those most dreaded words, My Nemesis Published A Thinkpiece
down with niceness up with kindness
it should be illegal to do folklore studies and not release your work into the public domain
gonna make a new dimension
fill it with tiny beautiful creatures
they'll grow and laugh and love and die
they'll hurt and fear and trust and rejoice
their crystal spines shine in the light, their glass carapaces glow in the dark, their golden minds never turn off
and it will be small
and it will be beautiful
and i'll have crafted every rule
and i'll have overseen every iteration
and i will watch every now and then
and it will make sense
also I'd like to remind you this is a game that exists. You have to use your knowledge of The Divine Comedy to navigate hell and find Carmen Sandiego.
https://archive.org/details/a2_where_in_hell_is_carmen_santiago
Now that computer language processing is getting better, how about a computer game in the vein of "digital: a love story", but more interactive, where the main form of interactivity is writing posts on an in-game BBS, with the computer understanding your posts and responding to them? It could still have a pre-determined end but what you say in your posts could shape the story along the way.
Here’s a little drawing I did of an Odder Otter, my favourite minion from FFXIV! There’s a few mini prints of this piece and others available in my shop (now with much more reasonable international shipping options)
http://ashmackenzie.storenvy.com
#art #illustration #mastoart #creativetoots #ffxiv #finalfantasy #fanart #odderotter
I wrote about the incredibly frustrating Patreon changes -- thanks to Ryan North, Kate Leth, and Jeph Jacques for talking numbers with me! https://www.engadget.com/2017/12/08/patreon-fee-change-will-hurt-small-contributions/
With the new #Patreon payment structure, *patrons* pay a fee on top of their pledge, as well as patreon taking a (now smaller) cut from the creator's balance.
https://patreon.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/115005631963
I made a little spreadsheet to help me work out what the heck was going on in actual numbers.
So if I'm supported by 50 $1 pledges, I get $47.50, but supporters pay nearly $70.
i just want to hear those three little words Afficher plus
zombies but every time someone dies they get faster
Someone please remake The Land Before Time with fluffy-ass dinosaurs https://mastodon.social/media/TV6zO5zKGDWxXzE-0kg
"They ain't paying us enough for this, man." - reflections on Xenothreat and Capitalism in Alien, now a public post: https://www.patreon.com/posts/15385385
Yes, winter days are short and dark, but sometimes we are rewarded with a beautiful sunrise, like his morning. #photography https://octodon.social/media/Z8h7HW3W7EXYlTofxCg
The biggest casualty to AI won't be jobs, but the final and complete eradication of trust in anything you see or hear. http://research.nvidia.com/publication/2017-12_Unsupervised-Image-to-Image-Translation
https://twitter.com/olifranklin/status/937660128974852096
Because I needed it recently, a reminder:
It's ok to turn off push notifications from apps. It's ok to unsubscribe from email lists. It's ok to unfollow. Your attention is yours to give.
