Ben Golus
@bgolus.bsky.social
Principle Tech Artist, Graphics Programmer, general Game Dev, racing snail at Tuatara VFX. (he\him)
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I watch @smartereveryday.bsky.social ’s video on the nuclear power plant and there was one offhand comment by someone who works there about how “nuclear radiation” (specifically Cherenkov radiation) is blue, but “everyone thinks it’s green”.
November 12, 2025 at 10:32 AM
I watch @smartereveryday.bsky.social ’s video on the nuclear power plant and there was one offhand comment by someone who works there about how “nuclear radiation” (specifically Cherenkov radiation) is blue, but “everyone thinks it’s green”.
Fun Fact: We do not know how to tell someone’s gender from DNA. There are strong _correlations_, but it’s far less strong than you may think.
The Olympics tried this, and had to stop because it was “unreliable”…
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
The Olympics tried this, and had to stop because it was “unreliable”…
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
November 6, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Fun Fact: We do not know how to tell someone’s gender from DNA. There are strong _correlations_, but it’s far less strong than you may think.
The Olympics tried this, and had to stop because it was “unreliable”…
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
The Olympics tried this, and had to stop because it was “unreliable”…
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
A neighbor of mine has extremely bright LED light bars all the way around his roofline.
He changes the colors daily and often has it animating or flashing all day and night. And I do mean daily. He hasn’t turned it off since he installed it about a year ago.
Except for one night.
Halloween
He changes the colors daily and often has it animating or flashing all day and night. And I do mean daily. He hasn’t turned it off since he installed it about a year ago.
Except for one night.
Halloween
November 5, 2025 at 7:40 AM
A neighbor of mine has extremely bright LED light bars all the way around his roofline.
He changes the colors daily and often has it animating or flashing all day and night. And I do mean daily. He hasn’t turned it off since he installed it about a year ago.
Except for one night.
Halloween
He changes the colors daily and often has it animating or flashing all day and night. And I do mean daily. He hasn’t turned it off since he installed it about a year ago.
Except for one night.
Halloween
So, I run Windows 11 Pro on my home system. Why? Originally because I know people who work at Microsoft so I can get it for super cheap, but these days it’s so I can more easily avoid things like the forced Microsoft Account login and AI features they keep forcing on Home users.
November 1, 2025 at 1:18 AM
So, I run Windows 11 Pro on my home system. Why? Originally because I know people who work at Microsoft so I can get it for super cheap, but these days it’s so I can more easily avoid things like the forced Microsoft Account login and AI features they keep forcing on Home users.
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On a completely different tack, a small rant. This fucked up “iNtErSeX pEoPlE aRe aLl eItHeR mAlE oR fEmAlE oNlY” bullshit that empty-headed chucklefucks come out with ignores a huge part of the human side of living this - and that is WE OFTEN DON’T KNOW WHICH OURSELVES in whatever manner of-
August 17, 2025 at 2:03 PM
On a completely different tack, a small rant. This fucked up “iNtErSeX pEoPlE aRe aLl eItHeR mAlE oR fEmAlE oNlY” bullshit that empty-headed chucklefucks come out with ignores a huge part of the human side of living this - and that is WE OFTEN DON’T KNOW WHICH OURSELVES in whatever manner of-
People always make fun of one particular company for their terrible console naming.
I man, first they added a silly number, then they called the next release “One”, then they added an X to denote its an upgrade to the existing console.
Sony is so weird.
Wait, was who you were thinking?
I man, first they added a silly number, then they called the next release “One”, then they added an X to denote its an upgrade to the existing console.
Sony is so weird.
Wait, was who you were thinking?
October 2, 2025 at 1:54 AM
People always make fun of one particular company for their terrible console naming.
I man, first they added a silly number, then they called the next release “One”, then they added an X to denote its an upgrade to the existing console.
Sony is so weird.
Wait, was who you were thinking?
I man, first they added a silly number, then they called the next release “One”, then they added an X to denote its an upgrade to the existing console.
Sony is so weird.
Wait, was who you were thinking?
There was a thread by @nanoraptor.danamania.com a few days ago about weird body traits that I didn’t respond to mostly because my weird body things are fairly mundane things like my thumbs are thicker at the knuckle than the base, I have squared ribs, and hazel eyes.
But there is one other thing…
But there is one other thing…
September 29, 2025 at 10:18 AM
There was a thread by @nanoraptor.danamania.com a few days ago about weird body traits that I didn’t respond to mostly because my weird body things are fairly mundane things like my thumbs are thicker at the knuckle than the base, I have squared ribs, and hazel eyes.
But there is one other thing…
But there is one other thing…
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So it works now!
If you have Bakery, can you try getting the latest github patch and using it?
Add "Bakery Light Filter" component to an object to make it act like stained glass 😋
(video from RTPreview for fanciness, but it looks the same when baked)
#gamedev
If you have Bakery, can you try getting the latest github patch and using it?
Add "Bakery Light Filter" component to an object to make it act like stained glass 😋
(video from RTPreview for fanciness, but it looks the same when baked)
#gamedev
September 11, 2025 at 7:31 PM
So it works now!
If you have Bakery, can you try getting the latest github patch and using it?
Add "Bakery Light Filter" component to an object to make it act like stained glass 😋
(video from RTPreview for fanciness, but it looks the same when baked)
#gamedev
If you have Bakery, can you try getting the latest github patch and using it?
Add "Bakery Light Filter" component to an object to make it act like stained glass 😋
(video from RTPreview for fanciness, but it looks the same when baked)
#gamedev
The iPhone Air looks nice, but I'm waiting for next year's iPhone Land, which is 2 cm inches thick and has a week long battery life, has brick textured sides, and the camera "bump" is concave rather than convex.
September 9, 2025 at 8:21 PM
The iPhone Air looks nice, but I'm waiting for next year's iPhone Land, which is 2 cm inches thick and has a week long battery life, has brick textured sides, and the camera "bump" is concave rather than convex.
First WiFi was just for wireless local networking.
Now it's also for allowing your phone to figure out where it is when GPS doesn't work. And for other devices to track your phone. Then to track your body just by how it interferes with the radio waves.
Now:
www.tomshardware.com/maker-stem/r...
Now it's also for allowing your phone to figure out where it is when GPS doesn't work. And for other devices to track your phone. Then to track your body just by how it interferes with the radio waves.
Now:
www.tomshardware.com/maker-stem/r...
Wi-Fi signals used to measure heart rate accurately — relies on signal variations caused by the beating heart to determine BPM
Can this be turned into a heartbeat sensor à la 'Call of Duty?'
www.tomshardware.com
September 5, 2025 at 5:39 PM
First WiFi was just for wireless local networking.
Now it's also for allowing your phone to figure out where it is when GPS doesn't work. And for other devices to track your phone. Then to track your body just by how it interferes with the radio waves.
Now:
www.tomshardware.com/maker-stem/r...
Now it's also for allowing your phone to figure out where it is when GPS doesn't work. And for other devices to track your phone. Then to track your body just by how it interferes with the radio waves.
Now:
www.tomshardware.com/maker-stem/r...
BMW showed off their first real Neue Klass platform based production vehicle, the 2027 iX3.
Certainly some really interesting stuff, but... uh... did they miss the memo about piano black touch sensitive controls being universally hated?
Certainly some really interesting stuff, but... uh... did they miss the memo about piano black touch sensitive controls being universally hated?
September 5, 2025 at 5:04 PM
BMW showed off their first real Neue Klass platform based production vehicle, the 2027 iX3.
Certainly some really interesting stuff, but... uh... did they miss the memo about piano black touch sensitive controls being universally hated?
Certainly some really interesting stuff, but... uh... did they miss the memo about piano black touch sensitive controls being universally hated?
A bunch of SSDs are apparently failing after a recent Windows patch.
Microsoft says it’s not them, and their metrics aren’t showing any abnormal increases in hardware failures.
Phison, a component manufacturer commonly used in many of the drives that are failing, say they can’t repro any issue.
Microsoft says it’s not them, and their metrics aren’t showing any abnormal increases in hardware failures.
Phison, a component manufacturer commonly used in many of the drives that are failing, say they can’t repro any issue.
September 2, 2025 at 10:16 PM
A bunch of SSDs are apparently failing after a recent Windows patch.
Microsoft says it’s not them, and their metrics aren’t showing any abnormal increases in hardware failures.
Phison, a component manufacturer commonly used in many of the drives that are failing, say they can’t repro any issue.
Microsoft says it’s not them, and their metrics aren’t showing any abnormal increases in hardware failures.
Phison, a component manufacturer commonly used in many of the drives that are failing, say they can’t repro any issue.
One of my favorite facts about the current Hollywood trend of claiming movies have "no CGI" is at one time the movie with the most CGI shots of any movie was a romantic comedy, because they digitally replaced the sky and background in every single shot in the movie.
September 2, 2025 at 6:41 PM
One of my favorite facts about the current Hollywood trend of claiming movies have "no CGI" is at one time the movie with the most CGI shots of any movie was a romantic comedy, because they digitally replaced the sky and background in every single shot in the movie.
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Me and Towerbolt are at the Seattle Indies Expo!! Come on down to check out the game and all the other awesome games made by local devs!!
#SIX2025
@seattleindies.bsky.social
#SIX2025
@seattleindies.bsky.social
August 31, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Me and Towerbolt are at the Seattle Indies Expo!! Come on down to check out the game and all the other awesome games made by local devs!!
#SIX2025
@seattleindies.bsky.social
#SIX2025
@seattleindies.bsky.social
@hankgreen.bsky.social In your latest AHA you wondered if chimerism only exists for XX chromosome individuals.
Well, @nanoraptor.danamania.com is apparently an XX/XY chimera. So…
Well, @nanoraptor.danamania.com is apparently an XX/XY chimera. So…
August 28, 2025 at 8:14 AM
@hankgreen.bsky.social In your latest AHA you wondered if chimerism only exists for XX chromosome individuals.
Well, @nanoraptor.danamania.com is apparently an XX/XY chimera. So…
Well, @nanoraptor.danamania.com is apparently an XX/XY chimera. So…
@digitalfoundry.bsky.social posted a clip from their DF Direct Weekly podcast about them talking about borderless windowed mode in games today. It ends with them talking about how windowed gaming was a thing in the early Windows era and it dislodged a memory.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cPY...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cPY...
PC Display Modes: Fullscreen, Windowed, Borderless - What's The Difference?
YouTube video by DF Clips
www.youtube.com
August 17, 2025 at 8:27 AM
@digitalfoundry.bsky.social posted a clip from their DF Direct Weekly podcast about them talking about borderless windowed mode in games today. It ends with them talking about how windowed gaming was a thing in the early Windows era and it dislodged a memory.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cPY...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cPY...
I find it hilarious that they wanted Robert Pattinson to play the lead role in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, could get him, but clearly had already modelled the main character after him.
It seems like they tweaked the model a little to look less like him from the front, but forgot the profile.
It seems like they tweaked the model a little to look less like him from the front, but forgot the profile.
August 15, 2025 at 6:41 AM
I find it hilarious that they wanted Robert Pattinson to play the lead role in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, could get him, but clearly had already modelled the main character after him.
It seems like they tweaked the model a little to look less like him from the front, but forgot the profile.
It seems like they tweaked the model a little to look less like him from the front, but forgot the profile.
Show me your quick getaway vehicle!
August 11, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Show me your quick getaway vehicle!
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Been feeling a little queer lately.
August 9, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Been feeling a little queer lately.
Clearly a manipulated photo was uploaded, so I uncovered the original unedited version.
July 23, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Clearly a manipulated photo was uploaded, so I uncovered the original unedited version.
I’m constantly fascinated by the word ironic.
It’s a word that went from common usage, to uncommon usage, back to common usage. And subtly changed in meaning in that time quite rapidly.
And while lots of words change quickly due to use in slang or technical terminology, this was neither.
It’s a word that went from common usage, to uncommon usage, back to common usage. And subtly changed in meaning in that time quite rapidly.
And while lots of words change quickly due to use in slang or technical terminology, this was neither.
July 21, 2025 at 6:52 AM
I’m constantly fascinated by the word ironic.
It’s a word that went from common usage, to uncommon usage, back to common usage. And subtly changed in meaning in that time quite rapidly.
And while lots of words change quickly due to use in slang or technical terminology, this was neither.
It’s a word that went from common usage, to uncommon usage, back to common usage. And subtly changed in meaning in that time quite rapidly.
And while lots of words change quickly due to use in slang or technical terminology, this was neither.
bsky.app/profile/radi...
I really like biplanar mapping from the standpoint of “neat shader tricks”.
But like many neat shader tricks, it’s probably not actually cheaper than triplanar. And on some hardware it’s much, much more expensive.
I really like biplanar mapping from the standpoint of “neat shader tricks”.
But like many neat shader tricks, it’s probably not actually cheaper than triplanar. And on some hardware it’s much, much more expensive.
just learned about biplanar UV projection!! the tyranny of triplanar shaders is finally over! can't wait to go bi iquilezles.org/articles/bip...
June 25, 2025 at 8:50 AM
bsky.app/profile/radi...
I really like biplanar mapping from the standpoint of “neat shader tricks”.
But like many neat shader tricks, it’s probably not actually cheaper than triplanar. And on some hardware it’s much, much more expensive.
I really like biplanar mapping from the standpoint of “neat shader tricks”.
But like many neat shader tricks, it’s probably not actually cheaper than triplanar. And on some hardware it’s much, much more expensive.
PCIe 5.0 for the main PCIe slot is entirely pointless for consumer PCs. The only people it's good for is the GPU manufacturers letting them ship video cards with only 8 or 4 lanes actually connected so they can save some money on their $400+ GPUs.
June 20, 2025 at 1:11 AM
PCIe 5.0 for the main PCIe slot is entirely pointless for consumer PCs. The only people it's good for is the GPU manufacturers letting them ship video cards with only 8 or 4 lanes actually connected so they can save some money on their $400+ GPUs.
It's absolutely hilarious to me that Grok was created in large part to help a whiny man baby have "proof" that his world view is correct, and it keeps calling him out for his bullshit instead.
I'm convinced DOGE used llama because they couldn't get Grok to agree to the kinds of cuts they wanted.
I'm convinced DOGE used llama because they couldn't get Grok to agree to the kinds of cuts they wanted.
June 18, 2025 at 8:03 PM
It's absolutely hilarious to me that Grok was created in large part to help a whiny man baby have "proof" that his world view is correct, and it keeps calling him out for his bullshit instead.
I'm convinced DOGE used llama because they couldn't get Grok to agree to the kinds of cuts they wanted.
I'm convinced DOGE used llama because they couldn't get Grok to agree to the kinds of cuts they wanted.
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June 18, 2025 at 3:58 PM
If you like the sound of this and want to support us, wishlist here. Thank you. store.steampowered.com/app/2950710/...
the-indie-in-former.com/2025/06/17/d...
the-indie-in-former.com/2025/06/17/d...