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The soundtrack for this one is awesome.

So Minecraft v26.2 Snapshot 3 has an option to switch between Vulkan and OpenGL! A quick and completely unscientific test showed that OpenGL was using 87% of my GPU to get 484fps while Vulkan used 57% of the GPU to give me 562fps on the same scene. Not bad considering that Vulkan is the new kid and likely still has some room for optimization. Then there's the whole shaders-in-vanilla thing that Vulkan enables as well.

Gamers: Stop Killing Games! Amazon:

Same here. Or rather, I didn't get time off but I did get my weekends back. At least for the next couple / few months. Boss man says he wants 10 launches in the next year and 12 the year after. That's a LOT of testing. (Usually it takes around 4-6 months of work to get software deployed, configured, and tested for A launch. Singular. 10 in one year is nuts.) But so far there's nothing concrete on the schedule and the main event for this year is over so for now I've got some "extra" time. I'm using it for working on the house and watching anime.

Been watching so many lately. I may be risking anime overdose. But I have the opportunity so I'm doing what I can while I can to whittle down my to-watch list. Most recent item checked off: Silent Witch's Secret / Chinmoku no Majo no Kakushigoto

Dorohedoro

Making a garbage omelet for dinner. I think I’ll put it in a flour tortilla and eat it like a wrap. Less dishes to wash that way.

I haven't gotten around to looking at Tongari Boushi yet but Hanasaku Iroha was like that too. The background artwork was very detailed and well-done.

Gamers Nexus documents SSDs hitting a 9x price increase! This follows a similar increase in DDR5 memory prices. Ouch!

Don’t we all! Too many people causing too many problems. Good luck.

I want a longer weekend. 2 days was not enough!

I heard recently that the developers of the minecraft "create" mod have been employed to work on Hytale. Been too busy lately but one of these days I'm going to have to try that game. Anyone else played it yet?

I want to be done with filling out tax forms.

Unfortunately I can't read off a typical PC/Laptop display for any length of time without getting a headache. Playing games is usually ok (low frame rates or jitter in FPSs can induce motion sickness), but reading is a no-go. Something in the refresh flicker gets me. Or something. People tell me that the refresh is so short that that can't possibly be the problem. All I know is that I can't read off a computer or tablet display for more than about an hour at a stretch before I get a headache. But reading from paper is no problem. I've got a few manga in paperback. Also the e-ink displays seem ok. After discovering that I went and bought myself a Boox reader/notebook. I've been using that for a couple/few years now and it's been a good investment. In fact I'm thinking about upgrading to one of the new color e-ink displays. They're still a bit expensive tho and I haven't pulled the trigger on that yet.

I just saw an RTX 5090 selling on newegg for $3700. My WHOLE SYSTEM that I just bought cost "only" $2200.. and I thought I was grossly overspending on that! Who has so much money that they can buy a gfx card for $3700 (balance of system sold separately)?? And are they willing to adopt a 62yo child? OTOH, you do get a "free" x870 motherboard with that. Somewhere, somehow, things went horribly wrong in the PC market.

I just noticed that Angel Next Door is getting another season. The first season was cute and fun. Hope they can keep the same vibe. The first episode looks promising. Farming life sounds familiar. Maybe a year or so ago? If it's the one I'm remembering then I may give the new season a look as well.

I usually wait until the end of the season to binge-watch a show. I do the 3-episode preview early on however and Release that Witch is on my list to return to once it's done. I'm not as enthusiastic about Chinese and Korean shows. I'll watch Japanese-language shows because I understand the language and can watch them in the native language but anything else I either need to turn on subs or wait for an English dub, neither of which is entirely satisfactory to me.

Wait. Why is she wearing brass knuckles in her hair?

Going through the MAL entries for this season. I do have to marvel... "Reborn as a Vending Machine" got a 3rd season??

You might want to look at some of the old videos in that channel too. It occurs to me that your question sounds like the kind of thing he might have made the topic of one of his videos at some point. If you don't find anything then you might even want to suggest the topic to him for a future episode. It would be right in line with the subject matter of his channel after all. (Though I'm sure he currently has more than enough material covering all the shenanigans going on in the ME lately too.) Anyway, hope you find something!

Kyoukai no Kanata / Beyond the Boundary