Andrew King

@rewrking.bsky.social

Programmer of various things. No-AI

Generative AI is great y'all, Steam can't handle slop submissions, Humble slop-deleted 2FA and account settings, Microsoft is down, everything is getting hacked, open source is being strangled, search is destroyed, and the remains of the world economy are dependent on one penis. Leaps and bounds.

Pixel Art Lighter is out now! I first made this tool for my game, but am releasing it free and open source for everyone. Generate and edit normal maps and light masks, while keeping your sprites pixel perfect. Hope it helps with your art or gamedev! #pixelart #indiegamedev

ERROR: D3D12 ERROR: ID3D12Device::CreateGraphicsPipelineState: Root Signature doesn't match Pixel Shader: Shader CBV descriptor range (BaseShaderRegister=0, NumDescriptors=1, RegisterSpace=1) is not fully bound in root signature [STATE_CREATION ERROR #690]

Jack Nicholson as Jack Torrence, staring off into the abyss.

yeah it turns out if you keep shooting people in the street and kidnapping children and making it impossible to get food or healthcare or education and then gloat about it, everybody hates you

There WILL BE less people like Patrick Stewart or Dolly Parton, given widening wealth inequality, loss of jobs in creative sector, austerity, privatisation of education (especially arts) & financial exclusion. Art of the near future will be less diverse & restricted to the privileged few.

Huge decline of working class people in the arts reflects fall in wider society
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Study shows the proportion of musicians, writers and artists with working-class origins has shrunk by half since the 1970s

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2022/dec/10/huge-decline-working-class-people-arts-reflects-society
Asinus Pervicax@knownagitator.lol · 2w ago

Patrick Stewart's passing feels a whole hell of a lot like Dolly's. It's hard to imagine that singular talents found in people born in the working class or working poor will get fostered the ways theirs were. The things that nurtured those talents have been stripped for profit by assholes.

Lights. I'm struggling with some key optimizations I need to make to have more than a small, fixed amount of lights in a scene to the point where I want to either go back to 2D/2.5D, or throw my computer away and live in a shack up north.

People using AI to reverse engineer games to then turn around and publish clones is straight up theft. Why is anyone pretending otherwise? The only thing genAI is good at making is fucking talentless thieves. Prosecute the lot of them. Sue them to hell.

Found an OpenGL video from 14 years ago where the person is using Visual C++ 2005, recorded at 640x480 from a Windows XP machine. Gonna watch this whole thing just to feel something.