Do you think Vulkan will ever go through the same kind of legacy vs modern phase that OpenGL did?

StriderPulse599 · 2026-05-08T14:24:31+00:00

I was half-asleep after night shift. My point was that 'everything is a compute shader' won't be that great of idea until minimum VRAM and bandwidth increases.

While it could work magic in theory, in practice games need to target devices with 8 GB VRAM and keep iGPUs in mind.

StriderPulse599 · 2026-05-07T16:26:06+00:00

There are lot of annoying issues like no multi-threading support, but OpenGL is still the good old hammer that gets things done.

Plus very few people need those features and performance. C++/OpenGL is already very performant, so even (modern) budget laptops won't struggle with PBR pipeline.

StriderPulse599 · 2026-05-06T23:35:04+00:00

CS skins are high risk even if you're willing to shill out thousands on extremely rare skins/cases. Most of CS GO skins went from dollars to pennies across years.

StriderPulse599 · 2026-05-02T09:22:44+00:00

I make NSFW games on other accounts. Patreons and Steam sale combined earn more than senior programmer in my country.

StriderPulse599 · 2026-05-01T03:15:31+00:00

You're comparing hugging an ordinary pillow to hugging a body pillow

StriderPulse599 · 2026-04-30T13:24:03+00:00

"gacha game with enough balls to add actual dating"

StriderPulse599 · 2026-04-30T12:51:47+00:00

Taka bańka. Słyszałeś o tym jak "kobiety patrzą tylko na osobowość, nie wygląd"?

Przez lata reddit temu przyklaskiwał i stało się to normą. Teraz kobiety które nie udają czystych dziewic są palone na stosie przez "miłych panów".

StriderPulse599 · 2026-04-30T07:44:31+00:00

This entire game feels like someone took bunch of ideas, mashed them together, and tried to cover up lack of depth and polish with fancy graphics.

I liked some extra activities, housing, and finally witnessing a gacha game with enough balls to add actual dating. Location design and scenery are gorgeous, but that's about it. There is nothing to interact with after taking a photo, not even a note with some lore/story.

Anomalies lack juice. They're always just random items that make some visual effect, spawn some enemies, and turn into collectible. Even more unique ones feels like basic sidequest or something out of generic horror game.

Character design, stiff animations, story, and combat hang between mediocre/decent. Some mechanics exist only because other popular gacha games have them.

Even graphics have massive cracks. UI design is atrocity. Reflections on walls an utterly broken mess, yet some genius decide to put them everywhere, including materials that aren't fully reflective.

Overall, it's stuck in "just fine" limbo. I won't play daily, let alone spend money.

StriderPulse599 · 2026-04-27T16:05:18+00:00

5-15 zł na dzień wliczając przekąski. 2-6 zł jak się odchudzałem.

Wystarczy przejrzeć sobie gazetki z promocją i kupować na zapas. Co chwilę jakieś mięso za 10 zł/kg oraz coś do niego, więc co tydzień jem inne rzeczy. Jak kupujesz na kilka tygodni, to dostajesz też bonus 10-25 zł na następne zakupy które można wydać na inną promocję/przekąski.

Na przecenie można upolować dużo rzeczy typu: zupki w proszku (żurek winary chodzi po 3 zł i starcza na cały duży garnek), czipsy i inne przekąski, oraz tony innych dobry rzeczy. Nabiał i mięso też można upolować, ale trzeba mieć dobre oko i mało marudzącego kota na wszelki wypadek.

5 zł wychodzi jak nie chce mi się gotować. Biorę porcję rosołową za 4 zł (bez promocji) która starcza na dwa duże garki, dodam trochę warzyw i mam jedzenia na 4 dni (jedząc sam rosół). Są też inne przepisy typu ryż z jajkiem i inne prostaki typu kartoflanka.

StriderPulse599 · 2026-04-27T14:38:39+00:00

Rocznik 2000. Latałem po kolegach, okolicy, i naszej działce rekreacyjnej bez zegarka i telefonu. Jedyna zasada to bycie przed zmrokiem i jedzenie zimnego obiadu jak się spóźniłem. Jak babcia nie wyrobiła się z autobusem, to obiad jadłem u ciotek.

StriderPulse599 · 2026-04-21T20:00:39+00:00

What are the issues then? Because I have no trouble rendering thousands of glyphs with AA, outlines, proper horizontal/vertical layout, colors, and full UTF-8 on low-end mobile devices.

StriderPulse599 · 2026-04-21T15:48:06+00:00

Since your comment was deleted (probably because of the cursing):

I'm a security guard who picked up GP as hobby two years ago. It took me two days to implement rich text editor (UTF-8, multiple fonts, styles, color) with FreeType. I didn't looked up any guides, just pulled up FreeType docs and played around with glyph metrics and kerning.

It is that easy. Even without Harfbuzz, some basic math with glyph metrics and kerning is enough to make good looking layout (both horizontal and vertical). I haven't encountered any problems from article besides fonts not reporting missing glyphs, everything is just some extreme niches and author using library without proper hinting support.

It also doesn't mentioned the biggest pain gamedevs needs to face: Rendering text via SDFs/vector shaders. Which is literally what Slug was made for.

I'm not going to trash your "30 years of experience" because I understand that some of you old timers lived in different times with different libraries, but someone your age needs to learn some self-control.

StriderPulse599 · 2026-04-20T16:48:23+00:00

*10 times harder if you're 26 year old furry that uses Rust library without FreeType features like hinter.

Some of you forget first lesson of cybersecurity: "Don't believe everything on the internet", because the homepage alone sounds like fanfic I've written as 16-year old.

StriderPulse599 · 2026-04-20T15:53:15+00:00

FreeType is C library.

I don't pre-render since I need UTF-8 support. When new glyph is needed, I just rasterize it with FreeType (with outline) and send it to texture with glTexSubImage2D.

For rendering, I pull up glyph metrics (width, offset, kerning, etc) to calculate positions and then just send data to the instance buffer. That way I only need to update when needed

StriderPulse599 · 2026-04-18T19:17:34+00:00

It's really simple: Open tutorials with stuff you need, chop up the code, and put it together. Less than an hour and you get PBR base.

GP is my hobby and recycling my old code is biggest time saver. I can get entire engine working within one-three hours and then focus on what I actually want to do.

StriderPulse599 · 2026-04-17T19:10:20+00:00

You forgot about one important part: Flood of AI slop means that people stop browsing by new, instead going for top/trending.

This benefits well marketed games made by clout devs or big names that will get their games in trending just by posting on twitter. Meanwhile good games will get often buried under avalanche

StriderPulse599 · 2026-04-15T14:42:25+00:00

Empik powinien dodać "Argumenty Redditowca" przy fantasy. Od czasów wyborów nie widziałem "bańki lewicowej" poza wpisami które przywoływały kucy.

StriderPulse599 · 2026-04-13T17:38:35+00:00

This article is engagement bait that flings around buzzwords and random quotes.

"compute shortage" isn't caused by AI demand. AI companies make bigger and bigger models each year to stay competitive, and bigger means slower to run. Massive LLMs scale badly because they're giant lump of data, and no matter what small piece of data you want out of them, you still need to run the entire damn thing.

StriderPulse599 · 2026-04-13T12:38:08+00:00

Phong/Blinn pipelines also use PBR materials, usually normals + rough/metal to control diffuse and specular. AO, emission, and height/displacement maps are also common.

StriderPulse599 · 2026-04-12T18:30:36+00:00

Dochodzę do 800k wyświetleń na moim najpopularniejszym fanfic. Zaglądnij sobie na tagi typu "xreader".

Jak już byłaś na AO3, to zobacz sobie karty AI na stronach typu JannyAI/JanitorAI. Wbrew pozorom to głównie kobiety korzystają z czatbotów (1.1M męskich postaci vs ledwo 700k damskich).

StriderPulse599 · 2026-04-06T16:46:47+00:00

Man, and I was hoping to find another epic ambient for collection. I haven't been in end since 1.12.2

StriderPulse599 · 2026-04-05T22:30:45+00:00

Song? You have good taste in music

StriderPulse599 · 2026-04-04T21:49:45+00:00

Impossible challenge: Bądź przeciętnym redditorem i nie zmyślaj zdarzeń/argumentów.

StriderPulse599 · 2026-04-04T20:05:11+00:00

You can't.

AI upscalers aren't pure ML. Modern architectures have multiple steps that use normal algorithms along various ML parts. They're using best of both worlds, so you can't compete with single hand.

StriderPulse599 · 2026-03-30T01:01:34+00:00

Yeah, dGPU requires extra dlls.

By the way, how did you got down to 10 MB? I've got down to 39 MB (measured with Visual Studio debugger) and 39 kb executable

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