Why can't you multiply vectors?

new video & an update on my health

I went to Dutch Game Day earlier this month to give a talk, and I'm happy to finally share it with you all!

It's about an obsessive attempt at multiplying vectors! Not those pesky dot or cross products, but proper, canonical multiplying, whatever that means, and whether that even makes sense. I hope you'll find the answer interesting c:

The state of freya's brain

As some of you might already know, I've been in a very rough spot since the spline video - I've been going to rehab for burnout, which has been a slow and difficult process, as well as a month of a strong depression. I mostly retreated from making videos to switch gears, trying to take a break, but, that usually just means going back to my comfort zone of coding projects on my own. I think I've realized I literally don't know what it means to relax. I've come to notice that I only feel "relaxed" when I'm productive, working on my projects, which, doesn't seem healthy, but I don't know of any alternatives.

I made some gains immediately by fixing my sleep, which had been horrible for months. I would lie in bed for hours not falling asleep, only to wake up early, again unable to fall back asleep. I did a lot of reading on sleep hygiene in general, and I've been taking melatonin, the combination of which, has actually helped a lot. I've also been trying to get back to exercising, and I've gone swimming a few times, hopefully I'll be able to keep that up! It's always wild to me how important physical health is to mental health.

But not everything has helped, of all the things we've talked about at rehab, of meditation, breathing exercises, metacognitive exercises - I noticed that I have a veritable storm in my head, in a way that didn't seem to be an issue whatsoever for the others at rehab. In talking to my psychologist, we've decided I should probably get screened for ADD, because there certainly are signs. I'm hoping that might help me find answers and ways to, well, at the very least prevent this from happening again.

Anyway, I've been making some progress in recovering, I'm really happy I managed to do this talk without getting too stressed out about it all <3

The state of social media

It seems like social media platforms like twitter, which used to be my primary one, are struggling. The prospect of losing all the following and all the math content I've posted over the last decade on there because elon musk decided to steer the titanic into a 6th iceberg, isn't very fun, and has me worried.

With that in mind (as you already know since you’re reading this) I've started a mailing list! Whatever happens to social media, or even substack itself, they can't take email away from us right?

I'll probably only use this place for project announcements, like, when I release new videos, unity plugins, new blog posts, or if I ever get around to making merch

As for the rest of my social media links, you can find them at acegikmo.com

// Freya