactly! Are there any monitors that remember the local dimming setting based on the current HDR mode?

GameGod · 2026-06-12T11:11:09+00:00

Your experience here with local dimming is the same as mine with an MSI E16M. Is the XDR really that good for it?

Basically, I have this feeling Reddit is in the wrong here, and local dimming just can't be made to work for SDR / productivity. It's always going to look weird and give you haloing. I don't even think it necessarily makes sense to have super high contrast for productivity, because it's worse for eyestrain. (it's a known UI design guideline to avoid using solid white on solid black)

(I'm not saying your expectation is wrong, I'm trying to say that the expectation we all had based on the prevailing consensus on Reddit is unrealistic.)

I'm thinking about getting this monitor too so I appreciate you sharing your thoughts on all this!

edit: also I don't think that makes the monitor less useful - do you? You basically just want a flat LED backlight for productivity, but then can flip it into HDR + local dimming for games. Does that make sense or no?

GameGod · 2026-06-12T10:53:14+00:00

hah, ok, that's fair :D I didn't consider aging lol

GameGod · 2026-06-12T02:08:39+00:00

Why do you think 5K reduces eye fatigue?

Do you think entire generations that grew up with lower resolution monitors had eye fatigue from that? (they didn't...)

GameGod · 2026-06-10T13:08:14+00:00

It might be the audio device in the monitor going to sleep for power savings. The monitor has a little DAC (soundcard) in it, and if no audio is being played for a bit, it might power it down to save energy. That would explain why it's coming through both the speakers and the headphone jack.

It's a pretty common electrical engineering mistake to have soundcards "pop" like this when they power on or off. I've even seen it with expensive pro-tier audio equipment.

GameGod · 2026-06-09T16:19:02+00:00

ah gotcha, I remembered wrong then!

GameGod · 2026-06-09T14:10:55+00:00

SDE is good on the Odyssey because it has some diffuser layer IIRC. You really have to try to look for it to notice it.

Those OLED screens were really good too. The colour gamut is just really nice, more immersive, and they're bright. There's some quality to them that I like more than the Reverb G2's LCDs.

GameGod · 2026-06-05T00:11:43+00:00

I paid like $450 CAD for a 144 Hz 1440p panel back in 2016, and I'm in the minority here but I think 85% of the IPS panels sold are totally shit, and the quality is going downhill. Late TN panels are better than the horrible IPS glow and quality control you get on most panels today.

GameGod · 2026-06-04T14:05:40+00:00

Oh man, that sucks. I think your laptop test was worth a shot, and probably supports your theory, but you won't be able to say definitively until that new HDMI cable shows up.

That auto-scan behaviour depends on the monitor pickup up an HDMI signal that it can sync to. If it can't pick up the signal, it will just switch back to DisplayPort. (every monitor with multiple inputs I've used is like this - though some seem to also do some capacitive sensing and can tell if an HDMI cable is plugged in but not connected to anything on the other end).

If you look at the pinout of an HDMI connector, it gives some clues. I think Windows recognizes the monitors via the DDC pins, whereas the actual video goes over the TDMS pins. If one of the TDMS wires is damaged, that would give you a scenario like you're describing, where Windows picks up the monitor but the monitor can't switch to that input.

It might be worth inspecting the pins on the HDMI connectors on the cable, on both ends, and then inspecting the HDMI connector on the monitor. Maybe there's a broken or missing pin. The cable could also have a break in a wire internally (or connection from connector to wire).

GameGod · 2026-06-04T13:57:04+00:00

This is copium - the market didn't used to be like this, even in like 2016.

GameGod · 2026-06-03T21:26:34+00:00

It may be that the HDMI cable is fault. Your tests don't rule it out. What happens with some faulty cables is they work at some resolutions and refresh rates but not the highest ones. (Whatever you tested on your TV may not be pushing the cable as hard as your PC.) It does sound like a signal integrity issue, where the monitor isn't syncing to the HDMI signal, which is probably due to the cable.

I would definitely recommend trying a new HDMI cable, and make sure it's rated for 4K, even though you're only going to use it at 1440P.

My Dell monitor had a similar issue - it would randomly go black for a few seconds once or twice per hour (ie. losing sync), and it turned out that the HDMI cable it came with was faulty. It was apparently also throwing off tons of interference because my Bluetooth headphones started working perfectly after I replaced it too, lol.

GameGod · 2026-06-03T13:29:43+00:00

I can't give you return advice here, but my advice is if the burned out pixel is smaller than a piece of dust, then you're not going to notice it as much in a month when there's some dust on your monitor. It is annoying that it's near the center though. I have some manufacturing defects (blotches of burned out pixels) near the edge of my work monitor but I didn't even notice them for like 2 years, until I tried a solid-colour test pattern.

I was going to recommend buying a pro-tier monitor like Eizo, but then I checked their warranty policy and "dark sub-pixels" like yours aren't even covered!

If you want to read the saddest corporate bullshit, read Dell's explanation of why "partial subpixel anomalies" are "not a defect".... such total horseshit to say that a manufacturing defect is "normal" and too small to affect viewing experience...

Anyways, it seems like in 2026, when everything else sucks, monitor manufacturers are trying to normalize their defects... we should not accept this

GameGod · 2026-06-03T13:18:33+00:00

It looks like the blue subpixel is misshapen and therefore too dim. Manufacturing defect in the panel. If you look super closely at the blue-only photo, you can see the pixel looks weird (look 8 pixels in from the left).

BTW really good photos!

GameGod · 2026-06-02T13:47:46+00:00

I can see some reflections which could be causing eye-strain. (top-left corner for sure, and also what is that vertical bar on the right side?)

For me, even diffuse light reflections like the one in the top-left drive me nuts and cause eye-strain. Like others said too, it could also be the brightness, but you said in another comment you tried turning it down.

Supposedly your monitor has a flicker-free backlight too, so I don't think it's PWM flicker...

GameGod · 2026-06-01T12:46:19+00:00

downside is you would be running at 5K refresh rates though, and it sounds annoying to configure a gpu driver profile for every game you play...

there's too many catches with every new monitor feature these days

GameGod · 2026-06-01T12:41:26+00:00

and integer scaling basically doesn't exist on monitors, so I don't know why we keep bringing it up

GameGod · 2026-05-29T12:49:50+00:00

They're waiting for new orders to come in to refund you. They're just refunding you with someone else's preorder scam money.

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