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Mathieu Ropert @matropert.bsky.social · 21h

PLaYERs DoNT cARe iF GamES aRE MaDE WiTH AI!!

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Mathieu Ropert @matropert.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

May Lyly cleanse your timeline in those trying times

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Mathieu Ropert @matropert.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Did my talk at #ndctechtown about doing learning graphics with C++. I'm really thankful for Nolan introducing the average person to Bronze Age Collapse so my joke could reach a much wider audience.

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Mathieu Ropert @matropert.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Finishing the day with a @kevlin.bsky.social talk. No pressure but maybe some expectations of being entertained. #ndctechtown

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Mathieu Ropert @matropert.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

That finding is particularly interesting. I've found that RAM is usually the bottleneck for parallel compilation these days (and the price isn't looking like it's gonna go down).

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Mathieu Ropert @matropert.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Daniela Engert giving us tips and tricks for compile times. Will modules finally work for me this time? 🙏 #ndctechtown

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Mathieu Ropert @matropert.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Cool presentation by Michelle D'souza about branch prediction mechanics at #ndctechtown

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Mathieu Ropert @matropert.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

@hanicka.net 's keynote at #ndctechtown. Is 'R"hana(banana)...' some misheard lyrics from Bad Romance?

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Mathieu Ropert @matropert.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I love how you can use Google AI and it will tell you how what it's doing is illegal but here's how to maybe use it in a way that matches your expectations? Cc @europarl.europa.eu

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Mathieu Ropert @matropert.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

My time at Unity is coming to a premature end, with our consulting team being dismantled. That means that ✨Sparkling Code✨ is available again for all your C++, performance, graphics and gamedev needs, now with premium Unity expertise too!

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Mathieu Ropert @matropert.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Oh they really think we're like, proper stupid to not see through the charade. What are the odds that the top 3 AI companies all competing for trillion dollar valuation suddenly all get cold feet and agree to pause? Especially when analysis of their economic model showed it to be unsustainable.

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Mathieu Ropert @matropert.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

My sympathies to Ukraine but for Pete's sake fix your asset pipeline. That kind of install/download size is the most "I threw 8k uncompressed textures at every problem I encountered" UE5 bloat I have ever seen.

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Mathieu Ropert @matropert.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Surviving Mars be like "you can have any government form you like as long as they'd sign the Tidö Agreement"

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Mathieu Ropert @matropert.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Trying out Tracy again. On the plus side it's actively maintained, unlike Optick. On the downside it still looks a bit ugly, I had to manually implement label color generation to make it readable, and sampling profiling fails to complete even on a toy app. Am I missing something?

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Mathieu Ropert @matropert.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

What do you mean you guys can't use frogs as barometers ?

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Mathieu Ropert @matropert.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Such a boy. Such a Pretzel boy.

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Mathieu Ropert @matropert.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Damn the sequel to my "Can It Run Doom?" lightning talk is writing itself. Joke aside, GTX 900 makes sense if you want to target Vulkan 1.3 (earlier cards have sketchy driver support). As for recommended specs, I'd guess mesh shaders, although RX 5xxx series don't support them.

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Mathieu Ropert @matropert.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

What ordering food in Sweden at 20:39 in summer feels like

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Mathieu Ropert @matropert.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Guy sitting next to me on the plane was one of them. 25 yo with dual British-French citizenship. Days with seeing a lawyer, held in detention center, no charges they could convict them of, still escorted out with a 5 year entry ban. Fascist insanity from Swedish government.

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Mathieu Ropert @matropert.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Friend of mine just made me realize that AI is so successful because it's _both_ fraud and gambling, depending whether you're on the investor side or the user side.

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Mathieu Ropert @matropert.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I have been using AI a bunch at work and while at first it felt helpful to get to know new stuff, I am finding this tweet vindicated times and times again.

pikuma.com's tweet: "It's interesting how AI is constantly providing false information and incorrect statements about my area of expertise. Fortunately, it's very useful and always right about topics I know very little about."

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Mathieu Ropert @matropert.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I feel like you can just reply this under every game studio announcement lately. Don't even need to post the full meme anymore, just this pic has become enough.

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Mathieu Ropert @matropert.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

People were literally giving up on C++ before @compiler-explorer.com because they didn't trust the generated assembly would be good enough. That was only 10 years ago.

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Mathieu Ropert @matropert.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

So a bunch of guys with reportedly no background in game engineering or access to a preview build put out an article article saying "this game won't make 60 fps on release" with ZERO evidence and the whole press is running with it. My sympathies to the CM at Rockstar who has to handle this.

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Mathieu Ropert @matropert.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I am losing my mind on this AI nonsense. I will start questioning the sanity of people telling me it works. When you say "it's better if it can run the compiler", how many tokens are you burning on it trying to use an API it made up, realize it doesn't exist and then try again?

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Mathieu Ropert @matropert.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

I'm sorry what? I thought Microsoft was dropping the ball on C++ but this is next level "I don't care for a feature that shipped with C++20, 6 YEARS AGO".

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Mathieu Ropert @matropert.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Hiring tools have progressed so much in 8 years. Mostly the cost though...

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Mathieu Ropert @matropert.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

I hate how this has become the most accurate description of the industry

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Mathieu Ropert @matropert.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Everyone is telling me that AI is the future and is gonna make me so much better especially at things I'm not an expert in and here's how Google's doing so far. Do people pay for this? Something something "you haven't tried the super premium model that bankrupts companies"?

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Mathieu Ropert @matropert.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Today is a great day to learn about graphics btw

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Mathieu Ropert @matropert.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Spain: "make the most mid wine possible but make sure France gets it"

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Mathieu Ropert @matropert.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Looks like C++26 adoption is gonna be slow one for many. Sometime by 2030 if you ship on Windows or on console it would seem 😭

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Mathieu Ropert @matropert.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Thank you Norwegian Air this was a very useful email

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Mathieu Ropert @matropert.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

I miss Italian weather already

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Mathieu Ropert @matropert.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Even the article knows it but they just lampshade it like those people should still be taken seriously www.businessinsider.com/coders-keep-...

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Mathieu Ropert @matropert.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

You can just tell ai vibe coders don't understand the most basic things about computers when you read something like this. No the device doesn't go into the aether when you close the lid. You can configure the behaviour. And if it's remote use a persistent terminal emulator.

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Mathieu Ropert @matropert.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

This is how I feel when I find the software KVM I need but it's a GitHub project that doesn't provide windows binaries and requires QT to build

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Mathieu Ropert @matropert.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Since last week I'm a consultant for @unity.com. Looking forward to help with performance and any other needs you have on your Unity games! ✨Sparkling Code AB✨remains available for your non Unity needs, although with limited bandwidth.

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Mathieu Ropert @matropert.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Beloved indie game makes a sequel in Unreal Engine 5 and immediately turns the recommended spec into a war machine forged by the dwarves of Moria

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Mathieu Ropert @matropert.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

So glad we can use AI for teaching and have it confuse features from C++11 with feature that will be in C++26. Those are only 15 years apart!

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Mathieu Ropert @matropert.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

When you try to get a product review and all hits are very obviously copy paste / AI rewrites of the exact same text

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Mathieu Ropert @matropert.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

I don't know what it is about this meme that makes me laugh out loud each time I see it

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