I suppet Benoit Blanc origin stories, but only if at the end, it zooms out to show a drug-addled wealthy person telling the story, trying to psychoanalise him, and he says “none of that happened.”

I should get another phd

Oh a self-important king drew cool plans for a gilded, cannoned-up fantasy ship? Cant wait for it to sail several hundred meters in a mild wind, over a bed of anaerobic silt.

What you're doing is the equivalent of asking a StarWars addled 10 year old for design ideas on your scifi game I'm not joking that's literally how these models work Can you argue him off StarWars? Sure. But do you know enough Extended Universe lore to catch when he sneaks back into it? You don't.

I dunno who needs to hear this but using AI at your Early Concept phase, or for ideation, is literally the worst place to deploy it It isn't creative, what it does is hand back tropes. That's what the model does: sift for likely responses to an input It's like building your foundation out of memes

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I have a blanket policy to block any account with a name like “GoodSenseOpinions” or “Mr Reasonable” or “JustAskingQuestions” because if you have an actual life you dont name yourself after how unpleasant you are arguing on social media

Does the new Avatar explain why Jake still only uses American movie metaphors and marines lingo to speak to his 100% naavi kids or nah

One of my favorite lines about AI — not LLMs but human-like digital intelligence — was said to me almost a decade ago by @galaxykate.bsky.social for a piece I wrote for Vice. www.vice.com/en/article/w...

I didnt see the Secret Breakroom Vignette at first Incredible focus, so whats on the computer screen?

Going into 2026, a reminder for everyone who's fallen off the creative wagon, game dev, writing, art, music, whatever, no matter how long:

Yes yes, some of us already have @shing.bsky.social s tarot deck.

Machine-learned AI is terrible for idea generation. The algorithm is designed to *produce the most predictable next token* Even as you try to push it to originality, it fights you and tries to pull it back to the most average tropes. Its a PREDICTABILITY MACHINE.

Have you heard about the seized Venezualan oil tanker? Do you want to have really complicated feelings and opinions about oil tankers and the flags they fly? Strong recommend for @planetmoney.bsky.social’s episode from a month ago! MARITIME FLAGS TIME www-s4.npr.org/2025/10/17/n...

BTW, Spirit Crossing is coming to Steam. The goal is to create a major Cozy MMO with a huge population of folks making friends in a safe and welcoming space. I deeply believe we can make the world a better place. If this interests you, please wishlist! store.steampowered.com/app/2321960/...

This might be for an extremely limited target group, but if you ever need to visualize landmarks/keypoints of Mediapipe or OpenFace computer vision models, I've created simple coordinate data files for plotting in a Github repo: github.com/borstell/com...

The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

“The National AIDS Memorial, through a partnership with the AIDS Quilt Touch team, presents all 50,000 panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt in an interactive experience so people around the world can experience the beauty of the Quilt and witness the love and stories stitched into each panel.”

A pastel worked in my garden showing an old driftwood sculpture, a little plastic dragon on the right, some ferns and a branch of the much-painted crabapple tree. This wild patch changes every year and is always a good subject for a painting #art #pastel #garden

Toad went back into the house. He got into bed and pulled the covers over his head again.

10000 Bowls of Oatmeal But One Of Them Killed My Father, is an ongoing murder investigation and I need your help to solve it? Read the progress here and submit your own descriptions of oatmeal to help me get my revenge. verbante.itch.io/10000-bowls

intertwined.

"writing code to solve a problem" used to have "understanding the problem" as a prerequisite. but vibecoding allows solution-shaped objects to be produced without any of the hard-won understanding. beware of solution-shaped objects.

My friend just fuckin showed up with a corncob pipe & that’s when it hit me that we are all in our 40s which means we get one new accessory slot

Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.

Top notch NYTimes typo today www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/b...

I've avoided watching Dune and Wicked so far, I feel like I'm accidentally saving up Movie Culture so I can belatedly engage in it like 4 years from now

cranberry sauce is Thanksgiving salsa.

Dreamt of a a video game where i was taken away from a renaissance world to answer judgemental morality questions by sentient space cubes, and in typing that out I’ve realised its just Ultima V again.

On the other hand the ADHD gives me time blindness so Ill refer to you as “my dear friend [Games Person]” 15 years after i talked to you once at GDC and can only remember you as your twitter picrew

8675309 is prime, and so is 8675311, so if you ever need a middlin'-large pair of adjacent primes to test your cryptographic suite, all you need is a 1980s earworm and a +2 and you're all set.

happy trans day of remembrance. you are beautifully and wonderfully made and I will never stop fighting for you. the world is better because you are in it

Nyc has many famous kinds of food but where they truly outrank any other city in the world is the breakfast sandwich

Folks, I did it. I made the Cooks Illustrated competing pear crisps, and then I made my friends judge them blind.

‘Silver thread and golden needles’ is a terrible material choice, clearly you want silver as your needles for rigidity and gold thread for ductility. You cant mend your broken heart because you suck at industrial design, Wanda.

The both kinds of Dwarf Fortress fans:

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

New Paper: Pixie: Code-Level Mechanic Generation for Game Designers. How do you connect automatic game design to real games? Pixie is a mechanic generation system for Unity games, as an example framework for how to build AGD systems into real game platforms. Read here: ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AI...

I delivered a 1 hr keynote entirely in ASMR whisper (due to acute laryngitis) and it worked? Much gratitude to the #AIIDE2025 audience, who really took on my interactive miro slides and made a happy pile of scribbles

"babies are born worshipping unknown gods" is one of the most incredible dwarf fortress bugs i have heard of. its poetry.

Friends! On November 19th at 16:00, in Auditorium 3 at the ITU, we are hosting a talk by Florence Smith Nicholls. The talk is titled How to be a video game archaeologist. You can read about it here: digitalplay.itu.dk/event/floren...

Among the several bad things about an ear canal infection is that i keep trying to take off my headphones only to realise i am not wearing any

AIIDE '25 proceedings are up! And the conference starts in two days. 🧳✈️

websites in 2025

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