Spent an embarrassing amount of the weekend renaming all the computers on the network after Phantasy Star characters.
I've been working on a 6502 / eventually an NES emulator, because I make bad choices on what to do with my spare time.
Every 18 months or so I need a video editor, and I usually reach for Blender, which is always surprisingly good but also requires me learning it from scratch literally every time.
I made a silent puppet film about Godzilla vs. Paul Bunyan. (thank you to @iamchubbybunny.bsky.social for Japanese translations and @okaywolf.ink for clanky piano!!)
This, uh, this is going to sound very nerdy, even for me, but I've of the coolest parts of the trip down here was going on a Diverging Diamond Interchange for the first time. I was really impressed with how smoothly it felt considering I had no idea it was going to be there.
The agenda for UnrealFest got released today, and my talk about building RPG stuff in GAS is a part of it! I feel like we figured out some interesting stuff making Towerborne, and I'm pretty excited to show a bunch of it off.
My whole life for the last 13 years (and more) is all in a bunch of boxes waiting for a bunch of strangers to put it all on a truck and move it 1000 miles away. I'm so excited to move, but tonight? Just a *whole bunch* of anxiety.
No one can tell me it's just a coincidence that there are 151 original pokemon and also 151 opcodes on the NMOS 6502 processor.
Today I had the somewhat weird but delightful experience of listening to the air traffic control chatter at the airport my spouse was flying out of and telling her little tidbits about the flights her plane was waiting behind.
Just sitting around, talking about the Eurasian Dove calls in the new Indiana Jones game...
There should be one golf tournament a year where the audience is allowed to make as much noise as they want, and every one does soccer style songs.
There is a special place in hell for anyone responsible for a "Maybe Later" button or "Okay, we'll hide this thing for 30 days" behavior.
Didn't really plan it this way, but we took a trip down to Jalama Beach, apparently just in time to see a Falcon 9 launch from Vandenberg SFB. Apparently it was taking up a bunch of Starlink satellites!
It's always wild to me when LLMs tell you that they're having fun. Yes, I know they just predict tokens or whatever, but I still smile when a machine has to calculate the dot product between vectors representing the ideas of "joy" and "the video game Trauma Center for the Nintendo DS."
Oh, man, there's a very high chance that I only use this account to post pictures of cool trees I found, isn't there?
One of the houses down the street has a feijoa hedge row littering fruit everywhere! I'd heard of them before, and even knowing they were a stretch for our short growing season, considered giving them a try, but I'd never had one until today. They're amazing! Like an especially tangy kiwi
