Aras Pranckevičius

Programmer. Unity 2006-2021. Now Blender. Website at https://aras-p.info Admin of https://mastodon.gamedev.place

website: https://aras-p.info/
github: https://github.com/aras-p

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2026-03-16 19:58:00 UTC

My first reaction to DLSS5 can be summarized as “🤮”. So now this completely discards artistic intent, and replaces all game characters with fake instagram influencers?
Is it just me?
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/dlss5-breakthrough-in-visual-fidelity-for-games/

2026-01-15 19:56:54 UTC

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so now that you know everything, can you confirm that PS6 is going to be 768 PICO-8s duct taped together?

2026-01-06 04:43:29 UTC

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what, this time it is not EdgeGeom on SPUs?!?! Anyway, congrats! (And oof for Unity…)

2025-12-02 08:34:07 UTC

So! This mastodon instance (mastodon.gamedev.place) has 136 custom "emojis" representing various engines & tools often used in gamedev. I made all of them 2+ years ago. Which notable ones have popped up since then that we are missing out on? Here are all the current ones: https://github.com/aras-p/gamedev-emojis

2025-06-13 03:59:02 UTC

“jemalloc Postmortem” https://jasone.github.io/2025/06/12/jemalloc-postmortem/

2025-03-28 15:45:07 UTC

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now now, there’s no need to insult actual rockstars like this!

2025-01-04 18:53:55 UTC

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great video, thanks ❤️ This answer to "do you think AI will ever be able to write a good song?" question by Nick Cave -- way back from 2019! -- I often think about. https://www.theredhandfiles.com/considering-human-imagination-the-last-piece-of-wilderness-do-you-think-ai-will-ever-be-able-to-write-a-good-song/
There's also his later (2023) answer about ChatGPT writing lyrics: https://www.theredhandfiles.com/chatgpt-making-things-faster-and-easier/

2024-12-17 19:16:30 UTC

Oh, turns out this :mastodon: instance (mastodon.gamedev.place) has been running for 7 years already. Not a terribly bad result! Here's what I wrote about it at the very start: https://aras-p.info/blog/2017/12/04/Gamedev-Mastodon-mastodon.gamedev.place/

2024-09-10 04:00:47 UTC

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And no mastodon/"fediverse" is not a sustainable and scalable answer. You still need someone to run the servers (costs $$$) and do moderation (costs human work and sometimes human misery).
Like, this instance running at all is a combination of Someone paying a $700 bill each.and.every.month, and about 5 moderators looking at reports and user registrations each.and.every.day. *So far* this has been working. Will it keep on working? Who knows! Forever? Probably not :/

2024-09-10 03:59:20 UTC

Cohost shutting down (https://cohost.org/staff/post/7611443-cohost-to-shut-down) is sad but not surprising. Unfortunately.
People saying "I wish media was not like today! I'd gladly pay $N for a nice no-nonsense / no-ads social platform". And then they don't.

2024-06-07 15:33:43 UTC

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replace Adobe with <well, any decently large tech company> and it still is still very much true.