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!codecels you guys read that banger?
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Almost twenty years, and the book cover hasn't changed with the editions. Someone loves the giant Marsey.
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That's because fur is the ultimate rendering problem. Also the author is a zoophile.
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I recently saw a new edition of my dad's geology textbook from college. I guess it hasn't been that long in geological terms.
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O U T
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I was sure that my copy wasn't 5th edition
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I aced that course and I remember nothing
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The only thing I remember from college is which teachers I wanted to frick.
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This but it's the French language.
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Ma théorie selon laquelle
@Redactor0 est un libanais sera prouvé comme vrai
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Sometimes I try to read L'Orient le Jour.
But I have to look up all the simple words on Google Translate. JFC you just gave me a flashback to high school where I'm trying to remember what "sera" means.
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"Will be" but not quite, it depends on the context.
It's the same word in Portuguese but in Portuguese it also means something like "is it?" Depending on the context, or "o que sera dele?" What will be of him? Or "sera possível?" "Would it be possible? French was easy for me as I began to learn it after English while being a Native Romance speaker. Most of the French vocabulary can be found in either English or in other romance languges, though there are some oddities like «fenêtre », in portuguese is "janela". But then I saw that in Italia is "finnestra" or something like that, so there's a Romance connection.
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What shocked me was I accidentally clicked on some archeology paper in Romanian and I could actually get half of it just with my terrible French. It's amazing how much easier it is when it's some technical thing with big words that are common in all languages versus actually trying to have a simple conversation with someone.
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Yes, however it works only better with the written language, spoken language is much trickier.
For instance, if you give a Brazilian with no knowledge of french some french newspaper or book he'll loosely identify some of the vocabulary in the text without making sense of it fully. Words like "ma fille" rememble "minha filha". Spoken french on the other hand is something they won't be able to gasp, even the cognate words identifiable in a text are pronounced too differently for someone with no exposure to French.
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I am studying graphics this semester, is this book any good? What does it teach?
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It's really good, it's from 2005 but since it's the fundamentals the content is still entirely relevant. The most important parts it covers are ray tracing (ch. 4), shading (ch 5.), textures (ch. 11), physically based materials (ch.14) , animation (ch. 16), and the hardware pipeline (ch. 17). All components you'll find in any graphics engine and 3D modeling tool and they all work mostly the same as they did back then.
There are also a bunch of reference chapters that just explain miscellaneous math that you don't have to read but can come back to as you find it necessary.
Table of contents:
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I will give it a read
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Huh, I have been writing tiny games lately and have some gaps I have to fill with with half measures, this looks like something I should borrow from Anna's.
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US House Committee Report on how maintaining tradwives are becoming more and more financially burdensome
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I love unnecessary regulatory nonsense. Which washing machine standards do they oppose?
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The standards that talk back
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Do you have a link to it?
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https://www.congress.gov/118/crpt/hrpt455/CRPT-118hrpt455.pdf
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Lol
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They've been getting away with it for way too long.
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Rereading convenience store woman again so I can better understand the rdramatard's psyche
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Finished Stardust,
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Did Gaimen raping some foids inspire you?
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What
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Didn't he write that?
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Did you like it?
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The 1st 3rd was very boring and irritated me cuz it had a lot of boring lol random seeming events
Also the initial protag fricks a catgirl and that deadbeat whore leaves him a kid
The middle 3rd looked much better when the witch b-word came along, she wAs a really enjoyable villainess
Also I listened to the audiobook version for the last third cuz I was impatient and on the road and in the fieldwork this week, and it's like 6 hours audiobook. - apparently the author himself read the book and he's a decent narrator
The 2nd half felt like all the random bullshit came together like an adult fantasy tale, which was nice. The audio book even featured a short interview with the author in which he states he wanted to write a Grimm's fairytale but like explicitly for adults
Also completely unrelated but there's some great sections in the book for all you fictionmania.com degenerates, the b-word witch 🧹 transforms a lot of shit, and at one point transforms a farmboy she kidnapped into a goat to pull her sled with another 🐐🐐🐐 goat
Then she lays a trap 🪤 and creates a tavern to assassinate one of the protagonists for reasons, and transforms one of the goats she kidnapped into a dufus human with a speech impediment and the farmboy into a mute tavern wench, really out of the blue 🔵
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Sounds like shit, how do you manage to finish stuff you're clearly not enjoying? If after 100-150 pages a book still doesn't convince me I just give up lol.
But listening out of boredom on the car during a field trip makes it understandable.
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When I'm working in the field or driving for two hours to a worksite it can become extremely tedious and boooooooring
Then even 40kslop can be like high theatre or like a glass of water to a person dying in the desert
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Read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Search_of_Lost_Time
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you should read fallout equestria next
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lol you're a lot more patient than me. I stop after chapter 2 if I'm not hooked.
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Wow, you must be a JP fan.
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Pretty mediocre imo. He went for the whole grown up fairy tale thing but it really came off as a YA novel with some "adult themes" like s*x and some violence. The prose and character development is basically anime-tier, with the chemistry between characters being forced. @MARFAN_EATS_DOODOO get the strong impression he wanted this too be a movie.
WEINSTEIN, ALLEN, POLANSKI, GAIMAN - ALL PART OF JEWISH LIVES MATTER
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Some b-word
in college 
did her senior project 
on Stardust and I've not taken any english 
major 
seriously 
since.
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I remember liking it when I was 13
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y no ping me to pin it
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Sometimes I copy paste from previous threads and forget
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Chicken Soup for the Dramanaut's Soul
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Dramanauts have no SOVL
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I'm I just started Hyperion and Jesus Christ of this book get any better? I don't care about this priest's life story wtf.
I just finished the Children of Time series and that was fantastic. I'm not even a fan of uplift sci-fi stories, but I really liked it. Highly recommended.
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Read Chaucer instead.
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No, I read the whole series and it's a waste of time.
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but le big bad villain
is suuuuppper scury u guise
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The first Hyperion story with the Priest is probably the best in the series. If you don't like it then you probably won't like the rest of the book. @MARFAN_EATS_DOODOO wanna shit on you for having bad taste but honestly Hyperion is a strange read.
Something something Jewish Lives Matter
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Hyperion is great. The Priest's story is one of the few good sci-fi horror stories out there. The sequels go a bit off the rails, but I enjoyed them.
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Diary of Lewis and Clark
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Did they find any elephants?
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Not yet, but I'm not all the way through it.
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Thanks buddy, keep me posted.
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Darkly Dreaming Dexter
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Mom?
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I just picked this up!
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Been rereading The Illuminatus! Trilogy which I read before when I was like 17. I get more of the historical, scientific, etc. references now. Otherwise the plot is as incoherent as I remembered and it's a completely r-slurred work of great wisdom. Somewhere online I saw the claim that this book is the reason anyone in the 20th/21st centuries has heard of the Illuminati.
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Unironically might be true.
I feel like before they became big, free masons were the mych more common boogyman.
I kinda miss those shizo vonspiracy times tbqh. Nowadays it's all gotten tangled up in identity politics and wingcuckery
"Globalist shapeshifting reptiloids are fricking your children (and analprobed me
)" just hits different when its followed by "so vote for the NYC real estate mogul RNC candidate" instead of "so vote for vermin supreme or shoot up your local ATF bureau"...
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Finished Dark Tower, reading some generic scifi off Kindle marketplace -- Eden series. Space travel, aliens, whathaveyou. There's 5 books but I don't know if i ever read the last two (or if they were done when I first read the initial 3)
Partway through the second book and I'm really struggling to keep track of all the characters and what they're doing. We're probably up to 30+ characters doing stuff in groups of 2 or 3.
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All the Pretty Horses. Cormac McCarthy.
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Baudelaire's Fleurs Du Mal
It's honestly whatever now (certainly my french doeisn't help) but this must have hit like Elliot Rodger's manifesto when it was published
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I've read the Portuguese translation earlier this year. Some poems still hold up, I think.
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I'm mind r*ped by the amount of work so I had to lower my reading standards. I'm reading Chandler's "Long Goodbye" and
"Tek kill".
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My neighbor
Raymond?
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Ye, he's very good but noir is not what I normally read.
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Still going through the Culture series.
I can see why Use of Weapons is the most popular one, it's not bad. Still not amazing though. State of the Art is meh, Inversions is actively bad. I'm about a quarter of the way through Look to Windward and it's going ok.
My initial impression - that people like the Culture novels more for the idea of the setting than for the writing - has firmed up the more of it I read. Also, anyone who likes the idea of The Culture as a setting is an absolute brainlet.
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Excession is the weirdest of them. It cemented in my mind that Ian Banks was actually a sociopath and probably a serial killer, or sublimated that into his books (The Wasp Factory was another one). Still, a genius, but oftentimes somewhat unsettling.
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I completely forgot Excession, even thought I read it right before Inversions. That's how bad Inversions was.
It probably also helps that Excession is half spy drama between super-intelligences that are impossible to actually portray as a human author because we fundamentally cannot understand the way they would think, and half a story about a foid being
so it's bery forgeddable 
Peter Kenny doing the voice for the Killing Time was great though.
It's also funny how the culture is apparently incredibly free spirited, and yet his writing is incredibly male gaze-y and there's basically zero strag love even when it's supposed to be common. Then again, Ian Banks literally looks like
so I'm not entirely surprised.
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Use of Weapons and the Player of Games are the only ones I can honestly say I enjoyed.
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Player of Games was good, but unfortunately GurGay was an absolute giga-neurodivergent whose inability to extrapolate the rules of the game to the society despite being told they're recursive means he's nowhere near as good a player as we're supposed to believe he is.
Over the course of several books, it's clear that Special Circumstances is exclusively made up of drones and minds. All the humans who believe themselves to be part of it are just catspaws of the machines, no more a true part of it than the agents they themselves quarterback.
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Tiktok caption be more bussen than whatever some boom-boom wrote 1000 years ago
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Sidevoted
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I'm reading this thread
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Spengler
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Tatiana - Martin Cruz Smith
One of the Arkady Renko series (beginning with Gorky Park, which became a film with William Hurt as Det. Renko).
The ending is a little bit of a letdown, but the story was very good.
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About to finish Stolen Tongues and I've really enjoyed it, interesting premise and plenty of spooks.
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I read Pandora's Star and Judas Unchained. Great but very neurodivergent space opera. Peter F Hamilton likes trains (literal) and s*x and there is a lot of both. I particularly liked the bits from the alien hive minds perspective and the turbosperg lady detective who everyone loves despite her being a turbosperg.
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Just started Navola by Paolo Bacigalupi
I remember really enjoying the water knife, so hopefully it's okay
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The Iran-Iraq War by Pierre Razoux.
It's not well written. I don't necessarily trust it to be true all the time. It's incredibly boring because he's giving all the details of 8 years of people just taking turns kicking each other in the nuts. Pages of "the 53rd Basij battalion attacked the 19th Revolutionary Guard..." stuff. Unironically perfect for curing insomnia. I'm constantly having to flip back to the last page because I already forgot something I don't give a shit about. It's just stimulating enough that you can get your brain to try to understand it and your brain doesn't want to so you fall asleep, kind of like high school math class.
I have really learned a lot from it though. Mostly that I thought I hated the Iranian regime enough but I didn't. (I already hated Ba'athists enough.)
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I started the second Trainspotting book Porno. I don't like it very much so far. The author doesn't really know how to write women who seem to either behave like dudes or be awfully one dimensional.
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