Blaine Hodge 🍁

Ridley Scott was so right about people making really bad decisions it's scary

I shipped an AAA game as AI Lead and Arby’s put the Great Canadian back on the menu, my absolute favourite burger/sandwich. Things are looking up!

The Dimitri finds out meme, which is a two panel vertical meme of a guy being interviewed by a lady. The caption reads "The club is bumping, the ladies look good, the alcohol is flowing." The second caption reads "There is much pain in the world, but not in this room."

Bluesky rn

The London manager is go big or go home

Turns out my CC does have a gunpla section, not as impressive tho

Event Horizon. 4K. Halloween. Make it so.

Very sorry to hear that man. Not at the same level but have been going through stuff on my end for last six or more years, I know how much ones fur buddy can mean when ya need em even then.

Canada Computers around here started having nerd aisles too and has some gunpla and anime stuff. Not to that level though holy

… and of course thanks! 😊

I don’t know, yet… we aren’t using STs presently, just BTs

Thanks! Hope you enjoy it 🙏
It’s been a joy to work on

Thanks!!!

It. Is. Out! So proud to have worked on this as Lead AI Programmer.

Oh snap is it out? Here we go....

I just grabbed the 4K UHD of this. Amazing timing

The full quote: "I think the sublime confusion is from nineteen to twenty-nine. You think you are late for everything, you're a has been, nothing is happening, there's no opportunity for you, the world is closed, everything is a disaster, you wanna die. And then you're thirty. " "You young people are in the exact age of desperation. I never felt more done and old than in my twenties. I'd say 'life has passed me and I did nothing.' But I'm here to tell you that's not true: you have a lot of fucking time."

I love Guillermo del Toro calling ages 19 to 29 "sublime confusion"

Software rendering was the peak of visual expression. When you had to earn it both creatively and technically around limitations. Everyone now trying to recreate the magic as “retro”.

The GPU was the downfall of western society. Thanks for attending my Ted Talk.

If Street Fighter was a Bruce Lee movie, Mortal Kombat was a gory Hong Kong schlock movie like Riki Oh. It was never about being polished, it was laughing with your friends as he pulled you spine out.

That and there need to be more layers in the social net to mitigate issues before it involves police… earlier in timeline. Cops being at the tail end of the chain when all else fails.

Mental health, drug use, abuse, etc. A lot (not all :/ ) can be stemmed earlier on.

Extremely tense. From within the squad in addition to being hunted by locals. And the cast is stellar too.

Souther Comfort is a hell of a movie. I’m debating getting the 4K UHD from Vinegar Syndrome.

I do get a kick out of the fact that the floppy is basically now Egyptian hieroglyphics for save now. Generations of young people have been clicking that icon never having seen or touched one in real life.

My childhood revolved around a few of those 💀

The emoji keyboard with "old" typed in search, showing icons for: A landline phone handset A red Bakelite desk phone A pager A 3.5 inch floppy disk A VHS tape An old iron key with the big finger loops on it A fax machine (so old it has the phone handset on the side of it)

Michael Jordan sitting in his big white comfy chair in a purple t-shirt saying "and I took that personally"

LOOK, iOS 26, this isn't funny

I’m happy it’s now working, just the missing tribal knowledge of how to get there drives me up the wall haha

YouTube video by Switch Angel 2 Minute Deep Acid in Strudel (from scratch)

I have no idea what is happening here but every second of it is amazing

youtu.be/HkgV_-nJOuE?...

Nothing was behaving like I’d expect until I watched a video where someone made UI specifically for gamepad, and changing over to the same commands…. Yeah everything works now.

Layout and binding makes sense

It’s knowing the commands/states to make things work with mouse keyboard AND gamepad. You have focus, hover, keyboard focus, and selected… like wtf. And you need “Game and UI” for gamepad UI.

And how to architect everything around player controller, and reuse logic

I love Unreal.

But UMG is straight up black magic and eye of newt to get working.