The Big Robot games are discounted now, again, because Steam Summer Sale!
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The Big Robot games are discounted now, again, because Steam Summer Sale!
store.steampowered.com/developer/bi...
And, since an LLM cannot _create_ new information, only derive from what it's ingested... the natural conclusion of this is that the rate of sharing of new knowledge _reduces_, because there's less incentive to publish what LLMs will gleefully steal.
I think this is important because - while the technology of LLMs is very clever and often useful - it is also often erasing authorship and sources of information. As that happens, the original authors will lose income, and so there will be less authors, and so less sources of _new_ information.
ChatGPT will silently derive new content from what it ingests, and presents it typically without credit.
If I choose to share a file via Google drive, the authorship is still visible and it's the content that I created that is shared.
I do like this question, because I think it poses a valid point that is rarely considered.
However, I also think there's an important difference...
Okay! Let's try this again. Comrade @rossignol.bsky.social and myself have launched a TTRPG blog for our existing writing on RPGs and a place to do more.
It's called OLD MEN RUNNING THE WORLD and you can read our intro post here. Here's a thread of launch article lnks!
#ttrpg #indierpg
Whenever you see one of these stories you learn: it was acquired by private equity, it took on debt to pay the new owners dividends, it raised prices to pay off the debt. Every time.
For confirmation:
-Both devices signed into the same account
- Sync set to "Sync all data"
- both devices have had Vivaldi restarted multiple times
- both devices have multiple updates to "Last Sync" date
Hi! I lost all the passwords on my Win11 machine (v7.0.3495.27) when sync went down (also cookies, but less important).
My Android (7.0.3505.121) did not suffer this.
Both devices are back signed into sync now, and synced successfully multiple times, but still no pwds on the Win11.
Any idea why?
Yes, but why has all my local data gone too? I should not have been logged out of sites and have no locally saved passwords, surely?
@vivaldibrowser.bsky.social Sync is down, and as of this morning it's affecting me too... But all my cookies, payment info & saved passwords are missing locally too. Is this expected? Have I lost all this data permanently or will it come back when sync comes back?
Huh!
It’s done.
This is the moment Britains last remaining coal power station came off the electricity system for the final time, marking the end of 142 years of coal generating electricity in Great Britain.
HT National Grid ESO
An advert for GOLD TEETH: "A grotesquely comic tabletop roleplaying game about piracy and occult horror in a cursed corner of the Caribbean." The picture of the book looks nice. Desirable, even.
Our roleplaying game:
- squirms with aquatic awfulness
- invites revenge upon King George III
- has diagrams explaining how wind works
- is now funded
- still won't pay my bills (but YOU could change that, maybe)
Please ameliorate my financial terror by backing:
www.kickstarter.com/projects/149...
it's all downhill from here baby! explosive growth means ads, data harvesting, etc. we probably all should have bit the bullet and learned what mastodon is last year
Panel from the Bluesky comic showing two characters running across a bridge in the direction of a castle on the hill and a dragon in the sky. The speech balloon says, "let's have an art share!"
ARTISTS! Let’s do an art share!
There are now 8.99 MILLION Bluesky accounts! (HI BRAZIL!)
Let’s find each other!
Spread the post to reach the most! 💙
The insidious thing about "if you make art for money it's tainted by commercialism" is that it's not an argument that obscure writers are artistically pure.
It's an argument that only the wealthy can be artistically pure, because only they have the freedom to always prioritize Art.
(Caveat: haven't had time to validate this in any detail, but it doesn't strike me as entirely unlikely either.)
Immigration vs asylum are entirely different issues - but they get terribly, wilfully (and often fatally) conflated by politicians and media alike.
Because the airlines obviously can't make a judgement during checkin that can take an actual government months to work out - they just say no to _everyone_.
So instead of taking a $50 flight to seek legitimate asylum, people jump in dangerous boats for $1000.
Was reading something related this week... Apparently the reason asylum seekers pay $1k to smugglers instead of just flying over to seek asylum is because there's an EU law saying "should an airline transport asylum seekers _not_ qualify, they have to return said persons at their own expense."
You really should. I didn't get very deep into it, but even from the first handful of levels/cases, it's _amazingly_ done.
Did I mention that @marshdavies.bsky.social and I are doing another big, physical, ink-and-paper book? buttondown.email/TeethRPG/arc...
Definitely my favourite room there 😆 Did they do the live-person intro when you arrived? We had that the first time we went about a year back, but our second visit last month was missing it.
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But that's not all! The digital TTRPG produce of myself and @marshdavies.bsky.social is full price, too! No sale to be seen. Buying these incredible games will help Marsh keep his beard oiled and his mind sharp. teethrpg.itch.io
Big Robot Ltd games are full price and not on sale at all this week, which is the perfect time to acquire them! The act of buying them full price will make you stronger and wiser, and me better able to pay for food. store.steampowered.com/developer/bi...
Ok, new game announcement time!
"The Horror at Highrook"
store.steampowered.com/app/2836860/...
An occult card-crafting RPG . Ive been working on this experimental narrative board game for a while and I'm super excited to finally show you more!
Please Retweet, Wishlist and spread the word.
Equally, this financial climate is brutal, and it doesn't look good to be making (possibly necessary) layoffs while fundraising, so you hold on for the money.
Sucks either way :-/
It's not uncommon in fundraising: convince people to give you investment by saying "look how fast we're growing, we have a huge team, need to fund it, etc" when the reality is: you've grown too fast to be manageable and, once funding is in, the sensible thing is to trim down and stretch runway.
