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David Crooks

@cyphersignal

Senior software developer working on your favourite games to make them run faster, look better, and sound greater. You’ll see me when you need me. Also at https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@cyphersignal

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wdym? 1 btc = 1 btc

09.03.2026 04:18 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The one downside of unlocking all of the factions is knowing I can’t see any more of their intros.

09.03.2026 04:12 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A Shadow The Hedgehog promotional image with the caption 'SORRY I FORGOT ABOUT INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY. I SIMPLY DIDN'T REALISE THAT IT WASN'T ALL YEAR.'

A Shadow The Hedgehog promotional image with the caption 'SORRY I FORGOT ABOUT INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY. I SIMPLY DIDN'T REALISE THAT IT WASN'T ALL YEAR.'

09.03.2026 01:54 👍 3559 🔁 1368 💬 1 📌 2
08.03.2026 21:16 👍 4245 🔁 1663 💬 11 📌 2
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Marathon (2026)

08.03.2026 09:06 👍 122 🔁 27 💬 2 📌 2

Also because the timing is off. This was announced over a month ago.

08.03.2026 12:23 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

this is, all else being equal, easily the funniest thing the director of inside out could have said

08.03.2026 00:02 👍 3137 🔁 651 💬 13 📌 3

Every lengthy write-up on "lessons learned" after someone lets an AI process delete their database or all their emails reads like this to me

06.03.2026 22:26 👍 1340 🔁 531 💬 6 📌 0

New city, same curiosity. We're overjoyed to create alongside the diverse minds in Toronto with the same enthusiasm we've shown in Troy, and continue doing what we love most:

✨craft breakthrough games that feel like magic.✨

05.03.2026 20:25 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0
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ICO writes to Meta over 'concerning' AI smart glasses report Videos, including of glasses-wearers using the toilet or having sex, are sometimes reviewed by a Kenya-based subcontractor.

Last year when I was checking into a hotel, the desk person was wearing Meta glasses. I kindly asked them to take them off. They were annoyed. I said, “I do not consent to you looking at my credit card and ID with Meta glasses on.” My instincts were correct: www.bbc.com/news/article...

05.03.2026 15:27 👍 6021 🔁 2418 💬 93 📌 184
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FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

05.03.2026 07:15 👍 17149 🔁 5980 💬 514 📌 491
Visibility Buffer and Deferred Rendering in DOOM: The Dark Ages
Visibility Buffer and Deferred Rendering in DOOM: The Dark Ages YouTube video by Graphics Programming Conference

Our GPC 2025 talks are up on YT now!
youtu.be/fXakIV1OFes?...

youtu.be/mvCoqCic3nE?...

05.03.2026 10:29 👍 31 🔁 15 💬 0 📌 0

Isn’t that what therapy is for?

05.03.2026 03:09 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Free tip if you’re having trouble now:
(Mild spoiler but I guarantee you won’t regret it)

At some point before you go into the NE dungeon, get at least 25% of the green crystal bar filled up and drop them off back at the Altar of Legacy.

05.03.2026 00:07 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
a tekken 3 arcade cabinet, turned off with an a4 white paper typed out note taped to the screen. the note reads:
no more tekken 3 until daikatana ships
the management

a tekken 3 arcade cabinet, turned off with an a4 white paper typed out note taped to the screen. the note reads: no more tekken 3 until daikatana ships the management

ion storm, game studio, break room, dallas, texas (1999) www.mobygames.com/game/1678/jo...

02.10.2025 02:33 👍 1118 🔁 409 💬 11 📌 20
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Anton Chigurh with altered subtitles: If the VS you developed brought you to this... ... of what use was the VS?

Anton Chigurh with altered subtitles: If the VS you developed brought you to this... ... of what use was the VS?

Re: vertical slices in game dev: I feel like if you make a VS and you don't wind up shipping the content you made in that VS, you didn't actually make a successful VS.

Oh, this is indicative of how you want the game to look and play? Then why didn't you ship it?

03.03.2026 15:51 👍 444 🔁 38 💬 23 📌 1
Donning his new canine decoder, Professor Schwartzman becomes the first human being on Earth to hear what barking dogs are actually saying.

Donning his new canine decoder, Professor Schwartzman becomes the first human being on Earth to hear what barking dogs are actually saying.

Donning his new canine decoder, Professor Schwartzman becomes the first human being on Earth to hear what barking dogs are actually saying.

03.03.2026 17:21 👍 1182 🔁 311 💬 7 📌 34
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Unity Asset Store will remove all assets from publishers based in China, Hong Kong, and Macau after March 31, 2026.

I'd really like to understand the bigger story behind this because it has broader implications for growing global divides.

Here's the list: cdn.bfldr.com/S5BC9Y64/as/...

03.03.2026 01:17 👍 49 🔁 19 💬 2 📌 1

Thanks!

03.03.2026 02:07 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

(And do you have a primary source on that news? it is genuinely a bit hard to search for in English google)

03.03.2026 01:51 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

By “Unity China”, do you mean Tuanjie?

03.03.2026 01:50 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Replying to @sama
If the government comes back with a memo saying that, in their view, mass domestic surveillance is legal, do you do that? Do you do it until the courts bar it, or do you delay until the courts approve it?
Second, would mass domestic surveillance be a lawful use right now?
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We would not do that, because it violates the constitution. Also, I cannot overstate how much the DoW has been extremely aligned on this point.
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However, maybe this is the question you are really asking: what would we do if there were a constitutional amendment that made it legal?
Maybe I would quit my job.
I very deeply believe in the democratic process, and that our elected leaders have the power, and that we all have to uphold the constitution.
I am terrified of a world where Al companies act like they have more power than the government.

Replying to @sama If the government comes back with a memo saying that, in their view, mass domestic surveillance is legal, do you do that? Do you do it until the courts bar it, or do you delay until the courts approve it? Second, would mass domestic surveillance be a lawful use right now? 7 143 ıhl 9.7K 贝 Sam Altman @sama • 6m We would not do that, because it violates the constitution. Also, I cannot overstate how much the DoW has been extremely aligned on this point. ... However, maybe this is the question you are really asking: what would we do if there were a constitutional amendment that made it legal? Maybe I would quit my job. I very deeply believe in the democratic process, and that our elected leaders have the power, and that we all have to uphold the constitution. I am terrified of a world where Al companies act like they have more power than the government.

I would also be terrified of a world where our government decided mass domestic surveillance was ok. I don't know how l'd come to work every day if that were the state of the country/Constitution.
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I would also be terrified of a world where our government decided mass domestic surveillance was ok. I don't know how l'd come to work every day if that were the state of the country/Constitution. 25 178 89 ill

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Hello Sam this is your lawer speaking. I am advising you today to please keep posting this shit
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wint J @dril g... Hello Sam this is your lawer speaking. I am advising you today to please keep posting this shit 9:28 AM • Jul 5, 2020

01.03.2026 00:51 👍 327 🔁 26 💬 19 📌 1
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I'd like to answer questions about our work with the DoW and our thinking over the past few days. Please AMA.
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Were the terms that you accepted the same ones Anthropic rejected?
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No, we had some different ones. But our terms would now be available to them (and others) if they wanted.
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Thinking through non-domestic surveillance. I have accepted that the US military is going to do some amount of surveillance on foreigners, and I know foreign governments try to do it to us, but I still don't like it.
I think it is very important that society thinks through the consequences of this; perhaps the single principle I care most about for Al is that it is democratized, and I can see

Altman @sama• 29m X I'd like to answer questions about our work with the DoW and our thinking over the past few days. Please AMA. 1.7K 17 204 1.7K ill 225K nic @nicdunz• 24m G... Which of OpenAl's core principles was the most difficult to reconcile with the DoW's requirements during your internal debates this week? 1T1 • 31 贝 Sam Altman C @sama X.com Thinking through non-domestic surveillance. I have accepted that the US military is going to do some amount of surveillance on foreigners, and I know foreign governments try to do it to us, but I still don't like it. I think it is very important that society thinks through the consequences of this; perhaps the single principle I care most about for Al is that it is democratized, and I can see

They’re calling Sam Altman “the smartest guy with the best responses given the situation.” Everybody is going to love these answers! Absolutely nobody is going to think he’s a horrible goblin man that wants to burn $230 billion on the slop engine of choice for the Iran Conflict

01.03.2026 00:47 👍 705 🔁 79 💬 13 📌 10
Brian in a Serene in the background with the text 

Disappointed 
That's what you get for expecting things

Brian in a Serene in the background with the text Disappointed That's what you get for expecting things

01.03.2026 00:17 👍 424 🔁 65 💬 11 📌 1

It’s so tasteless, since this joke *should* be used only for retractable bollards

28.02.2026 22:31 👍 56 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Joe Dante and Hideo Kojima are close seconds but no director was more right about the future of war than Barry Levinson with the 1992 box office flop Toys.

28.02.2026 03:28 👍 2785 🔁 784 💬 57 📌 87

The main tracks on the EXAPUNKS soundtrack are also, unironically, really good for locking in on some debugging.

27.02.2026 23:36 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It is way too early in the morning to learn about this game’s existence and behold its gameplay.

Wow, it really goes the whole way with all of that, huh.

27.02.2026 11:14 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Everyone calls it the Barbie table, eh?

26.02.2026 14:04 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0