simon

simon

@bugfoe.lol

lord of 3d

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simon
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a couple months ago i found out how to mediate a lifelong disinterest in classical music because i realized i could get into a specific conductor and see a much bigger picture than by just picking a composer. i chose bernstein because i love a 20th century sensibility

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now i have to listen to his mahler 4 once a day or else i start to get antsy

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last month my partner and i moved to portland (oregon) and are finally getting settled in... if anyone knows anything cool we gots to check out, let me know! i love the foggy

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it feels incredibly good to be back on the west coast after seven years

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game is stupid and good

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saturday derailed because i found out you have to check the duskbloods website to see if you got into the network test (i did) the next four hours i will be having a gamer’s delight

simon
@bugfoe.lol

saturday derailed because i found out you have to check the duskbloods website to see if you got into the network test (i did) the next four hours i will be having a gamer’s delight

simon
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i dont post much because i'm a pretty shy fella, but lately i've been able to work fulltime in games (cool) and my simon-projects in the off hours (also cool.) in the meanwhile, don't be a stranger. i like to chat

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birth's day simons

simon
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many thanks to boshi's place for featuring The Suzzzy Show! i'm incredibly honored. if you're in brooklyn, go check them out for the exhibition's final day!

boshi's place@boshis.place

next weekend!! click + drag yourselves over to boshi's place for a celebration of the computer mouse and other pointer devices as important and under-appreciated game controllers! we'll be focusing on novel and unexpected uses of the mouse as well as some custom modified mice.

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Fantastic show! Lot of great games and I saw lot of folks playing the Suzzzy Show by @bugfoe.lol!

boshi's place@boshis.place

next weekend!! click + drag yourselves over to boshi's place for a celebration of the computer mouse and other pointer devices as important and under-appreciated game controllers! we'll be focusing on novel and unexpected uses of the mouse as well as some custom modified mice.

simon
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been mapmaking in hammer editor the last week, and it’s affirming my desire that unity had some kind of brush-based level building solution.. unreal just got scythe editor, do i really have to settle with probuilder? graaaahhhh!

simon
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and i am sure that probuilder is perfectly adequate; i have just only seen it used in the context of grayboxing and prototyping and not finished level geometry

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hi guys its been a minute since i’ve had some cool new images to show. i have been in the 3d modeling/gamedev mines. *turns 90 degrees* my bad *turns -90 degrees*

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if there's something unnerving i've tried to meditate on lately, it's using the words "content" and "media." there's a remedy for that i've tried to administer: expand my definition of art, and stop deprecating my imagination by treating things as "content" >

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if i made something with love, and all someone (who still really enjoyed it) had to say was that it was "peak," would i feel deflated? the hard part is that, currently, i'm self-conscious of being reductive myself by saying all this now >

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i think the fear comes from that when i, inevitably, as a developer, want to be able to receive some kind of income for the things i create, will my work no longer be seen as art, and be subject to the scrutiny of content? does the "get that bag" mindset extend that far? thanks for listening

simon
@bugfoe.lol

if there's something unnerving i've tried to meditate on lately, it's using the words "content" and "media." there's a remedy for that i've tried to administer: expand my definition of art, and stop deprecating my imagination by treating things as "content" >

simon
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but this is a two-way street: if a creator treats their work like content, and presents it like content, then is that how it's going to be? consumed, digested, and passed? >

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i think those using words lends itself to the irony-posting (or sincere?) that goes into haphazardly calling things "peak" or "mid." if we can be reductive in thinking of the things we enjoy as a Prepared-For-Taste product, then it allows us to be reductive in how we weigh it in our heart and mind >

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is it strange to go from having No investment in monster hunter to suddenly having 130 hours in rise over the last three weeks…? i went from being a total noob to knowing so much about these monsters. it doesn’t seem natural

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this was mostly done as a tech test, seeing how closely i could create faux-pointilism in blender using cycles: low samples, high pixel filter, noisy textures

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