David Crooks

@cyphersignal.bsky.social

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Senior software developer working on your favourite games to make them run faster, look better, and sound greater. You’ll see me when you need me. Also at https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@cyphersignal

Photo of Abdul el-Sayed over text that says “vote blue no matter who”
“I owe you an apology. I wasn’t really familiar with your game.”
I am a clown of inflated expectations.
list of remaining games for Jeff Gerstmann's "Ranking of N64 games" projects, showing that Virtual Chess 64 is on the docket.
Screenshot from the truck chase scene in terminator two judgement day.
Please god let this happen because it would be so bloody funny
A Twitter post from Tim Sweeney, quoting an article written by Paul Tassi regarding the economics of Destiny’s ongoing development and support. Text from the article reads, “Because of the enormous scale of content that had to be produced nonstop, lest fans revolt against its scarcity, Destiny was only very rarely profitable during its entire lifespan.” And Tim’s quote is, “If only some sort of newfangled technology could come along and make it possible to overcome bullet point #1 and enable games like Destiny to thrive!”
Pair of screenshots from Parks and Recreation, where Tom Haverford is staring awestruck at a painting, saying “it’s beautiful. I’ve looked at this for five hours now”
Obama on a jet ski having a fun time
Bender doing a spit take
A side by side screenshot of a frame from ace combat 8 and a Google Maps view of downtown Toronto.
Crop of the OP screenshot, some post it notes saying “Allan, please add details here!!” Referencing some old placeholder text from Hitman: Blood Money.
Tfw your goat is washed
Screenshot of PlayStation 5 dashboard showing platinum trophy acquired for marathon
Screenshot of the game Marathon, showing a Rook onscreen with an exfil’ed inventory value of 63k credits.
One of the above images, slightly edited to add the Nucaloric logo from Marathon onto the sides of the kiosk.
Screenshot of the new Folding Ideas video, where a person moving around has been pixelated, looking slightly like the Signal Jammer effect from Marathon.
A screenshot from the above trailer where a seeker drone bot is about to explode right in a Vandal’s face.
THE BOUNCER
A rubber duck in the PS5 launch showcase game, Astro’s Playroom
Screenshot of a successful exfiltration in Marathon, showing a Rook on the exfil screen with, most notably, 3 runner eliminations (a full team) on the stats.
I am 30 or 40 years old and I do not need this!
A mug branded with the Compiler Explorer logo.
Demonstration of DLSS5 from NVIDIA showing a very shiny and borderline yassified Leon Kennedy
Screenshot of “Airplane!” where Roger Murdock is about to declare, “what a pisser!”
A custom Marathon jacket created by Australian cosplayer Vamprea. Holy hell it looks sharp as hell are you for real
waow . o O (ed based based based based based ba)
B2EMO
Composite image showing a cat wondering to itself, “Hope I don’t fall for it again today!” Before starting a shift at the “Fell for it again award” factory.
Cropped photo of the spreadsheet focusing on "You used the annoying dog / it was deployed like an off-brand missile" annotated as being a reference to something, above an edit of the "Rick Dalton pointing" meme with Sissel's face (from Ghost Trick) super-imposed on top of Dalton's.
Stock ticker for MOBA networks for the last 6 months, showing that its market valuation has dropped by 97%, and has a market cap of about 4M krona
Screenshot of the trailer in the thread showing one of the major PS5 Games coming in 2026: Halo - Campaign Evolved
Screenshot of a 2021 video of the first marketing for that electric car company’s line of robots. (Yes, I was surprised to recall that it was 2021 as well)
Title screen for The Bouncer
Text from the MIGS website, describing the Old Port/Grand Quay as featuring a scenic green roof and 24,000 flowering plants.
Squaresoft, baby
Looks like we got ourselves an old-fashioned「SEGA RALLY CHAMPIONSHIP」
All of this is true, Because it rhynes