I would be okay with the Blue Jays not pitching to Ohtani for the rest of the series, honestly

The Blue Jays art department has been doing great work this postseason.

Need some blood pressure medication after that game, but Blue Jays win! Now I just need the Mariners to win on Friday so I can go to a game next week

AL east champions! Hell of a season for these guys

me fighting bosses in silksong: My body is a machine that turns pain into death. I know all the steps to this dance. You cannot touch me. I am a leaf on the wind but made out of razor blades me fighting three (3) generic goons in silksong: aaghghg shit fuck shit fuck shit fuck shit fuck shit fuck

All wrapped for SIGGRAPH this year. Leaving exhausted and full of ideas as usual, ready to not have the time to explore 90% of them.

Most of the slides and course notes for the SIGGRAPH 2025 Physically Based Shading in Theory and practice course are now online, with more to follow: blog.selfshadow.com/publications...

Seeing Superman at the combination movie theatre/museum/worst place in the world to get locked in after dark, the Highland Cinemas in Kinmount Ontario

Heading to SIGGRAPH this year for the first time in a while. Surely there’s been nothing new in graphics in the past, say, 5 years?

This basically sums up my experience at Microsoft - dozens of opportunities squandered by mismanagement by people who never will be held accountable. Much love to all the folks getting laid off today.

Local SWAT team is apparently using some empty houses nearby for a training exercise tonight, which is cool except for the random explosions going off every once in a while.

Seems obvious that he’d be Thénardier - shifty landlords that go bankrupt and resort to looting corpses

This is really nice. Image transitions are annoying because they depend on the execution order of individual commands, but need to be recorded as part of a command buffer, and can't be dealt with by just adding a timeline semaphore or something between queueSubmit calls.

Oh hey, the renderer I've been working on for Persona got shown off at WWDC this morning www.apple.com/newsroom/202...

The doom 2016 Siggraph talk is one my all time favs, hope they do another one this year (or an Indy one, that game is jaw dropping)

Guess I should start carrying my passport with me to try and score some discounts. Very curious to see what the crowd is like at the Mariners series this weekend, it’s normally packed with visitors, but I suspect it’ll be quiet

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

Code Nerds for trans rights in Edinburgh.

Long overdue, but good news

Thank you CNN for your astute commentary

Love to see a thread go from first amendment protections to... Gödel's incompleteness theorem?

Well it’s a good thing democrats didn’t just hand Trump a 6 month blank check, otherwise these threats might be really concerning

THE STOVE HAS BEEN TOUCHED 🚨 THE STOVE HAS BEEN TOUCHED

This is my annual reminder that the Oscars take place in a mall. There is a Footlocker and a Hot Topic.

Hard to say how much of the engine revenue decline is self inflicted reputation wounds vs general games industry collapse, but yikes

Not sure if this makes me more or less nervous for when they invade Canada

C++ developers, I found a neat trick to improve performance of your CMake project: Spelling your config as "RelWithDebInfo" and not "RelWithDebugInfo" to actually turn on compiler optimizations 🤦

Teaching my toddler to blend in, in case we need to make a quick escape

Oh this one would hurt a good chunk of the tech industry, myself included. I don’t think I’ve worked on a team with more than 2-3 US citizens on it.

Steam, I'm not certain I can 100% trust your hardware survey results...

For Americans, Doug Ford is a fairly right-wing, openly corrupt buffoon. There's even been some openly pro-Trump folks in his party, but if there's one way to get Canadians on the same side, it's telling them that they're basically indistinguishable from Americans.

My first programming internship was a company that made specialized management software for home construction. The parent company, Constellation, has dozens of companies in niches like hospitality, car dealerships, etc, just writing boring software that works for specific groups. They’re worth $94B

Bye for now Seattle, see you in the new year

Some good detail in here. Curious to know when/if the ray tracing improvements make it into desktop GPUs from AMD.

Aloy there! Eyes on the Horizon. 🩵🧡

I’m very excited by this, and hope Machine Games does really well.

Has anyone tried this for “Gaussian” splatting? Seems like the finite support would be nicer to deal with in rendering, but maybe it’s harder for the optimizer to move them into the right place without the gradient information everywhere

Pies baked, veggies chopped, stuffing bread toasted, turkey brining, wine chilled, ready for game day tomorrow.

Was told we wouldn’t have power back until Saturday, so gave up and got a hotel for a couple nights so the toddler could get a good warm sleep. As soon as we check in, we find out that our power is back on!

Wind storm got us good, latest guess is no power until Saturday. Got to do the Willy Wonka “whole family in one big bed” to stay warm last night.

Finally got around to submitting the paperwork to get my daughter's Canadian citizenship last week, and glad we did. Even though I'm clearly not the target of a lot of these policies (white, well off, cisgender, immigrated legally), I'm not at all confident that we won't be caught in the shrapnel

Latest Criterion sale got me, very excited for the next few movie nights

Didn’t quite finish the Ethernet yet, but I have made the big step of not needing to go back into my crawl space. I have ends of cables poking out in all the right places

Seems like there's been another x-odus, so seems like a good time for an intro! I'm Kevin, I do graphics at 🍎, primarily for the Vision Pro. Before that, I was working on cloud gaming at Xbox, and scene understanding on HoloLens. Outside of work, I like cooking, baking, and playing music (1/2)

Spent the weekend getting ready for fiber installation tomorrow - running the fiber optic through the attic to a closet, and adding an outlet next to it. Not being afraid to punch holes in your walls is a money saving superpower, next step is running Ethernet to the bedrooms/office.

This seems like a big deal for graphics folks: devblogs.microsoft.com/directx/dire... Makes me even more disappointed that SPIRV didn't get used for WebGPU

No Aurora last night, but plenty of colour here today

The not-explicitly-said message that I got from execs when I was at Xbox was that even if we were growing, we weren't growing fast enough to please the senior leadership, who were more interested in the 40%-YOY growth that stuff like Azure had. Sustainable growth wasn't enough.