Tom Forsyth

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Gfx coder and chip designer. 3Dlabs/Muckyfoot/RAD/Valve/Oculus/Intel/Rec Room.
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Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 05:08 UTC

Of course! But holy crap the investment required is crazy. Because you need to code all of human biomechanics and the lower brainstem in there. Or... you can get an animator to do it for you.

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Steve Bowler @gameism.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 00:06 UTC

We had this wild bug on Island 359 when we were doing the "survival island" update where we were getting REAL bad frame rate from certain points on the island. We triangulated it to the "save lockers" and somehow, every time you closed the door, it DUPLICATED the guns in the locker (& saved them)...

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ChrisⓋ WhyGameDev.com @chrisdeleon.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 22:31 UTC

For friends not in the US nobody likes to admit this but it's due to the large number of loaded guns we carry every day. To go to an airport is a giant hassle because you gotta find and put away every one! Both ankles. Thighs. Lower back. Under arms. Backpack. Inner thigh. Hat. Hard to not miss one.

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Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 04:00 UTC

All those haters need to be reminded that in ISO 8601 it is indeed 2024-07-09 and therefore you are technically correct.

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Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 03:57 UTC

IKR none of those are bikinis jesus fucking christ an entire atoll died for this!

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Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 22:59 UTC

Maybe treat "grip" like "plant" on feet - have it animate between 0.0 and 1.0. 0.0 means the hand is not gripping a weapon and should animate freely. 1.0 means gripping the weapon, so if the weapon's physics overrides its animated state, that needs communicating back to the hand IK.

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Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 20:24 UTC

Highlights of my racing #Caterham in the Nostalgia group races in Portland on April 27th this year. First race is a bit of a damp squib, but the last one is an epic 4-way battle.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4V8...

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.io
[ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 04:17 UTC

So the more I see of this, the more I respect it. The Cybertruck is so unrelentingly and singularly absurd that the only sane aesthetic response is to heap yet more absurdity on top. This exudes a level of "you're locked in here with me" energy that you don't often get the opportunity to witness.

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Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 03:50 UTC

Barnes Wallis would be proud!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVW4...

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Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 02:17 UTC

BRB complaining to people who like Friends that they kept reusing the same sets and characters over and over LAZY DEVS.

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Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 00:20 UTC

Some people will complain it's the same world. But like... isn't that a good thing? You don't have to relearn it, you can get straight into the actual game. (these same people complain when their favourite real-world race track isn't EXACTLY perfectly reproduced in-game of course...)

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Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 00:18 UTC

I assume they intended for this ear-shape mismatch to be more obvious than it is? Not a great design.

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Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 21:26 UTC

It's that or pure raytracing. And then after a few years screwing with that, most come back to the land of realtime :-)

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[ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 20:24 UTC

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Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 05:08 UTC

Look, it's not a real French election unless some farmers fill Paris with manure. Otherwise it's just a sparkling referendum on the Nazis.

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Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 22:18 UTC

Same. Lots of annoying "this incidental 32x32 picture of a magazine in a shop is too similar to the cover of Vogue August 1993" stuff, but it does avoid... this.

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Roxy @redrawnoxen.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 21:34 UTC

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Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 20:47 UTC

This is why I'm almost grateful for the Project 2025 decloak. Almost.

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Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 20:45 UTC

At least make them purple to remind everybody to change them, or name them clearly or put them in a folder called "placeholder"

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[ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 00:49 UTC

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Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 03:54 UTC

From my actual favourite obscure movie that should be better known: "Big big fucking guns!" "What the hell's he on?" "Chocolate."

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Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 03:40 UTC

My favourite poorly-known quote from a film with a lot of very well-known quotes is: "We've got company." "Police?" "How many?" "Uh, all of them, I think."

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Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com
[ View ] Aug 11, 2023 at 11:35 UTC

Macs mini? NUCs? Bring back what they took from us.

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Eniko Fox @eniko.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 07:45 UTC

27 DAYS

until Kitsune Tails releases and you too can enjoy powering up into a fierce spear wielding samurai!

wishlist via kitsunegames.com/kitsunetails

#QueerGames #GameDev

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𝙱𝚊𝚋𝚎 𝚃𝚛𝚞𝚝𝚑 @unfitz.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 23:04 UTC

Saw an AI fireworks show and a guy lost all 7 fingers on one hand.

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John Kennedy @micefearboggis.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 11:32 UTC

When an article says "some scientists think" then remember this: I, a scientist, once thought I could fit a whole orange in my mouth. I could, it turns out, get it in there, but I hadn't given sufficient thought to the reverse operation.

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Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 00:55 UTC

In a fun(TM) parallel, Starmer is one of the least popular incoming PMs ever. This is people telling the Conservatives they screwed up, rather than a positive vote for Labour. I am glad the UK knows how to hold their noses and vote for the lesser evil.

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Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 21:05 UTC

It's got all the same vibes, but with a really good update for modern tastes. I enjoyed it hugely.

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 20:07 UTC

ITS THAT TIME AGAIN www.amazon.com/Pounded-Admi...

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Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 05:40 UTC

Cycle of Duty: Pulse Wave Modulation Warfare.

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Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 04:15 UTC

This place has better shitposting lawyers for some reason. Worth every penny!

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Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 21:30 UTC

I do wonder if the Clarence Thomas bribes expose was a trigger for the rest of them to realise that there were no penalties for doing whatever the hell they wanted. "Well damn, if it's gonna be that sort of party..."

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Make it a Quote @miq.moe
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 18:45 UTC

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Jeffrey Vagle @jvagle.me
[ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 23:57 UTC

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Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 06:32 UTC

TBF the person who came after Charles I was such a fucking shit they asked Charles II to come save them from him and his idiot son.

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 05:59 UTC

We just may have to come to grips with the idea we have a king, like Charles I or James II or Richard II.

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Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 04:51 UTC

The 56001 DSP was the entire left side of the device, and needed 4 AA batteries all by itself. But you can't fight tradition.

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Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 04:01 UTC

The NeXTlevel was NeXT Software's first handheld device, eagerly awaited but canned just two weeks from release when Apple purchased NeXT and chose not to pursue gaming. All 250,000 release devices were pulled from channels and unceremoniously rolled into landfill out northwest of Dubbo.

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Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 04:49 UTC

More legs = more hugs. That's just science!

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 23:36 UTC

I actually have nothing against Canada except jealousy of their healthcare. But I’m proud to have written this sketch and song. Eh.

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Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 04:44 UTC

As Mike Acton would say - how many platforms? There's never just one. It's already plural, like "sheep" - it's the English "long-s": platſormer.

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 21:37 UTC

/8 At any rate, congratulations to the Federalist Society for an achievement beyond the reach of the British, outside the grasp of bloody civil war, impossible to Nazis and Soviets and terrorists: defeating the American idea.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com
[ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 17:01 UTC

Oh, hello. When you weren't looking I put together another EP of weird ambient-y electronic music. This one includes guitars and heavily mutated voices! What fun! It's being seeded to streaming services as we speak but you can listen it in full now on Whatever:

whatever.scalzi.com/2024/07/01/n...

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Col. Boozy Badger @boozybadger.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 17:17 UTC

“You’re a lawyer! What does this mean, really?” Man, I don’t fucking know. In the last week an entire area of law I studied was more or less rendered entirely moot and now there’s one specific guy in the whole country who may be able to do anything he wants without recourse. This is kind of new.

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Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 04:53 UTC

I think it had a 40MHz R3000? At the same time I was doing dev on the Sega 32X which had... uh... 256 colours and TWO 23MHz CPUs. It was a strange time.

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Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 04:50 UTC

I remember using Softimage on a base-level Indigo (no HW accel, 256 colours) and it was profoundly crap. Yes of course you COULD upgrade to the Elan graphics system with all its fancy HW. But nobody did because who has that sort of money just lying around?

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Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 04:42 UTC

Both had fancy hardware available, but only in the high-end machines (that nobody could afford). Majority of the machines were models that emulated everything. It was really the software that everybody was paying for, but because it was all emulated, it was mostly... um... "aspirational software"

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Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 20:34 UTC

I enjoyed TP2 slightly more than TP1. It's a little more phased - more puzzles in smaller chunks, and fewer of the big "holy shit where do I even start" puzzles in TP1. The environments are gorgeous.

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Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 20:23 UTC

As a teenager I always heard of the NeXT and SGI machines were so amazing - and the prices reflected that. Interesting now to look back and see most of them were just a standard CPU in a box. I guess the NeXT had a 56001 as standard, and the SGIs had video out, but otherwise...

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Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 01:33 UTC

Seattle is often cloudy, but every now and then while just going about your business you look up and there's this bonkers monstrosity sitting right there.

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