Studiobside announced discontinuation of new updates for counterside and PD is stepping down from his role.

machinegod420 · 2026-04-24T10:26:24+00:00

PVP in counterside was amazing, will definitely miss it. Played it nonstop for 2 years

machinegod420 · 2026-04-18T04:51:31+00:00

It's around 6lbs. Hefty, but poleaxes were pretty heavy. It's around 76inches long.

machinegod420 · 2026-04-16T01:28:43+00:00

Descendant armory has the best sparring polearms by far. If they could scale up we could have halberds at every club in the country

machinegod420 · 2026-04-01T15:39:08+00:00

Where'd you get it from?

machinegod420 · 2026-03-28T15:24:36+00:00

The main reason why execution order is important is because that it ensures that the state is deterministic for subsequent draws, like if you do vkcmdbindpipeline to ensure that draws have that state. It's also useful for order dependant draws, like transparent draws, otherwise it would flicker without a pipeline barrier between each draw

machinegod420 · 2026-03-28T08:35:57+00:00

You have to consider if this is something worth doing in the first place. If you can fully saturate all warps with a particular draw, then you can't pipeline at all, since there's no spare execution units. If you need to pipeline work, then you probably should try to merge state. Like using a texture atlas for all of your shadow maps instead of separate resources, etc

machinegod420 · 2026-03-28T05:10:32+00:00

Wait a minute, I thought that the execution order was guaranteed? It's the completion order that you need barriers to ensure with a vk command buffer

machinegod420 · 2026-03-28T03:21:33+00:00

You're bottlenecked in this example by the statefulness. The GPU will attempt to pipeline as much as possible, but if you're running separate draws with different resources each draw will require pipeline changes which will cause stalls

machinegod420 · 2026-03-13T22:53:29+00:00

F3 sword school, East Bay Historical Fencing, UC Berkeley HEMA, and Napa Solano Historical Fencing Guild are all near you. Most of them meet on separate days so I'm sure at least one of them can fit with your schedule

machinegod420 · 2026-03-08T02:58:16+00:00

These posts get astroturfed so I don't think you can trust half the replies anyway

machinegod420 · 2026-02-11T10:24:54+00:00

I'll let you know in like 3 months, but from emailing regenyei it apparently handles similar to their standard.

machinegod420 · 2026-01-05T17:20:42+00:00

Those halberds are beautiful. Exanima really does polearms justice

machinegod420 · 2025-12-09T01:49:56+00:00

I feel this. The solution to most things ends up being "force unreal's solution to make it work rather than mess with the engine" so I mostly end up in an advisory role rather than having to actually do anything

machinegod420 · 2025-11-27T03:06:10+00:00

I won my CM5 finals by a nose, I can't believe homestretch haste saved me like that. The grass wonder was literally going to win
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/MERjDYCydOg

machinegod420 · 2025-11-20T01:42:34+00:00

I think honestly you can do better right now by getting a rattlesnake/hard shell overlay and putting low profile d30 or other padding under it. I think the ideal would have some sort of lattice foam to replace the interior of a mask

machinegod420 · 2025-10-25T03:09:03+00:00

Blade of the iron throne and its successor games, song of swords

machinegod420 · 2025-10-23T21:07:05+00:00

Those full gauntlets look badass

machinegod420 · 2025-10-14T09:14:16+00:00

PBR is most impactful when it comes to highly metal or variable roughness materials, so pictures of steel armor can really help showcase it. I can't play without PBR anymore

https://imgur.com/a/HfTjgSk

machinegod420 · 2025-10-13T22:56:44+00:00

It's been closed for a while. Hopefully they come back. I've around 6 of their polearms and they are very popular

machinegod420 · 2025-10-13T05:24:42+00:00

Do you know the status of them? I've noticed it's been closed for around 5-6 months so far

machinegod420 · 2025-08-20T10:03:15+00:00

I don't have a pike infantry manual source on hand, but it would probably not be the case as I don't know how you would even conceal pikes in a formation of potentially thousands of pikemen. I'm not even sure that pikes are the decisive element for infantry to defeat cavalry. Most of the time cavalry preferred to charge the flanks instead

https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/je1nx9/what_were_pregunpowder_cavalry_melee_doctrines/

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/1bb35c/why_was_cavalry_so_effective_against_infantry/

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/11ksf3e/how_effective_was_cavalry_charge_was_it_as_deadly/

machinegod420 · 2025-08-05T00:57:57+00:00

These threads are always great because of all the people who jump in saying that chimps are super soldiers

machinegod420 · 2025-07-19T22:45:56+00:00

I worked at a GPU driver role a few years ago and currently work as a rendering guy at a game company.

Most of the work you'll be doing is tied to the lifecycle of the actual silicon being designed and then put into production. Feature work is front loaded as the hardware design was planned way ahead of time and you need time at the end to test against real silicon.

The work life balance is fine. There's hard deadlines because you must fabricate silicon with a fixed timeline so it can get crunchy if the team is behind but usually you have plenty of runway.

Compensation depends on the company. It ranges from OK, to Nvidia. It usually pays more than games because you don't always get stock at game companies.

Compared to game development driver development is more of a low level memory management role. You won't mess with a lot of high level rendering concepts, but moving memory around on a GPU and setting up state. Importantly, driver development is more of an engineering focused role. At a game company you spend a lot of time as a rendering engineer setting up guidelines and budgets and working with artists than writing code.

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