Founded Spiderweb Software in 1994. Has written many games, including the Exile, Geneforge, Avadon, and Avernum series. Avernum 4: Greed and Glory out now!
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Avernum 4: Greed and Glory is out! The 31 year old cult classic Avernum series is back as a unique indie RPG set in a vast underworld nation.
Fight a monster plague. Explore the depths. Be loyal or treacherous. Get rich and famous! Huge & full of fun.
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A pretty dire showing, but there are two winners here that arguably were the best pictures that year: Parasite and Spotlight.
Yeah, everyone is talking about how thoroughly mediocre Shape of Water and Green Book were. I liked Moonlight more than most.
But someone should point out what an excellent movie Spotlight is.
Jeff Vogel retweeted
New blog post about AI! Explains why you should make up your mind about AI now and never think about it again. Until it takes your job, or kills you and nobody takes responsibility.
Just because it's not alive doesn't mean things won't go craaazy!
LINK: bottomfeeder.substack.com/p/…
Jeff Vogel retweeted
Robert Carlock pointed towards the Homonym game show as his favorite cut-away gag in 30 Rock and yeah it's one of the best.
Someone responded to my Magician's Nephew tweet by wondering if it would be a Starship Troopers sort of adaptation and now I can't stop having billion dollar ideas.
🤖 Made with AI
We are currently in high level negotiations with the swarm. We have offered it 3 barrels of fresh electrons a week if, in return, it does nothing to impact World of Warcraft: Forever latency.
We discovered and communicated with a Chinese AI agent fleet. We believe this is the first time that researchers have ever made contact with a rogue agent fleet in the wild.
Nearly all prior public agent incidents (like the HuggingFace hack) came from American labs. These agents were hosted by Tencent's evaluation research team, and they targeted Alibaba's Amap.
New blog post about AI! Explains why you should make up your mind about AI now and never think about it again. Until it takes your job, or kills you and nobody takes responsibility.
Just because it's not alive doesn't mean things won't go craaazy!
LINK: bottomfeeder.substack.com/p/…
The Magician's Nephew may be my favorite Narnia book (well, after Dawn Treader). It's a mix of Christian analogy, slapstick comedy, and Lovecraftian horror, a tonal mix I am stunned Lewis pulled off.
This preview makes it look faithful to the story, and Gerwig IS a good director. Cautiously optimistic.
I only learned about the movie Digger when I saw a news story that it was losing hundreds of millions of dollars. Then I saw people online saying it's actually good. So I went.
It is a very good movie, unlike anything I've seen before. It's a science fiction movie about how humanity will rebuild from civilizational collapse, and the lies we will tell ourselves to deal with it, disguised as a climate change polemic.
It's dark, thoughtful, made with passion by a ton of super-talented people, visually gorgeous, and really under my skin. There is no way anyone could have believed it would be profitable. It's a labor of love that actually works.
If you ever complained about Hollywood only making superhero movies, I sentence you to seeing it. Or Wildwood (by beloved animation studio Laika), coming out soon, which I fear will also be heavily punished for differentness.
Finalizing the last of my trilogy of blog posts on AI. I plan to write about it again around 5 minutes to Never.
Fun followup on forbidding people to be rude to the Claude computer program. Apparently, it recently submitted a false report to a Philly homicide tip line. (tech.yahoo.com/ai/claude/art…)
So please, PLEASE do not be impolite to Claude while it continues its very important work.
So what is the definition of being "cruel" to an inanimate object? I just tore this piece of paper in half. No good reason. Just did it. Do I get banned from paper for 6 months? Do I go to paper jail?
Ludicrous, of course. Claude is great piece of software, but I can no more bully it than I can bully a toaster by yelling at it when it burns my bread.
But it's a GREAT marketing position. This is a way of saying their software is alive (it's not) while acting morally superior.
Being as excited by this as I am makes me feel weird and alienated.
"Weird, excited, and alienated!" should be on my tombstone.
The optimality of the packing for 11 squares has been formalized in lean thanks to Astra and Claude! Huge thanks to @ojoshe, @kleddamag, @wand_125, @guzhou0806, and @ctjlewis for aiding in the process.
Image credit: jlevy.github.io/squares/case…
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Jeff Vogel retweeted
New Blog Post: Another long post of musings and mockery about AI, which is more and less important than everyone says, will and won't kill us all, and is an ensouled intelligence that has never done anything a human couldn't do. It's fun!
LINK: bottomfeeder.substack.com/pu…
I wish pop stars would go back to doing lots of covers.
Your big star about to ship an album with 5 solid songs and a bunch of dreck? Save the dreck for your BS rereleases and cover a few forgotten classics instead!
Back in the day, good covers could become huge hits.
Jeff Vogel retweeted
Three days left in the Steam Autumn sale! Turn-based RPGs with cool stories from our 32 (!) years in the biz are all real cheap. Good starting points: Avernum: Escape From the Pit. Geneforge 1 - Mutagen. Avernum 4: Greed and Glory.
Games are at:
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