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GlaireDaggers🍉🏳️‍⚧️🎃 @glairedaggers.bsky.social · 55m

I always return to this shit but like oh yeah. that's the good stuff. delicious.

$screenshot of a very retro-looking glassy sphere sitting on a checkerboard plane in Blender. In the shader node, there's a custom "Classic BSDF" node showing "diffuse", "specular", "specular power", "reflection", "IOR", and "refraction" inputs$

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GlaireDaggers🍉🏳️‍⚧️🎃 @glairedaggers.bsky.social · 1h

One of the reasons this is important is that you can set gloss bounces to 0 and use a glossy bsdf for plain specular highlight with no reflections, but then use a ray portal to add the reflections back in for a very "retro" look

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GlaireDaggers🍉🏳️‍⚧️🎃 @glairedaggers.bsky.social · 1h

And that as a result you can just plug a reflection vector into it to get reflections

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GlaireDaggers🍉🏳️‍⚧️🎃 @glairedaggers.bsky.social · 1h

oh. Huh. Somebody discovered that the Ray Portal bsdf in Blender works even if you set glossy bounces to 0.

Screenshot of a render in Blender 4.4 - a very retro-looking render of a shiny red ball on a checkerboard plane.

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GlaireDaggers🍉🏳️‍⚧️🎃 @glairedaggers.bsky.social · 1h

(I know I'm just saying, for *just* the cost of that all by itself they could've been pouring those costs into an actual game and end up with a significantly better result I bet)

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GlaireDaggers🍉🏳️‍⚧️🎃 @glairedaggers.bsky.social · 2h

$1000 a day on shit that looks like straight up asset flip shovelware. Genuinely impressive

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GlaireDaggers🍉🏳️‍⚧️🎃 @glairedaggers.bsky.social · 2h

Weird, I thought AI would make game development "accessible" and "cheaper"

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GlaireDaggers🍉🏳️‍⚧️🎃 @glairedaggers.bsky.social · 5h

Genuinely fuckin exhausted today I want to go back to bed so bad

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GlaireDaggers🍉🏳️‍⚧️🎃 @glairedaggers.bsky.social · 14h

For example my music engine ran just fine on the Mister PS1 core *without* the workaround (which is to spin wait until two subsequent clock reads return the same value), most likely because it just implements the timers as a single atomic 16 bit read

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GlaireDaggers🍉🏳️‍⚧️🎃 @glairedaggers.bsky.social · 14h

No it's a single 16 bit read from the CPU's POV but the hardware itself might be actually doing two 8 bit reads or something like that

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GlaireDaggers🍉🏳️‍⚧️🎃 @glairedaggers.bsky.social · 15h

(only reason one person caught it is bc they've seen other hardware with a similar quirk and came up with that theory, which the workaround appears to fix)

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GlaireDaggers🍉🏳️‍⚧️🎃 @glairedaggers.bsky.social · 15h

Current theory is that it's a 16 bit value split into two reads, upper then lower, but sometimes can be updated in between reads and if that increment overflows the lower 8 bits then the resulting value will be wrong

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GlaireDaggers🍉🏳️‍⚧️🎃 @glairedaggers.bsky.social · 15h

The quirk in question is a metastability issue - at least when timer 1 is driven by hblank, occasionally sampling at the right time gives a corrupt value.

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GlaireDaggers🍉🏳️‍⚧️🎃 @glairedaggers.bsky.social · 15h

Not sure, maybe somebody somewhere knew about it, but several emulator maintainers in the PSX Dev server were not aware of it and I don't think official PS dev docs mention it

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GlaireDaggers🍉🏳️‍⚧️🎃 @glairedaggers.bsky.social · 15h

Shockingly productive considering I didn't really add more than like 5 lines of code to it today lmao

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GlaireDaggers🍉🏳️‍⚧️🎃 @glairedaggers.bsky.social · 15h

Well a piece of PS1 homebrew I was making to demonstrate my music engine: - Exposed a bug/quirk with reading Timer 1 on real hardware - Which helped improve the open source Psyqo library (which added a workaround) - And also exposed a separate audio timing issue in PCSX-Redux

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GlaireDaggers🍉🏳️‍⚧️🎃 @glairedaggers.bsky.social · 19h

(this is how I know FF7 did not turn off occlusion on player meshes lmao)

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GlaireDaggers🍉🏳️‍⚧️🎃 @glairedaggers.bsky.social · 19h

Man I hate the default Unreal engine culling so much. The like... One frame of shit popping into view is so distracting 😭

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GlaireDaggers🍉🏳️‍⚧️🎃 @glairedaggers.bsky.social · 21h

I would still classify those two as turn based (or at least mostly turn based). Vagrant Story is still a bit less action-oriented than I'm thinking

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GlaireDaggers🍉🏳️‍⚧️🎃 @glairedaggers.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It's semi turn based like 7 & 8 are (ATB system) I'm thinking more action based (Star Ocean and Tales of Phantasia are a bit closer, though they're 2.5D)

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GlaireDaggers🍉🏳️‍⚧️🎃 @glairedaggers.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

(with a camera that sits inside of the play space more I suppose)

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GlaireDaggers🍉🏳️‍⚧️🎃 @glairedaggers.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I guess that's a good example, just with 3D characters is what I was thinking

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GlaireDaggers🍉🏳️‍⚧️🎃 @glairedaggers.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Had a thought about a game that would have like PS1 style prerendered background (FF7, RE, Star Ocean etc) but then combat is just fully realtime in a 3D arena Are there any PS1 games that do something like that?

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GlaireDaggers🍉🏳️‍⚧️🎃 @glairedaggers.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

One attempt ago I just watched her eat a cluster of Time Bombs directly to her face with zero attempt to move out of the way. Or even do anything at all. She literally wasn't even attacking. Any time I'm not controlling a party member they always do shit like this

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GlaireDaggers🍉🏳️‍⚧️🎃 @glairedaggers.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

GIRL YOU ARE **RANGED**!! WHY ARE YOU NOT BACKING UP!!!!!

Image of Aerith standing directly next to a giant Anuran Suppressor boss despite being a ranged character who could easily hit it from across the arena

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GlaireDaggers🍉🏳️‍⚧️🎃 @glairedaggers.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I feel like I'm missing something, what could be the issue with discussing a patent that's been filed? It's public information, is it not?

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X ΘΔ (Giant Tyrant Overlord) @xkeeper.net · 08/10/2026

disingenuous and utterly misleading reporting by RPS here: Discord did not suffer any kind of breach this is a completely-unaffiliated-with-Discord service

Gaming chat app Discord has suffered another user data breach, with a suspected 1 million email addresses stolen alongside (potentially many more) user IDs and IP addresses. While Discord was not targeted directly, third party security service Double Counter have reported a "deliberate, multi-stage attack" wherein hackers spent nearly six hours poking around their infrastructure before the vulnerability was closed.

Double Counter essentially acts as a bouncer bot for Discord servers, promising to detect and block unsanctioned alt accounts and prevent hostile 'raids' by large groups of malicious users. While its efficacy in that mission is debated by Discord users, and the service has previously been accused of selling user data for revenue, the fact is that Double Counter can collect and store personal info of the users that visit its 'protected' servers. Info that, now, has been partly or entirely nicked by Internet miscreants.

By Double Counter’s own estimates, around 1 million user email addresses have been affected, with databases of Discord IDs, usernames, IP addresses, and even location info for up to 28 million users also "partly" copied by the hackers. Security breach trackers Have I Been Pwned further report that 275,000 of the pinched emails and usernames have since been posted publicly.

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GlaireDaggers🍉🏳️‍⚧️🎃 @glairedaggers.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Having that swipe be a completely different action instead is the worst option imho

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GlaireDaggers🍉🏳️‍⚧️🎃 @glairedaggers.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Idk what the term is but I really wish they would try and keep their shit "spatially consistent" if that makes sense? Like if you have the visual of the server list sliding away to one side, then my expectation is often that I can slide it back in by swiping or something

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GlaireDaggers🍉🏳️‍⚧️🎃 @glairedaggers.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

One of my least favorite gestures in chat apps like Discord or this Matrix client I'm using is "swipe a message sideways to reply to it" You know how many times I've tried to slide out the member list or list of servers I'm in but nope that replies to a message instead?

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GlaireDaggers🍉🏳️‍⚧️🎃 @glairedaggers.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Something I have thought would be really cool (but haven't considered all of the logistics of admittedly) is that, since I like to make retro style games, I would love to have a setup at a con or something where I demo my game on an actual CRT lmao, and distribute CDs or something of that nature 😅

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GlaireDaggers🍉🏳️‍⚧️🎃 @glairedaggers.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It's actually impressive how predictably badly it went so quickly.

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GlaireDaggers🍉🏳️‍⚧️🎃 @glairedaggers.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I do not envy the (apparently only *four*??) moderators but holy shit I'm not sure they could have underestimated that worse if they actually tried

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GlaireDaggers🍉🏳️‍⚧️🎃 @glairedaggers.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"It takes a language that only computers understand called binary -"

Meme image from the movie Inglorious Bastards: A spy holds up three fingers starting from his index finger instead of starting from his thumb. A German officer sees this, and immediately realizes he has found a spy.

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GlaireDaggers🍉🏳️‍⚧️🎃 @glairedaggers.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

*several people pointing out "Hey man, that is not even remotely the hard part. Good luck with the rest."* Guy: "Okay well I didn't say I was done, you guys just hate my methodology" I mean you could literally do this with Ghidra for free but hey it's your money, you can spend it on tokens I guess

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GlaireDaggers🍉🏳️‍⚧️🎃 @glairedaggers.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"How is it slop if it produces C that compiles to the same binary?" *several people are typing*

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GlaireDaggers🍉🏳️‍⚧️🎃 @glairedaggers.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

My favorite part has to be "Ghidra outputs psuedo code that doesn't compile" "It's literally C and it does compile" "Wait, it does?"

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GlaireDaggers🍉🏳️‍⚧️🎃 @glairedaggers.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Incredible exchange with a vibe decomp bro in the PSX Dev server happening lmfao

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GlaireDaggers🍉🏳️‍⚧️🎃 @glairedaggers.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

If a pressure mechanic is, idk, "Exploit their elemental weakness while they are taunting" that's a more interesting thing I have to go out of my way to do. "Deal enough damage" I feel like kind of removes intentionality from it though, atp "pressuring" is kind of just a thing that happens 🤷‍♀️

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GlaireDaggers🍉🏳️‍⚧️🎃 @glairedaggers.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The main thing is that "doing damage" is something I'm already doing as a rule. Like, that's literally my whole goal with the fight is to do enough damage to kill my opponent lmao IMHO the more interesting pressure mechanics are ones that make you go out of your way to perform it

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GlaireDaggers🍉🏳️‍⚧️🎃 @glairedaggers.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Thinking about this fight more to try and dissect more specifically why I didn't like it One of the things I think I dislike about the fight is the pressure criteria: "Deal enough damage to pressure him". The game does this with many enemies, and I'm not a big fan

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