Joe Hocking
@joehocking.bsky.social
I'm a software engineer who develops games and XR using technologies like C#/Unity and JavaScript/WebGL (while increasingly Godot-curious). I wrote the book Unity in Action!
website: www.newarteest.com
website: www.newarteest.com
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Joe Hocking
@joehocking.bsky.social
· Sep 15
Character Customization with Unity 6
jettelly.com
I'm currently writing a book about programming a character customization system in Unity. Both 3D characters and 2D animated in Spine!
Includes UI development, saving JSON data, loading Addressables, etc. jettelly.com/store/charac...
#unity3d #spine2d #gameprogramming
Includes UI development, saving JSON data, loading Addressables, etc. jettelly.com/store/charac...
#unity3d #spine2d #gameprogramming
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Another friend put it to me like this: "ICE has made the classic Nazi mistake. They've invaded a winter people in the winter."
January 22, 2026 at 3:58 AM
Another friend put it to me like this: "ICE has made the classic Nazi mistake. They've invaded a winter people in the winter."
I was looking for a snack and just noticed this chocolate bar in the pantry. wtf did I move houses with this?
January 21, 2026 at 5:29 PM
I was looking for a snack and just noticed this chocolate bar in the pantry. wtf did I move houses with this?
This makes me think about my own dad (in a positive way!) He's very conservative, and a long time ago we once had a political argument where he got halfway through sneeringly saying "bleeding heart" when he abruptly stopped. I could almost see him decide "nope I'm not gonna call my son names".
This man literally called his son a communist and said he deserves to be executed! Guy is a total lunatic! Who talks about their own children like that?! 😳
January 20, 2026 at 7:01 PM
This makes me think about my own dad (in a positive way!) He's very conservative, and a long time ago we once had a political argument where he got halfway through sneeringly saying "bleeding heart" when he abruptly stopped. I could almost see him decide "nope I'm not gonna call my son names".
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Damn, even Sesame Street is scoring off me
January 20, 2026 at 5:18 PM
Damn, even Sesame Street is scoring off me
For years Google had me conflated with another author of the same name, resulting in Google claiming I'd written books a century apart. I wonder what AI says about me?
The takeaway of course isn’t that I have a cat named Sir Mewlington von Pissbreath WHICH I TOTALLY DO —
*coughs into hand*
— but rather, how utterly gameable AI is. It is easy to pack full of nonsense. And if you had an agenda, well. Easy enough to cascade through the bullshit machine.
*coughs into hand*
— but rather, how utterly gameable AI is. It is easy to pack full of nonsense. And if you had an agenda, well. Easy enough to cascade through the bullshit machine.
January 20, 2026 at 2:06 PM
For years Google had me conflated with another author of the same name, resulting in Google claiming I'd written books a century apart. I wonder what AI says about me?
This is also part of the whole "the South lost the Civil War, but still celebrate Confederate generals". Like, that allowed them to papaer over/forget that the entire North crushed their racist asses.
Yes, MAGAs have been picking blue cities to target because they BELIEVE us urban Democrats actually are mostly virtue-signaling hypocrites who are secretly as racist as they are, and they’ll thus only face a bit of easily-destroyed resistance from weird blue-haired kids - we keep proving them wrong.
January 19, 2026 at 1:34 PM
This is also part of the whole "the South lost the Civil War, but still celebrate Confederate generals". Like, that allowed them to papaer over/forget that the entire North crushed their racist asses.
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cleaning up my desktop and found this little gem
January 13, 2026 at 5:36 AM
cleaning up my desktop and found this little gem
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(thinks carefully)...no, it's definitely the engine that's wrong
January 10, 2026 at 4:53 PM
(thinks carefully)...no, it's definitely the engine that's wrong
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We're seeing some pretty fucking blatant violations of the 4th Amendment with these warrantless home invasions.
ICE is breaking the law and violating our rights.
ICE is breaking the law and violating our rights.
January 12, 2026 at 7:16 PM
We're seeing some pretty fucking blatant violations of the 4th Amendment with these warrantless home invasions.
ICE is breaking the law and violating our rights.
ICE is breaking the law and violating our rights.
It's a tangent to the thread, but this does make me realize Romero doesn't get enough credit for actually taking his lumps.
He had a major humbling experience that, unlike many, he learned from and grew as a person
January 10, 2026 at 8:18 PM
It's a tangent to the thread, but this does make me realize Romero doesn't get enough credit for actually taking his lumps.
That's... a good point.
I really feel like not enough people got mad when Fortnite added AI and Darth Vader immediately started calling people slurs
January 10, 2026 at 1:18 PM
That's... a good point.
lol one of the best comments I've seen on the whole antivax thing
January 7, 2026 at 1:10 PM
lol one of the best comments I've seen on the whole antivax thing
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“morning joe lib” currently holds the title of Sickest Burn 2026 on accuracy alone
January 6, 2026 at 2:24 PM
“morning joe lib” currently holds the title of Sickest Burn 2026 on accuracy alone
a related classic DnD tale www.tumblr.com/rpgsandbox/1...
January 6, 2026 at 12:54 AM
a related classic DnD tale www.tumblr.com/rpgsandbox/1...
lol this is a good way of putting it
January 5, 2026 at 12:21 AM
lol this is a good way of putting it
read the posts leading up to this, interesting analogy
it certainly does not mean I secretly like the roaches and want them to carry on infesting my house
if I were happy with the roaches infesting my house I wouldn’t be mad at my shitty exterminator
if I were happy with the roaches infesting my house I wouldn’t be mad at my shitty exterminator
January 4, 2026 at 2:56 PM
read the posts leading up to this, interesting analogy
officer froggie reporting for duty futurism.com/artificial-i...
Cops Forced to Explain Why AI Generated Police Report Claimed Officer Transformed Into Frog
AI-powered software Draft One automatically generates police reports from body camera footage. It thought an officer turned into a frog.
futurism.com
January 3, 2026 at 9:12 PM
officer froggie reporting for duty futurism.com/artificial-i...
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Literally every foodstuff is, somehow, a perfect name for a cat. Biscuits. Treacle. Gravy. Pierogi. Chowder. Even the unlikely options, like Soup and Salad, will miraculously suit a cat somewhere.
December 30, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Literally every foodstuff is, somehow, a perfect name for a cat. Biscuits. Treacle. Gravy. Pierogi. Chowder. Even the unlikely options, like Soup and Salad, will miraculously suit a cat somewhere.
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Only makes sense when you remember that they think being 1 degree to Mitt Romney's left makes a person a Marxist
December 29, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Only makes sense when you remember that they think being 1 degree to Mitt Romney's left makes a person a Marxist
This is an interesting point, although VR is more like the display your UI is on than the UI itself.
I'm convinced we all think VR is cool because it's attention-grabbing in fiction but it sucks because that's the opposite of the trait you want your UI to have in real life
December 30, 2025 at 12:59 PM
This is an interesting point, although VR is more like the display your UI is on than the UI itself.
related tangent: can we at least agree that political reporters should know who was president each year? I'm not even talking a long time ago, but just like the last 4 presidential terms or something.
Can we please have interviewers call these assholes out on their bullshit?
Elon Musk says Rep. Ilhan Omar was “literally voted into Congress by a large group of people from Somalia.”
Somali-Americans make up just 2.9% of Omar’s district.
Somali-Americans make up just 2.9% of Omar’s district.
December 29, 2025 at 12:45 PM
related tangent: can we at least agree that political reporters should know who was president each year? I'm not even talking a long time ago, but just like the last 4 presidential terms or something.
hahaha the robot crouching at the end is the cherry on top
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 29, 2025 at 11:56 AM
hahaha the robot crouching at the end is the cherry on top
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Find a better metaphor for the tech industry going into 2026. I’ll wait.
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 27, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Find a better metaphor for the tech industry going into 2026. I’ll wait.