Watching some very important boats. Searching up "Sumud" a couple times per day.

actually i changed my mind store.steampowered.com/app/2359120/... #gaming #indiegames #gamedev #indiegamedev #videogames

Intellectually I knew clay came from the ground but seeing it crumbling off the sea-cliffs near my home in 100kg bricks, basically the same stuff I played with in elementary school, kind of blew my mind.

This groundbreaking initiative isn't just about the technological advancements of ethnic hair modeling, but also the infrastructure and inclusive pipelines! Check out some of the work from this talk. #GDoCExpo2025 #gamedev

Once again I traveled with so many teas that my backpack ended up smelling like a 12th-century silk road trader's yurt. This time the yaupon chai was the chief offender.

"They're politicians, what are they supposed to do? Literally fight in the streets?" Unashamed to say this made me cry.

folklore.org/Do_It.html?s... Rest OK, Larry Tesler.

@chevyray.dev "Tale of the Golden Eagle" is the short sci-fi story I was telling you about yesterday. This blew my mind when I was like, 16 escapepod.org/2013/06/28/e...

Full Indie Summit folks interested in a Sunday hike, gather at the venue (playhouse) around 10:30-11:00.

What if fascists were instead just people really interested in fasciation? Sticking flowers in the barrels of guns, but the flowers are all fucked up

Heading up to Full Indie Summit in Vancouver. Last time I attended was ten years ago!

Perceptual Parasitic Confusion: habit of parasites to perceive themselves as virtuous exploited hosts, and perceive hosts as malevolent resource thieves

Listen, the Vault organelle will reveal its secrets when it's good and ready

Mahdi's previous game Engare is a treat as well! store.steampowered.com/app/415170/E...

Do yourself a favor and pick up Tandis, a brilliant game by Iranian developer @bahrami.bsky.social store.steampowered.com/app/1297210/...

amtrak’s marketing team gets it

Cerveillance

Dangerous levels of radiation at Mount Holly Estate this evening.

If your are a creative type w your own site, please consider more aggressive measures, like Nepenthes or Iocaine arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Happy International Asexuality Day!!!🖤🩶🤍💜

Seeking advice about data recovery for fire-damaged hard drives. Three survived the worst of the fire (labels partly legible, casings intact), but heat and corrosion have destroyed the outer circuitry and connections. Platters would need to be extracted.

@mwegner.com Hey Matthew! Might like to pick your brain about some small scale art automation stuff on behalf of a friend.

Lol nope

Came across a few loose pages of "The Life-Changing Art of Tidying Up" in the ashes of my house fire. Never bothered to read it. But I'd taken quite a few of the things that spark joy for me on the train to GDC. So I guess that's one way to downsize.

One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.

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Some of my games became more powerful in the fire.

The stars are right. Fallen lichens and grains of sand crunch between our #GDCFeet as we say our long goodbyes. We will gather at Powell Street Station, 11 AM on Saturday, where the sun reaches under the ground.

Stay tuned for #GDCFeet info in a few hours.

An E-bike battery burned my house down on the first day of GDC. Seeking mutual aid from financially stable colleagues. gofund.me/47306b15

An E-bike battery burned my house down on the first day of GDC. Seeking mutual aid from financially stable colleagues. gofund.me/47306b15

The phenomena driving the “infinite NPC” meme: The industry started defining art as “content” Then they could make a believable “content = money” graph And now infinite content makes them believe they have an infinite money generator

From a poetry collection by Mary Oliver, where after a hundred poems showcasing gentle observations on nature and animals, she hits you with this

Earthquake stuff happening in the Northeast Olympic peninsula. The house shook and now the skies around us have been making a bizarre sound for the last 5-10 minutes.

Ursula le Guin, on the accusation that fantasy is an escape from reality

I've been doing graph-based procgen for a while and came across this video that ties into several of the algorithms I've been using. It's a good watch if you want to think about innumerable rooms with innumerable doors. www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-76...

What will become of the $ dollar sign in ASCII/UTF-8 after that currency ceases to exist?

Wacky geometry experiment: concocting a thing called a "DEAP Constraint" for fast, stable collisions when a game character is squeezing through tight spaces. It smooshes down an "equi-angular" polygon based on distance from each wall. But the smooshing needs to preserve as much area as possible...

Found when sorting an old drive. I still, very occasionally, say 'not many badgers in the House of Lords' and this is why:

A recent C++(17) experiment: Property accessors, like in C#. That is, get/set methods disguised as member variables, with full support for sub-members, casts, operator overloads, compound assignments, etc. They optimize down to zero time/memory overhead. github.com/EvanBalster/...

programming is like being a wizard except instead of cool lightning bolt magic it's like you have to fuss for months over the exact layout of a summoning circle or it'll set your hair on fire when you turn it on

#Palestine: Israel's decision to ban UNRWA from East Jerusalem, which is set to be implemented today, will severely impact its activities in West Bank and Gaza and will be devastating for Palestinians and their access to healthcare.

I'm my local teacher's union if you want to talk to me in the Seattle area :)

OK, hear me out: what if instead of crafting materials you just use the vitamins and minerals from all that stolen bodega food

I needed to keep track of which directions near a game object were blocked, so I made a little class that uses an int16/32/64 bitmask to represent FOV ranges around a central point.  It's a simple little thing but the test program for tracking a circular obstruction looks neat.

Re-learning raymarching. Making some gloopy little comrades.