Sam Bloomberg
@xbloom.io
Principal Gameplay Engineer at 1047 Games (Splitgate 2)
Formerly Xbox/SQTech/343i
Formerly Xbox/SQTech/343i
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Sam Bloomberg
@xbloom.io
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Unreal's World Partition: Internals
This is a sort of stream-of-consciousness document explaining how world partition works under the hood.
This is not a general overview of world partition, nor is it an explanation of how to use world...
xbloom.io
Wrote a long technical dive into some internals of Unreal's world partition because I've had to go quite deep into this stuff in the last couple of years. Basically none of the internals are documented, so maybe this will be helpful to someone.
xbloom.io/2025/10/24/u...
xbloom.io/2025/10/24/u...
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Wrote a long technical dive into some internals of Unreal's world partition because I've had to go quite deep into this stuff in the last couple of years. Basically none of the internals are documented, so maybe this will be helpful to someone.
xbloom.io/2025/10/24/u...
xbloom.io/2025/10/24/u...
Unreal's World Partition: Internals
This is a sort of stream-of-consciousness document explaining how world partition works under the hood.
This is not a general overview of world partition, nor is it an explanation of how to use world...
xbloom.io
October 24, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Wrote a long technical dive into some internals of Unreal's world partition because I've had to go quite deep into this stuff in the last couple of years. Basically none of the internals are documented, so maybe this will be helpful to someone.
xbloom.io/2025/10/24/u...
xbloom.io/2025/10/24/u...
Dispatch is great. That is all.
October 23, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Dispatch is great. That is all.
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Working my way through @edzitron.com 's article about the AI bubble. It's fantastic. I do kinda know all this stuff peripherally, but to see it all laid out very clearly with hard numbers is incredibly useful. Thanks Ed!
www.wheresyoured.at/the-case-aga...
www.wheresyoured.at/the-case-aga...
The Case Against Generative AI
Soundtrack: Queens of the Stone Age - First It Giveth
Before we go any further: This is, for the third time this year, the longest newsletter I've ever written, weighing in somewhere around 18,500 wo...
www.wheresyoured.at
October 17, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Working my way through @edzitron.com 's article about the AI bubble. It's fantastic. I do kinda know all this stuff peripherally, but to see it all laid out very clearly with hard numbers is incredibly useful. Thanks Ed!
www.wheresyoured.at/the-case-aga...
www.wheresyoured.at/the-case-aga...
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So I'd like to show a demonstration of what this "waffles" thing is. Here's a conversation between *this site's* CEO, some random guy, and the cofounder of "Tangled", a GitHub clone built on top of Bluesky's protocol.
Please take a moment to really think, about the shape of this thoughtlessness.
Please take a moment to really think, about the shape of this thoughtlessness.
October 3, 2025 at 10:17 PM
So I'd like to show a demonstration of what this "waffles" thing is. Here's a conversation between *this site's* CEO, some random guy, and the cofounder of "Tangled", a GitHub clone built on top of Bluesky's protocol.
Please take a moment to really think, about the shape of this thoughtlessness.
Please take a moment to really think, about the shape of this thoughtlessness.
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It's getting harder and harder to deny that AGI is a near certainty. This kind of rapid expansion, this level of investment and infrastructural shift, this amount of *risk* - it doesn't happen without astronomical reward. The other day I saw a big barn, which can only mean one thing: giant horses
August 27, 2025 at 9:14 AM
It's getting harder and harder to deny that AGI is a near certainty. This kind of rapid expansion, this level of investment and infrastructural shift, this amount of *risk* - it doesn't happen without astronomical reward. The other day I saw a big barn, which can only mean one thing: giant horses
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saw someone refer to "itch's social-media team" and i guess people are still not grasping the size of organization here
i am 90% sure the itch twitter/bluesky are run by the CEO, who is also the guy who wrote the website and continues to write the website
i am 90% sure the itch twitter/bluesky are run by the CEO, who is also the guy who wrote the website and continues to write the website
July 29, 2025 at 12:50 AM
saw someone refer to "itch's social-media team" and i guess people are still not grasping the size of organization here
i am 90% sure the itch twitter/bluesky are run by the CEO, who is also the guy who wrote the website and continues to write the website
i am 90% sure the itch twitter/bluesky are run by the CEO, who is also the guy who wrote the website and continues to write the website
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“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”
July 4, 2025 at 1:40 AM
“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”
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I am not a Social Security recipient but even if I was: Why am I getting an email from SSA celebrating this legislation? How is this an appropriate use of that ostensibly massive database?
July 3, 2025 at 11:44 PM
I am not a Social Security recipient but even if I was: Why am I getting an email from SSA celebrating this legislation? How is this an appropriate use of that ostensibly massive database?
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Hands off Social Security.
Hands off Medicaid.
Hands off veteran care.
Hands off our kids’ education.
Hands off our rights.
We’re going to fight like hell to defend our democracy from Donald Trump. #HandsOff
Hands off Medicaid.
Hands off veteran care.
Hands off our kids’ education.
Hands off our rights.
We’re going to fight like hell to defend our democracy from Donald Trump. #HandsOff
April 5, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Hands off Social Security.
Hands off Medicaid.
Hands off veteran care.
Hands off our kids’ education.
Hands off our rights.
We’re going to fight like hell to defend our democracy from Donald Trump. #HandsOff
Hands off Medicaid.
Hands off veteran care.
Hands off our kids’ education.
Hands off our rights.
We’re going to fight like hell to defend our democracy from Donald Trump. #HandsOff
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let's cut the crap and understand america for what it is. every american voter is a 42-year-old left-handed guy named jon who accidentally locks himself either out of his apartment or inside an emergency stairwell every three years and whose knee still kind of hurts from a 2012 wiffle ball injury
March 25, 2025 at 4:18 AM
let's cut the crap and understand america for what it is. every american voter is a 42-year-old left-handed guy named jon who accidentally locks himself either out of his apartment or inside an emergency stairwell every three years and whose knee still kind of hurts from a 2012 wiffle ball injury
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Okay, I wrote a longer thing about @durbin.senate.gov, @amyklobuchar.com, @klobuchar.senate.gov, @whitehouse.senate.gov, @blumenthal.senate.gov apparently wanting to hand Donald Trump a huge weapon with which to censor online speech.
www.techdirt.com/2025/03/21/d...
www.techdirt.com/2025/03/21/d...
Democratic Senators Team Up With MAGA To Hand Trump A Censorship Machine
At the exact moment when Donald Trump and his MAGA allies are actively dismantling democratic institutions and working to silence critics, a group of Democratic Senators have decided to collaborate…
www.techdirt.com
March 21, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Okay, I wrote a longer thing about @durbin.senate.gov, @amyklobuchar.com, @klobuchar.senate.gov, @whitehouse.senate.gov, @blumenthal.senate.gov apparently wanting to hand Donald Trump a huge weapon with which to censor online speech.
www.techdirt.com/2025/03/21/d...
www.techdirt.com/2025/03/21/d...
And right after our alpha... an announcement for beta in a couple of months :)
youtu.be/Y_gTw7C8IAU
#splitgate #splitgate2
youtu.be/Y_gTw7C8IAU
#splitgate #splitgate2
Open Beta Announcement | Splitgate 2
YouTube video by Splitgate 2
youtu.be
March 8, 2025 at 12:00 AM
And right after our alpha... an announcement for beta in a couple of months :)
youtu.be/Y_gTw7C8IAU
#splitgate #splitgate2
youtu.be/Y_gTw7C8IAU
#splitgate #splitgate2
Watch some of my coworkers be dorks in voice chat, and then come play on the 27th :)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PajF...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PajF...
Splitgate 2: Firecracker Mode - Full Match Gameplay
YouTube video by IGN
www.youtube.com
February 20, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Watch some of my coworkers be dorks in voice chat, and then come play on the 27th :)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PajF...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PajF...
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democrats won’t admit it, but my family’s economic outlook has gotten a LOT better since Trump took office. but what do i know? i don’t have a fancy economics degree, i’m just a regular guy who runs an airplane scrapyard
February 18, 2025 at 12:23 AM
democrats won’t admit it, but my family’s economic outlook has gotten a LOT better since Trump took office. but what do i know? i don’t have a fancy economics degree, i’m just a regular guy who runs an airplane scrapyard
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just start saying this plainly to more people
i'm serious.
i'm serious.
The constitution quite clearly gives Congress the power of the purse, a power the Executive branch is pretending it now has.
Or did you not pay attention at all in school?
Or did you not pay attention at all in school?
January 31, 2025 at 6:13 PM
just start saying this plainly to more people
i'm serious.
i'm serious.
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Commit the sin of empathy.
January 25, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Commit the sin of empathy.
I love paying bullshit amounts for services I don't want and never agreed to pay for.
Yup. Microsoft automatically switched me to the $99.99/year version with Spicy Autocomplete. You have to go all the way through "cancel subscription" to be presented these options and get the $69.99/year one you actually chose.
January 25, 2025 at 4:24 PM
I love paying bullshit amounts for services I don't want and never agreed to pay for.
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COMPUTER SCIENTISTS: "k" means one thousand and twenty-four
STORAGE MANUFACTURERS: "k" means one thousand
DISPLAY MANUFACTURERS [thinking hard]: "K" means nine hundred and sixty
STORAGE MANUFACTURERS: "k" means one thousand
DISPLAY MANUFACTURERS [thinking hard]: "K" means nine hundred and sixty
January 17, 2025 at 10:34 PM
COMPUTER SCIENTISTS: "k" means one thousand and twenty-four
STORAGE MANUFACTURERS: "k" means one thousand
DISPLAY MANUFACTURERS [thinking hard]: "K" means nine hundred and sixty
STORAGE MANUFACTURERS: "k" means one thousand
DISPLAY MANUFACTURERS [thinking hard]: "K" means nine hundred and sixty
New trailer :)
youtu.be/zncj59QzZIM
youtu.be/zncj59QzZIM
The Game Awards 2024 Trailer | Splitgate 2
YouTube video by Splitgate 2
youtu.be
December 13, 2024 at 5:12 AM
New trailer :)
youtu.be/zncj59QzZIM
youtu.be/zncj59QzZIM
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The comments on this article make my head spin.
Yes, activating non-tesla chargers is a stupid awful experience involving too many goddamn apps and failed sessions.
And that's entirely the result of cost-cutting bean counters who couldn't figure out how to reliably build a fucking vending machine.
Yes, activating non-tesla chargers is a stupid awful experience involving too many goddamn apps and failed sessions.
And that's entirely the result of cost-cutting bean counters who couldn't figure out how to reliably build a fucking vending machine.
December 5, 2024 at 12:54 AM
The comments on this article make my head spin.
Yes, activating non-tesla chargers is a stupid awful experience involving too many goddamn apps and failed sessions.
And that's entirely the result of cost-cutting bean counters who couldn't figure out how to reliably build a fucking vending machine.
Yes, activating non-tesla chargers is a stupid awful experience involving too many goddamn apps and failed sessions.
And that's entirely the result of cost-cutting bean counters who couldn't figure out how to reliably build a fucking vending machine.
Let's start this off with some non-gamedev stuff! I've been slowly building out a bunch of (locally hosted, home assistant-based) smart home stuff for my apartment. I already have a mix of zwave and zigbee buttons and lights, but I've been wanting to build a cheap OpenHASP-based wall panel.
November 24, 2024 at 6:16 PM
Let's start this off with some non-gamedev stuff! I've been slowly building out a bunch of (locally hosted, home assistant-based) smart home stuff for my apartment. I already have a mix of zwave and zigbee buttons and lights, but I've been wanting to build a cheap OpenHASP-based wall panel.