Taco Scott
@tacoscott.bsky.social
Someone wishing for a brighter tomorrow. And tacos for dinner. I think that last part I can make happen.
Is there not a way to adjust overall brightness/gamma in Unity URP? I suppose I could just provide a scaler to all real-time lights in the game, but that won't help baked lit or unlit areas. But it's what I might do if I can't find something better. #Unity3D #IndieDev #GameDev
February 8, 2026 at 11:57 PM
The Character Controller isGrounded returning false when grounded is more complicated than I initially thought. By adding some downward movement without other input (for another purpose), suddenly isGrounded was randomly false but only at high frame rates. #Unity3D #GameDev #IndieDev
February 7, 2026 at 3:04 AM
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The Washington Post—for which I wrote editorials for nearly a decade—has closed its Kyiv bureau.
@lawfaremedia.org has not—and we will not.
We now employ more people in Kyiv than the Washington Post.
Let me tell you about what we have done in Ukraine over the past year and why we are not leaving
@lawfaremedia.org has not—and we will not.
We now employ more people in Kyiv than the Washington Post.
Let me tell you about what we have done in Ukraine over the past year and why we are not leaving
February 6, 2026 at 6:55 PM
The Washington Post—for which I wrote editorials for nearly a decade—has closed its Kyiv bureau.
@lawfaremedia.org has not—and we will not.
We now employ more people in Kyiv than the Washington Post.
Let me tell you about what we have done in Ukraine over the past year and why we are not leaving
@lawfaremedia.org has not—and we will not.
We now employ more people in Kyiv than the Washington Post.
Let me tell you about what we have done in Ukraine over the past year and why we are not leaving
Discovered a char controller grounded issue. If NPC is grounded on YOU, the NPC will remain grounded unless it moves, even when you move out from under it. Was causing gravity to fail with my control logic. Fix by adding gravity whenever near player, even if grounded. #Unity3D #IndieDev #GameDev
February 6, 2026 at 3:35 AM
This is really good too. Irish Folk cover of U2 With or Without You. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VB0G... #Music #U2
What if 'With or Without You' was an Irish Folk Song?
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February 4, 2026 at 7:47 AM
This is really good too. Irish Folk cover of U2 With or Without You. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VB0G... #Music #U2
This is awesome and somehow I've never seen it before today. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEeT... #Music #SnowPatrol
Snow Patrol Reworked - Chasing Cars Live at the Royal Albert Hall
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February 4, 2026 at 4:13 AM
This is awesome and somehow I've never seen it before today. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEeT... #Music #SnowPatrol
Attempted to create a custom material w/ alpha png to use with a LineRenderer. It mostly works, but it seems I can no longer get Gradient alpha to work when using custom material. I can only change overall line transparency with the base color. Is it possible to get gradient to work? #Unity3D
January 30, 2026 at 9:00 AM
Attempted to create a custom material w/ alpha png to use with a LineRenderer. It mostly works, but it seems I can no longer get Gradient alpha to work when using custom material. I can only change overall line transparency with the base color. Is it possible to get gradient to work? #Unity3D
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I helped build DHS.
In the wake of what we’ve seen, we need to detonate & rebuild it.
Police state or not, it’s broken.
www.defiance.news/p/i-helped-b...
In the wake of what we’ve seen, we need to detonate & rebuild it.
Police state or not, it’s broken.
www.defiance.news/p/i-helped-b...
I helped build DHS. Now we need to detonate it.
The Department of Homeland Security has been weaponized against the people, the damage has been done, and it's time to go back to the drawing board.
www.defiance.news
January 27, 2026 at 4:10 PM
I helped build DHS.
In the wake of what we’ve seen, we need to detonate & rebuild it.
Police state or not, it’s broken.
www.defiance.news/p/i-helped-b...
In the wake of what we’ve seen, we need to detonate & rebuild it.
Police state or not, it’s broken.
www.defiance.news/p/i-helped-b...
Worked on a lot of refinements to melee and projectile weapon mechanics this past weekend. Also added ability for weapons to shatter and destroy some objects (in addition to being used on monster NPCs). Still need to finish sounds. Guess I'll go digging in fireworks leftovers. #IndieDev #GameDev
January 26, 2026 at 7:45 AM
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With base melee and projectile weapons mechanics recently completed, we are just a few weeks away from having the first scene of Amber Eyes ready for alpha testing. Pictured is our Revolver model used for testing; it will also be the first projectile weapon players get in game. #GameDev #IndieDev
January 23, 2026 at 9:27 AM
"Fraudulent images and phantom citations would embed themselves deeper and deeper in our systems of knowledge. They’d become a permanent epistemological pollution that could never be filtered out." #AI www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...
Science Is Drowning in AI Slop
Peer review has met its match.
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January 22, 2026 at 4:45 PM
"Fraudulent images and phantom citations would embed themselves deeper and deeper in our systems of knowledge. They’d become a permanent epistemological pollution that could never be filtered out." #AI www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...
If you child an object inside another without uniform scale, it will be distorted. You can calculate local scale to compensate, but if you also need to rotate that child it starts getting ugly. A nice solution is to use an empty game object in between, which works well. #Unity3D #GameDev #IndieDev
January 22, 2026 at 7:30 AM
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January 21, 2026 at 3:15 AM
What's up with this? I have one point light in a scene that looks like this in Unity (taking up a lot of the editor window) at around 100 meters away (light has intensity 1, range 10). The effect stops when I get closer to the light (once I close to maybe 40 meters). #Unity3D #GameDev #IndieDev
January 21, 2026 at 3:05 AM
As a patriot of USA, I say to my NATO allies: make no deals under threat or intimidation. NATO's purpose is to defend against threats to allied sovereignty; that should apply no matter where those threats are coming from. Have balls and stand up to any bullies. Tides will turn. #Greenland #Denmark
January 12, 2026 at 10:09 PM
As a patriot of USA, I say to my NATO allies: make no deals under threat or intimidation. NATO's purpose is to defend against threats to allied sovereignty; that should apply no matter where those threats are coming from. Have balls and stand up to any bullies. Tides will turn. #Greenland #Denmark
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Michael Fanone: "Within days of the start of this latest occupation, a masked ICE agent shot and killed an unarmed 37-year-old woman in her car…The killing is senseless, disturbing, infuriating—and sadly predictable."
newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/trump-floo...
newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/trump-floo...
Trump flooded the streets with ICE agents. One just killed an unarmed woman.
Good cops have been shouting from the rooftops that this would happen.
newsletter.ofthebrave.org
January 8, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Michael Fanone: "Within days of the start of this latest occupation, a masked ICE agent shot and killed an unarmed 37-year-old woman in her car…The killing is senseless, disturbing, infuriating—and sadly predictable."
newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/trump-floo...
newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/trump-floo...
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I will have more to say about our strike on Venezuela as soon as I can figure out *if it really happened or if Trump is conflating it with something*, which is a hell of thing to say about a statement from the president about military action.
Well, rumor has it Trump seemed to have just bombed a port in Venezuela. This can give you some military stuff to think about to take your mind off this conversation.
December 29, 2025 at 8:31 PM
I will have more to say about our strike on Venezuela as soon as I can figure out *if it really happened or if Trump is conflating it with something*, which is a hell of thing to say about a statement from the president about military action.
Brief 2025 year end update for Amber Eyes. xandercat.com/ambereyes/in...
Amber Eyes
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December 26, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Brief 2025 year end update for Amber Eyes. xandercat.com/ambereyes/in...
So, because of political types, it's unsafe to tell anyone Happy Holidays or Merry Christmas without some assumed subtext. Can we maybe come up with a 3rd option? Something that says, hey, I don't give a shit if it's Christmas or a Holiday, I just hope you have a decent time off? #Christmas #Holiday
December 22, 2025 at 6:56 PM
So, because of political types, it's unsafe to tell anyone Happy Holidays or Merry Christmas without some assumed subtext. Can we maybe come up with a 3rd option? Something that says, hey, I don't give a shit if it's Christmas or a Holiday, I just hope you have a decent time off? #Christmas #Holiday
There's a problem with gameObject.transform.root.gameObject to get top level object, as may get undesired empty game object used to organize related game objects in hierarchy. Strategies? I'm flagging those with layer and walking up parent chain to stop short of them. #IndieDev #GameDev #Unity3D
December 19, 2025 at 4:58 PM