Ryan Alban
@dreamofpsy.bsky.social
gamedev, tabletop/video games, sailing, miniatures, long walks on the beach
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Just to restate my stance.
1. I have seen several projects collapse due to forcing artists to use GIT for art assets.
2. Artists need instant sharing of latest by timestamp, never merges.
3. Art resource files are massive. PSD files, Substance files and Zbrush files are hecking huge...
1. I have seen several projects collapse due to forcing artists to use GIT for art assets.
2. Artists need instant sharing of latest by timestamp, never merges.
3. Art resource files are massive. PSD files, Substance files and Zbrush files are hecking huge...
November 19, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Just to restate my stance.
1. I have seen several projects collapse due to forcing artists to use GIT for art assets.
2. Artists need instant sharing of latest by timestamp, never merges.
3. Art resource files are massive. PSD files, Substance files and Zbrush files are hecking huge...
1. I have seen several projects collapse due to forcing artists to use GIT for art assets.
2. Artists need instant sharing of latest by timestamp, never merges.
3. Art resource files are massive. PSD files, Substance files and Zbrush files are hecking huge...
The actual story is a lot less dystopic than the headline. I hate to say it, but this kind of thing might actually make running exciting enough for me to take it up. Especially if there's a scoring system and leaderboard for the "prey" 😂
Chat, is "the rich are doing the 'fox' hunts again where the fox is a person" a recession indicator www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
‘Are they going to eat me alive?’: trail runners become prey in newest form of hunting
Nervous reporter is chased across English countryside by baying bloodhounds, in what could soon be only legal way to hunt with dogs
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 4:39 PM
The actual story is a lot less dystopic than the headline. I hate to say it, but this kind of thing might actually make running exciting enough for me to take it up. Especially if there's a scoring system and leaderboard for the "prey" 😂
I wonder what I'll end up writing in this. The cover is so pretty that I almost don't want to sully it
November 13, 2025 at 4:54 AM
I wonder what I'll end up writing in this. The cover is so pretty that I almost don't want to sully it
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Your friend came to you because they respect your knowledge and opinion, and outsourcing the answer to a machine is lazy and rude. Just answer them yourself.
Your Friend Asked You a Question. Don't Copy and Paste an Answer From a Chatbot
Your friend came to you because they respect your knowledge and opinion, and outsourcing the answer to a machine is lazy and rude. Just answer them yourself.
wrd.cm
November 3, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Your friend came to you because they respect your knowledge and opinion, and outsourcing the answer to a machine is lazy and rude. Just answer them yourself.
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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
I don't know how niche this one is, but: if your friend opens up to you about something in private, you do not by default have their consent to share it with other people. Not even your romantic partner(s). That's THEIR secret, not yours, until they say otherwise.
Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
October 20, 2025 at 3:58 PM
I don't know how niche this one is, but: if your friend opens up to you about something in private, you do not by default have their consent to share it with other people. Not even your romantic partner(s). That's THEIR secret, not yours, until they say otherwise.
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stop fucking replying to this about headphone jacks. i don't give a shit about if you have to figure out bluetooth. YOU DO NOT NEED TO BE WATCHING A VIDEO AT ALL TIMES. JUST FUCKIN PUT IT DOWN. READ A FUCKIN BOOK OR SOMETHING
October 19, 2025 at 9:01 PM
stop fucking replying to this about headphone jacks. i don't give a shit about if you have to figure out bluetooth. YOU DO NOT NEED TO BE WATCHING A VIDEO AT ALL TIMES. JUST FUCKIN PUT IT DOWN. READ A FUCKIN BOOK OR SOMETHING
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people playing music/videos on their phone speakers in public is more than just mildly annoying and is instead a leading indicator of the decline of community and empath
Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
October 19, 2025 at 8:54 PM
people playing music/videos on their phone speakers in public is more than just mildly annoying and is instead a leading indicator of the decline of community and empath
Many of us dream of a codebase that is both beautiful in form and correct in function. I'm under no illusion that I'll ever produce any such thing, that I can do better than approximate, but I still try! Closer to ideal IS better than farther. Software is details and details matter; details add up.
October 19, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Many of us dream of a codebase that is both beautiful in form and correct in function. I'm under no illusion that I'll ever produce any such thing, that I can do better than approximate, but I still try! Closer to ideal IS better than farther. Software is details and details matter; details add up.
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Nobody ever tells us, but this is like 99% of game programming:
Just did hours of boring but necessary code. The game doesn't look any different yet! But it will tomorrow.
October 13, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Nobody ever tells us, but this is like 99% of game programming:
Sometimes I come across a "hot topic" in my field for the Nth time and I think about writing something long-form to get my knowledge and experiences and opinions out there. But then I remember: I'm not confident that enough of my target audience will actually *read* it when they look at it.
October 12, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Sometimes I come across a "hot topic" in my field for the Nth time and I think about writing something long-form to get my knowledge and experiences and opinions out there. But then I remember: I'm not confident that enough of my target audience will actually *read* it when they look at it.
Don't look too closely at the imposters! :D
just spotted that cyberpunk does doom-style sprites for distant cars and characters... amazing
October 9, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Don't look too closely at the imposters! :D
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The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video
September 29, 2025 at 1:45 PM
The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video
I sometimes get myself worked up at how much I feel like the concept of proper blogging has been left by the wayside. Vlogs are similar, but video is not the same medium or experience at all and not the one I want. I want to *read* something someone carefully thought about and *wrote*.
September 28, 2025 at 5:03 AM
I sometimes get myself worked up at how much I feel like the concept of proper blogging has been left by the wayside. Vlogs are similar, but video is not the same medium or experience at all and not the one I want. I want to *read* something someone carefully thought about and *wrote*.
Matt Rose reading gibberish out loud on YouTube made me laugh so hard that I almost threw up and my downstairs neighbours' dog is now barking hysterically
September 26, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Matt Rose reading gibberish out loud on YouTube made me laugh so hard that I almost threw up and my downstairs neighbours' dog is now barking hysterically
AAA video games:
- can be "good enough" rather than perfectly correct (but "good enough" is still a high bar and users can get VERY upset!)
- soft real time, *on the user's consumer hardware*
- potentially serves millions of global users
- expected to endure
- won't cause any deaths on failure
- can be "good enough" rather than perfectly correct (but "good enough" is still a high bar and users can get VERY upset!)
- soft real time, *on the user's consumer hardware*
- potentially serves millions of global users
- expected to endure
- won't cause any deaths on failure
There is a vast difference in the architecture of a software-intensive system whose output must always be accurate and precise versus one whose output can just be good enough.
September 24, 2025 at 5:38 PM
AAA video games:
- can be "good enough" rather than perfectly correct (but "good enough" is still a high bar and users can get VERY upset!)
- soft real time, *on the user's consumer hardware*
- potentially serves millions of global users
- expected to endure
- won't cause any deaths on failure
- can be "good enough" rather than perfectly correct (but "good enough" is still a high bar and users can get VERY upset!)
- soft real time, *on the user's consumer hardware*
- potentially serves millions of global users
- expected to endure
- won't cause any deaths on failure
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Did a spam call write this
my most unpopular opinion is that it's a sign of defective moral character if you point blank refuse to answer phone calls from unknown numbers. it's not that hard to hang up on spam/scammers, and you are probably missing important calls!
September 24, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Did a spam call write this
Put password in secure message web form. Put Pasword in Web Form. no problms ever with securre mesage because good uptime and IT supprt for password important of workplace user. Aweb Form yes a place for a password put pass in web form can trust IT departt for makeing good use of passowrd. friend IT
Work contact: please open this secure message with no context and a really weird url.
Me: Hi, WC, can you give me more context as to what this is? It looks sus as hell.
WC: Yes, open secure message. Secrue message perfec t size for logins! inside very legit and secure for user login safely clicking
Me: Hi, WC, can you give me more context as to what this is? It looks sus as hell.
WC: Yes, open secure message. Secrue message perfec t size for logins! inside very legit and secure for user login safely clicking
September 17, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Put password in secure message web form. Put Pasword in Web Form. no problms ever with securre mesage because good uptime and IT supprt for password important of workplace user. Aweb Form yes a place for a password put pass in web form can trust IT departt for makeing good use of passowrd. friend IT
What's it mean if you read books and don't listen to *any* podcasts?
dating apps should just make men list their top 5 podcasts
September 17, 2025 at 2:43 PM
What's it mean if you read books and don't listen to *any* podcasts?
The seeming inability of some gamedevs to follow extremely basic instructions that help the whole team work faster/better boggles my mind. How hard is it *really* to do things like "only submit your work to source control through this tool that runs data validation so we don't block others"?
September 10, 2025 at 4:56 PM
The seeming inability of some gamedevs to follow extremely basic instructions that help the whole team work faster/better boggles my mind. How hard is it *really* to do things like "only submit your work to source control through this tool that runs data validation so we don't block others"?
18-foot skiff racing sim?
Australia Game Jam where you need to make a game about or set in Australia but you’re not allowed to feature:
-Crocodile Dundee figures
-Mad Max wastelands
-Poisonous creatures
-Crocodile Dundee figures
-Mad Max wastelands
-Poisonous creatures
September 4, 2025 at 1:10 AM
18-foot skiff racing sim?
Why can't my voice *always* sound as sexy as it does when I'm recovering from a cold? :(
September 3, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Why can't my voice *always* sound as sexy as it does when I'm recovering from a cold? :(
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if you're hurt, that doesn't mean someone is trying to hurt you
and if no one is trying to hurt you, that doesn't mean you can't feel hurt
and if no one is trying to hurt you, that doesn't mean you can't feel hurt
August 13, 2025 at 2:04 PM
if you're hurt, that doesn't mean someone is trying to hurt you
and if no one is trying to hurt you, that doesn't mean you can't feel hurt
and if no one is trying to hurt you, that doesn't mean you can't feel hurt