Cale's Avatar

Cale

@caleplut.com

Used to write music and play piano, now tech policy & strategy for B.C. Government out of Vancouver. PhD, MFA in Interactive & Generative music for games Bikes, baking, and bad posts Personal account - opinions and X-COM jokes not official policy

613
Followers
3,213
Following
433
Posts
20.10.2023
Joined
Posts Following

Latest posts by Cale @caleplut.com

children will never know the awe

07.03.2026 05:05 πŸ‘ 152 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 0
Post image

Easily the funniest part of any Canadian social gathering is that at the end, there's always 2 or 3 of the popular items left. No Canadian will ever take the last piece

06.03.2026 04:34 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Excited to catch the 8:42AM train from Coquitlam that gets me into Vancouver exactly 30 minutes later at 7AM on the dot.

04.03.2026 19:47 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Video thumbnail

PELICAN DELAY IN SANTA BARBARA

04.03.2026 02:22 πŸ‘ 868 πŸ” 195 πŸ’¬ 20 πŸ“Œ 46
Preview
B.C. to end time changes, adopt year-round daylight time | CBC News March 8 will be the last time British Columbians have to change their clocks, B.C. Premier David Eby announced Monday.

FINALLY www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/b-c-adopting-year-round-daylight-time-9.7111657

02.03.2026 20:33 πŸ‘ 77 πŸ” 16 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 10

Yes! Yes!! Yes!!!

02.03.2026 04:07 πŸ‘ 1859 πŸ” 304 πŸ’¬ 52 πŸ“Œ 30

Holy shit this would be such an incredible bit if it weren’t real

27.02.2026 20:11 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
27.02.2026 17:17 πŸ‘ 1273 πŸ” 249 πŸ’¬ 18 πŸ“Œ 5

[0011472] Dwarf gains no good thoughts from attending meeting, constantly tries to attend meeting.

26.02.2026 18:00 πŸ‘ 312 πŸ” 107 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 18
Post image

we finally reached the end of this calendar event i accidentally made 12 years ago

26.02.2026 02:11 πŸ‘ 10176 πŸ” 1817 πŸ’¬ 127 πŸ“Œ 34

I'm constantly trying (/failing) to get this point across.

If you're a trained expert in a field, then it may be worthwhile to question the scientific consensus of your peers.

If you're not, the scientific consensus is absolutely the best you can do and it's arbitrary foolishness to disregard it.

24.02.2026 16:04 πŸ‘ 3758 πŸ” 853 πŸ’¬ 54 πŸ“Œ 50

I'm begging for anarchists to add an ounce of manufactured consent to their politics.

23.02.2026 16:05 πŸ‘ 88 πŸ” 18 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

Gotta electrocute them a little too

22.02.2026 15:01 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Video thumbnail

Tfw you still have some edge cases to fix in your procedural locomotion system #gamedev

21.02.2026 16:02 πŸ‘ 8882 πŸ” 2883 πŸ’¬ 74 πŸ“Œ 126

bluesky, the canadian sports app

20.02.2026 18:07 πŸ‘ 780 πŸ” 104 πŸ’¬ 35 πŸ“Œ 26
Norman Rockwell guy standing up in a town hall meeting

Norman Rockwell guy standing up in a town hall meeting

every Olympic event should include wolf dogs

18.02.2026 23:47 πŸ‘ 1277 πŸ” 169 πŸ’¬ 29 πŸ“Œ 6
Preview
Surprise 4-legged Olympic competitor wows cross-country fans Nazgul sprints on the course at a cross-country ski race, crossing the finish line in an unsanctioned quest for glory.

His name is Nazgul! A gate-crashing dog steals the show at the Olympics : NPR share.google/W47oFZJk3So6...

18.02.2026 13:36 πŸ‘ 986 πŸ” 161 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 28

Whoever sees one shouts "Ugly truck!" and then we all boo as a family

15.02.2026 23:43 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
Video thumbnail

At 9:18, 3rd period of the Finland-Switzerland women's ice hockey QF game, the ice crew came to clean the ice during a pause

What follows is the funniest use of the slo-mo alternate angle tech I've seen them use during these Olympics of one of the crew members falling

15.02.2026 00:14 πŸ‘ 7782 πŸ” 2369 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 176
Post image Post image

Displaying Team USA Olympic figure skater Ilia Malnin on a CRT brings out a lot of the artist-intended details that get lost with pure pixels, this is why so many of us retain vintage hardware

14.02.2026 21:13 πŸ‘ 1523 πŸ” 284 πŸ’¬ 13 πŸ“Œ 1

Game & Watch screens when you first put the batteries in:

14.02.2026 21:31 πŸ‘ 4131 πŸ” 977 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 3

if someone is saying shit like "it's lowkey biphobic that you support AOC even though she won't legalize cannibalism" or "you realize that expecting your room to have windows a luxury belief right" what you're seeing are the charged particles being shot off from polycule fission

13.02.2026 05:15 πŸ‘ 2177 πŸ” 418 πŸ’¬ 23 πŸ“Œ 28
"... where, anytime, and interact with crafts and characters all over each of fifty planets, for as long as I wanted After rescuing my allotment of pods I can survey the world, taking out remaining enemies, playing with different viewpoints and examining structures. Each level is a different type of rescue mission requiring a completely new strategy than the last. Some moons are totally hostile while others require intense exploration and passive gameplay. I played for 3 hours to complete the first eight moons, then suprisingly met a boss on the ninth. At that point (I'm used to 16 bit games) I figured it was over. But I was wrong. Eight more appeared that required massive study to conquer. Then, after another twelve hours of engulfing gameplay, I reached the end once again, fought two huge gunships and figured, for  sure, that was it. Again, I was wrong. Eight more planets appeared that I  am still, two days later, studying."

"... where, anytime, and interact with crafts and characters all over each of fifty planets, for as long as I wanted After rescuing my allotment of pods I can survey the world, taking out remaining enemies, playing with different viewpoints and examining structures. Each level is a different type of rescue mission requiring a completely new strategy than the last. Some moons are totally hostile while others require intense exploration and passive gameplay. I played for 3 hours to complete the first eight moons, then suprisingly met a boss on the ninth. At that point (I'm used to 16 bit games) I figured it was over. But I was wrong. Eight more appeared that required massive study to conquer. Then, after another twelve hours of engulfing gameplay, I reached the end once again, fought two huge gunships and figured, for sure, that was it. Again, I was wrong. Eight more planets appeared that I am still, two days later, studying."

It occurs to me that many people don't know about the GameFan coffee incident.

In 1993, GameFan published a manic 6-page review of the game Cybermorph that was written while tripping on LSD that somebody put in the office coffee pot

The review declared that Cybermorph was the first "real" game

09.02.2026 06:50 πŸ‘ 814 πŸ” 299 πŸ’¬ 25 πŸ“Œ 18

Hockey, Soccer, and Basketball are also all the same sport if you take a big enough hit

10.02.2026 00:15 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

for anyone unfamiliar with the town of Seattle it's sort of an American Vancouver

09.02.2026 03:47 πŸ‘ 379 πŸ” 36 πŸ’¬ 16 πŸ“Œ 5
Post image

And Sam Darnold, who was NOT out indefinitely

09.02.2026 03:32 πŸ‘ 2054 πŸ” 302 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 2
Image of the Yeti in the skiing Windows game SkiFree eating the player

Image of the Yeti in the skiing Windows game SkiFree eating the player

Breaking: Tragedy at the Winter Olympics

07.02.2026 15:39 πŸ‘ 8710 πŸ” 2583 πŸ’¬ 73 πŸ“Œ 69
magic isnt real you idiot
resist magic by 118%

magic isnt real you idiot resist magic by 118%

my understanding of blue deck in magic the gathering

07.02.2026 02:14 πŸ‘ 2647 πŸ” 362 πŸ’¬ 31 πŸ“Œ 18

GM: Charisma check.

Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]

GM: that’s a d6 how did you

Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

07.02.2026 05:01 πŸ‘ 33620 πŸ” 6993 πŸ’¬ 221 πŸ“Œ 182
Preview
You Gotta Hear The Music In This PS1 Looney Tunes Game An ode to that one track from the bizarre, 2001 PS1 game Sheep, Dog 'n' Wolf AKA Looney Tunes Sheep Raider starring Ralph Wolf.

Blogged about a PS1 soundtrack banger. aftermath.site/sheep-dog-wo...

06.02.2026 19:44 πŸ‘ 222 πŸ” 48 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 12