one of the greatest human triumphs of my lifetime is the relentless, unceasing, heroic effort by DECADES' worth of doctors and scientists to find a cure for a disease much of the world didn't take seriously for years because it predominantly affected a community they thought kinda deserved it
Just because good news is worth celebrating:
There is now a Prep medication that is an *every six month* injection.
HIV has, effectively, a vaccination.
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This is Jerry Lawson. He invented the video game cartridge for the Fairchild Channel F system. Because of his invention, many consoles had cartridges and CD formats and would become the norm.
The Atari 2600, NES, Genesis, and many consoles wouldn't exist without him.
Happy Black History Month.
Also good to remember Ed Smith, who designed a comparable video game system just a year or so after Jerry Lawson
www.fastcompany.com/3063298/ed-s...
Ed Smith And The Imagination Machine: The Untold Story Of A Black Video Game Pioneer
At APF in the 1970s, as the second-known African-American video game engineer, he helped create an industry.
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Trying to add GPU-based object picking this evening to my map data renderer. The idea is to render each building with their unique ID and then read the pixel value under the mouse to know which object it belonged to (in theory 😀)
can i get a hell yeah on the timeline
Your subscriber dollars at work: Aftermath has a new regular contributor and monthly columnist. Welcome
@adashtra.bsky.social and
@jmrivera.bsky.social to our regular rotation of writers!
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One of the reasons I so greatly dislike the “can men and women be friends?” nonsense (yes, full stop, shut up) is that it casts suspicion on people with opposite-sex friends instead of where it more often belongs: on people with no opposite-sex friends.
Anyway, yeah. The overwhelming impression one gets from so many of these emails is that a lot of them are guys who have never had a real, serious friendship with a woman in their lives.
Which sucks for them, but also sucks for every woman who has to deal with them, ever.
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I used to love computer it was my friend. Now I have hate in my heart
These two shaders will be included in the upcoming update of the Unity Shaders Bible SE 🙂 Interested in learning Unity Shaders? 🔗
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I really want to find the exact version of snake (pc game) that I played as a kid. It had very beautiful art (prerendered 3d? somewhat psychedelic?) and tons of cool levels where the walls formed cool patterns or drawings. Maybe it'll be on eXoWin9x..
Sounds much later than the one I played as a kid. It's funny now to think that you had to pay for a snake game back in those days. (Though, ours might have come free with the console?)
ooh did this one have multiplayer?
When he told me I was insane during my Xbox pitch, said I was stupid when I brought him Guitar Hero with Alex (nobody will ever stick a plastic thing like that!), and then when he sued for Brütal, I would have taken it differently knowing he was a genuine creep and not just playing one on TV.
I did not have Bobby Kotick flirting with Ghislaine Maxwell on my bingo card.
Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly
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I will never not love this video of bats filmed upside down to make it look like they're at a goth nightclub
As always, I love our built-in bug reporting in our game and when users send in reports, especially when multiple players each send in reports from a multiplayer game so I see the state from multiple views. Today's saved what could have been weeks tracking down a bug and turned it into 10 minutes.
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At every single stage of my life there has been a movie or show suited for my age group in which Catherine O’Hara was a standout player. This just sucks, man.
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GOOD NEWS! For the FIRST time ever, researchers have developed a targeted combination therapy that has successfully AND completely ELIMINATED KRAS-driven pancreatic tumors in experimental models. Tumors regressed COMPLETELY with NO recurrence OR major side effects. Let’s talk about that!
SECOND HAND COMPUTER IS OUT!
SHC is a sort of vibes-based programmable
#FantasyComputer designed to mimic my own experiences getting a second-hand computer too crappy to run graphical games.
#IndieGames #IndieDev #GameDev
Second Hand Computer is out!
There comes a time in every project's life where you have to kick it out of home. You know you're going to be supporting it and helping it out for some time to come, but it's time for it to leave so y...
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Just a reminder, the greatest living American historian filmmaker, Ken Burns, released a 720 min exploration of every facet of the American revolution using zero generative AI and paying for all of its assets instead of cobbling it from stolen data, then he gave it away for free on PBS this year.
First trailer for Darren Aranofsky's new AI animated series 'On This Day... 1776'
• Tells short narrative stories about the Revolutionary War
• Uses Gen AI tools, including tech made by Google DeepMind
• Has SAG voice actors
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Hey folks so I’m not good at this but, I’m a Sr. Producer seeking work!
💼 20 years of game production XP across Netflix Games/Spry Fox, Bungie, Blizzard, Zynga, Riot Games, and more
⭐️ indie, AAA, PC/console/mobile, 8-400 person teams, internal and ex-dev
www.linkedin.com/in/cuppycake...
Tami Lam - Netflix | LinkedIn
Producer-shaped person doing the video games thing for 20 years. Nominated for an… · Experience: Netflix · Education: AnimSchool · Location: Irvine · 500+ connections on LinkedIn. View Tami Lam’s prof...
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You don't have the be an avowed AI hater to be impressed without lifeless and unwatchable this is.
Why are they using highball glasses from 1985?
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