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Digital Foundry has a sponsored video interview for The Surge 2 that goes into extensive detail about modern graphics programming, and it rules

i've been trying to remember the word "impotent" for seven fucking days

doom 2016, in Vulkan mode, does reliably hit 4k60, but there are pretty big drops with some transparent effects and Bokeh DoF.

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another observation: only the d3d12 games i've tested can reach 4k60. none of the d3d11 games can even hit 40.

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you don't really notice how much of a difference it makes until you get scenes with varied luminance. then it becomes REALLY obvious how much more detail you can see.

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lol I hit the button that enables advertisements on the TV, time to factory reset

babylon 5 

"Eight non-humans brutally attacked in the space of two weeks! And you have yet to make even a single arrest! Spare us your usual platitudes, Commander! You very well why these crimes remain unsolved: it is because the perpetrators are humans!"

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egs is fucking awful my computer is unusable

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Also, never forget:

> Agents discovered that gay men sometimes referred to themselves as "friends of Dorothy". Unaware of the historical meaning of the term, the NIS believed that there actually was a woman named Dorothy at the center of a massive ring of homosexual military personnel, so they launched an enormous and futile hunt for the elusive "Dorothy", hoping to find her and convince her to reveal the names of gay service members.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friend_o

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