classic bit of gamedev smoke & mirrors
i present: "fake interior tube"
similar to the famous 'window interior parallax' trick,
but projected on a cylinder 😊
cute, huh?
Lots of brain-dead people are saying things like, “You’re just trying to manufacture outrage,” or “It’s just an ammo pickup, why do you care?” What they fail to realize is that this is just a symptom of a much bigger problem
What made the original Halo aesthetic so believable was that its artists grounded its fictional designs in real-world military hardware and engineering. Even though Halo takes place centuries in the future, its equipment still looked like it was designed by people who understood manufacturing, logistics, reliability, maintainability, and practicality. That attention to engineering detail is what gave Halo its unique visual identity and made the universe feel authentic
This redesign abandons those principles in favor of a generic “sci-fi” look. On its own, it’s just an ammo container. But taken alongside countless other design changes over the years, it represents a gradual erosion of one of Halo’s core design pillars
This is how an iconic visual identity dies, not through one massive change, but through hundreds of small decisions made by people who either don’t understand or don’t value what made the original design language so compelling in the first place. Death by a thousand cuts
Imagine if you could hear everyone in Twitch Chat talk at once.
I updated my text-to-speech system to simulate being in a room with chat, and everyone is trying to speak at once.
Perfect for viewers to backseat gameplay.
The chaos strangely helps me focus.
There will always be a perfectly rational contextual explanation for each and every one of the podcast titles. This is our LEGACY.
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Microsoft has confirmed a Windows 11 bug that can make a single file grow to 500GB or more, consuming a huge amount of storage.
The file is called CapabilityAccessManager.db-wal. It’s normally only a few MB, but due to the bug it can grow to hundreds of GB on some PCs.
If your storage suddenly looks much lower than expected, search for CapabilityAccessManager.db-wal in File Explorer to see if you’re affected.
Microsoft says the issue has been fixed in the optional KB5095093 update, and the fix will also be rolled out to everyone in the next Windows 11 Patch Tuesday update.
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Breaking: Announced at Anime Expo, Sonic the Hedgehog: Memories and Beyond is a new animated series produced for Sonic's 35th Anniversary.
Here's a sneek peek at some footage.
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