Notices by Aras Pranckevičius (aras@mastodon.gamedev.place)

Ah yes, the four choices of city names: London, Paris, Poland and Banana.

I do wonder about that, relatively speaking, the world seemed like a stable and improving state for the duration of time when David Bowie was alive (1947-2016). Coincidence? I don’t think so.

Something I noticed while occasionally looking at https://www.pouet.net/ : we are entering a time when some demosceners are literally dying :( Over past few years, there's been quite some "XYZ has passed away" messages... On some level, it makes sense and is expected, but still is something "new" that the demoscene has to deal with. :demoscene:

@sinbad @TomF I think it strikes perfect balance of features that "any studio would want" vs "free users don't care about" (like 10/12 bit videos), so that the free version does not "eat into the revenue" of the paid version. Meanwhile, free version is great for anyone who's not making a "professional" film. It's a tricky balance! E.g. at Unity it was always a very unstable balancing act, which features should be in the free version.

Pace of improvements in Godot :godot: is impressive! https://godotengine.org/article/dev-snapshot-godot-4-4-beta-1/

Also very much like that they have ability to summarize a release in human-understandable language that makes sense. For example Unity :unity: seemingly has lost that ability some years ago, and "so what is new in Unity 6.1?" is actually hard to answer.

This dog of #Mosstodon always has the same expression

@lanodan Something along the lines of: git log --author="Your Username" --since="1 year ago" --pretty=tformat: --numstat | awk '{added+=$1; removed+=$2} END {print "Added:", added, "Removed:", removed}'

@artificialmind absolutely! they should totally fire me! oh wait, I'm not employed by them, so they can't :)

Git says I've added 30 thousand, and removed 81 thousand lines of code in #blender over the past year. Not bad, I'll take it!

I must have misplaced my walk cycle animation file

Oh, turns out this :mastodon: instance (mastodon.gamedev.place) has been running for 7 years already. Not a terribly bad result! Here's what I wrote about it at the very start: https://aras-p.info/blog/2017/12/04/Gamedev-Mastodon-mastodon.gamedev.place/

@sinbad 9 this year, where do I get my prize? (though 14 last year... however 10 of those was a series so probably does not count)

Laptop updated from MBP M1 Max to M4 Max. Quick impression that CPU-based workloads I use (compilation, CPU heavy blender stuff) are about 2x faster, nice. Minor downside: whereas on M1 getting the fans to be audible was very rare, on M4 with all CPU cores up the fans do spin up sooner. Not as bad as Intel-based MBPs used to be, but still much more audible than M1.

@sinbad mixed results, I think. If the C suite had more clue, they’d be fewer layoffs yes. But also, there would not have been crazy over-hiring pre-2021-or-so. Even with all the drastic layoffs, the industry is still larger than in 2018.

This little tweet in 2022 Jan was the start of my #blender contribution involvement ;) it is all downhill from there!

Me, trying acrylic paint for the first time at 40-something years old: is that the midlife crisis they’ve been warning about?

@sinbad this one can!

Low resolution mood

@nh @sinbad @neilhenning “carbon based life forms!”, but that would exclude most of future robot uprising people tho

Visual illustration of #blender Thomas Dinges telling developers to update their release notes. Again. #bcon24