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spongepaddy.bsky.social
Irish-Swede. Tech writer, fiction writer, poet. Builder of computer games since - oh God - the 1980s. Eater of acorns. Maker of soap. Failed grower of vegetables. https://paddyk.wordpress.com/author
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At the risk of repeating myself...

submitted 3 hours ago • 0 comments

So I finally played Death Stranding, thinking it would be a good walking sim kinda thing (I like those). But oh boy. 1 hour in and I've been bombarded by about 5 different plots, a landslide of backstory and a dozen cut scenes. Does it ever ... improve?

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Hear me out: KinkedIn. Anyone? Angel investors...? Anyone? It's a unicorn waiting to happen. A latex unicorn...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

After encountering this fella I was fully expecting superpowers to emerge - acid-shooting, maybe, or the ability to stop people banging on about AI - but alas, no. I remain sadly me.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Help! There was a game / art project a while ago, multiplayer, set on an island full of life. The life slowly vanished over 30 days and those who came in later heard about the amazing earlier world, but never saw it. After 30 days, it was all gone, forever. Ring any bells...? (No, not Terra Nil).

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

'AI democratises art'. Art was always democratised. Anybody can buy cheap tools and spend time learning to draw. What you actually mean is that you want the results without any effort.

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

The level of AI arselicking on LinkedIn is frankly vile. A technology designed to destroy people's livelihoods, rip off creatives and fill the world with soulless slop. Fuck those people.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

My article on hoarding reaches the world: www.thisisweave.com/post/in-defe...

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

The armoured cabbages and shielded beets are coming along.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

I stumbled across this youtube video about fantasy post-Tolkien and how everything that followed was destroyed by (wait for it) capitalism. Really great! Plenty stuff I had never heard before. And a new youtuber for my list! youtu.be/_BBrDhgGz1k

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submitted 16 days ago • 47 comments

The ones who paddle away from Omelas on inflatable flamingos. (shsdavisapes.pbworks.com/f/Omelas.pdf)

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Heartening to see that AI has not yet dethroned the Chinese toy factory translation team.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

People are saying the problem with Bluesky is a lack of interaction. Well, by God, armed with a bottle of wine, I intend to fix that, single-handedly, tonight.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

People! I need a game. Short. Impactful. Atmospheric. Things I like include FAR: Lone Sails; Dredge; What Became of Edith Finch; ABZU. You get the idea. Any suggestions?

submitted 20 days ago • 3 comments

Not a great time to leave an odd container with a retractable top strangely parked on a Stockholm street, is all I'm saying... #spiderwebs

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

Ouch.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

We don't want to see "your" AI "art". So stop please.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Swedish edible-slop producers find new ways to mess with me.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

In my teens - I will be famous! In my 20s - I will be rich! In my 30s - I will be happy. In my 40s - I will get a good night's sleep. In my 50s - I will grow a carrot.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

I'd also pretend to be Sam Altman's friend for 6.4 billion dollars.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

When your game about horror and demons in Victorian London finds its target player (from the @allvissthlm.bsky.social booth at @nordicgame.com). #crowSkulls

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

Fair play to the Vatican for stepping up to the plate (in their own way) and appointing an American pope who's critical of Trumpism. This should be interesting...

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

For people who love ceremony and pomp as much as the Catholics do, that sure is one crappy looking chimney.

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

Where I live in Stockholm is absurdly pretty. This is fifteen minutes jog from my flat. You can swim there in the summer. It's a thing I will always remain awed and grateful for.

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

Ask yourself if your company would fire you if they could reliably replace you with an AI. We all know the answer to that. So I find it hard to get excited about this particular "revolution".

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

I am so tired of hearing people go on about AI. SO sick of it. And it's always the most boring of people who go about it the most. And when they say it's a way to be "more efficient" what they mean is it saves money for companies. That's what it's for. It's vile. A fucking stampede into mediocrity.

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

Got the kale in the ground. Also the spuds. Spuds are in the back bed. That's not all the spuds. There are many spuds.

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

For the record, I'm WAY more scared of tech bros than I'll ever be of AI since only one of those is actively striving to take everything of value in the world and set fire to the rest of it.

submitted 58 days ago • 0 comments