ArjinFerman
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ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
3hr ago
I've made decent progress on dynamic background generation, but it also exposed an issue - when I got up to 9 background textures, the performance dropped significantly. The bottleneck was a single line of code that copied the texture from the shader program to the material of the background node. GPU-CPU copies are a big hit on performance generally, but it wasn't clear to me what alternatives there are, even the "boid" project my game is based on handled it's data updates this way, so I figured that's the way to go. Well, it turns out there's a special Texture2DRD type, that lets you directly hook up a node to a texture sitting on the GPU, which means there's no need for the CPU-based updates. Even the simulation code was affected, so this might even let me squeeze out a bit more performance out of it.
OTOH, this means memory management will be a bit trickier. Keeping the background sprites connected to these textures will mean they're still sitting on the GPU memory, so I'll have to add their removal and/or freeing of GPU resources to the code.
How have you been doing @Southkraut?
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
7hr ago
Iran blockading the Strait of Hormuz is not rationally ensuring their survival. It makes regime change more pressing.
You already tried regime-changing them when they weren't blocking the strait! What do they have to lose at this point? Please, try having some theory of mind.
We don't do something, it's our fault.
Can you give an example of that?
Iran and they went on a nuclear rampage in 10 years, it would be our fault.
What if they don't go on a nuclear rampage, just use it as a deterrent the way North Korea does, and all your little intervention accomplishes is more refugees and higher gas prices?
Europe even want from us?
It would be nice if your president could follow the foreign policy that he campaigned on during the elections.
By various European countries denying them airspace to support thr Iran operation. No matter what you think of the decision, from the American perspective, this means if they want to ensure that they can use a base, they have to control the land it sits on.
ArjinFerman
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16hr ago
Yeah, and when the same people who tell me Hiroshima is Japan's fault are telling me blaming the Iranian response is somehow """American hyperagency""", that's also dispositive.
of a country it was at total war with, who vowed to fight to the end, and who started the conflict with a surprise attack
You're saying that like it's a bad thing. Kinda odd given your country's recent behavior.
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
23hr ago
I don't know about "most", it always felt like a 50/50 issue to me, and "Japan shouldn't have started shit" was always a respectable position.
Ok, fair enough. France and the UK were clearly retarded here, and you guys did the right thing.
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