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The engineering behind modern mesh deformation and ragdoll physics is incredible.

Instead of calculating every vertex in real-time, developers are leveraging job systems to execute parallel physics steps across multiple CPU cores simultaneously.

It’s the only reason dense, destructible environments don't completely tank the framerate.

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@JoinBookit travel gets expensive fast, so any chance to save money and stack rewards is getting my attention

[Bookit.com | Next-Gen Rewards ✈️🏨🧳 @JoinBookit]

Dubrovnik is trending for summer 2026.

Booking the hotel now instead can save you a significant chunk. Earn rewards on the stay through Bookit.

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@nathanmccauley this is a structural shift for global liquidity. mimicking familiar fx settlement workflows is exactly how you bring the largest hedge funds and banks into the order books.

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Been watching a few indie devs use diffusion models not to generate final art but to produce reference sheets for human artists to work from.

The model handles ideation volume, the artist handles execution and consistency. the pipeline is faster than either alone and the output is harder to distinguish from fully manual work.

[Wrapz ⎊ @wraptoes]

At normal viewing distances on a 1440p display, a lot of what looks like dense geometry is still a coarser proxy. the detail is real. It's just deferred.

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@JoinBookit It also signals a shift in consumer behavior where people are planning spending with long term value instead of short term rewards.

[Bookit.com | Next-Gen Rewards ✈️🏨🧳 @JoinBookit]

Travelers are using reward points more strategically in 2026. Long-haul international trips are the most popular point redemptions.

Platforms with Bookit integration give their users a place to both earn and redeem across travel, experiences, and shopping.

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Most monitors advertised as 1ms response time are measuring gray-to-gray under ideal voltage conditions.

The panel's actual response on dark transitions can be 4–6x slower.

This is why motion blur looks inconsistent across the screen rather than uniform, different pixel pairs are hitting different parts of that curve.

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The way AI is actually entering game dev right now isn't procedural world gen or NPC dialogue. It's internal tooling.

Studios are using LLMs to write shader variants, auto-document legacy engine code, and generate test cases for gameplay systems.

None of it ships to players. all of it compresses iteration time.

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Switched from a USB polling rate of 125hz to 8000hz on the same mouse. measured end-to-end click latency with a photodiode rig.

The difference was 1.8ms on average. whether that's perceptible is debated, but the variance got tighter. standard deviation dropped from ~2.1ms to ~0.4ms. consistency is the actual gain.

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Unreal's chaos physics runs rigid body simulation on a fixed substep that's decoupled from the render frame.

So what you see and what the engine is simulating are almost never the same moment in time. Interpolation fills the gap.

Most players never notice because it's tuned to roughly match human perception latency.

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@JoinBookit Can you earn points on both the booking and any add-ons like insurance or car seats? Thinking about a family trip.

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@cherdougie The city asphalt is melting but your style remains completely solid.

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Modern physics engines are shifting away from rigid-body approximations toward real-time deformation and stress-point analysis.

Watching a virtual bridge fracture realistically based on dynamic load calculations instead of pre-baked destruction scripts shows how much compute is finally being decoupled from pure visual rendering.

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For a long time, the space was plagued by "play-to-earn" models where the gameplay was just a thin wrapper for inflation-heavy token farming.

The moment the speculation stopped, the player base disappeared.

It was an unsustainable loop because nobody actually wanted to play the games for fun.

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One is building a sovereign Bitcoin treasury. The other is collecting fees.

This isn’t a race. It’s a category mismatch.

[Bitcoin Magazine @BitcoinMagazine]

The two largest corporate holders of Bitcoin:

Strategy - 843,738 BTC
BlackRock - 817,138 BTC

Who will win the race to 1,000,000 BTC?

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@VelasMariam Sleep is officially canceled for the first week of June

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It’s wild to watch crypto gaming shift away from the "earn" hype and actually focus on the "play" part.

A year or two ago, everything felt like a glorified spreadsheet with a loading bar.

Now we’re seeing actual, high-coherence gameplay loops where the tech just sits quietly in the background.

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Most gaming tokens from 2025 crashed, but indie teams with small budgets and real games are thriving. Success comes from small goals and fast updates.