Crowdfunding in November: BRUTE FORT This is an 18 card solo dungeon delving game combined with a tape cassette soundtrack of nasty dungeon synth by Gus BC (who also did the soundtrack for Thousand Empty Light) Link to follow the project coming soon...

A Hundred Notes on Storydwelling. Note #046 - The Wrong Shape - Some strategies fail..

This is an absolutely fantastic piece of personal writing. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

But after reading the draft I wrote about OpenAI being ALL IN on AGI, I realised I sounded like a crazy man.

“It’s not rewilding, it’s not restoration, it’s resurrection. If you want to recreate a woodland you’ve got to plan it and plant your own trees. Here it’s all ready to go, like an instant cake mix – just add water.” UCL geographers are restoring Ice Age ponds www.theguardian.com/environment/...

@defaultfriend.bsky.social should be trending.

A Hundred Notes on Storydwelling. Note #045 - Latency - Not every place tells its story out loud.

Albania's new AI-generated minister addresses parliament for the first time, defending her role as "not here to replace people, but to help them". What a time to be alive. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWhr...

A 12-foot golden statue of President Donald Trump was put on display on 3rd street, just outside the US Capitol. The temporary statue was unveiled just hours before the Federal Reserve's interest rate decision was announced.

A Hundred Notes on Storydwelling. Note #044 - Ghosts - Old stories don't die.

Great headline. Extremely contemporary. gizmodo.com/limewire-whi...

Virtual Agent Economies The rapid adoption of autonomous AI agents is giving rise to a new economic layer where agents transact and coordinate at scales and speeds beyond direct human oversight. arxiv.org/pdf/2509.10147

This is what they took from you

Our current era is just so so thrilling. What a time to be a live.

A Hundred Notes on Storydwelling. Note #043 - Instruction. Don't write the plot.

New episode of Experience.Computer! My slow internet radio show exploring aphantasia, creativity & imagination. This time I take @defaultfriend.bsky.social through a series of imaginative exercises.

Some update pics of my solo #indie deckbuilding game: Wedding Planic! A mid-century inspired game about stopping wild guests from ruining a wedding. I’m getting my Steam Page ready… Watch this space!

Excellent context and observations on the most-discussed video in my house lately

New episode of Experience.Computer! My slow internet radio show exploring aphantasia, creativity & imagination. This time I take @defaultfriend.bsky.social through a series of imaginative exercises.

Some great cultural weather reporting here from @thejaymo.net on agency, NPC roleplay, and something called “No AI Lofi” - thejaymo.net/2025/09/14/4... it’s ya boi

Wow Substack has got so shit? Doesn't ingest copy and pasted markdown from Obsidian into the editor properly, no pour over weblink behaviour, crazy/confusing dashboard UI, just a total lack of polish everywhere. I find it baffling that this company has captured such a huge share of online writers

I've been under the weather all week. Spent the time stewing over the history of gifs, Lofi girl, and why No-AI LoFi creators are turning themselves into human wallpaper.

A Hundred Notes on Storydwelling. Note #042 - Passive Voice. The story was told...

Worth pointing out that Discord only raised its server cap to 25m people only a week ago, and someone said this about the move on reddit.

Thanks for sharing my post doug!

I'll add check the memestocks to this list too

An 8 hour Oral History of Morrowind!? I know what i'm doing on youtube for the next few evenings in my spare time lol www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdQm...

A Hundred Notes on Storydwelling. Note #041 - Container Break. If the shape isn't stewarded...

you should check this thing two people i respect did together

WE HAVE A WINNER FOR THE 2025 TINY AWARDS! Congratulations to 'Fifty Thousand Names', which wins a small cash prize and a hand-made trophy, and thanks to all of you who shared the link, submitted sites or voted: www.itsnicethat.com/articles/tin... / tinyawards.net/2025/

Twitter is useless for gauging public sentient about events in 2025 as most activity on there is fake. Bluesky too much of an echo chamber. You'll be far better informed by heading to Imgur's front page, or reading the arguments unfolding on 4chan.

A Hundred Notes on Storydwelling. Note #040 - Not Yours. It was never yours to begin with.

The times I have argued about something on the internet as an adult, have all resulted from a lapse in judgement, and without exception left me feeling guilty and full of shame.

Solo journaling games can be challenging, so we sat down with Paul Czege to talk about his unique approach to these games. You can find more in his zine The Ink That Bleeds (available on our website) or on our blog. #journalinggame #journaling #roleplayinggames #ttrpg

A Hundred Notes on Storydwelling. Note #039 - Signal. If the stories coming back...

I've worked in and around VR and XR for 7 years, the thing i've always wanted to make is game based around the mechanics of captaining a sailboat / racing yacht. Issuing commands, and taking and changing sales, in response to the wind.

I'm absolutely HYPED to find my stuff (and other things i've been involved with) on Libgen. Couldn't give a flying fuck about it.

Silksong crashing every storefront at the same time, sort of seems like it's release should have made a bigger splash in mainstream reporting as a 'cultural event', beyond the release day reviews?

A Hundred Notes on Storydwelling. Note #038 - The Shift. At some point, you stop telling the story.

Does bro use these?

i think this is perhaps a incredibly important to determine whether or not we can use LLMs to create formal ways to transmit Digital Knowledge that are better than the oral traditions of microblogging, post-literate video streams, etc etc

it's like Mobile Game Ads. tons of people recognize the weirdness. very few people actually have done even a literature review style breakdown (American Hysteria just did, but still, it's a commonplace experience, no formalized knowledge generation around it)

my suspicion is a ton of digital culture knowledge is simply not transmitted because we don't have language for it, or we don't have any systematic way of teaching it besides forcing people through the same mind shredding events that given 5% of people Cyberspace Sense

Is there a name for the current trend of podcasts launching on Spotify and Youtube without RSS? I mean, thank god YT now generates RSS for playlists with the podcast tag. It really baffles me though, what sort of media consumption ecosystem are the creators in to think this is fine?

Big thanks to Lance "it's ya boi" Robotson for having me on Neomania. Super nice to be added to the 'alt futures' archive discussing the present moment.

A Hundred Notes on Storydwelling. Note #037 - Design. Stories don't just happen.

Photo 365 2025. Year 4 Month 8. Photo-a-day for the month of Aug 2025.

A Hundred Notes on Storydwelling. Note #036 - Place Memory. A church holds many memories.