Michael Vance

A human who makes games and preserves the outdoors.
Fellow at Activision, President at Falmouth Land Trust.
Maine.

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2025-05-26 18:24:10

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@nprofile…gvnm Mellon Collie and the Isfinite() Sadness?

2025-05-26 11:22:24

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@nprofile…gvnm Very good. Related, for 20+ years I have had a custom mix/playlist that fits on one "album" called Mellon Collie and the Finite Sadness...

2025-05-26 00:10:54

Really interesting interview about the history and legacy of an iconic photo of Ali vs Liston in Lewiston of all places. His point about the value of the photo being in our view of Ali is interesting. I am embarrassed that I didn’t know they would hang strobes for fights either. Also the point about the tacky commercialization of events now with logos everywhere. Good read. #boxing #photography #maine
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/arts/design/muhammad-ali-neil-leifer-photograph.html?unlocked_article_code=1.KE8.UEU3.hKyyKsWKtlHw&smid=url-share

2025-05-12 12:13:16

REAC speakers and talks are announced! Come for talks from Capcom, EA, Saber, Machine Games, Blizzard, Ubisoft and ThreeJS. Read more and register at:
https://enginearchitecture.org/2025.htm
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2025-04-22 23:13:55

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@nprofile…gvnm @nprofile…ymy6 Quick someone do a version of They Live but with Aras and he's his dog and all the text is like about data oriented programming or something.
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2025-04-17 00:25:43

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@nprofile…gvnm FWIW I think I was actually reading through the Vulkan 2.0 proposals at the time.

2025-04-16 17:10:02

Another tough meeting at the office. #dogs
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2025-04-12 15:09:49

We're doing the thing!
https://enginearchitecture.org
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2025-03-08 01:22:24

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@nprofile…5k2y @nprofile…dh6e Looks like @nprofile…tvjd and @nprofile…5mw3 are on Mastodon as well. Just threw TD $100 for some good articles.

2025-03-02 20:43:46

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@nprofile…gvnm New profile pic time: https://aras-p.info/blog/2025/03/02/US-New-Orleans-Trip-2025/25nola7_garden19.jpg

2025-03-02 00:31:36

HEY EVERYBODY! We're doing REAC again and we are announcing call for submissions! Please come and talk about interesting problems! From the call:
"Talks about pipelines, workflows, culture, hard-earned lessons from the experience of engine-making, experiments and failures - all the topics that are fundamental to our craft, but hardly feature in traditional computer-graphics venues, are welcome.”
We look forward to hearing from you!
https://enginearchitecture.org/2025.htm

2025-01-20 19:56:39

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@nprofile…t3wn FWIW, I use these on my Stihls, sharpen after each significant use, takes a couple of minutes, therapeutic:
https://www.stihlusa.com/products/chain-saws/accessories/2in1file/

2025-01-20 19:54:50

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@nprofile…gvnm A tragedy all around.

2025-01-20 18:07:36

* Wife pauses her knitting, looks at piece.
* Look turns into furrowed brow.
* “What's wrong?”
* “I’m doing math.”
* Pause.
* "What did I do?”
* Pause.
* Look over four minutes later. There is no piece and just a ball of yarn she is winding.
* “Did you unwind the whole thing?!"
* “It couldn't be saved. I frogged it. I needed a multiple sixteen and I was supposed to decrease an then I was at 64 and I was supposed start at 56.”
This conversation could also be about memory pitch and blitting.

2025-01-20 13:24:54

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@nprofile…zsct I just started young!

2025-01-20 01:09:18

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@nprofile…zsct Wasteland, Might & Magic, Sentinel Worlds, Starflight, Ultima, Final Fantasy, Quest for Glory, Civilization, Dragon Quest, Doom, Tetris, Dungeon Explorer, Quake, Mortal Kombat, Shining Force, Mario 64, Total Annihilation, Dungeon Keeper.

2025-01-19 18:03:48

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@nprofile…gvnm He got pets and a piece of baguette, so, you know, I showed him who is the boss.

2025-01-19 15:03:32

Petey has started getting up on the kitchen nook bench with us. He is very insistent about deserving pets.
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2025-01-18 15:43:42

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@nprofile…gvnm It seems to me that brutalist architecture is awful but brutalist sculpture is amazing/terrifying/stolen from sci-fi.

2025-01-11 01:02:14

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@nprofile…zsct
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2024-12-31 01:38:36

In case you missed it first time around, still a banger.
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/my-comments-are-in-the-google-doc-linked-in-the-dropbox-i-sent-in-the-slack

2024-12-08 12:53:39

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@nprofile…fv4z
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2024-11-19 15:31:11

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@nprofile…jvvf
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2024-11-10 01:44:23

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@npub1xya…nnuu I am sitting next to it with my laptop doing conservation work while I drink a glass of Italian red.

2024-11-10 01:38:58

First of the year.
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2024-11-10 01:38:58

First of the year.
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2024-11-06 23:26:05

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@npub1xya…nnuu have seen this intermittently with bad driver revs.

2024-11-06 23:26:05

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@npub1xya…nnuu have seen this intermittently with bad driver revs.

2024-06-16 09:59:25

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@npub1ykd…6j2y frequent experience on motorcycle as well. Always fun.

2024-06-12 00:53:20

For fuck's sake, Youtube, I have no interest in your fucking shorts, let me disable all that stupid shit.

2024-03-03 20:00:19

It's beautiful out there folks.
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2024-02-29 15:53:46

Nothing sadder than biting into a croissant to find it’s almond and not chocolate.

2024-01-19 12:54:17

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@npub1928…zrrt @npub1ykd…6j2y "On a Pentium, a floating-point precision error can occur in rare circumstances." Memories.

2023-11-22 01:25:03

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@npub1qw5…037m Only cranky blue jays.

2023-11-22 01:20:37

The wave interference patterns in this water were actually constant / fixed in place and not propagating.
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2023-07-04 10:32:46

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@npub1src…fms4 We only had one problem with an AppleCard in the ten days we spent in Zaragoza, a candy shop with an old POS.
Did you have much cash? One of the few upsides of the pandemic has been traveling internationally this past year (England, Ireland, Spain) and not needing any cash at all. The one problem was vending machines in Spain, most are still coin operated.
Wife had her phone stolen in BCN a few years back, gets exhausting worrying about it, prefer smaller cities like ZAZ now.