samguyjones.bsky.social
Father, software developer, writer, cat servant
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I'm starting to find emulsions and sauces really interesting. I like soups. I like focusing on a dish and making it over and over with little tweaks.
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Are you thinking of something specific? I think of huevos rancheros or hash browns with cheddar and green chile. An Austin breakfast is some number of breakfast tacos.
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It's weird to feel indignant reading this when I don't eat until 2pm, so if I eat breakfast, I eat it late.
All discussions of breakfast make pretty strong cultural assumptions.
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I like the beginning of the first Children of the Corn enough that I hate to list it even though the movie falls apart badly.
Fast and the Furious, Resident Evil and Transformers are also all misses for me.
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I can't find Brotherhood of the Wolf in this thread. I think it fits.
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On some levels, that's sad, and I'm sorry to have scared it, but the sight of this prairie dog clawing handfuls of sand as it frantically tried to burrow under the fence was a masterpiece of physical comedy.
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There are bike trails in Albuquerque that go straight through prairie dog villages. Once, I was going through the trail, and this singularly huge prairie dog tried to get under a chain link fence to get away.
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It's interesting. There are a lot of games that I play where frustration is part of the appeal, but my character always feels like a powerful person in an overwhelming world.
I have no idea how you navigate that line, to feel challenged and not ineffectual.
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You're right. For some reason, my eyes slid right off of that.
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Also, almost no self promotion. It took some searching to get from the article to guessing who you were on Bluesky.
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Within a paragraph, my mind was racing ahead to a bunch of depressing examples of us being content to see disasters unfold because we'll fix it later.
But that's not where it went. It went to new narratives, in a way. serving as an example in itself.
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And I think there's stuff you can't do like this. So is the idea that the "renegade" will be a designer/developer, who happens to know a killer 3D artist/mocap expert and a composer/sound engineer who all have three years of income saved?
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From the outside, I can't understand how the game industry can be in this state. An independent game is something like 3k-60k man/hours of work.
I guess it's like writing fiction. Only the very top tier don't have another job.
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For something abstract, this feels borderline NSFW, or is that just me?
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I like all your stuff, but this has a bunch of things that singly would make it great:
1. The color palette. It's really gorgeous.
2. The perspective. The shader makes the shift halfway between how it's handled in 2D and 3D animation in a really cool way.
3. The smoke. The shape and shading on it.
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I think a lot about how the simple act of riding bakes all bicyclists safer. Cars are more mindful of cyclists the more they see them. So anyone riding something that registers like a bike to a driver -- a city bike, a mountain bike, an ebike -- is helping all cyclists in that area.
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Do you have an overall image of where it's going to go?
This made me image search "plants growing in cars", and that got mostly cars impaled by trees. It's an interesting combination of industrial desolation against the triumph of nature.
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I've been wondering whether to see this. Civil War was impressively unsettling in scenes but on the whole shockingly tone deaf. I'm hoping Garland hasn't just lost it because I love the 28 Days Later franchise.
I checked your feed, and your taste seems good. I'll give it a look if I get a chance.
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This is beautiful! It looks great!
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Funny side note: 512 is the area code of Austin, where Tesla (to my shame) has its headquarters.
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What things do you grow? What's been the most rewarding? I'm thinking about chives and basil. A few years ago, I grew popcorn, which was an awful idea. It's the perfect crop for economies of scale.
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I've seen both and I don't quite get what the big deal about IMAX specifically is. It was the best movie I've seen in a long time in both formats. One was bigger and more detailed.
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In the wake of seeing so many beliefs demonstrated as performative, I wonder about a lot of conservative doctrine.
I'm starting to doubt people actually think the creator of the universe has such strong opinions about gender identity.
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And some opinions are performative. There were people who said that the covid vaccine would be invariably fatal. If they didn't move to the middle of nowhere and start growing their own crops to prepare for the majority of American to suddenly drop dead, no, they didn't believe that.
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The thing it was best at compared to me was suggesting things to fit a category. If I tried to think of 50 professions that would run afoul of a criminal conspiracy, I'd get stuck around five. ChatGPT came up with a fairly good list.
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I tried using it for a diet plan. I set myself a challenge to buy four weeks of food and eat nothing else. ChatGPT was pretty vague about it and suggested too much stuff that spoiled fast.
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They're worried about so much stuff that turns out to not matter at all, which is also pretty realistic. The juke joint isn't making money on its opening night, but also almost everyone there is about to be dead.
I'd watch a movie about the native american vampire hunters, too.
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And, while the anti-AI view lacks nuance, it doesn't deserve to be compared to MAGA style tribalism, which has a lot of elements based on fundamentally wrong assumptions.
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So when people say, "AI makes it so you don't need developers anymore." People say, "that's completely wrong."
My experience is that AI can provide a kind of sloppy junior developer, which is kind of amazing. I can fix that a lot faster than I could write that.
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This is probably stronger in your industry than on "the left" overall. I definitely understand anyone in the games industry feeling under attack right now.
And about 95% of the articles talking about AI are describing a bad application or making a bad assumption.
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Nobody ever recognizes what I'm talking about, so thank you.
Also, that movie is 18 years old. Drone shots were unheard of and stitching scenes together with CGI much rarer, so how'd they shot it?
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I liked the concept, and I loved this one shot where the camera went from one attack and kept panning up to to show attacks in every house. It was a great way to bring home the scale of it.
But everyone, just see "Sinners".
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It's so damn good to have something in common with strangers that we're *happy* about. It's great just cheering with people about how great this movie is. I want this guy to make all the money from it.
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I heard the scene where Chris Pine narrates the paladin walking away was improvised, and I think that's great!
That's one of those movies that's going to be a comfort watch for the rest of my life.
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So good! And "Will Ye Go, Lassie".
It's a great movie by about six different measures! It's a great movie about vampires. It's a great movie about race. It's a great movie about music.
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Google keeps pushing articles to me with odd facts about the movie. Ryan Coogler's contract says he gets complete rights to the movie in 2050. Ryan Coogler is a big fan of Irish Folk and thinks it's central to the evolution of blues.