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aeva

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I'm a just a small town AAA graphics programmer in Chicago. I worked on Gears 5 and Gears Tactics. My work is secret, but my personal projects are not.

I like to post about my personal research, various side projects, and I like to think out loud a lot. Expect weird humor, esoteric ramblings, and occasionally also art I made out of math. I like implicit surface modeling the normal amount. Amateur spoonie. 🏳️‍⚧️

Curses are just blessings with caveats.

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aeva, (edited ) to random
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My ISP doesn't believe in "pager duty" or "uptime", so sometimes the internet just goes down in the middle of the night. I like to think that what happens every morning is Bob comes into the office, power cycles the office Linksys, and then the internet for half of Chicago comes back on again. When the internet goes down for multiple days it is because Bob is out sick.

aeva, to Persona5
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Madarame: my hundreds of copies of "Sayuri" are not plagiarism, they're all original works that are in conversation with the original "Sayuri"

aeva, to random
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time to make like a tree and pass out from exhaustion

aeva,
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success

nocontexttrek, to StarTrek
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aeva,
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@nocontexttrek mood

xgranade, to random
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The great contradiction* I keep tripping over when I try to be more mindful about practicing systems thinking is that individual responsibility isn't a good model of systemic change, but also systems are comprised of individuals and do not change without individual action.

(*Not actually a contradiction, just seems like it at first glance.)

aeva,
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@xgranade I think the reason a lot of individual responsibility efforts fall apart (besides when the causes or primary causes of a problem aren't individual decisions) is because they mostly seek to get random people to do something more or less in isolation of one another rather than approaching the solution as a collective effort that needs to be organized directly

aeva,
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@xgranade or worse, if the individual solution is actually easy you can end up convincing the people who would come together for a real collective solution that they've already solved the problem and just stop there.

For example, as a kid I learned in school that you need to cut those horrible plastic soda packaging rings or animals will die, but some 30 years later that individualist solution seems to still be the dominant one. Feels bad.

aeva,
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@xgranade incidentally this is why companies stamp recycling logos onto plastic packaging that isn't actually recyclable

chillicampari, to random
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no

aeva,
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@chillicampari she looks hot like that tho why is the guy fieri look alike upset about this

aeva,
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@chillicampari fair

aeva,
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@chillicampari 😵 god speed

aeva,
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@chillicampari click bait strikes again D:

donni, to random
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Apps need to quit calling me by my first name. You are not my friend, robot

aeva,
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@donni life hack: tell all the apps your first name is "doctor"

aeva, to random
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you ever think about how the standard cartoon bomb (a large blue or black sphere with a big fuse coming out the top) is essentially the "save icon" of destruction, because 1) it's symbolic meaning is widely understood, and 2) it's an anachronism that is widely recognized only for its symbolic meaning as its real life counterpart is long obsolete?

aeva,
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@mark skeumorphism is friend

aeva,
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@pinjontall when was the last time you used one of these -> 📂

aeva,
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@pinjontall or the last time you've used a phone that looked like this -> 📞 ?

aeva,
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@aud allegedly us civil war to ww1 era mortars looked like this, allegedly. basically an explosive cannon ball. also supposedly some fireworks still sorta look like this

aeva,
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@mark wat

aeva,
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wow this blew up 😉

aeva,
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@aud well, the recycling bin is a staging area before ??? happens, so it's true to its real life counterpart in a way

aeva,
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@wonka are you representative of the vast majority of people in terms of telephone ownership?

patrickd, to random
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@avea Have you seen this? Looks like a SDF splat engine. https://www.unbound.io/

aeva,
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@patrickd yes! I've been following their development for a while now. I've been meaning to give their early access version a try.

risingtail, to gamedev
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Still trying to make this UI pop a little. But, maybe this is too much? I'm quite undecided. Let me know what you think.
#gamedev #madewithgodot #indiedev

Capture of some game UI.

aeva,
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@risingtail the menu kinda gets lost against the background. I think the blurring is fine, but you probably want to lighten the background a bit, or put a light gradient between it and the menu.

the popup with the blue lines is pretty jarring in contrast with the upgrades menu, but I think if the upgrades menu stood out more against its background it might feel more consonant with the popup

aeva, to random
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ok I got another recording of the thing finally. This was recorded on a faster computer than my laptop, so unfortunately it doesn't have the really cool long convergence artifact thing going on. I really hate what the video encoding is doing here, but such is life.

it's a video of a rotating abstract ring thingy that is light by several lights which create colorful shadows. the video encoding is terrible, but it looks ok I guess

aeva,
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@azonenberg the current working title is "Aeva's Magic Purple 98 Honda Civic Hatchback and the Rainy Road" though I might rework it to not feature the make of a car I no longer own much less any specific real world one. (Rainy Road is itself a substitution for Rainbow Road)

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