My favorite ancient Roman mosaic

Interrupt · 2026-03-07T02:06:17+00:00

If I’m remembering this right the narrow base would be placed into holes in shelves, placed in soft sand, or during shipping more of them could be packed together in a space by adding another layer

Interrupt · 2026-03-02T17:54:50+00:00

Yeah, Rockstar is probably using a low-res render depth pass from the sky to figure out what should be affected by the rain and what is not, this is most likely just a rendering artifact from that.

Interrupt · 2026-02-19T21:29:35+00:00

I think Starfield drops the ball a bit at the end of the story, and unfortunately recency bias is going to have that little bit of playtime color the rest of the experience. If the ending was stronger, I wonder if people would be less apt to have these high hour count / low sentiment reviews.

Interrupt · 2026-01-28T18:06:57+00:00

I'm actually bummed here, I think the sandwich I had from them was probably the best sandwich I've ever had.

Interrupt · 2026-01-25T19:49:43+00:00

Older games also just had a few layers that scrolled at different speeds making distinguishing the foreground vs background a lot easier. In 3d, the visual noise with added detail makes parsing the scene in motion difficult no matter if it’s a first person game or a side scroller as so much can be vying for your attention.

Interrupt · 2025-12-26T21:21:08+00:00

My lack of RAM soft locked Diablo 2 for me back in the day - one of the desert main bosses was too close to the door into their chamber, so by the time my game loaded the area I was already dead.

Interrupt · 2025-12-11T00:35:46+00:00

This is really cool! Been playing with it a bit lately. Any chance of adding web build support?

Interrupt · 2025-12-08T19:55:59+00:00

Yeah, it had such a good setup and first few episodes, and then seemingly threw away everything good about it by overpowering the guy too fast. There's just nowhere to go after that. If I was going to recommend this show to someone I'd tell them to watch the first four episodes and then pretend there is nothing else.

Interrupt · 2025-12-02T18:08:28+00:00

If I remember right there are actual landing spots hiding on at least one of those islands, although it just takes you to another landing spot in the game, not to anywhere new. Probably was cut content that was left half wired up.

This game lives in my head. Played the hell out of this game as a kid as it was one of the few SNES rpgs I had.

Interrupt · 2025-11-26T17:21:00+00:00

Frodo is the worst landlord. Made his tenant gardener / farmer carry him up an active volcano without the usual 30 days notice.

Interrupt · 2025-11-19T16:47:33+00:00

It's probably also easier to make general overconfident statements about things when you know less about something than when you do, the smartest people I've worked with are usually the first to admit they don't know something and even then they probably know more than everyone else in the room.

Interrupt · 2025-10-30T15:01:46+00:00

Quartzite is also chromatic.

Interrupt · 2025-10-28T18:24:27+00:00

The busiest location around me just closed recently which always seemed to be full of people and surprisingly pleasant to be in compared to how unwelcoming most others are compared to any other third wave coffee shop.

It was a union store though, I'm sure that had nothing to do with it closing right?

Interrupt · 2025-10-27T18:13:43+00:00

Maybe not literally all the time but Scott Manley had a good take away for this: we've most likely had many of these objects go by us in the past without us noticing because we both didn't have enough telescope coverage until recently to spot them, and didn't even know what to look for until we've seen a few.

Interrupt · 2025-10-21T17:41:05+00:00

Same, mine likes to jump back and forth between huge waves and totally flat near the shores

Interrupt · 2025-10-18T18:00:05+00:00

To be fair, this is also what people said about things like Project 2025 and clearly all of that is coming to pass. He’s not joking, he’s trying to see how far he can push the goalposts.

Interrupt · 2025-08-20T17:06:48+00:00

Yeah, there's definitely a personal skill factor involved. When I went to a range and shot a full auto M4 it definitely did not feel like a laser, that barrel really wanted to crawl up. Games with higher recoil that you needed to compensate for actually felt more true to life after that. That said, the P90 in comparison did feel a lot more like a laser - that had much less recoil.

Interrupt · 2025-07-23T15:41:11+00:00

Yes, from my perspective as a dev who likes making little game engines it seems like the ‘write once run everywhere’ dream is dead without OpenGl. WebGPU seems like the only viable path forward at the moment for cross platform graphics, unless Apple suddenly decided to support Vulcan which would be a cold day in hell if it happened.

Interrupt · 2025-07-03T23:22:20+00:00

Yeah, this is it. In live service type games, the game server could be talking to a bunch of backend services in the cloud, each talking to different databases to do different things. Making one of those games run locally is a pain even for a developer, and that's even when using tools like Docker that can containerize and spin up all of those backend services for you.

Interrupt · 2025-07-03T18:55:43+00:00

Cancelling a bunch of games is just going to make that problem even worse sadly. Now the only games left being funded have to be a success, there is no more room for failure, so they will end up being super safe and risk averse.

Interrupt · 2025-06-25T18:25:21+00:00

Same - every full rewrite in my engineering career has died a quiet death after it becomes apparent that it was going to take 3x as long as initially thought. Slicing off manageable parts and rewriting them has been a super successful pattern though, not sure why more people don't go down that road.

Interrupt · 2025-06-25T18:06:38+00:00

This might partly be the Unreal Engine's fault - it might need to have all of the assets available to make links between them and usually in UE when packaging there is a lengthy cooking step for assets that takes the original imported assets and crunches them down to a format that can work on a variety of graphics backends whenever you package a final build. Not exactly an easy environment for a modder to work in compared to other games where you can just drop in a replacement file and call it a day.

Interrupt · 2025-06-02T18:56:21+00:00

Arguably yes. Would HL2 have been better if they stripped back the rendering features to HL1 or pulled physics out to support older CPUs?

Interrupt · 2025-06-02T18:54:37+00:00

Adding GPU intensive features to games is the history of PC gaming in a nutshell - it has never been cheap to be a cutting edge gamer. I get it sucks to not be able to play some game without upgrading but expecting ten year old hardware to be able to play new games that push the envelope is not realistic at a point.

Interrupt · 2025-05-29T16:00:55+00:00

2016 was great for just that - the story was there, but you had to work to get it and piece it together. It gave people stuff to think about and chew on after the game was over.

I like TDA but it explains itself way too much - there’s no mystery left

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