turtlespook
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recovering graphics nerd and vtuber/anime fan • 👻✨• i love geometry and physics simulation!
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Essentially, I think that LLM-generated dialogue only makes sense if you believe that the product of writing is words.
But the product of writing isn't words, any more than the product of justice is prisoners, or the product of love is weddings. The product of writing is meaning.
But the product of writing isn't words, any more than the product of justice is prisoners, or the product of love is weddings. The product of writing is meaning.
I had five fascinating conversations for this RPS piece, gathering perspectives on genAI chatbots in games, as seen in Where Winds Meet. Thanks to @meghna.bsky.social, @pyrofoux.bsky.social, @maxkreminski.bsky.social, and @chrisgardiner.bsky.social www.rockpapershotgun.com/horrible-bor...
"Horrible", "boring", and "cheap": Experts pan new chatbot NPCs, but some leave room for optimism
We speak to a collection of developers and AI experts about the potential impact of LLM-powered NPCs in videogames.
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December 23, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Essentially, I think that LLM-generated dialogue only makes sense if you believe that the product of writing is words.
But the product of writing isn't words, any more than the product of justice is prisoners, or the product of love is weddings. The product of writing is meaning.
But the product of writing isn't words, any more than the product of justice is prisoners, or the product of love is weddings. The product of writing is meaning.
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To my trans folks. I'm so sorry these assholes have decided to single you out for just trying to live your lives. It's a disgusting attack on a person's simple right to exist. I hope one day we bring them all to account - no tolerance for intolerance. Trans rights are human rights. Love you all.
December 18, 2025 at 7:11 PM
To my trans folks. I'm so sorry these assholes have decided to single you out for just trying to live your lives. It's a disgusting attack on a person's simple right to exist. I hope one day we bring them all to account - no tolerance for intolerance. Trans rights are human rights. Love you all.
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In our next Tiny Glade update we'll bump the light limit from 32 to 32k while keeping the cost more or less the same.
The small limit has been a cop out, as we didn't quite know how to render huge numbers of (screen-space) shadow-casting lights without severe performance degradation.
The small limit has been a cop out, as we didn't quite know how to render huge numbers of (screen-space) shadow-casting lights without severe performance degradation.
December 5, 2024 at 10:12 PM
In our next Tiny Glade update we'll bump the light limit from 32 to 32k while keeping the cost more or less the same.
The small limit has been a cop out, as we didn't quite know how to render huge numbers of (screen-space) shadow-casting lights without severe performance degradation.
The small limit has been a cop out, as we didn't quite know how to render huge numbers of (screen-space) shadow-casting lights without severe performance degradation.
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Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
December 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
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🙏
a lovely snippet from our latest episode which shows the importance of developers sharing their creative process.
Without @obsidianent.bsky.social showing their work via devlogs, we may never have gotten the beautiful isometric world of Disco Elysium.
Without @obsidianent.bsky.social showing their work via devlogs, we may never have gotten the beautiful isometric world of Disco Elysium.
December 12, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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C. Eames' statement that design is addressing needs and constraints is axiomatic because people who engage in design understand it implicitly. The idea that "convergent evolution" necessitates Homo sapiens-like robots for human labor feels like it skips critical analyses of what you're trying to do.
December 8, 2025 at 3:04 PM
C. Eames' statement that design is addressing needs and constraints is axiomatic because people who engage in design understand it implicitly. The idea that "convergent evolution" necessitates Homo sapiens-like robots for human labor feels like it skips critical analyses of what you're trying to do.
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Roboticists are doing amazing work but you're not going to see much of it in the news because companies are obsessed with milking cash out of investors who shit their pants when a robot with a well-developed face plays a canned emotional expression or a teleoperator makes them move like a human.
December 8, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Roboticists are doing amazing work but you're not going to see much of it in the news because companies are obsessed with milking cash out of investors who shit their pants when a robot with a well-developed face plays a canned emotional expression or a teleoperator makes them move like a human.
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I was supposed debug something to do with bevels but I keep ending up with some kind of mosaic art instead
December 7, 2025 at 1:16 AM
I was supposed debug something to do with bevels but I keep ending up with some kind of mosaic art instead
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I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
November 28, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
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Some random Morton Code tricks:
If you've worked with Morton codes you've probably seen something like the this GLSL code to decode a Morton code, which end up at roughly 27 integer operations to generate the equivalent 2D position.
Code transcribed from fgiesen.wordpress.com/2009/12/13/d...
If you've worked with Morton codes you've probably seen something like the this GLSL code to decode a Morton code, which end up at roughly 27 integer operations to generate the equivalent 2D position.
Code transcribed from fgiesen.wordpress.com/2009/12/13/d...
December 5, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Some random Morton Code tricks:
If you've worked with Morton codes you've probably seen something like the this GLSL code to decode a Morton code, which end up at roughly 27 integer operations to generate the equivalent 2D position.
Code transcribed from fgiesen.wordpress.com/2009/12/13/d...
If you've worked with Morton codes you've probably seen something like the this GLSL code to decode a Morton code, which end up at roughly 27 integer operations to generate the equivalent 2D position.
Code transcribed from fgiesen.wordpress.com/2009/12/13/d...
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One of my students said “performative” the other day and I got a little wound up.
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Performativity!
Farewell to an idea
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September 6, 2025 at 2:05 PM
One of my students said “performative” the other day and I got a little wound up.
phantomheresy.substack.com/p/performati...
phantomheresy.substack.com/p/performati...
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"Thagomizer" in Japanese is, in fact, サゴマイザー/sagomaizaa, and you can imagine my delight when it dawned on me what the katakana I was reading represented.
Come to think of it, Johnny, what's the Thagomizer called in Japanese?
December 4, 2025 at 1:39 PM
"Thagomizer" in Japanese is, in fact, サゴマイザー/sagomaizaa, and you can imagine my delight when it dawned on me what the katakana I was reading represented.
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Loop animation by Lili des Bellons & Crux studio (France).
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December 3, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Loop animation by Lili des Bellons & Crux studio (France).
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OSX yaoi my beloved
last week i remembered that macOS lets you set your own icons and that *I* have the power to delegitimize the professionalism of the software that runs on my machine, so here's a thread of the 16 new icons i've made so far
i really forgot how fun it was to just sit down and make art for myself :')
i really forgot how fun it was to just sit down and make art for myself :')
November 29, 2025 at 9:23 AM
OSX yaoi my beloved
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the bbc changed their article from saying 'trans woman' to saying 'biological male who identifies as a woman'.
even if you don't care about trans ppl it should alarm you just how captured the bbc has become.
they will no longer even say 'trans woman'. that's not normal and shows massive bias.
even if you don't care about trans ppl it should alarm you just how captured the bbc has become.
they will no longer even say 'trans woman'. that's not normal and shows massive bias.
November 26, 2025 at 9:32 AM
the bbc changed their article from saying 'trans woman' to saying 'biological male who identifies as a woman'.
even if you don't care about trans ppl it should alarm you just how captured the bbc has become.
they will no longer even say 'trans woman'. that's not normal and shows massive bias.
even if you don't care about trans ppl it should alarm you just how captured the bbc has become.
they will no longer even say 'trans woman'. that's not normal and shows massive bias.
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Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
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November 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
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This is a great article about ReGIR / World-Space ReSTIR with nice improvements by Tom Clabault:
tomclabault.github.io/blog/2025/re...
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ReGIR - An advanced implementation for many-lights offline rendering | Tom Clabault
Tom Clabault's website
tomclabault.github.io
November 25, 2025 at 12:52 PM
This is a great article about ReGIR / World-Space ReSTIR with nice improvements by Tom Clabault:
tomclabault.github.io/blog/2025/re...
tomclabault.github.io/blog/2025/re...
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great post and thorough writeup! did you ever see inria.hal.science/inria-006247...? it has two crucial & imo brilliant insights: one, you can just use the identity as a hash function! cheap and cache coherent even. and 2 cuckoo hashing keeps probe lengths right down. amazing paper.
inria.hal.science
November 24, 2025 at 8:25 AM
great post and thorough writeup! did you ever see inria.hal.science/inria-006247...? it has two crucial & imo brilliant insights: one, you can just use the identity as a hash function! cheap and cache coherent even. and 2 cuckoo hashing keeps probe lengths right down. amazing paper.
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The post on using spatial hashing with raytraced ambient occlusion attracted quite a bit of interest so I expanded it into a blog post to discuss how it works behind the scenes to both reduce the noise and its cost. interplayoflight.wordpress.com/2025/11/23/s...
November 23, 2025 at 9:06 PM
The post on using spatial hashing with raytraced ambient occlusion attracted quite a bit of interest so I expanded it into a blog post to discuss how it works behind the scenes to both reduce the noise and its cost. interplayoflight.wordpress.com/2025/11/23/s...
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“But what’s it all for?” I asked Oliver, to which he relied, “To make rocks kiss.”
The morphs in Keeper use distance fields as an (implicit) surface representation, which makes it possible to control the distance at which the surface should lie. In other words, it’s easy to deflate or inflate objects, and meshes become easily ‘moldable’.
November 9, 2025 at 4:45 PM
“But what’s it all for?” I asked Oliver, to which he relied, “To make rocks kiss.”
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November 8, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Let's wrap up this lovely week with a nice technical post
This is the "case study" from my Masterclass at GPC, where I apply a series of optimizations to improve the effective bandwidth of a 3x3x3 blur (a proxy for a huge set of operations on volumetric data)
Check ALT text for (a lot of) context.
This is the "case study" from my Masterclass at GPC, where I apply a series of optimizations to improve the effective bandwidth of a 3x3x3 blur (a proxy for a huge set of operations on volumetric data)
Check ALT text for (a lot of) context.
November 17, 2024 at 10:58 PM
Let's wrap up this lovely week with a nice technical post
This is the "case study" from my Masterclass at GPC, where I apply a series of optimizations to improve the effective bandwidth of a 3x3x3 blur (a proxy for a huge set of operations on volumetric data)
Check ALT text for (a lot of) context.
This is the "case study" from my Masterclass at GPC, where I apply a series of optimizations to improve the effective bandwidth of a 3x3x3 blur (a proxy for a huge set of operations on volumetric data)
Check ALT text for (a lot of) context.
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I keep saying this but man I really love how effortlessly feminist #Skong is. Sometimes games need stand up and be like "THIS GAME. RESPECTS. WOMEN." and that's not even a bad thing per se, but there's no posturing in Silksong, it just *does* it.
November 4, 2025 at 2:03 AM
I keep saying this but man I really love how effortlessly feminist #Skong is. Sometimes games need stand up and be like "THIS GAME. RESPECTS. WOMEN." and that's not even a bad thing per se, but there's no posturing in Silksong, it just *does* it.
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