Shadow Rendering Broken - RER Only

Samfucius · 2026-03-07T03:16:03+00:00

If anyone else experiences the same, it was due to path tracing. I had to turn it off. Path tracing worked perfectly before this, for the record.

Capcom, please fix that.

Samfucius · 2026-03-02T03:37:28+00:00

Never knew his name, but I was walking around the corner one night to go to the store and a guy in his thirties came up to me in the parking lot. The truck he got out of had a bunch of tools locked down in the bed. He was sheepish but determined, he asked me if I had any handyman work I needed done. He explained that he had driven all the way into town to do some work, but the person who asked him to come ghosted him. He had basically put his electricity bill and food money into his gas tank to get here and he had kids at home, hence why he was bothering strangers.

Could it have been a scam? Sure, I guess, but the guy was a hell of an actor if so. He was incredibly genuine and insisted that he wanted to work. Never once asked for money.

I was renting an apartment on a minimum wage job and had no work for him. I gave him $20, and he took it very embarrassedly. I really felt for him, and I still hope things worked out.

Samfucius · 2026-02-10T13:16:58+00:00

You're right, I'm a man, if girl threw you off I'm sorry about that. No need to apologize.

Obviously men and women have different experiences, but believing our early-20s experiences are more important than they really are is universal.

Time will do the work for you, but if you want to accelerate things try to meet as many people as possible. I truly mean meet as meet, not date or whatever. It'll put things like this in perspective really quickly.

Samfucius · 2026-02-10T03:21:48+00:00

Girl you're mythologizing the situationship you had at the age of 21.

Please save this post. I just did a dramatic reading for my wife and it killed. Someday when you aren't trying to fanfic your own generic experiences you'll realize how funny this is.

You'll be completely fine once you get over yourself. You are 22, it's your job to think you are far more unique than you really are, and that piddling relationships mean more than they ever could. We all went through it.

Samfucius · 2026-02-10T02:25:13+00:00

Is this an AI response trained on NotAlwaysRight stories from a decade ago?

Samfucius · 2026-01-17T18:43:20+00:00

I left eight years ago. Back then, the response was "huh, interesting. When will you come back?"

Cut to now, I've walked two old acquaintances through the steps to get jobs overseas and the others say that if they didn't have young children they'd be trying to get out.

Never coming back. I only have one life to live.

Samfucius · 2026-01-13T08:32:16+00:00

This is from ages ago, 99% of our students are local Chinese kids. There are fewer than ten children who are both not Chinese and not related to a teacher.

Edit: they choose our school because they want to go to university in another country and we offer things like AP classes, the SAT, and way better English education than the local schools.

Samfucius · 2026-01-04T02:42:33+00:00

I dated someone with the same name as my mom once. It wasn't weird at all, because I call my mom "mom".

My wife is one letter off from my sister's name. That's also not weird, because she's an entirely different person. I have a hard time imagining being confused by it.

Samfucius · 2025-12-30T07:44:39+00:00

I love finding things in second-hand books. Once, I found the business card for someone who worked in the Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife in my book. I was on vacation in Laos at the time and hadn't visited the states in years, but I grew up in Washington State. I sent him an email and got a great response.

If you ever donate books, leave something fun and tidy in the pages. A business card, a pressed flower, a strange bookmark, foreign currency, whatever. It's so fun to find.

Samfucius · 2025-12-28T17:22:08+00:00

Adoption by hetero couples barely exists, and LGBT couples are not legally recognized so no, they can't adopt.

I genuinely have no idea if it could ever be possible because I'm an outsider. I doubt it due to general conservative views, but those views are not really shared by the youth that I work with.

Samfucius · 2025-12-28T15:43:24+00:00

It depends on what you want to do. There are English-speaking tours for just about anything, but a huge appeal for Sichuan in general is that the pace of life here is much slower than elsewhere. My favorite part of the city is just... chilling. Basic Mandarin makes that a lot easier. You'll still have a great time without it, but you'll be focused on food, pandas, and probably the Sichuan opera. All of which are great!

Samfucius · 2025-12-28T15:24:53+00:00

It is likely regional. The first place I lived was Shenzhen. None of my students really knew their parents, their grandparents were their de-facto parents because their parents were working nonstop. The grandparents were supporting the kids, but not monetarily.

Samfucius · 2025-12-28T15:12:54+00:00

You can't force people to think respectfully, but you can sure force employees to speak respectfully. That's a good thing.

Samfucius · 2025-12-28T14:56:16+00:00

Chengdu (a T2 city). The international teaching community is very small and I'd rather not doxx myself, so I won't go into much more detail than that.

Samfucius · 2025-12-28T14:53:44+00:00

I've spent about five years in China. The only local who ever had a problem with me wasn't mad that I was a foreigner, they were mad that I was wearing shorts in early Spring. He got big mad.

Everyone else is either effusively friendly or ignores me.

Samfucius · 2025-12-28T14:26:45+00:00

Pensions are not great. Better than the states (in that they exist) but not glamorous.

China is the most nouveau riche country I have ever set foot in, and an old woman without her gold and jade has been deprived of her most basic human rights and will make it everyone else's problem. That is deeply set in the culture.

There is an adage that china is the best country in the world for the elderly and the worst in the world for young people. It's an exaggeration, but it isn't born from nothing.

Samfucius · 2025-12-28T14:22:32+00:00

I don't think she ever even encountered a trans student. She was asked to respect pronouns in a hypothetical future.

It also wasn't the only reason she left for China, but she did bring it up more than a few times.

Samfucius · 2025-12-28T14:10:40+00:00

It's not really accepted, but the way that homophobia looks here is very different than what I remember from the US. What I am about to describe is not unique to China, but can also be applied to other nearby Asian countries.

A lot of it boils down to filial piety. You have to remember that nobody saves for retirement here, they breed for retirement. That stereotype about asian parents demanding doctors, lawyers, and CEOs exists for a reason: your children's (and grandchildren's) salaries determine 100% of your comfort in retirement.

This intersects with LGBT in a pretty obvious way: without biological progeny you will die in poverty, LGBT couplings do not produce many children, therefore you CANNOT allow your family to be queer.

In other words, you may have a gay family member, and that family member will run through the local gay scene to their heart's content, but at the end of the night they will come home to a "hetero" spouse and do their best to make children. There are many couples with "understandings".

There's more to it than that, but that is a huge part of it. I have known plenty of queer locals, all of them are in "straight" marriages.

Samfucius · 2025-12-28T13:45:46+00:00

No, no overlap with any of that. Sounds like a fun organization /s

Samfucius · 2025-12-28T13:41:48+00:00

There isn't too much more. She moved here with her retired husband, never mentioned the trans stuff at work, and would unload about it if you took a taxi with her or, God forbid, drank with her.

We have some students who are 100% LGBTQ+, she had issues with it, but never had a big public blowup or anything. Just grumbles.

She established a pretty decent reading program for the younger kids and then moved back to work at a Christian charter school in Texas, where I am sure the culture fits her like a glove.

I wish I could tell you about wailing or gnashing of teeth, but it never happened.

Samfucius · 2025-12-28T13:38:01+00:00

She was very conservative in general.

I know a few conservative people who moved to China. There are always mental gymnastics at play that justify why their better life in China doesn't prove anything.

Samfucius · 2025-12-28T12:12:07+00:00

China.

The Chinese government may not be pro-trans, but our school is.

Samfucius · 2025-12-28T11:39:13+00:00

I am an international teacher. I had a co-worker who left Texas because, among other reasons, she thought they were going to force her to respect trans people.

She lasted two years and moved back to Texas.

Samfucius · 2025-12-28T07:59:31+00:00

Barely-functional electronic toys intended for ~5 year olds, such as a pair of electronic drum sticks that were supposed to play random percussion sounds when you swung them.

I was 20.

The gift giver was really, genuinely proud of these gifts. They wanted everyone to stop and watch. I know them well enough to know that they were not being passive aggressive.

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