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Alex Austin

@crypticsea

Designer/Programmer of Bridge Builder, Pontifex, Gish, Golf?, A New Zero, Sub Rosa, Skate or Don't!, Stunt Derby

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Moonlit Snow on Black Sand, by Memorex Memories from the album Climbing Green Hill E.P

tonight's song
memorexmemories.bandcamp.com/track/moonli...

12.03.2026 05:11 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

If you want to be loved, make a game everyone likes.
If you want to be hated, make a game a few people love.

11.03.2026 17:20 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

A fun cycle we've been locked in for 6-7 years now: AI company implies thing will happen, a load of experts point out thing can't happen as described, media spends six months talking about how thing will happen soon, AI company announces it's not actually trying to make thing happen. Rinse, repeat.

11.03.2026 16:50 πŸ‘ 102 πŸ” 31 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0

When I joined as the head engineer of the Torment Nexus project, it was to work on fascinating technical problems and make the world a better place along the way. I am appalled to discover that the Torment Nexus would be used this way and, now that my options have vested, will be leaving the project

10.03.2026 15:29 πŸ‘ 2496 πŸ” 571 πŸ’¬ 20 πŸ“Œ 16
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walking is getting pretty smooth, the old method is shown first, a bit jerky, new method is turned on about 5 seconds in

11.03.2026 01:49 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

@gameovergreggy.bsky.social it was nice seeing you at the MIX last night!

10.03.2026 17:43 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Drunk in LA, by Beach House from the album 7

your song for tonight
beachhouse.bandcamp.com/track/drunk-...

09.03.2026 05:03 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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saturday night lean testing

08.03.2026 03:46 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Gabor Makes Games

it's weird that you can just lerp (and then normalize) quaternions
gabormakesgames.com/blog_quats_i...

07.03.2026 23:19 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Running from now until Friday, March 13th, I need your help with some research I'm conducting. Full explanation in the survey. Let's have fun with this!

forms.gle/cqrzW7sZ3Aje...

(Please share this link. The more responses, the better the data collection.)

06.03.2026 18:52 πŸ‘ 19 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0
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testing more efficient leg movements while listening to Ghosts V by NIN, it's been go-to album for experimental physics work

06.03.2026 03:42 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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torque testing

03.03.2026 03:44 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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This bit in the From Russia With Love game made me laugh out loud. You've got a fairly grounded, low key fight based on the one in the movie, then the most video game looking fucker of all time slides into frame.

02.03.2026 20:44 πŸ‘ 10204 πŸ” 2833 πŸ’¬ 27 πŸ“Œ 141

100% physics

01.03.2026 05:24 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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this video shows why I've been working on foot collisions for the last year: the first clip has the old collisions with unlimited torque, allowing the yellow player to unrealistically recover. the second has the new collisions with much more satisfying stumbling and falling over

28.02.2026 21:45 πŸ‘ 42 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 0
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This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t George W. Bush may think that a war against Iraq is the solution to our problems, but the reality is, it will only serve to create far more.

This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t

28.02.2026 15:54 πŸ‘ 10391 πŸ” 2850 πŸ’¬ 91 πŸ“Œ 138
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collision

28.02.2026 01:28 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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first steps

27.02.2026 22:19 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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falling

26.02.2026 00:23 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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16807 is a very special number in Computer Science.



You can find it in the Playstation 5 (freebsd 11), almost every Mac Classic game, and even the C++11 standard!


Give it the right prime number, you can produce an evenly distributed sequence for over 2 BILLION values.

25.02.2026 22:13 πŸ‘ 105 πŸ” 14 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

NVidia Says AI Helps Them Add Technical Debt 3X Faster

22.02.2026 20:15 πŸ‘ 24 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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working properly

20.02.2026 22:06 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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back to 3d

20.02.2026 01:48 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
a picture of sam altman with the text: I only came here to do two things, hype some AI and burn some money
looks like we're almost outta money

a picture of sam altman with the text: I only came here to do two things, hype some AI and burn some money looks like we're almost outta money

18.02.2026 21:14 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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lean runners

17.02.2026 05:34 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
How Michael Abrash doubled Quake framerate

How Michael Abrash doubled Quake framerate:
fabiensanglard.net/quake_asm_op...

15.02.2026 15:39 πŸ‘ 122 πŸ” 31 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0
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added a new powerup

12.02.2026 06:01 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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dunk attempts

11.02.2026 16:55 πŸ‘ 28 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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more testing

10.02.2026 01:42 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

much like everything else created by the tech industry trump 2.0 sucks even worse than the old version

09.02.2026 21:37 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0