qwertymartin.bsky.social
Bristol-based lover of board games, music and books.
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That literally happened on the train behind us.
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Thankfully I don't know anyone who sends me voice notes :D
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Ah, fair :)
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I have just started and the intro is so weird. "These protests decades ago were once controversial but are now celebrated, unlike these ones which only just happened".
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Oh god those footnotes. Every time something awful happens you get directed to, "No really. This happened in the real world too!".
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Give the spinoff 2p game Agricola: All Creatures Big and Small a go. Rather than "how am I going to feed my starving family?" the central question it poses is "where the fuck am I going to put all these sheep?"
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Ah ok. Well I still think the game is not the “canvas” in that metaphor; it is the painting :)
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Well, it is always important to consider the intended audience too!
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We don't generally call the reader of a book or the listener of a song the 'artist'.
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Hmm, I think it's a lot more art than a blank canvas/page is though :)
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Definitely brings joy!
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Fair clarification :)
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Or a deck of cards!
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Is that not a feeling? (though FWIW I'd call sudoku a puzzle rather than a game)
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Hmm, I think that is analogous to saying that a symphonic performance is art but the score is just a canvas. There is artistry in the design of games, not just the playing of them.
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Where’s the money in that Paul? 🥲
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Do you play them? If so, do you find that some are better than others? Do you think about why?
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How is that different for games though?
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Why would we play them if they didn’t?
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Interesting, thanks. I agree about the emotional response, but I don't think we need to be able to identify/discuss what that theme is, like we would for a piece of fiction. Similarly, I think a game can elicit an emotional response as a game, rather than as a model of something else.
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(not a gotcha question, I'm interested!)
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Do you think music, for example, has to convey a message or explore a topic to be "good art"?
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This is such a bizarre claim. What do you think game designers do? Of course they have artistic/aesthetic intentions and attempt to do something with them!
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I like Frank Lantz's argument that games are "the aesthetic form of interactive systems" - systems that we create solely for the pleasure of participating in and experiencing them.
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Creating *anything* doesn't necessitate aesthetic judgment. But a strategic game that doesn't include it will be just as crap as a painting, song or novel that doesn't.
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Well, quite. Frank Lantz's The Beauty of Games is a lovely breezy read on this. mitpress.mit.edu/978026204853...
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Yeah, that's exactly the danger I mean. It's not intelligent and it isn't reasoning; not in any human sense anyway.
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I would argue that even what it has hallucinated is not a "concept of reality". It's just modelling likely words to output.
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Liverpool Cathedral is the Anglican one (right). The Catholic one is Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral.
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Only recently realised that tea in the Sound of Music isn't "a drink with German bread".
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Still cool. Possibly too cool!
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Comet Gain, Getdown Services (EP)
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Lol no.
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Fun one, thanks! Not a name I've thought about for a very long time!
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That trend is wild! What happened?
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I found this online course really useful: thebullshitmachines.com
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I think that is quite prevalent in face-to-face plays too!
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The thing I find dangerous about it is that it can do amazingly impressive things that feel like magic, but it can also get things completely wrong and the only way to tell is if you already know the answer.
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(it can now hand the maths part off to a maths plugin, which works much better, but is a totally different technology)
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It's... really not great at basic maths once you get outside of stuff that will have been in the training data. Often just straight-up wrong with simple problems, because it has no model of the maths, just the words.
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No, I don't think it can do that at all - it's working with likelihood at the word by word level.
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But "it" has no concept of how real its answers are, it just generates statistically likely text strings.
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Shh don't tell everyone ;)
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"Prompt engineering"
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They’re actually much better in London than anywhere else I’ve been. Really good maps, accurate information at the stops, frequent.
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Even Oasis wouldn't say Oasis!
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Hopefully the chicken was not frozen several years ago.
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ha, beat me to it