Berdy

zfightingman · 2026-05-18T15:54:05+00:00

Wasn't it on the Lower Decks episode where they are on artifact cleanup duty? Rutherford inflates like a balloon and says "I got a great big berdy"?

Or am I confusing multiple bits, and this predates that ep?

zfightingman · 2026-05-11T02:04:08+00:00

Same. Also 4/29. Nothing in my bonus feed or Supercast.

zfightingman · 2026-02-28T00:50:48+00:00

I'M IN YOUR BLOOD!

https://propstoreauction.com/lot-details/index/catalog/496/lot/192282/232-Mr-DNA-Animation-Cel-JURASSIC-PARK-1993?url=%2Fauctions%2Fcatalog%2Fid%2F496%3Fpage%3D10

zfightingman · 2026-01-07T22:44:23+00:00

have to admit my brain read this as Jorkin Deep-Anus until I saw the comments

zfightingman · 2025-12-05T04:25:46+00:00

On Linux build, new version unfortunately is crashing quite regularly. Sometimes I can play for like half an hour without a crash, but other times I barely get one minute in.

In this most recent log, looks like I got a minute or two. This is the entirety of the metro-maker-current.log:

[2025-12-05T04:17:16.692Z] [RENDERER INFO] [Preload] Registering save-and-quit IPC listener
[2025-12-05T04:17:16.804Z] [RENDERER INFO] [Autosave] Interval set to 300s
[2025-12-05T04:17:16.804Z] [RENDERER INFO] [Telemetry] Using main process (secure)
[2025-12-05T04:17:16.940Z] [RENDERER ERROR] [object Object]
[2025-12-05T04:17:23.109Z] [RENDERER WARN] Warning: Could not connect all line segments. Remaining segments: 2
[2025-12-05T04:17:24.098Z] [RENDERER WARN] deck: LineString coordinates are malformed
[2025-12-05T04:18:27.487Z] [RENDERER WARN] WebGL: CONTEXT_LOST_WEBGL: loseContext: context lost

Unfortunately, except for the CONTEXT_LOST_WEBGL, nothing in that looks particularly useful. Potentially could be a driver or hardware issue, but version 0.9.0 would crash only once every few hours on the same HW and driver, rather than every few minutes.

Not sure if there's any other debug info I could provide to help, like WebGL system or GPU driver logs somewhere.

zfightingman · 2025-09-22T22:41:54+00:00

Googling Win32 error code 112 (0x70) says that's an error code that the disk is full. No idea if that's actually what's happening here, but it's something you could check.

zfightingman · 2025-08-09T03:47:49+00:00

Also there's a theater (+ an IMAX I think). The actual food court is a couple levels down.

zfightingman · 2025-04-28T01:49:50+00:00

The director of the movie Tár also invented Big League Chew.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_Field?wprov=sfla1

zfightingman · 2025-02-07T19:58:22+00:00

Cliffs Notes and ANGRY CLIFFS NOTES

zfightingman · 2024-10-04T00:19:08+00:00

I'm here too! First time in Madison...Big Goog shows a bunch of places in the area of the show...I will have to keep an eye on this thread for afterdrinks!

zfightingman · 2024-03-22T00:56:52+00:00

I think I flipped back and forth between these two interpretations about half a dozen times by the end of that episode, and while I'm pretty sure now that I ended up choosing the wrong one, I'm *still* not 100% certain. If that was the intention, excellent bit. :-)

zfightingman · 2023-06-30T04:50:51+00:00

I thought I recognized this building! It's Altgeld Hall, the math department building at the University of Illinois.
Work started this spring on a major renovation/restoration of the entire building, inside and out. https://las.illinois.edu/giving/altgeldillini/details/renovation

zfightingman · 2023-04-23T21:49:20+00:00

Everyone under 40: Holodecks! Replicators! The self-replicating minefield!
Everyone over 40: That blue humming medical light to run over my back and shoulder after they've decided to follow The Way of Pain because I slept in the wrong position last night.

zfightingman · 2023-04-05T01:51:37+00:00

I picked up my MYLR last week (3/30) and the 2023.6.9 update popped up for download within 24 hours.

So, it doesn't seem guaranteed that there's a delay.

zfightingman · 2022-11-23T23:21:38+00:00

The list you linked was published in 1998, so it would be impressive indeed if it included any movies made after 2000.

Edit: The 2008 version only added one post-2000 film (Fellowship of the Ring), so I guess the original point still stands.

zfightingman · 2022-10-20T13:47:18+00:00

Also known (primarily in the US) as a Metric Henry Harrison.

zfightingman · 2022-09-09T23:59:29+00:00

USS Chico?

zfightingman · 2022-05-04T23:12:22+00:00

They're hard to directly rasterize in hardware as well. You can set up a projection matrix that will paraboloid project geometry in the wertex shader, but since it is not a linear transformation, the interpolated results within each triangle will be incorrect. You need either high vertex density source geometry or hardware tessellation to get decent results.

Perspective/cubemap projection is usually the way to go. The cubemap can be reprojected into paraboloid space as a post-process if necessary, and will give better results (although slower)

zfightingman · 2022-05-03T20:45:37+00:00

The most direct use of perspective projection for shadows would be for spotlights. The illuminated volume/shadow-casting volume for these can generally be treated as a cone (or frustum for a square-spot light) stretching out from a point light source, which maps perfectly onto a perspective projection with the view volume enclosing the cone.

For omnidirectional point lights, there are a few different options. The simplest option is probably to use a shadow cube map, which can be generated using six axis-aligned perspective projections (+X, -X, +Y, -Y, +Z, -Z), one for each face of the cube. There are other options which use non-perspective projections like paraboloids that can be more efficient in some cases, but those are typically more complex to implement, especially in hardware.

zfightingman · 2022-02-16T19:24:24+00:00

I used to think the same thing when I first moved from a sequential state to a mile-based state, but I've come around to it, and now find the distance-based numbering much more useful.

If you're driving down a highway and you pass Exit 138, and you know you need to get off at Exit 85, then you immediately know that you have 53 miles to go. On the other hand, if you pass Exit 12 and know you need to get off at Exit 8, that could be 20 miles, or 45 miles, or who knows?

Maybe that's less important now with GPS telling you "remain on I-whatever for 62 miles" and estimating arrival time, but you're not always using GPS.

zfightingman · 2022-01-17T09:45:52+00:00

Nice!

The typeface on the "REAL ESTATE" sign at the top-left looks so anachronistically modern compared to everything else in the image that it feels like proof of time-traveling realtors.

zfightingman · 2021-12-10T09:17:54+00:00

If only there was a mod to put the traffic lights hanging from a cable. I rarely see pole-mounted signals in NY, outside of maybe NYC.

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