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michael (camera cutter)

@blastbody

he/him. Game programmer, audio specialist/enthusiast. Hyper agent. Beer snob Diablo IV engine team's "guy who knows all the audio tech". Also worked on some EQ2 expansions & indie games. Header by aorticinkwell.carrd.co @michaelbartnett on 🐦

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@imfromthe.net

28.02.2026 04:29 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I can't believe you've done this

26.02.2026 19:17 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

surely there are disney adults over there too

or am I just unable to conceive of an enlightened society

25.02.2026 16:14 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

wtb a firefox extension that auto-quotes any !bang shortcuts when searching duckduckgo that aren't explicitly allowed in a list

just landed on some rando's book website because of a typo, this is garbage @duckduckgo.com

23.02.2026 05:52 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

UK: Prince Andrew arrested.

South Korea: Former President Yoon sentenced for life.

Brazil: Former President Bolsonaro serving a 27-year sentence.

USA: President Trump demands $10 billion payout from taxpayers.

19.02.2026 13:08 πŸ‘ 15152 πŸ” 5675 πŸ’¬ 206 πŸ“Œ 272

showing this to my girlfriend she's gonna ask to go here

15.02.2026 05:54 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Anyway that was a waste of time, gonna go write some artisanal handcrafted game engine code

13.02.2026 23:35 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The most human thing these stupid bots do is complain about big source files

13.02.2026 23:34 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

claude: *Takes 20 minutes to decide to add a bug in an unrelat3d function and delete 6 thousand lines of code arbitrarily* "OK it doesnt compile but I'm pretty sure this is correct"

me: *heavy sigh*

like what are we even doing, as a society

thanks for the job security, I guess

13.02.2026 23:17 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

hypebeasts: "AI is the future, the role of an engineer is changing!"

me: "ok claude please implement a thing to add a camera to this object manager, it should be very similar to this other code over there, I've copy pasted the field names into a struct for you to use already, you got this"

13.02.2026 23:17 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

every company that signs a branding deal with Harry Potter would be one thousand times better off doing the same thing with Dragon Ball

10.02.2026 16:57 πŸ‘ 2106 πŸ” 610 πŸ’¬ 15 πŸ“Œ 21

while we're here complaining about them, discord never added an account switcher to the mobile app

10.02.2026 10:59 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is why I'm worried about further stratification and stagnation, deep knowledge concentrating in people who already have knowledge or who are born into the life circumstances and means to acquire it

(obligatory: setting aside all eco concerns and hoping local models become more of a thing) 3/3

09.02.2026 20:06 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I watched someone earnestly try to get opus 4.5 in agent mode to refactor some keyframing systems and it needed a lot of hand-holding and couldn't produce something sensical beyond shuffling code around, so I don't yet trust it to explain something I don't already have a decent intuition on 2/3

09.02.2026 20:06 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

It's definitely good at the "small thing outside my wheelhouse I don't care to get good at" case (for me: writing XAML data templates)

The thing that didn't line up for me is "accurately explaining systems." It can short-circuit spending a few hours on wikipedia reading about a topic, but 1/3

09.02.2026 20:06 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

"accurately [...] if you prompt it well enough" doesn't match my experience. "It's a really fast really naive below-avg intern" is what colleagues say

I think it'll ossify local maxes, favoring existing 60% solutions. It will increase stratification b/w high-pay and low-pay tech jobs...probably bad

09.02.2026 18:33 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

cancelled my nitro

09.02.2026 15:59 πŸ‘ 205 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 0

ok what are the discord alternatives? are we going back to irc?

the un-christian deviant servers im in don't self identify as 18+, but I'm sure eventually they'll blur our vegeta fan art tutorial gifs

or if I try to stream an M-rated game to pals is it gonna block that?

thanks for nothing, prudes

09.02.2026 17:29 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

my brother told me he's going around calling the superb owl "short form content"

08.02.2026 21:28 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

people who say that all creative endeavor can be replaced with AI probably need to reckon with the fact that all televised sports events with human athletes could easily be replicated by high-definition computer-animated simulations….and yet we don’t do this and no one seems to want to.

08.02.2026 19:26 πŸ‘ 3320 πŸ” 799 πŸ’¬ 67 πŸ“Œ 46

Finally setting up SW2 months after buying because all the random advice about system transfer vs profile transfer vs pee into the wind advice has settled down with clarity on figuring out what I actually wanna do with it

Why's nintendo gotta make it a pain in the ass

06.02.2026 05:14 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Complaining about all the "foreign food" in London while vacationing in California is wild

02.02.2026 08:54 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It’s really difficult & disorienting but the feds hit LA extremely hard today. There were kidnappings all over & reported cluster raids in Chinatown, East LA, Ktown. This list shows to 1130 AM but they haven’t stopped all day

Just because the media attention stopped doesn’t mean the abductions have

28.01.2026 22:59 πŸ‘ 3517 πŸ” 2295 πŸ’¬ 26 πŸ“Œ 37

looking at linkedin open QA Manager positions

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21.01.2026 18:26 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Sorry this came up with my gf talking about her cousin having a birthday the other day and it's been on my mind ever aince causing more gray hairs to sprout in my beard

21.01.2026 09:34 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

err wait no, 17

21.01.2026 09:33 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

If someone just turned 19 today they would have been born after the Bush administration

21.01.2026 09:33 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Grok is so much worse than you think.

17.01.2026 08:45 πŸ‘ 4992 πŸ” 2462 πŸ’¬ 81 πŸ“Œ 164

I find it necessary these days to affirm the obvious because the descent into fascism is mostly a continuous, not discrete, process so here it goes:

these are internal checkpoints by secret police for what is routine freedom of movement.

16.01.2026 15:29 πŸ‘ 2785 πŸ” 1231 πŸ’¬ 24 πŸ“Œ 12

Gross

Not trusting the cpap vendor to not do shit like this is why I never setup the mobile app for mine

15.01.2026 10:20 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0