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First of all, DOOM isn’t raycasted. Second of all it’s 3D in the sense that all objects have xyz coordinates and can move in that space. You can miss the monsters by having a rocket go over their heads. The main limitation is that the levels couldn’t have more than one ‘room’ per vertical space.

The rendering can still be implemented as polygons (making it true 3D rendering) whilst still maintaining the same level-based limitations, as we can see with DOOM 64.

Please tell me this is satire?
Re:Are Babies Conscious? on Monday October 05, 2026 @04:41PM (#49970395)
The brain is still one organ? Unless in such situations where a person goes in and physically cuts the corpus callosum, the brain functions as one organ.
1. For whatever reason, and a reason will come, typing out those extra characters will be an extra pain.

2. Stupid choices by services (like Vanguard!) making those extra characters a liability.

3. What are you protecting against? Even 16 characters with ~60 combinations is more than enough entropy.

4. It’s just cumbersome. And that, frankly, is the reason why the question is “why should you?”

Re:Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop on Thursday September 24, 2026 @03:51AM (#49827576)
this was eye opening, i like the idea of the grouping together stuff on a clipboard
Re:Divide by Depth for Instant 3D on Monday September 21, 2026 @11:15PM (#49796415)
This is a beautiful post, good work!

Really loved the examples of the math being put into action with those lovely little sliders

Re:Btrfs/ZFS/bcachefs under workloads classic benchmarks skip on Sunday September 20, 2026 @06:24AM (#49774403)
Sir Overstreet still seems insistent on having done no wrong on account of fixing user bugs taking priority over literally everything, so clearly there’s a mindset clash that’s gonna prevent a re-merging unless that Torvalds decides to change the same procedure he’s been doing for the past 2 decades or Overstreet knocks his own ego down a peg.

Edit: I think this makes for some good reading: https://lkml.org/lkml/2025/8/9/427

Good riddance! His neurotic public harassment of anyone who is remotely aligned against him (cf. Tumblr moderation and AspirePress) is simply childish and leaves much to be desired.

His behaviour has shown him to be unfit to be a CEO.

Re:RSA-260 Factorized on Saturday September 05, 2026 @07:06AM (#49575364)
I’ll bet breaking RSA-1024 at this rate
Re:Actively exploited sandbox RCE in all Chromium versions on Saturday September 05, 2026 @12:33AM (#49573096)
Mate, it’s a style thing that depends on which style guide you’re following

AP recommends spaces around them, whereas Chicago doesn’t

besides if we’re critiquing incorrect following of English orthography

—Sentences should be capitalized

—The word “don’t” requires an apostrophe

—End sentences with a period

—That’s incorrect usage of an em-dash at the end there — but what does it matter anyways ;)

Re:And then the men with guns tell you to do it anyway on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @11:54PM (#49356535)
One can only hope the government has some klaxons stashed away.

Side note: isn’t it crazy how Seoul is so close to the border that you can see North Korea on a clear sunny day? And the aforementioned traditional artillery-ableness of it all because of that?

Re:Antiqua–Fraktur Dispute on Thursday August 13, 2026 @07:48AM (#49284578)
As a person with an eye not especially trained for typography, these two typefaces appear too remarkably similar to be quarreled over. I’m sure those with stronger type setting preferences would disagree, but I find it funny how much humans can debate over things that appear minute and mundane to others (cf. https://xkcd.com/915/)
Re:Cool URIs Don't Change (1998) on Sunday August 09, 2026 @07:50PM (#49237518)
The funny thing is that the reason for me posting the long bet was looking through previous posts about Cool URLs. It comes full circle!
Wow, that could be a post of it’s own
Re:All memory manufactured in 2027 has been sold out on Friday August 07, 2026 @10:27PM (#49218398)
It’s ideally modeled as a curve, but things are never that simple in real life.
I was going mad for a good chunk of time a while ago figuring out why those blind spots were forming, glad to see I’m not alone
If we know ‘where it came from’ in the sense that the author couldn’t even bother writing anything themselves, why should other people bother reading this deluge of nonsensical strung together words?
It’s interesting to note what ‘cultural staples and customs’ are actually a recent invention (in the grand scheme of things) or likewise popularized through corporations that advertised so hard that they embedded themselves into the very cultural fabric.

Cf. hamburgers being maybe 100 years old; tomato sauce being only put on pasta in the late 18th century; ‘standard Italian’ not being codified until the unification of Italy in the late 19th century (one reason why Italian-Americans perhaps say capisch instead of capisci? Some southern accents dropping the -i! [really, they’re languages——languages are just dialects with an army]), the food that we call kimchi today only popularly containing peppers starting in the 19th century; and the whole thing with car companies in the United States tearing up tram tracks and lobbying for jaywalking to be considered a crime!

Re:Darktable on Wednesday July 29, 2026 @02:48PM (#49101438)
One way to get the AppImage to integrate better would be to install appimaged.

Another way to get the up-to-date version on Debian would be to use Nix (install nix, add the stable or unstable channel or whatnot, and make darktable installable)

For “pixel-faithful” documents it doesn’t seem to be replicating documents all too well based on the many other testimonies in these comments
From what I’m seeing ntsc rs “just” emulates VHS and NTSC artifacts, whereas ntsc crt also does all the fun that has to do with CRT rasterizing
Re:KDE at 30 on Monday June 01, 2026 @11:38AM (#48358319)
What are you talking about mate? It’s just a cute little mascot?
Jesus it’s gone
Fallen to #49 in an hour
The cotton picked by slaves processed by the North into textiles etc. was a large portion of the economy.
No need to be passive aggressive. I think what comes to most peoples minds when they think of a doom clone at least includes textured walls. But props to you!

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