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Purveyor of Broken Game Integrations @ GPORTAL // Occasional Psytrance DJ // Undercover Goth // Macrodata Refiner // Liberal Leftish // Identifies as Mop dreaming in […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ soc.psynet.me/@neo, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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NEO//LIX 🔊 @neo.soc.psynet.me.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Dang, I must have accidentally stepped into a wormhole and now it's 1933 again and the Nazi party is forming a government in Thuringia. I hate time-like loops. Thanks for nothing, Einstein!

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NEO//LIX 🔊 @neo.soc.psynet.me.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

#Google found another way to make their #YouTube app for iOS worse. Subscriptions are now hidden in a tab on the top, which in itself is annoying already, but it gets even better. The main feed contains posts with multiple pictures. Swipe to switch between pictures. Unless you are already at al […]

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NEO//LIX 🔊 @neo.soc.psynet.me.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

"self-defense" Google Maps updated its satellite images of #Gaza. I knew it was bad, but I wasn't expecting such a level of destruction. I've never seen anything like this. Whole cities just gone. Completely eradicated. I don't care about the reasons. This is pure barbarity. It's despicable.

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NEO//LIX 🔊 @neo.soc.psynet.me.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Had a quick a look at the #Witcher3 "Remaster" with its new path tracing. As expected, the lighting is absolutely gorgeous now. Denoising is still a bit buggy here and there. Also it's the third path traced game in a row after 007 First Light and Control Resonant where I notice that Ray […]

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NEO//LIX 🔊 @neo.soc.psynet.me.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

OMG OMG OMG! Just found out that #Laibach will revisit its 2009 „Volkswagner“ performance with the RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra in #Ljubljana in January 2027. This is a dream come true! On two evenings even (Saturday and Sunday), and I think about getting […] [Original post on soc.psynet.me]

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NEO//LIX 🔊 @neo.soc.psynet.me.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

After what felt like months of constant dentist phobia, escalating tinnitus, slight depression, and some days of common cold to round things up, I finally feel some energy to clean my apartment. It's more desperation though than motivation, since I know, whatever I will do, it won't become a […]

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NEO//LIX 🔊 @neo.soc.psynet.me.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

Playing #ControlResonant. Not a fan so far. I don't like the combat. It feels chaotic and the enemies are frustratingly spongy. Even graphically it's a downer. Yes, the path tracing is gorgeous and surprisingly performant, but the environments are boring compared to the mid-century brutalism […]

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NEO//LIX 🔊 @neo.soc.psynet.me.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

NEO//LIX 🔊 @neo.soc.psynet.me.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

Octopuses (Octopi? Octopussies?) can flips their colors in under 0.2 seconds. That's about 5 fps, which is borderline playable. So the question is: Can you run Doom on an Octopus?

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NEO//LIX 🔊 @neo.soc.psynet.me.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

Playing 007 First Light with path tracing and DLLS 5. ~ 30 fps on a 5090 lol, but with 4x frame generation surprisingly playable. As usual, a RenoDX mod is required to fix the native HDR implementation. DLSS 5 doesn't really do a lot besides surprisingly subtle changes to tone mapping and local […]

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NEO//LIX 🔊 @neo.soc.psynet.me.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

Super nice: I wanted to implement support for #Valheim mods hosted on hexium.gg, and didn't want to wait for product or legal or whomever, so I just contacted the #Hexium staff myself via Discord. That was yesterday. Less than 24 hours later we distribute the most up-to-date Valheim mods hosted […]

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NEO//LIX 🔊 @neo.soc.psynet.me.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

Man, what a week... I pushed out tons of new features just in time for the #Valheim 1.0 release, and immediately switched over to implement another bunch of new features for the upcoming release of #RuneScapeDragonwilds on Tuesday, while my team is preparing the launch of #DuneAwakening on […]

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NEO//LIX 🔊 @neo.soc.psynet.me.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

NA, ALLE WACH?!? 🚨 🚨 🚨 #Warntag

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NEO//LIX 🔊 @neo.soc.psynet.me.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

Well, that was a very boring #AppleEvent with very solid and perfectly fine devices, just like their predecessors of past years. Oh, and there was this foldable phone, which honestly has one of the coolest UI animations I've ever seen. I would really like to try it out, but on the other hand […]

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NEO//LIX 🔊 @neo.soc.psynet.me.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

Every time I cycle through my home town of #Munich and the surrounding areas, I wonder who lives in all those nice houses with fancy cars in front of them, and how they can afford it. My salary is way above national average, but I can't afford shit. Respectively, I could, theoretically, but then […]

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NEO//LIX 🔊 @neo.soc.psynet.me.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

One consequence of the wide availability of high quality coding agents is that game modding became incredibly fast. It's like four days since the DLSS 5 DLL leaked, and now there's already modded support for older GPUs down to RTX20, and games without build-in support for DLSS and down to Dx9 […]

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NEO//LIX 🔊 @neo.soc.psynet.me.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026

Bayerisches Premium-Bankerl 👌

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NEO//LIX 🔊 @neo.soc.psynet.me.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

This is borderline magic. #DLSS5

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NEO//LIX 🔊 @neo.soc.psynet.me.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

Testing the leaked #DLSS5 DLL with Cyberpunk 2077. Performance is abysmal, but the results - oh boy! The vanilla game looks broken in comparison, even with path tracing. With DLSS 5 there is SO much more depth and detail in faces. In seriously looks a whole generation apart.

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NEO//LIX 🔊 @neo.soc.psynet.me.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

This work thing is pretty fun again. It would be even more fun if I could think straight instead of listening to the tinnitus screaming into my ears all day long. 😖 Man this sucks. I could swear it's much worse since my last dentist / mouth butcher appointment two weeks ago. I'm just back from […]

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NEO//LIX 🔊 @neo.soc.psynet.me.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

#Valheim finally leaves early access on September 9, and this time I want to have the best integration of any game hoster _before_ the update actually arrives, so I did something completely crazy: Spending a whole day on research, planning, and writing tickets. 😆 One insight: Common issues and […]

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NEO//LIX 🔊 @neo.soc.psynet.me.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

Apple announced the Mac Studio with M5 Ultra. After looking at the prices, I decided that my M1 Ultra is actually pretty fine still. Who needs more than 64 gigs of RAM anyway?

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852dude @852dude.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Bro. People are cool as fuck.

NEO//LIX 🔊 @neo.soc.psynet.me.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026

Something is eating the sun! 😱

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NEO//LIX 🔊 @neo.soc.psynet.me.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026

Just went to the Deutsche Museum to check if I could get some solar eclipse glasses, but turns out so did about two thousand other people. 😂 Also there aren't exactly that many places in the city where one can actually see the sun when it's covered ~ 90% this evening, and they will probably be […]

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NEO//LIX 🔊 @neo.soc.psynet.me.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

Watched an ARTE feature about microtonal music, which they called a "revolution in western music". Apparently using all the tones is a pretty innovative idea for people who went to university to study dead people's music. 😬

NEO//LIX 🔊 @neo.soc.psynet.me.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

My kitchen spiders were so hard at work that the room looks as if I added Halloween decoration. 🤣 Seems to be successful though; haven't seen any food moths recently.

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NEO//LIX 🔊 @neo.soc.psynet.me.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

Everybody with a bit of taste: Contemporary pop music sucks. Japan: Hold my idol!

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NEO//LIX 🔊 @neo.soc.psynet.me.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2026

I discovered those "BIG GRAPHICS" mods for several UE5 games, and I love them. They are basically adding the ultra graphics setting the developers hide in order to not get shitstormed for bad performance. Performance can indeed become abysmal, but you get massive improvements in GI precision […]

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NEO//LIX 🔊 @neo.soc.psynet.me.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2026

I can't believe that. Started #HaloCampaignEvolved, and the intro video stutters. For some reason the game wants to draw 33 fps, but the video obviously has only 30, so you get doubled frames. It looks terrible. Unreal Engine traditionally is bad at rendering FMV for some reason, but this is […]

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NEO//LIX 🔊 @neo.soc.psynet.me.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2026

Technically all energy we use comes from nuclear fusion, just with a couple of extra steps. Even Uranium is just a battery storing energy from a supernova billions of years ago.

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NEO//LIX 🔊 @neo.soc.psynet.me.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2026

I wish I had never learned how the news cycle works, the attention economy, human biases, and so on. Knowing the mechanisms makes watching it going on even more painful. On the other hand people with less awareness of those mechanisms seem to perceive much more things as a threat, so I guess […]

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NEO//LIX 🔊 @neo.soc.psynet.me.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2026

It's time for #Wagnerfestspiele again in Germany, where the nobility meets to look down on us peasants. Like literally.

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Samuel @samueljohn.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2026

[AI] I am pretty sure the latest #openai confession "our model is so powerful, it broke out and hacked #huggingface on its own" is a deliberate action, a stunt to catch up to what anthropic did with "mythos is so powerful we can't release it". It *is* staged. Perhaps a human was even in the […]

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Prof Heino Falcke @hfalcke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/07/2026

I see a lot of anti-AI-rhetoric here, but very little pragmatic ideas on how to change things. The answer here is „don’t touch it“, but that will not change the world, except that it makes you feel good and in a few years you can say „told you so“. It is not that AI does not work, as often said […]

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NEO//LIX 🔊 @neo.soc.psynet.me.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026

Finally watched Project Hail Mary. Actually didn't know what to expect; kept myself spoiler free. The verdict: Entirely predictable, but absolutely lovely. The "science" hurts, but the feels are good.

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NEO//LIX 🔊 @neo.soc.psynet.me.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026

Tomorrow #FiveM Enhanced for GTA V Enhanced will be released, and we got zero information about the new server so far, with the exception that the main binary will be renamed. I hope that when we finally get the server files tomorrow, everything will just magically work. Not exactly how I […]

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NEO//LIX 🔊 @neo.soc.psynet.me.ap.brid.gy · 19/07/2026

Olé! 🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸

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NEO//LIX 🔊 @neo.soc.psynet.me.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2026

All my hopes and dreams are based on the theoretical possibility that I'm actually a citizen of the Culture who embarked on a virtual adventure lasting decades of subjective time. One day I will wake up in a simulation pod in my home on some orbital, and the first thing I will say to the mind's […]

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NEO//LIX 🔊 @neo.soc.psynet.me.ap.brid.gy · 16/07/2026

[Fun with agentic AI] Interesting. Had a CI pipeline that failed because of a syntax error. It had worked for years, and the MRs changes were trivial and obviously correct. No syntax error anywhere. Locally everything just worked. Colleague and me both put Opus 4.8 on the problem, which it […]

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NEO//LIX 🔊 @neo.soc.psynet.me.ap.brid.gy · 16/07/2026

Man, capitalism sucks so much... I can understand that teams might become too big (which is why I intentionally kept mine small), and some people might not fit in as well as others, or even function that well in a certain work environment, but I also got fired often enough to understand how much […]

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NEO//LIX 🔊 @neo.soc.psynet.me.ap.brid.gy · 16/07/2026

As a youngster, I dreamt of playing games for a living. Now I'm annoyed if I have to, because I need to test something and that requires me to build a base first and ain't nobody got time for that! 😆

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NEO//LIX 🔊 @neo.soc.psynet.me.ap.brid.gy · 16/07/2026

#Palworld servers like to break their saves by occasionally removing all built structures. Luckily the game creates tons of save backups, so I quickly cobbled together a UI to restore those backups without having to move them around manually via file manager […] [Original post on soc.psynet.me]

NEO//LIX 🔊 @neo.soc.psynet.me.ap.brid.gy · 15/07/2026

Something unbelievable just happened: I clicked on a Toot in my client app, waited a couple of seconds, and replies appeared. Like all of them. Then I clicked on another Toot, and it happened again. Like in a functioning software. Is that even legal in the Fediverse? Like single user #Mastodon […]

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NEO//LIX 🔊 @neo.soc.psynet.me.ap.brid.gy · 14/07/2026

So last Friday there was #Palworld 1.0 release and we have a ton of new customers. Unfortunately I realized that I ... uhm ... forgot to implement the mod support. 🤣 I mean _before_ the release. 😬 Not such a big issue though, since our biggest competitor's mod support also sucks, while my dev […]

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NEO//LIX 🔊 @neo.soc.psynet.me.ap.brid.gy · 11/07/2026

RIP #idSoftware. 40 years of gaming history murdered by #Microsoft. idTech 6 will probably be the last version of this great engine, because all the engineers are gone. The studio is dead. This hurts almost more than the destruction of Arkane Studios.

NEO//LIX 🔊 @neo.soc.psynet.me.ap.brid.gy · 03/07/2026

Public transport is such a shitshow, it's unbelievable. No wonder people like cars. Cars are great. They are not busses.

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NEO//LIX 🔊 @neo.soc.psynet.me.ap.brid.gy · 27/06/2026

Hottest day of the year and I have to take a train to play psytrance at a hippie wedding. 🫠 Thankfully in the evening, so I can take my bike and go to the Isar now, our beautiful river full of fresh mountain water that flows right through the city, forming a kilometer long free outdoor pool […]

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NEO//LIX 🔊 @neo.soc.psynet.me.ap.brid.gy · 24/06/2026

It's 29.5° in sane units in my home office now, and my brain starts to melt. 🫠 I already made a Dune joke at the daily ("It's so hot, I saw Fremen riding a sandworm passing by."), which didn't hit particularly well, because we actually have an update for Dune Awakening incoming, and need to […]

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NEO//LIX 🔊 @neo.soc.psynet.me.ap.brid.gy · 23/06/2026

If you ever wondered why in #Germany, the land of the fairy tales, are barely any magical creatures left: There might be a reason for that.

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