Serious answer: Afaict from my collection, the answer is 32MB maximum. 8MB average.

Never normalize that this is what passes for public discourse right now.

The Final Fantasy Battle Engine: A Dissection of Physical Attacks - Behind the Code YouTube video by Displaced Gamers

Ever wonder how Final Fantasy gets the numbers you see during battle? How do your stats contribute to physical attacks? Are there any bugs in the game? (spoilers: uhh... yeah)

Behind the Code has finally reached Final Fantasy. Enjoy.

youtu.be/O_CLnBCgJks

The other discussion about possible utility is cost. No, you can't put the genie back in the bottle, but what will the use cases look like when you have to pay what they actually cost, not these subsidized ones. Claude Code for $10 a month looks very different to $1000 a month.

There's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.

DLSS really only lets you target the swapchain? That's stunning. I have yet to integrate any vendor's neural upscaling tech, but it was my understanding that the output of DLSS is just another framebuffer in your pipeline, so you upscale your "lit" buffer and then draw your 2D graphics as normal.

RPS asked me to write about DLSS5, the "neural rendering" tech that Nvidia have been crowing about, that uses generative AI techniques to replace rendered graphics. I wrote about framerates, fakery, and how you seize control of an industry.

RIP. At my old job you could make a case to IT about third-party apps, but yeah I imagine that's not very common

File Pilot - Next-gen file explorer File Pilot is a file explorer built from scratch for light-speed performance, with a modern and robust interface.

If you mean the whole desktop shell, you're SOL, but if you just mean the file browser, you could try File Pilot

filepilot.tech

Just got back from my honeymoon in Japan and felt like sharing the experience

What I have frequently heard programmers say over the years:

(1996) "Lines of Code" is a terrible metric
(2006) "Lines of Code" is a terrible metric
(2016) "Lines of Code added" is a terrible metric
(2026) I have to use AI because it's the only way to meet my company's "Lines of Code added" quota

All normal so far

Box art of Toy Story 2 for Playstation

The reason: sweeping landscapes are so pretty.

Also I need the eniko thread on automated impostor generation lol

See Social Ideology of the Motorcar, repost Social Ideology of the Motorcar

If I had to choose a single thought which haunts me most, it’s this. And it has animated me for years. This thing has been growing and metastasizing for almost a decade. And every passing year we’ve grown more hoarse trying to get someone to give a shit.

here's a free idea: RAM shortage jam, where you have to make a game for a system with low RAM capacity. like maybe less than 128mb or something

The reason is determinism. What does "nearly" independent mean anyway?

We all do harm by being.

Ouchie. Hope you aren't wearing heels.

The most effective way to prevent trans adults is to eliminate trans children. The far right understands this, so the focus of its anti-trans strategy is to create an unlivable environment for trans children. Trans people also fully understand this. The democrats and mushy center don't understand it and react as if it's just reasonable "adult" things like transgenderism be kept out of schools and kids' media. They act as if those kids aren't trans already, in the schools already

Trans people are a wedge. Attacking gays stopped working, so Republicans attack trans people to get at gays. Trans minors are the wedge of the wedge. They pick on the subgroup that can't defend themselves and which Democrats are least likely to stand up for To Democrats, this is a reasonable "compromise". Let go on the trans children, focus on the more winnable rights for trans adults. For trans adults this is obviously, axiomatically unacceptable because *we are all ex-children*. Anything done to children is something that was done to our past selves

Somewhere right now there is a ten-year-old child who is, for all practical purposes, me. She is experiencing something she cannot explain or yet understand. She is in an unfriendly environment (Texas? Alberta?) that does not help her understand, punishes her when she tries to figure it out herself.

When I see trans children being legislated away, I think: I care more about what happens to this child than what happens to me. I want her to reach forty-one without being broken and damaged, like I am from all the things cis people did to me. I want the next me to have a better life than this one.

This is my trans agenda

Exactly. No one needs more than 10 FPS.

two buttons on a website: “apply on jooble” “Apply on bebee”

it’s on jooble dude just log in to bebee

Odin Programming Language

I have been in love with the Odin programming language for months. It's so easy to write low-level graphics code in it, among other things, and I find it more pleasant to use than Rust, C++, or even C.

odin-lang.org

i think sometimes cis people truly have a hard time understanding that jk rowling is a living person actively using her wealth to fund the international assault on trans lives. she’s not some Complicated Author we can have a spirited debate about separating from the art with!!!!!

Is the point just a point mass attached to the cup with a spring?

Given the point as a uniform input, I can imagine how the vertex shader looks, but that point is a mystery....

The show doesn't dwell on it, but she knows krav maga from her time in Israel if that indicates anything.

Study explores post-game depression and emotional impact on players Experiencing a sense of loss and sadness after dozens of hours spent on a video game? Researchers from SWPS University and the Stefan Batory Academy of Applied Sciences examined the feeling of emptine...

Nothing smart to say here frankly, just fascinating and lovely to see study on post-game depression.

www.news-medical.net/news/2026031...

Average Bsky poster: "We must inaugurate a Second Reconstruction with blood and fire."

Average Democratic politician: "We are in a war for the Republic, which is why I propose a 23.7% tax cut."

Average liberal columnist: "For too long the transgenders have blocked research into the racial IQ gap."

It is important I get 8,294,400 pixels (4K) at 120 frames a second. Otherwise it just doesn’t feel real.
It is ok if half of those pixels are just kinda guesses based on zettabytes of YouTube and pornhub my graphics card watched