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I think Valorant looks really dreary and depressingly washed out visually, but the game at least looks fun to play.

22 hours in and still only just barely starting act 3 of doom eternal on nightmare

@owashii@snouts.online play it on nightmare it's great

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Zoom meetings aren’t actually end-to-end encrypted, despite misleading marketing on their website, in their security white paper, and in the user interface in their app theintercept.com/2020/03/31/zo by @yaelwrites and myself

Callout culture has irreversibly damaged being a citizen of the internet in ways people keep quiet about to not get hurt.

Need a comprehensive guide to procedural texturing in Blender so I can lose my mind making nature environments

How do people create normal maps for surface waves in water shaders?

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@noiob it's not platinumgames, nope, different studio handling the port it looks like

Oh my God you can use vertex color channels to paint blended textures onto a model...

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Source 2 Hammer and Trenchbroom have some editing mode where it locks UVs to let materials repeat when manipulating geometry. Is there an analogous option in Blender...?

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I really must be overthinking something about 3d level design... but I really don't understand how people do this in 3d modeling tools. What about texturing? Collision hulls?

@roxy@snouts.online it's all deferred lit PBR, voxelized global illumination, with very careful attention to materials (the key part honestly). If you flip your house light on and off you can even see the GI lag a bit to update. it's really excellent, tbh

re: covid self, asking for advice 

@EvaSkeeva this is exactly the problem, AFAICT in my area there were not tests available and still aren't. the person I was in contact with was not able to get a test despite the doctor believing they have it.

the only thing I have is tightness in my chest not unlike anxiety, recurring every few days

covid self, asking for advice 

So, assuming I have mild respiratory symptoms, is it a good idea to go outside for a walk to get my heart rate going a bit? I don't want to exacerbate anything just for trying to do something healthy.

@codl i thought you were joking for a sec but apparently this is a real feature in both chrome and firefox. huh

There's a fight halfway through ARC Complex that is destroying me because of how much it throws at you. Three Mancubuses, two Arachnotrons, two Pinkies, and a Whiplash...

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