i was just thinking back to when i was an art student. one of the first things we learned about in painting 101 was the rendering equation. the professor wrote it on the chalk board and we all sat there awestruck, marveling at its elegance and brilliance
aeva
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I'm a just a small town AAA graphics programmer in Chicago. I worked on Gears 5 and Gears Tactics. My work is secret, but my personal projects are not.
I like to post about my personal research, various side projects, and I like to think out loud a lot. Expect weird humor, esoteric ramblings, and occasionally also art I made out of math. I like implicit surface modeling the normal amount. Chronic pain enthusiast. 🏳️⚧️
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aeva
@aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place
I'm a just a small town AAA graphics programmer in Chicago. I worked on Gears 5 and Gears Tactics. My work is secret, but my personal projects are not. I like to post about my personal research, various side projects, and I like to think out loud a lot. Expect weird humor, esoteric ramblings, and occasionally also art I made out of math. I like implicit surface modeling the normal amount. Chronic pain enthusiast. 🏳️⚧️ Curses are just blessings with caveats.
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aeva
@aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place
I'm a just a small town AAA graphics programmer in Chicago. I worked on Gears 5 and Gears Tactics. My work is secret, but my personal projects are not. I like to post about my personal research, various side projects, and I like to think out loud a lot. Expect weird humor, esoteric ramblings, and occasionally also art I made out of math. I like implicit surface modeling the normal amount. Chronic pain enthusiast. 🏳️⚧️ Curses are just blessings with caveats.
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@aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place
I'm a just a small town AAA graphics programmer in Chicago. I worked on Gears 5 and Gears Tactics. My work is secret, but my personal projects are not. I like to post about my personal research, various side projects, and I like to think out loud a lot. Expect weird humor, esoteric ramblings, and occasionally also art I made out of math. I like implicit surface modeling the normal amount. Chronic pain enthusiast. 🏳️⚧️ Curses are just blessings with caveats.
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aeva
@aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place
I'm a just a small town AAA graphics programmer in Chicago. I worked on Gears 5 and Gears Tactics. My work is secret, but my personal projects are not. I like to post about my personal research, various side projects, and I like to think out loud a lot. Expect weird humor, esoteric ramblings, and occasionally also art I made out of math. I like implicit surface modeling the normal amount. Chronic pain enthusiast. 🏳️⚧️ Curses are just blessings with caveats.
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Mar 09, 2026
"prompt engineers" are living in the past. they're gonna be replaced by "prompt agents". you won't even be allowed to write the copyrightable words "large breasts trending on art station in the style of someone else's life's work" you'll just drool the word "horny" or "app" into the saas and the cloud will dispense the most statistically probable approximation of your most statistically probable desires and praise you on the above average quality of your drool.
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@aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place
I'm a just a small town AAA graphics programmer in Chicago. I worked on Gears 5 and Gears Tactics. My work is secret, but my personal projects are not. I like to post about my personal research, various side projects, and I like to think out loud a lot. Expect weird humor, esoteric ramblings, and occasionally also art I made out of math. I like implicit surface modeling the normal amount. Chronic pain enthusiast. 🏳️⚧️ Curses are just blessings with caveats.
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aeva
@aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place
I'm a just a small town AAA graphics programmer in Chicago. I worked on Gears 5 and Gears Tactics. My work is secret, but my personal projects are not. I like to post about my personal research, various side projects, and I like to think out loud a lot. Expect weird humor, esoteric ramblings, and occasionally also art I made out of math. I like implicit surface modeling the normal amount. Chronic pain enthusiast. 🏳️⚧️ Curses are just blessings with caveats.
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Mar 05, 2026
you ever think about stroads
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@aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place
I'm a just a small town AAA graphics programmer in Chicago. I worked on Gears 5 and Gears Tactics. My work is secret, but my personal projects are not. I like to post about my personal research, various side projects, and I like to think out loud a lot. Expect weird humor, esoteric ramblings, and occasionally also art I made out of math. I like implicit surface modeling the normal amount. Chronic pain enthusiast. 🏳️⚧️ Curses are just blessings with caveats.
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aeva
@aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place
I'm a just a small town AAA graphics programmer in Chicago. I worked on Gears 5 and Gears Tactics. My work is secret, but my personal projects are not. I like to post about my personal research, various side projects, and I like to think out loud a lot. Expect weird humor, esoteric ramblings, and occasionally also art I made out of math. I like implicit surface modeling the normal amount. Chronic pain enthusiast. 🏳️⚧️ Curses are just blessings with caveats.
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Feb 28, 2026
do you have a hankering for playing a short, beautiful visual novel about an arthurian legend with a trans twist? because a dear friend of mine just published her beautiful visual novel about an arthurian legend with a trans twist minutes ago and i'm extremely excited about it https://maidandlion.itch.io/the-fair-unknown
she's been working on this for years now and i'll have you know her art is absolutely stunning
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@aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place
I'm a just a small town AAA graphics programmer in Chicago. I worked on Gears 5 and Gears Tactics. My work is secret, but my personal projects are not. I like to post about my personal research, various side projects, and I like to think out loud a lot. Expect weird humor, esoteric ramblings, and occasionally also art I made out of math. I like implicit surface modeling the normal amount. Chronic pain enthusiast. 🏳️⚧️ Curses are just blessings with caveats.
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aeva
@aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place
I'm a just a small town AAA graphics programmer in Chicago. I worked on Gears 5 and Gears Tactics. My work is secret, but my personal projects are not. I like to post about my personal research, various side projects, and I like to think out loud a lot. Expect weird humor, esoteric ramblings, and occasionally also art I made out of math. I like implicit surface modeling the normal amount. Chronic pain enthusiast. 🏳️⚧️ Curses are just blessings with caveats.
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Feb 26, 2026
half the jobs I've had in my career involved working in a programming language that I had learned (or re-learned) in a week prior to the interview, to a degree of competence that I could talk intelligently about non-trivial aspects of the language, and demonstrate non-trivial tasks idiomatically. these languages were C#, Ruby, and C++.
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@aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place
I'm a just a small town AAA graphics programmer in Chicago. I worked on Gears 5 and Gears Tactics. My work is secret, but my personal projects are not. I like to post about my personal research, various side projects, and I like to think out loud a lot. Expect weird humor, esoteric ramblings, and occasionally also art I made out of math. I like implicit surface modeling the normal amount. Chronic pain enthusiast. 🏳️⚧️ Curses are just blessings with caveats.
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aeva
@aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place
I'm a just a small town AAA graphics programmer in Chicago. I worked on Gears 5 and Gears Tactics. My work is secret, but my personal projects are not. I like to post about my personal research, various side projects, and I like to think out loud a lot. Expect weird humor, esoteric ramblings, and occasionally also art I made out of math. I like implicit surface modeling the normal amount. Chronic pain enthusiast. 🏳️⚧️ Curses are just blessings with caveats.
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Feb 20, 2026
i'll say one nice thing about ai slop: the ai generated preview images continue to be a reliable indicator that there are other major issues with the article or video they represent. if the author couldn't be bothered to try to land a solid first impression, why, you can bet they didn't care enough to try and make anything else worth your time
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@aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place
I'm a just a small town AAA graphics programmer in Chicago. I worked on Gears 5 and Gears Tactics. My work is secret, but my personal projects are not. I like to post about my personal research, various side projects, and I like to think out loud a lot. Expect weird humor, esoteric ramblings, and occasionally also art I made out of math. I like implicit surface modeling the normal amount. Chronic pain enthusiast. 🏳️⚧️ Curses are just blessings with caveats.
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aeva
@aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place
I'm a just a small town AAA graphics programmer in Chicago. I worked on Gears 5 and Gears Tactics. My work is secret, but my personal projects are not. I like to post about my personal research, various side projects, and I like to think out loud a lot. Expect weird humor, esoteric ramblings, and occasionally also art I made out of math. I like implicit surface modeling the normal amount. Chronic pain enthusiast. 🏳️⚧️ Curses are just blessings with caveats.
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Feb 10, 2026
#poll for all you beautiful hard working professional computer touchers out there:
"my day job has me making the world a ____ place"
(be honest, don't just repeat what your CEO says)
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@aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place
I'm a just a small town AAA graphics programmer in Chicago. I worked on Gears 5 and Gears Tactics. My work is secret, but my personal projects are not. I like to post about my personal research, various side projects, and I like to think out loud a lot. Expect weird humor, esoteric ramblings, and occasionally also art I made out of math. I like implicit surface modeling the normal amount. Chronic pain enthusiast. 🏳️⚧️ Curses are just blessings with caveats.
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aeva
@aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place
I'm a just a small town AAA graphics programmer in Chicago. I worked on Gears 5 and Gears Tactics. My work is secret, but my personal projects are not. I like to post about my personal research, various side projects, and I like to think out loud a lot. Expect weird humor, esoteric ramblings, and occasionally also art I made out of math. I like implicit surface modeling the normal amount. Chronic pain enthusiast. 🏳️⚧️ Curses are just blessings with caveats.
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Jan 31, 2026
me, swearing: OGG VORB IT
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@aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place
I'm a just a small town AAA graphics programmer in Chicago. I worked on Gears 5 and Gears Tactics. My work is secret, but my personal projects are not. I like to post about my personal research, various side projects, and I like to think out loud a lot. Expect weird humor, esoteric ramblings, and occasionally also art I made out of math. I like implicit surface modeling the normal amount. Chronic pain enthusiast. 🏳️⚧️ Curses are just blessings with caveats.
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aeva
@aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place
I'm a just a small town AAA graphics programmer in Chicago. I worked on Gears 5 and Gears Tactics. My work is secret, but my personal projects are not. I like to post about my personal research, various side projects, and I like to think out loud a lot. Expect weird humor, esoteric ramblings, and occasionally also art I made out of math. I like implicit surface modeling the normal amount. Chronic pain enthusiast. 🏳️⚧️ Curses are just blessings with caveats.
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Jan 21, 2026
⚠️ SCAM ALERT
strangers on the internet will sometimes lie to you to trick you in a variety of exciting and clever ways
DO NOT BE FOOLED BY THEIR GUILE
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My policy of declining when billionaires offer me a ride on their private jets to visit their secluded Caribbean underage sex islands is starting to pay off.
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@aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place
I'm a just a small town AAA graphics programmer in Chicago. I worked on Gears 5 and Gears Tactics. My work is secret, but my personal projects are not. I like to post about my personal research, various side projects, and I like to think out loud a lot. Expect weird humor, esoteric ramblings, and occasionally also art I made out of math. I like implicit surface modeling the normal amount. Chronic pain enthusiast. 🏳️⚧️ Curses are just blessings with caveats.
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aeva
@aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place
I'm a just a small town AAA graphics programmer in Chicago. I worked on Gears 5 and Gears Tactics. My work is secret, but my personal projects are not. I like to post about my personal research, various side projects, and I like to think out loud a lot. Expect weird humor, esoteric ramblings, and occasionally also art I made out of math. I like implicit surface modeling the normal amount. Chronic pain enthusiast. 🏳️⚧️ Curses are just blessings with caveats.
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@mattblaze@federate.social is this one of those "I'd have 10 cents, but it's weird that it happened twice" situations
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Open ancestor post
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@aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place
I'm a just a small town AAA graphics programmer in Chicago. I worked on Gears 5 and Gears Tactics. My work is secret, but my personal projects are not. I like to post about my personal research, various side projects, and I like to think out loud a lot. Expect weird humor, esoteric ramblings, and occasionally also art I made out of math. I like implicit surface modeling the normal amount. Chronic pain enthusiast. 🏳️⚧️ Curses are just blessings with caveats.
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aeva
@aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place
I'm a just a small town AAA graphics programmer in Chicago. I worked on Gears 5 and Gears Tactics. My work is secret, but my personal projects are not. I like to post about my personal research, various side projects, and I like to think out loud a lot. Expect weird humor, esoteric ramblings, and occasionally also art I made out of math. I like implicit surface modeling the normal amount. Chronic pain enthusiast. 🏳️⚧️ Curses are just blessings with caveats.
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Dec 04, 2025
@skeletor@mas.to I don't love my childhood trauma, and I don't love my tendency to blurt things out without thinking them through when I let my guard down around people, and i don't love my insomnia which makes it so hard to function in the broader world
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@aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place
I'm a just a small town AAA graphics programmer in Chicago. I worked on Gears 5 and Gears Tactics. My work is secret, but my personal projects are not. I like to post about my personal research, various side projects, and I like to think out loud a lot. Expect weird humor, esoteric ramblings, and occasionally also art I made out of math. I like implicit surface modeling the normal amount. Chronic pain enthusiast. 🏳️⚧️ Curses are just blessings with caveats.
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aeva
@aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place
I'm a just a small town AAA graphics programmer in Chicago. I worked on Gears 5 and Gears Tactics. My work is secret, but my personal projects are not. I like to post about my personal research, various side projects, and I like to think out loud a lot. Expect weird humor, esoteric ramblings, and occasionally also art I made out of math. I like implicit surface modeling the normal amount. Chronic pain enthusiast. 🏳️⚧️ Curses are just blessings with caveats.
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Nov 28, 2025
semi-related, I've decided that my collection of mostly functioning old computers that I've been holding on to just in case is now to be hereby known as my "Beowulf Clutter"
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Today I am stepping down from my role as the CEO of #Mastodon. Though this has been in the works for a while, I can't say I've fully processed how I feel about it. There is a bittersweet part to it, a
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@aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place
I'm a just a small town AAA graphics programmer in Chicago. I worked on Gears 5 and Gears Tactics. My work is secret, but my personal projects are not. I like to post about my personal research, various side projects, and I like to think out loud a lot. Expect weird humor, esoteric ramblings, and occasionally also art I made out of math. I like implicit surface modeling the normal amount. Chronic pain enthusiast. 🏳️⚧️ Curses are just blessings with caveats.
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aeva
@aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place
I'm a just a small town AAA graphics programmer in Chicago. I worked on Gears 5 and Gears Tactics. My work is secret, but my personal projects are not. I like to post about my personal research, various side projects, and I like to think out loud a lot. Expect weird humor, esoteric ramblings, and occasionally also art I made out of math. I like implicit surface modeling the normal amount. Chronic pain enthusiast. 🏳️⚧️ Curses are just blessings with caveats.
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@aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place
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Nov 18, 2025
@Gargron@mastodon.social thank you for everything john
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@aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place
I'm a just a small town AAA graphics programmer in Chicago. I worked on Gears 5 and Gears Tactics. My work is secret, but my personal projects are not. I like to post about my personal research, various side projects, and I like to think out loud a lot. Expect weird humor, esoteric ramblings, and occasionally also art I made out of math. I like implicit surface modeling the normal amount. Chronic pain enthusiast. 🏳️⚧️ Curses are just blessings with caveats.
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@aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place
I'm a just a small town AAA graphics programmer in Chicago. I worked on Gears 5 and Gears Tactics. My work is secret, but my personal projects are not. I like to post about my personal research, various side projects, and I like to think out loud a lot. Expect weird humor, esoteric ramblings, and occasionally also art I made out of math. I like implicit surface modeling the normal amount. Chronic pain enthusiast. 🏳️⚧️ Curses are just blessings with caveats.
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@aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place
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Feb 23, 2025
#poll how are y'all doing today
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