I just crashed bindows 11 by trying to open snipping tool. Like at this point I'm starting to think that maybe ASUS/AMD/Nvidia botched something with drivers for this laptop because there's no way an OS can be this bad.

V26 of my game. New slide physics that work in a half pipe. Also some tweaks to the progressive game mode to make it easier to play. buildzoid.itch.io/hv-arena

I wonder what this could be:

well I figured out to make a smooth slide function for my game. It just ignores weapon recoil and WASD inputs. The shotgun's boost ability is reverse recoil.... :(

I can't believe what an absolute shit show it is to move whatsapp from 1 phone+number to another.

it's amazing how much better at being a laptop my laptop is when I disable the Novideo RTX 5050 that's in it. No more BSODs, no more random 100% fan speed, way more battery life.

Just pushed the Rockchip RK3588 on Orange Pi 5 Max to 3454 MHz under liquid nitrogen! ❄️ That’s +42% perf overall, up to ~80% in some workloads. Blog: skatterbencher.com/2025/09/06/skatterbencher-91-rockchip-rk3588-extreme-overclock-to-3454-mhz/ YouTube: youtu.be/J970ZKjSJwU

Nvidia's laptop GPU drivers are very good and very stable /s

MSI sets September 17 launch for B850 MPOWER, announces MPOWER D5 Memory Alliance

New version of my game is up: buildzoid.itch.io/hv-arena The progressive game mode now actually kinda works. So you don't have to get started with the 100% enemy spawn rate modes. The tutorial also got some improvements.

just made a wild looking material for my game. Just using Godot's built-in functionality.

Part2 of my stuff is now at the new location. Shelf building time...

So I've been working on a new enemy NPC and I end up re-inventing the "projectile" attack. Which I've been going out of my way to avoid because projectile attacks encourage the player to stay at a distance. More distance = more time to dodge.

New CPU Overclocking World Record! 9130.33 MHz by Wytiwx 🇨🇳 using Intel Raptor Lake and @asusrog.bsky.social Z790 Apex. Chart: skatterbencher.com/memory-overc... Details: hwbot.org/benchmarks/c... Validation: valid.x86.fr/qg4yna

oh boy I just came up with the jankiest work around to replace the icon of my game's .exe. Because I'm using a rather old version of godot 4 that doesn't handle icon replacement for me.

I really don't like how "BIG" enemies "integrate" into my games combat loop. As in they don't integrate. They completely dominate the arena. Which means that instead of constantly having to acquire new targets the player just has to worry about the one BIG enemy.

This is a scam isn't it?:

I swear the people who made windows 11 get off on the idea of wasted system resources how the hell is explorer.exe so FREAKING SLOW.

A significant portion of my time packing boxes is just spent searching for the scissors and tape that I was literally just using moments ago.

My bedroom smells so strongly of cardboard now I can't take it anymore

I fucking hate the summer. I wanna live somewhere where ambient air temps never exceed 25C.

Nice and soapy | GTX 680 Classified

new video: youtu.be/6tJMUFluY6I

I think with the addition of the Dragon enemy to my game I should probably switch to a score system instead of pure kill count because right now the Dragon takes too much effort to only count for 1 kill buuuuut not enough to be 1 kill per body part.

I still want to give the "dragon" missiles but it's already hella oppressive with just the spikes and guns. :(

man I can't tell if the SSD in this laptop is slow or if win11 is just that bad at basic file browsing.

now with guns:

more spikes = cooler:

AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D drops to $449 on Amazon

The overclocking-focused Apex series comes to AMD Socket AM5, but does this $750 ROG motherboard have what it takes to be more than an expensive and niche weekend overclocking warrior?

Silly idea: RTX 5050 modded to run only on PCI-e slot power.

AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 9995WX scores 222K points in Cinebench R23, breaks 8 new world records

New enemy WIP:

the box of ROG:

Well I finally placed an order with a removal company.... Only to discover NEW problems with this stupid fucking moving process. Like how the hell am I supposed to weigh a 45x45x61cm box that weighs 20+ Kg. Especially when my flat is so cramped thanks to ALL THE STUPID BOXES AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

And I broke windows exploder again. Like I already noticed that it's a bit crap on win10 compared to win7 but win11 takes windows explorer to all new lows.

MicroSuck can't even figure out how to make a file de-compressor. I tried extracting my zipped up music library and it said time remaining: 10 HOURS 30minutes. And then I tried to open the start menu to check something and that crashed Windows Exploder. Anyway 7zip works great.

I love programming. You give the computer some magic words and it does stuff.

ah yes laptop things:

erm is the laptop RTX 5050 supposed to have a 100W power limit?

And of course the first 3D workload I run on my new laptop is 3Dmark firestrike!

for the first time in 10 years I've bought a new laptop. The setup experience is re-igniting my hatred of Microsoft. I didn't buy a computer just for it to try bait me into paying subscriptions to MicroSuck. //too lazy to try Linux right now.

Hit a bit of inspiration for my game recently. Here's version 22: buildzoid.itch.io/hv-shooter 2 new arenas balance tweaks some enemies finally got a "death effect"

Stumbled across this album today and it's good: heriotmetal.bandcamp.com/album/profou...

Well it's official. My motherboard collection is more than 100 motherboards.

If AMD ever wants to effectively compete with Nvidia they will need to make die space efficient GPUs. Because in the unlikely scenario that AMD starts eating into Nvidia's volume. Nvidia has more room to lower prices than AMD does.

My life is being taken over by boxes and bubblewrap

game thought: Hover tanks should have insane straight line top speed due to the reduced friction. They should also be hard to turn and slow down due to the lack of friction. So why is it that games always make them slow and easy to control. Literally the exact opposite of their physical traits.

it's funny as I'm packing my hardware collection I keep oscillating between: This is way too much. Oh it's not that bad.

One thing that keeps surprising me with my game dev process is how many things just kinda fall into place programming wise. Like most complex features just fall apart into a lot of very simple things. The one exception to this is optimization and multi threading.