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Bertil Hörberg @bertilhorberg.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

New RE-movie was pretty great but way more of a comedy than I expected. Which was fine and worked great for the most part but some of the supporting cast leaned a bit too much into the sillyness IMO. All the Umbrella people being bumbling idiots especially

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Bertil Hörberg @bertilhorberg.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The new Fire Emblem sure has a lot of convoluted story stuff and extra nonsense at the start. I just wanna move tiny cute units on a grid

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Bertil Hörberg @bertilhorberg.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

"Our AI is so powerful and dangerous we have to slow down to make sure it doesn't kill us all" sure is a better narrative than "our tech is pretty useless, not really getting any better and we're running out of money"

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Bertil Hörberg @bertilhorberg.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The Ocarina was awesome on the n64 (the 3DS remakes screwed up the note placement). The fact that you could do semitones, bend the notes and get almost two full octaves even though the game never called for it meant you could have some fun with it. All the other ones have been super lame though

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Bertil Hörberg @bertilhorberg.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

How was Links design cluttered in Majoras Masks? They added a shoulder belt that he already had in in the OoT artwork, and some minor texture/mesh tweaks. Twlight Princess feels like a much more apt comparison, especially his intro outft

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Bertil Hörberg @bertilhorberg.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I've only played the demo, but I was under the impression that most people liked its graphics. It's also a series that haven't gotten quite as many fan remake-mockups, or had as many different visual styles. Remake with modernised graphics looks like modern graphics 🤷

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Bertil Hörberg @bertilhorberg.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I feel like those kind of comparisons were kinda inevitable no matter what, if Nintendo ever wanted to make a realistic-ish shaded game again. But also kind of unfair and reductive. The amount of handcrafted assets and detail puts it in a completely different league to a random soulless fan hack

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Bertil Hörberg @bertilhorberg.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

So yeah, OOT environment look nice, Hyrule Castle Town especially. Charactes are hit and miss for me, love all the minor NPCs but not sold on the more important ones, child Link especially. props for letting young Zelda look a bit weird and distinct though

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Bertil Hörberg @bertilhorberg.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I feel like all the minor NPCs look excellent, but less sold on the important characters, child Link especially. Props for letting child Zelda look a bit weird and distinct though

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Bertil Hörberg @bertilhorberg.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

That's the case for nearly every CPS-1 game. The sound hardware is just complete ear bleeding trash. Even all-time classics like SF2 sounds like ass compared to even the Megadrive port

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Bertil Hörberg @bertilhorberg.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

And big overlapping planes would be the worst case, since afaik there's no way to get early depth check working with alphas, so it will run the shader for every pixel, even though 90% of the back plane is occluded

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Bertil Hörberg @bertilhorberg.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I might be doing something wrong, but I'm finding alpha clipping to be the worst possible performance sink on modern gpus

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Bertil Hörberg @bertilhorberg.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Inspired by Katsuya Teradas old Zelda artwork, including some temp assets that were direct recreations

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Bertil Hörberg @bertilhorberg.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Looking through some old stuff. Can someone please make a game that looks like this so I don't have to? I'm too comfortable being retired. There were still a lot of issues and stuff I hadn't solved or figured out (including what the game was supposed to be), but I still love aspects of this artstyle

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Bertil Hörberg @bertilhorberg.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Even most Black Mirror episodes hinges on some pretty impressive tech actually working

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Bertil Hörberg @bertilhorberg.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

I'm finding it hard to buy into most sci-fi scenarios these days. It's just too hard to imagine we're ever getting any new transformative tech again that isn't just a big completely useless investment scam

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Bertil Hörberg @bertilhorberg.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Signing a peace deal with half those points would probably have a higher chance of getting him removed by the zionist/warhawk congress majority than when he's threatening genocide

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Bertil Hörberg @bertilhorberg.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Obviously the ceasefire isn't real, Trump bluffed too hard, got called and had to do something to walk back his doomsday threat. But even just implying that the US is considering Irans 10-point plan is very funny

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Bertil Hörberg @bertilhorberg.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

To be fair, he never said which civilization would end tonight

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Bertil Hörberg @bertilhorberg.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

I mean Zelda BotW and TotK literally did put jump on △/X just a few years ago

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Bertil Hörberg @bertilhorberg.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Nope, no Switch 2 devkit here, and no new project, I'm basically retired. Was working on a Gunman Clive 3 but got bored and haven't touched it in 2+ years

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Bertil Hörberg @bertilhorberg.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Super Punch Patrol looks really sharp on the Switch 2 screen at 1080p after the system update. The game doesn't actually use any anti-aliasing, but covers up nearly every hard edge with my squiggly line rendererer

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Bertil Hörberg @bertilhorberg.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Oh this is nice. I wanted it from day one but figured it would be too un-Nintendo. Super Punch Patrol and Onion Assault look soo clean in native 1080p on that screen

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Bertil Hörberg @bertilhorberg.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

In an alternate reality there could probably have been a case where a more machine-learning based rendering was valid, with a pipeline that let developers set up their assets with precise control. But in this reality, every techbro needs to be locked up and all AI tech eradicated so we can move on

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Bertil Hörberg @bertilhorberg.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Also you're probably better off cutting out the windows in the mesh, or using a separate material for them, rather than using an alpha mask for the entire buildings, because they typically interfere with early depth check optimizations.

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Bertil Hörberg @bertilhorberg.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

I'm guessing that the difference between a cube and a few dozen quads is completely negligible on modern hardware, while the overdraw, even with ideal z culling would be a larger cost

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Bertil Hörberg @bertilhorberg.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Also when you press the buttons the icons appear on the machines display

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Bertil Hörberg @bertilhorberg.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

I'm loving RE9 and the game is beautiful, but the nuked city sections are giving me PS360 flashbacks, when that was the setting for every game

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Bertil Hörberg @bertilhorberg.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

That Orbitals trailer is gorgeous. A bit curious what method they're using for the cell shading, if it's similar to the line rendering I'm doing in Onion Assault and PunchPatrol

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Bertil Hörberg @bertilhorberg.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

It's a real travisty that DK didn't win all the game awards and grammys etc for the Zebra Bananza theme

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Bertil Hörberg @bertilhorberg.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

What the heck, who bought my games last month? Had the best non-discount sales in years

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Bertil Hörberg @bertilhorberg.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

The NES can't really do animated tiles without one of the later memory mapper chips the cart. At least not the easy way, you could of course still go through the full screen tilemap and replace each tile individually but that would likely be slow.

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Bertil Hörberg @bertilhorberg.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Anything involving communication also isn't happening cause it'll make everyone wish they were stuck in a burning Tesla

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Bertil Hörberg @bertilhorberg.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Anything with a physical component isn't happening any time soon. The big tech companies have no interest or expertise in manufacturing complex robots with moving parts. Tesla can't even design a car door that doesn't kill people

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Bertil Hörberg @bertilhorberg.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

I still have idea what jobs AI is supposed to do that aren't already highly automated with less stupid solutions.

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Bertil Hörberg @bertilhorberg.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Unfortunately I only have a bachelors degree, and only sort of a CEO, but if I can still make him sad by saying there is zero practical usecase for current gen AI except for making everything worse, I want to do my part

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Bertil Hörberg @bertilhorberg.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

I don't understand how any judge could look at this case for more than five minutes and not immediately force Rockstar to pay billions in damages youtu.be/dnuipPQDd_w?...

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Rockstar vs. Union: We Went to Court and Saw the Evidence

YouTube video by People Make Games

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Bertil Hörberg @bertilhorberg.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

youtu.be/jXwsxkSEuyw?... I'll admit a lot of things in Punch Patrol are pretty sloppy. I made it in a few months during covid while dealing with depression and burnout, and it's not really a genre I'm that great at or passionate about. But damn I still love the overall look of the game

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Super Punch Patrol release trailer

YouTube video by Bertil Hörberg

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Bertil Hörberg @bertilhorberg.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

When we see them laying down the Yellow Brick Road in Wicked 2, that is some shitty road construction, it will be completely unusable after the first heavy rainfall

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Bertil Hörberg @bertilhorberg.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

As much as I don't care about the Goeff Awards, I'm still happy to see Silent Hill f nominated for narrative, and perhaps more surprising and significant, japanese Hinako for performance. I'm assuming that's a first for non-english language actors

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Bertil Hörberg @bertilhorberg.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

I'm kinda tired of so many indie metroidvanias being so sleepy. I'm bored with 'atmospheric', give me some funky grooves while I'm exploring

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Bertil Hörberg @bertilhorberg.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Was able to get back my Steam account now. And it doesn't look like the hackers were able do much damage before it got locked, except change the publisher listing on the GC1 store page

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Bertil Hörberg @bertilhorberg.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

So my Steam account has been hacked, which includes the publishing account. Trying to get in touch with Valve support to get it back but in the meantime I'd recommend staying away from my games on there. Not that anyone's buying them regardless

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Bertil Hörberg @bertilhorberg.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Turns out the system TV sound setting was wrong and setting it to stereo helped a bit. Still would have been nice with some basic options though

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Bertil Hörberg @bertilhorberg.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Is there seriously no Sound Options in Mario Kart World? the music is so low and engines so noisy

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Bertil Hörberg @bertilhorberg.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Can confirm Mechstermination Force runs on Switch 2, and my other games as well

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Bertil Hörberg @bertilhorberg.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Black Mirror Hotel Reverie was a pretty dumb episode, but now I kinda want a lesbian remake of Casablanca

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Bertil Hörberg @bertilhorberg.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

To be honest that's why watching it as an adult just requires too much suspension of disbelief. There's just no way they'd keep working in secret until they have herds of fully grown adult dinos and a fully built park ready for opening

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Blackthorn @miasmaofvibes.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

if the Switch 2 price is somehow actually the thing that kickstarts a working-class uprising, will history books call it the Nintendo Revolution or the Nintendo Wii?

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