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Ben Golus @bgolus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I genuinely think AI is going to kill us all if we don’t put more money into it. Not in the Skynet way of gaining super human intelligence sentience and building robots to eradicate us. In the making stupid people believe their own stupidity and giving them confidence to follow through way.

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Ben Golus @bgolus.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Recently Disney announced that they are planning to do work on Disneyland's Tomorrowland. They didn't say _what_ they're going to do, or even give a real timeline, but it got a lot of people who are fans of the land excited. And lots of talk about the Peoplemover maybe returning.

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Ben Golus @bgolus.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

With OLEDs becoming more and more popular, we really need to bring back screensavers.

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Ben Golus @bgolus.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The US auto industry is trying to get Chinese made vehicles banned from the US indefinitely. Their current argument is Chinese made vehicles track data about passengers and that it poses a privacy and safety concern. I agree. But we should also ban US and EU auto industry for the same issues.

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Ben Golus @bgolus.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The term “Disney Adult“ often gets thrown out there as a sort of derogatory name for adults who attend Disney parks w/o kids. One of the things that bugs me most about people who use it this way is they assume this is a recent phenomenon. That’s a gross misunderstanding of what Disneyland is.

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Ben Golus @bgolus.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Possibly one of the most interesting announcements at Gamescon this year isn't a game, but a random 27" OLED monitor. There are a ton of 27" OLED monitors today, so why is this one interesting? Neither Samsung or LG are making the panel. TCL is. tftcentral.co.uk/news/msi-unv...

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MSI Unveil the World's First Inkjet Printed OLED Monitor in Their PRO MAX Range - TFTCentral

Share this contentOriginally published 17 July 2026, last updated 31 August 2026 MSI have announced their new PRO MAX OLED 271UPJW12 monitor, the world’s first to use a new Inkjet....[click link for m...

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Ben Golus @bgolus.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

What do these three music videos have in common? C+C Music Factory - Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now) Black Box - Everybody Everybody The Weather Girls - It's Raining Men

Zelma Davis in the music video of C+C Music Factory - Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)

Katrin Quinol in the music video for Black Box - Everybody Everybody

Martha Wash in the music video for The Weather Girls - It's Raining Men

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Ben Golus @bgolus.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I do really enjoy the rabbit hole that is people making their own clocks that set their time automatically… but also find it funny it usually takes a few hundred dollars because they invariably make them sync via the internet with some small computer instead of spending $5 on a radio clock chip.

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Ben Golus @bgolus.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Reminds me a bit of the Larrabee (or more specifically the productized Xeon Phi) and CausticOne. These were "GPUs" that focused on programmability and raytracing performance with limited to no raster support. And both were crushed by Nvidia (and in some respects even AMD). youtu.be/-fZM9wOvbh0?...

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A New Gaming GPU Challenger: Bolt Graphics Takes Aim at NVIDIA

YouTube video by Gamers Nexus

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Ben Golus @bgolus.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

What direction is this mask spinning?

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Ben Golus @bgolus.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

I think we need to stop calling them Billionaires and start calling them Villianaires.

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Ben Golus @bgolus.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Disney did a preview opening for the refreshed Rock n' Roller Coaster and Disney World's Hollywood Studios park. This version removes Aerosmith and replaces them with Electric Mayhem from The Muppets. And holy shit that Scooter animatronic is fantastic! youtu.be/F6t6c6WhrGg?...

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FULL RIDE POV Rock'N'Rollercoaster starring THE MUPPETS - DSNY Newscast

YouTube video by DSNY Newscast

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Ben Golus @bgolus.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

The history of the modern burrito has always fascinated meme. As a kid I had a Spanish teacher who grew up in Mexico complain that it wasn’t a real Mexican dish and that it was an US invention. In his mind it was just a standard taco that gringos made up a stupid name for.

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Ben Golus @bgolus.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

I really like @timschiesser.bsky.social 's reframing of frame gen as "fancy motion blur". Not so much in how it looks, but how its used. And the fact either used without moderation looks like utter shit. youtu.be/Dn9zNs0XZDk?...

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Frame Generation Doesn't Fix Bad Performance!

YouTube video by Hardware Unboxed

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Ben Golus @bgolus.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Why did they call it an integrated GPU instead of a discreet GPU?

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Ben Golus @bgolus.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Being an adult means knowing you can have your kids' sugary breakfast cereal for lunch whenever you want, but choosing to acknowledge it's a really bad idea hen you do.

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Ben Golus @bgolus.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Every few months I see a post on the dead bird site about how someone vibe coded a game in a few hours and released it to show how easy it is to do. And if you actually try said "game" it's really obvious why games are still so hard to make... (because all of these vibe coded examples suuuuuck).

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Ben Golus @bgolus.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

With the legal battles surrounding the "Prediction Market" betting sites being ruled as "futures trading" rather than gambling, I wonder how much of the gambling world will start rebranding themselves as such before people realize the futures and swap markets are just gambling.

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Ben Golus @bgolus.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

One of my favorite old school rendering tricks is the abusing mip maps for fades and Fresnel. At this point perhaps most famously done in Mario Sunshine for the ocean water sparkles. blog.mecheye.net/2018/03/deco...

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Deconstructing the water effect in Super Mario Sunshine | Clean Rinse

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Ben Golus @bgolus.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Melon Husk has announced he has plans on building his own chip fabrication facility to produce 2nm chips; Terafab. I have no doubt they'll build out some giant facilities... but, uh... literally only ASML is currently capable of building machines that can make chips at that size.

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Ben Golus @bgolus.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Valve changed Counter-Strike 2's reload system so that you don't keep the unused bullets that are in your magazine, but instead loose them entirely. Years ago someone I knew argued that CS was _not_ a "true" tactical shooter because of the way they handled ammo.

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Ben Golus @bgolus.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

One thing about this whole DLSS 5 debacle that I kind of feel like a lot of people are missing: It was shown at the start of the Nvidia GTC 2026 keynote. The GTC keynote is mainly a way for Nvidia to show off to investors and executives. And that group _loves_ generative AI.

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Ben Golus @bgolus.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Valve has changed their time frame for the Steam Machine from "later this year" to "soon". I guess that means it'll ship in about 5 years, or be officially cancelled in 10.

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Ben Golus @bgolus.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Corridor Crew have gotten a lot of flack over the last few years for their AI exploration videos. Most of them have been explorations of existing tools... which each have had various levels of ethics behind their creation. But their latest video seems really good. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Plo...

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It Took Me 30 Years to Solve this VFX Problem

YouTube video by Corridor Crew

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Ben Golus @bgolus.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

So, the US Supreme Court ruled you couldn't sue a President for anything falling under their "core constitutional duties". So if the President does something that they rule he doesn't have the constitutional power to do, does that mean you can sue him for it?

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Ben Golus @bgolus.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

So Microsoft announced the codename for the next Xbox console. From here on I'm going to refer to it as the Xbox Too. Not two, too. As in "This is an Xbox ... too". www.youtube.com/shorts/3xy9E...

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The next generation of Xbox console: Project Helix

YouTube video by Xbox

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Ben Golus @bgolus.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

The Macbook Neo is fascinating for one very simple reason. It's using a A18 Pro SOC instead of an M chip. I think this is the first time we're seeing MacOS running on an A series SOC.

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Ben Golus @bgolus.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

@dark1x.bsky.social In your video on Nvidia Pulsar there's one thing I don't think you ever directly talk about. VRR flicker. You did make a comment about the double flash existing to help with refresh changes, but that seems to be about it. But does Pulsar have any VRR flickering problems?

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Ben Golus @bgolus.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

I kind of love how OLED TVs and monitors have gone about solving the technology‘s brightness limitations. … Modern OLED TVs and monitors work a bit more like LCD panels than many people might expect. LCDs have a white backlight, color filters, and the LCD part to block light at each subpixel.

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Ben Golus @bgolus.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Apropos of nothing in particular, did you know Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will be 39 in 2028?

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Ben Golus @bgolus.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Thinking about how the ending of Stranger Things disappointed so many, how much people hated Game of Thrones, and how dumb the ending of Lost was. Has there been a long running well loved TV show with an ending that people actually liked?

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Ben Golus @bgolus.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

This is a great video to send anyone who still thinks humans can only see 60hz. There are some minor pedantic things I could nit pick about it, but it does a really good job showing clear examples of why it's not remotely true. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sb_7...

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The human eye can see 39,620 Hz

YouTube video by techless

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Ben Golus @bgolus.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

CEOs explaining the benefits of AI for increasing profit the same thing as South Park gnomes explaining stealing underwear.

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Ben Golus @bgolus.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

What are some of your favorite short lived music groups you feel like no one else seems to know about? Ones that you feel came out hitting strong, and then disappeared into obscurity?

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One - Album by Kate Boy

One is the debut studio album by Swedish recording group Kate Boy, released on 6 November 2015 by Iamsound Records.

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Ben Golus @bgolus.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

I’ve been using Perforce for over 20 years, and having used many other version control systems over the years, its still the best. But it still sucks in some really silly ways.

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Ben Golus @bgolus.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

LTT WAN Show talked briefly about some scummy thing Best Buy was doing on their website. The short version is they're showing a "Comparable Value" for some items to make them seem like they're a great deal, and sometimes they're products that aren't even actually on sale.

$249.99
Save $180
Comp. Value: $429.99 (this "comparable value" number is plucked from thin air, as this product's MSRP is $100 less than that)

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Ben Golus @bgolus.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

At this point what the below images are are easily recognized by almost anyone who dabble in making games or 3D graphics in general. The now ubiquitous Normal Map. First described in 1998, and showed up in games around 2000 with Citizen Kabuto and Halo in 2001. Except...

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Ben Golus @bgolus.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

It's kind of amazing how unique the Luigi Mansion games are. Nintendo has made a lot of very unique games over the many decades, and nearly all of them someone has made games clearly inspired by the unique gameplay elements they offer. But not Luigi's Mansion. Zero clones.

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Ben Golus @bgolus.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

I just realized billionaire CEOs are all convinced LLMs are months from reaching AGI because they seem so lifelike to them. • Highly confident about things they know nothing about • When confronted about being wrong just double down • Feel no remorse for causing the suffering of others

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Ben Golus @bgolus.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Time for some 2019 era style dead-bird posting to distract you from 2026. What is the best Disney animated movie that no one remembers? What is the worst? It has to be a Disney Animation Studio film released into theaters, no straight to home video / streaming.

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List of Walt Disney Animation Studios films - Wikipedia

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Ben Golus @bgolus.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Unmasking via AI, what they think they're getting vs what they actually get:

Scooby Doo unmasking meme with the original unmasked villain for what people think they're getting, and an AI generated version of the meme where Fred is holding a ghost mask with the villain still wearing the mask for what they're actually getting.

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Ben Golus @bgolus.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Breaking News: Nvidia announces the new 2080 Super Duper.

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Ben Golus @bgolus.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

CES this year has been entertaining. 2026 is apparently the year that 100% Rec.2020 TVs finally come out... for commercial displays... LG finally shows moves towards true RGB stripe OLED, dropping the white subpixel, while Hisense starts adding yellow _and_ teal.

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Ben Golus @bgolus.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Ah, the Xmas tradition of figuring out who sent the latest package of unwrapped and unlabeled gifts to you based on the subtle differences in how people choose to write the name on the shipping address. Is it to just me? Just to my wife? Just me but my full name? To my wife and I? To the family?

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Pablo Zurita @pzurita.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

I got the first post about direct lighting material occlusion up on my blog. On this one I go over the commonly used micro-occlusion approach and its limitations, and I start digging into micro-shadowing as an improvement. irradiance.ca/posts/micros...

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Eka | Dosa Divas @ekanaut.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Family drama, comedy, turn-based fantastical battles with your exes, skating, and cooking tasty dishes! Thirsty Suitors is 50% off on Steam. Here’s an overview. If you played it, please leave a review! store.steampowered.com/app/1617220/...

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