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I feel the distinction between, say, an average web app vs. games is important here. Most web apps fulfill similar functionality in very similar ways. That's true of some game systems, but not games as a whole. To gain the fine control you need, sometimes reinventing the wheel is your only option.

I'll chime in here: I'd argue that viewing code as a "solvable math problem" sort of puts the cart before the horse. The "artistry" in code (architecture, naming/style conventions, consistency across a codebase, etc.) matters because humans can't maintain code they don't understand.

I'm happy to live in a world where Stephen Colbert exists.

Screenshot of a terminal window with the output of the "cloc" command, a program that counts lines of code. The output shows a sum of just over 100K lines across Beef, Python, Text, TOML, and GLSL, with roughly 95% being Beef.

My proprietary 3D game engine just passed 100K lines of code! Note that although the table shows "C#" as the dominating contributor, I'm actually using Beef.

Whoops. Another Valentine's Day and I forgot to get a date. Next year for sure.

It's funny to think that I started speedrunning with Ori and the Blind Forest in March 2015, before Discord existed, and to wonder how we communicated without it. Now, in January 2026, I'm thinking about the same question.

Window resizing falls into this same bucket (mundane video game features that are complex to implement).

Overwatch announcement is part intriguing and part questionable. Plenty to be excited about, but bluntly, competitive matchmaking is so bad that it overrides everything else. Difficult to contemplate returning until that's fixed.

That's great news! Good luck and thanks for sharing!

Science is so god damn cool.

Just hit credits on Clair Obscur. I can see why it swept up so many awards.

Minnesotans, you're making your Wisconsin neighbor proud. Don't let these fuckers have a moment's peace, and never forgive the people who allowed things to escalate this far. They're evil and deserve to be treated as such.

Leaf blowers are the worst sound in the world.

Shame. I've used Razer mice and keyboards for years. Because of statements like this, I'll be strongly reconsidering those purchases next time.

pulling this reflection on white silence/fear over here, too:

Post a game you remember playing that nobody else remembers.

Been a pretty heavy Blender user for years and I have to look up how Knife Project works every time I use it. I always try the obvious approach first (select object A, select object B, enter edit mode, knife project) and of course that fails.

One of my proudest stats is that I've never touched AI in any fashion. Like, I've literally never opened ChatGPT once, used an AI bot on a service website, played with an image generator, nothing. I recognized AI as a blight immediately. I think I'm allowed to brag about that, if just this once.

Game dev fun fact: implementing pausing is a LOT more complicated than you'd think.

For what it's worth, I've been watching your OSRS vods lately, along with PEAK and Outer Wilds. There's no shortage of content for those games, so consider it a complement that your personality stands out as being particularly enjoyable.

Man, that AGDQ science segment (before the Halo run) was so cool. Bill Nye's right. Science DOES rule.

Today, like every day, I look forward to the AI bubble bursting.

On a day like today, platitudes from Democrats are deeply insulting. We all know Republicans are evil. Stop talking about it and fucking do something to stop them.

Release my first game using my proprietary 3D engine.

Happy 2026 from the Midwest! 🎆

In 2025 (nearly 2026), surely we have the technology to reliably communicate a restaurant's holiday hours.

- Substantially enhanced my 3D game engine
- Played trumpet in a wind ensemble (two concerts)
- Played more games than last year
- Had a blast with OSRS
- Went to a wedding
- Visited friends for SGDQ
- Pet my cat

That's amazing! Congrats!

Overwatch matchmaking has always been deeply broken, but anecdotally, it's actually getting quite a lot worse in recent seasons. Longer bouts in winner's vs. loser's queues, more lopsided matches, and more toxicity. Somehow, this is what Blizzard wants for its competitive ecosystem. Wild stuff.

A small demo rendering two point lights within a cube-shaped room using distinct, primitive colors on each wall. Falloff from the light sources causes obvious visible color banding.

Same scene as the previous image (two point lights rendered within a small, cube-shaped room with colored walls), but this time dithered to give perceptually-smoother gradients. Some banding is still visible, but the effect is significantly reduced.

I recently learned how to dither to reduce color banding. Try using arrow keys to swap back and forth between these two images and it should be obvious that the second (which uses dithering) renders gradients that are perceptually MUCH smoother. The technique is magical and basically free.