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pcgamer.com > hardware > lone-game-dev-builds-an-explorable-cyberpunk-city-almost-entirely-out-of-ascii-characters

Ray-tracing? I'd rather walk around this ray-cast ASCII city

55+ min ago   (261+ words) Dot dot dot matrix. Typing something that looks a bit like a face using nothing but a semicolon, an underscore, and what I've just learned is called a caret will never not be charming to me. However, the odd kaomoji…...

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pcgamer.com > hardware > streaming > this-diy-motion-capture-rig-features-16-cameras-made-from-scratch-and-is-doing-nothing-to-assuage-my-vtubing-delusions-of-grandeur

YouTuber creates their own 16-camera motion capture rig from scratch

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (237+ words) Actor Jack Quaid's obvious professionalism aside, Made By Dennis briefly explains how multiple cameras are used in a mocap setup to track retroreflective markers through space via a process called Triangulation. Those multiple mocap cameras are often pretty pricey, but…...

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pcgamer.com > hardware > storage > a-uk-redditor-flew-to-new-york-city-to-buy-280-tbs-worth-of-hdds-to-avoid-literally-ridiculous-pricing-declares-it-was-worth-it-in-the-end

Fed up with HDD prices, this UK redditor flew all the way to New York to buy ten 28 TB external drives

5+ mon, 3+ week ago   (690+ words) The good folks over at the r/DataHoarder subreddit take storage seriously. This, I would imagine, is obvious. One user, however, took their desire for silly amounts of hard drive space to the extreme when they flew from the UK…...

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pcgamer.com > games > sim > the-demo-of-flock-around-has-made-me-realise-i-dont-have-the-skills-to-be-a-wildlife-photographer-but-id-certainly-give-it-my-best-shot

The demo of Flock Around has made me realise I don't have the skills to be a wildlife photographer, but I'd certainly give it my best shot

7+ mon, 2+ week ago   (321+ words) Kara is an evergreen writer. Having spent four years as a games journalist guiding, reviewing, or generally waffling about the weird and wonderful, she’s more than happy to tell you all about which obscure indie games she’s managed to sink…...

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pcgamer.com > games > sim > this-birdwatching-take-on-pokemon-snap-says-my-awful-junco-photography-is-worth-usd6000-and-im-not-about-to-argue

This birdwatching take on Pokémon Snap says my awful Junco photography is worth $6000 and I'm not about to argue

8+ mon, 3+ day ago   (372+ words) Lincoln has been writing about games for 11 years—unless you include the essays about procedural storytelling in Dwarf Fortress he convinced his college professors to accept. Leveraging the brainworms from a youth spent in World of Warcraft to write for…...

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pcgamer.com > hardware > one-techie-has-built-a-camera-out-of-an-old-logitech-gaming-mouse-and-its-inspired-by-the-game-boy-camera

Turns out you can make an old optical gaming mouse into a working camera

9+ mon, 2+ week ago   (284+ words) It even has multiple shot types. If you have a bit of a soft spot for the Game Boy Camera or, dare I say it, the built-in camera of that PS Vita stuck in your drawer, you can create a…...

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pcgamer.com > games > adventure > find-and-photograph-cryptids-in-2d-adventure-lone-pine

Find and photograph cryptids in 2D adventure Lone Pine

10+ mon, 1+ week ago   (179+ words) They're probably not camera-shy, right? You can keep "jump", the best verb in videogames is "examine". When an adventure game like Lone Pine lets me examine a campfire and also a bin, then has the protagonist comment on them in…...