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Dragon's Dismay, a prototype I made for my #gamedesign course! It's a short text-based RPG where the stats are not item-based, but affect-based. Momentum plays a part and so do your decisions in how to confront the dragon. Playtest it! -Works on mobile -No AI bernardbr.itch.io/dragons-dismay

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Bratansov @bratansov.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Behind-the-scenes of the upcoming prototype 1. Context: we have to do weekly prototypes for our #gamedesign course. Playable link, up soon.

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Bratansov @bratansov.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Another cycle, Every new holds previous Same, also different #haiku #SameBenchEverySeason #phonePic

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

But when a direction is chosen freely and followed wholeheartedly, it may seem that all things further the going.

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Bratansov @bratansov.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Lying down in the car I looked up An angle was looking back (slapped a stormy filter on the phone pic)

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Bratansov @bratansov.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Went to BanQ and got smitten by tall cosmos in the wind. (slapped a blush filter on the phone pic) #montreal #weekendBreak

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Bratansov @bratansov.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Today's loaf turned out pretty mighty. I think I gave it a bit less water? Pretty stoked for tomorrow's toasts. #glutenFree #celiac (in the background, my Kindle is charging on top of my unplugged toaster, which feels a bit like manual memory manangement)

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Bertrom. @bertrom.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

River. With a score composed by Richard Tognetti. Willem Dafoe narrates a script from award-winning author Robert Macfarlane. The film also features additional music from William Barton, Jonny Greenwood and Radiohead. Stunning in every way. youtu.be/efHe-VYtHzY

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Bratansov @bratansov.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Been playing #GRIS (2018). A girl goes through grief and the colors go out of the world. Then gradually start coming back. And a lot of the puzzle themes are about the (natural) ways in which she learns to trust the world again. It's been very very touching, here's some shots. PS5, physical disk

The world is grey and her reflection is black&white

Blue comes out in the hands of a giant statue destroyed above the nose (aka no eyes); blue, like tears, like crying and like the life-giving rain

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Bratansov @bratansov.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Something different from my usual fare: the story of my last few months of programming & optimization in C++, as I tried to learn and master the language. With a little sophistication at the end, which finally got me over the vaunted line of 10x performance gain. 100% human-written, now verifiable.

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Between Orders of Magnitude

A journey of data mapping in C++

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The idea is like grass. It craves light, likes crowds, thrives on crossbreeding, grows better for being stepped on.

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Bratansov @bratansov.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Before Shogun fame, see Cosmo Jarvis already being good in Nocturnal (2019). Wasn't sure what to expect, but flick turned out to be a visual treat, and an accomplished reflection on the blending between different types of love as complicity. I like finding these small gems. #movieReview #cinema

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Bratansov @bratansov.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Autumn breeze whispers through the trees, But flowers wear their aging youth And find ways to dance gingerly, In defiance. #photography | #dslr | #imageAndVerse (Notice how each verse fits its respective picture?!?!) (edits in Shotwell Viewer) (I dislike these parentheses & can't stop using them)

Oriented portrait, the picture tells the story of how wild pastures (in the foreground) become groves become forests (in the middle), as they are led by the vanishing point in the background, a glimpse of the last light of day, as it illuminates a far-off tall canopy which is revealing its first colorations of fall; a cycle of birth, growth, maturity, decay... and rebirth

Two cosmos are talking to each other, the purple is bigger and its petals slightly shriven as it faces us, while the orange one is smaller and perky, but we only see it from behind; the background is blurred out but resembles a mix of greenery and grey asphalt

Hm. A rather darkened setting in which a large patch of yellow flowers mixed with purple-tinged puffs (hawksbeard or sow-thisle, unsure) are bending to the violence of Notos, bringer of storms and rain; most importantly, there is a sense in which this flowery multitude is swaying in a Brownian fashion, too complex to understand; in the background, a shadowed hint of firs

Two woodland sunflowers are framed in the photo, both having grown to full maturity; the one in the foreground is still in full bloom, while the one in the back has lost much of its inflorescence; the photo is rather dark, taken in very low-light and showing artifacts characteristic of high ISO by the camera; in far background, tall trees in shadow frame the scene, while a smidge of dusk-light comes through from the upper left corner

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Bratansov @bratansov.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Today: my day off from optimization. ALSO TODAY: A Casey Muratori 3-hour conference on the history of optimization! ... It doesn't count, OK? I'm just watching a video.

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Bratansov @bratansov.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Me: I will take a one-day break from bitpacking optimization Zeus, Aegis-Bearer, Gatherer of Clouds: I grant you favorable omen #photography | #dlsr | #walking (and yeah, I felt like some alt text)

Beyond the darkened silhouettes of park trees and shadowed grass, a luminous breakout over the horizon is only so wide before grey-blue clouds smother it from above

A half-half picture, the lower half pitch-dark shapes of canopies, while above a circular clearing sky lets pass the golden rays of a dying sun, promises of tomorrow's rebirth

A clearing sky behind a darkened silhouette of tree groves is veiled by porous, ethereal matter illuminated in orange from the setting sun; in the background, breaking clouds are darkened against the backdrop of pale blue and yellow blending

From the ground, the camera captures a grey covered sky, but in the foreground a red-tinted 30 degree arc of a rainbow, as if invisible but to the precise angle of the photographer standing straight and receiving the somber sky's salutation

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Bratansov @bratansov.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Like pearls from the bottom of the ocean, but arisen from the earth and fed by the sun. I feel like a hoarder goblin. My SHINIES #gardening pays off, this is maybe a quarter of the bean harvest. Now to decide which gods to give sacrifice to.

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Bratansov @bratansov.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Sometimes it seems to me that clouds are like a language/music, they always find a new way to arrange themselves and give form to meaning. (Disclaimer, I've put a filter on these pics but they really looked something similar.)

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Bratansov @bratansov.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I WONDER who decided it was OK for the #GCC compiler to silently promote UNSIGNED 8-bit integers to full SIGNED integers when you're doing arithmetic on them? I have been staring at my code for pretty much half of the day trying to figure out extremely weird & silent bugs. #C++ #programmingWoes

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Bratansov @bratansov.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Maybe it's time I (re)read some of the OG Warcraft novels Man I miss running TBC Karazhan raids on Saturday mornings 😭

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

We all have forests on our minds. Forests unexplored, unending. Each one of us gets lost in the forest, every night, alone.

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Bratansov @bratansov.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

It's not detailed with sculpting nor does it have textures (teammates are doing that), but here's my voyage today learning blender and doing the chair we have to do for our final assignment. (It's the PINNTORP chair from the Swedish company, you know which one) #blender #computerGraphics

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Falcon-winged, falcon-mad, like an unfalling arrow, like an unforgotten thought.

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Bratansov @bratansov.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

With great bewilderment, I have drawn a triangle in OpenGL (VAO, VBO, attribute pointers?!?) Thanks, Obama. Next step, pyramid.

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Bratansov @bratansov.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Among decay, life flourishes. My (soon to be eaten) gürkel wishes you a day of fertile discoveries! (I might also pickle it, some wild dill has elected to reside here.) #gardening

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Bratansov @bratansov.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I'm so grateful for #KhanAcademy, CompSci has forced to face my linear algebra again, and while I can monkey-manipulate the formulas, I never properly understood intuitively, and now I am wholly working in that direction with their help. I will be monthly donating for as long as I can

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Matrices as transformations of the plane | Matrices | Precalculus | Khan Academy

YouTube video by Khan Academy

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Geoff Braine @geoffbraine.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Wise words cast shadows Sounds echo if you listen Believe your feelings “Wise Words Cast Shadows”, Tribeca, New York, February 14, 2014, 12:04 PM #photography #eastcoastkin #haiku #blueskypoetry #poetry #writing #ImageAndVerse #ClassicMono

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Bratansov @bratansov.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

250g of rattlesnake green beans collected today, thank Demeter. Kinda thrilling to grow your own food! Maybe I have time to replant until the cold season. #balconygardening

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Bratansov @bratansov.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I have seen THE MOVIE, in 70mm IMAX: Nolan's Odyssey. Important to specify that it's Nolan's Odyssey, and here is why, a (70mm) thread. 🧵 TL;DR It's a maximalist movie about the minimalism of collective virtue. It never fully develops what it is about, b/c it lacks the (visual) language for it.

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Bratansov @bratansov.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Tomorrow 70mm IMAX, first time ever for me Kinda hyped, I'm still not done with the book tho, a few canto's left

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Bratansov @bratansov.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Ladybug hitched a ride on my tubus front-rack. Always said these things were sexy as hell (took me a solid minute not to write doodlebug, fml simulation program)

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jbz @jbzfn.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

🐧 LinuxOnTab boots a real x86 Linux kernel and Alpine userland inside your browser using WebAssembly and the v86 emulator. A zero-install, local-first, in-browser Linux terminal — a lightweight Docker alternative for instant sandboxes, teaching, demos, and disposable shells. linuxontab.com #linux

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LinuxOnTab — Real Linux in your browser tab

A real x86 Linux kernel + Alpine userland, booted inside a browser tab via WebAssembly. Zero install. Zero server. A local-first Docker alternative for instant, disposable Linux shells.

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Bratansov @bratansov.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Ever since a city gardener "introduced me" to #ManuChao, it has become synonymous with summertime. And when I say "introduced", I mean I worked with this guy for an entire summer and he played Manu Chao every single day. It's burned into my cortex. MUCH LOVE, ERIC! Recent lovely video of Manu:

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Mr Bobby | Manu Chao | Playing For Change

YouTube video by Manu Chao

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Bratansov @bratansov.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I got "closure"/finished #DragonsDogma2. What a ride! One of the most self-conscious and intelligent story/gameplay that I've ever gone through. The so-subtle remarks in dialogue!! Also very strange, and seemingly intentional at that. Kind of hard to reconcile a 10/10 game masquerading as a 5/10...

In the background, it seems an immense, city-size dragon is falling belly-up from the sky; there is a red cone of light coming from an incision at its heart; just below the incision is the shadow of a much smaller dragon/winged being.

In the foreground, we see the back of the protagonist as he is freefalling with the dragon, but at a distance from its belly. From how the lighting falls on the protagonist's back, it is as if the shadow of his body becomes the smaller shadowy dragon on the belly of the beast. We know the shadow is actually SPOILER the Arisen's pawn, and this makes for a beautifully suggestive picture about the relation between an Arisen and their pawn

laisse-moi devenir l'ombre de ton ombre
l'ombre de ta main
l'ombre de ton chien
(Jacques Brel lyrics)

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Bratansov @bratansov.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Unmoored are the hushes that whisper: There was always something amiss #DragonsDogma2 #DD2 #virtualphotography #thephotomode

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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Landscape. Silkeborg 1848. oil on paper. 1819-1903 Vilhelm Kyhn Vilhelm Kyhn was a landscape painter, and in particular painted many motifs from Central Jutland. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Jim Musil (American Artist, born 1976) "Trout Water", 2025. Acrylic on Panel, 16 × 16 inches. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

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Bratansov @bratansov.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Sony: I have a killer idea $$ Me: OK what is it? Sony: 1. Don't ship games to PC 2. Don't ship physical games 3. Close a few studios/games 4. "Monetize" (wink wink) existing users Me: so less customers and less games but bigger prices ? Sony: Yes!! Why make games if all we need is money??

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Bratansov @bratansov.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Blackberry flower from garden plot (unedited)

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