The recon spider robots in Minority Report

With great power comes great responsibility…

Euphoria S2 has Pulp Fiction written all over it, so busy being cinematic & edgy that the story gets lost. The Boys are recycling S3/S4 mistakes & dragging everything out. Done w/ the Kimiko/Frenchie stories, no disrespect to the actors. High hopes for both series returns are now disappointing.

Paradise S1 is really good, S2 we had to bail out of. The essence of what had been built in S1 around a political thriller was fantastic, then the first 2 episodes in S2 had some of the worst writing of the series, killed the vibe of the show.

Plenty of people, don’t do it. A coworker of mine ended up in the emergency room.

It’s always dismissed as being okay, especially by the boomer crowd, usually with “I’m sixty-something and I ate it all my life and I never got sick” etc…

Just stop, bake the cookies, don’t eat the raw dough.

Some oddball non-popular ones that sometimes fall through the cracks: Shivers, Journeyman Project, Black Dahlia (98), Sanitarium, Amber: Journeys Beyond, Kings Quest 8.

Do you have an index of games that you've done playthroughs for on YouTube? Would like to see what you've played and what you might have missed... I grew up in the golden age of adventure games... 🎒🥾🕹️

I want to say like, sometime during the pandemic, many people just… changed. Thoughtfulness and self awareness have given way to some kind of entitlement, childish behavior, lack of decency and respect for others and their property. 😑

Just got back from the store, peanut butter was $12 😑

Unity Gamedev horrors:
- Doors
- Ladders
- Active ragdolls
- Save states
- Motion matching
- Retargeting avatar mismatches
- Shadow performance
- Baked GI artifacts
- Navmesh agents getting stuck on corners
- Anything to do with Timeline
- 10k project settings
- Asset bundle addressables

This was the exact problem w/ S1, safe story character arcs w/ plot armor. In ‘86 Born Again, DD is ruthless, lost, & crazy. This series is “Disney safe” and it’s good, but the drama isn’t being balanced w/ a much darker & violent series.

For #PortfolioDay, character designs for Age of Rust

I got the mail order version as well, but the one I received had the rocket glued in. 😞

It should be criminal that Unity animator doesn't have active ragdoll built in.... it's 2026 for crying out loud. 😑

Me to my game devs: You need to rest. You need to have downtime and work-life balance. You need to set boundaries for yourself and be a human outside work.

My brain: Not you, though.

Me: Oh, God, of course not me. Haha. Can you imagine?

McQuarrie is on a whole other level

Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader Bespin Duel HD YouTube video by Star Warsy

It’s empire strikes back, the fight between Vader and Luke at Cloud City above Bespin.

@3:54

youtu.be/hYwUsPJfkVo?...

Assuming a proton-proton chain for SS's energy-matter stream, converting 4 protons into helium-4, releasing ~26.7 MeV total. Of that, about 2% goes to neutrinos, maybe 10⁶³ neutrinos to heat the area next to Alicia up by say 20°... give or take 5 × 10²⁴ Suns.... or so.

Dark Horse late 80’s early 90’s had some absolute gems. Abyss, Alien, and Batman vs. was peak.

A good watch. Saw it on a rewatch last year and it’s still enjoyable and entertaining 👍👍

I’ve got 35+ yrs of dev exp working for NASA & AAA studios, you know when you’re looking at code (GenAI or not) if it’s viable. This is nothing new, people have been copy/pasting code (good & bad) from books, forums, videos for decades. At least today, it’s still a person making that end decision.

Mark Ruffalo hands down… 2nd pick would be Toby Jones

Look forward to seeing it when it’s done!

Aaaand a limit to how many enemies are allowed to shoot at the player at the same time (2 here )
Where its weighted by distance to player, time since they last shot, how long time they have had vision of the player

Its mainly the closest enemies but sometimes those furter away
#solodev #gamedev #ai

Authored vs. Systemic: Finding a Balance for Combat AI in Uncharted 4 YouTube video by GDC Festival of Gaming

To keep the action “hot” one of the things I did is if there’s > 2 in combat state, they’ll always miss, > 4, they’ll seek cover. Also, Naughty Dog did a great breakdown of their NPC combat design for uncharted 4 at GDC a few years ago, a great watch for this topic.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=G8W7...

One of the jobs I had in high school was reconditioning apartments after the tenants moved out. I lived next to a college so, that was common, but while thumbtack holes sucked, nothing was worse than beer bottle caps pressed into popcorn ceilings. 😑

They must had Ewe Boll write the first draft.

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Sega after the Nomad…

I’ve also noticed a weird trend where more commercials lately have had a cowboy theme to them for no particular reason… 🤔

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