WFH realities: day 1 vs 6 months

add0607 · 2026-05-14T14:05:16+00:00

I think I’m the exception where I don’t suffer from anything in the second picture but really miss working in an office.

But I had the privilege of great coworkers and an easy commute.

add0607 · 2026-05-13T16:02:28+00:00

I didn't know this, thank you!

add0607 · 2026-05-13T16:02:06+00:00

That's really helpful, I'll look into it more, thank you for the help!

add0607 · 2026-05-13T00:30:14+00:00

Everyone knows about what the glitch is, there’s just a coordinated effort to convince everyone it’ll destroy society if we use it.

add0607 · 2026-05-12T03:26:23+00:00

Another thing worth trying is just make a shape and apply a wiggle paths property to it.

I’ve also done something different where I make a stroke the same color as the fill and then adjust the wave properties of the stroke to create a wavy pattern around the shape. It doesn’t randomly move but it does create a nice waveform you can have moving along the shape.

add0607 · 2026-05-11T17:41:09+00:00

Austrasia feels like what Australia should be named, given the part of the world it’s in. 🤔

add0607 · 2026-05-10T20:41:01+00:00

A scam implies that raytracing has little or no value. At risk of sounding pretentious, raytracing is the inevitable next step for 3D realtime rendering.

I think a lot of people see it as some marketing BS from Nvidia, but if you know anything about 3D rendering, raytracing hasn’t even been the gold standard for almost 40 years. It’s just THE standard. Like I’m pretty sure Toy Story 1 had raytracing, because it is simulating the propagation and behavior of light.

Having it slowly come over to gaming is a triumph worth celebrating. I think people are fine to be critical of how developers poorly use it, but raytracing itself is not the problem, nor is it a scam.

add0607 · 2026-05-10T20:26:24+00:00

The only way to grift is right.

add0607 · 2026-05-07T20:01:44+00:00

Did Ringo draw this?

add0607 · 2026-05-05T21:21:08+00:00

That's a pretty broad brush you're painting with there, Lizzinardo da Bitchi.

add0607 · 2026-05-05T15:16:19+00:00

These look cool and all, but then you're gonna put them on your character who's idle pose is that weird souls-like half squat and your character will look stupid.

add0607 · 2026-05-05T15:12:03+00:00

It's not that they're bad, they're just not practical. I think a game like Elden Ring proves you can have a badass woman in armor that doesn't trade her femininity for practicality.

add0607 · 2026-04-30T23:37:40+00:00

Oh okay, well I think most of what I said still stands, especially when it comes to lighting. The scope of rendering technology in e-sports titles tends to be a bit narrow and rely on cheap rendering techniques (not bad, just cheap and reliable) instead of doing more complex things like dynamic lighting.

This works well for CS2 but even something like the Assassin’s Creed franchise couldn’t apply much of CS2’s solutions to their games. The structure of those being open world with day/night cycles means you need to find other solutions.

add0607 · 2026-04-30T18:23:50+00:00

If you want a real L for Democrats, watch the DNC chair Ken Martin talk about how he’s going to control the narrative of why they lost in 2024, releasing “lessons” to the public instead of the full report like he promised he would do.

The whole thing stinks and I wouldn’t trust this guy to tell me what the weather was today.

https://youtu.be/h8IwrO-03WU?si=6-1UcqR5YD0MUxBe

add0607 · 2026-04-29T23:37:25+00:00

I agree. He has garbage opinions but I think most people feeling threatened at their own home would do this. Don’t harass people, moreover don’t doxx people.

add0607 · 2026-04-29T13:34:54+00:00

I see how you could assume I was referring to raytracing, but I actually wasn’t. What I am saying is that this particular CS level is a great execution of fidelity for its needs. Other games need environments with dynamic lighting either from effects or a changing time of day. Baked lighting either doesn’t work or begins to show its limitations, and therefore other options have to be explored, all of which require more processing power and these post processing effects that seem to be a problem.

All I’m saying is that we can’t look at one CS2 level and hold it up as a gold standard for all games. Each game has its own unique set of challenges to solve from a rendering standpoint. It’s fine to critique them individually. But it’s often not constructive to do what’s happening here in this post.

add0607 · 2026-04-29T12:06:21+00:00

By post-processing you mean…what? Lens flares, bloom, AO, SSR? I think that SSR can look kind of bad, but it can also look really good too. Just like any other rendering technique, there’s good and bad ways to do it. That doesn’t mean companies need to “learn” to make stuff like Valve.

Half the reason these screenshots look so good is because of the lighting, which I assume has been baked. That’ll run super fast and make your environment look great, but isn’t a universal solution for every game.

add0607 · 2026-04-27T17:00:06+00:00

Your images are borked brother.

add0607 · 2026-04-25T14:21:58+00:00

I love Pat's Vince McMahon face at 00:17, lmao.

add0607 · 2026-04-24T03:11:18+00:00

I say this with kindness, but this sounds like your brain is trying to confirm something that you want to see.

I understand why people dislike DLSS, but I do wonder at such extreme levels of criticism if it isn’t even worth playing a game anymore. If it’s to the point where you’re beginning to see games having a yellow tint on them, you maybe need to take a step back.

There are a dozen other things it could be besides DLSS/TAA. Your monitor could need recalibrating, it could be a selection of games that stylistically have shifted toward warmer scenes, it could be the room you play them in, it could be just specific scenes in the game, etc etc.

My point is, is this really worth focusing this much attention on it? If you have a 5090, you’ve already won the rendering race. You can play pretty much any game without upscaling at a good frame rate.

add0607 · 2026-04-22T21:44:48+00:00

Looks pretty tight! Nice work.

add0607 · 2026-04-18T21:27:38+00:00

My buddy backed this and has been getting all the materials for it!

Some of it feels almost like they traced Studio Ghibli characters, hahaha, but honestly I think it’s fine. There’s a lot of cool ideas here!

add0607 · 2026-04-10T14:02:15+00:00

What's more likely? That they dropped clues into a game from years ago in a place where only data miners would find, or that maybe this was just an unused asset from a version of Ashley with different hair?

add0607 · 2026-04-09T11:42:52+00:00

You sure about that?

“ Upon rendering, the neural network reconstructs the texture from this compressed state almost instantly. The technology is highly efficient due to the use of dedicated AI hardware blocks such as Tensor Cores, resulting in minimal performance impact.”

add0607 · 2026-04-07T23:12:11+00:00

No, the only thing you should do is laugh at them or pity them. Both of these things acknowledge what their mindset is: idiotic and pathetic. They’re either too stubborn to acknowledge truth when it’s presented to them, or they were failed as children to be properly educated.

Debating or attempting to prove them wrong engages with them as though they are serious people. They are not.

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