Uni's magical Mario Galaxy adventure..

this genuinely made me so happy

a wikipedia poem on software entropy

Horniness is not intrinsically less pure than any other human motivation

"He only made this art because he was horny!" ...Yeah, and? You only made a sandwich because you were hungry.

You still have time to change!

(Words sewn into a leaf)

This was in my head since the news dropped, so I had to make it.

Why is that ONE gif so much higher framerate than the others

These wonderful people have a single braincell to share but unfortunately none of them are using it

here are my biggest gaming hot takes:

- no game actually needs to run faster than 30 FPS

- no texture needs to be bigger than 2k, and most don’t need to be bigger than 1k (save for megatextures). A good chunk should actually be smaller than 1k

- lower poly counts > high poly counts

Once you pass a certain threshold, it doesn’t even affect the style of the game that much, and you’re just using exponentially more power to get exponentially smaller results

Like, for example, the original Skyrim was 4 GB. The remaster is 22 GB. That’s five-and-a-half times more space for the exact same content! The graphical improvements are honestly negligible, especially when you consider the massive leap in storage and RAM used.

These sorts of things just hit diminishing returns so quickly— My eyes can’t tell the difference between 1k and 4k textures.

We have so many fun ways to get the maximum mileage out of every pixel and every polygon. It’s sad to see those techniques slowly trickle away from big-budget games!

Even as storage space becomes less and less of a concern, there’s something satisfying about keeping everything as small and tidy as possible

Basically, there’s zero excuse for Baldur’s Gate 3 to be 150 GB when Skyrim is 6 GB

Fifteen years ago, the average file size of a big game was 11 GB.

Now, it’s almost 90 GB, with big blockbusters easily hitting 150 GB.

And this isn’t the difference between, say, 1990 and 2005. The games of 2010 are practically identical to the games of 2024 when it comes to content and scope. It’s the same stuff, just bloated to hell and back.

hi. this isn't urgent or anything but i really. i really would like an electric wheelchair because i can't push myself in my manual one and id like to be less of a burden. like i said it's not urgent at all. just a black disabled woman trying to not get stuck in ditches

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The most popular browsers in different countries in 2012 and 2022.

by @theworldmaps_

Nope! When Chrome first came to popularity, people switched over to it cause it was “faster” (turns out, it just eats through your device’s CPU) but since then Firefox has upped its game in a major way. Chrome just doesn’t measure up anymore. Plus, nowadays Chrome is just a data harvester designed to show hyper targeted ads - so even if Firefox ain’t for you, it’s still worth ditching Google for a different browser.

Legit though I switched to Firefox and it’s so so so much better

i’m gonna keep reblogging this ad infinitum so yall might as well convert now

remember that all chrome based browsers will no longer allow adblockers starting this june

the modern internet is literally unusable without one, so switch to firefox

this happened weeks ago but im still thinking about it

Is this about how ppl born in the late 20th century have a unique and fluid experience of navigating barriers to information access and its our responsibility to teach the younger folks how to tinker with technology to avoid being spoonfed everything we experience in order to have critical skills that keep us informed, autonomous, and able to hold power despite looming threats of authoritarianism or..........???

i love love lOVE the additional element of “the only information that’s free is the ‘how we’re going to hell’” BS. Chef’s kiss.