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more cloud stuffs:)
November 4, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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November 4, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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November 3, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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clamp the clouds
November 3, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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DEF was so fun!!~

felt cute, so here's a jumpscare face reveal in the 'fit:)

dopamine plz🫴
October 20, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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i had so much fun w/ Nepherti on the Sweet Talking Podcast! i never expected questions so deep and insightful, and loved touching on topics I've never had the excuse to yap about. we touched on everything from mental health & relationships to candy & coding

vid coming soon at youtube.com/@nepherti
me sitting on Nepherti's lap, with no shirt, holding an SDF raymarcher set to show metaballs. we're both on the same couch the interview took place on.
January 25, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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buggs bunny in a suit, with the text beside reading: "i wish all FRIENDS HEADED TO MAGFEST a very GAY"
January 21, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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wanna see how many technical details i can get wrong in one interview? the answer may shock you! come count along LIVE @ 1737676800 on Sweet Talk Podcast w/ Nepherti!! twitch.tv/nephertii #STPodcast
a thumbnail for the Sweet Talking Podcast, alongside a picture of my new avatar. above the logo, a twitch icon with "Nephertii" next to it, and underneath, "01/23/25 @ 7PM EST"
January 18, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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VRC Volleyball is way too fun!! the controls are very intuitive, and the map has lots of good practice tools!

thank you @okgold.ca for being a great teacher💜💜
okgold, mid-jump, hitting the ball with one hand as our team looks on me, spiking the ball juuuuust over the top of the net, as an opposing player attempts to jump to block the ball with their body
January 10, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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this is a very impressive port - feels accurate to source surf, and i'm bad in the same ways i'm bad at that haha gg
Time: 50.90s PB: 50.90s
January 8, 2025 at 5:59 AM
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A severely compressed web comic from 2010, "Girls 'n' Games #81 by BeanGirl", depicting a holiday party in which our titular gamer girl is crowded with her gamer flock, all clad in gamer swag, who stand in a separate circle from the rest of the party. "This party's cool, but I wish there was a way to find the geeks and gamers in the crowd", one gamer asks her, and she replies "This cake is Great. It's so Delicious and Moist". A gamer in the crowd replies back "The cake is a lie!", and the gamer girl makes the DreamWorks smug face to brag about her epic inside gamer joke. Underneath this panel is a box saying "Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from Girlz N Games!". @2010 Noelle Adams For context, this comic came out three years after Portal 1, and two years after Loss. It's important to remember that in this time, asking your coworker "do you play video-games?" could be met with the same confused concern as if asked "do you hot-wheels? wanna play with my hot-wheels? my life is hot-wheels". Despite this, it was still important to find fellow Gamers, as couch multiplayer and LAN parties were still a thing. Web-comics about gaming spread with the hobby, and they spread FAR. You may not remember peak saturation, but there's a reason every year, industry professionals pack their bags to showcase at the Penny Arcade eXpo (PAX). The popularity of Penny Arcade caused many other gaming web-comics, and chasing success above all else leads to laziness. Many of the era really did just say "what if game logic was real life", or vice versa, and made thousands of panels of the same joke. So, while this comic hurts to read, it really was par for the course, especially for a holiday deadline. We all look back in shame because we know, at one point, we were cringe.
January 1, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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thanks to google's AI Overview, I finally know the performance implications of using temporary RTs over CRTs:)

somebody please teach these damn things context clues before forcing them into every product smh my head
A google search for "unity temporary render texture vs CRT", which returns an AI Overview: "In the context of Unity game development, a "temporary render texture" is a dynamically created texture used to temporarily store rendering results on the GPU, while "CRT" stands for "Cathode Ray Tube," a type of old-style monitor technology that is completely unrelated to the concept of rendering within a game engine like Unity; essentially, comparing a temporary render texture to a CRT is like comparing a digital canvas to a physical screen - they serve different purposes and operate on entirely different levels."
December 7, 2024 at 6:32 PM
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post in question, which was replying to my post about backups, username removed
Wow, ppl still use computers vs phones ?
October 25, 2024 at 8:12 PM
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forgot this:

god, i was terrible at the older games included on the disc lol
The box wrap for The Legend of Zelda: Collector's Edition for the Nintendo Gamecube. The front cover shows the master sword going through the title, with the tri-force in the background. Next, text describing it as a promotional disc containing four games. Finally, a red text box saying "NOT FOR RESALE" along the bottom, since this released as a bundle for the GameCube or for Club Nintendo points. On the back, the first game shown The Legend of Zelda (first one) with a screenshot of a game from the NES. Next is Zelda II: The Adventure of Link, a side-scroller for the same system. Next is a screenshot from Ocarina of Time, originally for the N64. Finally, Majora's Mask, also from the N64. After that, "Includes Playable Demo" and the logo for Windwaker is shown, since the disc had a 20-minute demo of Windwaker. There's also a bunch of copyright info and Nintendo logos I'm not typing unless someone requests it.
October 24, 2024 at 7:36 PM
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Hey Bluesky, show me the first game you remember playing
A picture of Skull kid (who looks like a scarecrow in a strange mask) staring at a startled young Link (a child in a green tunic and hat, with a sword and shield on his back) in a foggy forest. Epona the horse stands behind Link, and two fairies float nearby. This is from the opening cutscene of The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask on the GameCube, and 3d models are very low-poly, having been made for the Nintendo 64 originally.
October 24, 2024 at 7:21 PM
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haha yeaa
A speedtest.net result showing 835.80 Mbps download and 36.88 Mbps upload
October 24, 2024 at 6:54 PM
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update 2: he invented his own version of the furnace stack and the main bus, just by planning ghost versions of his designs. i'm just sitting back and watching and occasionally answering questions, he's doing all the designs wayyyyy better than my first world:0
October 21, 2024 at 6:28 PM
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update: he automated red science on his own, and i'm having fun watching him discover all the stuff i've learned about the game over the years:)
October 21, 2024 at 2:28 PM
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btw it's basically beer-lambert, multiplied by a different scalar on each channel, since different colors scatter differently. each step samples a 3d noise texture (bad) for density and the voxelized light grid (slow) for the emission color, plus an ambient color so it's not too dark to see.
October 21, 2024 at 1:04 PM
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before i disappear into factory hell, this is the state of my volumetric research. looking into separate color channel absorption, 3d noise, etc, i accidentally it into clouds. probably can't use this for AppleGI, star world maybe? definitely banding and unfinished, but looks neat:) saved & reverted
October 21, 2024 at 12:53 PM
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Proud to announce a second project for Raindance Immersive 2024! This time, it's Steph's dance performance alongside our Hologram tech! Come watch the particles wiggle at the semi-sequel to her birthday performance that made me cry really hard.

Details:
www.raindanceimmersive.com#/the-frictio...
May 20, 2024 at 6:54 PM
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Blessed to have so many wonderful and talented DJs & VJs at my map! Last night was like a dream❤️
December 18, 2023 at 3:17 PM
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Render from my music video made for @axdxdos.bsky.social, which was submitted alongside a few others from the Modular Monday crew for @vrchat.com's NYE compilation! The heart beats to the song, and makes waves in the water.

If I could post videos here, I'd post a teaser video as well.
A low-poly heart over a reflective pool of water.
December 2, 2023 at 11:10 PM