Recovering game developer.
Nottingham, UK
Joined August 2010
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Ruan Pearce-Authers retweeted
Programmer: We can do anything with code these days! Fully destructible environments. Impossible spaces that fold in on themselves. Entire solar systems!
Artist: Cool! How do I make this slightly transparent object appear behind another transparent object?
Programmer: *sobbing*
Ruan Pearce-Authers retweeted
So many of the rights we have - from the weekend, to maternity leave, to pensions - exist because trade unions fought for them.
To fight for better rights, protect yourself and your colleagues, join a trade union this #HeartUnions week 👉🏽 tuc.org.uk.
Ruan Pearce-Authers retweeted
We already have games where you play to earn. They're called "jobs" and they're not fun.
Ruan Pearce-Authers retweeted
Workers tell us that this is a "dark day" at the company, as an unconfirmed number of employees lose their jobs right before Christmas. thegamer.com/lockwood-publis…
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A massive thank you to the Icelandic Confederation of Labour for their letter of support for the @LockwoodLKWD workers facing unlawful redundancy.
Iceland has some of the strongest labour laws in the world, making @hallibjornsson's actions even more shameful.
#lockwoodlockout
Ruan Pearce-Authers retweeted
Nottingham-based Lockwood Publishing is making 10% of its staff redundant just before Christmas.
I share the @IWGBunion's concerns that the process they are using is unlawful.
I've written to @LockwoodLKWD. This redundancy process should be halted immediately.
Ruan Pearce-Authers retweeted
IWGB union says Lockwood Publishing layoffs are illegal
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We've just made our 4.0.0 release covering 711 issues from 114 different contributors over 3 months. Read more about what's happening in the project:
arrow.apache.org/blog/2021/0…
Ruan Pearce-Authers retweeted
when writing code, make sure to include comments that will help future maintainers. in particularly difficult sections of code, i like to include the phone number of my favorite therapist
Ruan Pearce-Authers retweeted
No one:
Literally no one:
me: "... What if ggplots were made out of jello???"
#rstats #rayshader #rayrender
Ruan Pearce-Authers retweeted
STOP making fun of different game engines
godot is OPEN SOURCE
game maker is PROBABLY OK
unity makes it EASY to shoot yourself in the FOOT
unreal is less important than FORTNITE
cryengine
lumberyard is CRYENGINE
source might let you use VALVE’S ASSETS
Ruan Pearce-Authers retweeted
just learned with horror that deleting any of the "family" emojis in google slides does not remove the emoji, but rather kills off each individual family member one by one, starting with the children
Ruan Pearce-Authers retweeted
me: I discovered a new statistical law that says that all jokes on twitter are based on other jokes on twitter
friend: that’s really cool! what do you call it?
me: *slowly takes off sun glasses* regression to the meme
Ruan Pearce-Authers retweeted
Slides already online at: user2019.r-project.org/talk_…. Videos coming soon (in a week or so)...
Ruan Pearce-Authers retweeted
Movie exec: Pitch me
Me: It’s a movie about high school girls trying to figure out what clique they belong in. They move from clique to clique and eventually stop when they minimize their differences. It’s called K-Means Girls.
Movie exec: Get out of my office
Ruan Pearce-Authers retweeted
When someone new joins your team and thinks all legacy code is bad and they could do better
Ruan Pearce-Authers retweeted
Building a new thing is like being given a choice of unlimited free puppies. So cute and fun until they grow up a bit, wake you in the middle of the night, and require dozens of other people to help you manage them all.
We did it to ourselves.
