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Joel Davis

@joeld42

Graphics programmer, tool builder, tabletop gamer. he/him

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Quite proud of how this trailer turned out. #gamedev

06.03.2026 16:52 πŸ‘ 22 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Bink codec has a lot of features for paletteized video and alpha channels. These days I think the challenge would be streaming frames into gpu memory. You might want to treat it like audio -- keep the first few frames of everything loaded and load in the rest on demand when playback starts.

03.03.2026 21:48 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to bomb this elementary school full of kids because he thinks it makes him look cool. also his scheming viziers will be betting money on it for fun. good luck soldier

01.03.2026 01:32 πŸ‘ 9629 πŸ” 2626 πŸ’¬ 25 πŸ“Œ 25

Democracy is dying in America.

ICE is a murderous secret police force. We’re about to bomb Iran for Israel. Your kids are shot at in school daily, and pedophiles run our government. There’s no healthcare, and your food is poisonous.

We need real leaders - not career politicians.

25.02.2026 23:11 πŸ‘ 17062 πŸ” 4539 πŸ’¬ 575 πŸ“Œ 208

Make this land use illegal in your community. In every community.

22.02.2026 23:06 πŸ‘ 122 πŸ” 29 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0
4 frame comic. it reads, on top of each frame : Give trans kids a chance to be kids without having to fight for the right to exist. first frame shows a kid playing soccer, second shows two kids drawing dinosaurs at a table, third shows a group of friends sitting by a fountain drinking bubble tea and eating chips, fourth shows a kid with long curly hair holding a trans flag.

4 frame comic. it reads, on top of each frame : Give trans kids a chance to be kids without having to fight for the right to exist. first frame shows a kid playing soccer, second shows two kids drawing dinosaurs at a table, third shows a group of friends sitting by a fountain drinking bubble tea and eating chips, fourth shows a kid with long curly hair holding a trans flag.

Give trans kids a chance to be kids.

16.02.2026 21:03 πŸ‘ 2149 πŸ” 759 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 5
The board game Kanal with distinctive resource dials and grid layout.

The board game Kanal with distinctive resource dials and grid layout.

The coop card game Four Doors with brightly colored cards depicting a lighthouse with four magical doors.

The coop card game Four Doors with brightly colored cards depicting a lighthouse with four magical doors.

Played Kanal and Four Doors this weekend.

17.02.2026 05:46 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

If you are wondering what words the all-male Congress found so "blasphemous" that they felt compelled to literally scrape them off the monument, they were: ''Woman, first denied a soul, then called mindless, now arisen, declared herself an entity to be reckoned.''

16.02.2026 16:35 πŸ‘ 4724 πŸ” 1899 πŸ’¬ 43 πŸ“Œ 29

This is my all time favorite board game. Great deal on it, and the expansion includes a solo campaign which is really good.

13.02.2026 16:47 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.

Hundreds of kids are still detained.

We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧡

09.02.2026 12:25 πŸ‘ 11574 πŸ” 7425 πŸ’¬ 197 πŸ“Œ 828

ah i can answer this trick question actually. novels are not a race

08.02.2026 14:25 πŸ‘ 3222 πŸ” 301 πŸ’¬ 52 πŸ“Œ 4

I had some specific reports that I needed to generate, and I was also using it to get an archive of all of the data in one place. For analysis I was just using AppFigures and apple's App Store Analytics since they had very good query and analysis tools.

07.02.2026 19:37 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

When I did this I used the appfigures API from python to fetch the data, and then generate reports. These days App Store apis are probably good enough you don't need a third party.

07.02.2026 18:10 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

C++ is really awkward to deal with REST/http apis. You can do it, but It's much easier in C# or python. I'd suggest using a C# or py stage to fetch+sync the data into some kind of store (csv file, json, sqlite, whatever) and then a c++ tool that reads that and does the processing and visualization.

07.02.2026 18:08 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: β€œHe might have thought β€˜how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said β€˜this site was not subject to local zoning.’”

04.02.2026 06:43 πŸ‘ 8776 πŸ” 3826 πŸ’¬ 165 πŸ“Œ 792

He’s been through so much. They shouldn’t have made him fly the plane too.

01.02.2026 20:52 πŸ‘ 5179 πŸ” 538 πŸ’¬ 51 πŸ“Œ 10

Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly

01.02.2026 15:40 πŸ‘ 16723 πŸ” 4842 πŸ’¬ 94 πŸ“Œ 73
Newly Unsealed Batch Of Epstein Estate Photos Contains Rare Holographic Dershowitz

Newly Unsealed Batch Of Epstein Estate Photos Contains Rare Holographic Dershowitz

Newly Unsealed Batch Of Epstein Estate Photos Contains Rare Holographic Dershowitz

31.01.2026 01:00 πŸ‘ 9390 πŸ” 1379 πŸ’¬ 87 πŸ“Œ 38

You walk into this bar and show your ICE mugshot, you don't pay a dime.

28.01.2026 22:34 πŸ‘ 14063 πŸ” 2845 πŸ’¬ 115 πŸ“Œ 98

Yeah the folding is essential, makes it simple to keep things lined up and no possibility of sticking things backwards or to the wrong board. It also comes with a bunch of double-sided stickers (shown later in that video). I've seen a few games do this and it's great.

29.01.2026 03:26 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Civolution - Unboxing YouTube video by Gaming Rules!

Yeah if they fold over and sticker together like Civolution it's great (www.youtube.com/live/ryRYsh_...)

29.01.2026 03:19 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Take his personal army away from him while you can, you stupid, stupid assholes. You’re like an armadillo playing dead in the middle of the road so the semi won’t hurt you

28.01.2026 23:44 πŸ‘ 12718 πŸ” 2676 πŸ’¬ 36 πŸ“Œ 124
Bilbo looking at his phone top

on bottom is ChatGPT

After all, why not? Why shouldn't I keep it?

You're absolutely right β€” you found it, it's been with you a long while, and it's only natural to feel fond of something that's served you so well, especially when someone like Gandalf suddenly seems to want it for himself.

Bilbo looking at his phone top on bottom is ChatGPT After all, why not? Why shouldn't I keep it? You're absolutely right β€” you found it, it's been with you a long while, and it's only natural to feel fond of something that's served you so well, especially when someone like Gandalf suddenly seems to want it for himself.

28.01.2026 01:51 πŸ‘ 25428 πŸ” 6952 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 155

This is a surprisingly good game. Great deal here!

24.01.2026 03:47 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Finally got my hands on a copy of Glory to Rome. It was as fun and chaotic as its reputation suggests!

23.01.2026 06:35 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Average Sunday show interview:

OFFICIAL: we are going to dip enemies of the state into acid vats

HOST: how will you pay for it?

OFFICIAL: tariffs

HOST: critics say tariffs don't generate acid vat money

OFFICIAL: tariffs have generated more money than has ever existed

HOST: thank u for ur time

18.01.2026 15:53 πŸ‘ 15423 πŸ” 3695 πŸ’¬ 143 πŸ“Œ 132
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Sci-Fi Door by joeld42 | Download free STL model | Printables.com

Finished version if anyone wants it: www.printables.com/model/156028...

17.01.2026 21:30 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Made a sci-fi door model for a game I'm working on, really happy with how it came out.

17.01.2026 21:30 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
The game board and player mat for Diatoshi, a very colorful game with a lot going on. Many pieces and sliders and widgets.

The game board and player mat for Diatoshi, a very colorful game with a lot going on. Many pieces and sliders and widgets.

The box cover for Diatoshi. It shows to steampunk inventors in a bright orange and purple workshop with a fantastical city behind them.

The box cover for Diatoshi. It shows to steampunk inventors in a bright orange and purple workshop with a fantastical city behind them.

Played Diatoshi today. Lots of fun cutting down forests and pissing off Yokai spirits. A lot going on but it started to make sense by the end. I only lost by a few points.

12.01.2026 05:48 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

John Cage, submitting the sheet music for "4'33"" to his publisher: What do you think?

Publisher: No notes.

11.01.2026 20:54 πŸ‘ 1592 πŸ” 316 πŸ’¬ 28 πŸ“Œ 11