Chris Cascioli

Happy birthday!

AI Futures The enduring product of the AI era will be financial collapse.

I wrote a lil post about AI, bubbles, and unions 👻

brooklyn.bearblog.dev/ai-futures/

the nyt posts this stuff like avoiding AI for 48 hours is hard and meanwhile i have literally never once intentionally used an AI program for anything ever

Ghost of Yōtei – tech deep dive Sucker Punch delves into the tech that helped them bring Atsu’s engrossing journey to live.

Some information about Ghost of Yōtei's rendering systems blog.playstation.com/2025/10/23/g...

Shadow cascades?

Hell yeah same!

What helm is that? It’s rad as heck

Happy birthday!

YouTube video by aarthificial Pixel Art Animation. Reinvented - Astortion Devlog

At first I thought this would just be baking a 3d animation, or just using a simple palette swap, but it actually goes a bit further. Clever technique, basically UV mapping sprites into texture space.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsOK...

Bit the bullet and finally removed my all-in-one shader and constant buffer management helper library from my graphics class. It ended up hiding too many details that were important when we move to D3D12 in the next course.

But hey, now I have materials on proper constant buffer management!

It's happening!

Definitely looks like a layer shift. Even the lower layers look like they had some subtle shifting. Could be loose/slipping belts or some local vibrations. Might be worth checking for loose wheels, too.

I remember a friend in elementary school laughing when I asked if he ever played “Doctor Chows”. And that’s when I learned how “Chaos” is pronounced 🙃

Sorry we couldn't help you, Sam.

Zoe came home talking all about “cake pop demon hunters”. Probably going to need Netflix again soon, huh?

☑️ Save the cheerleader
☑️ Save the world

Yes absolutely! I’ve got some pockets of time throughout the week or maybe we can have you folks over for dinner one night

Holy shit Noah 🤯

Looks like Skylanders are back on the menu boys

Update: ordered a replacement laser and surgery was a success! 🤘

Back in business like it’s 2006

Had someone else tell me the same thing. I guess the universe wants me to play more video games 🤔

Current count is three Xbox 360s with malfunctioning disc drives and a completely bricked WiiU

The universe does not want us to play Skylanders 😐

Naked Xbox 360

Inside the Xbox 360 disc drive

Update: The Skylanders ordeal is going great

An image of a robot with a "NO" circle around it and the text "AI IS FOR LOSERS! REJECT FASCISM! THINK FOR YOURSELF! I CAN MAKE ART THAT'S UGLY AND BAD ALL BY MYSELF, THANK YOU VERY MUCH!"

Using this piece by @reallygoodwizard.bsky.social in my introductory lectures for my design students.

Zoe and I play Disney Dreamlight Valley (think Animal Crossing with Mickey Mouse) pretty regularly. Earlier today I handed her the controller while I ran to another room for something. A minute later I hear "Dad! I bought a couch! It's green!" She was very excited.

A guy at Zoe’s kindergarten orientation told me I look like a streamer. I guess I have backup if this whole teaching thing doesn’t pan out.

Lots of skylanders!

Two skylanders on portal

Xbox 360 still kicking

Skylanders Swap Force

Broke out our old Skylanders to play with Zoe. Super simple setup in 2025:

- Xbox One refuses to update
- Skip update, but the 360 games aren’t compatible
- Break out the Wii U
- Wii U is bricked?!
- Oh it’s on PlayStation
- Wait, it’s FIFTY DOLLARS?!
- Dig out my 360

And we’re in business! EZPZ

Ok, officially mega hyped for Campaign 4!

rewarding my microwave by letting it heat up a fork as a treat

Why doesn't Sam's AI software just design new computers that need less space and energy and generate less heat.