tom @tom.games · 16/08/2026A junco has taken to roosting above our front door in the evenings. At first he would fly away, but he’s been there for a week or so now and he’s gotten used to us coming and going. His name is Pecan Strongfeather. 1130
tom @tom.games · 05/07/2026I’m a big fan of the stutterstep penalty kick. does it look good? no. is it in the spirit of the game? no. but is it effective? also no 050
tom @tom.games · 24/06/2026my primary criticism of this world cup is that there are not enough commercials with david beckham in them. sometimes there are several minutes with no sign of him and I get worried that he might be lost or scared somewhere, or that he is running out of money 191
tom @tom.games · 27/05/2026Massive news on the marmot front- someone on Reddit has glassed the exact same individual!! 080
tom @tom.games · 27/05/2026Marmot spotted! If you live in my neighborhood lock your doors!! Shelter in place!!! 2160
tom @tom.games · 01/05/2026i have been taking my common, game-agnostic monogame code and putting it into its own library. here is a sample using this code: the high level or realism on display here makes this unbelievable, but this is not real-world video- it is 100% computer rendered 34910
tom @tom.games · 06/10/2025He’s got feet and fins now, he looks like a mohawked big-eared bowling ball, what a disaster 180
tom @tom.games · 05/10/2025if you are in Seattle and you drive by my house prepare for the fright of your life 1157377
tom @tom.games · 24/06/2025i got one for home too, where my family lives. does my depravity know no bounds? it does not. 160
tom @tom.games · 21/06/2025for my bear game i am planning on using web stuff for the ui so i can build it out using css and html rather than learning some ui library or writing my own. i have integrated a chromium offscreen renderer (CefSharp) and loaded the fat bear week website to prove that it works 2170
tom @tom.games · 19/06/2025becoming an ergo keyboard guy, yet one more insufferable personality trait for my coworkers to endure 290
tom @tom.games · 25/05/2025i am working on building out a high-ish resolution surface map for my bear game. the idea is to use this for things like object placement and navigation, stuff that needs to be higher precision than the tiles themselves 150
tom @tom.games · 28/04/2025I disabled this a while back because I guess I miscalculated the api usage and it was too expensive, maybe I will fix it soon 020
tom @tom.games · 15/04/2025I am working from home today and decided to take some time to make myself a delicious lunch because i work hard and I deserve it 280
tom @tom.games · 21/03/2025now that i have the actual tiles working ok i am putting objects into the world for my bear game. too many trees! 1140
tom @tom.games · 20/03/2025Now that I have world generation kind of working the way that I want I have abstracted a bunch of data to json so that I can iterate on things faster. Each tile in my grid is placed based on some parameters (currently just simplex noise) and I can easily add new types or change existing ones. 140
tom @tom.games · 13/03/2025after a bit of a break i am trying to motivate myself to work on my bear game again. wow it is beautiful 1110
tom @tom.games · 26/01/2025i have never really known anything about web development but i am building a website for my kid to post his music on and it has been a Fun Adventure in Learning 140
Reposted by tomRandom Street View @randomstreetview.bsky.social · 25/01/2025#517 Tindouf, Algeria 093
tom @tom.games · 07/01/2025i drove by this house the other day with a turret and what looks like a machine gun in it, so i did some research to figure out what the deal is but i guess there's no story it's just a guy who put a fake machine gun in a turret on his house 130
tom @tom.games · 30/12/2024i think it is good, the last thing i am going to do now is make it sometimes spin the other way and then i am going to stop adding things so i can focus on other projects 020
tom @tom.games · 30/12/2024i am testing a thing where i generate and post videos from streetview for my bot, instead of static images. is it good or is it bad? i don't know yet 290
Reposted by tomRandom Street View @randomstreetview.bsky.social · 23/12/2024#3 Salasar, Rajasthan, India Google Maps 031
tom @tom.games · 23/12/2024hello! I have made a bot that posts an image from a random google streetview location once every few hours. It is here: @randomstreetview.bsky.social i have a version of this on the old social network (@random_places) that has been running for a decade now, but maybe i will kill it soon :( 2305
tom @tom.games · 06/12/2024there is a nice view of mt rainier’s handsome cloud hat from the office this evening 270
tom @tom.games · 03/12/2024my game of the year award once again goes to… the nyt super mega crossword! congratulations super mega crossword, you are so large 050
tom @tom.games · 28/11/2024I have been playing Tunic while on vacation, and after having bounced off of it before it has clicked for me this time and it turns out it is an excellent game 030
tom @tom.games · 21/11/2024Working on my little bear game. I added some more flavors of tile to test my tiling stuff, it all works pretty ok except this is placeholder art and so the transitions are sometimes weird. Next i will add streams, trees, rocks, etc. But first i will go to Hawaii with my family for a little while. 160
tom @tom.games · 20/11/2024mostly it is working now, this is what it looks like with placeholder art 070
