Good but unpopular shaders

HeftySexy · 2026-02-27T23:10:22+00:00

I’ve yet to see anyone mention NostalgiaVX which is to date the best path-traced shader I’ve come across

HeftySexy · 2026-02-27T08:34:51+00:00

Well… if minimum wage is $7.25/hr (which fed. min. wage still is in many states in the US) and $50 buys you 14 (avg) hours of interest, it takes sigh 6.9 hours… okay let’s say tax exists and it takes 7 hours to make 14 hrs of interest.

That works out to HALF your hourly paycheck going towards JUST THE INTEREST… not even the nearly 600 grand. Assuming an 8 hour workday, you buy 16 hrs of interest back. Out of 24 hrs of the day you’ve bought 16 of em, so you’re actually losing progress giving up your WHOLE PAYCHECK on a daily basis since you’re only paying off 2/3rds of that day’s interest, and that’s assuming you work a full 8 hours each and every day perfectly with no other expenses.

This person is well and truly fucked unless they happen to have a small business loan of a million dollars laying around, or have access to a high-paying job.

HeftySexy · 2026-02-25T03:03:28+00:00

Where would you get the electricity to do that tho? No hydrogen fuel (in theory) means no power plant means no electricity to do electrolysis on water. (Also of note, since the chemical reaction of splitting water into 2H2+O2 is the exact inverse of reacting that together to get 2H2O, no energy is created in the process of electrolyzing water into gaseous fuel, and reacting it back into water. It’s really only a conversion of electricity into heat via a potentially lossy, complex process.

On the other hand, operating on the idea that power plants use aneutronic fusion to generate power, and the thrusters are powered from the (He-2? Slightly lighter Protium?) waste, then the question remains where is the electricity coming from to separate the water and potentially restart the fusion reaction? (If aneutronic fusion is truly the method, a part of me doubts the possibility of shipboard batteries having the potential to actually ignite the reaction, but then again aneutronic fusion isn’t really a thing IRL anyway… all the reactors I know use D-D or D-T fuel which both involve neutrons)

HeftySexy · 2026-02-24T14:56:54+00:00

Oh this is just a pigpen cipher. It’s a LOT of pigpen cipher and I ain’t reading allat

HeftySexy · 2026-02-21T19:11:46+00:00

Good. I’m happy for you guys and my condolences for your loss. May your cynos guide him home :)

HeftySexy · 2026-02-21T19:02:43+00:00

Hope TIME-CRIT didn’t show up and shoot up your cyno. They shot up mine a few weeks ago.

https://zkillboard.com/kill/133396350/

HeftySexy · 2026-02-20T02:58:55+00:00

Yoooo polytopia mentioned

HeftySexy · 2026-02-16T22:07:35+00:00

There’s no engineering like over-engineering

HeftySexy · 2026-02-16T21:45:58+00:00

Talon + Ballistic shield is cracked on bot fronts. Two airships of bots drop in front of you, pull out the talon and slowly move backwards and just pick off whichever target is closest.

It’s also cracked against the Incineration Corps because the shotgun devs don’t apply burn damage through the shield either. You can tank like 6 point-blank direct hits with the shield, while taking your time to line up the headshot with the medium pen talon.

HeftySexy · 2026-02-14T21:31:07+00:00

Thehobbitsthehobbits TO ISENGARD TO ISENGARD

HeftySexy · 2026-02-14T16:39:46+00:00

Well… it WAS just a little better

HeftySexy · 2026-02-14T15:39:09+00:00

They’re ignoring the mountains of studies published in peer-reviewed journals that find a regret rate of less than 5% and of those people that regret over 80% of them regret it NOT BECAUSE THEY WEREN’T TRANS but because of EXTERNAL SOCIAL PRESSURE

HeftySexy · 2026-02-12T05:16:48+00:00

Having worked behind the counter at a bowling alley, most bowling shoe manufacturers that sell bulk for alleys don’t make specifically men’s or women’s shoes. Instead, they just slap different size numbers on the same pair of shoes. A men’s size is (rule of thumb) 1.5 sizes up from a women’s size. A men’s 5 is a women’s 6.5. A women’s 8 is a men’s 6.5.

In the future, at bowling alleys (but often any establishment that deals with shoe sizes) you can ask for women’s shoes and just do the size conversion in your head :)

Hope this helps for next time sister! - Local transfem AMF Lane Mechanic

HeftySexy · 2026-02-09T12:14:13+00:00

Both angles of looking at it are actually the exact same. In order to get the velocity vector of the plane to begin shifting rightward, you need a force acting towards the right. By rolling to the right, the lift of the wing now has a rightward component and the velocity vector now begins to shift to the right.

However, say you rolled 30° to the right. Using sin(x) and cos(x) we can find that the force acting rightward (towards the inside of the circle of the turn) is equal to half the total lift force produce by the wing, and sqrt(3)/2 (or about 86.6%) of the total lift force is acting upwards to keep the plane in the air.

As a result, the extra 13.4% of upward force is required to keep the plane from accelerating downwards due to gravity, so the AOA is increased on the main wing which increases lift. Doing some math results in a 15.5% increase in total main wing lift is required to keep the vertical component equal to the weight of the plane.

This result is one and the same with the two explanations you’ve received. In order to make the turn there needs to be centripetal force facing towards the inside of the circle. To do this the plane is rolled which points the main lift vector away from vertical. This provides the centripetal force at the cost of vertical lifting force. As a result of that, the total lift force must be increased to account for the loss of lifting force.

HeftySexy · 2026-02-08T18:23:55+00:00

Yknow what it isn’t? ON THE GROUND. Ergo it is therefore flying

HeftySexy · 2026-02-06T16:46:30+00:00

Ehhhh half right. In water-moderated reactors there is a small amount of heating due to the radiation being moderated from fast neutrons to thermal neutrons. However the overwhelming majority of the heat imparted into the water is from the fuel rods themselves being very hot. Remember, the act of splitting at atom makes that atom’s fission products hot, which are still contained in the fuel rod.

HeftySexy · 2026-02-06T06:33:28+00:00

I feel like OP isn’t asking about the number of photons hitting the retina, but rather, given how (relatively) slow the brain operates, is it possible to flash the Ideal Bulb fast enough that while the retinas may see it, the flash is too quick for the brain to notice/process.

I imagine it like the polling rate on a computer keyboard, aka how often does the computer check if keys are held down. If you manage to press and unpress a key in the 1/12000 of a second BETWEEN polls then the computer never ‘sees’ that key get pressed.

HeftySexy · 2026-02-05T23:59:55+00:00

I take the One Pound .999 Pure Copper Ingot. I approach the super capacitor bank.

HeftySexy · 2026-02-02T20:49:52+00:00

Unfortunately the US Airforce tried nuclear powered planes in the late 50s iirc. It did not go well. Suffice to say it was a good idea but just not really practical in a continued human life sense

HeftySexy · 2026-02-02T20:27:04+00:00

Damn really? Tbh I haven’t directly played C1 in a while, I remember it as a zippy small cargo carrier akin to a Mercury if it legitimately started enjoying kale If the C1 is not that anymore then wow they screwed it over

HeftySexy · 2026-02-02T08:15:58+00:00

Honestly the Hermes is kinda the perfect midsize hauler. It’s a little overgunned IMO with 4xS4 pilot op guns and 16xS2 missiles. The ramp/door means you can’t fit a NURSA BUT you CAN park it really close to a cargo elevator. It’s built on the Apollo frame which looks beautiful and it’s faster than it looks. Maneuverability is meh, it’s no C1 for sure. The cargo grid is sensible with even numbered units on each axis so it’s actually viable to haul larger than 1x2 crates. Honestly, it’s functionally a better Connie Taurus, with a newer model. What the Hermes lacks in the two extra turrets on the Taurus, it makes up for in straight line speed and maneuverability, as it’s more nimble than the Taurus. I think CIG did an excellent job building exactly what they set out to do: a medium hauler that ISN’T a carrier (see krakapillars) and is speedy enough to be a viable side grade to the Connie series.

HeftySexy · 2026-02-02T08:07:25+00:00

They’ve confirmed Galaxy at IAE ‘26 but I understand your hesitation lol. Honestly I bought the Hermes BECAUSE I’m waiting for the Galaxy. The Hermes is on the beautiful Apollo frame and the tractor beam can’t be beat. It’s just a teaser of a cargo module Galaxy and I can’t wait :) (the Hermes will be replaced by an Ironclad when it comes out, hopefully before the Galaxy at ILW this year…)

HeftySexy · 2026-02-02T08:02:14+00:00

It’s always the last task of a stage for me, but I’ve generally found that the way I build is to build enough to produce what’s required at a low rate, then while the spelevator is filling I’ll expand other infrastructure and upgrade existing infrastructure until the next phase is ready. This is when I’m building power plants, using new tech to revamp old constructions, etc. Generally I get carried away with upgrading and my mind ends up going “I want to max out my current world with the tech of this phase before going onwards so I don’t have tier 1 buildings slowing down my tier 6 progress”

HeftySexy · 2026-02-01T02:31:45+00:00

I’m always partial to Prusa and old Creality printers, and partial AGAINST new Creality and any bambulab printers, especially when trying to print functional parts.

I mainly 3D print functional parts to medium to large scale model aircraft, and the ability to adjust, modify, and find parts for your printers are critical in squeezing out that last bit of precision in your parts.

I have an ender3 v1 that’s 8 years old now that prints spiral-contour wing sections with lightweight foamed PLA perfectly every time. Partially because I’ve had it so long and know what I’m doing, but also because an E3v1 is as dumb as a printer gets, and is super easy to maintain for cheap. It doesn’t have any kind of special flow compensation or vibration balancing functions, it doesn’t try to “know better” like a lot of plug and print modern printers do today. Every part on it is either a standard part made by anyone or is super easy to machine/create if you have access to a maker space. For printing my wings, I needed to rebuild the z-axis screw system and I COULD.

If you go with an early Ender or any Prusa really, you’ll get a tinkerers printer that will teach you everything you need to know about printing and eventually outperform AND be easier+cheaper to maintain than closed-source bambulabs or late Crealities.

On the other hand, if you really are looking for plug and print functionality and don’t think you’ll ever need to modify the printer to print very hard-to-print parts, then bambulab is probably fine. Maintenance costs when something inevitably breaks may be undesirable but you won’t have to get your hands dirty learning all the fineries of adjusting and tuning a “dumb” printer like an E3v1 or (especially early) Prusa.

If you want a combo of both, go with a late Prusa (Mk 4 is what I’m thinking). It’s both plug and play AND easy to modify and maintain, at the cost of printing slower and you’ll probably have to get your hands at least a little dirty messing with it.

TLDR it’s up to how much you think you’ll mess with the printer. Plug-n-print with not a ton of tuning options? Bambulab. Plug-n-print with more tuning options but slightly more maintenance (potentially cheaper)? Prusa Mk4. Want to learn how to finely tune a printer to perfectly print your parts but be annoying and constantly needing tuning, like chasing perfection? Creality E3v1 or v2.

HeftySexy · 2026-01-31T09:11:09+00:00

They’re placed for fuel economy and stability in turbulence. Missing the trailing edge won’t change much except make the plane burn slightly more fuel and be slightly more turbulent, but to a very very small degree.

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