David Knights Cowling
@aprilfoolschild.bsky.social
Audio nerd and professional, currently at a big a company that makes many sports games. he/him.
A step forward in a cave without a flashlight.
November 25, 2025 at 11:56 PM
A step forward in a cave without a flashlight.
Yeah, my kid had only just gone down on a solo care night, so I was pretty lucky to be available.
November 19, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Yeah, my kid had only just gone down on a solo care night, so I was pretty lucky to be available.
Quadruply so when the space being demolished is housing.
November 15, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Quadruply so when the space being demolished is housing.
Just to clear things up: the discrepancy seems to be a replacing of the numbers on the doc from Net vs Expenditures.
November 12, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Just to clear things up: the discrepancy seems to be a replacing of the numbers on the doc from Net vs Expenditures.
Ugh, so annoyed I didn't save the doc last night. But the Budget Vancouver 2026 doc I was reading this weekend/last night literally used different numbers under Police Services than they do today. It used to propose $497mil.
November 12, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Ugh, so annoyed I didn't save the doc last night. But the Budget Vancouver 2026 doc I was reading this weekend/last night literally used different numbers under Police Services than they do today. It used to propose $497mil.
The numbers don't even add up on the doc anymore. The difference YOY now reads as a $46.2mil change, and a 10% change. But the difference by percent with new numbers is actually 9.2% (or 9% if rounded), implying whoever updated this doc forgot to rerun the % numbers. What is this budget.
November 12, 2025 at 6:51 PM
The numbers don't even add up on the doc anymore. The difference YOY now reads as a $46.2mil change, and a 10% change. But the difference by percent with new numbers is actually 9.2% (or 9% if rounded), implying whoever updated this doc forgot to rerun the % numbers. What is this budget.
What's the point in communities that overwhelmingly fund the punishing of life rather than the living of it?
November 4, 2025 at 3:32 PM
What's the point in communities that overwhelmingly fund the punishing of life rather than the living of it?
The US is mostly State-run and State-scared media.
October 25, 2025 at 10:53 PM
The US is mostly State-run and State-scared media.
I don't know if anything is unfaithful here to the original vision of HCE. But it feels different when not bounding up against the tech constraints of hardware. Repackaging something that made interesting technical choices when those technical choices are no longer relevant robs it of an identity.
October 24, 2025 at 9:34 PM
I don't know if anything is unfaithful here to the original vision of HCE. But it feels different when not bounding up against the tech constraints of hardware. Repackaging something that made interesting technical choices when those technical choices are no longer relevant robs it of an identity.
The main problem with up-res'ing HCE in particular is that most of its style/vibe came from geometry and scale. They were the loudest, most confident elements of the visual language.
When textures scale up, and lighting pulls focus, those things fall to the background, and HCE's voice is buried.
When textures scale up, and lighting pulls focus, those things fall to the background, and HCE's voice is buried.
October 24, 2025 at 9:29 PM
The main problem with up-res'ing HCE in particular is that most of its style/vibe came from geometry and scale. They were the loudest, most confident elements of the visual language.
When textures scale up, and lighting pulls focus, those things fall to the background, and HCE's voice is buried.
When textures scale up, and lighting pulls focus, those things fall to the background, and HCE's voice is buried.