yep, this place is still worse than mastodon.

Moving on from netcode it's time to build systems, first up the #UE side of inventory and equipping weapons: wirepair.org/2025/05/25/s... #MMORPG

Finished my netcode, for realsies this time. Supports up to 200ms latency and 20-40% packet loss. Srsly done now: wirepair.org/2025/05/11/m...

Well, I think I've finally solved the majority of my netcode issues with my #MMORPG, it's been a _long_ three months, I'm honestly exhausted: wirepair.org/2025/04/10/c... #gameDev

Slightly embarrassed I've been working on this for so long, but I made a little bit of progress on rollback netcode physics for my #MMORPG. Just when I thought I was done... I ran into another problem. wirepair.org/2025/03/22/s... #GameDev

Shoutout to everyone else who thought the 🫂 emoji was a camera at first

Sometimes it's good to take a step back and make sure you _truely_ understand some concepts, for me that was my netcode and epoll for use in my #MMORPG: wirepair.org/2025/02/23/g... #gamedev

I just got the final PDF of my book on how debuggers work! Looking forward to finding a typo on page 3 and renaming it _FINAL_2.pdf. Pre-orders are still 25% off:

You can ignore climate change. The political system can ignore climate change. But the insurance industry cannot ignore climate change.

The real hierarchy of needs

Just let it hit already

I gave a talk on Slate in Unreal Engine as part of JetBrains GameDev Day, and the individual video is now up! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1n3oIfI7nBM #UnrealEngine

attempting to describe the vibes of the moment. have yet to do better than: "imagine watching a documentary reenacting the burning of the Library of Alexandria set to the soundtrack of 'Yakety Sax'"

the dems are not gonna save us, and just like last time, we are gonna have to force them to even help. only we can save us. i believe we will and when we do, it’s time to replace those fucking losers

An impressive 8 year run..

Been a month, so time for a new #MMORPG post. This one is a bit annoying as it stumped me for a few weeks and made me break my build trying to debug it properly. But I'm back, updated dependencies, and ready to implement a necessary fix: wirepair.org/2025/02/01/n... #gamedev

Jesus, this site is all US politics :/.

“It wasn’t hard to spot you since you’re the only ones willing to use it without being forced.”

20 out of 20, fuck me.

New Unreal 5 Search It's like Duck Duck Go for your game. https://benui.ca/unreal/editor-search/ #UnrealEngine

Just sayin…

Semi-official but somewhat outdated plugins from Epic, posted to GitHub. A lot of them haven't been updated in a while but they could still be useful to learn from. https://github.com/ue4plugins #UnrealEngine

Marc Rogers aka cjunkie, head of security at Defcon and responsible for modernizing their enforcement against harassment and assault, has suffered a devastating spinal cord injury and faces catastrophic medical expenses. Please donate if you can & share regardless. www.gofundme.com/f/support-ma...

🧵SALT🧵 It's been snowing in the UK and the road gritters are out in force, begging the question: Have you ever wondered where that grit actually COMES from? The answer is more magical, beautiful and fascinating than you probably realised. 1/14

Yeah, nah @icesurfer.bsky.social . Fuck me dude 2115!?

First post of 2025, calculating root motion from animations server side: wirepair.org/2025/01/01/c... #gamedev #mmorpg

Interesting choice in muffler design

Didn’t even realize o3 was announced but this is a good take youtu.be/kjOxkPl3RGo?...

X-mas eve post on extracting animation data from exported FBX files from UE5 AnimSequences: wirepair.org/2024/12/24/e... #gamedev

Random Alphonse Mucha exhibit in Yokohama shopping mall was a lovely unexpected surprise.

I propose we replace semantic versioning with pride versioning

/me lifting up my kids bed briefly /him what did you just do? /me i didn't attach a bomb or anything don't worry /him wait what? /me if you hear any ticking just ignore it /me tick, tock, tick, tock fuck me i love having a kid

I made a simple diagram almost everyone can follow

The AI madness is so far out of control that "Our product wrote a completely false news alert and credited a real news source" doesn't even rate a corporate comment, let alone an ashamed apology and pulling the product www.bbc.com/news/article...

Bass music is just the right balance of chaos, beat and melody. Dubstep has the chaos, little beat and no melody.

i bet if you trained an LLM on MR/PRs it would have a 50% chance of just responding LGTM to any MR/PR you give it.

The wild history of gremlins (I love monstrum) youtu.be/m2vzTNrFU6s?...

you could, hypothetically-speaking, take the concept of canary clauses to build a web scraper. it could be run against the Fortune 500 and identify companies removing their leadership team pages as a way to identify and boycott places where they’re consciously aware they’re causing harm

o1 can, indeed, answer the age old question:

Must be terrifying knowing that someone who you’ve never met has the power to destroy your life

I’m too used to being able to edit my posts like on mastodon.

taking fight promos to the next level: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8z_d...

now that, i can get behind.

Small update to my adversarial MMORPG post, forgot about games that allow you to drop collisions. Also found a great DEFCON talk on hacking MMORPGs and added it to the resources section: wirepair.org/2024/12/03/y... #gamedev

PvP MMORPGs are quite possibly the most adversarial systems one can build wirepair.org/2024/12/03/y... enjoy this post where I outline all of the possible attacks and defenses one must employ when building a PvP #MMORPG.

Getting something to work is a staring point, not an endpoint.

Le sigh github.com/SanderMerten...

got a really bloody annoying valgrind leak i just can't fucking track down and it's driving me bonkers

A legend and quite a character youtu.be/-CkRvpZijaw?...