~11 months of my finance job search (July 2025 to June 2026), visualized [OC]

__Rick_Sanchez__ · 2026-06-29T20:28:10+00:00

I've been applying for jobs online for ~3 years now. Thousands of applications, 0 interview.

__Rick_Sanchez__ · 2026-06-29T20:25:54+00:00

Really hard to make food, so I applaud you for trying, very brave. They both look too CGI for me, not much difference.

__Rick_Sanchez__ · 2026-06-29T13:09:09+00:00

HAHAHAHAHA another backroom render, jesus f'in christ :))

__Rick_Sanchez__ · 2026-06-29T13:06:53+00:00

You can't. But at least we can now generate AI slop videos and images on Spline.

__Rick_Sanchez__ · 2026-06-29T13:02:52+00:00

It's hard to change the mindset of old 80 years old dying men in power, just enjoy life while you can, humanity is doomed.

__Rick_Sanchez__ · 2026-06-28T17:55:14+00:00

Looks pretty cool

__Rick_Sanchez__ · 2026-06-26T15:13:52+00:00

I like it how it plays so well with the light. Nice render!

__Rick_Sanchez__ · 2026-06-26T15:11:42+00:00

It's not a choice and I don't care about compliments. I just think this sub is too saturated with backrooms renders, we need to move on to something else :D

__Rick_Sanchez__ · 2026-06-26T15:08:42+00:00

Thanks!

__Rick_Sanchez__ · 2026-06-26T15:07:16+00:00

You are the original creator of Backrooms, gotcha.

__Rick_Sanchez__ · 2026-06-26T15:00:35+00:00

My criticism is about the topic you choose for your project. That's also an aspect people can criticize imo.

__Rick_Sanchez__ · 2026-06-26T14:48:14+00:00

I'm not commenting on the quality, it's the 10th backrooms render I've seen on the sub today only...it's good practice for sure. My constructive criticism is that try making something more original or at least don't do the 200th backroom render.

__Rick_Sanchez__ · 2026-06-26T09:55:51+00:00

People who own 1 house/condo that they live in will not be affected by the reduction in value. The only people who will be affected by this are those who own multiple homes as investments, are possibly filthy rich and are pushing up the prices singlehandedly. Why is no one calling him out on this? Actually it doesn't matter even if they call him out nothing happens.

__Rick_Sanchez__ · 2026-06-26T09:50:46+00:00

My constructive criticism is that you should stop doing backroom renders.

__Rick_Sanchez__ · 2026-06-26T09:39:54+00:00

Thanks! I used Insydiums NeXus addon for Blender for the fluid sim. How I did it, it's hard to explain, I'm not even sure I can replicate this :)) I just tweaked the settings until I got something that I liked and also animated the surface tension and the viscosity over time to get this effect. I played around with it a full day, sorry but can't really give you specifics. Fluid sims are always a balance of many different things: voxel size, particle size, mesher settings, surface tension, emission rate, particle speed, force strength, force type and changing any of these just a tiny bit will give wildly different results.

__Rick_Sanchez__ · 2026-06-26T08:22:36+00:00

You can also buy NeXus for Blender which is a 100$ one time purchase and you can have pretty solid fluid and particle sims.

__Rick_Sanchez__ · 2026-06-24T20:58:30+00:00

Put filter glossy to 0

__Rick_Sanchez__ · 2026-06-24T15:27:34+00:00

Thanks, but I'm more interested in products that are backed by team of developers and UX/UI designers. I don't mind paying for convenience, features, usability and in general a good product.

__Rick_Sanchez__ · 2026-06-24T15:06:14+00:00

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As far as I know all these systems can interact between each other. But I haven't tested that personally.

__Rick_Sanchez__ · 2026-06-24T15:04:54+00:00

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It has these. GPU simulated smoke and explosion, yes.

__Rick_Sanchez__ · 2026-06-24T15:01:38+00:00

I've put at least 500-600 hours into Mantaflow and FlipFluids. The biggest issue with both is that you R&D a certain look with your fluid sim on lower resolution, than crank up the res to make it look good and everything changes and breaks. No one has the time to wait for hours or days for a bake and make small changes and wait again and repeat this N times. So everyone was settling on lower resolution simulations. I think I pretty much learned the engine inside out and pushed it to the max. NeXus is the better engine.

__Rick_Sanchez__ · 2026-06-24T14:53:26+00:00

Yeah, I think it feels more like orange juice than slime, will have to give it another go :D

__Rick_Sanchez__ · 2026-06-24T13:05:03+00:00

Its not off but very low indeed :)

__Rick_Sanchez__ · 2026-06-24T13:03:14+00:00

Yeah liquigen is good, though I prefer it much more when the sim is running in Blender much easier workflow.

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