Zazz knows what he did. We hope you have an amazing 2026! 💙

Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software. Just fuck you. Fuck you all. I can't remember the last time I was this angry.

Happy holidays! Much of the Marathon team is taking time to enjoy the holidays, but this week we applied upstream fixes for D3D12 and removed a patch that caused severe problems with cutscenes.

I highly recommend reading Sebastian Aaltonen's blog post, which basically has everything I could ever want from a modern graphics API. Let's hope vendors actually listen. www.sebastianaaltonen.com/blog/no-grap...

Re-done in OKLCH rather than HSV, much better

Fuck it, rainbow ImGui

Nothing more painful than watching Vinney Vinesauce play Sonic '06

Can tech CEOs stop passing off being coked out of their minds as autism

SDL3 and fancy fonts for XNOEdit :)

Gaudiest participation trophy of all time

i have no hedge but i must hog

Am I the only one who hates Pacman as a character

Initial stage rendering in XNOEdit! Making progress towards accurate rendering...

This week, I made a bunch of progress on XNOEdit, my cross-platform editor/viewer for Sonic '06 objects powered by .NET and WGPU. Still lots to do, but many objects now correctly visualise, including textures! Next up, bringing in original recompiled shaders so everything looks perfect.

I hate age verification. "we can estimate ur age based on ur face" >uploads picture "sorry, you look like a little baby bitch try with ur passport" >uploads passport and picture of my face again "mkay seems like ur old enough, let's just send u back to the website" >400 bad request

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Sometimes, computer graphics can result in horrors beyond your comprehension

Been a bit since I've done a weekly update, so here's what we're up to! Lots of stuff is in the works: - Achievement support (Hyper) - Physics-based high FPS fixes and APIs for character controllers (Rei) - MSAA & resize support (Rei & I) - External cross-platform XNO editor (Me) Stay tuned!

Making a thing...

THAR SHE BLOWS 🐋 🫧

Deep cut but all I could come up with

Yeah this pretty much sums up the Democratic party lol

Me trying to understand 06's render code

Rest in piss Dick Cheney

After almost a month of work, the '06 recomp options menu has been merged! This comes with a few new options, along with some improved existing ones to make them work at runtime. It's still not 100% there yet though, as many of the video settings available are yet to be implemented on demand.

I once again find myself writing Java on paper

First run of Unleashed Recompiled on Mesa's new KosmicKrisp driver! Definitely room for optimisation, but this is seriously impressive.

To defeat the "vibe-coded gradient" allegations, I've redesigned my website! The palette is inspired by R. Kikuo Johnson's graphic novel "No One Else" I'm sure there are bugs so lmk if something breaks :) isaacmarovitz.com

This week we got the infinite lives patch in! Hyper is still hard at work on the options UI, so stay tuned for when that makes it in.

This week we got more progress from @hyperbx.bsky.social on the options menu! All of this is implemented outside the game's UI engine in ImGui :)

I'm sorry, we're doing what now?

For those interested in a deeper dive into Sonic 06's visuals, I've written a blog post on the main techniques used (and their many limitations). isaacmarovitz.com/posts/sonic-...

Nothing much to report this week, but here's a sneak peek at what @hyperbx.bsky.social is cooking up :)

The Summer Hikaru Died was peak as a manga and is peak as an anime, excited for season 2

Time to take a break from the race track for an update :) This week, we got two restorations, chain jumps flips, and Sonic's action gauge! If infinite hops aren't your thing and you want something more like Sonic Team intended, Sonic's gems will now (optionally) consume the action gauge.

Can I buy Tylenol with my Antifa rewards card?

Recomp delayed due to CrossWorlds, real (In all seriousness, progress might be a bit slower this week lol)

This week, we've fixed several more high FPS issues, including particles, UI animations, and bullet collision, improvements for the debug camera, and added patches for rendering Shadow's shadow-Mephiles in crispy high res!

Here it is! The most anticipated patch yet... Ultrawide support in the UI, along with several restoration patches and high frame-rate fixes. This took a lot of work, so make sure to give your thanks to @hyperbx.bsky.social

So here we have the main menu scaling to aspect ratios like 16:10, 4:3 and AAAAAAAAAAAA

did a little media criticism www.theverge.com/politics/777...

1. In the immediate aftermath of Charlie Kirk's shooting, the WSJ laundered claims that "transgender symbols" were found with the shooter's gun. Now, a press conference reveals that NO such symbols were found. WSJ owes a full retraction and apology. Subscribe to support our journalism.

How about that.

Excellent job, @glennthrush.bsky.social and Devlin Barrett. I'm sure there are no consequences for publishing highly dubious and inflammatory reports furthering the fascist myth of transgender shooters. Really, bang up reporting @nytimes.com.

Elizabeth Warren on people who say Dems needs to tone down their rhetoric: "Oh, please. Why don't you start with the president of the United States? And every ugly meme he's posted and every ugly word."

Melissa and Mark Hortman were murdered in their home. To frame this is a leftist issue is an outright fabrication and an outrage.

I think there might be a problem

When a right-wing man murdered Democratic lawmakers in Minnesota, progressives asked MAGA to tone down the rhetoric to prevent more violence. Within hours of Kirk’s murder, motive still unknown, the right is demanding that the government wage a campaign of violence against their enemies.

What a shit show, this is not gonna end well for anyone