Kevin Rodriguez

3D artist at Coin Crew Games

[Kevin Rodriguez @PumpkinKing3D]

Finally had time this weekend to finish working on this stylized Fisherman Diorama, Made in #UE5.
Based on concept art from Marina Matveeva

#gamedev #blender #3d #gameart #environment #MadeWithSubstance

[Kevin Rodriguez @PumpkinKing3D]

This guy is a multi millionaire btw.

[Dexerto @Dexerto]

Asmongold says he doesn't "take pride" in living in garbage and blames "bad spawn RNG"

"We grew up in poverty... there were massive holes in the house and my mom wouldn't allow anybody to come and fix the house, because it would be condemned"

[Kevin Rodriguez @PumpkinKing3D]

Backflow prevention device. Hard surface practice.
#Blender #noai

[Daniel Hooper @DanielcHooper]

Jonathan Blow on fast software

[Kevin Rodriguez @PumpkinKing3D]

@forallcurious Source?

[Kevin Rodriguez @PumpkinKing3D]

lol 😂

[Meidas_Charise Lee @charise_lee]

Druski dialed it back a bit 😭

[Kevin Rodriguez @PumpkinKing3D]

Holy 🤣

[DRUSKI @druski]

How Conservative Women in America act 😂🇺🇸

[Andres Hernandez @cybereality]

the secret to indie gamedev (no one will tell you): just make a fucking banger. everything else is survivor mumbo-jumbo

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

I worked at Epic Games for two years. This is real, and the strategy behind it is smarter than most people realize.

Tim Sweeney has spent nearly two decades buying North Carolina forest land. 50,000+ acres across 15 counties. He’s now one of the largest private landowners in the state. The purchases started in 2008, right after the real estate collapse wiped out developers who had been planning golf resorts and luxury communities on biodiverse wilderness.

Sweeney paid $15 million for Box Creek Wilderness, a 7,000-acre stretch in the Blue Ridge foothills containing 130+ rare and threatened species. Developers had owned 5,000 of those acres before the crash. He bought them for conservation prices when nobody else was bidding.

He runs the acquisitions through an LLC called “130 of Chatham.” He buys the land, holds it for years, then either donates it to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, sells it at a discount to state parks, or hands it to land trusts. In 2021, he donated 7,500 acres in the Roan Highlands to the Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy. Largest private land donation in North Carolina history.

The part people miss: he told the News & Observer that since 2021, land got too expensive to keep buying. So he shifted focus to converting his existing 50,000 acres into permanent conservation status. He’s locking the land into legal structures that make development impossible regardless of who owns it in the future.

A billionaire worth roughly $6 billion is spending tens of millions acquiring wilderness specifically during economic downturns, then giving it away or placing it under permanent legal protection. The land will outlast him, Epic Games, and Fortnite.

That’s the part that separates Sweeney from billionaires who write checks to get their name on a building. The building depreciates. The forest compounds.

[Tom's Hardware @tomshardware]

Over 80% of companies report no productivity gains from AI so far despite billions in investment, survey suggests — 6,000 executives also reveal 1/3 of leaders use AI, but only for 90 minutes a week https://t.co/57ZLJS35JY

[Kevin Rodriguez @PumpkinKing3D]

@t_looman Thanks! 🙏

[Kevin Rodriguez @PumpkinKing3D]

Software is getting worse

[Xor @XorDev]

Introducing FragCoord: My ultimate shader editing tool!

[Kevin Rodriguez @PumpkinKing3D]

Trying to get the leds to blink back and forth. I’m using 3 470uf capacitors in parallel and SPDT relay but I think I need to just get a 1000uf capacitor and DPDT relay like in the book 🥲

[Jorge perez @JorgePerezcrtz]

@RpsAgainstTrump

[Ryan Fleury @rfleury]

Programming ability has diminished to the point that people don’t believe that functional software is even possible

[Kylan O'Connor @kylancodes]

Vibe coders be like 👨‍💻

[Kevin Rodriguez @PumpkinKing3D]

Learned about relays today

[Kevin Rodriguez @PumpkinKing3D]

Bought some cool 3 volt led filaments

[Kevin Rodriguez @PumpkinKing3D]

I think I have a decent setup for the car, going to work on the winch mechanic next
#gamedev #screenshotsaturday #UnrealEngine #UnrealEngine5

[Kevin Rodriguez @PumpkinKing3D]

Three-way switch