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Ari Karate @firstbaseman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

🚨 Progress Update - DirectX 8 on the left, Vulkan frame on the right. They don't match yet but that's the point: now there's something to measure. The scoreboard and strike-zone overlay aren't in the Vulkan pass yet, and the lighting is off but hey it's something!

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Ari Karate @firstbaseman.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

So, v0.20 of my League Import Tool for Super Mega Baseball 4 on PC is out, with QOL improvements via refactoring! Here's my GH for download: github.com/firstbaseman... Share your #SMB4 custom leagues formally with friends and have shared leagues work with your own saves!

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Ari Karate @firstbaseman.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

On PC, MVP Baseball 2005 never had an internal framerate cap. Most monitors at the time went to 60hz and that was your FPS, basically. I managed to hard code an FPS limiter into the mvp2005.exe though. Now it's a consistent, solid 16.67ms/60FPS, no matter what the refresh rate. Smooth as silk.

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Ari Karate @firstbaseman.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

there's one game that represents american baseball, two that represent japanese baseball and 0 that represent caribbean baseball. maybe....

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andré @andre-carlisle.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

TONY STARK WAS ABLE TO BUILD THIS IN A CAVE, WITH A BUNCH OF SCRAPS

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Ari Karate @firstbaseman.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Doing some modding for RBI Baseball '21 by tinkering with contact shadows/ambient occlusion. Lots of cool under the hood stuff. I've also been tweaking offsets for jersey numbers too. Check out the #2 on the jersey, big change between the home (fixed) and road (default) placement!

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Ari Karate @firstbaseman.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

oof what's going on with these wall ads/textures

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Ari Karate @firstbaseman.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

oh god how did i get here i am not good with computer

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Ari Karate @firstbaseman.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

I think AMD's Brixelizer Global Illumination is a pretty solid sweet spot between RTGI and SSGI, without the heavy-handed RTX tax. You still get performant, dynamic GI that's fast and lightweight. Did I mention it's entirely compute-based? GPUOpen’s been cooking🔥

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Ari Karate @firstbaseman.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

alright let's learn Unity 6 today

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Minovsky @minovskyarticle.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Sony's handling of Crunchyroll, Funimation, and RightStuf post-acquisition inspires negative confidence in how monumentally they can and will further fuck up the anime, manga, film, book publishing, gaming, etc. industries if they successfully acquire Kadokawa.

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Keifer @dannyvegito.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

At the absolute bare minimum it should be illegal for a company that has recently laid people off to acquire other companies

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Kim Hu @kim-hu.com · 01/09/2024

Hi new followers! I am Kim. 👋💫 An artist working mostly in videogames and comics. Posting my art, other's cool art, and some people say I have an unhinged yet charming infatuation with the Marvel character Taskmaster. Portfolio: kim-hu.com Twitch: twitch.tv/kim__hu Askbox: ngl.link/kim__hu 🧡

Screenshot of the game Rollerdrome, showing Kara skating down a snowy slope in a red jumpsuit.

Illustration of Marvel characters Taskmaster and Black Ant, crouching on a pile of rubble.

Illustration of the Killtopia Nano Jams cover. Depicting a man grabbing his head in pain and fear.

Character lineup illustration of my own characters; Kotsu, Helene, K9 the dog, Fritz, Momo and Lang.

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Ari Karate @firstbaseman.bsky.social · 09/08/2024

The scope of what I want to build in a baseball game when I write it down on paper, sounds too crazy. I’m looking to build like a completely fictional baseball universe 😂 Fictional teams, fictional players, fictional lore, fictional brands, all that shit.

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