Nick
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Jesus, can you hear me? Good, the comms are working. Now, you're gonna need to run if you want to evade those Roman soldiers. Hold down A to sprint. Go ahead and try it. ... Good work! You just might be the savior yet. Now pick up that AR-15 and let's do some target practice.
December 24, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Jesus, can you hear me? Good, the comms are working. Now, you're gonna need to run if you want to evade those Roman soldiers. Hold down A to sprint. Go ahead and try it. ... Good work! You just might be the savior yet. Now pick up that AR-15 and let's do some target practice.
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My "No Graphics API" blog post is live! Please repost :)
www.sebastianaaltonen.com/blog/no-grap...
I spend 1.5 years doing this. Full rewrite last summer and another partial rewrite last month. As Hemingway said: "First draft of everything is always shit".
www.sebastianaaltonen.com/blog/no-grap...
I spend 1.5 years doing this. Full rewrite last summer and another partial rewrite last month. As Hemingway said: "First draft of everything is always shit".
No Graphics API — Sebastian Aaltonen
Graphics APIs and shader languages have significantly increased in complexity over the past decade. It’s time to start discussing how to strip down the abstractions to simplify development, improve pe...
www.sebastianaaltonen.com
December 16, 2025 at 6:52 PM
My "No Graphics API" blog post is live! Please repost :)
www.sebastianaaltonen.com/blog/no-grap...
I spend 1.5 years doing this. Full rewrite last summer and another partial rewrite last month. As Hemingway said: "First draft of everything is always shit".
www.sebastianaaltonen.com/blog/no-grap...
I spend 1.5 years doing this. Full rewrite last summer and another partial rewrite last month. As Hemingway said: "First draft of everything is always shit".
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You feeling okay, man? I’ve noticed you developing some darker themes that contrast with the whimsy of your earlier installments.
December 1, 2025 at 11:32 PM
You feeling okay, man? I’ve noticed you developing some darker themes that contrast with the whimsy of your earlier installments.
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YEAH, THAT'S RIGHT! I HAVE WRITTEN A NEW ARTICLE!
this one's a bit weird; rather than doing my usual "trying to organize my thoughts and building a winding case that builds on itself," I decided to show you what my EARLY article creation process looks like:
docseuss.medium.com/some-loosely...
this one's a bit weird; rather than doing my usual "trying to organize my thoughts and building a winding case that builds on itself," I decided to show you what my EARLY article creation process looks like:
docseuss.medium.com/some-loosely...
some loosely organized thoughts about dialogue sysin games
think of this as me trying to find out what parts of dialogue choices are load bearing game design and what else can be done with dialogue.
docseuss.medium.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:04 AM
YEAH, THAT'S RIGHT! I HAVE WRITTEN A NEW ARTICLE!
this one's a bit weird; rather than doing my usual "trying to organize my thoughts and building a winding case that builds on itself," I decided to show you what my EARLY article creation process looks like:
docseuss.medium.com/some-loosely...
this one's a bit weird; rather than doing my usual "trying to organize my thoughts and building a winding case that builds on itself," I decided to show you what my EARLY article creation process looks like:
docseuss.medium.com/some-loosely...
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I write middle-grade whodunnits, so you might want to dismiss my opinion out of hand. But I think cosy games/crime sometimes miss the fact that blankets are only cosy when it's cold outside. A world without conflict / a story without stakes isn't cosy, it's just safe.
We need to talk about the cozyfication of games because it’s a serious disease, possibly as bad as the edgyfication of the 90s and the grittyfication of the 00s.
October 27, 2025 at 12:20 PM
I write middle-grade whodunnits, so you might want to dismiss my opinion out of hand. But I think cosy games/crime sometimes miss the fact that blankets are only cosy when it's cold outside. A world without conflict / a story without stakes isn't cosy, it's just safe.
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update: male loneliness epidemic solved
September 12, 2025 at 2:36 AM
update: male loneliness epidemic solved
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the strawberry-wanter has logged on
September 5, 2025 at 4:57 PM
the strawberry-wanter has logged on
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Much like "crab", industrial music is constantly re-evolving from first principles basically anywhere where there's a bunch of metal and plastic laying about
September 1, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Much like "crab", industrial music is constantly re-evolving from first principles basically anywhere where there's a bunch of metal and plastic laying about
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Here's a mini fireworks show I found in the slow motion details of a marine flare. I set this up to capture smoke patterns, but was delighted to find that what look like sparks to the naked eye are tiny perfect fireballs streaking through the sky when seen in close-up at 42x slower than real-time.
July 4, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Here's a mini fireworks show I found in the slow motion details of a marine flare. I set this up to capture smoke patterns, but was delighted to find that what look like sparks to the naked eye are tiny perfect fireballs streaking through the sky when seen in close-up at 42x slower than real-time.
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A government ban on Hungary’s Pride parade backfired Saturday as over 100,000 people marched through Budapest, far more than usual
PM Viktor Orban warned people to stay away, threatening “clear legal consequences.” But the warnings only turned a modest event into a mass rally against his government
PM Viktor Orban warned people to stay away, threatening “clear legal consequences.” But the warnings only turned a modest event into a mass rally against his government
June 28, 2025 at 10:46 PM
A government ban on Hungary’s Pride parade backfired Saturday as over 100,000 people marched through Budapest, far more than usual
PM Viktor Orban warned people to stay away, threatening “clear legal consequences.” But the warnings only turned a modest event into a mass rally against his government
PM Viktor Orban warned people to stay away, threatening “clear legal consequences.” But the warnings only turned a modest event into a mass rally against his government
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i know it's just advertisement but it still pisses me off when tech CEOs claim AGI will solve humanity's problems with its vast intelligence. for a lot of problems we already know the solutions, what prevents them being solved is not a lack of intelligence, but that the solutions are unprofitable
June 10, 2025 at 1:05 PM
i know it's just advertisement but it still pisses me off when tech CEOs claim AGI will solve humanity's problems with its vast intelligence. for a lot of problems we already know the solutions, what prevents them being solved is not a lack of intelligence, but that the solutions are unprofitable
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cool new development, the cat has started lying like this. Stupid little loaf. I gasp every time
May 15, 2025 at 1:01 AM
cool new development, the cat has started lying like this. Stupid little loaf. I gasp every time
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It's a weird world where the shittier a piece of software looks, the more I trust it.
The fancy looking ones? They're going to steal my data or extort me in pricing or just not work.
Crappy looking tools made by some random dude? This shit is going to get the job done and do nothing else.
The fancy looking ones? They're going to steal my data or extort me in pricing or just not work.
Crappy looking tools made by some random dude? This shit is going to get the job done and do nothing else.
April 20, 2025 at 6:36 PM
It's a weird world where the shittier a piece of software looks, the more I trust it.
The fancy looking ones? They're going to steal my data or extort me in pricing or just not work.
Crappy looking tools made by some random dude? This shit is going to get the job done and do nothing else.
The fancy looking ones? They're going to steal my data or extort me in pricing or just not work.
Crappy looking tools made by some random dude? This shit is going to get the job done and do nothing else.
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happy Neil Banging Out The Tunes Day to all who celebrate
April 13, 2025 at 2:05 PM
happy Neil Banging Out The Tunes Day to all who celebrate
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Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen
April 9, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen
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i miss the early internet. people were like “you gotta see this dude. this cat sure is long.” and they were right. it was really long. it never shoulda gotten any more complicated than that.
April 4, 2025 at 9:10 PM
i miss the early internet. people were like “you gotta see this dude. this cat sure is long.” and they were right. it was really long. it never shoulda gotten any more complicated than that.
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One of the superpowers of coming up on late 90s / early 00s forums is an ingrained sense of a barrier between IRL life & The Internet, which is a place, its own distinct hellworld where nothing is real. Makes it easy to not fall for all the fake BS when you inherently view Online as 99% shenanigans
i think people who have actually posted on forums and image boards in the 2000s (or forums in general earlier) have a qualitative advantage on everyone else
April 4, 2025 at 8:14 PM
One of the superpowers of coming up on late 90s / early 00s forums is an ingrained sense of a barrier between IRL life & The Internet, which is a place, its own distinct hellworld where nothing is real. Makes it easy to not fall for all the fake BS when you inherently view Online as 99% shenanigans
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this really is what it’s like
March 26, 2025 at 12:17 AM
this really is what it’s like
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There is a quasi-religion in Silicon Valley that views AI as godlike. This faith has always been parallel to Evangelical Christianity: salvation (transhumanism), the rapture (the technological singularity), and demons (Roko's Basilisk)
Lately the AI faith has fully fused with Christian Nationalism.
Lately the AI faith has fully fused with Christian Nationalism.
March 21, 2025 at 10:51 PM
There is a quasi-religion in Silicon Valley that views AI as godlike. This faith has always been parallel to Evangelical Christianity: salvation (transhumanism), the rapture (the technological singularity), and demons (Roko's Basilisk)
Lately the AI faith has fully fused with Christian Nationalism.
Lately the AI faith has fully fused with Christian Nationalism.
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Happy 31st anniversary to Nine Inch Nails’ classic album, “The Downward Spiral,” released on this day in 1994
March 9, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Happy 31st anniversary to Nine Inch Nails’ classic album, “The Downward Spiral,” released on this day in 1994