Graphics & rendering person, musician & audio engineer. ½ of the drum and bass duo Sophon. Co-founder of Nerd Nation Records. Siggraph Asia 2025 Real-Time Live Chair. He/him. Occasional public speaker. Highly sought after dinner guest.
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If you - like myself - has started to tear what little hair is left on your head out because for some reason BitWig doesn't pass MIDI through Serum 2, this is the workaround: - Create an Instrument Layer - Move the Serum 2 instance into the Instrument Layer Note Receive from the channel works now
Neither was I. I will from now on though!
The dedication to the bit is outstanding, and as always, Chris delivers the science: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnzA... (The only negative thing about this is that the utterly self-obsessed and hateful Weissman dude shows up at the end, but you can just skip that bit)
*standing in a wheat field* «I don’t know what wheat looks like. However, I don’t think this is it.»
I was today years old when I learned something I guess I should have learned when I was a kid. *sigh*. thebloggess.com/2025/09/04/h...
i mean... its not really a pathtracer until you've done hall of mirrors is it
been a couple years since I wrote a dumb pathtracer-in-a-shader; felt that itch again and decided to brush off the cobwebs by 'covering'/'blatantly ripping off' noby's brilliant 10yo 4k www.youtube.com/watch?v=9r8p...
What the bloody... To be this disconnected from the effects of what you're spearheading when in such a position should be grounds for negligence verdicts.
As others have pointed out "anarcho-tyranny" is a contradiction in terms. How can a cruel oppressive government impose non existent laws. Allister puts the moron in oxymoron.
Hitman + Uncharted? Here for it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ladC...
Well, well, well, look what's coming back into print-- the collected edition of the original RED series! I'm guessing this'll be in stores soon...
The President has launched a stablecoin whose value is supported by binance, whose CEO is currently in jail, hoping for a bit of a pardon.
And why not an Alexdote, because surely
Working in Notch 1.0: The NURA Renderers - Overview (1/5) The new Notch Unified Rendering Architecture (NURA) includes four distinct renderers you can toggle through effortlessly. Learn Notch with our free video course: go.notch.one/essentials-r... #madewithnotch
something poetic about cinematographers looking for the best image stabilization in hardware while digital animators are searching for the most believable camera shake in software
What? Frauds jumping on another fraud bandwagon?! Shock!
i constantly think about this post
20+ years of breaking rules in game music. Metal Eden isn’t wallpaper — it’s a riot. Game launches Sept 2, today!. Soundtrack coming soon. #MetalEden #Cyberpunk #BehindTheScenes youtu.be/y0ElxV1LTkU
Good.
I remember it like it was yesterday :D And, if you are someone reading this who HASN'T seen "Event Horizon" and especially not seen that cut to credits with the aforementioned needle drop, do yourself a favour and just go in blind. :D
No, it's _exactly_ as good as I remember, which is: awesome.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iz9...
Please — that’s too many details Reuters — cannot cope with the granularity!!
"Our response: Imagine knowing electricity or the internet were coming ... before both fully and wholly upended business, culture and life." lol That's one of the dumbest things I've ever read.
I mean it’s cheaper than just paying his bills I guess.
Several people like Elon have said it out loud and, problematically, assumed we were all doing the same thing: pretending to be this way because it was popular. They felt the the temp of the nation went pro-fasc & pro-bigot and stopped pretending, thinking we would shift when it got hard. Fuck that.
If you’re really not trying to be a dick, how about stopping being a dick?
Witnessing the AI artist get kicked out of the DragonCon artist alley was satisfying.
Physical media is back with a vengeance, after all.
This is the norm in Norway, and has been for years. I know, I know — «but Norway is an outlier, taxes, socialist hellhole yada yada» — no, these are private companies pivoting to offering EV charging alongside gasoline/diesel because that’s what the market demands.
Here is my open letter regarding Flock Safety technology abridged for general reference and more casual reading. More targeted and region specific versions are being sent and proposed to individual civic leaders and hearings. figshare.com/articles/onl...
OutRun GB is OUT NOW for your Game Boy Color.🌴 - All the tracks, all the music, all the wind in your hair! (link in reply) #pixelart #indiedev #gameboy #retrogaming
Wow, you’ve kept the CD-ROM around for a while! I haven’t had one in any of my last four builds. I occasionally use an old MacBook Pro DVD player which I rescued and stuck in a USB dock case for CD archiving but that’s about it.
Piracy is for Trillion Dollar Companies - new GNCA video about Meta's AI / LLM copyright lawsuit: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdtB...
One can only hope that the Norwegian cinemas choose to give this the proper premiere it deserves, because I am so hyped for this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YNv...
Whenever you see a headline like this, remember that «AI» CANNOT «take» any job — some manager has DECIDED that they want to remove those entry level jobs and instead demanding their existing employees do additional work. ..and 95% of the time, that fails. www.axios.com/2025/08/26/a...
Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival
Hello everyone who found us through this starter pack recently 👋 We're a Hungarian demogroup and we've been making 64 kilobyte intros for 20+ years now, using our own procedural tooling that looks/looked like this 👇
We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.
Our table at PAX has moved! We're on Summit level 4 outside the Nintendo Power Museum. Say hello!
Fuck yeah whatwelost.substack.com/p/how-europe...
Americans can’t seem to fathom the basic principles of independence and ethics. If you didn’t know: the Norwegian sovereign wealth fund is run independent of the current government and it has an independent ethics committee which weighs in on its investments. This separation is by design.
Have owned five EVs since 2014. What would you like to know?
youtu.be/x-2gfhkIDrQ (there's also episode 1 and 3)
"Bugonia" looks like a Yorgos Lanmthimos movie I'd actually like to watch.
Why keep a record of gun sales and background check requests when you can simply monitor every child 24/7 and make up a nonsensical "behavioral threat assessment" metric to decide that they're likely to use a gun?
Writers, keep writing. Do not buy into the hype train telling you your job will be replaced in a few years. Those using AI are literally atrophying their brains ability to be creative. The future will need your words, your creativity, to function well. publichealthpolicyjournal.com/mit-study-fi...
“There’s a machine in the corner wrapped in human skin that makes things out of shit and blood to look like whatever you want (as long as you don’t look too closely)” Yup.
I love that noclip goes all the way back to "Sourcery" when talking to Machinegames. I remember seeing the "Into The Shadows" demo at The Party in Denmark, back before Starbreeze was even Starbreeze (when they were more or less just the demo group Triton). Great watch www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAEd...
It feels odd to say this about Bitwig, since it is already so incredibly fast and smooth to use, but version 6 adds to an already great DAW. Spent a few hours with the 6.0 beta yesterday, and it is hella impressive. Not yet ready to be the daily driver (crashes), but soon: www.bitwig.com/whats-new/
We need to stop using a framework of 'ChatGPT killed someone', it feeds into the myth of the system's agency & OpenAI's framing. The right framework to use: OpenAI is continuing to perpetuate an indefinite industrial disaster. The oil pipe is not at fault when it breaks. The company that built it is
those AI 80s nostalgia videos going viral are weird! and bad! here's why listen here: www.404media.co/podcast-the-...
FUCK YEAH SCIENCE arstechnica.com/science/2025...
This imagery is the kind of thing you see in video games to let you know you’re in a totalitarian city or country.
It’s not, and they shouldn’t.
the full complaint is such a difficult read. but I think it's important we confront, without flinching, what's happening here www.404media.co/chatgpt-enco...
No, not just mice and keyboards. Two Blade laptops, their second generation eGPU and more. Always something that breaks or bugs out. Terrible thermal handling and CPU throttling; shit driver support. Had to ship to Germany for weeks to fix; came back just as broken. Never again.
I’ve never owned a Razer product that worked well.
realistic Star Trek
#SIGGRAPH2025 Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games course talks slides online: "Ray Tracing The World of Assassin’s Creed Shadows" by Luc Leblanc and Melino Conte from Ubisoft is now online: advances.realtimerendering.com/s2025/index....
Here's the clip! youtu.be/ZGVKZQQSJkg
Lovely review of Roguecraft DX by the awesome team over at Time Extension 🕹️❤️
“Failed to disclose” is certainly one way to phrase that.
I think they mean it like “if we keep insisting on raising these asinine hypotheticals, we can inflate the value of our copyright infringing shit machines”
I managed to buy a laptop with a copilot key not realizing that it can't be set to act as the ctrl key, and all workarounds ignore the fact that the hardware actually sends "win+shift+f23", taking over the shift button and making shift+ctrl+arrow key selection impossible. Well. NO. MORE. COPILOT.
They cannot. Every single current implementation is a Markov-Chain style auto-complete program, and nothing more.
Sorry to hear that — it was clear as day to anyone who would hear you talk about RR that you enjoyed helping build it. :/
I think I too can write a fairly accurate “algorithm” that shows people who believe in astrology shit they’re likely to enjoy btw.
What the fuck is even happening
this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
Lovely live stream earlier today by Crazy Burger! www.youtube.com/live/lGI59c3... If you haven’t already; make sure to check out his channel 🕹️❤️ Roguecraft DX releases THIS FRIDAY, and we can’t wait! 🐔 #evercade #roguelike #amiga #rpg #lovecraft
(And yeah, that's YouTube for you - everybody "has" to jump on the new stuff and super-quickly record and spit out the same video as everyone else BECAUSE CONTENT, but yeah.. kick/sub sidechaining as a demo.. so lazy)
(Why? Because I sidechain the bass portion of kicks against the sub; I am not really that interested in ducking away sub when a kick transient is happening - sometimes, but not even close to always)
(kinda surprisingly; it looks like most of "EDM YOUTUBE!!!11" are using it for kick/sub sidechaining, but that's not really the big benefit IMHO - using it to blend submixes together where previously I would have used TrackSpacer is where it really shines)
Just unbelievably stupid. I had no idea how dumb fascism would be when it came to America.
I miss this book!
One of the most braindead things I’ve read in a long, long time.
Addressing this sadly persistent myth yet again: no, your phone is not listening to you. www.digitalrightsbytes.org/topics/is-my...
@kilohearts.com No joke, Compactor might be the best technical mixing plugin of the year. BRA-FUCKING-VO. You can keep Jämtland Härjedalen now, we don't want it back.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYDb... oh hello!
Can’t wait for the tag to make its triumphant return — now in gold.
Sometimes hard to tell, but bots or not, I had three of them on my block list already so that’s telling for what they feel the need to put out on Bluesky at least.
That’s good to illustrate the concept of earning a billion, however I find that it’s less effective in clearly communicating the raw amount. People will apply their own interpretation of “minimum wage”, how they see their own job etc.
This looks absolutely atrocious under the hood (prototype code uaaghh) but it's STARTING to look the way I want above the hood. Ask me about my cute background workflow that allows me to make new levels relatively easily?? (this is a browser based game that uses no engine)
People struggle to visualize just how much a billion is (in the context of political discourse around billionaires), but if you think of it in terms of time, the scale is obvious. 1 million seconds = ~12 days. 1 billion seconds = ~ 32 YEARS. For context, a high-paid job ($100,000/year) is 1 day.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNUk...
“10 to 25: The Science of Motivating Young People” by David Yeager.
Ever wondered what Asteroids or Berzerk taste like? Me neither. Let's find out anyway on LGR Blerbs! youtu.be/FHV0VxtlfGM The Atari Sauce Range of hot and BBQ sauce was too odd to ignore. So I bought each bottle and put 'em on chicken wings. Time for a taste test!
I mean, that’s your next trailer right there.
I finally made it to BlueSky! I figure since I'm here, I'll make my first post be one of the pieces of pixel art I'm crazy proud of to this day!
It’s a Boca Research Sound Expression card. Fairly rare; never seen one in real life myself :)
I’m gonna need you to think about what you just said right there, thanks.
Denmark to abolish VAT on books in effort to get more people reading
Living wages for artists and fair distribution for everyone, not just big stars, aren't just a dream. There's growing momentum here -- and @reprashida.govpeeps.us will reintroduce this bill late in Sept., meaning now is a great time to organize. @umaw.bsky.social is on it:
Jordan Mechner, creator of Prince of Persia, in 1989. Behind him you can see the pictures he produced to create the animations in the game, a technique called rotoscoping. The prince is actually his younger brother David. Inspired by the Disney movie Snow White, which used rotoscoping in 1937.
