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Crème Breelée 🐺 @bloodmooncafe.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Just a friendly reminder, you don't need...that shitty wizard series...for references for wizards. If you wanna draw a wizard or magician fight, look up irl photos of music conductors. You're welcome.

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Jordan Stillman @alittlejstillz.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The deadline to apply to be a GDC 2027 Community Partner is this Friday, September 18! Are you searching for space for a community meetup? Do you have a activation idea? Looking for scholarships for you community? Tell me your ideas! Learn more and apply! >> gdconf.com/call-for-com... #GDC2027

On a navy blue background at the top reads GDC Festival of Gaming | March 1 - 5, 2027 | San Francisco, CA - Become a GDC Community Partner - Apply by September 18, 2026. There is a photo of the Gamescape booth and staff posing at GDC 2026 with brackets around the image.

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Elan Ruskin @despair.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I walked past the intern’s desk and he had the Visual Studio debugger on one monitor and its memory hex dump pane full screened on the other monitor. Kid’s definitely cut out for the job.

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Elan Ruskin @despair.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

TFW you grab the wrong tube from the bathroom counter without looking and put toothpaste on your face instead of sunscreen.

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Elan Ruskin @despair.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

TFW you search for where a bit of villain dialogue came from, and Google has some helpful thoughts for the cartoon villain in question

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Elan Ruskin @despair.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

The official inflation number has been ~3.25% for the last three years. And yet, this very typical takeout dinner cost me $29 in 2023. I remember the number because I get this one a lot.

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Elan Ruskin @despair.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

CyberAcme: oh hey you’re back early Rook: Dire Marsh is haunted. CyberAcme: what? Rook: (switching to main shell, reentering queue) Dire Marsh’s haunted.

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Elan Ruskin @despair.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

www.playstation.com/en-us/state-...

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Elan Ruskin @despair.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

“Backrooms” film review for Backrooms fans: Yes.

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Elan Ruskin @despair.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Update: Hades 2 is very good, and my legs are sore.

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Elan Ruskin @despair.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

With all the video game movie & TV adaptations these days, I got to thinking about how someone could do a “Hotline Miami” movie. But then I remembered “John Wick” has already done it. youtu.be/Q_yNUtMjQuM?...

youtu.be

John Wick: Chapter 4 - Top Down Fight [4K]

John Wick uncovers a path to defeating The High Table. But before he can earn his freedom, Wick must face off against a new enemy with powerful alliances across the globe and forces that turn old…

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Elan Ruskin @despair.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

OMG I JUST PUT IT TOGETHER “PROJECT HAIL MARY” IS LITERALLY DARMOK AND JALAD AT TENAGRA

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Elan Ruskin @despair.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Possibly unpopular opinion, but I’ve always felt that tomatoes are unambiguously fruit. Not in the “🤓 actually *botanically* speaking…” way, but because they’re obviously berries. They’re sweet and they’re full of seeds and they look like berries because that’s what they are.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 04/05/2026

Oh wow: only TWO of the 180 "major land use reforms" identified in the Casey study were real.

To evaluate the robustness of Stacy et al.’s findings, we independently re-
viewed all 180 reforms included in their study. Using the same news sources—
supplemented by municipal ordinances, zoning maps, assessor records, building-
permit data, and the AEI Housing Center’s practical experience from an extensive
library of zoning case studies—we assessed each entry along three key dimensions:
1. Factual accuracy – whether the cited policy event occurred as described,
in the correct location and year;
2. Classification validity and significance – whether the reform was coded
correctly in direction and whether it was substantively large enough to
affect housing supply; and
3. Methodological integrity – whether the data construction and measure-
ment approach can credibly support the study’s conclusions.
Our independent review reveals that 60 of these articles should be disquali-
fied outright due to duplication, incorrect geographic attribution, or policies that
only affected commercial or industrial areas or properties. Among the remaining
120 entries, 118 are either incorrectly classified in direction (more vs. less restric-
tive), are either not major municipality-wide reforms, or have insufficient infor-
mation to accurately determine policy direction. After a thorough and painstak-
ing review of all 180 cases, we found only two that plausibly qualify as “major”
reforms—and even these warrant caution given uncertainty about whether their
supply impact was measurable using Stacy et al.’s methodology.

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Now, I understand that there are a lot of stakeholders involved in *permitting* a new circuit which goes from a building full of wires to where a car which needs charging is parked, but that's the thing! We're trying to say "a lot of these barriers are bullshit and we should blast through them!"

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Elan Ruskin @despair.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

PM: "Hey Elan, could you look at the load time in —" Me:

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Elan Ruskin @despair.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

In times like these it’s nice that I get to spend a part of every workday stabbing people

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Elan Ruskin @despair.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

I guess it shows that sometimes things are still simple and if you make a good movie with a good story and good acting and good vibes and a cute puppet, people will come see it. screenrant.com/project-hail...

screenrant.com

Project Hail Mary Breaks 3 Major Box Office Records As Opening Weekend Total Is Revealed

Project Hail Mary box office records.

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Elan Ruskin @despair.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Project Hail Mary: the hype is real. The book’s has been my comfort rereading for a while, and the movie hits all its feels. Sure winner for Best Performance By A Boulder. I give it five claws up.

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Elan Ruskin @despair.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Back to the office -> two minutes of Windows showing continual notifications from every needy app upon booting up. You have ten meetings last week! Windows wants to update! Adobe wants to update! Notepad wants to update! Here's a bunch of Slack messages you already answered from your phone!

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A. M. Vincent @vincent.northsky.social · 15/03/2026

Sad to see the Ides of March becoming commercialised like this. I really feel like we're losing track of the true spirit of the holiday. It's not about how many knives you can stick in a tyrant all at once, it's about the whole community coming together to stab the tyrant as many times as possible.

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Elan Ruskin @despair.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

GDC: +200% to footwear durability burn

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Elan Ruskin @despair.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Posting misinformation and disabling replies so people can’t see corrections is pretty gross.

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Elan Ruskin @despair.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Omg so many people walking into the city wearing a “MUG ME” sign. Put your badge away outside the convention center! #GDC

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Elan Ruskin @despair.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Kinda wild how much faster Clang compiles compared to MSVC

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Elan Ruskin @despair.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

[friend sits down at lunch]: Wow, you looked deep in thought. Me: ... hmm? Friend: What were you thinking about? [long awkward pause] Me [truthfully]: ... the Roman Empire.

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Elan Ruskin @despair.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Updated Visual Assist, now it nags me to make my code worse.

A screenshot of the "Code Inspection" setup dialog in Visual Assist, which controls which "helpful suggestions" pop up when you're writing code. The "modernize-use-auto" feature is highlighted; its default setting nags the programmer to replace properly typed variables with 'auto' assignments.

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Elan Ruskin @despair.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

There’s a classic bit of folk music about this phenomenon. youtu.be/Jl1r7E3e-ks

youtu.be

My Darling Party Line

YouTube video by Jack Ross

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Elan Ruskin @despair.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Pro tip for anyone with fitness on their New Year’s resolutions: put an exercise bike in front of the PS5. Roguelites are ideal workout length. I’ve played like 500 miles of Hades. Crank up the resistance during boss battles for extra verisimilitude.

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Elan Ruskin @despair.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Everyone’s got a favorite Christmas movie.

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Elan Ruskin @despair.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Do you ever think about how there was a period where the Earth had all the water that’s in the oceans but the surface was also like 700°C lava, so the air was mostly steam, which then condensed into rain in the cold upper atmosphere and boiled in midair on the way down? That’s pretty metal.

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Elan Ruskin @despair.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Estimating via high school physics: Parties stipulated collision at 3.5mph ≈ 1.58m/s. Photos showed no damage to cars, so a mostly elastic collision: most momentum transferred to front car. Thus ΔV ≤ 1.58 . (1/4)

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Elan Ruskin @despair.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

During my jury duty on a minor traffic accident case this week: Attorney, to witness: "Do you know the delta-V in this accident?" Witness: "No." A: "Could you calculate the ΔV?" W: "I've no expertise in that." A: "Who could?" W: "I wouldn't know." [me, at that moment doing longhand arithmetic: 👀]

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Elan Ruskin @despair.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

“Predator: Badlands” was much better than I expected. Story’s built like a video game: weapons are introduced, demonstrated, used with improvisation. There’s boss battles and a stealth sequence with Ghost-style chain assassination. A new tech tree opens in the third act. (1/2)

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Elan Ruskin @despair.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Probably the ultimate Turing test.

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Elan Ruskin @despair.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

x86 `bsr` opcode gives an undefined* result for input value 0. Windows intrinsic _BitScanReverse64()'s returns 0 for input 0 to handle this case. Use it in a ternary statement to generate branchless code. Hope this helps.

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Elan Ruskin @despair.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Tron: Ares is a very colorful movie in which many things happen. But it misses a big part of what made the original "Tron" work. Since no one asked, let's talk a bit about cyberpunk, video games, and religious allegory.

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Elan Ruskin @despair.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

[Me: buys various plumbing and cleaning chemicals at hardware store] Cashier (joking): Heh, are you building a bomb? Correct answer: "Ha ha no, these are all for different rooms." My answer (distracted): "What? No, combining this would just make chlorine gas; you'd need an oxidizer for detonation."

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Elan Ruskin @despair.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

In 426BC, Athenian politician Cleon prosecuted the comedian Aristophanes for making fun of him in front of foreigners. In response, Aristophanes produced The Knights, a play comprised entirely of slander against Cleon. It won Best Comedy in 424BC. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kni...

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Elan Ruskin @despair.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Just noticed I misspelled “prefetching” as “prekvetching” in a dozen comments, and tbh that might be a more honest description of how I perf

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Elan Ruskin @despair.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Tim Sweeney is catching heat for saying games perform poorly when their devs leave optimization til too late, and … is this not obviously true? You have to plan for the hardware you’ll ship on the same way you need to measure a room before putting furniture in it. clawsomegamer.com/tim-sweeney-...

clawsomegamer.com

Tim Sweeney on Unreal Engine 5 Optimization Issues: "The main cause is order of development"

Unreal Engine 5 has optimization issues, but Tim Sweeney think developer education can solve the problems.

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Elan Ruskin @despair.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

What the heck is going on here? Walter White?! I just asked it whether I should use Fantastik or Windex in my bathroom, and now it’s dropping hints about cooking meth.

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Elan Ruskin @despair.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Copilot is alarmingly enthusiastic about this topic.

Screenshot of a Copilot answer that begins: “Fascinating hypothetical, Elan — swapping nitrogen for argon in the air supply would be a subtle but profound shift in the chemistry of respiration. Here’s what might unfold:”

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