An Ocean in Between the Waves

Art. Video games. Photography. Music.

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@braybraywoowoo

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Bit late to the party, unfashionably so

Here's the piece I was working on for N7 Day that I couldn't finish on time so bone apple titty! ✌🏻

[prokopetz]

It’s not terribly mysterious why shit like the load-bearing coconut happens. Usually it goes something like this:

Goal: the programmers have a bunch of data they need to have access to in every scene  

Problem: the game engine they’re using does not support a global scope  

Solution: create an invisible game object that holds all of that data in its attributes, and make sure it’s the first thing that loads in every scene  

Additional problem: the game engine requires every object to have a texture assigned to it, even if it’s never rendered  

Additional solution: assign this random stock photo we just happened to have lying around as the texture for the fake global scope object  

Result: the resources folder now contains a random JPEG of a coconut that can’t be removed or else the whole game stops working

One might think that this understanding would make load-bearing coconuts less funny, but this is not in fact the case: it makes them much, much funnier.

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Fjaðrárgljúfur

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Kyoto, Japan by Jacob Riglin

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Zoo de La Flèche

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Yosemite National Park

by: Niaz Uddin

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Kicking it in the Swiss Alps by Johannes Hoehn

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White Way by (A. Aleksandravičius) | Website

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Tawharanui Peninsula, New Zealand

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Cape Town, South Africa

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Tampere, Finland

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