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Elan Ruskin

@despair.bsky.social
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Using integers and making games. Also @despair on Twitter, @crash@mastodon.gamedev.place

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Elan Ruskin @despair.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Belltown is the most city-like place. I don’t know the specific current status of the neighborhood, but it’s where I lived because walkability and access to downtown was priority.
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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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Elan Ruskin @despair.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
ASMR for game designers: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZHW...
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Relaxing Tutorial - ASMR - How to Use Microsoft Excel Pt. 2
YouTube video by Monotonic ASMR
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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
Yup! It was Swedish Å, the diacritic was poking into the callstack.
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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 · 02/07/2026
Soon they’ll introduce a program that sends out golden apples to whoever is most correct.
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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 · 26/05/2026
Kane Parsons talking about the inspirations in his “Backrooms” series 🧡🧡🧡 youtu.be/2phkKVwERPY?...
youtu.be
Backrooms: How Kane Parsons Turned A Video Game Design Flaw Into Pure Nightmare Fuel
Kane Parsons made a name for himself with his unbearably eerie Backrooms short films on YouTube, almost immediately drawing the attention of Hollywood mainstays like A24, James Wan, and Osgood…
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Elan Ruskin @despair.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
If I may ask a followup: is there something about fish behavior that makes dams more dangerous during the day? Or is it just that when solar’s available, that’s a convenient time to close them down so the fish get some % of hours to use the ladders? (Asking from genuine scientific curiosity.)
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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
What I mean is, do they close off the intakes during the daytime? Do the dams pause operation? (I was asking the question literally, not ideologically.)
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Elan Ruskin @despair.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Why does large hydro decline so much in midday?
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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?...
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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 · 10/03/2026
They were just cordoning off the area where the food vendors store their stuff. The park was totally open today.
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Elan Ruskin @despair.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
🤯 #GDC #ClairObscur
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Elan Ruskin @despair.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
It’s just while they’re setting up the food vendors. It’ll be open tomorrow.
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Elan Ruskin @despair.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
It’s just while they’re setting up the food vendors. It’ll be open tomorrow.
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Elan Ruskin @despair.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
This
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Elan Ruskin @despair.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Context: Epic Pinball was written entirely in assembly.
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Elan Ruskin @despair.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
In a moment of funny coincidence, just as I opened the disassembly window to debug something, YouTube autoplayed this track. Simpler days. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mpq5...
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Epic Pinball - Intro Theme (remastered)
This is my remastered version of the intro theme from the DOS game Epic Pinball. It is almost identical to the original song, only with some added effects and rendered in studio quality. If you want…
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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
(Specifically, I was thinking of the Gracchi brothers: youtu.be/ODI1VOOoey0 )
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The Brothers Gracchi - How Republics Fall - Extra History - Part 1
YouTube video by Extra History
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Elan Ruskin @despair.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Also when it comes to “the news should publish what the gestapo are doing”, he’s… kind of right?
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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 · 31/12/2025
Why wouldn't it run on a Steam Deck? GTA6 will fit onto a PS5 and the Steam Deck is at least as capable. They can use the same tunings.
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Elan Ruskin @despair.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
AAA studios have the greatest need to reach the widest audience. Our games work on current hardware right now; why wouldn’t we keep them working?
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Elan Ruskin @despair.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Why not? Console devs target the same hardware for many years.
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Elan Ruskin @despair.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
We can keep making games for the current hardware.
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