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New comment by nazgulsenpai in "Light on Glass: Why do you start making a game engine?"

nazgulsenpai — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 15:37:30 +0000

I didn't suggest it makes any sense, just explaining, based on my understanding of the article, why he analogized the game engines to renderers to cameras.

New comment by nazgulsenpai in "Newly purchased Vizio TVs now require Walmart accounts to use smart features"

nazgulsenpai — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 19:00:38 +0000

I don't have to do anything extra. I have a pihole on my network blocking ads, I have a Roku TV that has the ability built-in to stream from streaming services. I connect the TV to Wifi and my goal of having a streaming TV without ads littering the interface was achieved.

New comment by nazgulsenpai in "Light on Glass: Why do you start making a game engine?"

nazgulsenpai — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 18:52:56 +0000

From my understand after reading, he's suggesting that Unreal and Unity's post processing are just applying effects to a camera/rendered frame, when what he wanted to do is simulate the CRT itself across the renderer to the frame that hits the swapchain.

New comment by nazgulsenpai in "Newly purchased Vizio TVs now require Walmart accounts to use smart features"

nazgulsenpai — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 18:44:11 +0000

It's just easier and my motivation is blocking ads. We have a PS4 also, and the PS4 shows way more ads than just the neutered Roku.

New comment by nazgulsenpai in "Newly purchased Vizio TVs now require Walmart accounts to use smart features"

nazgulsenpai — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 16:49:11 +0000

I have a Hisense Roku TV with on a network with a pihole. It can't reach any of it's ad networks so the interface is always the default. The default isn't great, mind you, but it is ad-free.

New comment by nazgulsenpai in "What came after the 486?"

nazgulsenpai — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 16:30:52 +0000

I bought an AMD Sempron "single core" CPU for a pittance (can't remember now how much it was, but it was the cheapest new CPU available) and as able to unlock the second core in the BIOS immediately with no issues, saving a ton of money. Those were the days.

New comment by nazgulsenpai in "What came after the 486?"

nazgulsenpai — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 16:26:54 +0000

I bought a XFX RX 580 that was used for cryptomining from eBay, used it for 3 years then handed it down to my son who used it for 2 more. It still worked when he removed it. Can confirm.

New comment by nazgulsenpai in "Quantization from the Ground Up"

nazgulsenpai — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 15:08:40 +0000

This isn't just a good explainer of quantization, it's a good overview of LLMs in general.

New comment by nazgulsenpai in "European Parliament decided that Chat Control 1.0 must stop"

nazgulsenpai — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 14:05:54 +0000

Yep, and it will make it more difficult to pass legislation designed to actually help combat child exploitation when a large(ish) portion of the population immediately equate "for the children" with a power grab.

New comment by nazgulsenpai in "The truth that haunts the Ramones: 'They sold more T-shirts than records'"

nazgulsenpai — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 13:50:53 +0000

Thanks for the headsup, I will definitely try to make it out to see them again!

New comment by nazgulsenpai in "The truth that haunts the Ramones: 'They sold more T-shirts than records'"

nazgulsenpai — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 13:37:53 +0000

I wish I had, and the only shirt I ever got at a show was from Necrophagist. A girl I was seeing at the time left my house wearing it and I never saw it again :(

I went to see Amon Amarth headline in ~2013 and Sabaton was one of the openers. I had never heard of them before but they actually were on par with Amarth's performance and I've been a fan ever since!

New comment by nazgulsenpai in "Building an FPGA 3dfx Voodoo with Modern RTL Tools"

nazgulsenpai — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 19:36:55 +0000

I had a Voodoo3, can't remember the model number anymore, but my friend who had a TNT2 would often comment about how much worse the 3dfx's 16bit color looked vs the TNT2's 32bit. I could never tell a difference.

New comment by nazgulsenpai in "FSF statement on copyright infringement lawsuit Bartz v. Anthropic"

nazgulsenpai — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 19:14:05 +0000

Thanks for explaining, that's fair.

New comment by nazgulsenpai in "FSF statement on copyright infringement lawsuit Bartz v. Anthropic"

nazgulsenpai — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 17:45:11 +0000

It's the FSF and their licensing is what it is. What other messagaging would be consistent with the foundation's mission?

New comment by nazgulsenpai in "Super Micro Shares Plunge 25% After Co-Founder Charged in $2.5B Smuggling Plot"

nazgulsenpai — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 17:41:48 +0000

They did have the video uploaded to archive.org (or at least link to someone else who did) and gave permission to anyone else to repost it. Which is how I saw it, some rando burner account on YouTube :)

New comment by nazgulsenpai in "Chuck Norris has died"

nazgulsenpai — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 17:34:03 +0000

There were conspiracy theories in the 80s and 90s too.

New comment by nazgulsenpai in "Delphi 13.1 Released, with ARM64 support"

nazgulsenpai — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 17:33:10 +0000

Glad to see Delphi still alive and being developed. I never used it much but I did use C++ Builder Explorer or something that they released for free probably 10+ years ago. Also does anyone remember Kylix, Borland's short lived Delphi for Linux?

Unimportant tangent, but I think FireMonkey is a terrible name for a UI framework. I don't know why, but I hate it.

New comment by nazgulsenpai in "Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps"

nazgulsenpai — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 15:46:39 +0000

education

New comment by nazgulsenpai in "Chuck Norris has died"

nazgulsenpai — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 15:41:23 +0000

In the 80s-90s his positions would have aligned fine with the center left.

New comment by nazgulsenpai in "An update on Steam / GOG changes for OpenTTD"

nazgulsenpai — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 18:34:39 +0000

I use a similar argument to those who say that gaming is dead. Sure, if you're waiting for $AAA_DEVELOPER to change, it's probably dead, but you don't even have to look that far to find amazing games everywhere in indie and AA.