u/Peekachooed

she is a certified dweller of a basement now yay

complete with ᗜˬᗜ eyes and lots of labels! no skills but spent ages admiring her thumbnail doodles! (is this a good artist's reference? picks up newly arrived lamptomo)

scuff as it is and having no skills, I'm still proud because I want to show my appreciation for Ceci's super cute doodles... sometimes I get sad because she puts up a temp thumbnail which is super cute and it changes before I can save it. guys i think i lomf her

Does anybody know who designed the sapling mascot? The plushie merch for example says designed by Fauna but I'm not sure if that refers to the merch item itself or to the sapling design overall. I didn't discover Fauna until after quite a while so I'm not that knowledgeable

I'm quite new to rings so I was wondering whether it looks masculine, feminine, or quite unisex.

I'm not looking for reassurance and more so general knowledge or feel. I think I'd be more or less comfortable whatever the answer is since I've become a lot less self-conscious thankfully, but I'd like to know about what the heck I'm wearing first. My hope is that actually it's fairly unisex, I don't want something overly masculine or overly chunky, hopefully it counts as unisex or as versatile.

If particularly wanted I can share the name and brand but actually I know the brand itself definitely does lean one way, I just wanted to get an assessment of the ring itself without that factor being involved, hopefully that makes sense.

We have Fauna's emotes saved here on the wiki: https://hololive.wiki/wiki/Category:Emotes_-_Ceres_Fauna

But is there a sapling out there who can help me with the names of what these emotes were called on her channel? Something like :FaunaFlushed: and so on. I would really really appreciate it, I don't want this to be lost forever, I can't find any record of it and I'm shocked that I can't remember much already :FaunaCry:

Hi, I'd like to share my experience and what I got to work. This thread was key:

https://github.com/LWJGL/lwjgl/issues/119

I would like to share my experience. I was trying to get the best Minecraft possible out of a Windows 10 64-bit Lenovo B580 with Intel HD 3000 GPU, hardware which is capable of only up to OpenGL 3.1. In the end, I got MC 1.21.4 with 30-ish FPS working, not too bad.

Of course, with the latest GPU driver that Microsoft released, it does not properly support OpenGL 3.1 with some applications including later Minecraft versions. I spent many hours troubleshooting this because Minecraft kept reporting a lack of OpenGL support. The only thing that worked was using an old version of Minecraft before they switched from OpenGL 2.x to OpenGL 3.2, but I didn't want to be stuck on that old version.

Things which did NOT work: custom drivers, nor the shim fix posted, nor relying on the Minecraft mod ForceGL2.0 without that being used in conjunction with the fix I describe below. I don't know why, the shim fix in particular is supposed to be tailor made for my situation but it just did not work. I tried so many combinations of these, different MC versions, Java versions, and so on. In the end, what worked was:

STEP 1 using the latest GPU driver that Microsoft released which was obtained via Windows Update.

You can also download from Microsoft, the one released in 2016 and for 64-bit systems, it is the 99MB one and not the other one. There is another download which has exactly the same description and release date and version etc, not sure what the difference is, but they are definitely different files. The 99MB download also contains a .cab within a .cab, two sets of driver files, each of which again have the same description etc, and each of those are different too, so in total there are 3 identically labelled but actually different versions from Microsoft. I don't know what's up with that. I stuck with the one obtained via Windows Update, which corresponds to the .cab that is nested within the other .cab from the 99MB download.

STEP 2 is download Marcinosoft's patcher program from github above, make sure to download the latest one and not the one posted earlier which has a bug and does not patch 64-bit OS drivers properly, don't be like me and get stuck with that problem. It is indeed flagged as virus-like, but I believe it is safe if you read the reasons above, that they are a few bytes' difference from official versions, et cetera.

STEP 3 run the patcher, it should replace both ig4icd32.dll and ig4icd64.dll, and in your system32 and syswow64 directories you should see the DLLs and each should be have a modified date of just now as opposed to years ago, if all worked smoothly.

STEP 4 install Minecraft, install Fabric for Minecraft 1.21.4, install the mod ForceGL2.0 using a version compatible with MC 1.21.4 and Fabric (I used the latest 1.21.4-compatible version which is from Github which is 3.0.0-beta2 but you probably can also use 2.x versions from Github/Curseforge/Modrinth), install ForceGL2.0 dependencies (Fabric API, Yet Another Config Lib)

Now you will be able to play! Please note I tested with things like Forge, it did not work. The ForceGL mod does not work with Minecraft versions past 1.21.4 despite mod downloads being nominally available for them, those ones might work on a select few systems as per the mod author's words, certainly didn't work for me.

For performance I also ended up using the mods Lithium, More Culling, FerriteCore, Entity Culling, Enhanced Block Entities, C2ME, Bad Optimizations, and one of those required Cloth Config as a dependency so that too. Sodium caused crashing upon loading a world so I left that out. Settings-wise, I turned ForceGL2.0's preferred OpenGL version to 3.0 (minor version control to allow moving to 3.1 does not exist in any ForceGL version for 1.21.4), render distance to 6 chunks, simulation distance to 5 chunks (minimum), and every other setting to minimum/fast. RAM allocation remained at 2GB default, this computer has only 4GB RAM. Perhaps I could get a higher frame rate by running MC in a small resolution and using Magpie to upscale, not sure.

In terms of other weird program behaviour, I also have a problem where Steam flashes black and some elements are invisible. Oddly that was not fixed even once the driver was patched and even after applying the shim fix, I just had to disable hardware accelerated web views in Settings -> Interface. I had a problem where Realtech VR OpenGL Extensions Viewer's OpenGL performance test just crashed the program, this continued even after driver patching and even when set to test just OpenGL 3.0, I think it's just the program being weird. I had a problem where AIDA64Extreme reported an HD 3000 on the first page, but under OpenGL information it reported only the Microsoft GDI default driver which supports only OpenGL 1.0, this was fixed after driver patching following which the OpenGL information reported the HD 3000 and OpenGL support to 3.1.

I spent a ridiculous amount of time but I call this victory.

There are other possible methods which could work which I did not pursue: using Mesa3D to use CPU to do all OpenGL stuff, so no need for GPU or driver which supports high versions of OpenGL, downside is GPU is not used at all so I thought it'd be laggy. But I've seen others report success this way. Or, using Linux which has working drivers for HD 3000 which go up to OpenGL 3.3.

For context, Jonathan Ferguson is a well-known firearms expert and is the Keeper of Firearms & Artillery at the Royal Armouries Museum in the UK, he's been featured in many YouTube videos too, not your average guntuber. The concept of a handheld minigun, especially one you can hold from the shoulder like in Tiberian Dawn, has always been a bit odd but perhaps is a semi-viable and cool example of one.

This is from a recent video titled "Firearms Expert Reacts to Trepang² Guns | EXP": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SfRR0Yvs7c

(Trepang² is a great game too which I'd recommend, especially if you loved games like FEAR or Black for the PS2 or Wolfenstein The New Colossus)

So many great moments from this very unique game, really enjoyed this stream! (I'm a VOD watcher okay, I'm trying to catch up :nimiCry:)

Whole thing is worth watching honestly, amazing stuff. It's a good thing Kittenstomper isn't around to see this...

https://x.com/FRproductions/status/2065592784820777434

Dokibird is also joined by many other special guests: Dooby, Chibidoki, Shachi, Amalee, the Sloppy Sisters!

Streaming tickets I was wondering about, but as per a follow-up tweet: "Nimi will be part of our free streaming preview which will include the first 3 songs of the concert! More details about our PPV coming soon!" :naplingcheer:

Doki Doki Rewind Time is the third day of a three-day festival held by Fantastic Reality, the other two days are very interesting too, featuring big names like Matara Kan, kson, and Lilypichu on day 1, and day 2 is music-focused with even a special guest performance by Demondice! (Wow!)

When I am using charged power fist attacks or charged shield rushes, the game likes to snap my attack towards a particular and often nearest enemy. Often I don't want this to happen as you can see in the images above.

I'm on PC with mouse and keyboard, and not using the target lock features. The way I play is I hold my attack button to start charging, look in exactly the direction I wish my attack to be launched, hold W to "go there", and then release my attack button once ready. But I often end up attacking something quite to the side or sometimes even a minoris enemy which just feels terrible.

Is there any way around this, some different method of control or way to disable the auto targeting? Thanks.

An interactive panorama by the Chinese artist Qiang Zhou, full view here. I've attached a tiny preview only to get people to see the quality of the art but the panorama itself contains way, way more than just that. I recommend fullscreen!

I wanted to share this incredible art, it's eight years old but I don't think that many people have seen it. Sadly I checked the artist's profile and there's no more C&C stuff that I saw.

China's love for Red Alert is quite special, a lot of amazing stuff has come from Chinese fans including the MCV deploy cinematics which are just jaw dropping.