Brian Foster

I hadn’t seen this used in just this way before. I’ve made cool things in Substance Designer with Perlin Noise and a gradient map, which is essentially what you’re doing, but this is perhaps more useful! I didn’t know the history either.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. - Wikipedia

Oh, I meant to attach this link to it! There are 4 games in the series, from a studio in Ukraine.

It inspired one of my favorite video games. They are also strange and beautiful!

Find out if they’ve got my copy of Echoes of Wisdom, would you? I want to play that again!

…the NPCs can do stations at random?!? That’s cooool! I thought the toilet/trashcan animation was very slick.

Do the characters have LODs? I wonder if there’s some extra set of textures for the faces that are loading in, that’s what the slowdown feels like, and it’s just on the characters. Once you’ve talked to all the characters once… does the slowdown go away?

Wow. Microslop are really getting desperate, aren't they?

Killing a well-known (and maybe hated) brand, to replace it with something even more hated? It's gotta be to pump the numbers right?

Maybe that bubble is getting closer to bursting after all if they're doing such nonsensical things?

I’m worried. I don’t want to live in the US. I don’t want my boys growing up here. What future is there for them? Not a good one.

The march is now parked in front of Trump Tower.

Still very taken aback by the number of people out tonight, given it's below freezing, dark and the last weekend of the Christmas season.

I run it at 1440p instead of 4k, and have the scaling set to one click below full. I don’t even notice.

Bazzite - The operating system for the next generation of gamers Bazzite makes gaming and everyday use smoother and simpler across desktop PCs, handhelds, tablets, and home theater PCs.

So I just switched my homebuilt PC to bazzite.gg with game mode - it pretends to be a Steam Deck, and can switch into regular Linux for home use. It plays 90% of my Steam library, and everything that I want it to play. I’ve got an AMD cpu and an nvidia 2060. There were two settings to tweak.

Ohhhhhhhhh I thought I had it already, maybe I’ve only got one of those packs…. That’s an easy sell! Thanks Kenney!

a screenshot of a sale for kenney game assets that ends in 3 years, 12 months, and 3 days.

@kenney.nl did you mean to put this on sale for several years?

"Retro Textures 1" will be released on January 15th, it'll include 100 textures ✨ The package will be completely free to download, and use in any sort of project (attribution not required) #gamedev #gameassets

we have not "apprehended" the president of venezuela. we have invaded a foreign country and kidnapped its leader. what the fuck are we doing here, i am going to lose my mind

YouTube video by Brackeys How to make a Video Game - Godot Beginner Tutorial

I really like Brackey’s intro to Godot tutorial. youtu.be/LOhfqjmasi0

You can do it! There are tutorials that will walk you through it. If you want a fun event with lots of other game devs you can ask questions of, try the Global Game Jam! Spend a couple hours setting up a computer, then just go see how far you get in a weekend! @globalgamejam.bsky.social

YouTube video by Jesse Welles Masks Off

“catastrophic nostalgia
and delusions of freedom
i think we ate the last apple
in the garden eden”

When you get the reputation of being the guy with the encouraging words on New Year's Eve, it can start to come through as a little pressure -- what if the situation on the ground is worse than usual? what if people are more scared than they usually are, and with cause? what use are good vibes then?

I really identify with that top-right corner’s statement: “? Help”

You can easily do 80-90% of contemporary gamedev on Linux. It's not perfect, but that 10x less time having to deal with Windows.

I just desperately need a “history” for social media - I saw this cool thing, tabbed away to answer a text, and now it’s gone forever!

I also would really love a log of notifications for my iPhone - “it slipped away before I saw it”, or, “how many times, actually, have I gotten this notification?”

I didn’t know this existed. I didn’t know I needed it - timelines exist. But they’re clunky and I use them all the time.

I am so excited for you! Say hello to all the chickens for me in Kakariko Village.

Wow, I hate that article so much. That game looks really special though! I hadn’t heard of it.

I've been busy with work and posting less, but remember I'm always team "tax the wealthy, get C-suite hands out of worker pockets, keep money out of politics, and destroy capitalism cause we can still save what's left of the world"

I'm always about that life I just be sleepy sometimes

I have never wondered this but when you’re “the father, the son, and the holy ghost” I bet you can get up to some kinky shit.

How to disable Copilot in GitHub? For the first time in months GitHub has released a feature that I actually enjoy: a way to disable Copilot on the home screen. Thanks to Harry Sintonen for sharing this on Mastodon: Login to gith...

@sethmlarson.dev Thanks for your post on disabling @microsoft-copilot.bsky.social from @github.com. I think it was the fourth link for me when searching with Google Web.

I hadn’t heard of that one! I’m going through my hard drive now - 5 years is a lot of unity and unreal projects, dang.

Move everything to an external hard drive, then boot from a Ubuntu usb installer, then… I dunno, steam? Unreal? LibreOffice, VLC, Geany(good text editor/ide) and figure out Linux versions of all the other tools that I like.