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its funny that of all the games to basically just rip off hollow knight (hollow knight and silksong included) there is only one instance of one (ori 2) being made by a studio that doesnt completely suck ass at designing platformers and it's still by far the best one

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elucent @elucent.website · 4h

the new castlevania really really wants you to know that the devs totally love castlevania from the bottom of their hearts which is of course why they made zero attempt to include any of castlevania's aesthetic or gameplay design

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elucent @elucent.website · 19/09/2026

columbo was so ahead of its time

real frame from a 1975 episode of columbo where as a result of misspelling their own fake country name a student protestor is holding up a sign saying "freedom for saurians". alternatively, peter falk confirmed way ahead of his time on issues in the scalie community

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elucent @elucent.website · 13/09/2026

me waiting for the big catch to come out

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elucent @elucent.website · 08/09/2026

i realize i've been tweeting a lot about AI lately but. this is absolutely it. the biggest giveaway someone was really kind of a shitty engineer was always if they viewed raw line output or their typing speed in the editor as their bottleneck. these people now really like AI and it doesn't mean much

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elucent @elucent.website · 07/09/2026

stupid idea buzzing around my head for like a year

its the multifandom enjoyer image but it says multifood enjoyer instead and instead of fandoms theyre enjoying different foods

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elucent @elucent.website · 07/09/2026

this argument only works if you assume AI is the next industrial revolution and we aren't instead basically talking abt uber before they hiked the prices

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elucent @elucent.website · 06/09/2026

two trillion dollars spent on gpus and we still haven't really advanced past ELIZA have we

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elucent @elucent.website · 06/09/2026

this was one of the most upsetting things to hear visiting them in person, but it's not surprising. old-web libertarians like brewster loooooove crypto, and AI is something they can be just as annoying about while also being a little useful (you gotta realize they spend most of their time doing OCR)

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elucent @elucent.website · 05/09/2026

kind of funny that of the five great lakes "lake america" is now supposedly the smallest and shittiest one. like damn ontario was doing us a favor taking one for the team

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elucent @elucent.website · 03/09/2026

air pollution really must be the best example of the utter perversion of capitalism. industrialists are happy filling the air with tar and killing thousands every year in order to make more money. and this is still such a widespread belief that london was still in this state as recently as 2016!!

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elucent @elucent.website · 01/09/2026

i feel like we gotta as a society come to grips that just because something is lgbt doesn't mean it's any less reddit

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elucent @elucent.website · 01/09/2026

one of the most important lessons i learned in my last job is most software is easy, and you can just do stuff. but most engineers in industry have a low opinion of their own capabilities, so they never try in earnest. i think this is primarily what AI preys on

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elucent @elucent.website · 30/08/2026

function calls, monomorphization, and return type inference. pretty close to being able to lower this to the mid-level IR :)

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elucent @elucent.website · 29/08/2026

a little more progress, on interval types and arithmetic after partial evaluation finishes

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elucent @elucent.website · 28/08/2026

should i work on my compiler or watch more columbo...

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elucent @elucent.website · 26/08/2026

mostly been working on figuring out the compiler backend but i fixed a few bugs and now mergesort works :)

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elucent @elucent.website · 25/08/2026

getting distracted working on a self-indulgent little lisp

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elucent @elucent.website · 13/08/2026

wouldnt it be messed up if i made another minecraft mod

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elucent @elucent.website · 09/08/2026

remembering when minecraft made the jump from intentionally silly "achievements" to progression-enumerating "advancements" and right then and there a huge chunk of the game's soul died

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elucent @elucent.website · 30/07/2026

i wonder how close you could get to that leftist gamer memes account output by just piping disc horse bot into a random death generator

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elucent @elucent.website · 27/07/2026

haven't posted anything about compilers here in a while. here's the mandelbrot set in clover

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elucent @elucent.website · 11/07/2026

not enough people out there seem to remember that it doesn't matter whether or not AI is useful for X or Y. it's ontologically evil and you have a moral obligation to work towards destroying it

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elucent @elucent.website · 11/07/2026

crazy to think that AAA games have sucked so bad for this long

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sylvie @sylviefluff.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

gays of malious

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elucent @elucent.website · 06/07/2026

beware the deadly sting of the mighty monarch (if you are a milkweed)

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elucent @elucent.website · 27/06/2026

implemented a glad generator for clover, now i can spin up opengl contexts and do some rendering :)

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elucent @elucent.website · 27/06/2026

yep, that quiz sure felt like it was made by britmonkey

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elucent @elucent.website · 24/06/2026

hoping deltarune supplants the unyielding torrent of jax discourse on the tl

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elucent @elucent.website · 09/06/2026

never surpassing this moment. this is the zenith of my life

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elucent @elucent.website · 08/06/2026

so convenient that whenever one of these studios gets called out for using AI it just so happens to be art that definitely totally didn't make it into the final game and you definitely totally will never see anyway

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elucent @elucent.website · 08/06/2026

watched wwdc and my favorite moment was definitely the whiplash between some guy saying "we respect the art of photography" and like one minute later being "i can use AI to replace 50% of this photo of my kids' last day of school with generated filler, doesn't it look so much better"

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elucent @elucent.website · 08/06/2026

the more i see of the new castlevania game the more im convinced iga still has the mandate of heaven

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elucent @elucent.website · 31/05/2026

everything in programming languages really does just boil down to union-find huh

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elucent @elucent.website · 31/05/2026

today i implemented codegen for default destructors + enough support for aggregates in my borrow checker that i can correctly check this little linked list example :)

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elucent @elucent.website · 30/05/2026

window hello world in clover (peep that awful business forging a null in a language otherwise without nullability)

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elucent @elucent.website · 30/05/2026

implemented move semantics

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elucent @elucent.website · 28/05/2026

boring but important PL work today: meticulously going through every type of definition and making it so definitions that are exactly the same don't trigger duplicate variable errors. makes it so diamond imports can work, like so:

a couple small programs in the Clover programming language. there is a file a.cl that defines a constant Foo, a file b.cl that imports a.cl and defines a constant Bar, and a file c.cl that imports both a.cl and b.cl and adds Foo and Bar. this used to throw an error, since on the path to c.cl, Foo is imported twice. but now the definition of Foo from a.cl safely overlaps itself

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elucent @elucent.website · 23/05/2026

cutting shallots and making dr robbie faces at my cutting board

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elucent @elucent.website · 22/05/2026

the very first automatically inserted free() call in a clover program. but oh so much work still to do

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elucent @elucent.website · 17/05/2026

managed to come full circle enough that i fixed a longstanding troublesome generics bug (infinite instantiation depth with mutually-recursive generic functions). the typechecker is now smart enough to figure out arbitrary type parameters from the methods you use, without any typed initializer

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elucent @elucent.website · 16/05/2026

i am getting increasingly nauseated by using github still. is codeberg still a good alternative?

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elucent @elucent.website · 16/05/2026

i ragequit compilers and PL about two months ago because of the two letter current thing. i relapsed into minecraft modding again this last month. now the pain of using java is maybe bringing me full circle back into compilers and PL

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elucent @elucent.website · 10/05/2026

tabletop haunted mansion dungeon exploration game call that a pencil vania

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elucent @elucent.website · 08/05/2026

where do i go to complain about discord being down now that discord is down

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elucent @elucent.website · 06/05/2026

gamedev is funny sometimes

a duckduckgo search for "overswing easing", like easing between two numbers with a bit of overshoot, but the top result is about getting better at golf

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elucent @elucent.website · 06/04/2026

the fyp algorithm mystifies me so idk why i got this post in my tl but it did unironically remind me i forgot to add bay leaves to my stew. thank you simons quest

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