HagermanHour

Twitch Affiliate, GameDev since 2001, building Rogue Melee, lost 200 lbs (:
Inquiries: [email protected]

[HagermanHour @HagermanHour]

A long way down.

#gaming #indiegames #solodev #soulslike #gamedev

[HagermanHour @HagermanHour]

No meowsing around here!

#indiegame #solodev #roguemelee #unity #envart

[HagermanHour @HagermanHour]

Got some great additional little polish fixes in my game I've been working on today, and even streamed the development once again! Felt super productive - and I have missed doing this on camera something fierce!

#gamedev #indiegames #solodev

[HagermanHour @HagermanHour]

The real vibe is hand coding something and it working on the first try

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@OIuwatosin I get this, had a reckoning when I lost 200lbs

[Lukáš Hozda @LukasHozda]

Ah yes, we developers, who built the software for you, and are famously known with being very open with our knowledge and sharing materials, books, advice and even OSS software, gatekept software.

[HagermanHour @HagermanHour]

@GamewithDave game manuals

[HagermanHour @HagermanHour]

Today's gamedev journey - could just not figure out why this code wouldn't work. Turned out there was a very odd edge case that caused a race condition, built a detour and then inverted the logical flow, now it works as intended!

[HagermanHour @HagermanHour]

@ID_AA_Carmack Perhaps the environment isn't optimal for certain types of people, whereas we both are aware of the abundance of hard working, service oriented community members on the yesteryear's internet of enthusiast forums. Deep technical ability, and willingness to share, just in text.

[Sudo su @sudoingX]

a corporate salesman on an openai paycheck tells you local models aren't there yet. an influencer selling you an API wrapper calls the local AI community on X "cancer."

meanwhile we're out here modding communities, helping strangers debug their configs at midnight, fighting spam, pushing open source, and doing it all for free.

these people don't want you running models on your own hardware. they want you as a customer. every local install is revenue they lose. every migration from their bloat is a subscription cancelled.

don't let corporate noise and engagement bait merchants convert you into their recurring revenue. buy a GPU. compile from source. own your thinking.

the community they call cancer is the same community that will help you get started for free while they charge you per token.

[HagermanHour @HagermanHour]

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[HagermanHour @HagermanHour]

@Bucky_cm Perhaps smaller venues of interested parties or within channels who are going to be receptive. Either way, your insights would be very educational and would be a great service to those who want to learn.

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Chrome trending with vertical tabs while Firefox bringing split view has crickets is just another injustice of the world ;)

[Jonathan Haidt @JonHaidt]

The Anxious Generation was published two years ago today, in a very different world. Back then, the most common objection I got was resignation: "The train has left the station." "You can't put toothpaste back in the tube." "It's how the kids connect today."

Today, the world looks very different. It turns out that if our kids were all on a train and we learned it was heading toward a collapsed bridge, we'd find a way to stop it and bring them safely back to the station. That’s what’s happening now.

After the historic verdicts in Los Angeles and New Mexico, today is a great day to reflect on the capacity of people in democratic societies to take action, even when opposing some of the most powerful corporations in history. We're getting access to the courts. We're getting phone-free schools. We're seeing whole neighborhoods letting kids out to play, unsupervised, which is what we older folk all remember as the best part of childhood.

So I want to recognize:

--The mothers (and, right behind them, fathers) who rose up by the millions and powered the movement.

--The farsighted governors and legislators in red states and blue states who have been innovating on policy solutions.

--The leaders of a dozen of nations, who are raising the age to 16 for opening social media accounts (with a special shoutout to Australia, for going first).

--The teachers and school administrators who had their classrooms disrupted for 15 years, and who are now eager to think through new solutions as screens have taken over and obstructed learning.

--The grassroots organizations who have been dedicating their efforts to advocate for all of the above in their local communities.

--The millions of members of Gen Z who have been rising up, demanding agency over how they spend their lives in the digital era, and finding better ways to connect in real life.

And one final group: the survivor parents--the ones you saw in those pictures of people embracing on the front steps of the LA courthouse. I have met many over the years. I am in awe of their courage and tenacity, their willingness to tell their stories of loss, over and over again, to different audiences, in the hope that no other parent would have to endure what they have endured. At long last, juries and legislatures are hearing you, and are acting.

Together, we are calling the train back to the station. Together, we are rolling back the phone based childhood and reclaiming life in the real world.

The work continues. If you’re not already involved, join us: https://t.co/HdJDTKOQ3T

[HagermanHour @HagermanHour]

@simplex_fx optimistic gamedev:
why not just a little optimization, as a treat?
...oh, that's why

[HagermanHour @HagermanHour]

@MadMaraca That's quite beautiful!

[HagermanHour @HagermanHour]

@cmuratori I'm curious about some of the standout examples that come to your mind where the new practice was actively worse or easily demonstrably worse, if you're inclined to expand on the point.

[HagermanHour @HagermanHour]

Got to fixing some bugs today in the UI, and that sweet satisfaction of it now working as intended! Gamedev is full of these tiny exciting victories!

[DLSS Swapper @dlss_swapper]

Just a reminder unrelated to any announcements today.

DLSS Swapper lets you downgrade to any version of DLSS you want 👍

[HagermanHour @HagermanHour]

Love ya NVIDIA, but someone needs to pull y'all aside and pump the brakes; somewhere along the line here you guys broke down the fence between artists' intent and democratized great visual fidelity at scale. Please reevaluate which direction these models are going in.

[NVIDIA GeForce @NVIDIAGeForce]

Announcing NVIDIA DLSS 5, an AI-powered breakthrough in visual fidelity for games, coming this fall.

DLSS 5 infuses pixels with photorealistic lighting and materials, bridging the gap between rendering and reality.

Learn More → https://t.co/yHON3nGyxE