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Roy Theunissen @roytheunissen.com · 18/09/2026

Ridley the Space Pirate has been gifted a massive orange orb and honestly not now massive orange orb

It's the image of Pope Leo being presented with a massive green orb, but instead of Pope Leo, it's Ridley the Space Pirate from Metroid. He looks on anxiously as he is presented with a massive orange orb, which is clearly his arch nemesis Samus in her Morph Ball form.

Roy Theunissen @roytheunissen.com · 10/09/2026

Apparently Kojima Productions headquarters is right across the street from Sony. > Kojima pulling up to work in the morning

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Roy Theunissen @roytheunissen.com · 03/09/2026

My copy of Orbitals arrived! Can't wait to play it 😄 #orbitals

Holding a Switch 2 copy of Orbitals, with Maki and Omura striking an excited pose against a starry background

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Roy Theunissen @roytheunissen.com · 29/07/2026

That is beautiful! Might be my pareidolia at work but I cannot help but see a mischievous little guy in her airbending master tattoo

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Roy Theunissen @roytheunissen.com · 11/05/2026

What are search engines even any more

Googling "KaiCode festival" and the AI summary explaining that it's not a thing, but mentions various music festivals in my area that sound absolutely nothing like it.

Meanwhile, below it, are actual search results for the open source event in question which clearly exists and is a thing

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Roy Theunissen @roytheunissen.com · 14/04/2026

When your colleague asks if you want to go bouldering Were we not bouldering already, brΩther?

Picture of Sisyphus trying to carry a boulder up a hill

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Roy Theunissen @roytheunissen.com · 25/03/2026

#unity3d tip: Rect Tool not working on your Box Collider object? Add a Mesh Filter component!

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Roy Theunissen @roytheunissen.com · 13/03/2026

I feel that for journalistic integrity they should have specified that it was a skeleton

Article titled "Giant Tyrannosaur Discovered in North America Is The Largest of Its Era"

With a thumbnail of a living tyrannosaurus

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Roy Theunissen @roytheunissen.com · 03/03/2026

Upstairs neighbours for some reason:

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Roy Theunissen @roytheunissen.com · 14/02/2026

VEILS III - REGENT The final part, hope you enjoy it. #art #gothic #blender

A woman hovers in the air holding a sceptre and a skull, shrouded by a massive veil, on a dark cloudy day

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Roy Theunissen @roytheunissen.com · 12/02/2026

Doing a new art project called VEILS. Three parts, each accompanied by a poem Here's the first one: APOSTLE #art #gothic #blender

A skeleton kneels on the ground, enshrouded by a veil. He throws his hands to the sky in prayer.

Veils 1: Apostle

Down there knelt my wretched kin
Prays and begs surcease of sin
Bewitched by silken thread
Enshrouded there from feet to head
Lost they deem him
And I know why
But how much more, is he, than I

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Roy Theunissen @roytheunissen.com · 15/11/2025

I have more browser tabs open on my phone than I've ever had, and for some reason my phone is really happy about it :D

The Google Chrome widget that shows how many tabs I have open just says :D for some reason

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Roy Theunissen @roytheunissen.com · 30/10/2025

ExCUSE me? The gall to claim JSON as an Adobe file format on my computer

I saved a .json file and the file type was listed as Adobe After Effects JSON (*.json) for some reason

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Roy Theunissen @roytheunissen.com · 27/10/2025

Found my dad's old copy of Lord of the Rings. It's from 1977! The kind of book that when it's aged and tattered only improves

Front cover of a 1977 edition of Lord of the Rings. Two trees encircle the title, various creatures are drawn in the margins and the backdrop is a vast landscape (presumably the Shire)

The side of the book, it's stained and a bit tattered

The back of the book showing an illustration of Minas Tirith and Mount Doom in the distance behind it

First page of the book, stained and tattered.

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Roy Theunissen @roytheunissen.com · 22/10/2025

All right listen up consumers, let me break down how AI financing works for you. It's actually very simple: See the money starts off from.. Wait Wait one sec let me check something Wait

Graph of how capital flows from OpenAI to Microsoft to Nvidia to CoreWeave to AMD to Oracle. One minor detail: all the money from Users flows directly into Videogames and nowhere else

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Roy Theunissen @roytheunissen.com · 14/10/2025

For me it doesn't, no matter which way I spell it (my Windows uses british spelling) 🥲

Search with "network and sharing cent" filled in, and below it it says "No results found"

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Roy Theunissen @roytheunissen.com · 12/10/2025

Shinji, drink the tea or Rei will have to do it

Clipper "Mighty Mint" tea with purple and turquoise packaging reminiscent of EVA-01's colour scheme from Neon Genesis Evangelion

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Roy Theunissen @roytheunissen.com · 10/10/2025

Following up on SDF icons in #unity3d, @halisavakis.com has a great blog post about authoring them in Photoshop: halisavakis.com/my-take-on-s... I would like to add to this that Photoshop now uses a different method for gradients by default (Smooth) and you should set the Method to Classic.

Screenshot of Layer Style in Photoshop, showing the settings requried to generate an SDF texture.

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Roy Theunissen @roytheunissen.com · 08/10/2025

PSA: If you want to render an SDF texture using an Image component and Text Mesh Pro, you can! You need to copy the SDF shader and make two small tweaks, which I've explained in a blog post here: blog.roytheunissen.com/2025/10/08/r... #unity3d #gamedev

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Roy Theunissen @roytheunissen.com · 02/10/2025

Here's me yeeting a cardboard box like my life depends on it and Unity reporting the impulse as (0, 0, 0)

Screenshot of a breakpoint where relativeVelocity is something reasonable but impulse is reported as (0, 0, 0)

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Roy Theunissen @roytheunissen.com · 12/09/2025

Just finished Herdling! Wonderful game, really feels like a perilous journey with ups and downs. Thoroughly enjoyed it, can highly recommend picking it up! Well done to @okomotive.ch for shaking things up; new IP, new genre. Can't wait to see what you'll do next 😄

Herd of Calicorns trudging through a snowy mountain, with a set of teeth-like rocks lurking ominously ahead. A courageous boy clad in red herds them on.

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Roy Theunissen @roytheunissen.com · 12/09/2025

Any anime fans out there? I would like to extend my Switch 2's battery life by over an hour I have a pair of scissors available for you

Awkwardly truncated news article titled "This YouTuber added over an hour's worth of battery life to their Switch 2 with a pair of scissors and a weeb..."

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Roy Theunissen @roytheunissen.com · 09/09/2025

I once joked that in game dev it's easier to make a giant dragon spread out its wings and fly off than it is to crumple a piece of paper. Well, joke's on me because I now had to implement crumpling a piece of paper. I managed to crack it, here it is in action: #unity3d #vfx #houdini #simulation

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Roy Theunissen @roytheunissen.com · 01/09/2025

Finished Sword of the Sea! Really beautiful game, also a real lesson in elegance; you can play it in an evening, and the platforming sections are streamlined and forgiving. Can highly recommend playing it! Also consider hiring SotS's very skilled environment artist @nat-the-dev.bsky.social

The Wraith stands on his sword, hovering over a sand dune. A school of dolphin and fish swim past behind him, silhouetted by the setting sun.

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Roy Theunissen @roytheunissen.com · 29/08/2025

I'm playing Sword of the Sea right now and the environments are *amazing* If you have a vacancy for an environment artist please consider hiring @nat-the-dev.bsky.social

The Wraith surfing across a shimmering, foaming turquoise sea interspersed with ruins, and surrounded by a deep orange desert wasteland

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Roy Theunissen @roytheunissen.com · 28/08/2025

UPDATE: It has gotten dark and there are lightning strikes Peak coziness

Meme of Elmo raising his arms at the sky in worship (usually surrounded by fire), this time in the pouring rain with a lightning strike behind him

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Roy Theunissen @roytheunissen.com · 28/08/2025

Working at my desk, concentrating, in a flow state >Starts to rain Immediately stopping what I'm doing and considering opening the window to let in the rain smell

Meme of the fish NPC from Spongebob enthusiastically turning around

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Roy Theunissen @roytheunissen.com · 28/08/2025

Getting hit with a cool, cozy thunderstorm after some warm days got me like this

It's the "Elmo raising his arms, worshipping fire" meme but instead of being surrounded by fire he's getting hit with some heavy rain

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Roy Theunissen @roytheunissen.com · 12/08/2025

Here's a quick experiment in #unity3d for a speech bubble with a dynamic pointy bit leveraging SDF textures.

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Roy Theunissen @roytheunissen.com · 06/08/2025

Here's an exercise routine that I recommend to game developers in 2025. Stay healthy 💪 #gamedev

Are you a game developer? Try these 4 fun exercises!

Forward Lean (picture of a man leaning forward in his desk chair somewhat depressingly)

Backwards Lean (picture of a man absolutely and completely deflated in his desk chair)

Knees-to-Chest Stretch (picture of a man in the fetal position with tears welling up in his eyes)

Egg Rolls (picture of a man lying on his side, clutching himself, sobbing, and a small puddle of tears forming)

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Roy Theunissen @roytheunissen.com · 02/07/2025

Better pose maybe? Lemon hitting the ol' 🥺

Lemon the beige/white corgi mix with massive fluffy ears giving the big ol' puppy eyes

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Roy Theunissen @roytheunissen.com · 02/07/2025

Thats a fun idea! Here's a dog of a friend of mine that I think is pretty cute, she's called Lemon Not sure if the pose is inspiring enough 🤔

Tiny beige, white and black fluffy corgi mix sitting in an elevator. Her ears are huge and have big fluffy tufts of hair at the tips.

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Roy Theunissen @roytheunissen.com · 11/06/2025

You know the meeting is important when you hit it with the ol'

Google Calendar notification settings for a meeting. There are notifications for 30 minutes, 1 hour, 1 day and 1 week before the meeting.

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Roy Theunissen @roytheunissen.com · 11/06/2025

Just finished Aכzw. Fantastic book, really enjoyed it. Reminds me a lot of the movie Dune, which I really liked as well.

It's the cover of Frank Herbert's DUNE, being held sideways. Contrary to most books, where the title would then be upright, the letters of DUNE are now sideways too. The letters are so bold and abstract that they actually look like different letters altogether this way, namely Aכzw.

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Roy Theunissen @roytheunissen.com · 29/05/2025

I didn't know they provided this service

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Roy Theunissen @roytheunissen.com · 26/05/2025

When you're getting all absorbed into some music but then it somehow hits the exact pitch and timbre of "muffled doorbell"

The meme of the fish NPC from SpongeBob turning around and looking behind him

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Roy Theunissen @roytheunissen.com · 15/05/2025

Every time you declare a serialized field named camera, light, rigidbody, collider, animation, audio, particleSystem or renderer you get a compile warning that you're hiding a property I've used #Unity3d for some 13 years now and these properties have been deprecated the 🤌entire🤌 time It's time.

Extreme close-up of Link from The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker with a button prompt saying Let Go

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Roy Theunissen @roytheunissen.com · 09/05/2025

I just released an open source system for dispatching pre-defined controller rumble/vibration in a spatialized way for #Unity3d Great workflow for quickly adding a bunch of rumble to your game! github.com/RoyTheunisse...

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Roy Theunissen @roytheunissen.com · 07/05/2025

Someone excitedly pointed out to me that GTA VI is truly next gen because the beer now has bubbles I mentioned that Half-Life: Alyx had an incredible booze shader some time ago That's when I realized that HL:A was *5 years ago* already

Still from the second GTA 6 trailer with a bottle of beer in the foreground with nice bubbles in it

Booze shader from Half-Life: Alyx which came out 5 years ago and has some incredible fizz ans bubbles of its own

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Roy Theunissen @roytheunissen.com · 05/05/2025

The one thing that has always been there for me and guided my every major life decision

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