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Narratives, philosophy, art. Currently: (Unannounced x 2), ZEPHON, Warhammer 40K: Gladius, Min/Max Previously: Tides of Tomorrow, Nightingale, RimWorld, Total War: Warhammer III, Endless Dungeon, Absolver... https://linktr.ee/griddleoctopus
at one point when egs was throwing free-game money around indiscriminately and i was hoping to ship something imminently, i was vaguely hoping to secure some of that (would have been lifechanging money). in hindsight i think there would have been no surer way to make sure nobody ever played it
A particularly nasty smiley was making its way through the cold. Sid needed someone on the inside.
Dax was a musket. One of the best. Not great in the corp world, but if you wanted someone to talk their way past a room of armed guards with a clipboard and a smile, it was Dax you called.
It's having that problem generally with international shipping for some reason, even though Lulu is meant to be local print-on-demand. :-/
📖 THE GAME NARRATIVE KALEIDOSCOPE ❄️ is out NOW!
www.inklestudios.com/kaleidoscope
100+ essays on writing & narrative design, with articles from the writers of Baldur's Gate 3, Control, Call of Duty, Prince of Persia, Tomb Raider, Sam and Max...
ALSO the Kaleidoscope Podcast with 2 full eps!
The index of authors is insane: here's the index of authors in full. Each person was asked to write a short piece about one specific thing they care about. The result is a book about EVERYTHING.
(And it's affordable, < $20 paperback)
Maybe their degrees are more useful for the world of work? There were quite a lot of esports BAs not so long ago…
This IPSO adjudication against the Telegraph is quite something
Confirms their story titled: ‘We earn £345k, but soaring private school fees mean we can’t go on five holidays’ was completely fabricated, with the family involved non-existent and stock pictures used
www.ipso.co.uk/rulings/0210...
I’m not sure our graduates are any better after three very expensive years. For many of them, three years in the workforce would be more instructive AND economically productive. But we also need to rebuild the funding model for our universities.
chromatic light blankets a parking garage by Liz West
chromatic light blankets a parking garage by Liz West
a child dances amid chromatic light blanketing a parking garage by Liz West
What does it feel like to be inside a rainbow? Liz West takes this question as a starting point for her Bristol parking garage installation.
www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/02/liz-...
Mystery Solved! Turns out it is "Webinar.tv" whose disgusting and unethical business model is: register for a zoom call under a fake name and email address, record it without consent and put it on a public website with genAI summary and everyone's names and faces and then charge for access. WTAF.
One consequence of the past week of news for me is that I am increasingly fighting the urge to go to Anthropic and see if they have a job for me.
I know they are highly problematic. I just very strongly believe in the value of identifying the least bad powerful thing and trying to make it better.
You okay?
@warlabel.bsky.social help
Now that labels have been caught up for a bit, I want to give a shout out to @ryannorth.ca, @davidmalki.com , and Matthew Bennardo (not on bsky I don't think) whose 2010 short story anthology was a big source of inspiration for this project ♥
Tell you what Labour ought to notice: It’s a sign of how desperate left-of-centre folk in this land are to hold onto something they consider progressive that they’re prepared to ignore the fact the leader of the party they’ve landed on claimed he could hypnotise women’s tits bigger.
I mean.
Isn't that amazing. I want to play it.
"Friends" is a beloved American sitcom that aired from 1994 to 2004, following six young adults—Rachel, Ross, Monica, Chandler, Joey, and Phoebe—living in New York City. The show explores their friendships, romances, careers, and personal growth over ten seasons.
bsky.app/profile/funa...
Just giggggggling and giggling!
Just giggggggling and giggling!
@radiatoryang.bsky.social writing here - www.jank.cool/what-is-your...
"the gaps that emerge from design risks, foolish ambition, & magnificent failure... are how the light floods in. 'Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable & nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature.' (Brian Eno). Jank is the signature aesthetic of the videogame." Robert Yang
A 1949 stamp worth 9 pies from the Princely State of Bahawalpur.
Hark at the golden age when pies were currency...
(A 1949 stamp worth 9 pies from the Princely State of Bahawalpur.)
…no longer know myself if I’m being sarcastic. I might actually now need a comparison cost of training a human and AI?
Or worse, tech changes and you have a lump of meat that’s inefficient or impossible to retrain (structural unemployment!) just sitting there, consuming resources for up to another 80 years.
What he didn’t mention is how LOSSY people are. You train one person then, best case and tech doesn’t change, 50 years later you have to do it all again.
Ohhhh shit I only just got the Arc Raiders <— Raiders of the Lost Ark pun. Aghhhhh.
Creating a licensed game product is a careful balancing act between the familiar—making it feel approachable—and the obscure—making it feel deep.
So to celebrate the approach of Magic: the Gathering’s TMNT set, please enjoy my top ten deepest cuts in this set!
10) Cudley the Cowlick!
#WOTCstaff
so er, yes, they've asked me now to write up a list of things for carers, non-experts to look for in working out whether writing is done by an AI... anyone have suggestions? I have quite a few but want to gather more.
things that are easy for non-experts to identify, ideally.
