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At Sublime Pretense, a symposium about art and larp, someone asked whether larp designers should pursue funding and prestige from the traditional art/gallery/theatre world, or from the games world. Putting aside the third unspoken possibility (neither), it got me thinking…

I like this blog post about an event I like: www.todepond.com/sky/benches/

Question for anyone who makes things (professionally or personally or somewhere in between): What would you do if you had a whole year, fully funded, with the one requirement that you NOT make anything for public consumption during that year?

rooftub hottop

feeling very "second morning of the convention" right now

"Defunct startups are being liquidated for their Slack archives, Jira tickets, and email threads—operational exhaust that AI labs now treat as premium training data."

ah, i want to make a game where there are lots of independent things with tags and complex interactions all swimming around in a big soup as i add more flavours to it!

incredibly sickos mode reading this documentation viv.sifty.studio (to be more specific: it's a runtime & editor by James Ryan for doing complicated causality and knowledge modelling for NPCs in videogames. if you've heard of the term "story sifting" you will be excited)

I love that you asked me. social dominance signaling of some kind mixed with generally making the rational call that consequences WON'T descend on him mixed with the oversize benefit of looking "radical" as a tech leader noxiously combined with getting rewarded for fulfilling tech stereotypes plus

(as a donkey walks by) ah the noble donkey! (donkey moves out of earshot) foolish beast

Scottish Greens manifesto is out, compare and contrast

I disagree - but with many games, the play is something that is generated by the player from a rich set of affordances. with puzzles, the play exists in the tension between the designer's intent and the player rediscovering that. it's a dialogue where one side has written their part in advance.

Don't stop writing the poems

god damn it dude

it's good!!!

This Sunday 19 April is Good Decision Day! This is a fake festival I made up some years ago: a day when you must make only good decisions. I find it a weirdly refreshing thing to try for one spring day. Perhaps you would too? Some friends of mine also observe it, some others find it very upsetting

what beautifully drawn maps

there’s a Type of Guy who will be awesome to you while he can gain clout for Supporting you. Once you expect to be heard, hired and paid like an equal, you will be jettisoned for more grateful and impressionable women

Dancing cat #digitalart #artwork #cat

Ultimately, you have to put your ego aside and try to enjoy the ride. This advice from Charlene Putney (in The Game Narrative Kaleidoscope by @inkle.co) feels worthy of printing out and sticking on the wall.

relatedly! I use Quickbooks to do the accounts for my micro-entity limited company, and HMRC has dropped the ability to file for corporation tax on their website. And Quickbooks doesn't do it, so it looks like I'm going to have to switch accounting software. What a gigantic pain in the arse.

A crew is people or, you know, a group that is in it all the time, no matter what. That is stroking together every minute with the same purpose that is willing to sacrifice silently for each other, that gives grace, that holds accountable.

I hope the new Permanent Secretary at the Home Office is going to be able to look at the UK Visas and Immigration’s practices www.thetimes.com/article/1644...

maybe it's like Animorphs, but written by Stephen King

In your heart you know that they could change the big water jug themselves but they ask you because they know that doing it makes you feel special.

I have worked with Jon, he is smart and enthusiastic and sensible. You should hire him if you want one of these kinds of things!

idk why it took me until reading this to realize that I could just file down the sharp edges of my macbook kentwalters.com/posts/corners/

when I die remember that I occasionally looked good in low light and that I could speak to god by recording the colour of the pollen in tree flowers with paint

one of the most important things about people is that we're animals who live within the world. and LLMs are a collection of weights which take in words and produce other words. "a corpus is not a body" and all that.

I'm one of those trans women. I worked ground ops for Artemis I. I am torn between celebrating the success of my friends and peers and grieving how my dream of working for NASA was shattered by hateful assholes in Tallahassee

seems like a great sign that I now know what the word "sedevacantism" means

seems like a great sign that I now know what the word "sedevacantism" means

Imagine that at 2:02 am on Apr 10, 2011, a strange woman bangs on your door claiming to be your future self. Wild eyes darting, hypervigilant. Hair like a bowerbird's nest. Was she dressed by a tornado? "You don't UNDERSTAND," she says. "I need to STOP it!!!" ...stop what? "The SINGULARITY!!!!!"

Hello! Are you someone in London who's interested in weird playful experiments and commercially implausible games? I've written up some of the stuff happening as part of this year's London Games Festival that I think you should check out buttondown.com/holly/archiv...

this is also making me wonder what my life would have been like if i'd transitioned a decade earlier. mixed thoughts on this subject. but it's probably bad to look back through Instagram filters.

for reasons too complicated to explain i'm looking through a archive of images posted by people i followed on Instagram circa 2013-2014. and i really do think that you could get decent uptake for a social media service which was specifically trying to recreate Ancient Instagram.

Flooded City, Kenshi 2 (2019)

I'm always saying this

“the phone is now seamlessly integrated into how you navigate the world” WE KNOW

Brian Donovan had persuaded high school teachers and education researchers that prejudice might be ended by changing how genetics is taught. www.statnews.com/2026/04/07/b...

kid in the park with a lollipop in his mouth and a headset over his eyes, piloting a little drone whining overhead

it's a lot, seeing these two back to back in the timeline

current status

non-dev playing a game: why didn’t the team do [X thing that seems obvious]? are they stupid? dev playing a game: why didn’t the team do [X thing that seems obvious]? am I stupid?

restoring from backups, i found a file called "2022-04-20-image.png"

It’s bad www.theguardian.com/education/ng...