Yea, it's just hard to come to terms with that. Ambition and success are drilled into us on a daily basis. It's hard to come to terms with maybe not fitting in and how that is okay.
I relate 100%. On work commitments I can usually get it done, or when the stakes are high enough that failing would burn me hard in some way or another.
Awful, maybe one way to deal with this is to just admit that's how it is with commitments and just don't do them. I often fear that leads to a life of dullness and regret tho. The alternative is a struggle until the end of our days.
Yep, it makes me so nostalgic. If you like this, there's a channel on twitch streaming old episodes of Computer Chronicles [1] and the optimism and excitement in it is something I just don't feel anymore nowadays.
I did a very primitive version of this for rendering shadows for my master thesis. It sucked because of my poor accuracy eye tracker (self built) and because my approach was very naive.
Participants perceived jumps in shadow quality much harsher than lower resolution shadows.
It saved a lot of memory though, that was nice.
Microsoft has a great paper on more general foveated rendering.
Niki was one of those greater than life characters, his outlook on life - especially after his famous accident - has always been an inspiration for me.
As an F1 fan, I will also miss his candid commentary on the F1 circus.
The game looks really good, love the art style and the readability of it all.