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Tom Forsyth

@tomforsyth.bsky.social

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Gfx coder and chip designer. He/him/3Dlabs/Muckyfoot/RAD/Valve/Oculus/Intel/Rec Room. mastodon.gamedev.place/web/@TomF (twitter.com/tom_forsyth if you're nasty)

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Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social · Feb 17

Pinned policy post.

If you personally insult me, I will tell you, and mute you for a random duration. If you persist, it's a block.

I tend to follow far too many people. Every now and then I cull a RANDOM selection for my sanity. If I unfollow you, this is why - it's not personal.

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Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social · 26m

Frogs: Weird little freaks (congratulatory)

ICE: Weird little freaks (derogative)

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Blaise Ulysse Bernard Collins @wittywebhandle.bsky.social · 3h

I would like to just take a moment to invite you to enjoy Cake's 1996 mega-hit 'The Distance'.

It's likely that you know this song, perhaps even love it. But just take a moment to revel in the utter masterpiece that it is.

Surrender yourself to it.

You deserve it.

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Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social · 38m

www.youtube.com/watch?v=db1u...
(if the timestamp doesn't work, skip to the 59 minute mark)

Pacific, 2hr Enduro (unedited version), 2020 July 18th

YouTube video by Tom Forsyth

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Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social · 57m

If it is any consolation, I have never once suspected you were as awesome as Chuck Tingle (derogatory, comedic)

Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social · 59m

TBF she is trivially the most qualified of the four.

Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social · 1h

Hey so RFKJr if you're having bottom surgery done, does that inherently count as circumcision, or do you have to have it done before, and like how much soon beforehand - is five minutes long enough to get the full benefit for WH40k miniatures?

Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social · 3h

Warning - do not attempt to upgrade manually.

A low-rez cat that has been badly upscaled by a variety of terrible "high def" filters that all look worse than the original.

Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social · 4h

Rule: if I have to spend time thinking about whether or not I need to ban you, then I need to ban you.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 5h

Welp, here it is: maybe the funniest thing we've ever done, in its entirety.

The Onion Investigates: Jeffrey Epstein

YouTube video by The Onion

www.youtube.com

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Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social · 5h

Thanks, I hate it :-)

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Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social · 6h

"Huh, it sounds a lot better than the original 3rd generation 2x speed tape-to-tape copy I had."

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Saoirse ☀️ @scratchcarddust.bsky.social · 13h

If you know basic kabbalah it's actually not too hard to make a golem out of a labubu. Don't recommend it though. They have a pre-existing body-dharma. As soon as they wake they run straight for the sea. V hard to counter. Lost the first one. No idea what it's doing out there. Moved like lightning.

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social · 6h

It's wild that they looked at how bad an idea it was to own a boat, said "hold my beer", and invented owning a horse.

Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social · 6h

Bon Jovi's "Bad Medicine" plays in my head every time I see the title.

Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social · 9h

These are way less than the 1500% decrease we were promised earlier. I demand a refund.

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qdot @buttplug.engineer · 3d

Boards of Canada's Olsen performed on a PDP-1. Holy shit.

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

Boards of Canada "Olson" on a 1959 PDP-1 Computer

YouTube video by Joe Lynch

www.youtube.com

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Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social · 11h

An ignorant failson telling a well-qualified woman what to do with her own body is certainly a tale of utter derangement, yes.

Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social · 20h

It would be an excellent idea to at least quantise the inputs before starting, which has the same effect.

Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social · 20h

They had edge cases! I remember talking to Abrash about having to handle them all. Well, you know, "all" - you never really know if you fixed every single one :-)

Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social · 20h

Has anybody got a robust C/C++ CSG library that they have actually used and like? There's a bunch of them out there, but CSG is notorious for ugly edge cases that make it fail to be watertight and suchlike.

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Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social · 21h

www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gej...
Fun fact - this uses the same tune as "Private Dancer", which Knopfler wrote, but then put on the shelf, and turned it into this. A few years later, Turner was looking for a song, and her producer Knew A Guy...

Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social · 22h

One of the reasons my little Caterham can hang with the Formula cars on the slower turns, even without slicks, is they have low + stiff shocks to cope with the downforce, which means on the cambered & bumpy turns they only have 3 wheels on the ground! Compliance is a thing...

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Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social · 22h

Same idea as presidents. "If we just give this special person enough power and privilege, surely they will become All Good and straighten out the scumbags they're descended from?" Sure, Jan.

Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social · 1d

You know what irritates crowds? Tear gas. Pepper balls. Unjustified arrest. Removing trans rights (which are human rights). Not releasing the Epstein files.