Stephan Bogner

🤔 "Peaks" or "Summits" might be more accurate than "Plateaus" actually

6 / 6 I think being aware of the constraints (e.g. time or budget) and choosing the right plateau is important. The audience cares about the final outcome, not the effort spent. On the flip side this means enjoyment is essentially detached from effort:

A thought I had: Quality comes in plateaus 1 / 6

Why @YouTube Premium will only get more expensive: (When Premium is great for you, it's terrible for YT and vice versa)

The mindset of the two first search results couldn't be further apart 😅

@AlexanderGerund Thanks for the kind words ☺️ I actually have some more rough drafts on various topics – @obsdmd really makes structuring my thoughts easier. Maybe that means more output than in previous years 😅

⏳ A few years passed since my last essay: stephanbogner.de/writing/2024/u…

@ilithya_rocks I am always surprised how versatile blending noises is :)

@st_phan Thx. Yep! ☺️

Shader • 884 Spellbinding 🧿 #anydayshaders

#Halo 2's art direction was on another level. It had such beautiful vistas and atmosphere.

@DUSKdev If it‘s a focussed/memorable experience less can be fine, but my preferred length is between 4 and 15 hours. Otherwise it‘s already over before it gets interesting. It‘s like short films vs. feature films IMO.

Reminder that when I release a short game, the playtime is clearly listed in the description, for this reason. That said I do want to know if people like the short form games idea or if it's run its course. Just maybe without throwing the word "scam" around.

ChatGPT writes answers how humans wrote them before SEO made everything terrible

I am writing an essay once again 🙂 This is the key visual:

My take on William Gibson's famous quote: ❝The f̶u̶t̶u̶r̶e̶ dystopia is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed.❞

I got the feeling that the more precisely ones tries to define something, the blurrier it becomes: • What’s a sandwich? • What’s a continent? • What‘s a soul? • What‘s life?

Maybe it should be called ❝collatoral damage efficiency❞ to describe a tipping point where something generally good becomes ruthless

Examples for „Enemy of life itself“: • Mono cultures in agriculture • Amazon workers peeing in bottles • Stress induced diseases • Highly processed foods • …

Extreme efficiency is: • The friend of costs • The enemy of life itself