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yes, i mean i don't want to psychoanalyze but i'm gonna, there's this Conspicuous Consumption and Flexing aspect to it that matches that of a fast, loud car. you don't need lycra and aero to bike for pleasure. but they treat it as some absolute good necessity that Go Fast.

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okay that i can one hundred percent understand and i think there's a near circular venn diagram of dudes who own sports cars or big SUVs (psychos) who wear lycra and ride $10,000 bikes at insane speeds and expect pedestrians to get out the way.

i 100% see myself, on a bike, as a pedestrian. temporarily embarassed motorist does not resonate. but like... there still needs to be some deference given to bike lanes or whatever for pure safety reasons. it is harder to stop suddenly and safely to me on a bike than in a car.

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i think that people do not appreciate the Amount Of Injury that can befall a pedestrian and biker caught in an accident at reasonable city speeds, and swerving could throw me in front of a car, which is much worse

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i'm not sure i really understand this take? a bike collision sucks, traffic lanes are traffic lanes. i'm 100% in favor of bikers NOT riding on pedestrian sidewalks but the number of times someone barely paying attention to my bike has stepped in front of me with no warning is wild

i have reticulated so many splines at this point i believe i am becoming a spline myself

it's cool how computers are still kind of cool sometimes. i guess sometimes, i like computer.

who knows if i finish this, but this is a really cool learning process. it makes me crazy respect companies that can create open world games that look great at varied altitudes. this is pretty insane. i'm solving for an island that's roughly 200 square miles of forests and cities. 17 miles across.

it's also so cool having to think about optimization on a contextual basis. octahedral imposters! frustum culling! gpu powered occlusion culling! i didn't know you could just tell the GPU to move an entire mesh frame by frame on its own! i've never needed that level of optimization!

it's also really fun working with LOD meshes and having to be like "what defines a skyline at a distance?" there's lots of little philosophical questions - aircraft lights on the tops of buildings and so on have more impact than other lights, for example.

there is so much involved in the streaming, the draw calls, there's so much little and intentional optimization that has to happen, so many weird decisions about LODs and what to preserve at distance and what not to. ten thousand little creative levers to push and pull!

it's been very cool to like, accidentally reinvent (and then discover) strategies like chunking the entire island up and creating low-resolution meshes in the distance to make mountains viewable from miles away. and then realizing how fog and a tilt-shift blur can be style that also saves polygons.

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having to learn and reinvent the tricks of the trade for creating a flyable, open, procedurally-generated world has been insane. you don't really think about "damn, you can see a million trees from the sky" until you have to draw all the trees on an island from the sky.

Democrats @democrats.org · 6h

i have been working on something that i am not really in a space to share yet, but i am excited about and toying with - basically, a procedurally-generated, spiritual successor to simcopter. kinda spun off from another little unrelated game prototype i was playing with as most good games do.

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🦴 archer 🎾 @an.actual.dog · 7h

when michael jackson appeared in captain EO i became completely panicked and inconsolable and my parents had to rush me out of the theater

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🦴 archer 🎾 @an.actual.dog · 17h

not me spending all day learning about compute shaders to figure out gpu culling and then figuring out hlod proxies so that i can make godot render 500,000 trees at 90fps no not me

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🦴 archer 🎾 @an.actual.dog · 18h

okay i was initially shocked by how ugly coyote vs acme’s animation was but seeing it a second time i was less shocked and i enjoyed it well enough

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alternately, someone competent probably can take all the stuff people have discovered thus far and actually build a long-term, sustainable open firmware project from it that would be an awesome force in the world

like, i dunno. alphatheta is not a Good Company, their arbitrary feature gating and abandonment of perfectly good kit to try and drive upgrade cycles has been a net negative. i think it would be good to force them to do a little backporting of stuff.

i think it’s a reasonable pressure on them honestly and maybe one of the better outcomes of all this, what we learn from all this is permanent, something stable will come along.

it has been very funny to watch the floodgates open on a sudden rush of hacks to unlock features on really old CDJs and i wonder how much alphatheta is sweating right now

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"Pope, would you please shut the fuck up" is an all-timer and will live rent free in my head forever.

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oh! how late is this going!

again the reason i am calling is they just took my money without giving me a thing. that is the reason.

what a nice email to wake up to

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they shipped me a product and canceled it and charged me for it anyway and they agree i don't have it and they agree that they canceled the order and they're like "yeah you SHOULD have your money back" and i go "but i don't" and they say "that is correct" and it ends there.

apple has added the most fucking belligerent voice agent between you and a human being and one of their main draws has always been quality of support so this is a big decline in the overall appeal

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we gave up on coyote vs acme like 20 minutes in and watched who framed roger rabbit instead

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YES IT FELT LIKE A SCREEN TEST

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zaslav is still an asshole but this feels like a demo reel

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hey sorry coyote vs acme has bad animation and cinematography and writing and acting and it sucks and fuck it

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i do not report to him but i get all the fucking runoff from his garbage because it's too close to the shit i'm accountable for

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my job has been rearranged so that now i am fully downstream of a claude-powered idea guy who genuinely has no skills or knowledge in anything he's doing and cannot answer questions without AI, so he's just a meat wrapper around a chat bot, and everyone is acting like he is good at his job

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this is moderately unpleasant but may be helpful for moisturizing my skin

??? cancel me i'm tired was insanely good! shit love is a fucking banger!!! i'm sorry fat dog but i disagree with your fat dog opinions, fat dog!

FINALLY THE NEW FAT DOG RECORD OH MY GODDDDDD

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like: let's even assume that seeing the state execute your child's killer was a sane thing to want - we can't even fucking provide resources to the family of the victim to participate in the judgement in that way? everything is so fucked. end to end

Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

yes i do not hold it against the mother as much as i hold it against the newspaper saying "she will surely be disappointed" and offering up a gofundme so a woman can go see an execution as a thing that happens in a functioning country.

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Transcript from Time interview with Trump: TRUMP: I’m Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs… TIME: Thank you, Mr. President.

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wow this brings back memories. of wanting a better graphics card.

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we can acknowledge that this was a cruel and horrible event that resulted in a profound loss while also saying that "needing to watch someone die" is a response indicative of a mental health issue caused by the trauma and not a need that deserves respect or consideration.

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