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@PonyPanda @admin @dave @DK_Dharmaraj or my favorite, trying to pass off arma 3 footage as real

@alyx i guess it depends on the engine, some use hybrids. a lot probably use voxels for things like physics calculations (particularly destruction) but then display it as polygons. there are engines that are capable of just rendering voxels, though.

another good reason to use them is for the whole not-needing-textures thing. since the voxels can be colored individually, there is no need for texturing. to get to that level of detail would require a lot more tris for polygon rendering.

and then there's something like that doom voxel mod, where the models still look like sprites but they actually have depth to them, which is a pretty unique way of doing it. although i'm unsure if the doom engine is actually rendering those voxels or if the creator just made the models out of voxels and converted it to polygons afterward or something.

@PonyPanda @Terry internalized putinism

@Yakotarun wait, you're telling me you can get banned for exploiting and modding the game? Lame.

@preciouspeach @Crom @lordfroy @Frondeur @Fever isn't this kind of the point, though? People feeling like they are more Russian than Ukrainian because they were born at a time when it was still Russia. It's like if suddenly the state I live in was taken over by China; my nationality would be Chinese but I wouldn't speak Chinese and I would still feel American.

Fuck it man, I'm going bowling.

@alyx from what I can ascertain, they are rendered entirely differently from polygons so perhaps looking at it through that lens is a mistake. There may very well be an entirely different algorithm that decides where they are placed when thinking of 3d space. As I understand it, polygons have the illusion of depth whereas volumetric pixels have actual depth. I don't know exactly how they are rendered, but it seems that they require the CPU to do so rather than the GPU so my immediate thought is that they require a higher degree of accuracy to render properly.

They're cool though, insanely good for physics simulations (like Teardown) and not needing to be textured. Instead of tricking the player into thinking they're looking at depth, it is what it says on the can, actual depth.

Then you get into weird fucking stuff like Dreams which is neither voxels nor polygons but something called "signed distance fields" which I am entirely in the dark on.

@Jazzy_Butts @fluffy @Mr_NutterButter this isn't what the founding fathers would have wanted

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABhyKEK-CDg

@Jazzy_Butts @fluffy @Mr_NutterButter I got a knife pulled on me by a dyke for shoving her fat friend that called my brother gay back in like 5th grade. I honestly can't remember what happened after that but I'm still here so it couldn't have been that bad.

@fluffy @Jazzy_Butts @Mr_NutterButter is it so hard to realize that the same propaganda machine that would get parents to circumcise their boys to get them to stop masturbating could also get people to hate weed because mexican immigrants brought it with them into the states?

@fluffy @Mr_NutterButter if there is that kind of weed being sold more frequently, then i don't condone it. but it's like you're not even reading your own links that you're sending me and are just googling things and looking at the headlines.

the problem here is that what is being sold as medicinal marijuana actually shouldn't be branded as such. it's just recreational marijuana with a different package. it's not even what doctors are recommending and the vast majority of people who are using it don't even realize that.

CBD oil, at least in utah, can only contain 0.5% THC until it actually becomes illegal. i use it and you literally feel zero high from it. it just makes me capable of thinking for longer periods of time without blanking out (though it doesn't get rid of it entirely and sometimes i don't like taking it because time feels like it drags on since i'm used to blanking out for extended periods of time).

also, it bothers me when news sites don't link to the actual study but just who did the study, because i can't look at the actual study, only the news website talking about it.

i think i managed to find it though: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0230167#sec008

regardless, my point stands that the people who are seeking out medicinal marijuana aren't really potheads, they're using it over using something that doesn't work as well for them. the unfortunate part is that they are not receiving the right amount of THC that they should be. the failure point is the retail, not the patients, and certainly not actual medicinal marijuana itself.