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Alex Austin

@crypticsea.bsky.social

1.9K followers 240 following 420 posts

Designer/Programmer of Bridge Builder, Pontifex, Gish, Golf?, A New Zero, Sub Rosa, Skate or Don't!, Stunt Derby

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Alex Austin @crypticsea.bsky.social · Dec 20

Pontifex Zero
The original bridge builder returns with:
-16 new bridge levels!
-all-new crane mode with 8 levels!
-all 15 original levels
-no sounds yet!
-$3 on itch (cheap!) crypticsea.itch.io/pontifex-zero

Pontifex Zero by crypticsea

The original bridge builder returns! Available for Windows, Linux

crypticsea.itch.io

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Alex Austin @crypticsea.bsky.social · 2d

diver

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Alex Austin @crypticsea.bsky.social · 2d

I'm sure when we have superintelligence next year it will get the football result right

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"grok can make mistakes"

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 4d

Really, truly amazing that OpenAI wants us to believe that they are worth a trillion dollars but also they are so desperate for revenue that they created an infinite SlopTok app that opens them up to a billion lawsuits just so that they can maybe someday make it even worse by filling it with ads.

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Lucy James @lucyjames.games · 9d

We’re doing a new show over at GameSpot and it’s a lot of fun, pls tune in/sub to the podcast feed!!

Jean-Luc Seipke @jeanluc.bsky.social · 10d

PODCAST UPDATES!!! We’ve been promising news on GameSpot podcasts and the day to deliver on that promise is here with two announcements!

First up, I’m proud to introduce Kurt & Lucy Gotcha Covered.

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 10d

Someone should probably inform the White House's "AI & Crypto Czar" that no one is forcing AI companies to train their models on Wikipedia

Tweet by David Sacks: "Wikipedia is hopelessly biased. An army of left-wing activists maintain the bios and fight reasonable corrections. Magnifying the problem, Wikipedia often appears first in Google search results, and now it’s a trusted source for AI model training. This is a huge problem."

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Alex Austin @crypticsea.bsky.social · 11d

jaunty zombie

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Alex Austin @crypticsea.bsky.social · 13d

bouncy run

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Alex Austin @crypticsea.bsky.social · 13d

www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqOk...

"An escalator can never break..." 🎤: Mitch Hedberg #shorts

YouTube video by Comedy Central Stand-Up

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Alex Austin @crypticsea.bsky.social · 14d

another miss

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Alex Austin @crypticsea.bsky.social · 16d

working on voxel raycasting

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LaurieWired @lauriewired.bsky.social · 17d

SSDs are pretty reliable in a technical sense. 

That is, unless you make a really, really bad mistake in firmware.
 
HP had a line of ~20 different Enterprise SSD models for datacenter use. 

In exactly 3 years, 270 days and 8 hours, every one is irrecoverably bricked.

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Alex Austin @crypticsea.bsky.social · 21d

Yeah I had this same problem, it also seems to turn it back on so watch for that

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Alex Austin @crypticsea.bsky.social · 22d

tripped up

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Alex Austin @crypticsea.bsky.social · 23d

tall guys

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Alex Austin @crypticsea.bsky.social · 24d

flying tackle

Alex Austin @crypticsea.bsky.social · 24d

wrong

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Alex Austin @crypticsea.bsky.social · 25d

a man in a suit and tie is sitting in an office looking at the camera .

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is sitting in an office looking at the camera .

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Alex Austin @crypticsea.bsky.social · 25d

Once I have the resources to actually make it

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miss

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Alex Austin @crypticsea.bsky.social · 25d

hits

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Alex Austin @crypticsea.bsky.social · 26d

knocked down

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Alex Austin @crypticsea.bsky.social · 28d

jump n bump

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Lee Vermeulen @alientrap.bsky.social · 28d

Made a Steam page for our voxel physics survival game - Astromine:
store.steampowered.com/app/1833210/...

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Alex Austin @crypticsea.bsky.social · 28d

I wrote some Glide code back in the day, it was kind of a cut down OpenGL clone. I'm not sure if it even did transforms, at the time I was just sending screen-space vertex positions.