Lydia Choy
@choy.bsky.social
Former director of Substance Modeler, Adobe Medium, games and film vfx.
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Foundational figure in PC games. One of those load-bearing creatives where things would look very different for entire genres if she wasn’t around. Please help her out
I’ve started a GoFundMe to help with my cancer battle gofund.me/6850175a3
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November 16, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Foundational figure in PC games. One of those load-bearing creatives where things would look very different for entire genres if she wasn’t around. Please help her out
November 14, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.
November 12, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.
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steam machine de la abuela
November 12, 2025 at 10:40 PM
steam machine de la abuela
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I'm sculpting in the year 3000 in this
November 12, 2025 at 8:41 PM
I'm sculpting in the year 3000 in this
November 12, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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I don’t have a whole lot of advice for people younger than me but the earlier in life you stop worrying about what other people will think and just wholeheartedly enjoy the stuff you like the happier you’ll be
One thing people kind of tell you, but not really, about middle age:
One day you'll be like "oh [thing] looks fun but people will think I'm a loser" about a thing
And then you'll say. Wait a second.
Fuck 'em
One day you'll be like "oh [thing] looks fun but people will think I'm a loser" about a thing
And then you'll say. Wait a second.
Fuck 'em
Darn Tough turned me on to Cute Socks and I've never looked back
November 11, 2025 at 1:24 AM
I don’t have a whole lot of advice for people younger than me but the earlier in life you stop worrying about what other people will think and just wholeheartedly enjoy the stuff you like the happier you’ll be
My guess is that someone only does this if they don’t actually have empathy for real people who are directly affected by these decisions, and they think they are (shittily) playing 4d chess for leverage in the next election, but they are in fact just greedy idiots with no principles.
The American People: “Chuck Schumer, we have provided you with all the leverage you need to win this shutdown fight, once and for all.”
Chuck Schumer *flushing the leverage down the toilet*: “What?”
Chuck Schumer *flushing the leverage down the toilet*: “What?”
November 11, 2025 at 6:46 AM
My guess is that someone only does this if they don’t actually have empathy for real people who are directly affected by these decisions, and they think they are (shittily) playing 4d chess for leverage in the next election, but they are in fact just greedy idiots with no principles.
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If a budget deal goes through without restoring Medicaid & ACA subsidies, they will never be restored.
That's a death sentence for millions of Americans but also to the entire republic and economy: Health care is a for-profit business generating TREMENDOUS economic activity & will grind to a halt.
That's a death sentence for millions of Americans but also to the entire republic and economy: Health care is a for-profit business generating TREMENDOUS economic activity & will grind to a halt.
November 10, 2025 at 12:16 AM
If a budget deal goes through without restoring Medicaid & ACA subsidies, they will never be restored.
That's a death sentence for millions of Americans but also to the entire republic and economy: Health care is a for-profit business generating TREMENDOUS economic activity & will grind to a halt.
That's a death sentence for millions of Americans but also to the entire republic and economy: Health care is a for-profit business generating TREMENDOUS economic activity & will grind to a halt.
I am sad that this large styrofoam Pillsbury dough boy is not for sale.
November 10, 2025 at 1:17 AM
I am sad that this large styrofoam Pillsbury dough boy is not for sale.
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This thread is horrifying, and is only happening with the complicity of Congress and the Supreme Court
A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
November 7, 2025 at 4:17 PM
This thread is horrifying, and is only happening with the complicity of Congress and the Supreme Court
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I have a painting inspired by the classic Coin-Op game Defender in the @iam8bit.com 20th Anniversary Show. Come check it out this weekend if you're in L.A.! #iam8bit20
November 7, 2025 at 4:21 PM
I have a painting inspired by the classic Coin-Op game Defender in the @iam8bit.com 20th Anniversary Show. Come check it out this weekend if you're in L.A.! #iam8bit20
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The elimination of USAID was an unforgivable moral atrocity that should haunt Trump, Elon Musk and Marco Rubio for the rest of their days and beyond
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 2:36 AM
The elimination of USAID was an unforgivable moral atrocity that should haunt Trump, Elon Musk and Marco Rubio for the rest of their days and beyond
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This illustrates the full process of capturing the "Essence" of a mesh to be used in a morph. The distance field is retrieved and then the mesh is projected onto the cube-shaped "screen" in order to pack its surface properties into two cubemaps.
November 4, 2025 at 6:12 PM
This illustrates the full process of capturing the "Essence" of a mesh to be used in a morph. The distance field is retrieved and then the mesh is projected onto the cube-shaped "screen" in order to pack its surface properties into two cubemaps.
Dark UX pattern alert: Amazon now has an “add to delivery” button that instantly orders something instead of just adding to cart 😠.
November 6, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Dark UX pattern alert: Amazon now has an “add to delivery” button that instantly orders something instead of just adding to cart 😠.
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Article about Creative Direction on @polygon.com that I contributed to, which also features one of my very early concepts from Keeper! www.polygon.com/game-directi...
November 5, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Article about Creative Direction on @polygon.com that I contributed to, which also features one of my very early concepts from Keeper! www.polygon.com/game-directi...
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A lot of Very Serious People will be pretending to be confused about What This All Means as a way to avoid the simple inconvenient reality: Voters like it when candidates are kind sincere non-weirdos who are passionate about big popular ideas that will actually help real people.
November 5, 2025 at 3:03 AM
A lot of Very Serious People will be pretending to be confused about What This All Means as a way to avoid the simple inconvenient reality: Voters like it when candidates are kind sincere non-weirdos who are passionate about big popular ideas that will actually help real people.
MAMDANI!!!
November 5, 2025 at 3:01 AM
MAMDANI!!!
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Reminder: Election closing times. Please make sure to vote and remember, if you’re in line when the polls close, you still have the right to vote. Don’t get out of line!
- 7 p.m. ET - Virginia
- 8 p.m. ET - New Jersey
- 8 p.m. ET - Pennsylvania
- 9 p.m. ET - New York City
- 8 p.m. PT - California
- 7 p.m. ET - Virginia
- 8 p.m. ET - New Jersey
- 8 p.m. ET - Pennsylvania
- 9 p.m. ET - New York City
- 8 p.m. PT - California
November 4, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Reminder: Election closing times. Please make sure to vote and remember, if you’re in line when the polls close, you still have the right to vote. Don’t get out of line!
- 7 p.m. ET - Virginia
- 8 p.m. ET - New Jersey
- 8 p.m. ET - Pennsylvania
- 9 p.m. ET - New York City
- 8 p.m. PT - California
- 7 p.m. ET - Virginia
- 8 p.m. ET - New Jersey
- 8 p.m. ET - Pennsylvania
- 9 p.m. ET - New York City
- 8 p.m. PT - California
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why it's almost like there's a concerted assault on informed consensus by extraction class owned media conglomerates to replace what was left of U.S. political journalism with lazy controversy hounding infotainment and right wing and corporatist agitprop
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 8:13 PM
why it's almost like there's a concerted assault on informed consensus by extraction class owned media conglomerates to replace what was left of U.S. political journalism with lazy controversy hounding infotainment and right wing and corporatist agitprop
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In Chicago, a woman was driving to get coffee when a DHS vehicle fleeing an angry crowd crashed into her car. Armed agents jumped out of the vehicle, yanked her door open, pulled her by the legs out of her car at gunpoint, held her incommunicado for hours, then released her with no charges.
November 3, 2025 at 6:34 PM
In Chicago, a woman was driving to get coffee when a DHS vehicle fleeing an angry crowd crashed into her car. Armed agents jumped out of the vehicle, yanked her door open, pulled her by the legs out of her car at gunpoint, held her incommunicado for hours, then released her with no charges.
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New blog post about the development of Radical Pie:
terathon.com/blog/radical...
terathon.com/blog/radical...
November 1, 2025 at 10:32 PM
New blog post about the development of Radical Pie:
terathon.com/blog/radical...
terathon.com/blog/radical...
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i had a chat with lukasz and @antovsky about gamedev and stuff, if youre into that sort of thing! the middle hour is the juiciest but its all fantastic, ofc ;) youtu.be/mFBmoCv5EcQ?...
Game Architectures with Alex Evans and Anton Mikhailov
YouTube video by Wookash Podcast
youtu.be
November 1, 2025 at 7:06 PM
i had a chat with lukasz and @antovsky about gamedev and stuff, if youre into that sort of thing! the middle hour is the juiciest but its all fantastic, ofc ;) youtu.be/mFBmoCv5EcQ?...
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City Lights, a San Francisco Institution founded by the late great Beat Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, has banners posted for this time in history
October 30, 2025 at 6:57 PM
City Lights, a San Francisco Institution founded by the late great Beat Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, has banners posted for this time in history
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What would you do if democracy was being dismantled before your eyes? Whatever you’re doing right now | Andy Beckett
What would you do if democracy was being dismantled before your eyes? Whatever you’re doing right now | Andy Beckett
In California, daily life under Trump is marked by sporadic resistance and avoidance. Neither will defeat the autocrats, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett
www.theguardian.com
October 31, 2025 at 3:32 PM
What would you do if democracy was being dismantled before your eyes? Whatever you’re doing right now | Andy Beckett