What a headline! Even decades later. Mirrors IGN's purchase of Eurogamer etc this week. May Digital Foundry survive.

Every time I see mention of this game Outlaws, I think of LucasArts' Outlaws.

His exchange with actor James Woods is an instant classic, where Elon Musk concludes the exchange with Woods by...blocking his account LOL.

LOL - that line, er, stood out for me as well!

Still a solid look at the brilliant Quake 2 remaster, which is a true benchmark for how these things should go:
1) keep the original art style and fundamental game design
2) when it comes to updates or feature changes, leave no stone unturned.

What was the final haul on the CSA tomatoes? As long as it doesn't contain cream or cheese, tomato sauce can be frozen for up to six months.

Hans Niemann sues Magnus Carlsen, others for $100 million over chess cheating claims.

This was the plan all along

Congratulations to you and your wife Blue. Inspiring achievement unlocked.
Relative celebrating 55 years next week, so back to it slackers

Getting drawn back in is easy to do with some titles. Am doing the same with Portal 2 at the moment.
Q3A next!

Trump pardoned Duncan Hunter, not his now former wife. Hunter was to begin 11 month prison term next month.
His pardoning of four war criminals is a slap in the face to every veteran who served honorably.

Cutter wrote on Jul 14, 2020, 21:05:
Interesting. Prior to the recent LGBTQ ruling by SCOTUS I would have said he doesn't have a leg to stand on. Now? It would seem the Left has painted themselves into a corner. What's good for the goose is good for the gander. Twitch simply can't say you can't engage in religion on their platform as that's discriminatory. Not to mention that this jeopardizes their Safe Harbor status because that constitutes editorializing. They allow people to use their platform for LGBTQ, BLM, etc. It's an all or nothing affair. They should have been smart and left him alone. Just push his channel down to the bottom of the list/make him near impossible to find unless you're searching for him specifically by name. The virtual equivalent of benching someone. I suspect that these services will do exactly that going forward.

What a steaming pile of nonsense! painted into a corner, jeopardize their Safe Harbor status

Thank you for the painfully long Tuesday LOL at your ignorant threats and doofus contrasts with LGBTQ and BLM activism on Twitch.

Twitch banned Doktor Fake Ass Victim for the same reason they banned the President of the United States, along with 25000 other channels, but please whine about censorship on a private platform where the CEO recently stated "It’s very explicitly not a free speech platform".
Good Grief.

Holy Shit (look it up, its true).
Congratulations Mr. Heaslip!, er, El Presidente!
Still a daily visit.

related link:
http://www.wired.com/2015/04/dmca-ownership-john-deere/

nin wrote on Feb 7, 2013, 23:12:
Fucking love Workshop - the more games that support it, the better

Agreed! In a recent interview somewhere, Gabe Newell spoke of having the ability for Workshop creators (some of whom he said are making $500k/year!!!) to customize their own storefront within Steam - how cool would that be?

Is anyone else even close to creating this kind of ecosystem, where the community takes over the content from the developer? Crazy awesome.

Interesting that they came through on the non-beta channel for me.. I thought only WHQL drivers did that.

It seems you're not the only one as it appears that same thing happened with the HardOCP folks too.

Mordecai Walfish wrote on Dec 4, 2012, 13:05:
These are full WHQL

Actually these are WHQL candidate drivers.

Beamer wrote on Jan 17, 2012, 13:22:
I will hate the blackout, but that's the point.

Good choice.

Here Here.

Wednesday is going to suck.

tech/rendering rats can go here to read up on Frostbite 2's use of DX11, SPU-based deferred shading on the PS3, culling, lighting and a news transparency technique:

http://repi.blogspot.com/2011/03/dice-at-gdc11.html

space captain wrote on Jan 18, 2011, 18:58:
turns out that "scientists" have more blind faith than the pope

Yes, the polio cure was actually an evil librul power grab.

In this age of info everywhere all the time, Blue is late for a movie - that's refreshing in an appealing retro way.

Jerykk wrote on Jan 3, 2011, 03:51:

DX10 allows for effects that would be cripplingly slow on DX9.

Such as? Remember how Crysis had a bunch of effects "exclusive" to DX10 until somebody edited the cfg files and made the effects work in DX9? And at a higher framerate? I have yet to see any DX10 "exclusive" effects that I haven't seen in DX9 at equal or better performance. Soft shadows? DX9. Soft particles? DX9. SSAO? DX9. HDR? DX9. FSAA? DX9. I'm very curious as to what effects DX10 can handle so much better than DX9.

Extrusion and tessellation are two examples. Those effects were done in DX9 games on the CPU, but DX10 enables geometry shaders for that purpose. The idea being that a game should be able to get them "for free". It's about performance. Which, as you pointed out, isn't always consistent due to the talent/experience/innovation of the coders and the code they write. Likewise various other improvements in the pipeline and in the API. You are right that DX10/DX11 doesn't magically enable effects that weren't possible before - in fact, any effect is possible in ANY version of Directx, or without it (like ray tracing on the CPU or a pure software renderer) - but it makes those effects efficient enough that they actually get implemented, or easy enough that they are implemented beyond triple A games. With one of the results being that more CPU cores are free to do other stuff, like AI, physics, pathfinding, sound or whatever.

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/pearlharbor/ax/frameset.html

careful, it seems to want to hijack your browser's window size; nonetheless, very well done hour-to-hour (and sometimes minute-to-minute) account of that day.