Is he a narcissist?
He has a lot of pictures like this - why would a programmer need professional headshots - like the ones actors and models get - taken?

Because he’s an actor and a model. Jon Blow is not real.

>>105977524 (OP)
he is the only millennial tech-fag that doesn't have a le-quirky persona, he is probably a bit narcissistic but i think the fact that he choses to take himself seriously puts millennial cucks off.
he also has the face of a pre-historic hunter, which is naturally scary.

>>105977524 (OP)
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."

>>105977524 (OP)
Jonathan Blowjob
Jai sri ram

>>105977547
>he is the only millennial tech-fag that doesn't have a le-quirky persona, he is probably a bit narcissistic but i think the fact that he choses to take himself seriously puts millennial cucks off.
You're correct but he's not a millennial anon, he's 53. In general insecure faggots hide behind irony and sarcasm as a way to protect themselves. They hate being held to any standard and especially hate being judged (that's why so many of them are atheists).

Blow doesn't do this nor does he waste energy coddling these retards, he'll tell them they're retarded right to their faces, which they hate.

That said he needs to release Jai already. Where the fuck is it?
>after Sokoban
Ok then when the fuck is Sokoban?

everytime i see this photo i think this guy is a star trek character

>>105977778
The man is the professor calamitous of the gaming world. They’ll never see the light of day

Aren't most of them from the documentary he was it?

>>105977524 (OP)
He is just very invested in doing things "right" and by that I mean his way
jai seems interesting, but I will never have a use for it I think
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdpD5QIVOKQ

>>105977524 (OP)
>he takes photos is he a narcissist
Reminds me of /x/ ramblings
>he listens to music is he a devil worshiper

>>105977524 (OP)
it's bad enough he makes shit games but then he goes out of his way to criticize actual good games instead of just staying silent in his little corner of the world

>>105978639
>to criticize actual good games
Such as?

Out of curiosity, did he ever talk about void stranger

Reminder that Jon Blow is 53 and still doesn't have a girlfriend/wife

He's a pompous turbo autist when it comes to programming because it's his way of coping from being an incel

>>105979503
i think that people that care that much about someones relationships are projecting a bit too hard

>>105979523
>m-muh projection

t. incel

Dude is literally angry and bitter all the time and there was a video about him complaining about women like an incel, which I can't find anymore

He's coping dude

>>105979583
right

>>105979503
>Reminder that Jon Blow is 53 and still doesn't have a girlfriend/wife
what's wrong with it?

>>105979503
Some people just don't care about sex or relationships. He's not ugly, he could easily get some mid ass bitch but he chose not to to pursue a free life and his hobbies.

i looked at some jai code and it's hilariously pointless language. it's just bare-bones C with different different syntax. compiler hooks isn't even a part of language. you can slap such "metaprogramming" on top of any compiler ,really.
even something like C3 is much more exciting than jai.

is this what this gigabrain was working on for the last decade?

>>105977524 (OP)
I too would be narcissistic if I was Jonathan Blow. The man is a legend and a software genius. I haven't seen anyone make games like he does. There is a lot you can learn by listening to the advice of this legendary game developer.

>>105979597
Nothing wrong with it, some people are better off working on important projects that move humanity forward then having a family. But that is not jon blow. He waste his days making vidya gayms designed to waste peoples time.

>>105979660
>>105977524 (OP)
Why don't you uplod a zip of the compiler beta, if you hate Mr. Blow so much

>>105979612
It would make sense if he didn't make garbage puzzle games that could be made in Unity in a year

>>105977524 (OP)
Is this the guy who made that game where you just jump on shit?

I find it weird that he's an Elon Musk boot licker, since he's usually the kind of guy that calls out bullshit when he sees it. Any theories on why?

>>105977524 (OP)
>Is he a narcissist?
I don't think so.
>He has a lot of pictures like this - why would a programmer need professional headshots
He's also a game designer, vc, company owner. This looks like a scripted shot from a video, so he was probably asked to pose.

>>105979773
This is one of the few things that I don't understand about him either. Literally puzzles me. It's like he wants to believe in his personal rolemodel/idol of Musk that exists in his head, but not the reality.

>>105979773
He seems to have gone full MAGA as well and believes that seed oils are bad for you.

I have no idea who that is. He really isn’t named John Blow is he?

>>105977524 (OP)
Because he was asked to do this

>>105979671
And you sit on 4chan all day long everyday posting this wasting your time

>>105977547
>millennial
lol he's like 60

>>105980029
It's actually Jon Blow, as a short form of Jonathan (his full first name).

>>105977547
Gen x btw

>>105979965
seed oils are objectively bad for you

>>105979773
>Any theories on why?
He has no empathy / social intelligence

>>105979965
>seed oils are bad for you
They are, denying that is like denying trannies are mentally ill.

Just buy two rats, feed one sneed oils and the other olive oil, see the difference after 6 months.

he looks like this now btw

>>105980250
>>105980154
kek, literally no peer reviewed papers around this claim

but yes trannies are mentally ill, I agree

>>105979503
it's a genius thing, you wouldn't understand

>>105980077
>Gen x
literally who?

>>105978088
the fast compile times is cool, id check out jai just for that. but how the hell is that game 300k LOC?
you could make a game like that in unity in a year. the art is the hardest part.

>>105980257
>he looks like this now [pic that looks almost the same but older]
thanks for this contribution

>>105980257
>>105980608
Yeah he pretty much looks identical, the OP image is from a professional photo that certainly had makeup while this one is from some random stream from his house. At most his hairline has receded a bit but it was already plenty fucked.

>>105977547
>jon blow
>not a quirk chungus
lmfao

>>105980660
>his hairline is "fucked"
He was a white man turning 40. That's an exceedingly normal hairline for a white man turning 40.

how the fuck is he 53? I thought he was late 30s lmao, even with the hairline.

>>105980688
>normal
Normal or not it's still absolutely fucked.

>>105980751
I refuse to care about the anti-Anglo psyop that is everyone's sudden obsession with hairlines.

>>105980608
he looks like a raging alcoholic lol

>>105980849
>sudden
balding has always been a source of insecurity for modern men. just like penis size and height. only difference is social media amplifies said insecurity because you're shown the top 1% of people constantly all the time. even on 4chan.

>Blow began kung fu training when he began working on Braid, doing 15 hours a week towards the end of development.[112] Through the training he learned meditation practices that helped him with game development, noting "I don't know if I would have finished Braid if I wasn't doing kung fu."[113] He practiced tai chi during early development of The Witness.[94] Blow is an avid dancer, and went out dancing several nights a week during the development of The Witness.[1][110] He discovered that dancing helps him generate ideas, and during the 1990s took a notebook to clubs to write down programming ideas that would come to him on the dance floor.[114]

>>105980996
is he gay? surely all those interesting and varied hobbies should have women flocking to him.

>>105981024

>>105980543
jon programs like a cave man, he's one of those boomers that are convinced they don't need to learn new things or change their approach.
both his compiler and sokoban are a jungle.

>>105981024
nah, he told stories on his stream having gfs through his life, but his body count isn't big. he said once, although jokingly, that one of his biggest regrets in life is not dating women more frequently when he was younger. he's a workaholic.

>>105981024
They all leave poor old Jon behind when he reveals his narc tendencies and no fun allowed personality

>>105981077
How gay are you if you sit and listen to somebody talking about their body count on a stream.

>>105980388
Unironically this.

>>105980543
it's fast only because there is nothing to compile. his language is fizzbuzz of compilers

>>105981642
stop posting retarded things to make me accidentally defend him you retarded ESL.
his compiler does out of order processing for basically everything, so it's already beyond non-standard or basic.

>>105981736
>his compiler does out of order processing for basically everything
so like every compiler that isnt 40 years old

>>105981959
no, most languages don't go to his retarded extremes.

>>105981736
>out of order processing
stop making up terms

>>105981990
what kind of extremes?

>>105982024
macros + CTFE make any traditionally single-pass compiler impossible

>>105982044
AST macros + CTFE

>>105982057
that doesn't require things to be any more out of order than usual
single pass compilers are a relic of the 1970s

>>105982071
>that doesn't require things to be any more out of order than usual
then you fundamentally don't understand what AST macros are, or why adding CTFE
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compile-time_function_execution
exponentially blows that up, and i cba explaining it so we can just be done

>>105982085
I do understand it, I've made a programming language and implemented it

>>105979660
Post code.

>>105981066
>he's one of those boomers that are convinced they don't need to learn new things or change their approach.
Whenever someone says this, they're usually some flavor of jeet programming in some jeetlang.

>>105982120
Yeah man, jon managing the state in a game like sokoban with individual bools he also manually manages, sure is the 10000IQ approach.

>>105982131
>bools are bad
I love zoomer programming takes

>>105982142
>not even bitarrays
>not even state machines
>manually debugging bad state like it's the 1970s
like i said, he's stuck in his ways, you should actually watch him program some time instead of assuming things

>>105982152
A state machine is easier to debug than a bool? What planet are you living on?

>>105982131
>>105982152
Knew it, I knew from your first post you were some retard who thinks he needs 500 layers and systems to every single thing.

>>105982193
>wanting state machines or even fucking bitarrays also means i want 500 layer POO hell
this is an insane leap of """""""""logic""""""""""""

>>105982152
>>manually debugging bad state like it's the 1970s
You mean when software was properly written by people who know what they were doing?

>>105979773
He's not particularly smart. See: Spending 30 million dollars on a sokoban game.

>>105980333
>Peer rev-
Are you retarded?
Who's going to fund them? Who's going to publish them if they go against the 'big pharma' narratives? All the anti circumcision papers were gutted and not published, or had to be self published because all the journals were actually Jewish and didn't want goys to wisen up. Peer review is just a circle jerk of money laundering.

>>105982224
what's the point of being a fucking indie game developer if you have to spend 30 million dollars on your game anyway

>>105980333
Can you find my any peer reviews papers that say trannies are mentally ill?

>>105979503
Feminist society isn't viable for a stable marriage.
The rich fuck that doesn't get divorce raped is Zuck because his wife is from China.

>>105977524 (OP)
>professional headshots
I'd pay a professional to give him a headshot

>>105982562
very nice of you to update his current picture anon, sokoban ain't cheap

>>105982592
yes, and it'll be displayed in a frame just like this one

>>105979660
partially why i ere toward Odin, because there's no pretense that it's revolutionary or that it needs to be hidden away for years until it's "ready". it's just some compounded niceties and fixed mistakes applied to C.

>>105982085
>you wouldn't understand it
Lmao
I'm sure you're an expert in the field.

>>105979660
>C3
Ah yes truly an evolution. Fully bringing ctards into the 80s.

>>105982131

>>105982556
>he thinks she won't vacuum half his wealth away from him and move back to china
lmfao

>the only notable feature of jai is eval()

>>105977524 (OP)
Why do you post this guy every week?

souldja boy should have never endorced that shitty little game

>>105985415
the witness was far better than braid.

>>105977524 (OP)
Maybe he just had a coupon code for the photoshoot?

>>105980688
Hair loss is neither normal nor natural.
>>105980849
People are finally evolving and you'll be left behind.

>>105980333
>Hmm I think extremely processed seed oils in everything is probably bad for you
S-SOURCE?

I guarantee you all this shit will be viewed as objectively harmful in 10 years or so. Scientists are not perfectly objective arbiters of truth. You cannot ignore the negative influence that lobbying groups, corporations, universities and general societal pressures have on the sciences.

There are topics and truths that are completely obvious to everyone with a half a brain that the scientific community will never acknowledge, like the fact that Australian Aboriginals probably aren't fully developed homo sapiens.

>Why does this 50 year old single man with aspergers syndrome who has spent millions making a new programming language for a box pushing game say weird, socially unaware, narcissistic and offputting things?

He's just a sperg. He has a lot of intelligent things to say about programming and game design and a lot of utterly retarded things to say about everything else. A classic hallmark of a gifted autist is that they believe their intelligence must apply to all areas in life. It's why so many programmers get into "effective altruism" and think they can change the world despite being socially inept retards with zero empathy or theory of mind.

His biggest flaw is a complete lack of self awareness.

>>105977547
>the face of a pre-historic hunter, which is naturally scary.

so tired of these faggy e-celeb threads, who is this and why should I care?

>>105985864
Game dev, has only released one game in almost three decades

>>105985883
How is a mid tier indie dev /g/? Game developers are only /g/ if they're doing something of genuine technological novelty (ie. Carmack), creating something that happens to require programming, hardly qualifies as somebody worth talking about.

>>105977547
>he's not like those other people having fun or at least trying to distract themselves from being sad
>he wallows in his misery without any attempt to improve, just like me!

>>105980029
Yea his real name is Johnny Suck

>>105985607
Yes, source?
>in 10 years or so
So nothing, gotcha
>Scientists are not perfectly objective arbiters of truth.
Neither are you. Scientists actually lay out their methodology, form a hypothesis, perform research, measure the result and form a conclusion based on it. Then they submit the paper for scrutiny by others.
You just make a claim something will happen in 10 years, with no investigation whatsover
>You cannot ignore the negative influence that lobbying groups, corporations, universities and general societal pressures have on the sciences.
But I guess you can ignore the influence that alternative media have on what you perceive as the reason for all the ills in society and your life. They have no reason to lie to you. Remember to take your daily Info Wars Alpha Male diet supplement.

>There are topics and truths that are completely obvious to everyone with a half a brain
*everyone propagandized enough
>the fact that probably
lmao

>He uses bools? Dakshit Codes has videos on how this is bad.
>He has opinions? He's a complete midwit for not trusting the experts like I do.
>He doesn't trust the science? He's an evil far right MAGA extremist.
>He doesn't hyperventilate and gape his mouth open at every chance? He's an autistic sperg loser.

>>105986603
this but unironically

>>105986228
>Neither are you. Scientists actually lay out their methodology, form a hypothesis, perform research, measure the result and form a conclusion based on it. Then they submit the paper for scrutiny by others.
Stupid people really are easy to con, aren't they? Just tell them The Science™ is to be trusted because... uhhh The GDP™ and The LGBTQ™ said so!

Nevermind that 90% of Science™ studies can't be replicated, The Science™ is right because it is right, and that's all that matters in their heads.

>>105986156

>>105977596
he says while discussing people

>>105977524 (OP)
What's funny is that, his only friend Casey has already made a public statement about not switching to Jai. He literally said, JAI/Odin/Zig/Rust/etc doesn't have enough good features to actually warrant switching from a familiar language like C/C++, because most professional C/C++ programmer's already have custom solutions that deals with 99% problems of C/C++. Metaprogramming, Stretchy Buffers, Unity Builds, etc
So basically:
>spent decade working on a programming language
>your own friends aren't willing to switch over

Yep mr blowtard spent 10 years to give us iterators and a complicated metaprogramming system that nobody gives a shit about.

>>105986925
Yep, Science is the new Christianity.

>>105977524 (OP)
because linkedin work culture.

>>105979503
once you hit late thirties women become more of a hassle than a desire because you are focused on your career goals. it's better to marry early so by that point your family is established

>>105986925
>Just tell them The Science™ is to be trusted because... uhhh The GDP™ and The LGBTQ™ said so!
You quoted the exact part of my post where I described what research papers do to be more trustworthy than you.
>Nevermind that 90% of Science™ studies can't be replicated
source?

>>105987922
Life was better with arranged marriages at 14

No. He's just the hero that will save modern computing.

>>105985607
>extremely processed seed oils
The processing isn't the problem. They're just an inherently bad fat. "cold press virgin organic sunflower oil" is just as bad. Pork fat is just as bad.

>>105988754
too lazy to check right now but I highly doubt pork fat is n-6 PUFA

>>105988754
any food is bad because it prolongs the suffering from being alive

>>105988754
>um actually it's all bad!
No, it's the rapeseed oil

>>105977524 (OP)
>not a single zip upload of the compiler
Anon? You DID get invited right? Why won't you upload the compiler, for the others to enjoy? I'm a bit busy, so I can't, you understand.

>>105989672
Because Jai is a language for Brahmin. Dalits like you should program in languages like Javascript and Rust

>>105980057
(You) post jblow defenses everyday all day long. Meanwhile, I can make silly video games AND post on 4chan all day because I don't reinvent every wheel in existence.

>>105985329
The zozin nigger almost came because of this feature. Imagine thinking eval() has never been done before.

>>105990965
why does nu/g/ hate him so much, what happened? genuinely curious.
is it because he does not like ue5 and unity which both enable jeets?

>>105989672
each copy is fingerprinted
I don't want to get on jonny b's bad side

jai has the most perfectionist debug tools for perfectionists. its something that whoever sees the act of programming as art was always dreaming about. you can tinker with the code for years just because of how it shows the worst part relative to overall codebase. i cant hate it, i just cant. he is a schizo though

>>105982152
>>manually debugging bad state like it's the 1970s
retard it's a GOOD thing if the code is simple enough that it can be debugged manually

>>105991319
My personal reason for hating him is that he calls himself more productive than most programmers, yet he sits in Emacs all day without autocomplete or functional grep, implementing basic features like a dropdown console over the course of five YouTube videos spanning several hours. His code style also looks completely unreadable and unmaintainable, so I don't see why anyone with a basic understanding of programming looks up to him. He makes games that could be built in an engine in a fifth of the time. The Witness looks like a Unity game. No one actually cared about Braid Anniversary Edition.

>>105991430
simple code is the code that has few state changes. a 100k LOC game cannot be simple no matter how you write the code.
abstractions that reduces the individual bits of state are good precisely because they reduce the amount of lines of code where the state is changed.

>>105977778
Jai is just another over-hyped vapourlang. If often happens when arrogant people underestimate the difficulty of designing and implementing a programming language that meets their standards; Arc comes to mind.

>>105991002
any language with REPL has this for free. it's basically a byproduct feature of any interpreter.

>>105991349
Every Jai compiler is personalized. Damn, I wish programming had creepypastas…