Doctor, dabbler, reader and riddler. Made twitter bots inc: @UnlikelyPowers, @RandomNietzsche, @RandomCleyre, @RandomNovatore, @AllWittgenstein

Joined July 2009
Lies Under Ice is an interactive sci-fi novel about living under the ice of Europa, telling lies, and finding out what else lies down there with you. It's out now! store.steampowered.com/app/1…
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Whenever someone tells me they used ChatGPT
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Descartes declared, "I think, I do! And space is just what matter's through! No empty spots! No gaps! No voids! Just endless stuff the world employs!"
Disappointingly, this is not a critical commentary on Descartes's Principles of Philosophy, Part II, Proposition 14.
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stafford beer doodled this in 1972. does it feel familiar??
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I tried the demo for Tupperware Lesbians 3 at VinegarCom, it didn't show much about the story, mostly gameplay (the thrift shop mechanics are vastly improved) One cool thing is the autosave: every 15 min, the game recites a string of 128 numbers, you copy and then dial them.
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Today I passed my PhD viva! Pending corrections, I'm a doctor of interactive narrative now.
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in a couple weeks I'm gonna do a long stream where I play through Moondrop Isle, a game I helped make about exploring an abandoned 90's resort. It's gonna be fun!
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Joey Jones retweeted
i found millions of YouTube videos that have default camera names as titles (like IMG_0276) and made it into a website where you can watch random ones. unedited, pure moments from random lives walzr.com/IMG_0001
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Town squares are public places, no one pays premium to sit on a bench or feed the pigeons. Twitter is a run down mall.
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this, ultimately, is the legacy of the internet I think; allowing the full capital capture of the full range of human sociality
privatizing our third spaces and mating processes was in fact very, very bad
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Imagine seeing your mates getting cut in half by machine gun fire at Ypres and then living to see some dim bulbs turn it into War Halloween.
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There were still a few WWI veterans knocking about when I was a kid, and I can imagine the reception this kind of bizarre behaviour would get. This stuff would’ve been considered incredibly crass and stupid as recently as the 80s and 90s.
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That time of year again
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No me gusta que, de encontrarse con los huecos en un mundo de juego, se pretenda que no existan y se prohíba su uso. Para mí es mucho más interesante abrazarlos. "¿Pero qué pasa si los magos crean demasiada plata y se vuelven demasiado ricos?" Dyd: No se puede Ars Magica:
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What makes it possible to enter flow – the state of total focus and optimal performance – immediately? ⚡️ At the weekend, I discovered a great new example to illustrate what makes this possible, when I tried trapeze for the first time. 🎪 To reach flow instantly ... (thread👇)
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More adventure games could stand to follow Loom or Discworld Noir's example and center most of the puzzles around a unique and thematically rich core mechanic.
What is your most unpopular adventure gaming opinion?
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New rule is: - paragraph is too long if you can't hold your breath while reading silently - paragraph is too short if you can comfortably say it all in one breath reading aloud
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I want to see the content grammar buckets these bots are drawing their names from. (Disappointing if just ChatGPT inventing unlikely European women.) It could just be done with a boring first name + last name list, but perhaps it's more sophisticated to make unique combinations?
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E.g., a name has to meet a fixed exoticism factor, forenames & surnames are weighed: if someone has an outré forename (Shela) they get lumped with a boring Surname (Sanderson) or vice versa. & to maximise uniqueness, both names aren't allowed to have the same country of origin.
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oh? the historical period you study was one of rapid social transformation and stark contrasts? Yeah I bet it was.
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