delighted by the health/shield change, but have y’all gotten reports of people being unable to use text chat on PC? I checked the keybind and it’s still there but hitting Enter does nothing.

sure it was technically possible to use splash damage or plasma bursts or charged ballista to kill it, eventually, but you’d use all your ammo and more trying to get there. I think that was the one place where you could actually feel the per-weapon damage-scaling discrepancies, and was worse for it.

I didn’t have a prescriptiveness problem with 97% of the game but whenever (sorry, you probably know this is coming) a Marauder showed up the entire thing ground to a halt while it repeatedly slapped my hand going “no. super shotgun. not that gun you like. super shotgun or you will be here all day.”

as others have said, the illustration and expressions here are terrific. a detail I love that I haven’t seen anyone else mention: the four or five different emoji styles you used. great chaotic touch.

Rocket Man: Creating Flight for Anthem YouTube video by GDC Festival of Gaming

ahh Anthem had so much potential. picked it up again recently and the things I loved about it were still great. it might or might not be relevant for what you’re writing but this GDC talk explains the design of the flight mechanics which are the best part of the game: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPtr...

Pluribus. it’s great so far.

“diffusion models” is probably the right technical term

this was a good read! I love that movie almost entirely for its aesthetic and soundtrack; the story is clearly Not Good but I’ve never seen the “why” so well articulated.

somebody’s definitely decided this site is worth targeting—I’ve been seeing tons of fake accounts in Discover, mostly cryptocurrency boosters and sketchy-looking “news” bots. hope they can get it under control.

they did something fun like this in the recent Prey—deliberately generating wrong motion vectors for the aliens so that they got motion-blurred even while standing still. very cool disquieting effect.

ashamed to admit I didn’t know there was a second reason to use en dashes but eager to put it to use

I tend to gravitate to “palomas all day”

machine text has so many _actual_ tells that give it away and it bugs me so much when people miss those and call out em dashes or elaborate structure or “delve”

have you seen the Lost In Space remake? her Dr. Smith was enthralling.

the Lake House DLC has a very pointed take on this

the “progression blocker” line early on made me grin. ludonarrative… consonance?

I’ve tried it for the basic ellipse case—as the presentation notes the method breaks down when you get farther in/out from the edge (e.g. for shadows/glows) but for antialiasing it seemed to work well

there’s been a paper or two about generating extra motion vectors for shadows specifically, but IIRC it looked like a headache. isn’t NV’s newish optical-flow stuff meant to kinda address that though?

I think you’d have to raymarch / numerically integrate it, the same way you do for e.g. the warped space around a black hole—with no hard interfaces to apply Fresnel refraction at, you’d pick intervals through the medium at which to place “virtual” ones and refract from the previous IOR to the next.

those are equivalent; pow() with an arbitrary exponent is indeed more expensive than a multiply, but no reasonable vector length code is calling pow()

Myria LeJean

hey Heather! good to see you here too. your Tumblr post really resonated with me—can’t have been easy to leave such a large audience behind but it’s the right thing to do. hopefully enough folks moving elsewhere will start to break the stranglehold that Twitter and IG have had on everyone.

you’re close I think, but “i” in Spanish is pronounced like “ee” in English—to my ear it sounds as if it’d be spelled with a diphthong like “ay” as in “playa” or “ai” as in “maiz”.

it’s so comfortable! feels luxe. our last car was a Leaf so this is a huge improvement in a whole lot of ways.

oh hey we got the same color! haven’t seen that one anywhere else yet—everyone seems to have gone for the more ordinary ones. how do you like the car?

hah I figured it was time to update to one that’s only a few years old instead of more than a decade

only tried out a bunch of characters in the practice range so far, but it feels very promising. lots of clever ability ideas, like Loki’s duplication and Mantis’s crit-attack-to-recharge-heals. maybe once more people have a feel for it the games will get more strategic.

ah that works, thanks! my go-to is the Apple Books store, but if it won’t be there then I’m happy to go with the printed version 🙂

looks like a lot of good material! is it going to be available anywhere other than Kindle?

it’s so good! terrific atmosphere + writing. really liked the DLC too.