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On Reddit you see tons of people giving up due to signup issues, usually due to emails I think. Instance admins should really double check their process and make sure it's all working often.

And the app devs too, if you can signup through the app gotta make sure it works on instances with captchas/email verification/etc

Your all-time favorite game? Let's discuss the best options! in c/[email protected]

[–] Die4Ever 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

it's such a good soundtrack! the in-game MIDIs are great too

BTW, more music...

https://thefatmanandteamfat.bandcamp.com/album/7-11-music-from-the-7th-guest-and-the-11th-hour

https://thefatmanandteamfat.bandcamp.com/album/the-7th-guest-come-back

https://thefatmanandteamfat.bandcamp.com/album/the-11th-hour-come-back

https://error47.bandcamp.com/album/soups-on-selections-from-staufs-infernal-jukebox

https://musicbyjonathan.bandcamp.com/album/the-7th-guest-vr-original-soundtrack

Communities about "old stuff" in c/[email protected]

[–] Die4Ever 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

a few more here: https://retrolemmy.com/communities

Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying. in c/[email protected]

[–] Die4Ever 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

The benefit to a forum is that posts with new comments move to the top. If a Reddit/Lemmy post gets a single new comment it may or may not be seen again by anyone except the OP or of the comment was a reply then to the op of the replied comment.

Lemmy does have this actually

New Comments: Bumps posts to the top when they are created or receive a new reply, analogous to the sorting of traditional forums

https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/03-votes-and-ranking.html

and then there's the "Active" sort, which is kind of a compromise

Active (default): Calculates a rank based on the score and time of the latest comment, with decay over time

Data suggests RTX 5090 prices are slowly stabilizing — The average selling price on eBay has dropped to $4,000 in c/[email protected]

[–] Die4Ever 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Data suggests RTX 5090 prices are slowly stabilizing

Nice.

The average selling price on eBay has dropped to $4,000

WTF

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WardiTV Boomer Bash is live now (March 23rd to 30th) (self.starcraft)

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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:

Comments from multiple posts on the same page in c/[email protected]

[–] Die4Ever 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

It's a little bit not-obvious that the top comments are from [email protected] here

Maybe they should get a header just like all the other communities do for their sets of comments?

the comments from the other communities actually stand out more than the comments of the current community, due to the headers, without the header the comments just kinda blend in

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Dwaalicht (Wisp) - Sandsifted (2010?) (music.youtube.com)

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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

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Bellum Gens Elite 2025: Asia Qualifier VOD (Maru as Protoss, Rex, Ryung, and Zoun) (www.twitch.tv)

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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

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Announcing DirectX Raytracing 1.2, PIX, Neural Rendering and more at GDC 2025! - DirectX Developer Blog (devblogs.microsoft.com)

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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

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[WR] Doom Eternal 100% Ultra-Nightmare Restricted in 1:37:56 by Absolutemassive (www.youtube.com)

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Restricted just means no major glitches.

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

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PiG Sty Festival #5 Playoffs (March 14-16) resumes in 2h20m (self.starcraft)

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Sorry I forgot to post this yesterday!