640k limit – why was that?
There’s a lot more nuance he doesn’t cover, but he does a decent intro job of laying out how the memory map worked under DOS.
Riding the bus
Bungie was bankrupt when Sony bought them?
Fascinating. Comments from a former workers who have become very vocal after layoffs said the studio was struggling with too many projects and even the success of the Destiny series was not covering the bills.
Bungie misrepresented its finances and had significantly overextended itself when Sony acquired the studio for $3.6 billion in 2022, former workers claimed in a new Game File report published in the wake of Wednesday’s layoffs.
It was apparently bad enough that at least one source described as a “well-connected former worker” went so far as to claim that Bungie faced dire consequences if the acquisition hadn’t happened, saying that the “alternate history is insolvency.”
IGN
What to expect from Technical Interviews
Scott Katzelnick shares his 6 month journey to getting a solid tech job with The Tech Academy online coding bootcamp.
Here’s another video with similar info.
Stable 3D dithering
Runevision invented a form of dithering called surface-stable fractal dithering.
He released it as open source along with this video showing how it works:
Find the shader source and example project here: https://github.com/runevision/Dither3D
Escaped toxic cat
If escaping data dogs in Japan are fiction, an escaped toxic cat is real. Sadly, it appears a cat got into a large vat of hexavalent chromium used in a metal plating factory – and it wandering around.
Intel Arcade System
I’ll just leave this here
Oh, that’s a good kitty
OFFLAIN has a channel where he tells 2-3 sentence ‘scary stories’. They’re not all safe for work, and some are very odd – but they have become the source of a lot of memes.
My favorite is the kitty clip – which is right at 4:01
“Oh! That’s a good kitty”, I say as I pet on kitty.
“No. I’m evil kitty”, says evil kitty.
NASA at PAX 2025
Nasa’s Artemis team came to PAX to talk about the Artemis I unmanned flight around the moon in 2022.
Here they talk about that and about the challenges of space exploration, Artemis II, and how game tech/techniques has been helping exploration. Artemis II: Gaming the Future of Space Exploration
PAX resources
Penny-arcade expo resources
- List of public PAX parties: https://www.sidequesting.com/2025/07/the-ultimate-pax-west-2025-party-list-your-guide-to-all-the-parties-and-events/
- Seattle Indies: https://six.seattleindies.org/
- https://www.reddit.com/r/PAX/