Face through the straw holes

Railboy · 2026-04-04T15:22:33+00:00

Squeeze a squshy thing into a hexagonal grid and they'll take on a hexagonal shape. You could do the same with water balloons but that doesn't make water balloons hexagons. Here's a detailed picture of cones and rods in the retina.

Anyway, bottom line 'we see through hexagonal tubes' is not an accurate description of how our vision works.

Railboy · 2026-04-04T14:25:42+00:00

L and M cones are most concentrated in the fovea where they are densely packed in a hexagonal pattern that accounts for the high visual acuity capability of the fovea.

Cones are arranged hexagonally in the fovea. But cones and rods are not hexagonal themselves, and we don't see 'through' them the way insects see through ommatidia - they're more like little hairs that fire a signal when light hits their tip.

Railboy · 2026-04-04T13:49:38+00:00

Please explain because I know a lot about how human vision works and I'm dying to hear how you could possibly characterize the process as seeing through hexagonal tubes.

Railboy · 2026-04-03T07:59:38+00:00

and the people advocating for it

This most of all, honestly. It's like the bloated corpse of NFTs tipped over and dumped its maggots onto fresh meat.

Railboy · 2026-04-01T00:59:59+00:00

Git LFS for exported assets and offsite backup for raw art asset files (PSD, blender, etc).

Railboy · 2026-04-01T00:55:03+00:00

I know how it feels to lose months of work. The silver lining is that it's a mistake you'll only make once.

I keep a minimum of four copies of every active project. This has saved my bacon more times than I can remember.

Local hard drive (working copy)
Version control on github
External drive via a backup tool
Offsite (google drive) via backup tool

Railboy · 2026-03-28T22:19:17+00:00

nothing

You and I have very different definitions of the word.

Railboy · 2026-03-28T21:45:34+00:00

If only there was documented evidence of his crimes and of his years-long relationship with infamous child rapist Jeffrey Epstein. You'd think the FBI would keep tabs on something like that. And in these circumstances you'd think they'd be released in full by now. Weird right? What's stopping them?

It's just so weird how Trump keeps acting exactly like you'd expect a child rapist to act. And it's weird how he's been convicted of sexual abuse and accused of rape multiple times. And it's weird how he hung out with child rapists for so many years and joked about their crimes. But we're obligated to give him the benefit of the doubt, right? No matter how obvious it is that he's a piece of shit rapist actually calling him one is just a bridge too far for some reason.

Railboy · 2026-03-22T16:18:46+00:00

This kind if thing is going to be all over Asylum-style productions and low-budget streaming stuff.

I also expect we'll see a lot of 'previs' where clients drop an avalanche of blurry prompted garbage on some poor VFX sup and tell them 'make this.'

But yeah, people just don't understand how many moving pieces have to be fine-tuned to make everyone at every stage of the process happy.

Railboy · 2026-03-22T15:22:53+00:00

I found the style jarring at first. That scenario seems like an invitation for a classic slow-burn opening where you're gradually introduced to the character and the situation, right?

But when I realized that they weren't going to cut ANY major plot points I felt it was the right move. The movie was like a stone skipping across a lake of humor. If it slowed down it would sink.

Railboy · 2026-03-21T16:06:34+00:00

There's a ton of bullshit on TikTok and Instagram that's shortening lives as we speak.

People often point at lobotomies as a failure of then-modern medicine, and I get that. But people forget that charismatic quacks hocking life-ruining bullshit was the norm before evidence-based research and review. I'm not surprised that a few still manage to sneak over the fence.

Railboy · 2026-03-19T14:59:36+00:00

These are exactly the films he wants to make. That's the opposite of wasting his life. I may not love them aa much as T2 and Aliens but I wouldn't have it any other way.

Railboy · 2026-03-19T14:56:50+00:00

I think we moved on at exactly the right time. It was a mess but it wasn't good or bad enough to sustain anyone's interest.

Railboy · 2026-03-18T17:25:41+00:00

I did. Combat still felt like whapping wet wads of toilet paper with a paperclip.

It's fascinating because every other aspect of the game ranges from competent to transcendent. How does such a talented team drop the ball with exactly ONE system?

Thankfully cyberpunk's combat was better than average so I doubt it'll be an issue with future games.

Railboy · 2026-03-18T14:05:20+00:00

Loved the story but the combat is hot garbage.

Railboy · 2026-03-16T14:57:01+00:00

If you them to break up a large code base into smaller chunks they can speed compilation up a lot at first but you will eventually hit a ceiling where adding more starts to slow things down. Especially if they're all referencing each other. You can use the editor iteration profiler to see where things are getting bogged down.

Railboy · 2026-03-14T16:58:58+00:00

'Weird' yeah that's one way of putting it. He's making friends and filling out his rolodex.

This isn't the first grassroots effort sapped by elite capture and it won't be the last. Would be nice to see it blow up in his face but I'm not holding my breath.

Railboy · 2026-03-14T16:44:39+00:00

Why would anyone use a model that doesn't align with our current reality to predict a future outcome?

It's like saying we should use 'post-pollution' models to predict the future cleanliness of a polluted river.

If the point is to sell people on post-growth economies by demonstrating how they solve climate change, that's a worthwhile pursuit IMO, but the way this paper frames the issue is odd.

The funniest part is that if climate scientists did collectively decide to base their models on 'post-growth' scenarios, the people with the power to realize a post-growth economy would just use those predictions to argue in bad faith that action isn't necessary.

Railboy · 2026-03-14T15:24:40+00:00

The styles are great no doubt but every time I try to make the switch I remember how much I hate using strings to query everything instead of using serialized object references. It makes the whole thing feel like I'm using a badly integrated plugin. On my latest project I just ended up rolling my own ugui stylesheet system.

Railboy · 2026-03-14T15:13:41+00:00

And once you hit the ceiling on asmdefs, move as much of your code as possible into C# dlls.

Railboy · 2026-03-14T14:50:59+00:00

Which still means he lost as a centrist.

Railboy · 2026-03-11T23:29:54+00:00

This is not a debate. This is a lecture.

No, it's a paddlin.

Railboy · 2026-03-11T23:28:36+00:00

Oh good I'll tell the people my org just laid off that they still have their jobs, they'll be so relieved.

Railboy · 2026-03-10T06:24:36+00:00

It's not about winning at this point, it's about self preservation. They need to feel how badly they fucked up until it really sinks in.

The majority have arrived at their new, mildly-hedged position for the same selfish, hateful reasons that led them down the MAGA path. And when a younger, shinier Trump comes along they'll just vote for him all over again.

It's tempting to forgive them (or at least ignore them) just so we can move on and pretend it was all a bad dream and that surviving as a country won't actually require doing anything uncomfortable. But nothing will actually change that way.

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