With everything else going on, a little delightful weirdness seems really nice right now. www.inklestudios.com/tr-49/

the star wars jedi team is hiring: we're looking for a senior technical materials artist (3+ years experience w/ unreal materials). mutuals, my DMs are open

How late in the day am I allowed to take a mulligan?

fruit doodles. froodles 🍐🍎🍌

I really should have just stayed in bed this morning. 😒

The "problem" with trying to do Knives Out as a Muppet movie is that all of the characters are fantastically entertaining human actors. I want to keep all of them! But then who ends up being replaced by Muppets? 🤔

Periodic reminder that correlation is not causation. Importantly, you cannot properly test causation without a counterfactual to rule out confounding factors. It's why clinical trials have control groups, and why people use A/B tests. #databs 📈📊

Soup is round. Duet with mitchandpaige on tiktok!

TBH, I'm still kind of annoyed that Stargate Universe was canceled just when was starting to find its footing.

I need to opt out of learning new things about Olivia Nuzzi immediately

AAAAAAA where did the morning go? 😱

TBH, I'm still kind of annoyed that Stargate Universe was canceled just when was starting to find its footing.

The relentless push to replace human workers with automated tools is bad at a surface level, but the real disaster is that it has interrupted the training pipeline. There's so much undocumented institutional knowledge that will be lost. It can be relearned, but mistakes will be made along the way. 🙃

Periodic reminder that correlation is not causation. Importantly, you cannot properly test causation without a counterfactual to rule out confounding factors. It's why clinical trials have control groups, and why people use A/B tests. #databs 📈📊

Story time: when I was working in a lab one summer, the research office would regularly send random people into our lab. The goal was to train folks in the lab to challenge strangers who had wandered in, and you would get scolded if you didn't. This is a useful mindset but with caveats ...

I have a small amount of PAX Unplugged FOMO right now because I miss my friends. But also it's reminding me to try and get more of my game designs to a playtestable state. I have three that are close, and I need to pick one or none of them will get done.

Re-upping for the morning crowd: I'm organising a Jubensha Convention in London for 8-9th May 2026! Come and play jubensha, meet top game designers, and learn how it's designed. It's *probably* the first jubensha English-language convention in the world... Tickets will be around £15!

Story time: when I was working in a lab one summer, the research office would regularly send random people into our lab. The goal was to train folks in the lab to challenge strangers who had wandered in, and you would get scolded if you didn't. This is a useful mindset but with caveats ...

Everything's coming up Milhouse

Fuck it, activating the Afternoon Nap Contingency.

A few months ago, Alan Shen, Alister Lee and I answered entry-level questions from junior and aspiring #gameUX folks. The video is now live on youtube: youtu.be/ZrW0mIYMxh0 Apologies for the delay, those past months have been extremely hectic! #ux #gamedev

Whenever I see "use AI or get left behind" I remember this children's poem by Grigori Oster: If you ever want to get ahead of your peers, Never chase after those Who are currently leading. In five minutes, disappointed, they will run back this way, Not having moved, you will be in the lead.

20 years! 🎉🎉🎉 . . . Anyway, pardon me while I turn to dust. 🪦

Hmm. I was just thinking I hadn't been to an escape room in a while. And then I thought "hmm, that could be a fun thing to do as a date activity." And then I immediately realized "no no no no no, definitely not a good idea." Well, maybe as a ... 4th date? Also, do escape rooms still exist?

I should be sleeping: morning edition. Now I'm thinking about puzzle hints and how some designers make the mistake of giving hints that only make sense if you already know the answer. These sorts of hints can confirm guesses, but otherwise, good hints should make sense despite a lack of context.

Ugh. I should definitely be sleeping instead of stressing about what to do about my tech-heavy investments. And yeah, it's definitely a "lucky to have such problems" thing, but I don't exactly have "fuck you money" so I need to make it last. 😭

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Video games are a multi-billion dollar industry, but somehow parts of it are controlled by the least qualified people possible.

Fuck cancer. 😠

I have about 4.5 hours of driving left, I cannot play podcasts or the radio in this rental car, and I need to stay awake. If we are mutuals and you are available for a long-ish phone call about special interests or something else that will help keep me awake, please DM. (Currently at a rest stop.)

Becky was one of the true pioneers of the industry. One small bit of joy was that she got to see some of the love and well-wishes of friends and colleagues in the days before she passed. She will be missed. ❤️

A whole lot of "what an odd thing to say" going around these days.

I hate that in the new reality of rampant generative AI usage, I have to spend extra time evaluating things I see online to determine if they're real or fake and whether it matters in the context I'm seeing it. This is the opposite of "efficiency."

There's an entire subgenre of video games about trains. But actually, I think there are really two subgenres: games where you're on the train as a passenger wandering around the cars, and games where you set tracks/schedules.

Surely there's a middle ground where consumers buy our product but we don't have to pay workers. 🤔

Periodic reminder that The Game Awards is an advertising show. That's what it celebrates. Everything else is irrelevant.

One of the most important lessons I've ever learned on the internet is that in 99% of scenarios, a "joking"/"sarcastic" negative interaction is just a negative interaction.

Sometimes I do kitchen experiments just for the practice. And also because I need to eat food and cooking is economical. You'd think that cooking skill is persistent, and it mostly is, but it's also a dozen unwritten things burned into muscle memory. Practice is useful.

A whole lot of "what an odd thing to say" going around these days.

I mostly don't care of someone blocks me; it's probably for the best. But I do sometimes wonder if I did something specifically to warrant it and need to do better. But maybe I'm doing fine and the other person needs to work some things out? As long as you aren't harming others, you do you. 🤷

An friend came over last night and said that the only jobs she can seem to find on job boards are "AI trainer" or something of the like. It's remarkably grim that the only jobs corporations are indexing on are those where people fix the errors of synthetic text extrusion machines.

If I ever believed this, you couldn't drag this admission from me

Doctor says, 'Dont worry, parser design is simple. Great programmer Kate Compton has written the parser you seek’

I thought Amazon got rid of its Alexa division? Last I checked, it used a traditional classifier model, but I can totally envision them trying to shove a LLM into the backend. But also, what audience are they appealing to? It's a cringe ad for a niche product, but hey, whatever. 🤷

Aw yeah, soup time! Well, T-3 hours. But it's *in process*.

We are assembling a DREAM TEAM get your portfolios ready 🙏

Don't forget to leave a rating and review for Littoral Commander Indo-Pacific and Baltic. Comments and ratings really help the game be successful. 😁 #wargaming boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/35...

You know how some actors seem to end up playing the same character in every movie? We have this running joke about the Awkwafina Cinematic Universe.

I'm sure my list changes based on my mood, but here are 10 games that I'll pretty much always play if they're on the table (in alphabetical order): - 7 Wonders - Citadels - Codenames - Hanabi - High Frontier - Kingdomino - Leaving Earth - Lords of Waterdeep - Machi Koro - QE

Steps to take to make a great rulebook