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efaardvark

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Anime

  • Favourite Anime
    Lots. Off the top of my head (and in no particular order)...

    Ghost in the Shell
    プラネテス (ΠΛΑΝΗΤΕΣ)
    Any "real" science fiction actually
    Angel Beats!
    Clannad: After Story
    Your Lie In April
    Pet Girl of Sakurasou
    境界の彼方
    しんせかいより
    Spice and Wolf
    ことうらさん
    FLCL (original)
    Any Miyazaki/Ghibli
  • Favourite Genres
    Comedy
    Fantasy
    Mystery
    Romance
    Sci-Fi
    Slice of Life
    Space Opera
    Rom-Com
  • Favourite Character Type
    Kuudere

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    Someplace between Santa Monica and Sedna.
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    Data systems engineer
  • Interests
    reading (SF), electronics, science, engineering, space, computer programming.. and of course anime.
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Video Games

  • Favorite Video Game/Series
    Kerbal Space Program. Anything that you can craft or build in actually... Minecraft, Valheim, Cities: Skyline, Stardew Valley, Terraria, etc.....
  • Favorite Video Game Characters
    GLaDOS, Duke Nukem, Jebediah Kerman
  • Favorite Game Consoles
    PC Master Race - May our frame rates be high and our temperatures low.

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  1. I do that kind of thing a lot too.. just play an easy game like stardew valley or minecraft and veg. Or I'm a builder so I'll often do something like get into the VAB (vehicle assembly building) in KSP where there's no time limits or anyone shooting at you and just goof off designing things. Another DH + Bliss screenshot.
  2. Got yet another pin for my collection. This one marks the end of the CloudSat mission / spacecraft, which is shutting down after almost 20 years in orbit and quite a few discoveries about how clouds affect the Earth's climate. This one is a pretty nice one, with good detail on the solar panels and spacecraft body. Two metal layers, the upper one fitted into a dug-out area on the lower one, give the pin a lot of texture too, as well as a bit of heft.
  3. Which days are the strongest? Saturday and Sunday. The rest are weekdays. Did you hear about the guy who was afraid of hurdles? He got over it.
  4. Did you hear about the cheese factory that exploded? There was nothing left but de brie.
  5. I finally got all my minecraft mods dialed in and working the way they should. Or at least as good as it's likely to get on my hardware. (Though having said that I see in this pic that java is using all of its allocation of memory. I might try bumping that up a bit. I've got 32G in the system so setting it to 4 or even 8GB wouldn't be a problem.) Screenshot taken while on an early morning exploration and mapping expedition ....
  6. Welcome! Sorry, I’m twice that old and I don’t really do cosplay except maybe at Halloween. (Even that assumes I have the time and energy to do it right.) But don’t be afraid to say “hi” if you see me around the forums.
  7. I'm still interested in it. I kind of lost a bit of enthusiasm for it however for several reasons. Oculus being bought and assimilated by Facebook (Meta) is a big part of that. Price is another big deal, especially with GPU prices during covid. I mean, the most capable VR gear is still in the $1k+ range. Add to that a $500-$1000 gfx card and that's basically a deal-killer right there. Then there's the actual computer. For me personally my "old" computer here would also need to be updated to do VR well so I've been tempering my interest until I can do my next major system upgrade. I'd also like to see some sort of "killer app" before I take the plunge, at least at current prices. There's VR mods for games like Minecraft and KSP that I play, and people have talked about hi-fidelity VR recordings and broadcasts of things like concerts but is that kind of thing worth the cost of entry for the gear and the hassle of setting it all up? I'm sure VR would be fun for a techie like me to play with but I really can't justify the expense, both in terms of money and time. Bottom line for me is I still really like the idea of VR but most of the cool gear is too expensive and/or locks you into some proprietary ecosystem without a clear, gotta-have application to justify the purchase.
  8. "Flow" is back.... now with distant horizons!
  9. I had a free evening so I decided to go a bit out on a limb and grab the most recent dev versions of the Distant Horzons mod, Iris, and the latest version of the "Bliss" shader. (Bliss is a modified version of Chocapic and one of the first to be able to work well with distant horizons.) I have to say, I'm pleasantly surprised. This stuff is coming along nicely. If you had shown me these pics a couple years ago I'd never have believed it was Minecraft. A few visual glitches still, but pretty solid even at alpha and pre-alpha github-latest-at-your-own-risk level. By the time all this gets to official releases it's going to be awesome.
  10. Updated all my minecraft mods to current. Not much different but a few bugs between Iris and the Distant Horizons mod were squashed. Shaders are a little more usable now, though there's still a distinct visual change at the boundary where the built-in and DH rendering meet, especially when you're looking down from a height. Still quite playable, and it doesn't require an expensive GPU to make it work. I've got a Radeon RX 6600 in my system for instance and this is what my game looks like @1080p.. A still screenshot doesn't really capture it though. If you haven't seen DH in action, take a look at this....
  11. I think I’d actually be more likely to first notice the grenade itself, then in finding someplace to hide from the blast. Not the sort of situation where I’d be spending a lot of time looking around and wondering who threw it.
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