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Kim's in need of a job

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November 1, 2025 at 12:10 AM

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barroo

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Gender affirming care SAVES LIVES. Before I transitioned I was murdering people every day

October 25, 2025 at 8:04 PM

sievaxx

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made myself a motivational gif

September 30, 2025 at 9:59 PM

sievaxx

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oh yeah i’ve been doing diy hrt injections for like. 2 months now too

September 24, 2025 at 9:06 PM

sievaxx

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i bought this jacket last year that’s kinda too small but i think i should wear it more. just every time i see it on me i go “leon s kennedy” even though its the wrong kind and color

September 24, 2025 at 8:58 PM

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Ossilia Flawol - The Portal Lore Master

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discuss.

August 22, 2025 at 2:02 PM

sievaxx

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went to mancfurs.. fricken sweet time…

August 9, 2025 at 6:26 PM

sievaxx

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forcing godot to look a little like sfm cuz my tf2 shaders funny #godot #tf2

August 6, 2025 at 7:38 AM

sievaxx

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call me a WM1A/Z walkman the way i

August 3, 2025 at 7:33 PM

sievaxx

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i've been up to some more tf2-style shader shenanigans
valves papers at the time mentioned using a view dependent term for the lightwarp texture too (Barla06), as well as hue-shifting the lightwarp based on the albedo. i made a 3d lightwarp texture that does both of these and holy moly #godot #tf2

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"""
Barla, 2006
• Barla has extended this technique by using a 2D texture lookup to
incorporate view-dependent and level-of-detail effects.

• Fresnel-like creates a hard “virtual backlight” which is essentially a
rim-lighting term, though this term is not designed to correspond to
any particular lighting environment.
"""

There are two 2D Lookup textures shown too, with the X axis corresponding to the "N.L" (dot product of the Normal and the Light vectors), and the Y axis corresponding to "|N.V|^r" (Dot product of the Normal and the View vectors, clamped to positive, and with an exponent for control)

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"""
7 Future Work
In future projects that call for illustrative rendering, we would like
to further extend the model described above. For example, we have
already experimented with extending our modification of the tradi-
tional Lambertian term to increase saturation of the particular hue
of the albedo texture. To do this, we compute the hue of the albedo
using shader operations and use the hue as the second coordinate
into a 2D map which is an extension to the 1D map shown in Fig-
ure 7, where hue varies along the new axis. In practice, even a
tightly optimized RGB-to-Hue conversion routine compiles to more
than twenty pixel shader cycles, and we weren’t willing to bear this
expense on Team Fortress 2 era hardware. In the future, we would
like to be able to include this kind of extension to our diffuse model.
"""

a series of slices of a 3d texture, incorporating both of the previous images details. the X and Y axis mimicking whats described in Barla06, and the Z axis now using the hue to drive it. The slices along the Z axis contains the same lightwarp but with hue and saturation changes.

July 30, 2025 at 6:18 PM

sievaxx

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i did my first hrt injection yesterday :D looking forward to my future just a lil now

July 16, 2025 at 10:05 PM

sievaxx

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haven’t really been able to work at all for the past 2-3 weeks. strong brain fog with no immediate reason. fuckin sucks i’m on like year 2 of waiting for an adhd assessment cuz maybe some meds would actually fuckin help

June 30, 2025 at 6:35 AM