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Time Possum by Bully Pulpit Games

Mar 9, 2020

Scents & Semiosis: a story/game/toy about perfume, memory, and new meanings, with heavy use of procedural generation. I've been working on this for far too long, but it's ready! (Ready, not *done*. Procedural content games are never *done*.) tsawac.itch.io/scents

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Did you know if you want to send your brain back in time, a possum must be waiting on the other side?

bullypulpitgames.itch.io

a two player game about time travel and a possum

crusader kings with asynchronous massively multiplayer gameplay

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dull as the heart of an unbaked brioche

@merrilymaralie

Apr 1

the chat room in the weird empress phone game is everything i could have dreamed it would be

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“In the same way that English language emotion concepts have colonized psychology, AI dominated by American-influenced image sources is producing a new visual monoculture of facial expressions.” 🔥

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Jenka

@babiejenks

Mar 26

I have been waiting for a reason to write about the American smile for decades. And AI finally gave it to me. AI and the American Smile How AI misrepresents culture through a facial expression. medium.com/@socialcreatur

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Things fall apart, the centre cannot hold The falcon cannot hear the falconer Of course the falcon cannot hear the falconer That's not how you do falconry Why are you still yelling I told you, it only has small ears And it's 500 feet up in the air for god's sake gary.

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So I was prepping some templates for the dialog design course (link in bio) and ended up making an asset pack of interactive story-telling templates in ink (

@inkleStudios

) based on structures by

@emshort

and

Interactive Story-Telling Templates by Zhenia Puzankov

and my own work. For free. Get it!

all-worms.itch.io

A selection of templates for ink engine by Inkle. Playable, downloadable, usable. Play in your browser

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Leigh Alexander

@leighalexander

Mar 9

AI modeling

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What are the tweets that clutch, what branches grow Out of this stony rubbish? Musk, my man, You cannot post, I stress, for you know only A heap of broken images, where the pun bleats, And the dead links give no shelter, the cricket no relief, And the dry stone no sound of water.

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SF Novelist: "Don't create the Torment Nexus." Techbros: "We should totally create the Torment Nexus!" Company: *releases minor discomfort aggregator* "We have created the Torment Nexus."

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Request for economic historians (uh,

@planetmoney

?) Have there been other situations where we had a longterm-bad/shortterm-cheap substitute infiltrating the supply, and society was able to solve it?

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Dr Kate Compton

@GalaxyKate

Feb 21

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swill_mil Generated text is like chalk, a useful substance on its own. But looks enough like another substance (milk, intentionally written text) that a business would think, ah, we can just mix in a *wee bit* to save money

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Feb 20

added no new birds today. dead game imo. they should drop more bird species, maybe in some kind of seasonal event

a good game story then, will necessarily be a terrible movie / tv show / book unless it is creatively transformed, because a good game story has different ambitions, possibilities, values, unfoldings than a good story in any other medium

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doing the backyard bird count. unapologetically treating this as boomer pokemon. I care only for the dopamine hit of checklist firsts, raptors, and maintaining my regional #4 ranking

Why did anyone think this was a good idea at either Google or Microsoft.

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Jon Uleis

@MovingToTheSun

Feb 13

My new favorite thing - Bing's new ChatGPT bot argues with a user, gaslights them about the current year being 2022, says their phone might have a virus, and says "You have not been a good user" Why? Because the person asked where Avatar 2 is showing nearby

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Feb 12

iirc this game ended when I opened a sealed vault, which activated a flooding curse, which woke up the slumbering dragon I had been tiptoeing around, which broke through the protective-wards bottleneck in the ancient library and murdered everyone

bad art day, sorted through folders instead, found an old game of Delve (blackwellwriter.itch.io/delve-a-solo-m)

immortan joe (hand on the big lever that turns the API on and off): do not, my friends, become addicted to Posting

Feb 7

this predates the bullshit artistry of mean old mr. grimes, but: at the point where Tweetdeck either breaks or becomes a simple reproduction of Twitter's hellscape default views, I am out of here just as fast as I can recondition the urge to type 't' in the address bar

eisner: we have no obligation to make art... to make history, ...to make a statement. but to make money, it is often important to make history, to make art, or to make some significant statement corporate AI guys: wowww stay poor in ur feminist bodypainting class u pinko hippy

Josephine Aster, feat. Extremely Normal Clothes To Wear Down The Pub #blaseball

Amaya Jackson #blaseball

Chambers Simmons, knight-errant of the Shadows #blaseball

Esme Ramsey and Scratch Deleuze #blaseball

Ah, a hit tweet. Journalists come talk to me about the times when kids and poets and all manner of artists made bots together and it was a beautiful time, let me sing you the songs of the Bot Times.

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Dr Kate Compton

@GalaxyKate

Feb 2

If any journalists want to chat about what we lose when API access goes down, and the history of beautiful strange bots made by everyday people, I have all day free today!

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if you want an album for free, for any reason, email thegarages@fourth-strike.com we are the garages, an anarcho-syndicalist blaseball band from the fictional location of seattle. we make songs about...

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the garages (the band)

@thegaragesband

Feb 2

#blaseball is back and so are we! Some things: 1. tomorrow is #BandcampFriday so it's a great time to check out our back catalog (warning: extensive) at thegarages.bandcamp.com 2. we will be releasing our first album of the new era on Monday 👀 watch this space 👀

thegarages.bandcamp.com

the garages

Feb 2

I already mourned for my bots and for everyone else's bots, I guess, but it's still a good morning for a Fuck You, Mean Old Mr. Grimes

I'm afraid it's happened: I've made The Wicker Man (1973) into a lift-the-flaps board book

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