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blastron
@blastron.bsky.social
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professional game developer, amateur artist, occasional musician. i might be a vtuber but nobody will know (he/him). h'kai uryuu in ffxiv
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blastron.bsky.social
as was foretold
A pizza in a cast-iron pan, topped with prosciutto, blue cheese, mozzarella, and red sauce.
November 26, 2025 at 4:53 AM
blastron.bsky.social
giving me a sourdough starter was a mistake
A small pizza on a wooden cutting board, topped with pepperoni, olives, and banana peppers.
November 25, 2025 at 6:41 AM
blastron.bsky.social
sometimes you just need to take a bit of a break and make yourself a procedural world-space grid texture, as a treat
A screenshot of some geometry in a level editor. The geometry has a checkerboard-like grid pattern on it. Notably, on angled surfaces, the grid stretches so that it lines up with those on flat surfaces.
November 24, 2025 at 9:48 PM
blastron.bsky.social
if i were in silent hill i would simply walk around the monsters
A screenshot from Silent Hill f, depicting a dim, foggy alleyway. At the end of the alley is a weird puppet monster. A red arrow has been drawn pointing down the alley, labeled "intended path". Another red arrow, pointed at the monster, reads "spooky ghost". Green arrows have been drawn, labeled "easily climbed roofs", highlighting an alternate path that could be taken if the protagonist were able to haul herself up on top of waist-high obstacles, a feat that she has proven herself to be able to do.
November 24, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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me when i gracefully depart the bar at midnight after consuming my third plate of hot wings
A picture of the USS Excelsior from Star Trek III: The Search For Spock. It's a pretty typical Star Trek ship, with a wide, flat saucer, a couple nacelles on some pylons behind it, and connected by an engineering hull with a blue thing on the front. The engineering hull is way bigger and rounder than on most other Star Trek ships. The ship is flying dramatically past the camera, like a particularly majestic whale, with a space station behind it. A funny joke is that in the scene this shot is from, the ship is about to lose power and drift dead in space, as one does after their third plate of hot wings at the bar.
November 24, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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after five months of repeatedly shooting myself in the foot with increasingly complicated computational geometry problems i can now wrap lines around things in my levels, which is useful, because, uh... ask me in another five months
A screenshot of a video game editor. There are some blocks arranged to form various ramps and walls. An editor gizmo is placed on a white wireframe capsule. Originating from the base of the capsule is a green line that projects forward, wrapping itself along the blocks. Similar to the first image, showing a different configuration of blocks.
November 18, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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come on are you even trying
A Google screenshot of the results for the phrase "q-up 'exit to hero select'". The top result is an AI Overview. It reads: The command "q-up 'exit to hero select'" is likely a user query for how to quickly return to the character selection screen in the game Sunderfolk, where that specific menu option exists. - "Q-up" is a general gaming term for queuing up for a match or a game mode. - "Exit to hero select" is a menu option found in the game Sunderfolk (and possibly others with similar mechanics), which allows players to change their character between missions or from the main town area.
November 15, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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god i wish that were me
Some C++ code. It reads: const AParkourPawn* ParentPawn = GetOwner<AParkourPawn>(); const UParkourMoverComponent* MoverComponent = ParentPawn != nullptr ? ParentPawn->GetMoverComponent() : nullptr; const USceneComponent* UpdatedComponent = MoverComponent != nullptr ? MoverComponent->GetUpdatedComponent() : nullptr; if (!UpdatedComponent) { return FGroundQuery(); }
November 13, 2025 at 7:38 PM
blastron.bsky.social
fixed it
November 4, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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JS: Tim, have you ever wondered if this booth could just collapse and kill the both of us? TK: Jimmy, it's all I think about.
November 4, 2025 at 6:45 AM
blastron.bsky.social
a friend gave me some sourdough starter which i immediately used to bake probably the worst loaf of bread i’ve ever made (which is a feat)
November 3, 2025 at 5:56 AM
blastron.bsky.social
oh i was wondering why the finger on my monkey's paw curled when i wished that people would stop treating macOS support as an afterthought
A screenshot of a tweet from OpenAI. It reads, "Atlas is an early experience, and we'll be listening closely to your feedback to guide what comes next. Rolling out today to everyone on MacOS. Window, iOS, and Android are coming soon." There is an embedded image with a very generic logo in the middle of it, with the caption "Introducing ChatGPT Atlas".
October 21, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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this is so true it hurts. i used to blitz through game jams while writing new songs weekly and training parkour and translating webnovels, all with a full-time job. my soul was on fire and it was impossible to contain. now i struggle to keep even one thing alive. when did i decide everything is hard
A screenshot of a tweet by @arithmoquone on X, the everything app. It reads: “When I was 15 I wrote a raytracer in a day just off intuition and wikipedia alone. It’s not like I’ve gotten dumber. I know this sounds ridiculous, but I think it’s literally just a confidence thing. I used to believe I was smart. I need my ego back.”
October 14, 2025 at 6:07 PM
blastron.bsky.social
kill me
The "Game Completion" screen for Hollow Knight: Silksong. The completion percentage is 100%. The time taken is 106 hours, 32 minutes, and 35 seconds.
October 5, 2025 at 6:20 AM
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three months ago i asked myself what the best way to handle wall detection for my parkour game and decided that what i really needed was to go completely off the rails and implement a novel-ish surface remeshing algorithm to compile arbitrary shapes into edge groups instead of, you know, line traces
A blocky test level, surrounded by red and green wireframe boxes. The same test level, except with little blue arrows sticking out of the surface instead of the wireframe boxes. The same surface, with a web of orange lines clinging to it. The same surface, but with all of the lines removed and replaced with a simple purple outline.
September 27, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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here is CLEAR, my (rather rushed) entry into the #fallingblockjam. it's a 4-in-a-row matching game, with a twist: in order for a piece to clear, you must first smash it open by hard dropping onto it

this has received basically no QA or balance testing so, uh, good luck!

blastron.itch.io/clear
September 21, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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"blastron are you making this because you are mad that dr mario isn't tetris"

no there's actual new mechanics coming i swear
September 20, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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step two: clearing lines #fallingblockjam

(you would not believe how long it took me to set up this combo. i am astonishingly bad at dr mario. i need better debugging tools)
September 19, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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lord help me i'm entering the #fallingblockjam. surely three days is enough to make a dr mario ripoff

step one is to get a grid with some jerks on it and then implement the puyo puyo kick table so you can dance around the jerks because it's 2025 and we have to, as the kids say, "schmoove"
September 19, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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A cutout of the original image, just showing the speech bubble, now reading "yes, you are wrong", after the original "all" was poorly scrubbed out.
September 13, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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this, too, is yuri
A picture of a metal bench, from Hollow Knight: Silksong.
September 13, 2025 at 5:37 AM
blastron.bsky.social
heard a weird noise from the other side of my condo and found my cat tunnel halfway across my living room and no sign of my cat
A cloth cat tunnel on a floor. The hind legs of a cat are sticking out of a hole in the side of the tunnel.
September 12, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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okay sure i’ll share some songs, i like doing that
A list of prompts for songs that you like, titled “music ask”. My sincerest apologies for screen reader users, but the list is quite long and I am on my phone. The prompts will be spelled out in the actual replies.
September 11, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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i tried to be a bad person but i forgot that my friends don't care about demos at all. silkposting is so hard sometimes :(
A Discord screenshot showing two posts by a user named blastron. The first post is a screenshot of a tweet by Team Cherry that indicates that a Silksong demo is available today. The second tweet is an image of someone playing Silksong on a Switch 2, with the post text reading "fuck me it's real?? didn't believe it until i literally had it on my switch in my hands" A Discord screenshot, showing a conversation between blastron and another person whose name is blacked out. The other person says, "It's not real until the full game releases. Would be really funny if they shadow dropped it tomorrow though". blastron responds, "hope they transfer saves from the demo so i don't have to play through the first fifteen-ish minutes twice in a row. although i guess i'm going to be getting it on PC so i'm going to have to do it either way". The other person responds, "That's why I'm not downloading it lol. We've been waiting long enough, I can wait a bit longer lol". This message has an emoji react of a plus sign.
August 20, 2025 at 6:48 PM
blastron.bsky.social
damn i didn’t know birds could go that hard. hope she got home okay
An empty and slightly crushed vodka seltzer can, nailed through its tab to a wooden telephone post by a large bird feather.
August 6, 2025 at 5:07 PM