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Good to see astroturfing alive and well in the comment section. This place is heading for disaster.

On the topic of the apriorisms in economics: Exponential Economist Meets Finite Physicist: https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2012/04/economist-meets-physicist... A Lost Century In Economi…

Obligatory reminder that money != coinage != barter != banking

> It's interesting to note, that when Obama used the platform to get elected, no one minded. But, when the opposing party does it, everyone judges it negatively. When history sandw…

When one wants a “real” person or theory, one strays as far as possible from the unreality-generator that is “academic” economics. If one would mount an axle on Smith’s grave, we c…

Techniques as in workflow? Algorithms? At which point does something become “unreasonable” vs simply effective.

Try to spend as much time with friends and family as I can manage.

Yes. This is why it’s good to seek out alternative opinions. Having a network of advisers can be very helpful.

Are you an economist?

Parallax mapping will not benefit from this, since the limiting factor there is performing a raymarch on a heightfield to find an exact intersection. At every step along the ray yo…

It’s an additional texture fetch on the gpu, it’s virtualy free if you discount storage costs. It’s been in games for years.

PBR has seen commonplace adoption in games since 2012. Roughness mapping has been used for years in real time engines.

But they clearly are distinct forms of capital.

A case against the concept of comparative advantage: https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2017/08/ricardos-vice-vir...

> “If generating money out of thin air by using a computer program seems absurd, that’s because it is,” Erh, this is literally how every bank does it when they extend a loan.

You’re mixing up debts in foreign currencies and ones in national currency. The former is the issue. As long as the national currency is accepted and traded by the population (whic…

My main problem with it isn’t that it’s unrealistic per se, just that it looks bad on static geometry. But SSAO is typically sold as a “realism” feature.

A problem that often gets overlooked are the (geo) political ramifications of differences in economic output. I’m not sure if this is an existing hypothesis, but it seems evident t…

> Of course, this is not our main source of growth at the moment. But surely it could be? Yeah, but for how long? Exponential economist meets finite physicist: https://dothemath.uc…

Sharks with frikkin’ lazers beams!

While on the subject of graphics in games... Another pet peeve of mine: ambient occlusion (crude GI approximation) and especially SSAO (crude approximation of a crude approximation…

This is false, HDR and deferred shading are two completely unrelated concepts. A few months ago I hacked tonemapping straight into the ubershader of some foss Quake client, you don…

Epic added chromatic aberation to the new Unreal Tournament at some point and the mob started sharpening their pitchforks. The reason given afterwards was that they think it’s impo…