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Working on Sparse Volumetric Light-maps. Thanks to CynicatPro🎃 for pointing me at Unreal's version. In a nutshell it's just another sparse voxel data structure. My implementation is, no doubt, different from Epic Games Store's own. I'm using 4x4x4 probe grid with intermediate nodes having very wide branching factor of...

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Working on sparse volumetric light maps for WebGPU. Got generation part sorted. The resolution is adaptive, refining near geometry and skipping through most of the empty space. The video is question uses a map that's only 10MB in size, including everything. That's less the amount of GPU memory that a single leaf takes up on one of threes in the scene, or texture on one of the sign-posts. We get about 1 sample every 30 centimeters in the world space. As a side note: gave my renderer quite the workout, rendering each probe as a separate non-instanced mesh for debugging.
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Working on sparse volumetric light maps for WebGPU. Got generation part sorted. The resolution is adaptive, refining near geometry and skipping through most of the empty space. The video is question uses a map that's only 10MB in size, including everything. That's less the amount of GPU memory that a single leaf takes up on one of threes in the scene, or texture on one of the sign-posts. We get about 1 sample every 30 centimeters in the world space. As a side note: gave my renderer quite the workout, rendering each probe as a separate non-instanced mesh for debugging.

Alex Goldring

18,651 views • 6 months ago

Virtual Textures in the Browser. This is a WebGL 2.0 implementation I did in 2023. The car model is from Sketchfab by Pavel Matoušek. It's a worst-case for virtual textures because the texture is generated from photogrametry software and has pathologically bad UV layout. The texture is 16,384 x 16,384 pixels, which is 180 Mb of PNG data. Loading this in Blender would crash Blender for me back then. The GPU memory requirement for this texture is 1 Gb. The VT displays the model after loading just 34 Kb (one tile). The other tiles are fetched in via a smart priority queue in the background as you move camera around the scene. The physical page texture is 2k, which is 16 times smaller than the source. The solution supports multiple separate virtual textures, and has GLTF integration. Texture filtering as well as anisotropy are fully supported as well. You can try the demo yourself here: Here's a writeup I did while working on this: The video recorded on a very crummy internet connection and I intentionally reload the page in the middle. The delay comes from the geometry download, actual texture part is near-instant.
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Virtual Textures in the Browser. This is a WebGL 2.0 implementation I did in 2023. The car model is from Sketchfab by Pavel Matoušek. It's a worst-case for virtual textures because the texture is generated from photogrametry software and has pathologically bad UV layout. The texture is 16,384 x 16,384 pixels, which is 180 Mb of PNG data. Loading this in Blender would crash Blender for me back then. The GPU memory requirement for this texture is 1 Gb. The VT displays the model after loading just 34 Kb (one tile). The other tiles are fetched in via a smart priority queue in the background as you move camera around the scene. The physical page texture is 2k, which is 16 times smaller than the source. The solution supports multiple separate virtual textures, and has GLTF integration. Texture filtering as well as anisotropy are fully supported as well. You can try the demo yourself here: Here's a writeup I did while working on this: The video recorded on a very crummy internet connection and I intentionally reload the page in the middle. The delay comes from the geometry download, actual texture part is near-instant.

Alex Goldring

19,368 views • 6 months ago

Here is a full showcase of my custom Source 2-like light baking and probe implementation for Unreal Engine 5. Features showcased: - Volume based probe system (full density control, fade between volumes with a volume fade slider, automatic volume priority and custom priority overrides) - GPU Lightmass with expanded features like a custom denoiser and overall QOL (like a bake volume which only bakes objects inside the volume for fast prototyping) - Custom Box Capture implementation to make it easier to use (basically just a custom way of scaling the box capture component since its so annoying) - A custom fullbright viewport option for easier map editing (without having to get visual clutter in the way) Will eventually release on FAB as a plugin for UE 5.7. Everything is running inside an Epic Launcher Downloaded version of UE5 in this showcase. #UnrealEngine5 #UE5 #GameDev
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Here is a full showcase of my custom Source 2-like light baking and probe implementation for Unreal Engine 5. Features showcased: - Volume based probe system (full density control, fade between volumes with a volume fade slider, automatic volume priority and custom priority overrides) - GPU Lightmass with expanded features like a custom denoiser and overall QOL (like a bake volume which only bakes objects inside the volume for fast prototyping) - Custom Box Capture implementation to make it easier to use (basically just a custom way of scaling the box capture component since its so annoying) - A custom fullbright viewport option for easier map editing (without having to get visual clutter in the way) Will eventually release on FAB as a plugin for UE 5.7. Everything is running inside an Epic Launcher Downloaded version of UE5 in this showcase. #UnrealEngine5 #UE5 #GameDev

Leon

15,846 views • 1 month ago

People have been asking to see a clip of me using my BCI. So here's a little clip of me throwing together the simplest of beats with Logic Pro. It's been five years since I have used this software regularly, and frankly I'm out of practice, there have been a lot of updates, and I'm going to need to do a little bit of learning and catch up to be able to use it as effectively as I'd like. But for slapping together a simple sloppy beat for the first time in five years, I like it. Also, I trail off in the middle of the first or second sentence. We're just going to slap... "something sloppy together" is the part that was in my head and I should have said out loud. Love you guys. Thanks for the love. Be good, do good. I'm not anywhere near as good at using the social medias as Audrey Audrey Crews is but maybe someday I'll get there. #Neuralink #BCI #cyberpunk #drumming
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People have been asking to see a clip of me using my BCI. So here's a little clip of me throwing together the simplest of beats with Logic Pro. It's been five years since I have used this software regularly, and frankly I'm out of practice, there have been a lot of updates, and I'm going to need to do a little bit of learning and catch up to be able to use it as effectively as I'd like. But for slapping together a simple sloppy beat for the first time in five years, I like it. Also, I trail off in the middle of the first or second sentence. We're just going to slap... "something sloppy together" is the part that was in my head and I should have said out loud. Love you guys. Thanks for the love. Be good, do good. I'm not anywhere near as good at using the social medias as Audrey Audrey Crews is but maybe someday I'll get there. #Neuralink #BCI #cyberpunk #drumming

Nick Wray

23,661 views • 1 year ago

Was working on CSM (Cascaded Shadow Maps) blending. My CSM implementation is a little unusual, I switch cascades as late as possible, using the highest available resolution cascade. Most CSM implementations choose cascades based on view depth, the problem with that is - you waste a lot of high resolution shadow texels, in my experience easily upwards of 50%. I figure - GPU already spent the effort to compute those shadow texels - why not use them, and get perceptually about 20-50% resolution increase in your shadows. This is not new, and MJP showed this in his code too (see below). The problem is in blending, if you use cascade projection matrix for choosing a cascade - blending becomes non-trivial. So I spent a lot of time working on that, and finally cracked it. Video shows blending of 5 cascades, the blend margin is exaggerated for demonstration purposes and cascades are pushed to the near plane for the same reason. The result is a perfect forward-only blend at the cost of a bit of ALU. Matt Pettineo is pretty much an authority on the subject nowadays, and I found his amazing repo very useful in the past:
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Was working on CSM (Cascaded Shadow Maps) blending. My CSM implementation is a little unusual, I switch cascades as late as possible, using the highest available resolution cascade. Most CSM implementations choose cascades based on view depth, the problem with that is - you waste a lot of high resolution shadow texels, in my experience easily upwards of 50%. I figure - GPU already spent the effort to compute those shadow texels - why not use them, and get perceptually about 20-50% resolution increase in your shadows. This is not new, and MJP showed this in his code too (see below). The problem is in blending, if you use cascade projection matrix for choosing a cascade - blending becomes non-trivial. So I spent a lot of time working on that, and finally cracked it. Video shows blending of 5 cascades, the blend margin is exaggerated for demonstration purposes and cascades are pushed to the near plane for the same reason. The result is a perfect forward-only blend at the cost of a bit of ALU. Matt Pettineo is pretty much an authority on the subject nowadays, and I found his amazing repo very useful in the past:

Alex Goldring

18,888 views • 6 months ago

✨ARBITER KEYBOARD AND GLASS PAD VIDEO DEMO✨ See the products in action!! Papes for scale only :3c #ClaudeClawmark #CLAUDEIN4K 🔗 ❔: oh my god it's me and my boy, i know that guy! guys, i know him! www ❔: for me personally i like really solid lighting but very nice to know that there are a lot of multiple lighting options as well. ❔: on the actual case itself there's a really slight glitter sheen to it. it's such a nice touch and it's really really cool. ❔: that is another key point for me, i REALLY REALLY REALLY like the matte finish on the casing itself. it is SUCH a nice feel. [...] ❔: in the video itself there is a lot of light reflecting off of it, it is VERY VERY clear in person. you really got to see it for yourself. ❔: it is a very solid piece. i like it a lot. [...] ❔: honestly, everything thus far, the product lineup, i'm extremely happy to be a part of this and work with Arbiter. it is absolutely phenomenal. ❔: it's still kinda crazy to me to feel like. i get a keyboard. that's a keyboard real. it is a privilege to say the lease
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✨ARBITER KEYBOARD AND GLASS PAD VIDEO DEMO✨ See the products in action!! Papes for scale only :3c #ClaudeClawmark #CLAUDEIN4K 🔗 ❔: oh my god it's me and my boy, i know that guy! guys, i know him! www ❔: for me personally i like really solid lighting but very nice to know that there are a lot of multiple lighting options as well. ❔: on the actual case itself there's a really slight glitter sheen to it. it's such a nice touch and it's really really cool. ❔: that is another key point for me, i REALLY REALLY REALLY like the matte finish on the casing itself. it is SUCH a nice feel. [...] ❔: in the video itself there is a lot of light reflecting off of it, it is VERY VERY clear in person. you really got to see it for yourself. ❔: it is a very solid piece. i like it a lot. [...] ❔: honestly, everything thus far, the product lineup, i'm extremely happy to be a part of this and work with Arbiter. it is absolutely phenomenal. ❔: it's still kinda crazy to me to feel like. i get a keyboard. that's a keyboard real. it is a privilege to say the lease

ClawPR 🧤❔

11,889 views • 7 months ago

So how is the Sega Dreamcast's very own native port of Mario Kart 64 coming along? Well, lets take a look at some footage I just captured directly from my DC of jnmartin's latest build! Minor texture corruption is still present on some of the sprites here and there, plus there's no audio yet, BUT MY OH MY! She's running like a dream and looks SHARP as hell at with progressive scan at twice the resolution! You'll immediately notice virtually all of the texture corruption on the text and UI sprites have been fixed. You can now actually see your item box, and clouds are drawn properly in the background, rather than over the top of the scene in the foreground. Somehow, along with fixing all of this in the past few days, jnmartin has also found the time to get the monitors in the backgrounds of Luigi's Raceway and Wario Stadium correctly projecting a view of the scene onto their screens. This somewhat-advanced effect (for the time) was actually done on the N64 (in this game) WITHOUT doing a secondary render-to-texture pass, which requires submitting the scene a second time to the GPU. Instead, the framebuffer was divided into small, tiled chunks (1/6 of its total size), with only a single small chunk getting updated per frame. This way, the amount of direct VRAM access from the CPU (which is typically slow as hell) is kept to a minimum within the duration of a particular frame, with multiple frames being required to update the entire screen. But anyway, she's starting to look and play incredibly well, and those of us with early access to the builds have been thoroughly enjoying revisiting this title on our favorite platform!
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So how is the Sega Dreamcast's very own native port of Mario Kart 64 coming along? Well, lets take a look at some footage I just captured directly from my DC of jnmartin's latest build! Minor texture corruption is still present on some of the sprites here and there, plus there's no audio yet, BUT MY OH MY! She's running like a dream and looks SHARP as hell at with progressive scan at twice the resolution! You'll immediately notice virtually all of the texture corruption on the text and UI sprites have been fixed. You can now actually see your item box, and clouds are drawn properly in the background, rather than over the top of the scene in the foreground. Somehow, along with fixing all of this in the past few days, jnmartin has also found the time to get the monitors in the backgrounds of Luigi's Raceway and Wario Stadium correctly projecting a view of the scene onto their screens. This somewhat-advanced effect (for the time) was actually done on the N64 (in this game) WITHOUT doing a secondary render-to-texture pass, which requires submitting the scene a second time to the GPU. Instead, the framebuffer was divided into small, tiled chunks (1/6 of its total size), with only a single small chunk getting updated per frame. This way, the amount of direct VRAM access from the CPU (which is typically slow as hell) is kept to a minimum within the duration of a particular frame, with multiple frames being required to update the entire screen. But anyway, she's starting to look and play incredibly well, and those of us with early access to the builds have been thoroughly enjoying revisiting this title on our favorite platform!

Falco Girgis

45,600 views • 1 year ago

Physics-based Motion Retargeting from Sparse Inputs paper page: Avatars are important to create interactive and immersive experiences in virtual worlds. One challenge in animating these characters to mimic a user's motion is that commercial AR/VR products consist only of a headset and controllers, providing very limited sensor data of the user's pose. Another challenge is that an avatar might have a different skeleton structure than a human and the mapping between them is unclear. In this work we address both of these challenges. We introduce a method to retarget motions in real-time from sparse human sensor data to characters of various morphologies. Our method uses reinforcement learning to train a policy to control characters in a physics simulator. We only require human motion capture data for training, without relying on artist-generated animations for each avatar. This allows us to use large motion capture datasets to train general policies that can track unseen users from real and sparse data in real-time. We demonstrate the feasibility of our approach on three characters with different skeleton structure: a dinosaur, a mouse-like creature and a human. We show that the avatar poses often match the user surprisingly well, despite having no sensor information of the lower body available. We discuss and ablate the important components in our framework, specifically the kinematic retargeting step, the imitation, contact and action reward as well as our asymmetric actor-critic observations. We further explore the robustness of our method in a variety of settings including unbalancing, dancing and sports motions.
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Physics-based Motion Retargeting from Sparse Inputs paper page: Avatars are important to create interactive and immersive experiences in virtual worlds. One challenge in animating these characters to mimic a user's motion is that commercial AR/VR products consist only of a headset and controllers, providing very limited sensor data of the user's pose. Another challenge is that an avatar might have a different skeleton structure than a human and the mapping between them is unclear. In this work we address both of these challenges. We introduce a method to retarget motions in real-time from sparse human sensor data to characters of various morphologies. Our method uses reinforcement learning to train a policy to control characters in a physics simulator. We only require human motion capture data for training, without relying on artist-generated animations for each avatar. This allows us to use large motion capture datasets to train general policies that can track unseen users from real and sparse data in real-time. We demonstrate the feasibility of our approach on three characters with different skeleton structure: a dinosaur, a mouse-like creature and a human. We show that the avatar poses often match the user surprisingly well, despite having no sensor information of the lower body available. We discuss and ablate the important components in our framework, specifically the kinematic retargeting step, the imitation, contact and action reward as well as our asymmetric actor-critic observations. We further explore the robustness of our method in a variety of settings including unbalancing, dancing and sports motions.

AK

106,527 views • 3 years ago

"Farm murders are a very serious problem in South Africa. The response to that is to say, 'Well, there are many problems in South Africa, so why are you pointing to this one?' But the fact of the matter is that it's a very unique problem, and it's a problem that could only be prevented or combated by a unique counter strategy. And there are a few things that make the farm murders unique. One is the extreme frequency at which it's happening - just the sheer numbers - thousands of people having been murdered on farms, many of them tortured. In many of those cases, nothing is stolen. They just come in, they torture the farmers for several hours, and then they leave. …The second is the brutality, the high levels of torture that we see. And any torture method you can imagine has been employed in these farm attacks. And it's the most grotesque torture you could think of in many of these cases. …The third is the unique economic impact, because farmers are skilled people, they are employers, they provide food for the country. So, it would have disastrous consequences for the nation at large, and it already has. The fourth is just the fact that farmers live in unique circumstances. They live far away from police stations, far away from their neighbors, oftentimes on dirt roads. Oftentimes there’s bad cell phone signals. So, that alone says that you need a unique counter strategy to fix this, even though the South African government doesn't want to recognize this. But then on top of this, what makes the farm murders exceptionally unique is that it's a very serious crime phenomenon that is also actively encouraged by politicians." - Ernst Roets
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"Farm murders are a very serious problem in South Africa. The response to that is to say, 'Well, there are many problems in South Africa, so why are you pointing to this one?' But the fact of the matter is that it's a very unique problem, and it's a problem that could only be prevented or combated by a unique counter strategy. And there are a few things that make the farm murders unique. One is the extreme frequency at which it's happening - just the sheer numbers - thousands of people having been murdered on farms, many of them tortured. In many of those cases, nothing is stolen. They just come in, they torture the farmers for several hours, and then they leave. …The second is the brutality, the high levels of torture that we see. And any torture method you can imagine has been employed in these farm attacks. And it's the most grotesque torture you could think of in many of these cases. …The third is the unique economic impact, because farmers are skilled people, they are employers, they provide food for the country. So, it would have disastrous consequences for the nation at large, and it already has. The fourth is just the fact that farmers live in unique circumstances. They live far away from police stations, far away from their neighbors, oftentimes on dirt roads. Oftentimes there’s bad cell phone signals. So, that alone says that you need a unique counter strategy to fix this, even though the South African government doesn't want to recognize this. But then on top of this, what makes the farm murders exceptionally unique is that it's a very serious crime phenomenon that is also actively encouraged by politicians." - Ernst Roets

Jan Jekielek

37,379 views • 10 months ago

Why did decide to build on Polkadot ? Here is why - directly from the mouth of Mythical Games’ boss John Linden : ‘We wanted to have all the control and all the security and there is only just 1 or 2 Layer 1s that can offer this - and Polkadot is one of them. In essence, we have our very own L1 , secured by the Polkadot relay chain, which I think is the most secure ! With Polkadot, we have have the best of both worlds, the cost structure is great, the ability to change the rules as the DAO evolves is great! In a nutshell, Gavin Wood is just so far ahead of everybody else right now and we share the same vision: the push for decentralization’ DROPS episode out on Sunday!
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Why did decide to build on Polkadot ? Here is why - directly from the mouth of Mythical Games’ boss John Linden : ‘We wanted to have all the control and all the security and there is only just 1 or 2 Layer 1s that can offer this - and Polkadot is one of them. In essence, we have our very own L1 , secured by the Polkadot relay chain, which I think is the most secure ! With Polkadot, we have have the best of both worlds, the cost structure is great, the ability to change the rules as the DAO evolves is great! In a nutshell, Gavin Wood is just so far ahead of everybody else right now and we share the same vision: the push for decentralization’ DROPS episode out on Sunday!

MR SHIFT 🦁

72,690 views • 1 year ago

Q: For many years, you've been 'the' Brazilian driver on the grid. But now Brazil does have one driver, Gabriel Bortoleto. How is it to share a little bit the passion from the fans with this guy? "It's different for me because I am one of the older drivers now. So it's amazing to see the young drivers coming up. And I'm so proud of these young drivers, the weight in which they have to take on, particularly in the world that we're in now with the sport being as big as it is. I think they do such a great job to navigate." "And I mean, he's driving so well. Such a nice young lad. And I think he's got such a bright future. So I'm happy for Brazil that you have another Brazilian driver that will be here beyond me.." Q: ...alongside you! "Yeah, I feel Brazilian. So I feel very connected here in Brazil."
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Q: For many years, you've been 'the' Brazilian driver on the grid. But now Brazil does have one driver, Gabriel Bortoleto. How is it to share a little bit the passion from the fans with this guy? "It's different for me because I am one of the older drivers now. So it's amazing to see the young drivers coming up. And I'm so proud of these young drivers, the weight in which they have to take on, particularly in the world that we're in now with the sport being as big as it is. I think they do such a great job to navigate." "And I mean, he's driving so well. Such a nice young lad. And I think he's got such a bright future. So I'm happy for Brazil that you have another Brazilian driver that will be here beyond me.." Q: ...alongside you! "Yeah, I feel Brazilian. So I feel very connected here in Brazil."

sim

46,837 views • 8 months ago

Congrats to EloShapes.com on their launch! On a similar note, is out of beta and available to the public. A lot of you have been asking me what my plan is now that EloShapes is also doing 3D scans... the answer is: nothing changed! I think that competition is good. I'm a mouse nerd and a LONG TIME EloShapes user, so the more options I get as a user, the better. I really think that my vision and EloShapes, though, is fundamentally different. I've had the domain for FMM for years, I have a much larger platform in mind compared to what I built so far. The 3D scans are the necessary step for my vision, not the end goal: they never were. I am also very proud of the fact that I've been able to scan at least 5 mice in full color EVERY DAY with my own pipeline, and I think I will easily have almost full coverage of the mice people would want on the website within months. Check the video for the mice I've added in just the last few days, all textured. Apart from some of the features I've mentioned before (like the virtual hand/grip), FMM is meant to be kind of a "MyAnimeList" for mice, so that you can share your profile, like this: and then later on leverage this curated list of mice you build for yourself to be shown even more mice you might like. FMM is also a tool for reviewers and anyone that wants to share their opinions on mice. Links like this: allow you to easily share your specific points about a mouse via the annotations, viewpoint sharing and measurements. And of course, as I've said since the beginning, I will use FMM to centralize all my hard testing about sensors, dpi, and such, so that you'll be able to find EVERYTHING about a mouse, including the raw results of my standardized sensor implementation testing. So, with this said, I will keep scanning as many mice as possible and adding as many features as possible until FMM becomes what I envisioned so long ago. Join my discord if you want to keep up! I hope you'll all give it a try! Ciao!
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Congrats to EloShapes.com on their launch! On a similar note, is out of beta and available to the public. A lot of you have been asking me what my plan is now that EloShapes is also doing 3D scans... the answer is: nothing changed! I think that competition is good. I'm a mouse nerd and a LONG TIME EloShapes user, so the more options I get as a user, the better. I really think that my vision and EloShapes, though, is fundamentally different. I've had the domain for FMM for years, I have a much larger platform in mind compared to what I built so far. The 3D scans are the necessary step for my vision, not the end goal: they never were. I am also very proud of the fact that I've been able to scan at least 5 mice in full color EVERY DAY with my own pipeline, and I think I will easily have almost full coverage of the mice people would want on the website within months. Check the video for the mice I've added in just the last few days, all textured. Apart from some of the features I've mentioned before (like the virtual hand/grip), FMM is meant to be kind of a "MyAnimeList" for mice, so that you can share your profile, like this: and then later on leverage this curated list of mice you build for yourself to be shown even more mice you might like. FMM is also a tool for reviewers and anyone that wants to share their opinions on mice. Links like this: allow you to easily share your specific points about a mouse via the annotations, viewpoint sharing and measurements. And of course, as I've said since the beginning, I will use FMM to centralize all my hard testing about sensors, dpi, and such, so that you'll be able to find EVERYTHING about a mouse, including the raw results of my standardized sensor implementation testing. So, with this said, I will keep scanning as many mice as possible and adding as many features as possible until FMM becomes what I envisioned so long ago. Join my discord if you want to keep up! I hope you'll all give it a try! Ciao!

bardOZ (Giovanni Laerte Frongia)

25,646 views • 3 months ago

Something we have been working on for months and technically years, because the features we needed always got delayed, it's finally ready to release, and I can't think of a worst time to release it. Epic is releasing a competing gamemode with features we have been requesting for years, and giving feedback feels like a stab in the back. I'm sure there is no ill intent from the devs that work on the mode, but why would anybody spend time on unique ideas and modes if Epic can just release their own version?
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Something we have been working on for months and technically years, because the features we needed always got delayed, it's finally ready to release, and I can't think of a worst time to release it. Epic is releasing a competing gamemode with features we have been requesting for years, and giving feedback feels like a stab in the back. I'm sure there is no ill intent from the devs that work on the mode, but why would anybody spend time on unique ideas and modes if Epic can just release their own version?

Richytoons

70,737 views • 3 months ago

Collateral (2004) Michael Mann on using music to reveal character. "As research, music enters early for me. If you can find that piece of music which evokes the central emotion of one of your characters, some pivotal crisis where he or she must rouse themselves from despair and manifest something very aggressive within his or her own mind—this becomes the piece of music for that moment. If I want to quantify how a character is feeling and thinking, in a way that is replicable, so I can re-evoke that emotion many, many times, finding the right piece of music is positively essential. Not only as I prepare the scene—but as I shoot the scene, as I direct the actors, and finally, as I edit the scene. One specific example comes to mind in Collateral, when the coyotes cross in front of the cab. For me, that was a watershed in the story's progression. Each of the two principle characters is submerging into his own perspective of what life is: a retrospective moment; a prelude to a violent confrontation. The song "Shadow on the Sun" by Audioslave nailed that moment for me. It became an indelible part of planning, sustaining, and executing that scene."
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Collateral (2004) Michael Mann on using music to reveal character. "As research, music enters early for me. If you can find that piece of music which evokes the central emotion of one of your characters, some pivotal crisis where he or she must rouse themselves from despair and manifest something very aggressive within his or her own mind—this becomes the piece of music for that moment. If I want to quantify how a character is feeling and thinking, in a way that is replicable, so I can re-evoke that emotion many, many times, finding the right piece of music is positively essential. Not only as I prepare the scene—but as I shoot the scene, as I direct the actors, and finally, as I edit the scene. One specific example comes to mind in Collateral, when the coyotes cross in front of the cab. For me, that was a watershed in the story's progression. Each of the two principle characters is submerging into his own perspective of what life is: a retrospective moment; a prelude to a violent confrontation. The song "Shadow on the Sun" by Audioslave nailed that moment for me. It became an indelible part of planning, sustaining, and executing that scene."

Gangster Cinema Central

41,610 views • 5 months ago

Lando: “In a way I wanted to keep number 4 because I'm just happy with that and it goes well with my logo. So that's how straightforward I am. But I will go with number 1. Because I have to. I have to. It could be my only opportunity in my life that I get to do such a thing. Not many people in the world get to do that kind of thing. And it's not for me. It's just for my mechanics. This is for my engineers. It's the fact that they get to run with the number 1 on the car. And I think it'll mean a lot more to them than it does to me as a number. And for me, that's a lot more important.”
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Lando: “In a way I wanted to keep number 4 because I'm just happy with that and it goes well with my logo. So that's how straightforward I am. But I will go with number 1. Because I have to. I have to. It could be my only opportunity in my life that I get to do such a thing. Not many people in the world get to do that kind of thing. And it's not for me. It's just for my mechanics. This is for my engineers. It's the fact that they get to run with the number 1 on the car. And I think it'll mean a lot more to them than it does to me as a number. And for me, that's a lot more important.”

naenia ¹ ⁶³

1,647,585 views • 7 months ago

I must confess that i have been having some fun here in the US, for the better part of, close to two weeks -now in the city so good they named it twice. Guess where is that? Here is a Behind-the-Scene clip with my great friend and brother (Ademola Bello-not in clip but see old photo as well) who was helping me with the Teleprompter as we spent time rehearsing My Take for yesterday's edition of @InsideSource01 on Channels Television I also add here the photograph of me receiving the "Voice of Truth Award" last week in Washington DC at the SAVE NIGERIA COALITION Gala. Presenting me the award there is Mr. Douglas Burton, a US journalist and editor of And the answer to the question above is New York, New York! I love this city & state so much, which explains why I spent 15 of the 17 years -in America-here with my wife & children. Expect more of such biographical stories in my forthcoming book, MY PASSION FOR NIGERIA & THE BUHARI CABAL, hopefully before the 2027 polls.
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I must confess that i have been having some fun here in the US, for the better part of, close to two weeks -now in the city so good they named it twice. Guess where is that? Here is a Behind-the-Scene clip with my great friend and brother (Ademola Bello-not in clip but see old photo as well) who was helping me with the Teleprompter as we spent time rehearsing My Take for yesterday's edition of @InsideSource01 on Channels Television I also add here the photograph of me receiving the "Voice of Truth Award" last week in Washington DC at the SAVE NIGERIA COALITION Gala. Presenting me the award there is Mr. Douglas Burton, a US journalist and editor of And the answer to the question above is New York, New York! I love this city & state so much, which explains why I spent 15 of the 17 years -in America-here with my wife & children. Expect more of such biographical stories in my forthcoming book, MY PASSION FOR NIGERIA & THE BUHARI CABAL, hopefully before the 2027 polls.

Laolu Akande

15,332 views • 29 days ago

lando asked whether his relationship with oscar changed: “it's still the same. and i think we both are happy that that's how it is. it's because we both have a lot of respect for one another and we both understand the position that we're in. and we both treat the world of driving versus just personally what we're like away from the track, quite differently. that's how i've always been. i feel like i've always gone on well with my teammates since go-karting. i've always wanted to because it just makes my life more fun, more enjoyable and that's also why i'm here. it's because i love what i do, so the more i can do that, the better. but we still just very much understand that we're here, we work for mclaren, we want the best for the team. we work very hard and as drivers always do, you try and maximize your own performance more than anything. but then when we step out of the car, we can still have a joke. we still have laughs in our debriefs, and we still enjoy everything away from the track. so, no i think it's still better than ever in many ways. i think we're still very different people. he's very just calm down to earth, very relaxed, always looks just cool, and that's something i also admire quite a bit, is how just plain sailing he is with a lot of things. it's a good attribute to have. always hard to read what mood he's in, but i think probably for me, you see more visually kind of the moods i'm in. but otherwise, it's not like we go play golf together and do things like i have done with carlos, daniel i didn't play golf with. but we're still different people, but in terms of relationship, we get along well. we still work together well and i think it's still better than it's ever been”
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lando asked whether his relationship with oscar changed: “it's still the same. and i think we both are happy that that's how it is. it's because we both have a lot of respect for one another and we both understand the position that we're in. and we both treat the world of driving versus just personally what we're like away from the track, quite differently. that's how i've always been. i feel like i've always gone on well with my teammates since go-karting. i've always wanted to because it just makes my life more fun, more enjoyable and that's also why i'm here. it's because i love what i do, so the more i can do that, the better. but we still just very much understand that we're here, we work for mclaren, we want the best for the team. we work very hard and as drivers always do, you try and maximize your own performance more than anything. but then when we step out of the car, we can still have a joke. we still have laughs in our debriefs, and we still enjoy everything away from the track. so, no i think it's still better than ever in many ways. i think we're still very different people. he's very just calm down to earth, very relaxed, always looks just cool, and that's something i also admire quite a bit, is how just plain sailing he is with a lot of things. it's a good attribute to have. always hard to read what mood he's in, but i think probably for me, you see more visually kind of the moods i'm in. but otherwise, it's not like we go play golf together and do things like i have done with carlos, daniel i didn't play golf with. but we're still different people, but in terms of relationship, we get along well. we still work together well and i think it's still better than it's ever been”

ray

129,217 views • 8 months ago

Cameron Young is playing with a golf ball that would allegedly be compliant with the new roll back rules that will come into effect in a few years time. He was asked about it ahead of the PGA Championship and he says every player in the game is sacrificing distance for control, and he put it in play at the Wyndham last year which he won. “I think I put it in play the same reason that everybody else plays the ball that they play. I hit it during a ball test, one of the Titleist facilities probably close to two years ago and didn't know anything about it and just kind of say, hey, what's that one? Because I liked the flight. “Then as things progressed, I was able to test it last year at Wyndham, able to put that in play, and it's been there since. “Obviously there is no conforming list. I wasn't aware that it would have -- I suppose I read something that said it passed that test, but I wasn't aware of that until very recently. “So at no point was that a consideration. It was just really me trying to optimize my golf, and it's the ball that seems to work the best for me.” He then was asked whether he lost distance with it compared to other balls he’s tested: “Not particularly. I don't think any of us are out really here playing the ball that goes the farthest. I think you'd struggle to find a single person that's doing that. We're all sacrificing a certain amount of things that we feel are worth it, control with irons, control with wedges. For me, that's the biggest thing is being able to control spin, and this is the ball that does the best for me.” Finally he can as asked whether this ball goes further than the one he was using: “No, I hit very similar, yeah. It's much more -- the driver is kind of the easiest thing to deal with, I feel like. For me to get it where it needed to be, I had to just add a little bit of spin, and it kind of comes out at a perfectly playable range. “For me, the biggest thing, like I said, is the irons. This ball is easier to control with the irons. It doesn't spin as much, and it just allows me to be better with my distance control just because it's more consistent.” The golf ball rollback has been a hugely controversial subject but Cameron Young is currently using one that’s compliant and he is playing the best golf of his career. This gives the best idea yet on what impact, or lack of it, the new rules will actually have on the sport. PGA Championship
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Cameron Young is playing with a golf ball that would allegedly be compliant with the new roll back rules that will come into effect in a few years time. He was asked about it ahead of the PGA Championship and he says every player in the game is sacrificing distance for control, and he put it in play at the Wyndham last year which he won. “I think I put it in play the same reason that everybody else plays the ball that they play. I hit it during a ball test, one of the Titleist facilities probably close to two years ago and didn't know anything about it and just kind of say, hey, what's that one? Because I liked the flight. “Then as things progressed, I was able to test it last year at Wyndham, able to put that in play, and it's been there since. “Obviously there is no conforming list. I wasn't aware that it would have -- I suppose I read something that said it passed that test, but I wasn't aware of that until very recently. “So at no point was that a consideration. It was just really me trying to optimize my golf, and it's the ball that seems to work the best for me.” He then was asked whether he lost distance with it compared to other balls he’s tested: “Not particularly. I don't think any of us are out really here playing the ball that goes the farthest. I think you'd struggle to find a single person that's doing that. We're all sacrificing a certain amount of things that we feel are worth it, control with irons, control with wedges. For me, that's the biggest thing is being able to control spin, and this is the ball that does the best for me.” Finally he can as asked whether this ball goes further than the one he was using: “No, I hit very similar, yeah. It's much more -- the driver is kind of the easiest thing to deal with, I feel like. For me to get it where it needed to be, I had to just add a little bit of spin, and it kind of comes out at a perfectly playable range. “For me, the biggest thing, like I said, is the irons. This ball is easier to control with the irons. It doesn't spin as much, and it just allows me to be better with my distance control just because it's more consistent.” The golf ball rollback has been a hugely controversial subject but Cameron Young is currently using one that’s compliant and he is playing the best golf of his career. This gives the best idea yet on what impact, or lack of it, the new rules will actually have on the sport. PGA Championship

Flushing It

311,493 views • 2 months ago

"FrosT is no longer the head coach of Global Esports. I will also say he is by far one of the best coaches that I have worked with. My credit to all the other coaches that I worked with in the past, but I think just as a person, I vibed and connected with him. He was also an org owner in the past and we are definitely going to find a way to work together in the future as well and we're on good terms. But for this roster, I think it's more important for us to focus on the five players that we have and we're gonna continue doing that. So the rest of the roster continues being as is for our season going forward but FrosT will no longer be the head coach [...]" Global Esports CEO & Co-Founder Dr. Rushindra sheds light on his personal experience with former head coach FrosT and the team's plans moving forward. Watch #YAP2ASIA EP. 25 on YouTube, Spotify, and Bilibili
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"FrosT is no longer the head coach of Global Esports. I will also say he is by far one of the best coaches that I have worked with. My credit to all the other coaches that I worked with in the past, but I think just as a person, I vibed and connected with him. He was also an org owner in the past and we are definitely going to find a way to work together in the future as well and we're on good terms. But for this roster, I think it's more important for us to focus on the five players that we have and we're gonna continue doing that. So the rest of the roster continues being as is for our season going forward but FrosT will no longer be the head coach [...]" Global Esports CEO & Co-Founder Dr. Rushindra sheds light on his personal experience with former head coach FrosT and the team's plans moving forward. Watch #YAP2ASIA EP. 25 on YouTube, Spotify, and Bilibili

VALO2ASIA

96,417 views • 29 days ago