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They/them idiot addicted to ripping video game models, reverse engineering, and composing desktop music. https://nitter.gq/t.co/9EAFbOsYaK

Joined March 2012
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I've updated my tool for extracting models from Mario Artist, improving accuracy and fixing a bunch of bugs! Please give this new release a try! (Link in replies)
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Y'all like my new phone trinket
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openai naming their newest model after a dying star thats exhausted 99% of its energy and will soon implode
Our internal tracker picked this one up yesterday!
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Guys this asset is GOLD for prototyping!
I made my tools that make Unity level design better, better #indiedev #gamedev #unity #indiegames #3d
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The show’s achievement and real triumph is in how it tripped on its own joke and fell in love, hard as hell, with its characters and world somewhere in season 4-5. By the finale movie there is basically nothing of that Bush era Adult Swim nastiness left.
Venture Bros probably is my favorite show of all time but it’s so hard to recommend to people, like it’s kind of a dated Johnny Quest parody for a season or two and the best character gets replaced for awhile by a sympathetic pedophile lol but it’s fucking amazing
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There are no more websites
Reddit is announcing a huge shift: It’s going to start requiring users to log in. Reddit is becoming a ‘logged-in-only experience,’ says CEO Steve Huffman theverge.com/tech/1022571/re…
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mockups of the dream
had a dream about a weird version of Super Mario Bros. there was no Mario or Luigi, only these two, their heads could be stood on like platforms.
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巨大ロボットの整備シム「Bay 12: Mech Repair」が発表 4gamer.net/s/G105434.2610290… ・格納庫で故障診断や分解,取り付けをこなす ・クレーンでパーツを取り付け! ・廃材から部品を作り,報酬で設備を強化! ・2028年第1四半期発売予定 ・もちろん日本語にも対応予定
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Faces in Tombone are driven the same way as Mega Man Legends. Two controllers for the eyes and mouth, the face is a single sheet. I export the indicies as curves for playback at runtime via material. Blender and Unreal display the same so we can preview the work easily!
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I remember how it felt when I approached 30:
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I took the app for a test run around Chicago and wow
So I recently badgered my cinematographer @steveyedlin into making my ideal iPhone still camera app. It shoots RAW, bypasses the iPhone's look processing and instead uses the same image processing we use on our movies. apps.apple.com/app/apple-sto…
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48mp RAW default (left) vs app-shot (right) unreal
So I recently badgered my cinematographer @steveyedlin into making my ideal iPhone still camera app. It shoots RAW, bypasses the iPhone's look processing and instead uses the same image processing we use on our movies. apps.apple.com/app/apple-sto…
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A true “film camera in your pocket” experience
So I recently badgered my cinematographer @steveyedlin into making my ideal iPhone still camera app. It shoots RAW, bypasses the iPhone's look processing and instead uses the same image processing we use on our movies. apps.apple.com/app/apple-sto…
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So… who else walked out of Wildwood utterly sobbing 🥹 My creative friends, I truly urge you to go experience the miracle of this film. It feels like gazing into the very core of artistic spirit and love for art. Handmade art. It is the most incredible thing I have ever seen…
"Wildwood" took nearly 15 years to make, with 231 puppets and 136 sets, making it the longest stop motion film ever made.
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Mfw I ignore Superman entirely and have to pit my simplest countable infinity team of ℕ Iron Men up against my friends' own infinite teams of Iron Men, but they're only ℤ and ℚ
You have $10 to beat Superman Who you choosing?
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if you work on this kinda shit you probably should be ostracised from society and maybe imprisoned or worse ngl this is absolute traitor-to-the-human-species shit
Purdue University's IDEAS Lab built an autonomous drone that tracks runners through dense forests completely without GPS or cloud networks. By running 3D LiDAR mapping and obstacle-avoidance AI entirely on-chip, it can weave under tree canopies and predict target movement through blind spots in real time. Massive implications for next-gen search & rescue and edge AI.
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Does that shit say half a terabyte
Trying to install the latest Call of Duty but I do not have a first-born son to sacrifice yet
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food and drinks consumed in a movie theater doesn't really go into your body. it goes into your movie theater body which is separate & holy and harm-proof
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
This text is nearly identical to a tweet first posted by @plume__ on January 30, 2023. x.com/plume__/status…
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This was the craziest shit I’ve ever seen you simply need to go see it
LAIKA's ‘WILDWOOD’ has the largest battle sequence ever for a stop-motion film. • Spans 12 minutes with over 400 shots • Contains approx 3,000 characters • 5 distinct sets were made — all combined were larger than the length of a building • One person was specifically hired to track scarring & scratching on the lead character throughout the battle to ensure maximum detail (Source: ew.com/wildwood-filmmakers-f…)
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Not to be dramatic but Wildwood was maybe the coolest and most beautifully animated film I’ve ever seen in my life.
The stop-motion animation work behind LAIKA’s WILDWOOD (2026) is absolutely insane. 136 handcrafted sets, over 200 practical puppets and 49 animators working across 231 weeks, with some shots producing just 1–4 seconds of animation per week. @LAIKAStudios #Wildwood, #LAIKA_partner
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My wife and I went to watch this yesterday– You know how people talk about how advanced science is indistinguishable from magic? That’s the level these Laika animators are operating on. Hand-made magic born from human passion, skill and effort. Breathtaking.
The first trailer for LAIKA's new film ‘WILDWOOD’ has been released. The film follows a girl who enters a magical forbidden forest to rescue her kidnapped baby brother. In theaters on October 23.
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