Simplex (@simplex

Simplex

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Simplex

@simplex_fx

Porting stuff to consoles. AAA gamedev for 15+y (ex-Crytek). Automotive stuff. CNCing old turret lathes. Writing a game in C. Father. Catholic. Swordsman/stunt.

Sukoró, Magyarország

Joined February 2013

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Simplex
@simplex_fx
May 8, 2020
Profiling & Optimization Expectation: -clever algorithms -SoA -hand-written SIMD Reality: -rewriting totally retarded stuff that makes no sense and either quadratic or exponential -removing unneccessary abstraction and polymorphism -adding reserve() / resize() -removing Log()
Simplex
@simplex_fx
Dec 5, 2024
Webdevs discovering, how floating point work.
𝗠𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘅™
@Malix_Labs
Dec 5, 2024
that's why you shouldn't use javascript
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@simplex_fx
Oct 22, 2025
You may not like it, but this is what peak video game UI looks like.
Simplex
@simplex_fx
Oct 22, 2025
Most modern "UX" and "design" is fake to make things useless for the users, but shiny for the retarded mgmt. We reached peak UX around Windows98 / Final Fantasy VII
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@simplex_fx
Dec 10, 2024
Look mommy, we rewrote a 24yo open source lib, skipping all the accumulated technical debt, compatibility, and some of the featureset, and it’s faster! Shocking, really!
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@simplex_fx
Jul 23, 2025
If your servers die with just 250 users, you kinda need to fire your whole backend and infra team.
Mahyad
@MahyadGhassemi
Jul 22, 2025
I usually don’t like sharing these stuff, but YC reach and distribution kick is insane honestly. Our servers literally broke yesterday
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@simplex_fx
Nov 9, 2024
Since the main use case for Zig programs are using an empty main, this is a very important benchmark
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@simplex_fx
May 26, 2024
Replying to @theanglishtimes
Lol, Hungary is one of the safest countries in Europe, worst case you could get ripped off in a shady restaurant if you are careless, or pickpocketed, if you are drunk.
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@simplex_fx
Jul 5, 2025
Replying to @Dexerto
Total BS. The tech costs to make the server available is a super small fraction of prod costs. They just don’t want to lose control and their way to enforce planned depreciation. They will be forced to make better games, as otherwise ppl will just play the old ones.
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Simplex
@simplex_fx
Oct 22, 2025
raylib is the best way to start C programming. Kinda reminds me the old C64 era, when you could have quick and visible results as a newbie, with minimal coding. Now also comes with software rendering, so you can run it on some shitty dev board and render to some small oled :)
Ray
@raysan5
Oct 20, 2025
NEWS! raylib custom Software Renderer backend [rlsw] has been finally merged! 🚀 For the first time in this 12-years journey, there is a NO-DEPENDENCIES path available for raylib rendering, no platform library (direct Win32 implementation) and no OpenGL required! 🤯
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@simplex_fx
Aug 7, 2025
Replying to @notch
Reminder that it’s totally retarded to ditch people bc they don’t remember the name of some shit you can google in 3 seconds..
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@simplex_fx
Feb 7, 2024
Witnessed a true miracle! I saw a cool rendering paper, tried to read it, felt like I’m the guy in the meme. But when I wrote to the author, I got back a reply within a hour, with a wall of text explanation plus link to source code (which is actually readable by regular humans)
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Simplex
@simplex_fx
Oct 13, 2025
Very True. But while you are at it, you can fucking create a proper string builder as well, instead of doing retarded strcat like a fucking animal from ‘89
_brian
@_brianpmaher
Oct 12, 2025
You can just use C as your build script
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Simplex
@simplex_fx
Apr 18, 2024
Replying to @Brucechalmers10 and @OrwellNGoode
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@simplex_fx
Aug 4, 2025
Replying to @moultano
I assume you never had a MacBook. You can remove the plug from it, and plug in a 2 pin C7 power coord to the transformer. So it's like your usual laptop power supply, but you can actually replace the fucking cables on both ends in case they get damaged.. Also, you can use
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