Joel Davis

Joel Davis

@joeld42.bsky.social

Graphics programmer, tool builder, tabletop gamer. he/him

352 Followers 1,643 Following 170 Posts Joined Jul 2023
1 month ago
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Four images of 10 years of transformation in Paris: 2016–2026.
@annehidalgo.bsky.social will no longer be mayor in March 2026, but this vision of a Paris for life must live on.
Cities are places of solidarity, kindness and well-being in an increasingly authoritarian and brutal world. We need it!

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grok how do you open the strait of hormuz

grok how do you clear mines

no grok I don’t mean the game

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3 days ago

ok this is at least very funny

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3 days ago

Have you tried the “my Lil Everdell”? It’s really good and not as childish as the name suggests. I will play it with casual gamer adults sometimes.

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Quite proud of how this trailer turned out. #gamedev

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Bink codec has a lot of features for paletteized video and alpha channels. These days I think the challenge would be streaming frames into gpu memory. You might want to treat it like audio -- keep the first few frames of everything loaded and load in the rest on demand when playback starts.

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1 week ago

this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to bomb this elementary school full of kids because he thinks it makes him look cool. also his scheming viziers will be betting money on it for fun. good luck soldier

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2 weeks ago

Democracy is dying in America.

ICE is a murderous secret police force. We’re about to bomb Iran for Israel. Your kids are shot at in school daily, and pedophiles run our government. There’s no healthcare, and your food is poisonous.

We need real leaders - not career politicians.

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2 weeks ago

Make this land use illegal in your community. In every community.

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3 weeks ago
4 frame comic. it reads, on top of each frame : Give trans kids a chance to be kids without having to fight for the right to exist. first frame shows a kid playing soccer, second shows two kids drawing dinosaurs at a table, third shows a group of friends sitting by a fountain drinking bubble tea and eating chips, fourth shows a kid with long curly hair holding a trans flag.

Give trans kids a chance to be kids.

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3 weeks ago
The board game Kanal with distinctive resource dials and grid layout. The coop card game Four Doors with brightly colored cards depicting a lighthouse with four magical doors.

Played Kanal and Four Doors this weekend.

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3 weeks ago

If you are wondering what words the all-male Congress found so "blasphemous" that they felt compelled to literally scrape them off the monument, they were: ''Woman, first denied a soul, then called mindless, now arisen, declared herself an entity to be reckoned.''

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3 weeks ago

This is my all time favorite board game. Great deal on it, and the expansion includes a solo campaign which is really good.

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1 month ago

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.

Hundreds of kids are still detained.

We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

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1 month ago

ah i can answer this trick question actually. novels are not a race

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1 month ago

I had some specific reports that I needed to generate, and I was also using it to get an archive of all of the data in one place. For analysis I was just using AppFigures and apple's App Store Analytics since they had very good query and analysis tools.

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1 month ago

When I did this I used the appfigures API from python to fetch the data, and then generate reports. These days App Store apis are probably good enough you don't need a third party.

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1 month ago

C++ is really awkward to deal with REST/http apis. You can do it, but It's much easier in C# or python. I'd suggest using a C# or py stage to fetch+sync the data into some kind of store (csv file, json, sqlite, whatever) and then a c++ tool that reads that and does the processing and visualization.

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Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”

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1 month ago

He’s been through so much. They shouldn’t have made him fly the plane too.

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1 month ago

Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly

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1 month ago
Newly Unsealed Batch Of Epstein Estate Photos Contains Rare Holographic Dershowitz

Newly Unsealed Batch Of Epstein Estate Photos Contains Rare Holographic Dershowitz

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1 month ago

You walk into this bar and show your ICE mugshot, you don't pay a dime.

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1 month ago

Yeah the folding is essential, makes it simple to keep things lined up and no possibility of sticking things backwards or to the wrong board. It also comes with a bunch of double-sided stickers (shown later in that video). I've seen a few games do this and it's great.

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1 month ago
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Civolution - Unboxing YouTube video by Gaming Rules!

Yeah if they fold over and sticker together like Civolution it's great (www.youtube.com/live/ryRYsh_...)

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1 month ago

Take his personal army away from him while you can, you stupid, stupid assholes. You’re like an armadillo playing dead in the middle of the road so the semi won’t hurt you

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1 month ago
Bilbo looking at his phone top

on bottom is ChatGPT

After all, why not? Why shouldn't I keep it?

You're absolutely right — you found it, it's been with you a long while, and it's only natural to feel fond of something that's served you so well, especially when someone like Gandalf suddenly seems to want it for himself.
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1 month ago

This is a surprisingly good game. Great deal here!

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Finally got my hands on a copy of Glory to Rome. It was as fun and chaotic as its reputation suggests!

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