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@amazingthew.bsky.social

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Gamedev, mostly in graphics programming. Day job working on surgical simulators, night job crafting artisinal Posts ostensibly still making AEROBAT: aerobat.thew.nu artwork/graphics stuff: twarchive.thew.nu/art The JRPG Threads: twarchive.thew.nu

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Thew @amazingthew.bsky.social · 1d

Thew @amazingthew.bsky.social · 3d

lol wtf

Thew @amazingthew.bsky.social · 3d

I'm sure it's fine for most people, but I've seen multiple other people complaining about hand strain on these things, which is more than the Zero complaints I've seen for any other controller

how did sony do this. like, literally, from a physical standpoint. what the fuck did they DO??

Thew @amazingthew.bsky.social · 3d

I still have no idea how sony was able to fuck this up in this specific way. no other controller does this?? like even shitty third-party ones. every previous ps controller was Fine and all their competitors are Fine but somehow the ps5 one is just vaguely Pain Shaped

Thew @amazingthew.bsky.social · 3d

Baby Steps is incredible but playing it on the ps5 may have been a mistake. game controlled almost entirely via analog triggers, played on The Controller That Injures Your Hands

Thew @amazingthew.bsky.social · 3d

HELL YEAH CONGRATS!!

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BATTLE SUIT ACES OUT NOW 🤖 @team.trinketstudios.com · 4d

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.bsky.social · 3d

The dynamic of the last 10 years has been: techbros believe foundationally that GitHub commits will solve everything ➡️ repeatedly proven wrong (crypto backlash, etc) ➡️ fascist yearning for an authoritarian force that can make the masses adopt their favorite shitcoin

Thew @amazingthew.bsky.social · 4d

The Pricemaster was so far ahead of his time dude

Thew @amazingthew.bsky.social · 4d

shadow-filter settings don't seem to be exposed as cvars, at least that I can find, which means they're buried in the engine code somewhere. Figured I'd ask if anyone's been down this road before I go digging into it myself lol

Thew @amazingthew.bsky.social · 4d

light source radius is already zero. I know about the "Shadow Filter Sharpen" per-light setting, but it's just a threshold affect that gets applied AFTER shadow filtering. so you get hard edges but lose detail (and also it thresholds everything, so distant shadows look bad)

Thew @amazingthew.bsky.social · 4d

long shot but: question for graphics people:

do any of you know how to fuck around with unreal's shadow filtering settings? I'm trying to get sharp shadows on very small objects (<10cm scale) and the engine seems to use a minimum filter radius of roughly 1cm regardless of shadowmap resolution

Thew @amazingthew.bsky.social · 4d

lol hell yeah

Thew @amazingthew.bsky.social · 4d

ahhh I should play one of those at some point. afaik they're just mission-based sims though right? baby steps has the death stranding thing of like, traversal gameplay as metaphorical device within some kind of fucked-up dream-logic philosophical vibe piece lol

Thew @amazingthew.bsky.social · 4d

it's taking some wild narrative swings, and I have no idea if it's gonna successfully land any sort of conclusion, but for all I know it might not even be TRYING for a conclusion and might just going for, like, overwhelming vibe experience. regardless the vibe is incredible

Thew @amazingthew.bsky.social · 4d

figured it was gonna be silly physics comedy, and it's not NOT that, but it also feels like a playable nightmare?? not in the sense of being Scary but like, driven by intensely surreal dream logic where bizarre distressing shit just sort of Happens and you just kinda accept it as reality somehow

Thew @amazingthew.bsky.social · 4d

started playing it yesterday and ended up spending pretty much the entire day on it lol

haven't finished it yet but I reached what feels like the third act

I dunno what kind of vibe I was expecting but it definitely wasn't This holy shit

Thew @amazingthew.bsky.social · 4d

so Baby Steps is the second-ever Strand Game huh

Thew @amazingthew.bsky.social · 4d

lmao I forgot about that

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GIFS GALORE @gifs-bot.bsky.social · 5d

THINGS/CUBE.GIF

Thew @amazingthew.bsky.social · 6d

Thew @amazingthew.bsky.social · 6d

Thew @amazingthew.bsky.social · 6d

I think that might've been the first time I ever posted to bsky from my phone and of course it has an autocomplete typo

Thew @amazingthew.bsky.social · 7d

lmao I forget everybody gets an insanely cool makeover after the timeskip EXCEPT claude who just grows a shitty little chinstrap

Thew @amazingthew.bsky.social · 7d

probably feels good as hell to get cloven in twain