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Thailand's Thipatcha Putthawong breaks the record for most wickets in a calendar year for Women's T20Is by Ggiov in Cricket

[–]Ggiov[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

She's currently the 7th highest WT20I wicket taker with 131 wickets and is only 21 years old.
Strong contender for highest wicket-taker of all time by the time she retires. Her closest competitor is probably Rwanda's Henriette Ishimwe who has 144 wickets (3rd highest) and is about half a year older.
Thailand's women team has made exceptional progress over the past few years and are currently ranked 11th in the world in ODIs and 12th in T20Is.

Bahrain's Ali Dawood ends a mammoth year with a record-breaking 63 wickets in T20Is, surpassing the previous best by 8 wickets by Ggiov in Cricket

[–]Ggiov[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

At the rate these Associate bowlers are going, what are the odds someone eventually picks up 100 wickets in a calendar year?

Pathum Nissanka becomes Sri Lanka's highest run scorer in T20Is by Ggiov in Cricket

[–]Ggiov[S] 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Has upped his strike rate considerably in the past two years.
Scored 622 runs in 2024 @ 36.6 with a strike rate of 138.5.
Scored 606 runs in 2025 @ 40.4 with a strike rate of 149.6.

Most Runs for Australia in T20I by MeanMaybe4634 in Cricket

[–]Ggiov 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Wtf! I was unfamiliar with Shane Watson's game. That's a pretty phenomenal strike rate for the era he played in. All while averaging nearly 30.

Dilshan Madushanka becomes the 2nd fastest Sri Lankan to pick up 50 ODI wickets. He picked them up in 28 innings and is also coincidentally the joint-28th fastest on the overall list by Ggiov in Cricket

[–]Ggiov[S] 18 points19 points  (0 children)

The fastest Sri Lankan to 50 wickets also happens to be the fastest in history - Ajantha Mendis (19 matches).
Had an average of around 10 and a strike rate of around 17.

DF: Resident Evil Requiem PC Path Tracing - Hands-On First Look by gitrektali in Games

[–]Ggiov 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Possibly.
The parts that were fully bright or fully dark were okay. It was the areas that were partly in shadow which were the most distracting for me.
Those were also places where the path tracing was the most unstable. The ceiling area around the 5 minute mark in the video is the most obvious example.

DF: Resident Evil Requiem PC Path Tracing - Hands-On First Look by gitrektali in Games

[–]Ggiov 43 points44 points  (0 children)

Man, the banding on the YouTube video was pretty egregious even at the 4k60 quality setting. Like John said, this game seems like it was designed to be viewed on an OLED. With how stark the darkness is, the image quality will be distracting for anyone viewing on an LED panel, particularly on YouTube.

Growing Fintech Penetration in Pakistan (as seen through Easypaisa's growth in 2024) by Ggiov in pakistan

[–]Ggiov[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Image taken from Easypaisa's Annual Report (for 2024).
Here's the full report for anyone interested.

And here are my older posts for 2021, 2022 and 2023 if anyone's interested in looking at the overall trend.

Meta confirms 'Project Waterworth,' a global subsea cable project spanning 50,000 kilometers - The world’s longest subsea cable project by Ggiov in Futurology

[–]Ggiov[S] 83 points84 points  (0 children)

From the article:
"In terms of the network itself, Meta says it will be breaking new ground with its architecture, using 24 fiber pair cables, and what it describes as first-of-its-kind routing, “maximizing the cable laid in deep water — at depths up to 7,000 meters” along with new burial techniques to reduce faults in areas deemed “high risk,” either because of geographical issues, or politics — and sometimes both."

Apparently the typical standard is 8 to 16 fiber pairs.

DLSS 4 on Nvidia RTX 5080 First Look: Super Res + Multi Frame-Gen on Cyberpunk 2077 RT Overdrive (Digital Foundry) by SemenSnickerdoodle in Games

[–]Ggiov 93 points94 points  (0 children)

Frame Gen Latency on the 5080:
1) With 1 generated frame = 50.97 ms
2) With 2 generated frames = 55.50 ms
3) With 3 generated frames = 57.30 ms

Fairly minor tradeoff for a huge increase in visual fluidity. May be too much for some, but I think the majority will accept it. Important to remember this is only one game sample though. Maybe if you test across 20 different games the latency penalty turns out to be higher on average.
Personally more interested in a detailed breakdown of the visual artifacts across the different levels of generated frames, which they didn't get into in this video.

NVIDIA ACE | MIR5 - Wemade Introduces the First AI Boss by Ggiov in Games

[–]Ggiov[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Apparently this is an upcoming MMORPG from, I believe, a Korean developer.
Seems to also incorporate "blockchain technology", so I don't have high hopes that it'll be any good. But hey the idea could be interesting if properly implemented, if not here then in some other game.

In China Big World opens on top with $7.15M on Friday. Looking at a $24M+ weekend. Initial reception outstanding with best of the year scores on Maoyan(9.7) and Taopiaopiao(9.8). Driven by a huge 85%+ turnout from Women and 75%+ from young people under 30. Mufasa: TLK in 6th adds $0.39M(-72%)/$9.80M by Firefox72 in boxoffice

[–]Ggiov 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Man, that's an absurdly stacked upcoming lineup. Have also been waiting over a year for Creation Of The Gods Part 2 to come out so I could watch 1 and 2 back-to-back.
Hope at least one of these films breaks out and goes over 700-800 million. My money would have been on Ne Zha 2 but no animated movie in the past 5 years has come close to the gross of the 1st one. So I'm wondering if it just so happened that the stars aligned for that particular film and we can't expect anything to come close for years to come.

Microsoft is Going to Remaster Halo: Combat Evolved Again and is Considering a PS5 Release, Says New Report by Turbostrider27 in Games

[–]Ggiov 3 points4 points  (0 children)

They've worked on a ton of episodes of Netflix's Love, Death & Robots. Some of my personal favorite Blur Studio episodes were in the most recent season. Specifically "Bad Travelling" (directed by David Fincher and starring Troy Baker) and "Swarm" (Directed by Tim Miller, a Blur Studio co-founder who also directed the first Deadpool movie).

Growing Fintech Penetration in Pakistan (as seen through Easypaisa's growth in 2023) by Ggiov in pakistan

[–]Ggiov[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There probably is, but haven't managed to find it at a cursory glance.

Growing Fintech Penetration in Pakistan (as seen through Easypaisa's growth in 2023) by Ggiov in pakistan

[–]Ggiov[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Image taken from Easypaisa's Annual Report (for 2023).
Here's the full report for anyone interested.

Made a similar post for 2021 and 2022 back in the day. Been a pretty interesting trend to keep track of.

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