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Roy Eltham @royeltham.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"...the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one by name." - J. Huang What complete bullshit that is, among some of the other crap he spewed. It sounds like he was just making up crap that sounds plausible to most people listening to him.

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Roy Eltham @royeltham.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This was so long ago, but I now I think I recall that we put in heavily doctored up pics, I think they plastered the glasses, nose, and mustache over me making a face. Not really sure why? Probably just thought it would be funny, it was a small team of oddballs.

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Roy Eltham @royeltham.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I miss having Horde with piles of machines at work. Now that it's just me and my machine, I avoid engine builds as much as possible.

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Roy Eltham @royeltham.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

UE Engine code is interesting, while there is some coherency, there are so many cooks and there is so much of it, you find so much variance when you dig in. It's still kind of amazing it works. I'm no expert on it, but I have made changes and fixes in the past for our projects needs.

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Roy Eltham @royeltham.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

LOL at that image, that photo isn't even me. Sorry, but I don't know where any of that source ended up, but I kinda doubt any of it is still around anywhere.

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Roy Eltham @royeltham.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I was gonna say, you rank among the least annoying of coworkers I have had.

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Roy Eltham @royeltham.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

God forbid they make a new IP instead of reusing an existing successful one. Far too much risk otherwise, for those poor little CEO brains.

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Roy Eltham @royeltham.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Sadly, some of it can't be undone, particularly in areas of foreign policy. We can't get back the original rose garden, or the original east wing, and the damage done to science and medicine have lost us so much. Best we can hope for is undoing what we can, and replacing/fixing what can't be undone.

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Roy Eltham @royeltham.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

You know, that number likely doesn't work as before, Jenny is likely gone. ;)

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Roy Eltham @royeltham.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Lumines, probably 99%+ of my time on the PSP was in that game.

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🦋 kris🌻⋆⋆⋆ @eviebauer727.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Everything this guy is saying right here!! ALL OF THIS!! 👇

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Roy Eltham @royeltham.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

I think step one in healthcare reform is forcibly separating healthcare insurance from your job, No group health plans beyond a family. Force the insurance companies to compete for families and lets individuals choose providers that meet their needs best, instead of having little choice.

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Roy Eltham @royeltham.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

We are living "Idiocracy 2 : Way More Idiotic" right now.

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Roy Eltham @royeltham.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Of course, he focuses on the price complaint, and not the real problem here... why the heck is Commodore selling a damn phone at all? Especially one that is almost certainly going to be low volume and likely be a net negative for the company.

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Roy Eltham @royeltham.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

I coded up slerp (spherical linear interpolation) back in the late 90s for quaternion skeletal animation. Since then, I've just let the engines deal with quaternions...

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Roy Eltham @royeltham.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Dude, I would love it if they never made another Roguelite/Roguelike game ever again. :P

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Roy Eltham @royeltham.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

They may want to do it for real, but if the negative feedback continues, I could see them backpedaling to save face. Or at least a smart business would... It's sad to see them start down this path.

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Roy Eltham @royeltham.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

I'm a GenX white dude, and I think it's stupid. I half expect them to come back later saying "just kidding" here's the real next thing...

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Roy Eltham @royeltham.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

For me the biggest one is anything cherry... cherry is GROSS! Also, coffee... I hate the smell of it too!

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Roy Eltham @royeltham.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

those are cool, thanks for sharing!

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Thank you President Obama. 🙏 I appreciate your honesty, intelligence, dignity, integrity, humility & humor. 👍 Looking forward to the opening of your Presidential Center this week! 👀 Wishing you & your family all the best & continued success, Mar🐫

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Roy Eltham @royeltham.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Please add a description of the scoring rules? Also, I see it matters what order you select words of a category in, but why? Maybe for your first guess, if you click the shared word first, that is worth scoring? Although it's displayed in middle after you have 2 solved...

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Roy Eltham @royeltham.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Decent set. The yellow was pretty easy, and once I got that the purple jumped out at me, as well as the blue, I clicked the green one before blue because I thought it would be blue, since what ended up blue I thought should have been green. I didn't find this any harder really than Hank's puzzles.

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Roy Eltham @royeltham.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

The purple category feels like a bit of a reach...

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Roy Eltham @royeltham.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

I got 91 words and a score of 70,750, but I noticed the pattern after a couple dozen easy words. I feel like I would have failed 5-6 of the harder words if not for the pattern in the answers. and the way their formula works I'd have scored more like 50k or so.

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Roy Eltham @royeltham.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Yeah I took the test, and it noticed a pattern. The 4 answer choices for most of the words comes as, the correct answer, something the opposite of the correct answer, and then two completely unrelated things. If you notice this pattern, you can get words you don't know down to a 50/50 choice.

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Roy Eltham @royeltham.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

I think it's really cute that people from states with less population than Los Angeles county (40 states FYI) complain about how long counting takes in California and comparing it to their state's counting time. Like they just have no sense of the scale...

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Roy Eltham @royeltham.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

B. (because you said I had to pick)

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Roy Eltham @royeltham.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

I had almost the same progression, swap C for C++ on the Amiga, and my first 3d stuff was on 386. The progression from VGA frame buffers to GPUs and then shaders and so on was pretty crazy and fast...

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Roy Eltham @royeltham.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

I tried to watch some of this live, and the AI dude just made me cringe... had to stop before getting angry, sorry.

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Roy Eltham @royeltham.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

It was in July 1991, I has just turned 22. The crowd singing along for some songs was crazy... Dennis DeYoung would just stop singing and the entire crowd just carried it.

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Roy Eltham @royeltham.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Sting was during the Soul Cages tour, and it was a couple days after he had been on SNL with that funny bit with the Copy machine guy (Rob Schneider). Between songs when Sting was chatting to the crowd, someone yelled out "Sting-a-ling-ding-ding-dong" and Sting broke down laughing. Neat moment.

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Roy Eltham @royeltham.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

This is not a great representative set of the music I listen to all the time now, but I do still listen most of these occasionally.

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Roy Eltham @royeltham.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Introduce yourself with 10 bands / artists you've seen live (in order of seeing them) Charlie Daniels Band The Beach Boys Groove Psychosis Kennedy Rose Sting Phil Collins Styx Pink Floyd Elton John & Billy Joel (together) Deadmau5 (this is literally all of the live concerts I've been to)

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Roy Eltham @royeltham.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Just talking about the one song you linked originally. I haven't really heard much of their music at all.

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Roy Eltham @royeltham.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

I mean, re-listening, I can't understand a lot of what's being said. some bits I can hear are English, but others I dunno.

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Roy Eltham @royeltham.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

I just listened to the music and melodies, didn't pay attention to the lyrics. It's got a lot of effects and reverb/flanging making it sound dreamy.

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Roy Eltham @royeltham.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Same for me, was at work coding, freaked out a bit. After it faded, I looked it up and found out what it was... they usually proceed a full on migraine for me.

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Roy Eltham @royeltham.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Happy Birthday you lucky guy!

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Roy Eltham @royeltham.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

It's certainly Noisy, but it's not bad. I like lots of drums!

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Roy Eltham @royeltham.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Yep, I went from Atari 2600 to Commodore computers all through the 80s. The first console I bought new was the PlayStation (1). I'm still a PC guy, I don't even have any of the latest gen consoles.

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Roy Eltham @royeltham.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

I loved those old Ultima games. 3 and 4 especially, but anything before 6.

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Roy Eltham @royeltham.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

I am trying to make things without AI on my own. I get two responses, one being folks that think it's a good idea and are hopeful, the other being AI dude bros telling me I am an idiot....

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Roy Eltham @royeltham.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

I wish Phil was doing better. He was one of my favorites growing up.

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Roy Eltham @royeltham.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

This kid craves it, sometimes.

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