IGL is optimized to provide lightning-fast rendering

Translation: The scope of the project isn't that robust yet. Also -- we made trade-offs to make it go brrrrrr.

Rather than [...] abstraction or mimicking one graphics interface [which everyone already knows] [...] [we made] a new modern interface

Translation: We made a new wheel, idk coz its fun? or benefits Facebook's future ambitions directly.

IGL was built with extensibility in mind

Translation: This "lightweight" thing we made is feature incomplete.

They have an interesting roadmap of what they hope to bring to it too including a multi-threading API, asynchronous loading of resources, a synchronization primitives API and more.

Liam's last summary sums it up well. They really just have done the preliminary work.

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To me this like like Google Go Language -- or Apple Metal -- maybe somebody likes those things but I don't see much sense in using these things seriously for anything beyond academic purposes unless you intend to specialize in them or be locked into specific eco-systems (which I don't as I find it unnecessary).

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I have watched this game with great anticipation.

It's great to see a new article about them.

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I bought my guilty pleasure game.

This really crappy game from Windows 95/98 days -- Chip's Challenge.

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/16009/Chips__Chucks_Challenge_Bundle/ [External Link]

The game is crap but also somehow amazing at the same time. It's worth every penny.

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In case anyone is wondering -- yes it's totally worth it. Also, unfortunately the more expensive anti-glare etched glass is awesome as well.

Don't get it if you can't afford it at the moment, but yeah this device is pure magic.

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To add to my previous comment, yes I would buy a 2230 enclosure like this -- however I would require it be made of aluminum or pure copper as a heat dissipator. Plastic is not going to get me excited -- I already own probably 5 or 6 of these kinds of deals.

I also prefer no fan unless Noctua makes ones in that size.

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Quoting: M@GOidI got into portable M.2 storage when the fastest (~150/170MB/s) flashdrive I had said goodby, less than a year after I got it. After the refund I got a Corsair "GT" that said to be USB 3.0, but could only deliver 50MB/s. I was very pissed off because the thing was more expensive than the faster Lexar I had.

Later I saw a USB adapter for M.2 drivers. It was dirt cheap and together with the cheapest 120GB M.2 drive I could find, it was only 60% of the price I paid for the over-hyped Corsair "GT" 3.0 with only 32GB. So I bought it, and it was the biggest surprise I had gambling with unknown hardware. Even being only a SATA M.2 driver paired with a cheap USB adapter, they could still provide ~400MB/s, while having four times the capacity and costing almost half of the last "high speed" flashdrive I had.

Never again I will spend money on over-hyped flash storage. From now on I will "roll my own".

This.

Sabrent makes some good NVME enclosures as seen here:

https://sabrent.com/collections/nvme-enclosures [External Link]

Not in the 2230 size, and this is more of a laptop or desktop use case.

There really is ZERO reason to not roll your own, especially when you can select a NVME with the LOWEST failure rate, HIGHEST specs at the FAIREST price.

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Fallout, Fallout 2 & Doom for $5, ok they got me, not bad

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These kinds of deals remind me of the archaic "Toys R Us" "Bargain Bin" where you pick out 3 Nintendo 64 games for 20 bucks or whatever.

Does this appeal to anyone?

Who buys these kinds of deals?

Does this sales strategy actually work?

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Quoting: BalkanSpy"The developers describe the content like this:

depictions of mature language, violence, gore, sexual assault/non-consensual sex, drugs, alcohol abuse, and suicide."

Um, no thanks. I'm not going anywhere near this game. :sick:

That wasn't a "personal recommendation" for *** you *** -- how could I recommend something when I don't even know you.

Some people won't listen to Eminem because of his controversial lyrics. And that's fine.

Other people are parts of clubs that will never watch movies like The Matrix 1 simply because they are " Rated R " -- or have other "banned movies" -- and that's fine.

Other people choose for themselves to have a ban on books in their little communities -- and that's fine.

If you want to be a puritan, just make sure you don't scoff at everyone else for being a "SiNNeR" -- even Tattoos were taboo for the longest time and the mark of a heretic -- let's not look down on others for liking "Rock Music" here.

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This game is definitely in my Top 10 of All Time.

The cult following is well earned. This update is warmly more than welcomed.

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