wind breaker

Aziz Ansari would actually make a better FBI Director than Kash Patel.

I wish more Chinese generals made delicious chicken and rice dishes

I am obsessed with this Japanese man using AI video to put himself into movies (he's on IG at @ai_am_furufuru)

Franky when One Piece enters a new arc

@talkingheading King of Pop -> Kpop

Off topic but the kpop industry really stole his whole flow 😭😭😭😭

can y'all see the vision ???

Berkeley // Oakland // Walnut Creek

Nintendo's lead physics engineer saw the prototype that became Tears of the Kingdom and said "are we really doing this?!" Then they did it. That's why players can build working trains inside the game. At GDC 2024, the team broke down the architecture. The rule from day one was simple: build a system, let fun emerge. To make that rule run, they removed every non-physics object from the game world. Gates, cogs, doors. Everything got rebuilt as a physics-driven object. Two layers of physics underneath: Havok (the same commercial engine powering Half-Life 2) at the bottom, Nintendo's in-house physics layer on top. Every wheel in TOTK is three rigid bodies: wheel, motor, shaft. Torque from the motor flows through the shaft. Friction with the ground creates forward motion. That's why a player-built train rolls correctly even though no developer ever scripted "trains." The cooking pot is the funniest piece of the architecture. Nintendo added a joint at the bottom so soup wouldn't spill on uneven terrain. Players figured out the joint was a ball-and-socket and turned it into vehicle suspension, robot arms, and laser turret mounts. None of that was on the design doc. Sound runs on the same trick. There is no pre-recorded "wagon noise." Every sound emerges from rolling wheels, jangling chains, and creaking joints colliding in real time. The director called it a physics engine for sound. The audio team said on record they don't recognize half the final sounds because the system made them. All of this runs on a Switch with 4GB of RAM and a 10-watt power budget. Studios with 10x the hardware budget can't let you put a barrel on a horse. Tears of the Kingdom lets you build a train.

#projecthailmary Duolingo

‘How are you so focused under pressure?’ Me in 1995:

GRACE ROCKY SAVE CINEMA FR

Typa shit cartoon characters do when they’re late for school

お題 春は行事がたくさんでカメラマン化しています📸 日々の参考に、ヤドンカメラマンがみたいなぁ☺️

it fucks me up mentally that electronics and magnets just got over their beef for the most part like they're chill now. my phone has a magnet on it. my pc case has a magnet on it. unsettling

The Nintendo Today app is funny.

Went to the Oreo website and hit accept all cookies. Now we wait.

Fighting game menu music

A video of reentry, this is one of the coolest things my eyes have ever witnessed

Around the moon and back in a week. That was better than any TV I've seen in a long time