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andrewwillmott @andrewwillmott@mastodon.gamedev.place · May 05, 2026

Replying to @nifta@icosahedron.website

@nifta@icosahedron.website _looks sadly at 15+ years of Trump and Farage normalisation_

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andrewwillmott @andrewwillmott@mastodon.gamedev.place · May 05, 2026

Replying to @andrewwillmott@mastodon.gamedev.place

@bitinn@mastodon.gamedev.place I'm lucky enough to go to a fair few TV previews through BAFTA, in their big theatre with a high-quality projector/audio system, and to be honest it's not the worst idea. Most TV stuff these days is shot at a quality bar that easily holds up on the big screen.

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andrewwillmott @andrewwillmott@mastodon.gamedev.place · May 05, 2026

Replying to @bitinn@mastodon.gamedev.place

@bitinn@mastodon.gamedev.place The movie industry is in way worse shape than the games industry unfortunately :(. The only movies that reliably make money these days are kids films and horror movies. Lots of talk of repurposing screens to show quality TV/streaming series instead.

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andrewwillmott @andrewwillmott@mastodon.gamedev.place · May 01, 2026

Replying to @floooh@mastodon.gamedev.place

@floooh@mastodon.gamedev.place It is indeed, it's in the valleys just to the north east of Machynlleth. I'm grateful it's not named after the unit of speed, all the sonic booms would get a little tedious 😁

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andrewwillmott @andrewwillmott@mastodon.gamedev.place · May 01, 2026

With this weather, it's been a great few days for walks in the hills around Mach.

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andrewwillmott @andrewwillmott@mastodon.gamedev.place · May 01, 2026

A passer-by just north of Dinas Mawddwy

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andrewwillmott @andrewwillmott@mastodon.gamedev.place · Apr 30, 2026

Ouch. PyTorch Lightning 2.6.2/3 compromised with malware https://semgrep.dev/blog/2026/malicious-dependency-in-pytorch-lightning-used-for-ai-training/.

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andrewwillmott @andrewwillmott@mastodon.gamedev.place · Apr 28, 2026

https://legallayer.substack.com/p/who-owns-the-claude-code-wrote

legallayer.substack.com

Who Owns the Code Claude Wrote?

AI-generated code copyright explained for builders.

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andrewwillmott @andrewwillmott@mastodon.gamedev.place · Apr 26, 2026

Early Sunday morning hay delivery = I now have actual hay fever 😛

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andrewwillmott @andrewwillmott@mastodon.gamedev.place · Apr 23, 2026

Replying to @andrewwillmott@mastodon.gamedev.place

@dotstdy@mastodon.social _Old man shakes fist at cloud_

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andrewwillmott @andrewwillmott@mastodon.gamedev.place · Apr 23, 2026

Replying to @dotstdy@mastodon.social

@dotstdy@mastodon.social Oh it's clearly not going away, what's done is done, and we're tacking back to (IMHO) some PSO-free sanity. I'm just increasingly left feeling like, was a lot of this initial complexity ultimately worth the cost. Sadly we don't seem to be seeing any similar moves when it comes to the seemingly endless aliasing/UB/language 'feature' train.

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andrewwillmott @andrewwillmott@mastodon.gamedev.place · Apr 23, 2026

RE: @GDCPresoReviews@mastodon.gamedev.place

Very good thread/talk.

I've been thinking about this recently. We seem to have spent much of the last ten years making things crazy complicated for coders in pursuit of often minimal performance gains. Vulkan/DX12, strict aliasing, UB in C++, etc. Is software eating itself?

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andrewwillmott @andrewwillmott@mastodon.gamedev.place · Apr 22, 2026

Replying to @darkgriffin@mastodon.gamedev.place

@darkgriffin It gets worse. There are 5 different knobs in each UI set, and six of these UI sets overall corresponding to various discrete element sizes, 60% - 200%. That's almost 4000 pngs of knobs. I guess when all you have is a hammer...

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andrewwillmott @andrewwillmott@mastodon.gamedev.place · Apr 22, 2026

Seriously.

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