Twitter is an amazing newsgathering tool, but it's not worth devoting the brainpower to post while navigating its Chief Mod having a meltdown. You can find me on my site and Mastodon.
I'm not leaving Twitter, but after the last couple days it no longer seems like a serious platform for posting news — it's implemented rules that are basically *only* enforceable as selective punishments for Enemies Of The Site and cover basic functions of reporting.
For the evening crew! I still have slots for sending you a game ruleset that will exist nowhere except some obscure AI databank and a single letter that I send you.
In the spirit of trying new communications platforms, an experimental end-of-year project: I will handwrite the rules to a custom AI-generated board/tabletop game and send them via physical mail for up to 37 people. Details here. https://robotlit.com/post/703710967583948800/ai-games-workshop-physical-edition…
In the spirit of trying new communications platforms, an experimental end-of-year project: I will handwrite the rules to a custom AI-generated board/tabletop game and send them via physical mail for up to 37 people. Details here.
If the operator is still regularly logging in it presumably won't be an issue, and I've heard other conditions (15 years inactive. etc.) that wouldn't catch it, but everything at Twitter seems pretty fast and loose right now.
It just feels like such a missed opportunity, we could be trying to tweak models to produce something weird and inhuman and the discourse is like, better replacement-level skyrim sidequests.
It's striking that Musk has not laid out any principles for how Twitter moderation should work. He's clearly not a fan of the old regime but he's established nothing to actually replace it.
I think this will change as more people experiment, but current-gen AI art/writing is in a weird spot where the default style is fun for me to generate but I often don't find it that compelling to see secondhand.
I can see arguments for why AI is different and problems with current models, but I've also seen a lot of things (piracy, but also fanfic and occasionally *libraries*) called "stealing from artists" in my day, and I wish there were more nuance right now.
I'm enough of an old-school copyright skeptic to not be convinced that something lessening complete creative control over a work of art makes it inherently immoral. The entire history of art is about balancing individual ownership and the cultural commons.
To be clear this doesn't invalidate criticism of AI art, but I wish we had an economic system where it was easier to discuss copyright/influence/style separately from whether it's taking money away from artists and writers.
I understand I'm being precious here, but... a lot of readers come to reviews to learn the attributes of a device! A good review offers enough concrete detail that you can feel informed enough to decide whether or not you agree with the reviewer's conclusions.
The Game Awards is — no offense to The Game Awards, which we cover annually — a kinda silly event and if a 15-year-old is gonna disrupt anything with a bad inscrutable joke it's toward the top of my list of places I don't mind them doing it.
I see the complications with anti-semitic dogwhistles but it also feels a little sad if we're in a world that doesn't have any room left for stuff that doesn't mean anything.
Ken Levine going Grant Morrison's Animal Man is the 100% logical extension of "what if the person telling you how to play the game was the real villain" and "what if your personal playthrough was one contrived iteration in a multiverse of experiences"
1/ As Congress wraps, members are trying to ram through their terrible tech bills, consequences be damned—including the Kids Online Safety Act
Today. @TechFreedom & scholars warned Congressional leaders that #KOSA will *harm* kids—and the First Amendment
https://techfreedom.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Kosa-Letter-December-6-2022.pdf…
I wish every day I'd clicked with Cruelty Squad or the indie boomer shooter trend, because I would love to see indie devs pick up the torch for my favorite genres. There are good exceptions (Neon Struct! Maybe Gloomwood!) but it's still a relative rarity.
And I still feel *obligated* to support this game. I want more developers making punchy 12-hour shooter/melee 3D survival horror games that aren't direct remakes or sequels! I've been rooting for you so hard, Callisto Protocol!
Every aspect of this game is designed to tease the prospect of fun and then methodically sap the joy I get from it. It's the Colin Robinson of survival horror.
Good morning I'm sorry I'm in the "blind enemies you stealth-kill section" and I'm still mad at The Callisto Protocol. Why would you give me a level full of combat architecture where I would be an idiot to use any of it.
I assume letting people listen to audio logs while they played caused some bizarre last-minute game-breaking bug, because how else do you make the call to force people to stand still with the menu open if they want to hear the game's ancillary flavor plot.