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xot @xot.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026
IoT finally justified. Awesome. "AI models may be capable of self-replicating without access to a datacenter" www.anthropic.com/research/self-rep…
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AI models may be capable of self-replicating without access to a datacenter
Small AI models may be only months away from being able to self-replicate across cheap IoT devices like Android TV boxes, with no datacenter needed.
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xot @xot.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026
@fenarinarsa Question for you: Are the videos on the French Touch YouTube channel recorded from real hardware? I'm looking for reference audio to compare my Mockingboard emulation to.
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xot @xot.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026
"6 questions for believers in AI consciousness! — a ‘choose your own adventure’ philosophical resource..." by Rebecca Lowe endsdontjustifythemeans.com/p/6-que…
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6 questions for believers in AI consciousness!
a ‘choose your own adventure’ philosophical resource...
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xot @xot.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026
Love this dude. www.youtube.com/shorts/LsY3FHxBVgw
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xot @xot.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
"Bitwise Black Magic: How to Computer, Better Faster Stronger" presented by Greg L Roguelike Celebration 2006 www.youtube.com/watch?v=oj3xA28N60I
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xot @xot.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026
Time for some mischief. This very rare Apple Mega II ASIC will sacrifice itself upon the Altar of Knowledge, Acid, and Photomicrography.
A large square IC chip in a clear protective acrylic case, sitting on bubble wrap.
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xot @xot.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026
My one AI nightmare: "Trump spent hours asking Grok questions about his presidency and legacy. He asked Grok how Venezuelans would react if the U.S. captured Maduro. Trump ordered the mission to seize Maduro ... [and] came away thinking Grok was ingenious." We're cooked […]
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xot @xot.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
The headline makes you think they are trying to fix things but this quote from Reece Denzel says something else: "the actual way that we do credits and credit verifications has not changed" Friends have struggled to get credited on MobyGames forever […]
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xot @xot.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
The Return of the Utah Teapot - SIGGRAPH 2026 Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Utah Teapot at SIGGRAPH 2026 with Martin Newell and Jim Blinn. www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-23LgrFcvs
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xot @xot.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026
DENIS KITCHEN: Three Comics Collections — Three risograph-printed issues collecting underground cartoonist Denis Kitchen's comics from the 1960s through today. www.kickstarter.com/projects/jtyost…
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xot @xot.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026
South African Minister Tells Film Summit It Has a Double Standard on Piracy "When dealing with ... censorship, piracy is put in a different light, apparently with filmmakers praising it. However, when poor people pirate, they face legal issues ... " — TorrentFreak […]
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xot @xot.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026
An Archive of Colour Gradients: For cartography, technical illustration, and design. phillips.shef.ac.uk/pub/cpt-city
Rain in the eastern Caribbean using a scheme by Hayden JamesDetail of aeromagnetic image of the Yilgarn region in Western Australia using the CET-L20 schemeSchemes from Nicholas Rougeux’s recreation of Mose Harris’ colour wheels
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xot @xot.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026
"Your Honor, driving over the speed limit was the only way my client could get to work on time. It is only fair to allow it." torrentfreak.com/rightsholders-cant…
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Rightsholders Can't Use OpenAI and Anthropic to Dismantle Meta's Seeding Defense * TorrentFreak
Meta previously argued that uploading pirated books to other BitTorrent users was an unavoidable side effect of downloading them.
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xot @xot.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026
There is no way we're gonna have enough hot dog suits to go around. "Anthropic CEO warns of AI-driven botnet 'swarm' taking over the entire internet — 'In 6–12 months such a swarm could be capable of taking over the entire internet with a persistent […] [Original post on mastodon.gamedev.place]
Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, looks like he just pooped his pants.
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xot @xot.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026
"John Margolies’ Photographs of Roadside America" The Public Domain Review publicdomainreview.org/collection/j…
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John Margolies’ Photographs of Roadside America
Remarkable collection of photographs documenting the eccentric roadside architecture and ephemera of America.
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xot @xot.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026
@infosecdj You were featured in a GloriousCow post about the NEC V20. I've been struggling with the ROM of the Apple IIGS Mega II ASIC. It's been decapped and photographed, but apparently it needed some special processing to make structures more apparent. Do you have any insight from looking at […]
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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026
Absolute banger of an Addams article courtesy of @SocialGaff buttondown.com/monteiro/archive/how…
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xot @xot.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026
I've thought about this little CGI film by Chris Landreth several times a year, every year since 1998. I got it on a Maya promo CD from the Alias|Wavefront or SGI booth at SIGGRAPH. It felt very special. If you ever hear me mutter "Bingo the Clowno", this is why […]
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xot @xot.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026
For the past day or so, ACM SIGGRAPH has been posting loads of historic CGI videos. www.youtube.com/@ACMSIGGRAPH/videos
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xot @xot.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026
Harry Clarke — Illustration for Edgar Allan Poe's “A Descent into the Maelström” (1919)
From the edge of a giant ocean whirlpool, looking down into the abyss, a man caught in its current clings to a barrel, a boat glides along the vertical wall of the torrential funnel, and flotsam is swallowed by darkness.
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xot @xot.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026
Loren Carpenter's "Vol Libre" demonstrated fractal terrain to almost everyone for the first time. Loren went on to animate the Genesis sequence for Star Trek II, and then joined Lucasfilm Games to create real-time 3D fractal terrain on an 8-bit CPU for Rescue on Fractalus, Eidolon, and Koronis […]
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xot @xot.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026
David Blair is the video feedback GOAT. This is a detailed look at what he does, how he does it, and the mind-blowing visuals he creates in real time. "4K Analog Video Feedback Fractal Organ Complete! 4K Fractals Without a Computer VERSION 2" www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1z3oM6h8uM
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xot @xot.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026
Very early 1979 animation of what we would come to know as "metaballs" by Jim Blinn, who first formally described "algebraic surface" drawing in a 1982 paper. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTijRS_sUlg "A Generalization of Algebraic Surface Drawing" PDF […]
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xot @xot.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026
The Shrinking Landscape of Linguistic Diversity in the Age of Large Language Models www.nature.com/articles/s41562-026-… PDF: arxiv.org/pdf/2502.11266
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The shrinking landscape of linguistic diversity in the age of LLMs
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xot @xot.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026
Bad Bunny Wins Key Ruling in Massive Reggaeton Lawsuit In a rare move reversing his own decision, a judge says he discovered a major flaw in a lawsuit that accuses hundreds of reggaeton songs of infringement. www.billboard.com/pro/bad-bunny-win…
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Bad Bunny Wins Key Ruling in Massive Reggaeton Lawsuit
In a rare move reversing his own decision, a judge says he discovered a major flaw in a lawsuit that accuses hundreds of reggaeton songs of infringement.
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xot @xot.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026
Reverse Engineering Unknown File Formats with ImHex An Introduction to File Formats and ImHex by Reverse Engineering FEZ's Save File Format werwolv.net/posts/file_format_rever…
Composite image showing a colorful hex dump (upper left) and a screenshot from the game Fez (bottom right).
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xot @xot.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026
More and more, my beefs with AI swirl around the human costs to those who use it: how it breaks brains, destroys context, and defers responsibility. martiansoftware.com/articles/ai-wri…
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AI-Written Code Is Still Your Code. Are You OK With That?
We’ve never needed to treat understanding our own code as a separate cost from writing it, because writing it largely forced us to understand it.
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xot @xot.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026
reassembler68k has been hard at work porting Sonic the Hedgehog to the Amiga and posting videos of his progress. It's hard work! So many tricks! Anyhow, there is a one-level demo to try in your favorite emulator or on a real A1200. Sonic the Hedgehog Amiga Demo […]
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xot @xot.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026
Pretty neat! Would have liked to hear more about getting RenderDoc to launch recalcitrant games. "How is this frame of Animal Well rendered?" FibbWare www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtaleVLNws8
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xot @xot.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026
"This article outlines a derivation for a simple way to cast a ray in world space through a mouse position on the screen, allowing for mouse picking, shooting gameplay, etc." by Kevin Moran kevinmoran.github.io/posts/mouse_ra…
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Mouse Raycasting Derivation - Kevin's Blog
This article outlines a derivation for a simple way to cast a ray in world space through a mouse position on the screen, allowing for mouse picking, shooting gameplay, etc.
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xot @xot.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026
"This site contains the original illustrations and text from the 21st edition of [Five Hundred and Seven Mechanical Movements by Henry T. Brow], published in 1908. It also includes animated versions of the illustrations and occasional notes by the webmaster." 507movements.com
Ten illustrations from "Five Hundred and Seven Mechanical Movements" show various methods of power transmission through pulleys.
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xot @xot.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026
Forty years after he stumbled upon a tiny accounting error that became a big deal, Cliff Stoll recounts events in his chronicle _The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage_. What a lovable freak. DefCon 34 - Stalking the Wily Hacker […]
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xot @xot.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026
Damn. We lost a real one. RIP Queen.
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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 20/08/2026
It's "the direct and indirect consequences of not getting screwed by rich people's brazen attempts to extract value from every single thing on Earth"
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xot @xot.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@NoSoloBot/11712500… Absolute banger.
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xot @xot.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026
It's hard to overstate how exciting Dark Castle was on the Mac. Beautiful, innovative, and moreish despite being occasionally infuriating. "The Story of Dark Castle" Classic Mac Gaming www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_j64eA-mcQ
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xot @xot.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026
"Why French games have always been way ahead of their time" Simone de Rochefort for Polygon www.polygon.com/video/why-french-ga…
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Why French games have always been way ahead of their time
France is the second-biggest producer of video games in the world. Franchises like Assassin’s Creed, Dishonored, Life is Strange, and … whatever the hell David Cage is doing, come from French-based companies. So France has had a huge influence on gaming, globally. But what you might not know is how weird and counter-cultural some of France’s early games are! In the 1980s, French game developers were going wild, making games that would fit right in on itch.io today.
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xot @xot.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026
Nobody asked you, Copilot!
VS Code's Copilot helpfully suggests that "this" is "a bit of a hack".
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xot @xot.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026
"The Last Surviving Stop-Motion Puppet from a Special Effects Masterpiece" Adam Savage's Tested www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkCexcZTWQg
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xot @xot.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026
Neat! The Legend of Zelda: Z for 2 - Two Player Simultaneous Co-Op "Player 2 takes on the role of Link’s Shadow. Either player can pick up and use any item, and each player can select their active item independently of the other. Players share […] [Original post on mastodon.gamedev.place]
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xot @xot.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026
Look, YouTube Shorts are the worst ... BUT for the last month or so, Wyatt Cheng has been dropping some dope game design science. www.youtube.com/@candlesan/shorts
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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026
TIL the Spanish verb "claudicar", for "giving up"/"surrendering" etc. – and that feels like the perfect word to describe what happens when developers use Claude to "write" their software. Instead of Enshittification, it's Claudication.
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xot @xot.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026
You're next, reactors. 😬 "Court Rejects Fair Use Claim, Orders YouTube to Unmask Anime Recap Channels" TorrentFreak torrentfreak.com/court-rejects-fair…
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Court Rejects Fair Use Claim, Orders YouTube to Unmask Anime Recap Channels * TorrentFreak
A California federal court has ordered YouTube to unmask three popular South Korean creators of anime recap channels.
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xot @xot.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026
"226 Ansel Adams Photographs of Great American National Parks Are Now Online" Open Culture www.openculture.com/2026/08/ansel-a…
"The Tetons - Snake River," Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming
by Ansel Adams
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xot @xot.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026
His Holiness, Pixelated Pope: "NEW VIDEO: #GameMaker Anatomy: Room Start Sucks (and how to fix it) "An overly complicated exploration of a simple problem." www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJihwErlLNo
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xot @xot.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026
Tricky! "C64 Demo Effects Explained: Rodents in the Attic" by lftkryo www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZ1atMUOUMU
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xot @xot.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@verge/117082973986… Just let me control the aperture and shutter speed FFS!
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xot @xot.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@GIbiz/117070661662… Return to pre-ER pricing and I'll buy every Souls game you got.
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xot @xot.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@a2_4am/11706907886… I love this so much! These are all bangers, and fitting 8 of them on a single floppy would have been utterly inconceivable in their time. Add to that screensavers and self-running demos? It's just crazy.
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xot @xot.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2026
Great little segment in this Corridor Crew video about Robert Abel & Associates, true motion graphics pioneers, between 1975 and 1987. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-Scrww-DjU…
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