kate

whenever an author represents telepathy via < > symbols I'm like, ah, yes, you too know the old magic

go play arco NOW 🏹

I'm going to bang this drum yet again:

If your great white hope is adding to the existential threats faced by a marginalized group and members of that group tell you they will not support someone who makes them less safe, *you personally* are a threat to them when you scream about their disloyalty.

glotrot got them 😶

garry casparov, not understanding how he's losing vs you who's been eating his pieces when he's not looking

whenever i see articles and interview excerpts about the ai hype dying and former enthusiasts becoming skeptical, i think of that one post that says something like "in hindsight this was predictable, but to be fair it was easy to see at the start and in the middle of things too"

Scandinavian problems

HIS MAJESTY THE WORM offers some suggestions for "Why" the megadungeon known as the Underworld exists.

"I don't mind when bigoted jokes are leveraged against people I think are horrible."

Okay, but you do understand you've just communicated that your willingness to oppose bigotry becomes negotiable if you dislike the target? You see how that makes you sound completely unsafe to others, right? Right?

warmup i got reallyyy into c:

The fact that the thing we're calling artificial intelligence *can't do math* and yet we're jamming it into programs that successfully *have done math* for decades, then warning people against using the AI to do math, seems like an excellent summary of where we are.

"shrimp emotions" redefined to mean "that feeling when you set off a geiger counter after hitting up the seafood buffet"

You ‘run the gamut’ and ‘run the gauntlet.’

You don’t ‘run the gambit.’

gamut = entire range or series

gauntlet = severe trial

Gambit = Alpha-level mutant who can convert potential energy to kinetic energy

smooches on that kiss target of a nose freckle

I think characters like Doctor Who and Captain America and Superman and James Bond and Indiana Jones are so fascinating because each is an idealized avatar of a particular cultural identity and when we talk about what they can and can't "be" we are inevitably discussing the heart of that identity.

Caves of Qud: You are filled with the true vision! The Cubic Form is Infinite, Harmonic and transcends the 1 Day rotation!

I screamed so loud my partner asked me if I was okay

Screenshot of an exchange between a PayPal chatbot and a user called Brady Pettit. "PP: Hi! l'm PayPal's virtual agent. To get started, simply ask me a question. I am still learning, so if I can't help you I'll direct you to additional resources. Pettit: I got scammed PP: Great!"

Learning well

ditching the peacock logo is such an impressively bad decision. just breathtakingly stupid lmao

lmao at whatever brand consultant is going around saying "remove HBO" "remove NBC" and getting people to agree to it. top tier trolling

misread the one on the right as "don't quit screaming" and just nodded in agreement. relatable.

Space Racism: How the Right Captured Science Fiction Before Musk and Thiel, a shadow history throws the often idealistic hopes of progressive science-fiction cultures into stark and unstable relief

‪@jamiersutcliffe.bsky.social‬ wrote an excellent essay contextualizing Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right in Art Review!

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Our upcoming Steam Event features games on sale, with playtests, demos and awesome upcoming games! See you on September 1st!

What we miss when play is only pleasurable Professor Aaron Trammell on torture, military strategists at conventions, and learning from his cats.

Scholar and author @aarontram.bsky.social spoke to us about play's blurry other side -- where it isn't always fun or consensual -- and what we risk by ignoring it.

Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told The children's commissioner for England tells the BBC virtual private networks are a "loophole that needs closing.

If VPNs are such an obvious massive loophole, why didn't you put this in the law originally? Could it be possible you're all so tech illiterate you didn't realise everyone would just get a VPN?

And if so, should you be let anywhere near an online safety law?

www.bbc.com/news/article...

just sent this to a friend telling her "the kind of dev diary that would make me immediately wishlist this game if i didn't already have it wishlisted"

Micro and Macro History Hello! I’m Holly Nielsen, a historian, writer and narrative designer. I’m lucky enough to be working on Amberspire, and Nic has kindly offere...

If you’ve been curious about what I mean when I talk about using history in “non-historical” games, then this design diary I wrote about Amberspire will give some insights.

It’s about finding inspiration in the tension and meeting of micro and macro history

lunardivision.net/micro-and-ma...

Even the smallest bits of this game were so good and evocative.