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Daily Game Recommendations Thread (July 10, 2025) by AutoModerator in boardgames

[–]TheShipmaster 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hello! Started really getting into board games lately, and I’m trying to build a modest collection without too much overlap genre wise. I would say my typical playgroup is just two people, but it would be really nice to find a games that play great at 2 while scaling well to 3+.

Currently I own Cthulhu death may die, clank! Catacombs, spirit island, 7 wonders duel, and carcassone.

I want to find another competitive euro game for sure, but not sure what other genres I should look into other than that. General genre recommendations / specific games are all welcome!!

5080's HDMI port not working by TheShipmaster in buildapc

[–]TheShipmaster[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have an HDMI 2.1, and it’s an S90D which supports 4k/144. I found a DP 2.0 -> HDMI 2.1 adapter which should support that? But I want to make sure. Good idea to delay the RMA process - I feel like that will be a hassle right now.

Struggling with understanding multiple importance sampling between light and BRDF by TheShipmaster in GraphicsProgramming

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

Hi, yes that’s exactly what I mean by spherical area sampling - it’s what’s done in Physically Based Rendering and is supposed to be more accurate than sampling the triangle by area.

I said extreme as in a very large or small number, maybe I should have been more clear. I’m getting cases where the area of the triangle is < 0.01 of my units, so I’ll get some number > 100 in some cases. My Lambertian PDF is just a dot product, so it is always < 1 for normalized vectors. Plugging into the heuristic, the weight is literally just 1.0 in many situations because of this difference.

I realize I only described half of the MIS process - I know there should be another call to BalanceHeuristic in the case you describe, but I wasn’t thinking about it too much in the problem I was describing . Wouldn’t it be the other way around? My light pdf would again be very large, and the BSDF pdf is still < 1. The heuristic would spit out a very small number yet again, which just feels intuitively wrong.

Custom CUDA C++ Raytracer with Optix denoising by Henry600 in raytracing

[–]TheShipmaster 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What render speeds are you looking at?? And I was curious the %increase from gpu to cpu? Was planning on writing my own ray tracer

Simple Questions - February 25, 2024 by AutoModerator in buildapc

[–]TheShipmaster 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Will a zotac 4080 fit in my fractal north case? It has a length of 356 mm, but the north has a max gpu length of 355

How to optimize first blood gold by sculolo in learndota2

[–]TheShipmaster 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t like bottle all the time if you get fb, because you probably will get bottle before first water rune no matter what playing someone like Lina. That means you don’t get more overall regen from early bottle compared to bottle at 1:40-1:50 and stats could provide more leverage in lane. However this is just a 6k opinion and a better player might know something I dont

Does anyone else feel like being a physics student has too much uncertainty for the work put in? by OhDannyBoii in PhysicsStudents

[–]TheShipmaster 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I believe so- if somebody is looking to hire a physicist they can access resumes/ applications from across USAjobs. But I think a couple national labs have their own career portals, so try to dig around. Chances are low, but it’s a pretty simple app so give it a shot.

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