Over 28 years old players only.

https://www.twitch.tv/wardiii

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gT2wuJYriBs

https://liquipedia.net/starcraft2/WardiTV_Boomer_Bash

https://tl.net/forum/sc2-tournaments/636384-3000-warditv-boomer-bash-mar-18-30

Featuring: DnS, Kelazhur, Scarlett, TLO, Bunny, Solar, Classic, herO, and more unannounced players

Here is today's group:

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=LKQdh00AAPs&list=PLEsZgo3N97MgvmoZ6legRWZ8qc7nxpdWI

https://archive.org/details/Dwaalicht/Dwaalicht/Euphoria/Sandsifted.mp3

Archive.org says this was released 2015, but he played this song live in Manchester in 2010. According to this now-dead link https://web.archive.org/web/20101222022252/http://www.percussionlab.com/sets/wisp/live_at_the_music_box_manchester_01-04-2010

Here is that liveset: https://s3.amazonaws.com/media.percussionlab.com/audio/mp3s/1032/wisp_masterd.mp3

This song starts out at about 36min, I'd love to know what song starts at 31min

Maru played every game as Protoss for this group. All these players are qualified for the main event, these matches are just for seeding purposes. It was a GSL-style group.

Bracket without spoilers:

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2412195164?t=0h21m31s

Final results: https://liquipedia.net/starcraft2/Bellum_Gens_Elite/2025/Qualifiers/Asia#Results

DirectX Raytracing 1.2: Game-Changing Performance Boosts

• Opacity micromaps significantly optimize alpha-tested geometry, delivering up to 2.3x performance improvement in path-traced games. By efficiently managing opacity data, OMM reduces shader invocations and greatly enhances rendering efficiency without compromising visual quality.
• Shader execution reordering offers a major leap forward in rendering performance — up to 2x faster in some scenarios — by intelligently grouping shader execution to enhance GPU efficiency, reduce divergence, and boost frame rates, making raytraced titles smoother and more immersive than ever. This feature paves the way for more path-traced games in the future.

NVIDIA was already doing these in a few games, but nice to have them as part of the standard

Cooperative Vectors & Neural Rendering: Next-Generation Realism

• Neural Block Texture Compression is a new graphics technique that dramatically reduces memory usage, while maintaining exceptional visual fidelity. Overall, our partners at Intel shared that by leveraging cooperative vectors to power advanced neural compression models, they saw a 10x speed up in inference performance.
• Real-time path tracing can be enhanced by neural supersampling and denoising, combining two of the most cutting-edge graphics innovations to provide realistic visuals at practical performance levels.

NVIDIA announced this recently

Restricted just means no major glitches.

https://www.speedrun.com/doom_eternal/runs/zxj0v8ky

Sorry I forgot to post this yesterday!

Day 1 VOD: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2405307242?t=0h48m52s

Stream: https://www.twitch.tv/x5_pig

The bracket before day 1:

TL's Preview Article (before day 1): https://tl.net/forum/starcraft-2/636540-pig-sty-festival-5-playoffs-preview-groups-recap

Liquipedia: https://liquipedia.net/starcraft2/PiG_Sty_Festival/5

This stuff sounds similar to his old Astrobotnia releases!

https://aleksiperala.bandcamp.com/album/vortex-2 (February 28th)

https://aleksiperala.bandcamp.com/album/vortex-3 (March 7th)

https://aleksiperala.bandcamp.com/album/vortex-4 (March 14th)

According to Discogs, there is no volume 1 https://www.discogs.com/artist/15690-Aleksi-Per%C3%A4l%C3%A4?searchParam=vortex

I haven't gotten to listen to all of this yet, but it seems good

I just noticed the tags on this album include Rephlex, Mike P still puts the Rephlex tag on all of his albums 😢

https://bandcamp.com/discover/rephlex

cross-posted from: !deus_ex_randomizer@lemmy.mods4ever.com - https://lemmy.mods4ever.com/post/351

New world record for v3.1+ versions, Speedrun mode, Hard difficulty, glitchless in 1h15m27.5s

Follow his Twitch channel to watch live: https://www.twitch.tv/nitram_1711

https://www.speedrun.com/dxrando

Stream: https://www.twitch.tv/gamesdonequick

Schedule: https://gamesdonequick.com/schedule/55