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giwake @giwake.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

they just let you do shit on the computer

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giwake @giwake.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

baby's first human model vs Adult's latest human model

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giwake @giwake.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

thoughts on the state of play? well... lets just say it would have been more impactful if they did this... epic 😎

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giwake @giwake.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

apparently michael fox didn't want his likeness to appear in the table, so DE had to replace him with... this guy. who is apparently the son of one of the artists. even the flyer's got him and Not Doc Brown (who's actually gary stern)

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giwake @giwake.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

yea i know a thing or two about level design

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giwake @giwake.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

i joked that the new star fox remake looks like those old facerig animal models and then IMMEDIATELY was hit with the dodgeball of prophecy once i found out it ACTUALLY HAD that tech in it.

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giwake @giwake.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

there's something very fun to me about "video game-y" elements of games. stuff like big spikes, floating platforms, collectables with no real purpose beyond score, and whatever the hell these triangles that push you around in PO'ed are.

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giwake @giwake.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

nice. good site. i miss cohost.

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giwake @giwake.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

first screenshot still bugs me. in OG sysshock its an executive area, it's this stark contrast to the mechanical rooms you've been running around, granite and carpets and chandeliers. still abstract due to the engine but fancy. remake greebles it and makes it look like everywhere else

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giwake @giwake.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

scifi games and Too Many Greebles. everything looks really uncomfortable and full of visual noise imo! sometimes a wall should just be a wall.

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giwake @giwake.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

a while back i played "malice," a total conversion for quake 1 that was sold at retail. its pretty impressive and i got jumpscared during the credits when lucas pope appeared.

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giwake @giwake.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

conan obrien keeps turning up in my life please go away

the bluesky oscars stream thing with conan obrien's face

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giwake @giwake.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

gender wars has some incredibly funny images

screenshot from gender wars, a "choose your gender" screen where the player can select between male and female, both are in extreme sci-fi outfits

screenshot of gender wars, featuring two men in scifi costumes floating in water while a woman looks down at them, the text MALE DEFEAT hovers over them

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giwake @giwake.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

finished #gameaweek2026, 6 games for 6 weeks. 5 made with uzdoom. pretty happy with these games.

a collage of title screens from games
"don't shoot i am a man"
"i wanna be go!"
"122 hours of fear"
"timing X"
"maxo scringle's human rocket mini-type rocket golf"
"something for everybody"

screenshots for all of the games, mostly retro-style fps games

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giwake @giwake.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

+ the original texture photos

photo of a red toolbox with lots of scratches and stains and a little bit of rust on it. the flash is on so it looks cool

photo of some unholy mess of pipes that was being sold at a second hand shop for 12 dollars (??)

photo of some vent with rusted screw holes

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giwake @giwake.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

marathon 1 type machine gun

large cylindrical gun that looks like the machine gun from marathon1

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giwake @giwake.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

blender pet peeve: by default it makes colours and contrast look like shit by using the "filmic" view transform. setting it to "standard" makes everything look infinitely better. why is this the default.

screenshot of a euro made in blender. the colours and contrast are muddy are washed out, and the gold in the coin looks like a cheese yellow

screenshot of the euro, but now in "standard" mode. the yellow on the coin is much more vibrant and the embossed text is much more readable

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giwake @giwake.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

i'm fairly certain the tomb raider remasters use ai upscales. comparing some of the textures reveals weird inconsistencies that shouldn't really happen if they were using the original source materials. note how the stones in the bottom left differ yet have very similar patterns.

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giwake @giwake.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

god i skipped to the middle of the trailer. it feels like a fake game that would be in a tim and eric/gameclam skit.

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giwake @giwake.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

going through old games and i love whatever this aesthetic/style is. programmer art and google image search

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giwake @giwake.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

i turned off cleartype in windows because i hate the way antialiased text looks. the downside is that there's a lot of fonts and websites that are very clearly not meant for that kind of shit. so i use ublock origin to block the fonts and now i'm typing to you in times new roman

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giwake @giwake.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

i made two playermodels for gmod. the jerma one was used in a variety of awful meme videos and an actually good NPC addon the cat playermodel is used by one of the members of the yogscast and also got popular on twitter, even getting fanart (which i cant find) not bad for some 15-minute jobs

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giwake @giwake.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

matcaps are some of my favourite effects in games. halo CE and half life use it so much and i love it. also early CG matcap blob dog stays in my mind forever

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giwake @giwake.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

my sleep deprived ass : oughghghghh.... the light of god beaming into my apartment: you need to model the oak chocolate milk me : oughghh... yess........

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giwake @giwake.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

sometimes in life you are hit by a lightning bolt of inspiration and have to make a dogshit photoshop incredibly quickly

a screenshot of gta vice city except it's now gta voice chat (vice city and voice chat have the same initials) and the protagonist is holding headphones

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giwake @giwake.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

weird little sketch thingy

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giwake @giwake.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

youtube now apparently tries to extract line 21 subtitles from videos. keyword being *tries.*

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giwake @giwake.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

bluesky believes i am 16-17 based on my face. i am not. i also cannot even begin to fix this as i am greeted with an error message every time i try to re-do the check, incredible. as a consequence of this, i can't view any videos deemed "mature" nor can i use dms (???)

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giwake @giwake.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

quick painted scifi car thingy

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giwake @giwake.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

also PO'ed has a level select screen that shows the sculptures used for the sprites, as well as a series of passwords based on the names of devs or references to things they liked (list from TCRF)

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giwake @giwake.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

does anyone remember a comic like this because wow i am feeling it pretty hard as of late

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giwake @giwake.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

fun and/or evil and fucked up fact: i did not animate the reload with any bones. it's all shape keys and object transforms. using the .MD3 format has ruined my workflow in indescribable ways :3

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giwake @giwake.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

experiment with vertex painting. sure.

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