My earbuds have some button that activates Gemini and it often half hears sentences and responds to me and I distinctly remember the "Teen Titans feet" one traumatizing me because I said something like "brush your teeth" to my kid and it misheard pervy things lmao.

I started playing chess finally (I'm bad) and I am also playing with my kid now, and this is the last few moves of the game we played earlier lol. I was white. I felt so vicious here. The computer was like "WTF" but I know my kid haha

My most evil genius invention is the Super Challenge that only unlocks if you do all the prior tasks. Surprise! It's more chores!

Good chunk of the frontline function is done with automated calculations but I actually want to add some more support like task dictionaries and templates, and my spouse is making a streamlet app to interface with it. A few things aren't automated yet but will be soon.

happy pride it is high time i remind you that ALL vampires are gay, every single one 🩸🏳️‍🌈 also this has been my best-selling t-shirt three years running, it's gone places! please consider grabbing one if you are a gay vampire or you enjoy gay vampires byelacey.threadless.com

I'm testing out the advanced math summer prep classes my kid is doing and the host of the videos looks so fucking familiar holy shit. WHO IS THIS GUY??? I'VE SEEN THIS FACE BEFORE.

I'm a genius (they were done at 8:22)

I'm an evil ADHD parenting genius btw. I can control all of this from a Raspberry pi now. No gui yet, but that will come after I'm happy with the command line feature set.

Today I finally figured out how to use normal maps as a blending method so my terrain blends actually look sick as hell, I'm so happy.

It's super hard to sell the scale of it with a camera so this is Ganondorf, who is 7'6"/2.2 meters tall, disappearing as I zoom out lol

did some procedural terrain stuff today, ended up pretty happy with it for the most part. I suck at organic painting so procedural stuff saves me

Switched my kid's display manager to SDDM so now I can show their computer access schedule on the main login window and add extra details and stuff. Definitely going to expand this feature set out eventually to integrate more complex messaging, but for now I'm pretty happy with it.

Was using geonodes to get a general idea of whether or not I liked how a city would fit in this region. Will share some cool vids of both this any my heightmap layering tooling tomorrow 'cause they're both pretty sick.

I'm crying, they made this in Blender on their first day. All I did was show them a couple tiny things with basic materials and lights.

I installed Blender on my kid's PC and gave them no training in it whatsoever and walk in to their room and discover them moving cubes around to try and make a desk lol wtf haha

This is probably the biggest confession of AI use for a channel tbh

I made the layout a bit better. There's no real getting around the jumbled wires, but at least they're not twisting in the middle anymore

Scripting is nice even if you're more of a techy type of artist because then you can avoid manually wiring a monster like this up if you need it to scale

I perfected it. This is a much lower-res render of everything and uses a flowmap that's 16x smaller than the rendered final to inject semi-infinite resolution with almost no artifacting.

It's a bit difficult to see the difference between the crossfade and the optical flow in this video, but trust me it's there. There's a minor tradeoff in a couple of edge cases that, if I were smarter, I could probably mitigate, but it would require a shader update I'm not really willing to do atm

This "3D model" I made isn't a 3D model at all, it's a sprite sheet with a coupled flow map that lets it rotate smoothly, it's pretty sick.

My kid is 9 and playing Undertale for the first time; I'm promising to play the role of the older sibling and help them if they need it, but they haven't needed much help yet (they're just past Papyrus.) They're totally enraptured, and I can't wait to see the look on their face when this happens.

Working on something really cool atm and had to share despite it not really being relevant to y'all.

Update: the elves have committed genocide but there's also animated skeletons for some reason.

new obsession unlocked, can't wait to leave this running for 1000 hours straight

I love nitpicking as much as the next person but they dress people like this because it's sexy and cool

The full leap to Linux from Windows has been a challenge in fits and starts, sadly. Some stuff just doesn't play nice despite seeming as though it would. I think about it often though because some of the basics in Windows just sucks. Like folders just take forever to index/populate.

I was updating my mac finally today and apparently it only has 8gb of ram and yet runs super smooth lmao how

My PR description is so horrible too, because I'm trying to explain what normalize() is doing to a float4, which is basically reverse-normalizing the values so the square root of the sum of their squares equal 1, when we just want the sums to equal one, and I'm bad at this sort of thing explicitly

It's kinda absurd that I can just write anything in commit fields and nobody yells at me.

This guy has done a few routines saying he's straight or something but he's wearing a Bob Fosse shirt, I call bullshit lol

I hate my meat thermometer, it's like "it's 100 degrees" and then five minutes later it's like "haha 140 bitch" I'm throwing it in the garbage immediately and replacing it with a leave-in probe.

I'm wife material tbh

update lmao

My entire life in game dev has been taken over by trees and foliage.

I actually actively develop on our game right now, but it's the most inglamourous stuff ever. Like it's just me putting pull requests in like "shrunk colliders on trees" and I spend my time running into trees in the game to see if they make me want to kill myself.

i think sometimes cis people truly have a hard time understanding that jk rowling is a living person actively using her wealth to fund the international assault on trans lives. she’s not some Complicated Author we can have a spirited debate about separating from the art with!!!!!

Poured some coke in a glass in the morning for some immediate sugar in my life and had to take my kid to the bus, so now I'm out here like

When the chips fall, they're all weak pussies at heart.

My LODs and imposters are probably my favorite little hack, but you don't need to do this if you can accept long render times and a chuggy machine.

Begging my fellow video folk who've been using After Effects for decades to learn Blender, especially if your main thing is visualizing difficult concepts. This is a scene with 200,000 dynamically generating objects in it, with well over 10,000 on screen at a time (closer to 20k). AE could never.

This week, out of desperation for better design tools, I spent a ton of time retooling our voxel brush system so it was no longer just a player tool, but a proper design tool, including full SDF brush support, and I had an intrusive thought that turned out surprisingly well lmao

I tried.

This is the most trans thing about me by the way

I finally learned how to use compressors, busses, and sidechains, so I celebrated by mixing a 94 track mix of Megalovania to stress test my abilities. Need more practice, but I never coulda done this a month ago.

I don't generally actively develop our game aside from giving feedback, but I've got two PRs in main. First one was a minor tweak to splines, but the second one was straight up a casual fix to our lighting system that I dropped like it was nothing and it caused a stir LOL

Forgot to get a pic before I cut into it, but spent ~6 hours making sauce for this lasagna and it turned out amazing. The ragu is vegetarian with 7-8 different types of mushrooms in it, and the bechamel is loaded with a strong Gruyère, and it's topped with fresh mozzarella and basil.

It was never about protecting children.

Analyzing the noiseness patterns of a Florence and the Machine song for some audio mixing I'm doing and you can literally see her bringing overwhelming tension into your ears and then pulling back, the mixing of her music is so good.

Telling my spouse that I chewed pencils as a kid