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New comment by cellsstudio in "Decompiling Fast Food Tycoon 2: Drawing the World"

cellsstudio — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 08:16:52 +0000

This is so fascinating. These kind of isometric games were really defining in my childhood so it's amazing to be able to peek behind the curtain in terms of how it all works to render. So interesting about the lighting and how they had pre-rendered .spr files for windows alongside the regular lighting. So cool!

New comment by cellsstudio in "Survival LLM: AI assistant and emergency library that runs on your own computer"

cellsstudio — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 06:41:41 +0000

I'm not a doomsday prepper but man if you need to run an LLM locally during the apocalypse to figure out how long your food is going to last, I feel like you are in for a tough time.

This kind of stuff really feels like knowledge that probably shouldn't be offload to AI but rather learned and practiced. Again, I don't have a bunker in my backyard but seems like a weird use case.

New comment by cellsstudio in "Assembly Nights (2021)"

cellsstudio — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 04:28:35 +0000

Anyone noticing some pretty heavy skill atrophy from all the Claude/Codex use in the last few months?

I feel like this is a great way to get back to basics and keep the eng skills sharp. Maybe I should try something similar...

New comment by cellsstudio in "Radio-tagged Monarch butterflies"

cellsstudio — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 04:26:44 +0000

Monarchs never really stop impressing. The journey they make cross-generational I think is just one of those marvels of nature that never fails to blow my mind.

Has anyone gone down to their nesting location in Mexico? It's on my bucket list but I hear that as their numbers dwindle, it's a harder thing to experience.

New comment by cellsstudio in "Radio-tagged Monarch butterflies"

cellsstudio — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 04:25:33 +0000

Yeah, that is exactly what I thought as well. Still, I think drawing a comparison to human beings might be a miss here, as I feel like it's just a completely different set of mechanics.

Bet they are still pissed with the extra workout though haha

New comment by cellsstudio in "Ink droplets in motion snag top prize in Nikon Small World contest"

cellsstudio — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 04:22:56 +0000

Thanks for sharing - what an incredible perspective on the mundane. Seriously seems like peering into an alien world and really it's just what's happen while someone sips their coffee and stares at a wall haha.

Anyone seen Thirteenth Floor that old 90s VR movie? Really reminds me of the power for that.

New comment by cellsstudio in "Blaise Pascal invented fixed route public transport (2024)"

cellsstudio — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 13:57:30 +0000

This is so interesting. I'm living in a country where casual, app-based transit far far outweighs publicly funded routing. I can't really say what works better from either an efficiency standpoint or an economic standpoint (from the side of funding mass public transit projects) but the result on the street is essentially chaos and a pretty precarious working situation for the people that operate it.

New comment by cellsstudio in "Roblox downloaded 145GB models from us (including adult content) without asking"

cellsstudio — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 13:55:20 +0000

I love that the scraper took a break over lunch. Just someone hitting pause on scraping gb's of Zelda models to get a sandwich and then firing it back up.

New comment by cellsstudio in "AI is ruining haunted houses"

cellsstudio — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 10:17:29 +0000

Is nothing sacred?