my kids pronounce "Pokemon" a lot more closely to the Japanese than I do, though I've spoken Japanese for 34 years and they haven't ever

The Spy Who Loved Metropolis

Apple just gave the iPhone lockscreen its biggest overhaul in years - and this feature takes the cake Thanks to iOS 26, you can view any photo wallpaper in 3D - not just those shot with Apple's spatial effects.

been working on this

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Hilltop 🍉 on X: "Jingle Cats is a Japan-only PS1 game where you make cats fall in love so they'll sing songs for you. We've translated it for you to enjoy. https://t.co/kaBe0c0zgL" / X Jingle Cats is a Japan-only PS1 game where you make cats fall in love so they'll sing songs for you. We've translated it for you to enjoy. https://t.co/kaBe0c0zgL

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Decades ago, "dollars to donuts" meant something expensive for something cheap. Its meaning flipped during my lifetime.

You'd have to assume that the old SGI workstations had something similar going on, at least on the GPU side

It finally happened, after 30 years: my ability to read Japanese will save me $100 on the new Nintendo gadget. Now I can say it was worth the effort

No idea why my town is so obsessed with Initial D

GingerOfOz on X: "THE PLAYSTACEAN IS REAL https://t.co/49jTcL8M6a" / X THE PLAYSTACEAN IS REAL https://t.co/49jTcL8M6a

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Life has gone full circle lately: my kid is pushing me to try Uncharted, and like my dad in the 80s I keep weaseling out. "But daaad, your name is in the credits!!" Uhh, ok kid I'm busy dusting the bookshelf

A 1970s tech CEO, showing off the latest GPU

I have never experienced existential dread, after having children. I figure it's their problem now, good luck

Working at Apple on graphics these days

Recently confused to discover that さつま揚げ in Taiwan is 甜不辣 ("tempura"?)

. @okonomiyonda.bsky.social I found a use for tessellation you could get behind

It's programmed for hagiography

As of today, I have left Unity after 6.5 years. Onward to the next adventure! (whatever that is)

Wait until you hear about bokeh

www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2rEAvCa/

this is 5 minutes from my house

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Patreon is for when you already have followers with whom you want no interaction whatsoever, except payment. You may be at that point, but I am not

I stopped reading at O(N). We can do better than that!

Switch was an XB360, and Switch2 is a PS4 - not in terms of raw specs - but in terms of which generation of TV games can be ported over without significant re-engineering

Yeah, I've never heard of anyone trying to simulate stuff across 32 frames in parallel, in some cases buffering up all that data costs more than just recomputing it on the fly

I remember seeing that paper when it was new

But the bigger gains would be with NPC stuff, because it's more possible to engineer their actions to be predictable

When you predict N frames out and N/2 of them were wrong, you can throw those away and predict another batch of N. As long as the player doesn't spam unpredictable moves constantly, you come out ahead

Thinking that the parallelization problem in games would be solved if we evaluated everything for N future frames in parallel, and then we'd have a misprediction problem instead. But that sounds like a more tractable problem to be stuck with

Everyone dies two deaths: the first when your life ends, and the second - many years later - when high school acquaintances stop wishing you happy birthday on Facebook

You might be surprised how many bigcorp pro game devs with 10 years experience, haven't ever shipped a game