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That's right. It's time for part 3 of the FPS series; this time, a lot of assorted thoughts on what makes for good enemy design. This one was fun as hell to write.
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BACK AGAIN
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TELL A FRIEND
That's right. It's time for part 3 of the FPS series; this time, a lot of assorted thoughts on what makes for good enemy design. This one was fun as hell to write.
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building a better first person shooter part 3: enemy mine
So! First, we talked about a specific subgenre of first person shooter, loosely starting with Unreal and Half-Life and dying off around…
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If you like my writing and think I should not have to be stressed by some weird "by paying your taxes we're taking you off your payment plan" bullshit, I need about $2500 in tips on paypal.me/stompsite
please read my article about why humans need enrichment just like cats need lasers. thank you
please read my article about why humans need enrichment just like cats need lasers. thank you
tech billionaires...
December 1, 2025 at 1:17 AM
tech billionaires...
fun fact about my 2008 earthbound save; this party member is named for Steam, the comic book scanner for DCP, who sent me an emulated copy of Earthbound in like January 2008 lol
December 1, 2025 at 1:12 AM
fun fact about my 2008 earthbound save; this party member is named for Steam, the comic book scanner for DCP, who sent me an emulated copy of Earthbound in like January 2008 lol
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As someone who has graded many, many college essays I regret to inform the timeline that the quality of the writing here does not surprise me.
Even more unfortunately, according to the assignment in the article, I would not give this essay a 0/25 by the rubric.
Even more unfortunately, according to the assignment in the article, I would not give this essay a 0/25 by the rubric.
OU student says essay grade was a violation of her rights. Read the essay
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OU student says essay grade was a violation of her rights. Read the essay
In the essay, she wrote traditional gender roles should not be considered stereotypes. What do you think? Read the full essay and professor responses here.
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November 30, 2025 at 8:27 AM
As someone who has graded many, many college essays I regret to inform the timeline that the quality of the writing here does not surprise me.
Even more unfortunately, according to the assignment in the article, I would not give this essay a 0/25 by the rubric.
Even more unfortunately, according to the assignment in the article, I would not give this essay a 0/25 by the rubric.
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your pokemon turns to look you dead in the eye and says, in a perfect roger moore voice, "it looks like they've taken a cacturne for the worse"
December 1, 2025 at 12:19 AM
your pokemon turns to look you dead in the eye and says, in a perfect roger moore voice, "it looks like they've taken a cacturne for the worse"
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Me every time. Even when, like, I’ve just gotten an inspection done and passed, or something like that. Can’t help but think there’s suddenly something I did wrong.
I hate being stopped behind a cop car. Like, sure, I'm obeying all the traffic laws but I can't help but worry there's some secret law I forgot
November 30, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Me every time. Even when, like, I’ve just gotten an inspection done and passed, or something like that. Can’t help but think there’s suddenly something I did wrong.
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Here's a first look at our English patch for Gunslinger Girl on PS2.
November 30, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Here's a first look at our English patch for Gunslinger Girl on PS2.
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(ON PHONE, LOUDLY): yeah, most jet planes come from 'Jet Island'. nobody knows how they're made except The Professor. and he disappeared years ago
November 30, 2025 at 11:45 PM
(ON PHONE, LOUDLY): yeah, most jet planes come from 'Jet Island'. nobody knows how they're made except The Professor. and he disappeared years ago
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Wish me luck—The Scottish Boy (+ a new, similar book!!!) is out on sub to publishers, hoping to find a new home post-Unbound.
The book sold out 3 print runs & did big audio numbers on word of mouth, so I hope a new publisher can build on that. If you liked the book, pls RT 💕 synopsis in alt txt
The book sold out 3 print runs & did big audio numbers on word of mouth, so I hope a new publisher can build on that. If you liked the book, pls RT 💕 synopsis in alt txt
October 30, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Wish me luck—The Scottish Boy (+ a new, similar book!!!) is out on sub to publishers, hoping to find a new home post-Unbound.
The book sold out 3 print runs & did big audio numbers on word of mouth, so I hope a new publisher can build on that. If you liked the book, pls RT 💕 synopsis in alt txt
The book sold out 3 print runs & did big audio numbers on word of mouth, so I hope a new publisher can build on that. If you liked the book, pls RT 💕 synopsis in alt txt
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Apart from looking for a new full time job, I am also on the lookout for some small one off gigs to raise some extra money due to unexpected expenses at this time of year!
Let me know if you think you have something that might fit!
Open to consults as well!
#TechArt #UnrealEngine #Houdini #FX #VFX
Let me know if you think you have something that might fit!
Open to consults as well!
#TechArt #UnrealEngine #Houdini #FX #VFX
Still Looking for a new Job!
Avaliable in 3 weeks, I'm a Senior Tech Artist / Generalist who loves pushing visual boundaries, 13 years of #UnrealEngine, Tech Art, Lighting, Lookdev, Env, Cinematics, HLSL, BP, PCG, Niagara, Python, Houdini, Substance.
#TechArt #UE5 #UnrealEngine #GameDev #Cinematic
Avaliable in 3 weeks, I'm a Senior Tech Artist / Generalist who loves pushing visual boundaries, 13 years of #UnrealEngine, Tech Art, Lighting, Lookdev, Env, Cinematics, HLSL, BP, PCG, Niagara, Python, Houdini, Substance.
#TechArt #UE5 #UnrealEngine #GameDev #Cinematic
November 30, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Apart from looking for a new full time job, I am also on the lookout for some small one off gigs to raise some extra money due to unexpected expenses at this time of year!
Let me know if you think you have something that might fit!
Open to consults as well!
#TechArt #UnrealEngine #Houdini #FX #VFX
Let me know if you think you have something that might fit!
Open to consults as well!
#TechArt #UnrealEngine #Houdini #FX #VFX
what if my brain was NOT dealing with the disease known as depression and instead felt AWESOME??? that'd be cool
I'm doing a LOT better than I would be otherwise thanks to the tips and kind notes but my brain is like a cart with a bad wheel trying to drag me back to depression >:(
I'm doing a LOT better than I would be otherwise thanks to the tips and kind notes but my brain is like a cart with a bad wheel trying to drag me back to depression >:(
November 30, 2025 at 11:51 PM
what if my brain was NOT dealing with the disease known as depression and instead felt AWESOME??? that'd be cool
I'm doing a LOT better than I would be otherwise thanks to the tips and kind notes but my brain is like a cart with a bad wheel trying to drag me back to depression >:(
I'm doing a LOT better than I would be otherwise thanks to the tips and kind notes but my brain is like a cart with a bad wheel trying to drag me back to depression >:(
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People can tell when you're in bitch eating crackers mode.
November 30, 2025 at 11:33 AM
People can tell when you're in bitch eating crackers mode.
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There is pasta and then there is anti-pasta and if the anti-pasta touches the pasta a gigantic explosion happens
November 30, 2025 at 11:41 PM
There is pasta and then there is anti-pasta and if the anti-pasta touches the pasta a gigantic explosion happens
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‘The ass theory of American cinema and male fragility’
In this essay,
In this essay,
From Tom Hanks worried about having a cute butt to Steve Rogers having America's ass in a quarter-century.
November 30, 2025 at 11:41 PM
‘The ass theory of American cinema and male fragility’
In this essay,
In this essay,
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Happy 88th Birthday to 🇬🇧British film director Ridley Scott, born #OnThisDay, here with Ian Holm and Sigourney Weaver during a break in filming a scene on the ‘Mother’ set of the science-fiction horror film "ALIEN" (1979) at Shepperton Studios in England
🎬 20th Century-Fox 🛸
🎬 20th Century-Fox 🛸
November 30, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Happy 88th Birthday to 🇬🇧British film director Ridley Scott, born #OnThisDay, here with Ian Holm and Sigourney Weaver during a break in filming a scene on the ‘Mother’ set of the science-fiction horror film "ALIEN" (1979) at Shepperton Studios in England
🎬 20th Century-Fox 🛸
🎬 20th Century-Fox 🛸
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And that's the crux of it. They are anti-education, anti-thought, anti-intelligence. There is no debating or arguing with them, they should be roundly denounced and ridiculed. TPUSA are proudly displaying this POS essay as some kind of own when they are too stupid to see how terrible it is.
But that's kinda the whole point here. The instructor was correct by any standard any competent university is going to use. That standard conflicts with the worldview TPUSA and its allies hold. There's no compromise with these people.
November 30, 2025 at 11:22 PM
And that's the crux of it. They are anti-education, anti-thought, anti-intelligence. There is no debating or arguing with them, they should be roundly denounced and ridiculed. TPUSA are proudly displaying this POS essay as some kind of own when they are too stupid to see how terrible it is.
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This!
You DON’T HAVE TO USE IT!
It’s so easy NOT to use it.
They can’t force us to use it.
stop rolling over & saying “Well, you just have to get used to it. You can’t stop it”… how’d that work for <insert absolute garbage tech or even any insidious, violent movement (like the NF or N*zis) here>?
You DON’T HAVE TO USE IT!
It’s so easy NOT to use it.
They can’t force us to use it.
stop rolling over & saying “Well, you just have to get used to it. You can’t stop it”… how’d that work for <insert absolute garbage tech or even any insidious, violent movement (like the NF or N*zis) here>?
ALL you have to do is just not use it, tell these companies you aren't using it, and make fun of people who do. We need a mass collective effort to make genAI extremely uncool, lame, embarrassing, cringe. Everyone needs to react to it with a MOUNTAIN of hostility until they run out of steam.
November 30, 2025 at 10:47 PM
This!
You DON’T HAVE TO USE IT!
It’s so easy NOT to use it.
They can’t force us to use it.
stop rolling over & saying “Well, you just have to get used to it. You can’t stop it”… how’d that work for <insert absolute garbage tech or even any insidious, violent movement (like the NF or N*zis) here>?
You DON’T HAVE TO USE IT!
It’s so easy NOT to use it.
They can’t force us to use it.
stop rolling over & saying “Well, you just have to get used to it. You can’t stop it”… how’d that work for <insert absolute garbage tech or even any insidious, violent movement (like the NF or N*zis) here>?
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rich dudes got freakier after butlers fell out of fashion, like say what you will about having domestic servants but clearly it was some sort of moderating force on old rich dudes having a fancy man follow you around saying shit like "oh dear sir, that wouldn't be very becoming"
November 29, 2025 at 6:43 AM
rich dudes got freakier after butlers fell out of fashion, like say what you will about having domestic servants but clearly it was some sort of moderating force on old rich dudes having a fancy man follow you around saying shit like "oh dear sir, that wouldn't be very becoming"
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Computer, please summarize everything PG Wodehouse ever wrote in ten seconds
rich dudes got freakier after butlers fell out of fashion, like say what you will about having domestic servants but clearly it was some sort of moderating force on old rich dudes having a fancy man follow you around saying shit like "oh dear sir, that wouldn't be very becoming"
November 29, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Computer, please summarize everything PG Wodehouse ever wrote in ten seconds
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But I don’t WANT dems to win, I WANT to follow Ned Lud to the off shore data centers and smash the infernal machines with old timey hammers
November 30, 2025 at 7:19 PM
But I don’t WANT dems to win, I WANT to follow Ned Lud to the off shore data centers and smash the infernal machines with old timey hammers
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a customer just came up to me and asked me where she could find vegan snacks
me, literally stocking bananas, stands up straight, wide-eyed, and slowly pans my gaze around the entire produce department
me, literally stocking bananas, stands up straight, wide-eyed, and slowly pans my gaze around the entire produce department
November 30, 2025 at 10:35 PM
a customer just came up to me and asked me where she could find vegan snacks
me, literally stocking bananas, stands up straight, wide-eyed, and slowly pans my gaze around the entire produce department
me, literally stocking bananas, stands up straight, wide-eyed, and slowly pans my gaze around the entire produce department
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imo if you want to get back in power your slogan should be "If you elect us we will prosecute everyone in government who has violated the law"
November 30, 2025 at 9:04 PM
imo if you want to get back in power your slogan should be "If you elect us we will prosecute everyone in government who has violated the law"
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Just a heads up with all the Christmas markets and fairs on at the moment - if you see art or art-based pieces for sale, ask who the artist is, because the amount of people deceptively slapping "made locally" on pieces locally farted out by their computer and a genAI prompt is getting depressing
November 30, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Just a heads up with all the Christmas markets and fairs on at the moment - if you see art or art-based pieces for sale, ask who the artist is, because the amount of people deceptively slapping "made locally" on pieces locally farted out by their computer and a genAI prompt is getting depressing