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Dean Hall @deanhall.bsky.social · Aug 13

Vulkan is really the “Karen” of programming. It’s like “You said you were going to do this in subpass 0 but you did it in subpass 1. I’ve rendered the frame but I’m going to crash out and I want to speak to the manager.”

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Dean Hall @deanhall.bsky.social · Jul 7

Unity and unreal are the past. Here’s another shot of a dust storm on mars in Kitten Space Agency. Coming free powered by contributions.

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Dean Hall @deanhall.bsky.social · Jul 7

Second angle. Dust storm on Mars, in Kitten Space Agency. No unreal. No unity. BRUTAL framework. Volumetric with atmos scattering including atmospheric layers such as ozone etc. full solar system scale.

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Dean Hall @deanhall.bsky.social · Jul 7

Dust storm on Mars, in Kitten Space Agency. No unreal. No unity. BRUTAL framework.

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Dean Hall @deanhall.bsky.social · Jul 5

my average chatgpt experience summed up in a single screenshot

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Dean Hall @deanhall.bsky.social · Jul 3

Added the new extra solar object 3I/ATLAS to Kitten Space Agency. Trying to get a burn to intercept. I think I need a real rocket scientist 😂

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Dean Hall @deanhall.bsky.social · Jul 2

Fun fact. Smartphones were invented so people had something to do in lifts.

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Dean Hall @deanhall.bsky.social · May 17

My votes saved Iceland!! They aren’t last! I loved their performance

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Dean Hall @deanhall.bsky.social · May 17

Uuuuuooooaaaawwwooohhhh 🇮🇸🇮🇸🇮🇸 go Iceland!

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Dean Hall @deanhall.bsky.social · May 17

EUROVISION 2025 HAS STARTED!

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Dean Hall @deanhall.bsky.social · May 11

If any media want the raw emails from unity and our invoices, email me at [email protected]. I can’t post them unredacted here as they contain the names of employees of another company. But once you see the names, it becomes obvious how easy it is to google search

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Dean Hall @deanhall.bsky.social · May 11

More help? All you did is pretend someone reached out to resolve this. Nobody has replied to my email.

But I’ll tell you who has reached out. Two ex Unity employees and someone who works at a European DPA.

If you are harvesting data illegally and then misapplying it, good luck

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ShadowZone @theshadowzone.bsky.social · May 10

Unity is currently threatening Rocketwerkz, the studio developing Kitten Space Agency.
You can check out the details surrounding this in @deanhall.bsky.social's post on reddit: www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/co...

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Uriah @uriahgnu.bsky.social · May 10

Posted by @deanhall.bsky.social on reddit, anyone using #Unity needs to take a serious look at what is going on. This is a direct threat to hundreds (thousands?) of studios and tens of thousands of indie developers with games built on Unity.
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Dean Hall @deanhall.bsky.social · May 10

Oh I missed Luke! I’ll flick an email through. Thanks for the ping!

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ShadowZone @theshadowzone.bsky.social · Jan 15

This is not a drill!
This is a spacecraft...

Over on another social network, @deanhall.bsky.social posted this current progress screenshot of KSA.

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Dean Hall @deanhall.bsky.social · Dec 27

It had ten iterations and you had to get all of them right or you had to restart. You had to match the icon with the orbit. I’m pretty sure it was impossible, and it was a bot trap. I think had accidentally identified my dad as a bot. Hilarious though. Ended up registering on a different computer

Dean Hall @deanhall.bsky.social · Dec 26

Just helped my parents try and activate Office and got stuck in captcha “help us beat the robots” hell for THREE HOURS. The plot of Dune doesn’t seem so far fetched now

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Dean Hall @deanhall.bsky.social · Aug 31

“I know I used to be crazy, I know I used to be fun, you say I used to be wild, I say I used to be young”…..

Miley Cyrus “used to be young” hits pretty hard

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Dean Hall @deanhall.bsky.social · Aug 26

This is me after releasing a game and trying to figure out just how newly fucked our market has become as customer expectations, discoverability, tear up everything https://youtu.be/AiqWrD17cC4?si=kWtAhVDp3DVVw_5b

"Veep" Season 4 Finale: Selina Meyer's Breakdown

Selina Meyer's (Julia Dreyfus) breakdown in HBO's TV comedy "Veep". This is not only my favorite comedy show right now, it's also one of my favorite shows. T...

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Dean Hall @deanhall.bsky.social · Aug 18

When something embarrassing happens. Just imagine you are on your countries version of Air Force one. You are talking with the prime minister, your head of state. You gesture wildly and break a glass from your tray. The prime minister insists on picking up the pieces. This happened. I did this

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Dean Hall @deanhall.bsky.social · Aug 9

As a society I feel we have completely lost perspective on the value of a byte, especially when used in the context of bitwise operations.

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Dean Hall @deanhall.bsky.social · Jul 9

I kind of like BlueSky. It’s really fast at least. UI is clean. And my feed is full of people I’m interested in

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Dean Hall @deanhall.bsky.social · Jul 4

When using crowdfunding for your try to avoid giving away steam keys. Their reviews will not count to the aggregate, and show as "free product". These are your key supporters. If explained well, your super fans will understand. These are the most mobilizable, many will buy the game again to support

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