🌈 Andrew ☄️

@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place yeah, I had a similar reaction after skimming the same person’s article about people being wrong to cheer the verdict against Meta. They seem to have a lot of blind spots about scale.

@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place I didn’t know them before today, but after seeing that article I mentioned I looked at what else they’ve written and your one and an atproto one stood out as likely “bad takes” from the headlines

@demofox@mastodon.gamedev.place sounds cool! I used to use this library for those purposes about 20 years ago, but it hasn’t been updated for several years https://github.com/thedmd/pixeltoaster

@aras@mastodon.gamedev.place total garbage, it changes the environment and lighting as well as character faces. I wonder if the face is even consistent from one scene to the next, or if two similar enough characters will be blended to the same bland generic face

@munificent@mastodon.social @d@waferbaby.com I was thinking it may not be the right sentiment, haha

@munificent@mastodon.social @d@waferbaby.com I just bought your book too, I heard good things! I hadn't seen on-demand printing before, nifty.

@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place it’d be cool to add wall sconces, if you could limit its impact to a single tile, maybe you’d have to animate it a little though

@freebliss@post.lurk.org static sites are just so intrinsically appealing

@lindsey@recurse.social ah yeah, sorry. I reread what you said after I posted and thought I may have misinterpreted. It’s not quite what you want, but I saw this shared recently

@chaosthief@mastoart.social looks cool! What’s curves in this context? Is it a mesh following a spline?

@yiningkarlli very cool! Although I’ve been wondering why it doesn’t have the visemes/lipsync anymore? I thought keeping them would be more inclusive for people that supplement signing ability with lip reading

@ClearlyClaire @MastodonEngineering makes sense, thanks! I was assuming it was something like that. I suppose there's a tradeoff in engineering effort to make upgrades easier versus supporting older versions

@lisyarus@mastodon.gamedev.place looks interesting, I’ll read it later! I feel like it’s obligatory for me to link https://herbie.uwplse.org/demo/ here. It’s an excellent tool for finding alternative math expressions which are faster and/or have better float precision.

@kojack@mastodon.gamedev.place oh yeah, I’d forgotten about that, I think I used this one: https://sourceforge.net/projects/tinyptc/

@cwebber@social.coop OOI is there a porting guide or spec for goblin, for porting it to other languages? Or is it too much of a moving target at the moment?

@cwebber@social.coop I don’t think this is a mark against your goals (or exclusive to), but I think what many people like about Fedi (and some people dislike), is that it doesn’t have to be ambitious. It’s often not growth oriented, it doesn’t measure success by number of users, it’s often small friendly communities like a small town where people are friendly and recognise each other and assume good intentions. People are more themselves, and not putting on some business facade, and that’s often rewarded by more genuine conversations and deeper connection. Quality over quantity perhaps. For me, in the case of computer games, I tend to avoid social aspects because it’s stressful to me. I have nothing against being able to play with friends, but I don’t want software to default to throwing me in with strangers when I’m trying to relax. Although that’s what many games are nowadays because it’s an often successful growth strategy. Making it easier to collaborate, share, if you wish, and not be owned by a corporation, sounds good though. Social to mean friendly, not to mean some kind of viral marketing growth strategy.

@dsandler@mastodon.social next panel: “Slack!? I don’t have time for that with all the meetings and emails!”

@georgetakei@universeodon.com sounds like y’all need something like preferential voting

@bflipp@vmst.io you might try canva.com, they’re remote friendly, use aws extensively and use snowflake (or at least, used to). It was a great place to work when I was there. They’re adding lots of international offices, but used to do a lot of their engineering in Australia, so it’d be worth verifying if remote from your timezone is fine for whichever team you apply for.

@quinnanya this other post might have some https://hachyderm.io/@cyberlyra/112411427459797241

@MastodonEngineering I’ve noticed you supporting older versions like this before. OOI do you know why people don’t want to upgrade? Or is there some other reason you’re supporting old versions?

@lexfeathers I often find it hard to enjoy classic genre defining films because of a similar thing, they’re often only good when compared to what came before them, not what came after. Everything good about them has been ripped off by subsequent films and their message is diluted by comparison. I don’t have the context of someone watching it when it first came out, when it was perhaps subtle and unrefined, but at least risk taking and original. I wonder if that’s what’s happening here with Bladerunner.

@BlenderStudio it’s a pity it seems to lose all that beautiful detail and vibrant colours in the last render in that video

@sybren I clarified, in my post, I should have said last not final. The video they shared makes it look like the end of their iterative process.

@sybren I’m sure, but this is about the post, making this a criticism of the project is all you.

@chaosthief@mastoart.social ah ok, and that’s rendered with a certain thickness in world-space?

@chaosthief@mastoart.social nifty, thanks for the link!

@lindsey@recurse.social I worked on an operational transform based one for a while, which was an evolution from Google Wave. There’s server authoritative versioning which defines a window of operations (deltas) that need to be resolved when merging. The structures are built from data types that are carefully designed (category theory) for associativity. Clients merge local deltas together then send it with their server (and client) version. The server sends back a delta for the resolved changes since the client’s sent version.