Kalvin’s Arcade

Love miniatures hate fascism

Just to be clear

TANKETTES optimization update: All playable/enemy/npc tanks and their explosion fx have been pooled. Running at a mostly stable 100fps (wow!). On some maps, I'll have to pool obstacles to keep it over 60fps during large destructive moments. #indiegames #videogames #gamedev #indiegamedev #indiedev

TANKETTES optimization update: All playable/enemy/npc tanks and their explosion fx have been pooled. Running at a mostly stable 100fps (wow!). On some maps, I'll have to pool obstacles to keep it over 60fps during large destructive moments. #indiegames #videogames #gamedev #indiegamedev #indiedev

...amazon should gift a year of prime for enduring this film...

I guess these are just the consequences of living in red states because as I said, shit here in Oklahoma has ALWAYS been bad and never improves. 3/3

I mean, shit’s always bad here in Oklahoma but the sheer population density of Texas cities seems to be accelerating their inevitable collapse. I thought the same thing when I went to a show in San Antonio two years ago. I couldn’t help but think “Damn, the pandemic really fucked this place up.” 2/

Saw MCR do The Black Parade in Dallas on Saturday. Great show, 10/10! But…Texas has turned into a real shithole in the last decade since I went to college there. Traffic is absolutely out of control, there’s fucking trash everywhere, and it seems like the basic public infrastructure is crumbling. 1/

Several people in suits reach towards a man with glasses sitting at a table, holding a microphone. The latter speaks into the microphone, while the former attempt to stop him.

Porn and art with sexual themes deserve to exist on their own merit, not because censoring them has knock-on effects for non-sexual content. Please stop expressing outrage by implying that censorship would be okay if it *just* affected sex workers and artists engaging with sexual themes.

I made a quick and dirty anti-censorship cheat sheet to help onboard people and direct their energy in a productive direction. This isnt as comprehensive as various websites being shared around, but it should be easy to share and save.

Save the png and repost as widely as you can

The box cover and art for the Video game, Mechwarrior 2.

30 years ago today Mechwarrior 2 dropped. The soundtrack is still peak.

We don’t make much that would fall under “adult content”, but I think it is very wrong for payment processors to seize moral control of what can be sold.

‘Adult content’ has long been the canary in the coal mine. And it is wrong and dangerous for art and creators to be attacked this way.

Good riddance. Rest in piss, “brother.”

BIG NEWS: Today marks the 30 year anniversary for Mechwarrior 2 and for this occassion I'm excited to announce my Mechwarrior 2 Remake for Mechwarrior 5 Clans that you can go play right now, featuring the first Jade Falcon mission ‘Silent Thunder’! Please share and support my project ❤️‍🔥

Post-stream update: chasis cleaned-up and imported into the game engine. #ScreenShotSunday

The problem isn't that generativeAI will get so good it will replace artists. It can't and never will.

The problem is that uncreative and incurious people will flood every venue with so much regurgitated slop that no artist has a chance of ever being seen or found.

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Contract negotiations start today for our fledgling union. It's going to be weird to sit there while our spokesperson does all the talking because I have a LOT of anger about our current working situation. I'll just have to bite my tongue and sit on my hands.

Hell yeah. 13 Assassins is one of my favorite movies!

...struggle...

Update: I will likely have to resort to object pooling to eliminate the last spikes that are causing occasional frame drops. The tanks themselves are juuust a bit too complex to instantiate mid-game. I’m also going to add an “uncapped” framerate option. #indiedev #indiegamedev #gamedev #indiegames

an xbox controller bathed in ominous lighting (credit: Skrypnykov Dmytro / Shutterstock)

There's no reason to keep putting up with Microsoft

aftermath.site/microsoft-la...

Update: I will likely have to resort to object pooling to eliminate the last spikes that are causing occasional frame drops. The tanks themselves are juuust a bit too complex to instantiate mid-game. I’m also going to add an “uncapped” framerate option. #indiedev #indiegamedev #gamedev #indiegames

I thought, hoped really, you were joking about this. I now know you were not. A bizarre choice for a Jurassic Park Moment™️.

I spent this week optimizing TANKETTES. I've changed some lighting and reduced draw distance slightly. Today I spent 8 hours optimizing my scripts. Even on my highest poly map, it's now holding relatively stable around 60fps. #indiegames #videogames #retrogames #gamedev #indiegamedev #indiedev

You said I was mad but I told you the silver inlays on the runes could work (and ward of demons)!

I really need to finish the rest of my DCMS 10th Ghost Regiment. It’s been… 6 months(?!) since I added any to it and I have nearly a whole company base-coated. And I STILL haven’t finished their dropship. #battletech #mechwarrior #miniatures #minispainting #paintingminis #tabletopgaming #tabletop

Used some nanoblock to mod this Hunchback into the HBK-4P. He's for a periphery campaign I'm planning where ammo is going to be scarce. I want to mod nearly a lot of the mechs for the campaign. It's like 30 mechs. lol #battletech #mechwarrior #miniatures #tabletop #tabletopgaming #mecha

"Be ̶n̶o̶t̶ afraid" My biblically accurate Archer ARC-6W for my periphery campaign. Okay, maybe it's not QUITE accurate. It still needs 40 more rocket tubes on the front. Modded with Zuru Max, wooden dowels, and spare gunpla panels. #battletech #miniatures #mechwarrior #tabletop #tabletopgaming #mecha

A stylized font displays the words "War Grid" with a tag line "STEP ONTO THE GRID" below it. Below, a giant robot blasts an exploding mecha with a bright pink laser while both stand on a glowing orange grid field. In the distance, planets rise in black sky filled with red stars while the image of another giant robot overlooks the whole scene with 3 glowing lenses on its face.

A mecha stands at the shore of a red liquid sulfur lake in the foreground of a sandy, yellow Venutian landscape. Its cockpit/head area has been destroyed and billows a single column of smoke into the cloudy yellow sky. Various other destroyed mecha lay half-buried in the sulfuric yellow sand.

Several mecha battle one another while flying in a field of asteroids of varying size in space. Two trade bright pink lasers shots while another fires a machine gun with glowing orange tracer rounds streaming behind its protective shield. One mecha in the distance is smashed by two of the asteroids in a bright orange explosion. One mecha clings to an asteroid using a sickle-like rock pick.

In a gray-scale image, a woman with an eye patch, facial scars and messy hair pulled back in short pig tails laughs with a wicked, sharp-toothed grin. Two speech bubbles appear near her head. Bubble 1: "I DON'T NEED A HELMET" Bubble 2: "I'LL WATCH YOU DIE WITH MY OWN EYE!" She wears a space suit with the helmet sitting in her lap. She sits in a command chair of a giant robot, gripping two control sticks, one in either hand. Her right foot stomps on the command chair's foot pedal while her other foot braces against the leg rest of the command chair. In the background, stylized manga panels reveal the mecha she is controlling. In the upper panel, the mech fires it's dorsal laser cannons towards the viewer with the lasers extending out of the manga panel. A sound effect caption reads "FWOOM." In the lower panel her mecha violently strikes an opponent with a sickle-like rock pick with another in the other hand, poised to deliver a follow-up blow. Several sound effect captions read "KLANK, KLANK, KLANK." A third panel extends into a black background behind the woman in the command chair.

Finally ready to reveal the name of my #retro #mecha #tabletop #wargame. It's called: WAR GRID, a grid-based game of armored space combat set in the 25th century! War rages across the Solar System! The rulebook is nearly ready for testing. #3dart #3dmodeling #myart #blender3d #2dart #anime #manga

I’m going to have to re-adjust my Earth 2433 map given a few current events since I made the thing. Perhaps a “great northern coalition” comprised of Canada, Greenland, and parts of Scandinavia.

After not being able to hit freaking anything for the first 4 3 rounds of the game, I got 3 direct artillery hits on each subsequent round. Take me to the casino! Victory for the Gray Death Legion! Good game! #battletech #mechwarrior #tabletop #tabletopgaming #minis