“are the fae open source” is the greatest sentence i’ve read all day and i’m 300 pages into gideon the ninth

Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."

A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi. I hired and worked with Jamal for a year. www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...

Just for fun: here's p=0.99 and p=1.0. The last image clearly shows why you can't use direct light sampling alone and need to combine it with something else (uniform/brdf sampling/etc) via MIS or NEE:

Met lots of internet people at GPC already! Shame there are all these presentations interrupting our conversations Note for next year: print my profile picture on my badge so that people recognize me (apparently I don't look like that) graphicsprogrammingconference.nl

If you are curious about other people's interpretations, and in case you haven't seen it, John Harris made this painting: www.alisoneldred.com/john-harris/...

You know that quote from Blade Runner about "c beams glittering in the dark at tanhauser gate?" For a long time I thought it was "TVs" and imagined some space station inhabited by people with such a hollow existence that the glittering of the TVs in the darkness was profound enough to mention.

BREAKING: Magistrate orders DOJ to turn over grand jury materials to Comey, finding real prospect that "government misconduct" may have tainted the case.

Thinking about all the pots I can smash in your cabin.

At this point I have no idea what I'm doing

this rule makes some very large, structured forms which rewrite themselves and do new things over very long durations.

Do I know anyone with experience combining @freya.bsky.social’s Shapes with uGUI UI? The Shapes docs describe how to make shapes show up in UI, but have anyone made a neat/performant “binding” for making e.g. Shapes rectangles match the rectangle of a RectTransform?

Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow is done... again. I've sort-of lost count how many times I've completed this game, yet I still don't have any idea of what I want to say about it. Maybe something will come to me eventually. #retrogaming #konami

triangle quadrangulation

That’s the funny thing lately, it’s not that open-source software has gotten massively better. It’s that the big premium software is rapidly getting worse, making open-source much more attractive..

3 years ago today, Riot Games offered me a job making more money than I ever thought I’d make in my life. I had 19 interviews over 2.5 months to get it. Partner and I were moving to LA for it. I put in notice at my job and apartment. 2 weeks later they rescinded the offer due to “headcount issues”.

For no particular reason….posting former U.S. Attorney General John Mitchell’s mugshot before he went to Federal prison for committing numerous crimes on behalf and or/at the direction of President Nixon including obstruction of justice and conspiracy.

Trying to implement (incorrect, hacky) reservoir merging and visualizing the reservoir contents, look way more modern-arty than it should

i wrote an article recently about how powerful silence is in super metroid and i am thinking about it today for i guess no reason www.avclub.com/super-metroi...

Testing the raytracer in a timeless classic scene

if you tax billionaires and trillionaires you'll generate an absolute shitton of new millionaires

Gotta admit this noisy pixelated texture that results from raytracing discrete irradiance probes has a very interesting vibe

His Story 🤷‍♂️

BREAKING: At Pope Leo XIV’s urging, U.S. Catholic bishops just delivered the strongest rebuke of a sitting president in Church history — condemning Trump-Vance raids as “inhumane” and “dehumanizing” in a 216–5 vote.

Rad

I got quite tired from working on the village building game, so I need another small distraction project Let's write a voxel raytracer in browser! Guess it's that time of the year again

the only thing democrats should be saying today is “the entire republican party is engaged in a coverup of the most notorious child sex trafficking ring in world history”

We don’t use generative AI at Strange Scaffold and I can confirm that a *lot* of other studios are not—whether indie or AAA. Get outta here with this normalization bullshit.

They’ve laid off so many people that the government is now getting its economic data from DoorDash.

Tapping the XKCD sign again to explain that no, I won't be seeing an aurora tonight. Or at least I really hope not. That would be bad. :)

A new video of a wobbly cube that's rendered via ray-marching a discretized SDF. Hypnotic! Distances are reconstructed via trilinear interpolation of cached values on a grid. This is the equivalent of what was shown in my earlier 2D animations (see below!)

Did a quick and dirty implementation of a spatial hash structure to speedup RTAO, ray results are stored in cells indexed by pos/normal/cell size and after storing a few rays occlusion can be queried from the cell instead of raytracing it. 3x faster raytraced AO for that scene with no denoising.

#SIGGRAPH2025 Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games course talk recording of "Stochastic Tile-Based Lighting in HypeHype" by Jarkko Lempiäinen from HypeHype is now online: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8O44...

Class of 2022 here. I don’t know what is the most infuriating thing abt this article but this one stings me the most. You try so hard to get recognised in the industry which you kinda do and then it suddenly ceases to exist. What’s the point in the end? 🫠

Welp!

Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 416 - November 9th, 2025 www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphic...

if you genuinely think Schumer and Democratic leadership opposed this & Republicans coincidentally got exactly the number of votes they needed to avoid a filibuster and none of those votes are from Democratic Senators who are up for reelection in the midterms next year, I have a bridge to sell you.

80% of Democratic voters want a new leader in the Senate. Does that matter at all to Democratic senators?

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

Remember when some of us said the Democratic leadership would take all the wrong lessons from the blue tsunami and squander all the goodwill? Here you go.

We found a black rock with strange markings at the beach. Dagon be praised.

Listen I’m just a girl who has played a lot of Crusader Kings 3 but uhhh both parties couldn’t be doing a better job setting the stage for a peasant revolt/potential revolution if they TRIED

“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.” aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

lol she got his ass and he knows it

it says a lot about the average politician that this guy seems to expect that zohran mamdani only said what he said to get elected and doesn’t actually believe in anything

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

A reminder: Despite being a 40-something veteran games journalist and regular in PC Gamer, printed globally, I do not have access to much of the Steam store, because they cannot prove that I am over 18. I could provide a drivers license, passport, birth certificate. I have talked to their staff.

Gamers really don't understand the impact they have 5000 people buying a game in life changing for a small dev.

Diablo 1 got it right the first time, and we've weirdly been drifting further from it ever since. An entire genre of anime based on Diablo 1 even appeared and starting gesticulating wildly in the other direction. And we're STILL ignoring it as an industry. (no, Town In Dungeon doesn't count)