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Sam Swain

@sam.apparance.uk

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A child of the procedural generation. Long-time tools coder off of
the games industry. Worked on Fable, NMS, Gloomhaven. Building crazy proc-gen technology: www.apparance.uk 👈 Try Unreal & Unity plugin for free!

he/him ▪ forever 42 ▪ surrey, uk ▪ no AI

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Ub iWorks

@enterim.bsky.social

the Doom team had a Good John and a Good Carmack, and neither one of them was John Carmack

January 8, 2026 at 5:10 PM

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Professional FailDaughter

@roodypatooti.bsky.social

Wish I could internalize this

brightwanderer
I think a lot about how we as a culture have turned "forever" into the only acceptable definition of success.

Like... if you open a coffee shop and run it for a while and it makes you happy but then stuff gets too expensive and stressful and you want to do something else so you close it, it's a "failed" business. If you write a book or two, then decide that you don't actually want to keep doing that, you're a "failed" writer. If you marry someone, and that marriage is good for a while, and then stops working and you get divorced, it's a "failed" marriage.

The only acceptable "win condition" is "you keep doing that thing forever". A friendship that lasts for a few years but then its time is done and you move on is considered less valuable or not a "real" friendship. A hobby that you do for a while and then are done with is a "phase" - or, alternatively, a "pity" that you don't do that thing any more. A fandom is "dying" because people have had a lot of fun with it but are now moving on to other things.

I just think that something can be good, and also end, and that thing was still good. And it's okay to be sad that it ended, too. But the idea that anything that ends is automatically less than this hypothetical eternal state of success... I don't think that's doing us any good at all.

October 30, 2025 at 1:34 PM

Sam Swain

@sam.apparance.uk

The only reference I can find is an Asian video short showing a waterfall above the cloud viewed from street level.

January 5, 2026 at 6:36 PM

Sam Swain

@sam.apparance.uk

Been meaning to grab this for aaaaages.
It is done.
... now, just need to find some time to play it :D

December 30, 2025 at 10:57 AM

Sam Swain

@sam.apparance.uk

Something in the 'chaos' ballpark? I mean technically they are programs too, just incredibly chaotic and super subject to changes in their inputs/training.

December 30, 2025 at 9:38 AM

Sam Swain

@sam.apparance.uk

Faked catenary loops randomly scattered across the ceilings.
* Extruded geometry generation
* Fake catenary curve using Bezier
* Adjustable hanging cable loop
* Runs of loops
* Ceiling setup and placement logic
* Many space noodle decorations!