Adrian Marius Popa
@mapopa.bsky.social
Game developer
Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariuz/
Blog : https://mapopa.blogspot.com
Threads : https://www.threads.net/@popa_adrian_marius
Mastodon : https://mastodon.social/@mariuz
Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariuz/
Blog : https://mapopa.blogspot.com
Threads : https://www.threads.net/@popa_adrian_marius
Mastodon : https://mastodon.social/@mariuz
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What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck?
It's the Pope in 1982.
It's the Pope in 1982.
November 13, 2025 at 1:37 AM
What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck?
It's the Pope in 1982.
It's the Pope in 1982.
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Gemini 3 on par with experts
this riveting (surprise!) tale from a determined 18th-19th century historian explains
1. OCR can be difficult, excruciatingly difficult
2. Gemini 3 seems to do true reasoning to decipher old hand written ledgers, beyond GPT-5-Pro
open.substack.com/pub/generati...
this riveting (surprise!) tale from a determined 18th-19th century historian explains
1. OCR can be difficult, excruciatingly difficult
2. Gemini 3 seems to do true reasoning to decipher old hand written ledgers, beyond GPT-5-Pro
open.substack.com/pub/generati...
November 13, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Gemini 3 on par with experts
this riveting (surprise!) tale from a determined 18th-19th century historian explains
1. OCR can be difficult, excruciatingly difficult
2. Gemini 3 seems to do true reasoning to decipher old hand written ledgers, beyond GPT-5-Pro
open.substack.com/pub/generati...
this riveting (surprise!) tale from a determined 18th-19th century historian explains
1. OCR can be difficult, excruciatingly difficult
2. Gemini 3 seems to do true reasoning to decipher old hand written ledgers, beyond GPT-5-Pro
open.substack.com/pub/generati...
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Announcing: New @steampowered.com Hardware, coming in 2026:
Steam Controller
Steam Machine
Steam Frame.
Watch our jazzy announcement video and wishlist now: steampowered.com/hardware
Steam Controller
Steam Machine
Steam Frame.
Watch our jazzy announcement video and wishlist now: steampowered.com/hardware
Steam Hardware
The Steam Hardware family officially expands in early 2026.
steampowered.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Announcing: New @steampowered.com Hardware, coming in 2026:
Steam Controller
Steam Machine
Steam Frame.
Watch our jazzy announcement video and wishlist now: steampowered.com/hardware
Steam Controller
Steam Machine
Steam Frame.
Watch our jazzy announcement video and wishlist now: steampowered.com/hardware
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A Ukrainian Mi-8 helicopter crew took down a Russian Shahed-136 kamikaze drone using onboard fire from an M134 Minigun.
November 12, 2025 at 6:18 PM
A Ukrainian Mi-8 helicopter crew took down a Russian Shahed-136 kamikaze drone using onboard fire from an M134 Minigun.
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"Human-induced warming has been increasing at a rate that is unprecedented in the instrumental record, reaching 0.27 [0.2–0.4] °C per decade over 2015–2024."
#ClimateEmergency
#ClimateEmergency
Indicators of Global Climate Change 2024: annual update of key indicators of the state of the climate system and human influence
Abstract. In a rapidly changing climate, evidence-based decision-making benefits from up-to-date and timely information. Here we compile monitoring datasets (published at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenod...
essd.copernicus.org
November 12, 2025 at 1:43 AM
"Human-induced warming has been increasing at a rate that is unprecedented in the instrumental record, reaching 0.27 [0.2–0.4] °C per decade over 2015–2024."
#ClimateEmergency
#ClimateEmergency
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In his moronic crusade for an outdated version of energy dominance, Trump has handed true energy dominance to the country’s biggest geopolitical rival
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/c...
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/c...
A Flood of Green Tech From China Is Upending Global Climate Politics
www.nytimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:43 PM
In his moronic crusade for an outdated version of energy dominance, Trump has handed true energy dominance to the country’s biggest geopolitical rival
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/c...
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/c...
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NEW: Global fossil fuel use will peak before 2030 – unless 'stated policies' are abandoned
Contra some terrible news coverage, IEA World Energy Outlook shows coal near peak, oil peaking by 2030 & gas by 2035 (see chart)
What's going on? 🧵 + cool charts
www.carbonbrief.org/iea-fossil-f...
Contra some terrible news coverage, IEA World Energy Outlook shows coal near peak, oil peaking by 2030 & gas by 2035 (see chart)
What's going on? 🧵 + cool charts
www.carbonbrief.org/iea-fossil-f...
November 12, 2025 at 9:02 AM
NEW: Global fossil fuel use will peak before 2030 – unless 'stated policies' are abandoned
Contra some terrible news coverage, IEA World Energy Outlook shows coal near peak, oil peaking by 2030 & gas by 2035 (see chart)
What's going on? 🧵 + cool charts
www.carbonbrief.org/iea-fossil-f...
Contra some terrible news coverage, IEA World Energy Outlook shows coal near peak, oil peaking by 2030 & gas by 2035 (see chart)
What's going on? 🧵 + cool charts
www.carbonbrief.org/iea-fossil-f...
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Shader systems are ridiculously powerful if you’re clever enough.
Most people use them to create visual effects. You know what’s cooler?
Running Linux.
Inside an emulated RISC-V CPU. Inside a pixel shader. Inside of VRChat...
Most people use them to create visual effects. You know what’s cooler?
Running Linux.
Inside an emulated RISC-V CPU. Inside a pixel shader. Inside of VRChat...
November 10, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Shader systems are ridiculously powerful if you’re clever enough.
Most people use them to create visual effects. You know what’s cooler?
Running Linux.
Inside an emulated RISC-V CPU. Inside a pixel shader. Inside of VRChat...
Most people use them to create visual effects. You know what’s cooler?
Running Linux.
Inside an emulated RISC-V CPU. Inside a pixel shader. Inside of VRChat...
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Not a single one of these goals that Elon Musk has to hit in order to get his pay — totally unprecedented largesse — is pegged to a clear humanitarian or environmental goal. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/06/t...
Tesla says shareholders approve Musk's $1 trillion pay plan with over 75% voting in favor
Tesla shareholders approved CEO Elon Musk's historic pay package at the company's annual shareholders meeting in Austin, Texas.
www.cnbc.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Not a single one of these goals that Elon Musk has to hit in order to get his pay — totally unprecedented largesse — is pegged to a clear humanitarian or environmental goal. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/06/t...
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Autogame Deluxe has been in development for over 10 years now.
"Is the game THAT big?!" well no, but stuff happens.
I started the prototype when I was still a dev duo with @thomasjager.nl.
Since then, I've added and removed soo much. People say "make a lot of small games", well this can work too...🧵
"Is the game THAT big?!" well no, but stuff happens.
I started the prototype when I was still a dev duo with @thomasjager.nl.
Since then, I've added and removed soo much. People say "make a lot of small games", well this can work too...🧵
November 22, 2024 at 2:20 PM
Autogame Deluxe has been in development for over 10 years now.
"Is the game THAT big?!" well no, but stuff happens.
I started the prototype when I was still a dev duo with @thomasjager.nl.
Since then, I've added and removed soo much. People say "make a lot of small games", well this can work too...🧵
"Is the game THAT big?!" well no, but stuff happens.
I started the prototype when I was still a dev duo with @thomasjager.nl.
Since then, I've added and removed soo much. People say "make a lot of small games", well this can work too...🧵
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Autogame Deluxe is OUT NOW!! 🚗🚓
Get my one button car-wrecking party game here: store.steampowered.com/app/1952450/...
Please share! ❤️
Get my one button car-wrecking party game here: store.steampowered.com/app/1952450/...
Please share! ❤️
Autogame Deluxe on Steam
Control a tiny car with one button in this 1-10 player party game! Evade cops, commuters, and chaos. Every press turns you left and every turn speeds you up. Battle it out with 10 cars at a time or beat single player challenges.
store.steampowered.com
July 21, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Autogame Deluxe is OUT NOW!! 🚗🚓
Get my one button car-wrecking party game here: store.steampowered.com/app/1952450/...
Please share! ❤️
Get my one button car-wrecking party game here: store.steampowered.com/app/1952450/...
Please share! ❤️
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With @briankaris.bsky.social winning this year’s SIGGRAPH Practitioner award, it’s a great time to repost his HPG 2022 keynote, which is one of the best talks I’ve ever seen. The tech is cool, yes, but what makes the talk is Brian’s approach to R&D and invention.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRnj...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRnj...
HPG 2022 Keynote: The Journey to Nanite - Brian Karis, Epic Games
YouTube video by High-Performance Graphics
www.youtube.com
May 14, 2025 at 9:36 PM
With @briankaris.bsky.social winning this year’s SIGGRAPH Practitioner award, it’s a great time to repost his HPG 2022 keynote, which is one of the best talks I’ve ever seen. The tech is cool, yes, but what makes the talk is Brian’s approach to R&D and invention.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRnj...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRnj...
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RenderDoc v1.41 is now available! It adds threaded support for shader debugging, enabling debugging of shaders that use subgroup/wave operations and simulating all threads in a compute group.
Full release notes: github.com/baldurk/rend...
Binary builds: renderdoc.org/builds
Full release notes: github.com/baldurk/rend...
Binary builds: renderdoc.org/builds
Release Version v1.41 · baldurk/renderdoc
Version v1.41
This release includes new threaded support for the shader debugger on all supported APIs (D3D11, D3D12, Vulkan). More details are found below, and please report any problems encounter...
github.com
November 5, 2025 at 5:13 PM
RenderDoc v1.41 is now available! It adds threaded support for shader debugging, enabling debugging of shaders that use subgroup/wave operations and simulating all threads in a compute group.
Full release notes: github.com/baldurk/rend...
Binary builds: renderdoc.org/builds
Full release notes: github.com/baldurk/rend...
Binary builds: renderdoc.org/builds
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task manager guy canceled for running sleazy scareware business in the naughties :(
youtu.be/1GeF9AjlqP8?...
youtu.be/1GeF9AjlqP8?...
Dave Plummer: The Man Who Scammed Millions (in 2006)
YouTube video by Enderman
youtu.be
November 9, 2025 at 6:13 AM
task manager guy canceled for running sleazy scareware business in the naughties :(
youtu.be/1GeF9AjlqP8?...
youtu.be/1GeF9AjlqP8?...
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Not what I'd planned to read next but here we go anyway. A follow on to Dogs of War and Bear Head, but set decades later on a much diminished Earth. Mars to the rescue! Kind of. 🐝🐝🐝🪐📚💙 #scifibooks #sciencefiction #nowreading
November 8, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Not what I'd planned to read next but here we go anyway. A follow on to Dogs of War and Bear Head, but set decades later on a much diminished Earth. Mars to the rescue! Kind of. 🐝🐝🐝🪐📚💙 #scifibooks #sciencefiction #nowreading
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In another era, ICE raids would be described as persecution of Catholics.
November 9, 2025 at 2:04 AM
In another era, ICE raids would be described as persecution of Catholics.
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At just 2 years old, a Ukrainian boy already knows what a Shahed drone is, and that when it flies somewhere nearby, it is necessary to hide in the hallway.
📹: Karyna Hlushenko/Facebook
📹: Karyna Hlushenko/Facebook
November 8, 2025 at 7:24 PM
At just 2 years old, a Ukrainian boy already knows what a Shahed drone is, and that when it flies somewhere nearby, it is necessary to hide in the hallway.
📹: Karyna Hlushenko/Facebook
📹: Karyna Hlushenko/Facebook
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Donetsk Oblast.
The military arrived to get people out, but there was no one left, only ruins.
russia exiles people from their homes, by destroying entire cities.
Let’s not let them:
u24.gov.ua/nafo-dark-ni...
The military arrived to get people out, but there was no one left, only ruins.
russia exiles people from their homes, by destroying entire cities.
Let’s not let them:
u24.gov.ua/nafo-dark-ni...
November 8, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Donetsk Oblast.
The military arrived to get people out, but there was no one left, only ruins.
russia exiles people from their homes, by destroying entire cities.
Let’s not let them:
u24.gov.ua/nafo-dark-ni...
The military arrived to get people out, but there was no one left, only ruins.
russia exiles people from their homes, by destroying entire cities.
Let’s not let them:
u24.gov.ua/nafo-dark-ni...
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In honor of Viktor Orban's visit to Washington, here's a reminder that Orban has made his country corrupt, stagnant, and impoverished:
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
America’s Future Is Hungary
MAGA conservatives love Viktor Orbán. But he’s left his country corrupt, stagnant, and impoverished.
www.theatlantic.com
November 8, 2025 at 5:52 PM
In honor of Viktor Orban's visit to Washington, here's a reminder that Orban has made his country corrupt, stagnant, and impoverished:
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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Just start typing. That's the prompt. Use Gemini to get faster, context-aware type-ahead suggestions in the DevTools Console and Sources panel. → goo.gle/4qT97Du
November 7, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Just start typing. That's the prompt. Use Gemini to get faster, context-aware type-ahead suggestions in the DevTools Console and Sources panel. → goo.gle/4qT97Du
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The Godot 2025 showreel is out! We're so grateful for every submission, vote, and support from our community 💙
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZwE...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZwE...
Godot Engine – 2025 Showreel
YouTube video by Godot Engine
www.youtube.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:03 PM
The Godot 2025 showreel is out! We're so grateful for every submission, vote, and support from our community 💙
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZwE...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZwE...
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Map of radio frequency interference mapped from space (via SMAP) overlaid with GPSJAM data.
November 7, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Map of radio frequency interference mapped from space (via SMAP) overlaid with GPSJAM data.
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a year of free games !!
October 31, 2025 at 4:33 PM
a year of free games !!
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Everything about making video games is harder than you think.
November 6, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Everything about making video games is harder than you think.