It was fortunately just the tangent-frame sign bit. He's looking good now

Picture of a knight chess piece with mixed white/black textures due to broken texture UVs

I started integrating MikkT-space into my project and ended up with a zebra 😁

The image abstraction ended up being very powerful. This + a shader is all I need for most image space work:

if ( config.gaussianBlur )
{
imageProcessCreateInfo_t info{};
...
info.progName = "SeparableGaussianBlur";

gaussianTask = new ImageProcessTask( info );
}

I've been doing some work on my toy renderer. Added basic luminance and pbr bloom. I have robust image processing abstractions now so adding these things is fast.

I've started playing around with LLMs. Avoided it at first bc it felt like cheating--I like doing everything from scratch, BUT now I feel like I've written some version of the same things dozens of times where it's really brought joy back to some tasks

Parsing sucks, language graph traversals don't

I figured I'd use Claude to transpile GLSL to HLSL.

It's a pretty good use-case for AI since I just want it to get close-enough. It was able to infer struct layout too.

You guys rock!

Maybe some connection to BS Zelda?

My gas bill doubles in winter

Meta has shutdown Sanzaru Games, Armature, and Twisted Pixel. Collectively, these studios added so much to the Oculus game library.

We were working on an absolute killer project that would have raised the bar for VR gaming. It's crushing.

I'll be taking an extended break personally

We rented this one growing up. Part of the swan song of 2D pixel art and a stunning example of the medium.

Playing Heretic/Hexen in widescreen is wild. Thanks @nightdivestudios.bsky.social!

😂

Congrats everyone at id!!

I loved working on this title and especially with the team. I'm sad to have left before launch, but thrilled to enjoy it as a fan!

Opinion | Most Trump Supporters Also Back Ukraine Our poll found that 69% of Republican voters say Russia is the aggressor and 83% disapprove of Putin.

"69% of Republican voters say Russia is the aggressor and 83% disapprove of Putin"

www.wsj.com/opinion/most...

New Republican slogans:

The Party of Lawless Disorder
America Worst

Why America Won’t Become Hungary Trump, Musk, and the limits of MAGA autocracy.

A more optimistic article, also by Foreign Affairs: www.foreignaffairs.com/guest-pass/r...

All that's true. I think we do need to formalize unwritten rules into the Constitution. Though the problem is almost deeper b/c even the actual words are being ignored. We're in Animal Farm.

This is a frustrating period b/c it's hard to figure out the path forward

Democratic memory runs deep in America. It'll take time to dismantle institutions and people will only tolerate so much abuse after being used to so much freedom for generations.

We still have to push through some dark times, but it won't last

There's reason to hope. Despite global democratic backsliding, last year brought some good news. Tusk in Poland and the ousting of Shiekh Hasina and Bashar Assad. Sure, it's too early to say where those governments are going, but even entrenched autocrats fall.

vladikcomper on the SGDK discord has created an amazing and ridiculous mod for Sonic the Hedgehog (MD) in which quality degrades to different resolutions/numbers of colors unless you fill your blast processing meter up. It works real time in wide screen in a smaller rom size than the original game.

The rarest GBA game is being re-released!

"Item limit reached"? But there's always room for one more croissant

Gradius covers are something special 🤩

The SMS had a much better palette than the NES...

💪Flex. Inspires me to hobby code...

GPU Optimization for GameDev GPU Optimization for GameDev. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

Great collection of resources for GPU architecture and optimisation gist.github.com/silvesthu/50...

What Does It Mean That Donald Trump Is a Fascist? Trump takes the tools of dictators and adapts them for the Internet. We should expect him to try to cling to power until death, and create a cult of January 6th martyrs.

"liberals struggle with the overwhelming volume of questions to be asked, answers to be offered... A fascist just has to be a storyteller. Because for fascists words do not attach to meanings, the stories don’t need... to accord with external reality."
www.newyorker.com/magazine/dis...

Attachment to each Nintendo franchise:
⭕⭕⭕⭕⭕ Earthbound
🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢 Metroid
🟢🟢🟢⭕⭕ Star Fox
🟢🟢🟢🟢⭕ Mario
⭕⭕⭕⭕⭕ Rhythm Heaven
🟢🟢🟢🟢⭕ WarioWare
🟢🟢🟢⭕⭕ Donkey Kong
🟢🟢🟢⭕⭕ Kirby
🟢🟢⭕⭕⭕ Pokémon
🟢🟢🟢🟢⭕ F-Zero
🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢 Zelda
⭕⭕⭕⭕⭕ Fire Emblem
🟢⭕⭕⭕⭕ Pikmin
🟢⭕⭕⭕⭕️ Animal Crossing
⭕⭕⭕⭕️⭕️ Splatoon
⭕⭕⭕⭕⭕️ Xenoblade