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cont.. Having multiple hosts helps us to account for this and give ourselves more time to do a game justice, whilst still having a good cadence of releases that lets us keep the audience interested (and things exciting for ourselves).

cont... Also it's worth pointing out that sometimes I'll just get stuck, or get to 90% of the way through the game and discover that I've borked it somehow. If I'm staring down the barrel of a deadline, then I'll wrap it up there (unless I *really* like the game, in which case I can finish after).

When doing RA, sometimes I have ages, in which case I can do a pure playthrough. I might have to resort to clues. Occasionally we're recording a few eps, so there's greater pressure to use clues, and I will. Main thing is to still understand a game, just following a solution doesn't allow for that.

A trio of blue milk bottles sits on a driveway

They're putting blue food coloring in everything.

A short story

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This was a fun episode of "The Retro Adventurers". We had a massive mailbag, and in addition to Knight Orc, covered a really interesting by Andrew Plotkin.

The first segment of Level 9's Knight Orc, and the Infidel parody Inhumane by Andrew Plotkin, plus tons of news and correspondence in episode 27 of The Retro Adventurers.
On all podcast platforms or visit retroadventurers.com

@jasoncompton.bsky.social can we add this one to the list?

It was a great game! Lots of good memories.

The latest installment of the Retro Adventurers is here.

@grahamcluley.com will no doubt be interested to hear that we covered "Jacaranda Jim". I really enjoyed going back and playing it again.

retroadventurers.podbean.com/e/26/

"Blarneying" is the word I'd go for.

@jasoncompton.bsky.social and onto the list she sails!

@judgedrokk.bsky.social do we have this unique and valuable cultural treaure properly preserved?

Argh. I'm starting to get truly sick of ChatGPT blowing smoke up my rear. Is there an option to make it less obsequious?

Oh and @jasoncompton.bsky.social, I'm sure you'll be delighted to notice that the adventure boasts 220 rooms!

I'm not going to repeat the old joke about machine code as a lovemaking style. Arcade games written in assembler: Good. Text adventures: Doubtful. I guess we'll find out!

And just for you, @tuftymctavish.com, I am sponsoring this game as a future feature on The Retro Adventurers! I wasn't aware of it. The authors seemed to make a lot out of the fact that it was written in machine code (yikes) and was "text compressed".

Imagine the AI generates a good brief on a topic. One idea I have is to ask the AI to elaborate on the information in a particular way. *Once I have done that*, it will be less able to produce something else. So I need to duplicate the conversation beforehand, and have two different conversations.

I really really need ChatGPT to be able to fork conversations. It's an obvious feature, which appears to be missing, unless I'm being an idiot.

No checksums in sight for the epic Colossal Cave type-in from Creative Computing we discuss on the Magazine Roundup, but the sketches are cool. Meanwhile in Sinclair User, a vendor makes a simple, direct appeal: "our stuff isn't terrible!"
On all podplatforms, retroadventurers.podbean.com/e/17

This one's lost, isn't it? The puns write themselves. You're a shakespearian, Jason. "Love's labour's lost?"

They've been doing Safer Internet Day at my youngest daughter's school. This one gave me a laugh.

Hahaha! I'm the one drinking the LLM Kool-Aid, man!

Interesting - my sons are studying Moore's Law and AI for Year 7 Computer Science.

Today I learned that LLMs have a Jungian shadow.

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Jason and Dave welcome classic text adventure author Jonathan Partington to the program. While studying at Cambridge University, he created memorable games including Avon, Crobe, Sangraal, Fyleet, Monsters of Murdac, and Spy Snatcher.

retroadventurers.podbean.com/e/16/

My eyes!

Minecraft with object impermanence I generally am uninterested in generative AI that's too close to the real thing. But every once in a while there's a modern AI thing that's so glitchy and broken that it's strangely compelling. There'...

Yet another example of artificial intelligence creating psychedelic, dreamlike things. This Minecraft clone forgets where you are and will morph you between locations - like a dream. Great blogpiece.

www.aiweirdness.com/minecraft-wi...

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Do you want a full-size train departure board in your lounge? Look no further! What a company, just saw their ad and I'm reposting because I'm so impressed!

ukdepartureboards.co.uk

Our cat (Rufus McFish) is distinctly unimpressed by his new Lego companion / replacement.

GitHub - meyfa/CobolCraft: A Minecraft server written in COBOL A Minecraft server written in COBOL. Contribute to meyfa/CobolCraft development by creating an account on GitHub.

Good god! This is insanity:

github.com/meyfa/CobolC...

Attempting to perfect the art of the Boxing Day breakfast...