🌿 ivan safrin 🌱

im in plenty ones with wonderful people in them but there is just something about the format itself. theres too much stuff and it feels overwhelming

so does everyone else also join dozens of different Discords, mutes them immediately and never interacts with most of them ever again?

always nice when the fog color is darker than the sky color

rendering multiple chunks and some fog to hide where the chunks end :) next stop: streaming them in dynamically

er, i meant signal to noise

it feels like the overall noise to signal ratio is higher in games than in those other media, but also an industry catering to man children for decades probably doesn't help build a healthy relationship with any kind of glut of content.

My friend just fuckin showed up with a corncob pipe & that’s when it hit me that we are all in our 40s which means we get one new accessory slot

the problem is that there is always something to play. we are in the most extreme oversupply scenario maybe ever and the amount of entitlement that brings to the oversupplied is wild.

PSA

much better

gonna need some normals

added some basic texture blend painting in addition to raising and lowering

first thing it's gonna need is a terrain editor

the mutation system in caves of qud always felt so much more compelling than the truekin stuff just because it opened up so many bonkers possibilities and it would be so cool to have a modular mech system thats not limited by traditional notions of hardware

i should make an mmo

YouTube video by LuxPlanes Can ChatGPT Land an Airplane?

this is better than "Airplane!"

(also a good video to make someone watch in its entirety if they get a little too excited about LLMs)

YouTube video by Like Stories of Old Why Movies Just Don't Feel "Real" Anymore

i really love this channel and his latest video articulates really well what i and i imagine many others feel is wrong with modern movies

I am excited to share this new single-header C library I have been working on for a while now: vecmath.h, a comprehensive vector/matrix math library for graphics/games/3d.
It allows you to write vector math code in C that looks like this:

ok i also made a quick (client-side) interface for searching through the latest epstein stuff. It's just the emails. It's very rough!

antiboredom.github.io/epstein-emai...

i'm in an avi identity crisis

yeah for sure, but then by extension, the muddying of the conversation is also by design so a nuanced response would be the right parry :)

i just feel like the ambiguity of AI as a term muddies the water so much that it ends up with everyone just projecting their ideology onto it (from both sides) to the point where it's just a political proxy battle, which is fine, just difficult to have nuanced conversations about anything ML-related

for sure, just always sad to see so much energy spent on reactionary takes, but i guess this is social media after all

people who criticize some amorphous idea of AI without specifying what exactly they are talking about are starting to sound a lot like the people who peddle the amorphous idea of AI without specifying what exactly they are peddling.

in a megastructure wasteland of containers and conduit, the robot sits on a canister facing his best friend (pig), lost in thought (but hopefully not actually lost)

time for a rest

the whole "you need your glasses to find your glasses" bit is getting a little old

hey folks - one last reminder that today is the FINAL DAY to submit your game for the Experimental Games Showcase at GDC 2026!!

the nice side effect of having a fully deterministic particle system is that you can rewind all the particles along with the game

the nice side effect of having a fully deterministic particle system is that you can rewind all the particles along with the game