Andrew Willmott

I interviewed the directors of that incredible animated Gorillaz music video:

Save 50% on A Highland Song on Steam Moira McKinnon is running away. A wild adventure through the Scottish Highlands, with open platforming and dynamic storytelling, maps and music. From the creators of Heaven's Vault and 80 Days.

Psst btw everyone but A Highland Song is on sale right now with proceeds going to @gamesaid.bsky.social

Find out why this game hit number 28 in the Steam chart in Japan on launch. Seriously. We’d love to know

So bad it ... spawned an operating system! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_...

Oh now I get it. Dubai is Golgafrinchan Ark B.

Obviously with the naming of the All Blacks Coach, New Zealand is now ready to participate in any military conflict it may be called upon to.

Horrifying.

well, time to slowly end my holiday and check the news properly for the first time since Friday morning

37 million years old whale spine found in the hot dunes of Egypt. This is a complete skeleton, the first-ever find for Basilosaurus, a large, predatory, prehistoric archaeocete whale uncovered in Wadi El Hitan, preserved with the remains of its prey.

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Hmm. Interesting lesson in how much worse something like this looks if your messaging platform strips out HDR 😬

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed

Thoughts and prayers with all those billionaires and hard-right influencers who apparently "fled" the UK for Dubai.

Can Sadiq Khan stop Asif Aziz's mass evictions? We went to the billionaire's home to get answers, as a leading homelessness charity cut ties with the landlord and tenants begged the mayor to save their homes.

Breaking:
*Asif Aziz's mass evictions of Londoners appear to be BACK ON
*Sadiq Khan personally demands immediate response from the landlord
*Leading homelessness charity cuts ties with the Aziz family and refuses donation
*Questions over legality of paperwork
www.londoncentric.media/p/asif-aziz-...

AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations Leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95 per cent of cases

Quick. Everybody start playing tic-tac-toe with LLMs or we're doomed.

www.newscientist.com/article/2516...

Heh, yes. In our case the only proper path tracing in the entire scene was that in the eye shader. Everything else was traditional forward GGX-style PBR. It was affordable given eyes could only ever be a small percentage of total fragments shaded.

(This was ten years ago, before the rise of RTX.)

If he does this, or indeed whatever tack he undoubtably takes to rig the elections in his favour, Vance and his cronies will be watching and taking notes.

The most cursed featured a bunch of hacky uniform feed-throughs so that the artists could animate the eyes with bones in Maya, whereas on the engine side the rendering was done completely in-shader with various reflection/refraction/procedural iris/eyelid shadow/etc layers.

I've worked on at least four game pipelines, and they're certainly up there 😄

4-panel comic. (1) [Person with white hat talking to another person.] PERSON 1 with white hat: As Sherlock Holmes said, When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. (2) PERSON 2: What about the possibility that you forgot to eliminate a possibility? Or that you eliminated one incorrectly? Both of those remain, too. (3) PERSON 1: You’re being pedantic. It’s just a general rule for deduction. PERSON 2: But it’s a *bad rule*. (4) PERSON 2: How often have you thought, “I can’t find this thing, and I’ve searched the whole house. The only place I haven’t looked is the car, so it *must* be there.” PERSON 2: ...And then it’s never in the car. PERSON 1: *It’s never in the car!*

Eliminating the Impossible

xkcd.com/3210/

Fly through of part of a Keeper level directly in the Unreal Engine editor. Part way through I turn on all of the game objects the player doesn't see -- it takes a lot to make games work.

my local park is full of hundreds of snow sculptures and someone has been adding museum labels

It's Official: the Cybertruck is More Explosive than the Ford Pinto - FuelArc News We now have a full year of data for the Cybertruck, and a strange preponderance of headlines about Cybertrucks exploding into flames, including several fatalities. That’s more than enough data to comp...

The Ford Pinto had a death rate of 85 people for 10 million cars sold. The Cybertruck hasn't sold 10 million, but the fatality rate so far maths out to 1,452 people killed per 10 million sold.

The Cybertruck may be the deadliest road car, for the occupants, ever sold.

fuelarc.com/evs/its-offi...

I'm guessing the wifi on the train there is still horrendous too?

very important video please watch

All of the images in this article on drones in Ukraine are incredible, but this is perhaps the most incredible of all ig.ft.com/ukraine-kill...

Tfw you still have some edge cases to fix in your procedural locomotion system #gamedev

👀 I don't even

Well spotted. All the external shots are tagged "AI Rendered Photo".

Which... what? What what what? I don't understand.

How Palantir captured the Ministry of Defence Insufficient details about the US data intelligence company’s recent contract have been made public

How Palantir captured the Ministry of Defence - by David Allen Green www.ft.com/content/5207...

Man accidentally gains control of 7,000 robot vacuums Sammy Azdoufal just wanted to steer his DJI Romo with a gaming controller.

There's going to be quite a bit more of this, as Claude et al are commoditising hacking every bit as much as coding...

www.popsci.com/technology/r...