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Gamedev, mostly in graphics programming. Day job working on surgical simulators, night job crafting artisinal Posts ostensibly still making AEROBAT: aerobat.thew.nu artwork/graphics stuff: twarchive.thew.nu/art The JRPG Threads: twarchive.thew.nu

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Thew @amazingthew.bsky.social · 29m

sickass language that normally sounds really pretty but if you get mad enough you can turn half the consonants into furious spit/phlegm sounds, and also if a girl does this it's unbelievably hot somehow

Thew @amazingthew.bsky.social · 35m

clair obscur and wakfu are the only french-language media I've played/watched, and my conclusion is that French Sounds Cool As Shit

Thew @amazingthew.bsky.social · 14h

oh yeah already am

Thew @amazingthew.bsky.social · 16h

happy to report that Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 features correct game design

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Thew @amazingthew.bsky.social · 16h

okay so gustave and lune and sciel all have skills designed around building up powerful attacks over the course of multiple turns, with like stacking buffs and debuffs and charges, and then maelle's role is just "kill everything on the screen instantly" lmao

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Thew @amazingthew.bsky.social · 17h

contacts have a lot of annoying issues but glasses only focus correctly if you're looking dead through the center of the lenses. can't move your eyes to look at things so you gotta turn your entire head like a parakeet. Not Enough People Are Talking About This

Thew @amazingthew.bsky.social · 17h

haven't worn contact lenses since like 2020, but I just got a new prescription and god damn I forgot what having peripheral vision was like lol

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Thew @amazingthew.bsky.social · 19h

the original PC port from 2003 messed up a few of the shaders, and then those issues made their way into a bunch of the later ports/rereleases/etc. I THINK this was eventually fixed in the anniversary/mcc version? but it took like 15 years or something lol

Thew @amazingthew.bsky.social · 21h

haha remember the incredibly iconic sniper level where you're in an alien desert at night and everything's lit by planetshine from the gas giant in the sky, and then you hit the Worse Graphics button and it adds more lights and puts grass everywhere and replaces the alien plants with speedtrees

Thew @amazingthew.bsky.social · 22h

haha remember the previous time they HD Remake'd halo 1 and they included a button to switch between old and new graphics and the new graphics just looked Worse every time

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Thew @amazingthew.bsky.social · 22h

also they made a whole engine for Infinite! it had a bunch of really impressive rendering tech!! oh nevermind we fired everyone who knew how to use that, haha just use unreal and fill the default first-person sample project with megascans until it's vaguely halo-shaped

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Thew @amazingthew.bsky.social · 22h

jesus I knew it was gonna be bad but replacing bungie skyboxes with the fucking default unreal Volumetric Cloud Actor has got me Enraged

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