When I worked at Blizzard I was slowly sliding into debt and when I talked to my manager about it I was pretty much told "oh well". They said something about economizing and I was like "dude, my rent is 70% of my paycheck?!?" Like there's no amount of financial management that solves that.

World of Warcraft Gamemakers Guild - CWA@wowgg-cwa.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The median sale price of a home near Irvine, CA is $1.3m. (Source: www.redfin.com/county/332/C...) Mandated RTO policies uproot families that own homes in affordable areas and force them to move to areas where owning a home is not financially possible for the majority of workers in that area.

Variable Rate Tracing ReSTIR GI mateuszkolodziejczyk00.github.io/2025/06/18/v...

While I still consider books a great source, dynamic, code-synced interactivity makes complex topics — like my research game engine — far easier to grasp, especially being updated rapidly with code. I welcome comments and if you find it useful to learn/understand or not. flow.kapiengine.com

Some people buy games only to play them with RenderDoc.

Microsoft was once a company that made solid software and had good engineering. Now it's all AI slop you should not learn from or use, which is apparent not only from these resources, but also dramatically enshittificated products.

GlaireDaggers🍉🏳️‍⚧️🎄@glairedaggers.bsky.social · 7mo ago

oh.... my god?? actual chart from learn.microsoft.com/en-us/traini... btw

Public service announcement: I am very open for rational discourse here, but if your responses are largely from an LLM, this is a clear indication to me that you have surrendered your humanity and are incapable of well-reasoned conversation.

Timely reminder (for full explanation see youtu.be/sPehhHZvKE8) #gamedev #indiedev #accessibility

My experience with LLM-generated code is that it's always wrong somewhere. When I say that, people tell me that we should have the LLM write tests, but those tests will be wrong here and there as well. I guess we could ask the LLM to write tests for the tests, but how does that recursion stop? 1/2

‘It’s soul-crushing’: young people battle to find any work in bleak jobs market

‘It’s soul-crushing’: young people battle to find any work in bleak jobs market

Chair of UK government review says dramatic changes in labour market risks putting ‘a generation on the scrapheap’

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Dear ImGui 1.92.6 released! github.com/ocornut/imgu... ~80 fixes/improvements/additions (incl. new default scalable vector font matching classic font, color markers on multi-components widgets, many fixes for fonts, tables, tree nodes, text input, navigation, viewports, backends...)

GPUs are insanely effective parallel processing machines. If it happens you can process your work on GPU, there is probably high confidence attached to the path of thought that it can do it dramatically faster than a CPU. Use it. The worst and most expensive GPU is an idle one.

2025 was an exceptional year for the Earth's climate ⬆️ Warmest ocean heat content ⬆️ Tied as second warmest surface temps ⬆️ Second warmest troposphere ⬆️ Record high sea level and GHGs ⬇️ Record low winter Arctic ice New State of the Climate over at Carbon Brief: www.carbonbrief.org/...

A Minneapolis pastor:“I said I am not afraid and they pointed a g*n in my face. ICE put handcuffs on my hands and put me in a black SUV. A few moments later they came back and said are you afraid yet?”

That very specific ex-gamedev is wasting so much of his time in a hate crusade against "woke" and "DEI". He was successful and is rich and he shouldn't bother and enjoy life. Why would he put do much effort? Is it a frustration for a decade of failing to be a game dev again while "wokes" succeed?

youtu.be/UlZWiLc0p80?...

The tech and graphical advancements in Assassin's Creed Shadows are mighty impressive: Micropolygon geometry, fluid wind simulations, ray traced global illumination and so much more. How do they all work and compare to AC games of the past? Find out in my video below! youtu.be/nhFkw5CqMN0

Today my partner and I cancelled our GDC plans. It wasn’t an easy decision to make, but between reduced air safety, increased border control detainments, and escalating tensions between the US and Canada, travelling to the US for a games conference (especially from Canada) doesn't seem worth it.

All it takes is one bad faith border security staff calling into question why I am travelling to the US from Canada and back on a UK passport, and I could be in a cold cell for a few weeks waiting for a chance to explain myself. www.thedailybeast.com/german-touri... www.cnn.com/2025/03/04/w...

has anyone else decided to opt out of gdc this year specifically due to the rapid and intentional degradation of the US government? if so, I want to speak to you for a possible article. DMs are open, and my email is nathan@aftermath.site

Gary J Kings 🎮🎞️ Game Trailer Maker@garyjkings.bsky.social · 2y ago

Today my partner and I cancelled our GDC plans. It wasn’t an easy decision to make, but between reduced air safety, increased border control detainments, and escalating tensions between the US and Canada, travelling to the US for a games conference (especially from Canada) doesn't seem worth it.

BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed. Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals. Take a look. open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.

Any unpublished manuscript mentioning certain topics, including gender and "LGBT," must be pulled or revised.

open.substack.com

Trump threatens Canada again, confirms tariffs are blackmail: "Canada, we have a tremendous deficit with Canada. We're not gonna have that anymore. As you probably know, I say you can always become a state. If you're a state, we won't have a deficit, we won't have to tariff you."

Trump is threatening to arrest local and state officials, especially in Blue states, if they don’t participate in his ethnic cleansing campaign through mass deportations. Today it’ll be about “immigration” , tomorrow it’ll be about how they vote.

The earth gets drier and warmer, and #megadroughts have been increasing for 40 years and will do so in the future. Substantial negative impacts on #water supply, #agriculture and all #ecosystem services are to be expected. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Global increase in the occurrence and impact of multiyear droughts

Persistent multiyear drought (MYD) events pose a growing threat to nature and humans in a changing climate. We identified and inventoried global MYDs by detecting spatiotemporally contiguous climatic ...

science.org

If you are in those areas and you aren't masking you have NO IDEA what you're breathing in - Altadena in particular was full of very, very old homes that predated current regulations. Asbestos, lead paint, etc - you don't want any of it in your lungs. Mask up.

Kelly@broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 2y ago

Shockingly few people are talking about the toxic air and water in LA. It’s eerily reminiscent of early days of the pandemic when we were assured we didn’t have to mask Listen to air quality experts. The same folk educating about IAQ & COVID are providing life saving info now. And wear a mask.

FYI you can opt out of being given those 60 'free' copilot uses and get cheaper 365 in return, but microsoft deliberately hides how to do it, which is pretty unconscionable. You threaten to cancel & then they offer a cheaper, AI-free option: www.consumer.org.nz/articles/you...

You don’t have to pay the Microsoft 365 price increase

Here’s how to keep the price of your subscription the same as it’s always been.

consumer.org.nz

Thiel seems less powerful than Epstein ever was. A simple house while Jerry had a full blown island.

Eric Lipton NYT@ericlipton.nytimes.com · 2y ago

Quite the gathering tonight at Peter Thiel's new house in DC. Don Jr, Zuckerberg, dozens of others inside his recently purchased property here. Secret Service is checking everyone entering. NYT reporters not allowed inside.

Working on my video covering "Full Ray Tracing" in Indiana Jones atm. Also playing the game to get good B-Roll. Definitely solidifying its self as being an all-time great!

Christmas reading

Terraforming Mars is unlikely www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Potassium isotope composition of Mars reveals a mechanism of planetary volatile retention | PNAS

The abundances of water and highly to moderately volatile elements in planets are considered critical to mantle convection, surface evolution proce...

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