Gwennaël Arbona
@strangergwenn.bsky.social
Senior Engine Programmer @Fortnite, previously @Nintendo. Archery enthusiast.
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I think the fundamental gap here is that non-creative people think that creative people make things for the end product, when in fact it’s the act of creation and not the end point that makes it worthwhile.
I have grown to believe that excessive wealth does something to your brain that is analogous to a serious head injury
December 15, 2025 at 6:26 AM
I think the fundamental gap here is that non-creative people think that creative people make things for the end product, when in fact it’s the act of creation and not the end point that makes it worthwhile.
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i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
November 28, 2025 at 3:28 AM
i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
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having a normal one right now
November 22, 2025 at 1:59 AM
having a normal one right now
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UE 5.7 is out, featuring our new Megaplants plugin: procedural instanced nanite skeletal meshes that voxelize in the distance 👀
@williamfaucher.bsky.social just released a great "getting-started" tutorial on it:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3f7m...
@williamfaucher.bsky.social just released a great "getting-started" tutorial on it:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3f7m...
Unreal Engine 5.7 MEGAPLANTS Crash Course #ad
YouTube video by William Faucher
www.youtube.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:19 PM
UE 5.7 is out, featuring our new Megaplants plugin: procedural instanced nanite skeletal meshes that voxelize in the distance 👀
@williamfaucher.bsky.social just released a great "getting-started" tutorial on it:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3f7m...
@williamfaucher.bsky.social just released a great "getting-started" tutorial on it:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3f7m...
Back to basics after a really disappointing competition. Okay, it's the form that's bad, but a badly tuned bow is also not great. #archery
October 16, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Back to basics after a really disappointing competition. Okay, it's the form that's bad, but a badly tuned bow is also not great. #archery
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I love this analytical take on video game categorization from Antoine Mayerowitz and Julie Belzanne:
hushcrasher.substack.com/p/taxonomy-o...
Instead of trying to vibe-intuit the definition of an "indie" game, the authors analyzed the data from the perspective of game size and credits length
hushcrasher.substack.com/p/taxonomy-o...
Instead of trying to vibe-intuit the definition of an "indie" game, the authors analyzed the data from the perspective of game size and credits length
September 14, 2025 at 10:50 AM
I love this analytical take on video game categorization from Antoine Mayerowitz and Julie Belzanne:
hushcrasher.substack.com/p/taxonomy-o...
Instead of trying to vibe-intuit the definition of an "indie" game, the authors analyzed the data from the perspective of game size and credits length
hushcrasher.substack.com/p/taxonomy-o...
Instead of trying to vibe-intuit the definition of an "indie" game, the authors analyzed the data from the perspective of game size and credits length
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I don't get how people don't realize that a technology that replaces junior and entry level positions in a field destroys that field.
There's no skipping steps. You have to be a junior before you can be a senior, and if you don't have senior people, you don't have a field.
There's no skipping steps. You have to be a junior before you can be a senior, and if you don't have senior people, you don't have a field.
Remember, kids: A real big goal of "AI" is to entirely sever capital from labor, and no, there will be no universal basic income, you can all just starve and die, thanks
www.axios.com/2025/08/26/a...
www.axios.com/2025/08/26/a...
AI is already taking jobs away from entry-level workers
Software and customer service are most at risk right now and could be the canary in the coal mine.
www.axios.com
September 1, 2025 at 4:03 AM
I don't get how people don't realize that a technology that replaces junior and entry level positions in a field destroys that field.
There's no skipping steps. You have to be a junior before you can be a senior, and if you don't have senior people, you don't have a field.
There's no skipping steps. You have to be a junior before you can be a senior, and if you don't have senior people, you don't have a field.
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As a reformed tournament player who dropped out after the second Combo Winter but keeps up with Magic news from a safe distance, I had to write about how funny it is that Vivi is currently screwing up Magic. That's my special little boy. aftermath.site/vivi-is-scre...
August 28, 2025 at 6:22 PM
As a reformed tournament player who dropped out after the second Combo Winter but keeps up with Magic news from a safe distance, I had to write about how funny it is that Vivi is currently screwing up Magic. That's my special little boy. aftermath.site/vivi-is-scre...
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MegaLights slides were just posted online. There's a bunch of details in slide notes if you're curious how our new Stochastic Direct Lighting solution works, why we made it and want to learn a bit about the problem space.
#SIGGRAPH2025 Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games course slides for "MegaLights: Stochastic Direct Lighting in Unreal Engine 5” talk by @knarkowicz.bsky.social and @tiagocostav.bsky.social from Epic Games are now online
advances.realtimerendering.com/s2025/index....
advances.realtimerendering.com/s2025/index....
August 26, 2025 at 5:10 PM
MegaLights slides were just posted online. There's a bunch of details in slide notes if you're curious how our new Stochastic Direct Lighting solution works, why we made it and want to learn a bit about the problem space.
Finally finished restoring my old bike! Did a full teardown, stripped and polished the frame, swapped out cables and re-greased everything...
August 21, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Finally finished restoring my old bike! Did a full teardown, stripped and polished the frame, swapped out cables and re-greased everything...
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tryna make a caustics shader or smth
August 21, 2025 at 5:26 PM
tryna make a caustics shader or smth
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Here's one for all the game devs out there www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
August 21, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Here's one for all the game devs out there www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
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"This is, at the moment, the official voice of the US government: a rancid mixture of trolling, cruelty, propaganda, and crass jokes about the human suffering they’re creating."
The official voice of the US government is cruel, gross, and weird. What is that doing to us?
Joking memes about imprisonment, deportation, and death by alligator are designed to radicalize and desensitize.
www.motherjones.com
August 16, 2025 at 12:37 AM
"This is, at the moment, the official voice of the US government: a rancid mixture of trolling, cruelty, propaganda, and crass jokes about the human suffering they’re creating."
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"...people will just volunteer without explicit economic incentives to create..."
This is LITERALLY what the internet used to be. The whole fucking thing. Every piece of it. Stem to stern. That sentence right there. We were just on here, doing stuff, just to share with each other.
This is LITERALLY what the internet used to be. The whole fucking thing. Every piece of it. Stem to stern. That sentence right there. We were just on here, doing stuff, just to share with each other.
July 27, 2025 at 6:04 PM
"...people will just volunteer without explicit economic incentives to create..."
This is LITERALLY what the internet used to be. The whole fucking thing. Every piece of it. Stem to stern. That sentence right there. We were just on here, doing stuff, just to share with each other.
This is LITERALLY what the internet used to be. The whole fucking thing. Every piece of it. Stem to stern. That sentence right there. We were just on here, doing stuff, just to share with each other.
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I wrote this column and I'll just say that the original headline was much meaner. The piece itself, though, is still very angry and very mean, I assure you.
I’m Starting To Worry This Industry Has No Respect For The People Who Work In It
Once your stock options were fully vested, did you sell off all the shares in your humanity?
www.thegamer.com
July 14, 2025 at 3:40 PM
I wrote this column and I'll just say that the original headline was much meaner. The piece itself, though, is still very angry and very mean, I assure you.
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This was a prototype headcrab. Meet Headcrab 1.0
- cool little guy
- terrible maw
- pettable
- cool little guy
- terrible maw
- pettable
July 1, 2025 at 12:17 AM
This was a prototype headcrab. Meet Headcrab 1.0
- cool little guy
- terrible maw
- pettable
- cool little guy
- terrible maw
- pettable
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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.
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telling me you use any LLM on a daily basis really is the quickest way to lose my respect
maximum disdain speedrun any%
maximum disdain speedrun any%
June 17, 2025 at 9:10 AM
telling me you use any LLM on a daily basis really is the quickest way to lose my respect
maximum disdain speedrun any%
maximum disdain speedrun any%
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hi you should read this it is very scary amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...
Diabolus Ex Machina
This Is Not An Essay
amandaguinzburg.substack.com
June 4, 2025 at 4:56 PM
hi you should read this it is very scary amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...
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