Gfx coder and chip designer. He/him/3Dlabs/Muckyfoot/RAD/Valve/Oculus/Intel/Rec Room/Riot. mastodon.gamedev.place/web/@TomF
today's alex-mega-gamedev-tip: one of my favourite passtimes is getting deep into design thoughts on whatever im working on; on walks, in the shower. but dont let the thinking get more than about 1 day ahead of the process of actually making it. any more, and you're probably wasting your time... 🧵
It's absolutely insane we've somehow let the Covid recriminations debate become like "why didn't we reopen in person schools before there was a vaccine" and not "why did none of the trump guys go to jail for stealing PPE from New York hospitals in March 2020"
Yep, the Cinema Sinification of moviegoing is truly depressing. Some genres, like the classic bedroom farce, are all about the audience recognizing tropes and conventions and merrily anticipating what comes next. I do love a "everyone hides behind the same screen and under the same bed" scene!
David Simsif I ever taught film criticism lesson one would be “you being smarter than the movie is not interesting to anyone”
do I know any computer tinkerer types? can one of you help me out? I'm looking for a clicky, haptic knob peripheral for my pc, that when twisted one way activates one hotkey, and when twisted the other way activates another, for every click. Like a mouse wheel feels. I will pay for that help 😌
there's plenty of restaurants in this town, but the owner of the sandwich shop downtown hates me, says he's gonna kill me, and has a sign up on the wall saying that 5 cents out of every sandwich order will go towards buying bullets to shoot me with.
Watch it till the end. This is moral clarity -- TMZ understands the moment, and what that Rand Paul kangaroo court was, better than any coverage I've seen so far. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zaO...
This Is PersonalYouTube video by TMZwww.youtube.com
Surely I know someone who can help Gwen find the right person.
Gwen C. KatzSooo...who around here does cartoon/hand-drawn character art for video games?
Fascinating. I knew a bit of this (e.g., fingers/pick near the bridge on a bass gives you a harsher sound with more bite due to the differing harmonics), but the variety of oscillating shapes from different excitation methods are wild. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYdX...
Strings Don't Vibrate The Way You ThinkYouTube video by minutephysicswww.youtube.com
At #SIGGRAPH2026, I presented "points as tori" (PAT) for fast pointwise evaluation of signed distance for point clouds. Some code (Python w/ C++ extensions) and demo up: github.com/nzfeng/point... Contributions from people/LLMs welcome. Explainer thread below for the project: 🧵
Fauci accuses Rand Paul of having an "unhinged obsession with calling for my prosecution" and of making "repeated slanderous comments," then says "although it pains me to do so... under advice of my attorneys, I will invoke my right under the 5th Amendment to refrain from answering your questions."
