Tom Forsyth
@tomforsyth.bsky.social
Gfx coder and chip designer. He/him/3Dlabs/Muckyfoot/RAD/Valve/Oculus/Intel/Rec Room/Riot.
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Tom Forsyth
@tomforsyth.bsky.social
· Feb 17
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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.
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.
And I really get fucking furious when people go on about illegal aliens getting benefits. HOW WOULD THAT WORK? Describe to me the process where undocumented/illegal aliens get sent money by the government. Whose name and address is on the invoice?
Didn't happen. It's just knee-jerk racism.
Didn't happen. It's just knee-jerk racism.
January 17, 2026 at 8:44 PM
And I really get fucking furious when people go on about illegal aliens getting benefits. HOW WOULD THAT WORK? Describe to me the process where undocumented/illegal aliens get sent money by the government. Whose name and address is on the invoice?
Didn't happen. It's just knee-jerk racism.
Didn't happen. It's just knee-jerk racism.
You have to admit that making new reasons to impeach him is successfully distracting people from all the existing reasons to impeach him.
January 17, 2026 at 8:33 PM
You have to admit that making new reasons to impeach him is successfully distracting people from all the existing reasons to impeach him.
OK so aside from protecting the literal border (anti-smuggling etc), why have a force that goes around finding people to deport? If they do crimes, then... it's the regular police. If they don't do crimes then most of America agrees - leave them alone. So what's left? Just the Racism Thugs. Abolish!
January 17, 2026 at 8:29 PM
OK so aside from protecting the literal border (anti-smuggling etc), why have a force that goes around finding people to deport? If they do crimes, then... it's the regular police. If they don't do crimes then most of America agrees - leave them alone. So what's left? Just the Racism Thugs. Abolish!
I find the whole "we want immigration control, but not like this" thing is weird. You get all these caveats of who shouldn't be deported - hard-working people, parents, kids, etc. OK so who should be deported? Criminals. Mkay. So - we already have people who deal with criminals. They're called cops.
January 17, 2026 at 8:24 PM
I find the whole "we want immigration control, but not like this" thing is weird. You get all these caveats of who shouldn't be deported - hard-working people, parents, kids, etc. OK so who should be deported? Criminals. Mkay. So - we already have people who deal with criminals. They're called cops.
When your whole race gets named after a guy that wrote some songs:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim...
Joachim Neander - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
January 17, 2026 at 8:04 PM
When your whole race gets named after a guy that wrote some songs:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim...
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My blog post about how software rendered depth based occlusion culling in Block Game functions is out now! enikofox.com/posts/softwa...
#GameDev #ProcGen 🎮
#GameDev #ProcGen 🎮
Software occlusion culling in Block Game
My GPU is the integrated Radeon Vega 8 that comes with my AMD Ryzen 7 5700G CPU. I tell you this so you know that my workstation is not a graphical computing powerhouse. It is, in fact, quite weak. To...
enikofox.com
January 16, 2026 at 10:10 PM
My blog post about how software rendered depth based occlusion culling in Block Game functions is out now! enikofox.com/posts/softwa...
#GameDev #ProcGen 🎮
#GameDev #ProcGen 🎮
Heh - just spotted the thing about the SH2. If the 68k having address regs caused you problems, the SH2 would have been a huge pain since half its instructions require the use of R0. It was a really good chip once you got your head around this annoyance!
January 17, 2026 at 7:49 PM
Heh - just spotted the thing about the SH2. If the 68k having address regs caused you problems, the SH2 would have been a huge pain since half its instructions require the use of R0. It was a really good chip once you got your head around this annoyance!
It's a crazy move on their part. Now there's absolutely no reason not to jizz in their food. Enjoy your meal, boys!
January 17, 2026 at 5:03 AM
It's a crazy move on their part. Now there's absolutely no reason not to jizz in their food. Enjoy your meal, boys!
These are self-described "Republicans" and it would be interesting to know how many ex-Republicans there are.
January 16, 2026 at 11:07 PM
These are self-described "Republicans" and it would be interesting to know how many ex-Republicans there are.
The squid knows where it is because it knows where it isn't.
January 16, 2026 at 10:09 PM
The squid knows where it is because it knows where it isn't.
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behold, courtesy of my amazing wife, the coolest thing anyone has ever made for me
the Imperial Ministry of Silly Walks
the Imperial Ministry of Silly Walks
January 16, 2026 at 8:15 PM
behold, courtesy of my amazing wife, the coolest thing anyone has ever made for me
the Imperial Ministry of Silly Walks
the Imperial Ministry of Silly Walks
As a portable language it makes a fair bit of sense. You don't have to worry about instruction size or speed because the cross-compiler should handle all that, right? :-)
January 16, 2026 at 8:24 PM
As a portable language it makes a fair bit of sense. You don't have to worry about instruction size or speed because the cross-compiler should handle all that, right? :-)
"Where will the most significant 32 bits be stored?"
C's answer is of course "why would you ever want to do that, sod off." It is always very funny how almost all high level languages just completely punt on the difficult bits of assembly language such as add-with-carry or rotates/funnels etc.
C's answer is of course "why would you ever want to do that, sod off." It is always very funny how almost all high level languages just completely punt on the difficult bits of assembly language such as add-with-carry or rotates/funnels etc.
January 16, 2026 at 8:09 PM
"Where will the most significant 32 bits be stored?"
C's answer is of course "why would you ever want to do that, sod off." It is always very funny how almost all high level languages just completely punt on the difficult bits of assembly language such as add-with-carry or rotates/funnels etc.
C's answer is of course "why would you ever want to do that, sod off." It is always very funny how almost all high level languages just completely punt on the difficult bits of assembly language such as add-with-carry or rotates/funnels etc.
Indeed - I feel lighter already.
January 16, 2026 at 7:51 PM
Indeed - I feel lighter already.
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<sips coffee>
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<cracks knuckles dramatically>
<fiendishly cackles>
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<cracks knuckles dramatically>
<fiendishly cackles>
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January 16, 2026 at 4:37 PM
<sips coffee>
<opens form>
<cracks knuckles dramatically>
<fiendishly cackles>
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<cracks knuckles dramatically>
<fiendishly cackles>
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Officially announcing my next game, and it's about:
...driving a 4x4 in a Furniture Store 🤣
(physics-based precision driving in a mini open world mega furniture store)
Please help spread the word and ☆WISHLIST ON STEAM☆
s.team/a/4135570
...driving a 4x4 in a Furniture Store 🤣
(physics-based precision driving in a mini open world mega furniture store)
Please help spread the word and ☆WISHLIST ON STEAM☆
s.team/a/4135570
January 16, 2026 at 5:08 PM
Officially announcing my next game, and it's about:
...driving a 4x4 in a Furniture Store 🤣
(physics-based precision driving in a mini open world mega furniture store)
Please help spread the word and ☆WISHLIST ON STEAM☆
s.team/a/4135570
...driving a 4x4 in a Furniture Store 🤣
(physics-based precision driving in a mini open world mega furniture store)
Please help spread the word and ☆WISHLIST ON STEAM☆
s.team/a/4135570
Sure, but like... any ship. All ships!
January 16, 2026 at 5:50 PM
Sure, but like... any ship. All ships!
I have great (terrible) news!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6gI...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6gI...
China is Introducing the World's Largest Amphibious Assault Vessel
YouTube video by Megaprojects
www.youtube.com
January 16, 2026 at 9:18 AM
I have great (terrible) news!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6gI...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6gI...
Look as long as all the oilers following it are nuke-powered they'll be fine. (yeah it's totally absurd that this thing is going to chew more juice than the Ford and yet it's running on dino juice)
January 16, 2026 at 8:24 AM
Look as long as all the oilers following it are nuke-powered they'll be fine. (yeah it's totally absurd that this thing is going to chew more juice than the Ford and yet it's running on dino juice)
They're even called "Standard Missiles" oh come on absolute placeholder name.
January 16, 2026 at 8:15 AM
They're even called "Standard Missiles" oh come on absolute placeholder name.
Fun fact: Shatner and Nimoy are both descended from Ukrainian Jews.
January 16, 2026 at 7:19 AM
Fun fact: Shatner and Nimoy are both descended from Ukrainian Jews.
Yup, and no Z-buffer. But almost nothing else at the time had those either. Remember that the Voodoo 1 came out a year later than PS1, and cost almost twice as much - and you still had to buy a PC to put it in!
Now the Dreamcast - that was the absolute sweet spot. Just a perfect machine.
Now the Dreamcast - that was the absolute sweet spot. Just a perfect machine.
January 16, 2026 at 6:54 AM
Yup, and no Z-buffer. But almost nothing else at the time had those either. Remember that the Voodoo 1 came out a year later than PS1, and cost almost twice as much - and you still had to buy a PC to put it in!
Now the Dreamcast - that was the absolute sweet spot. Just a perfect machine.
Now the Dreamcast - that was the absolute sweet spot. Just a perfect machine.
They were up all night.
January 16, 2026 at 6:48 AM
They were up all night.
The PS1 was legit the best machine of that age. Absolutely ahead of its time. And then the PS2 was "a faster PS1" but 6 years later and so was hideously obsolete tech (but fast!)
January 16, 2026 at 6:43 AM
The PS1 was legit the best machine of that age. Absolutely ahead of its time. And then the PS2 was "a faster PS1" but 6 years later and so was hideously obsolete tech (but fast!)