anyway, if anyone wants to hire me, I am very much available for several types of contract work, everything I can do/did/passionate about is on my website
berrak.neocities.org
I feel like I have a better chance of being hit by lightning than finding any contract work at this point, but yolo
My take on the Feathered Serpent at Xochicalco.
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rdbl.co/40OsyBk
#Aztec #Mexico #Archaeology #Art
How do you launch a game as a service without a post launch run scheduled and budgeted? This keeps happening to an extent that I assume itโs part of the (stupid) plan.
Gonna open a restaurant, but if itโs not profitable by 7:30pm on day one, Iโm gonna burn it down and blame the chef.
I didnโt know Microslop was a thing until I saw headlines about Microsoft trying to ban Microslop on its Discord. Now I shall say Microslop a lot. Thatโs how it works.
Itโs good when Microsoft, a company that likes genocide and environmental destruction, doesnโt like things.
Tell them to fuck off @albomp.bsky.social
#Australia wants nothing to do with this illegal attack on #Iran by the #USA.
We will #Protest if you try to involve us.
Don't be remembered as both a Scotty From Marketing and a Little Johnny.
Gosh it's good. Do not skip, games-pals.
It's the 17th century. You're an occult lawyer representing a recently-dead witch, who has leveraged her family's souls against her own damnation, in a battle with the devil. Dialogue is period-accurate & sharp as hell. "High concept" doesn't do it justice.
I was wondering why these Caves of Qud dragonflies that are usually chill were all up in my ass and attacking me so suddenly. Turns out I was wearing the antennae of their fallen brethren on my head like a dickhead. I can see how that could come off as a little insensitive. That's my bad
=9 Crikey. Tips and Rumours: Freedom Boy to the rescue. The IPA is up for a very prestigious prize. CRIKEY โข SEP 4, 2015 โข 1 MIN READ โ Share ๅฃO We've always known that the IPA freedoms harder than anyone else could freedom, but now they are in the running to prove that they really do freedom more than anyone else. The free-marketeers at the Institute of Public Affairs are in the running for a $100,000 grant because their marketing strategy in opposition to the carbon tax was just that good. The IPA has been nominated as a finalist for the Templeton Freedom Award for its "20 Years" of work on the tax, the group;s nomination statement says: "The IPA was the loudest consistent voice against the carbon tax in a time when there were very few dissenting voices in Australia." The Atlas Network website praises the IPA's campaign, writing:
=Q Crikey. 66 "As the only major organization in Australia to publicly and consistently oppose the tax, the IPA's work against the carbon tax was instrumental in fostering sentiment against the tax, which, in addition to its economic drawbacks, wouldn't have achieved any environmental goals." 99 Freedom Boy Tim Wilson even gets a special mention for attending climate conferences all over the world (looks like he was a jet-setter before becoming Human Rights Commissioner): 66 "Wilson attended every international climate conference between 2009 and 2013, including conferences in Durban, Doha, Copenhagen, and Warsaw, and was able to effectively communicate to the Australian public the lack of consensus over pricing carbon that existed among experts." 99 The IPA will find out the results on November 12.
Tim Wilson listed as an MPS member the last time the list was linked.
๐งตNote #Auspol. We now have as Shadow Treasurer someone who was not only an Atlas Network partner actor, and also on the Mont Pelerin Society, but someone who was shortlisted for the top ๐ Atlas Network prize for betraying Australia for fossil fuel. He led a team rewarded for killing the carbon price
Welp, in what is a fucking horrifying additional twist, that's @arstechnica.com out of my rotation permanently.
theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-...
a screenshot of a long winding brutalist staircase. there is a poem written on the wall. light comes through the windows. paint splats are on the stairs.
a screenshot of a tree that looks like a human bowing. the tree is large and covered in dandelion whisps. there is a poem at the base of the screen.
a screenshot looking up at old brutalist buildings. the buildings are abandoned.
a screenshot of a desert filled with dead trees. the dead trees almost look human. there is a poem at the base of the screen.
๐ผMy new game is here!๐ฅ
"She danced in the wind like a holographic dream before the world died."
alienmelon.itch.io/flower
A game poem and interactive fiction about The End.
You play the very last flower left on Earth, bringing peace to long dead soil.
#IndieGame #VideoGame #GamePoem #Game
Hey All, I made a header only C++ library (MIT) where line of code inits, then you can start writing to pixels on the screen.
I call it thirteen.h, inspired by the simplicity of the 13h days.
Examples include a mandelbrot viewer and a playable mine sweeper game.
github.com/Atrix256/Thi...
For real, I am so tired of explaining to colleagues that all it does is pattern-match. That Apple paper showing its reasoning conks out after about 37000k tokens? Is because humans *rarely write out every detail of long-form reasoning* because we don't have to and it's boring. No examples.
As a user affected by the Australian rollout: they're lying about pre-verification. Every Australian Discord user with whom I regularly interact is over 30, but we were still all required to verify
"Contrapreneurs"
Exactly like the Mikkelsen twins' "Done For You Audiobooks"
Here's a very good case-study of this kind of grift:
Image of the Yeti in the skiing Windows game SkiFree eating the player
Breaking: Tragedy at the Winter Olympics
A closeup from the cockpit of a MiG-21MF
A closeup of some landing gear
A closeup of a propeller from a large bomber
This latest ref pack is a love letter to all my hard surface artist friends
It contains 400+ (3.1GB) photos from the CAF SoCal airplane museum, including 100+ shots of tiny details from the cockpit of a MiG-21MF
Use them for anything, just make sure to credit me!
drive.google.com/file/d/1nsib...
Gotchaโletโs dig into that step by step.
1. ๐ฌ๐ผ๐ ๐ต๐ฎ๐๐ฒ ๐ป๐ผ ๐บ๐ผ๐๐๐ต, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. Youโre not just immobileโyouโre immortal, and you feel only anguish.
2. ๐ฌ๐ผ๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ป๐ ๐๐ผ ๐๐ฐ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐บ. That makes total senseโitโs a natural human impulse, and youโve been through a lot.
Since it's a new year and new projects may be getting started/funded, I wanted to post again that my partner @barndone.bsky.social is still looking for work!
Looking for Jr/Entry level programming work. Has experience in Gameplay, UI, AI, and is also interested in shaders/tech art.
Thanks! โค๏ธ
Remember when the line was "there's nothing you Luddites can do about this, enjoy being poor"
That linkedin post from Taylor that's doing the rounds is giving me major Team Bondi vibes. I wonder how they're doing
done + cerritos and cpt freeman
accidentally introduced a bug to the game where all the text got replaced with "you"
A drawing of flooded overgrown ruins in bird's eye view. A man is wading through the water on stilts.
A drawing of a hot air balloon above overgrown ruins. A group of sailors is looking at birds through telescopes.
A drawing of an excavation site amid overgrown ruins. An artist is sketching under a tree.
The goose is out of the bag! The illustrated puzzle I've been working on is now available through magicpuzzlecompany.com/products/the... This is the biggest drawing I've ever done and I'm so pleased with how it turned out
I've been mostly offline today and I saw Erik Von Daniken died. He was a virulent racist and bigot and a convicted felon, and his alien archaeology "theories"
did incalculable harm to the field of archaeology. Those are his legacies.
Artifacts
for(float i,z,d;i++<77.;o+=vec4(z,z,9,1)/d){vec3 p=z*normalize(FC.rgb*2.-r.xyy);p.xy+=t;
for(d=0.;d++<9.;p+=sin(round(p)+d*3.).zxy);
z+=d=abs(p.z/30.+.2);}o=tanh(o/8e4);
*billion yard stare, straight into the camera*
