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BREAKING: sponza flooded. technical artists in panic
timsweeney epicgames pledges to charge 0% commission on game sales benefitting the sponza cleanup fund for one week
microsoft deploy strategic minecraft sponge reserve
engines crashing left and right because of missing water shaders. “we've never seen anything like this”
cleanup taskforce reportedly facing unexpected difficulties: attempts to enter the water are unsuccessful due to transparent object sorting issues. one worker was engulfed completely with water despite it not being higher than her ankles
specialist valve portal engineers attempting to stop the water accidentally spawn a half-life 2 airboat, complicating clean-up efforts further
personnel trying to wade through the water encountering severe frame-rate drops; waves created in the water are suspected to have caused reduced reflection ray coherency. technicians are reportedly trying to turn off ray-tracing but can't find the developer settings panel
journalists on the scene incredulous: the water does not show up when photographed with a DSLR. water suspected to be absent from the acceleration structure used for reflections
@hikari when asked for a statement, the engineers only commented "Technically it isn't cheating!"