Game/software dev; self taught for ~10 years, BS in CS and game design, formerly in AAA, currently teaching in university.https://bsky.app/profile/lexthedog.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/lexthedog.bsky.social/post/3mwqll7civ22iThere is a great study where groups were shown a video at a consistent, high frame rate, then the frame rate was either cut *or* made inconsistent. People always greatly preferred constant 30fps over 60fps which dropped a 1 frame every second. We are just hard-wired for consistent motion. [contains quote post or other embedded content]30 Sep 2026 14:47 +0000at://did:plc:ohoommar3iwll5rimfcytk3s/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwqll7civ22ihttps://bsky.app/profile/lexthedog.bsky.social/post/3mwpqrof2wk2iEvery time someone tells me they like Python or that Python is a great first programming language to learn, I show them this puzzle and every time they agree Python's behavior is confusing. Here's the puzzle: given this code, what is printed?30 Sep 2026 06:48 +0000at://did:plc:ohoommar3iwll5rimfcytk3s/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwpqrof2wk2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/lexthedog.bsky.social/post/3mwpitatatc2iA while back, a student of mine told me he was worried that he might be too old to get an entry level job after he graduates despite being ~20. I told him that when I was in college, one of my classmates was in their 50s and decided to get a new degree "because I was bored of what I'd been doing."30 Sep 2026 04:26 +0000at://did:plc:ohoommar3iwll5rimfcytk3s/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwpitatatc2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/lexthedog.bsky.social/post/3mwphh2xss22iIt should be illegal for a chatbot to personify itself or insinuate it understands things when it cannot. As soon as a chatbot says "I understand what you're saying" or "I think that..." it should be seen as psychological manipulation.30 Sep 2026 04:01 +0000at://did:plc:ohoommar3iwll5rimfcytk3s/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwphh2xss22ihttps://bsky.app/profile/lexthedog.bsky.social/post/3mwp66jbhmk2iIt's unbelievable to me how many people are stuck in the same argument from pre-1980s computing. No, computers don't "know" anything because they can't "think" or "understand" in the first place. [contains quote post or other embedded content]30 Sep 2026 01:15 +0000at://did:plc:ohoommar3iwll5rimfcytk3s/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwp66jbhmk2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/lexthedog.bsky.social/post/3mwnhp7sp4k2bHot gaming take: talking about genres is a complete waste of time. "I like platformers and RPGs," ok, that tells me nothing. "This game is a roguelike dungeon crawler," again, tells me nothing. "I like games that focus on mastery," *now* we're getting somewhere.29 Sep 2026 09:00 +0000at://did:plc:ohoommar3iwll5rimfcytk3s/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwnhp7sp4k2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/lexthedog.bsky.social/post/3mwgkfs5zi22bWe need to spend our energy stopping AI not because "hypothetically there's a chance it does something horrible" but because it's *currently* doing a lot of horrible things (even if some of those horrible things are a bit abstract or more complicated than "shooting you with a gun") [contains quote post or other embedded content]26 Sep 2026 15:00 +0000at://did:plc:ohoommar3iwll5rimfcytk3s/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwgkfs5zi22bhttps://bsky.app/profile/lexthedog.bsky.social/post/3mweiu2euws2bJust got through a spur of the moment playthrough of Pikmin (technically Pikmin Squared, a remake in the second game's engine). Always a good time, even if it's a bit jank. Completed the game in 13/30 days (2 hours 12 minutes). Made some really stupid mistakes; could have done it in 11 😅25 Sep 2026 19:27 +0000at://did:plc:ohoommar3iwll5rimfcytk3s/app.bsky.feed.post/3mweiu2euws2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/lexthedog.bsky.social/post/3mweijv4gms2bGenuinely good advice. Double and half are immediately felt by the player while something like 5% or even 20% can be obviously calculable, but the player is almost certainly not going to notice unless they start A-B testing (you do not want them to think that is the right choice) [contains quote post or other embedded content]25 Sep 2026 19:21 +0000at://did:plc:ohoommar3iwll5rimfcytk3s/app.bsky.feed.post/3mweijv4gms2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/lexthedog.bsky.social/post/3mwbfs74jvs2zMost indie devs will not see financial returns on their project. If you have the opportunity to work on your game as a personal/side thing *along side* your stable day job, you will not regret it. [contains quote post or other embedded content]24 Sep 2026 13:54 +0000at://did:plc:ohoommar3iwll5rimfcytk3s/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwbfs74jvs2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/lexthedog.bsky.social/post/3mw25i3kqrs2dHello, everyone. I'm a #programmer in #gamedev currently teaching CS and game programming at a university in Korea. I am a big fan of @godotengine.org and #cplusplus and tend to post about game programming, design, and development in general.21 Sep 2026 16:37 +0000at://did:plc:ohoommar3iwll5rimfcytk3s/app.bsky.feed.post/3mw25i3kqrs2d