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Benjamin Cutler @uraniumanchor.com · 09/09/2026

Made it home from PAX. Mina joins her... siblings? Sure, we'll go with that.

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Benjamin Cutler @uraniumanchor.com · 08/09/2026

If you want a Crazy Taxi vibe without GenAI, get this instead. Seeing it in action at PAX convinced me.

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TimOfLegend @timoflegend.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Did nobody ever teach the people of Seattle how to jaywalk?

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Benjamin Cutler @uraniumanchor.com · 07/09/2026

Entombing Sonic for the trip back to the GDQ studio.

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Games Done Quick @gamesdonequick.com · 07/09/2026

#PAXWest 2026 FINISH!!! We're so thankful for everyone who came out to the Speedrun Stage or watched online this weekend!! And thank you to @officialpax.bsky.social for having us once again and to all of our staff and runners for making this event possible 💙

audience at the Speedrun Stage during the Majora's Mask run at PAX West

wide short of the PAX Arena from behind the audience during A Link to the Past

back of the audience at the Speedrun Stage during the MGS 3 run at PAX West

orange and blue digital sign that reads:
Speedrun Stage
What is game play video, but play weird, so go faster? Here have that!

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Benjamin Cutler @uraniumanchor.com · 06/09/2026

Always appreciate it when a run gives me an opportunity to goof on the layout.

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Benjamin Cutler @uraniumanchor.com · 05/09/2026

Both this and the old NYT quiz it's cribbing from -also- said I'm from California and that's about as wrong for me too. I was born in Montana, grew up in Colorado, and both of my parents are from the VA/MD area so I have no idea how it got it so wrong.

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Games Done Quick @gamesdonequick.com · 04/09/2026

getting ready for #PAXWest! gdq.gg/schedule PAX

open door with two signs outside of it with the PAX West 2026 speedrun stage schedule

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Benjamin Cutler @uraniumanchor.com · 27/08/2026

Trying to remember if I had any video of the softlock I sent you and this is how I discover that DailyMotion still somehow has my extremely old SALP videos:

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Benjamin Cutler @uraniumanchor.com · 11/08/2026

There's a couple of accounts I follow on here because they post interesting stuff but one of them has the habit of reposting a lot of the replies and if I wanted that I'd just read the replies!

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The Onion @theonion.com · 05/08/2026

Go ahead and try to fill the infinite void in your soul with merchandise at the Onion Store. store.theonion.com/products/c2e2-on…

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Benjamin Cutler @uraniumanchor.com · 02/08/2026

...which would have meant rewriting thousands of lines of OpenGLES1 code. Which is more or less what I've -been- doing, 14 years later. Except Vulkan instead of OpenGLES2.

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Benjamin Cutler @uraniumanchor.com · 02/08/2026

Also, slight addendum to the comment about the original Kindle Fire: It -could- support multitexturing beyond 2 units, but only if you were using shaders. And OpenGLES2 was much like OpenGL's core profile, in that you couldn't mix in fixed-functionality at all...

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Benjamin Cutler @uraniumanchor.com · 02/08/2026

For those curious, it's nothing -too- complicated, just two overlaid alpha masks, one top cap and one that repeats for the rest of the vertical space. Then the color map takes the average of two copies of itself, though it uses two sets of coordinates that scroll at different speeds and directions.

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Benjamin Cutler @uraniumanchor.com · 02/08/2026

Took me a few days to actually get around to this as I was working on simpler parts of the code, but got it on the second try (got the alpha masks reversed the first time around). #gamedev

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Benjamin Cutler @uraniumanchor.com · 02/08/2026

"Alright, that was a fun little Crystalis rando stream, lemme check my dashboard..." -is immediately killed by this genius suggestion-

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Benjamin Cutler @uraniumanchor.com · 01/08/2026

I never did finish that screenshot Willow LP...

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Benjamin Cutler @uraniumanchor.com · 26/07/2026

IIRC the first device we ran across with this problem was the original Kindle Fires, they could only do 2 texture units at once.

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Benjamin Cutler @uraniumanchor.com · 26/07/2026

Excuse me while I vibrate through the ceiling.

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Benjamin Cutler @uraniumanchor.com · 24/07/2026

If I ever call you a fucking idiot that means one of two things: 1) I like and respect you enough to be comfortable to insult you. 2) You're a -complete fucking moron- and I want you out of my sight. There is no in between.

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Benjamin Cutler @uraniumanchor.com · 20/07/2026

One of the other goals of this is to remove anything API-specific out of the entity code, and encapsulate it into things like proper mesh and material management. Some of this code was/is directly poking at Vertex Array state as part of its draw ops and that's a great way to have state leaks.

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Benjamin Cutler @uraniumanchor.com · 20/07/2026

Also OpenGL that old is just flatly incapable of a lot of visual niceties that I can basically get for free as part of this modernization. Also this code has a lot of direct and redundant OpenGL state fiddling, so moving it to be using proper Vulkan state management ends up being -less- code.

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Benjamin Cutler @uraniumanchor.com · 20/07/2026

I'm measuring progress on my current Vulkanization work based on how many blocks of OpenGL code I had to comment out. 4 days ago I was at 189. Right now I'm at 148. I sorta wish I use it as is, but it's pre-shader OpenGL, which is much harder to debug with modern tools than Vulkan. #gamedev

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Benjamin Cutler @uraniumanchor.com · 15/07/2026

I am home and I am unpacking the car and collapsing. Good night. #SGDQ2026

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musical_daredevil @musicaldaredevil.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

New GDQ badge photo!

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Benjamin Cutler @uraniumanchor.com · 13/07/2026

Finally starting my journey home. Passing through Iowa and stopping in Lincoln to sleep before I get home some time tomorrow afternoon. Farewell #SGDQ2026, see you again next year.

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Benjamin Cutler @uraniumanchor.com · 12/07/2026

And finally, the valiant heroes from @dragonroast.coffee, they are all nearly empty! (I packed the remaining Necromancer and Barbarian already since they're going home with me.) #SGDQ2026

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Benjamin Cutler @uraniumanchor.com · 12/07/2026

Ghosts of #SGDQ2026. See you all in January.

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Games Done Quick @gamesdonequick.com · 12/07/2026

🏁TIME🏁 #SGDQ2026 has raised a total amount of $2,408,701 for @doctorswithoutborders.org!!! Thank you to everyone who made this marathon possible, and to all of you for your amazing generosity & support. 💙 See you next time at #AGDQ2027!! WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!

GDQ audience during the SGDQ 2026 finale with Doctors Without Borders and GDQ staff standing on stage

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Games Done Quick @gamesdonequick.com · 12/07/2026

THANK YOU CHAT ❤️ WE HIT 2.4 MILLION RAISED FOR @doctorswithoutborders.org FOR THOSE CAME BEFORE AND THOSE WHO COME AFTER. #SGDQ2026

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musical_daredevil @musicaldaredevil.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

The energy in the room is absolutely electric right now. #SGDQ2026

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Streamers Without Borders @msfusastreaming.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

The cake is not a lie, #SGDQ2026! We repeat, the cake is NOT a lie. At least not this cake ❤️. Thank you @jaidlyn.wakeupbuttons.com for the pastry replica of our toy replica of an MSF Mobile Clinic (available at our booth!).

Cake version of MSF Mobile Clinic and a toy replica of an MSF Mobile Clinic

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infinite brians @infinitebrians.neocities.org · 11/07/2026

gdq's doing another mario 64 run time to repost this again

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Benjamin Cutler @uraniumanchor.com · 09/07/2026

"What the fuck are you doing in here? You have an interview."

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Benjamin Cutler @uraniumanchor.com · 08/07/2026

Can't be working the -entire- time I'm here... (Mina the Hollower)

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Games Done Quick @gamesdonequick.com · 08/07/2026

Thank you to @iddybiddygames.com for being a #SGDQ2026 sponsor!! Bounce your way through dozens of challenging platform levels in Bounce On and sign-up to playtest Bounce On 2 later this summer! Bounce On: store.steampowered.com/app/4394300/... Bounce On 2: store.steampowered.com/app/4662700/...

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Iddy Biddy Games @iddybiddygames.com · 08/07/2026

If you told us 16 years ago we'd be sponsoring a charity event... well, we would have been ecstatic! Iddy Biddy Games is pleased to be sponsoring #SGDQ2026 and Doctors Without Borders! There's still plenty of speedrun goodness left this week, but me sure to check out our page on Steam when you can!

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Benjamin Cutler @uraniumanchor.com · 02/07/2026

I already wasn't particularly excited about the upcoming elections around here and I think this just buried the remaining scraps somewhere in the earth's mantle.

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Benjamin Cutler @uraniumanchor.com · 01/07/2026

The same way FF14 keeps starting a new raid tier the same week as S/AGDQ. Seeing like four people playing launch week Dawntrail in the staff room was choice.

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Benjamin Cutler @uraniumanchor.com · 01/07/2026

.done (about an hour ago but I had to get everything out of the car ok)

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