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I am surrounded by people who are outsourcing their own thinking to ChatGPT and they are quickly and obviously becoming dependent on it for even the most banal tasks. Once again, the "figuring it out" is the important part. Yes, you can use a crane to lift weights but you will not get stronger

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Spent an awesome week with Team CATAN in Germany and had a blast at my first ever UK Games Expo! I’m very ready to see my own bed after four weeks on the road, though.

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Here's the actual take on AI worth reading today.

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but if i'm not allowed to feed artists into my artist killing machine it's going to be basically impossible for the machine to keep killing artists. is that what you want?? and before you answer keep in mind this is a very expensive machine

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Every time Bluesky announces a new feature, 1000 people in the comments are like "we just want an edit button". No we fucking don't. I don't want my like/repost on something you changed after the fact to be some headass garbage. Just eat your typos, or delete and reskeet your little brain turd.

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sometimes you pitch an article, black out, and then wake up 2000 words later with no real recollection how any of it happened www.pcgamer.com/games/strate...

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Very good to see @wnba.com and @nba.com on Bluesky. They seem like the leagues that might be most averse to the disgusting political environment of the X platform formerly known as Twitter.

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Closing the books on a fantastic PAX East. It was a week of catching up with old friends, making new ones, and getting to show the new sixth edition of CATAN to thousands of attendees. Thanks to everyone who stopped by, said hi, or attended my panel. I hope you all had as good a time as I did!

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@samanthabeart.bsky.social glad to have had some time to hang out this weekend! Stop by the booth if you get a chance 👀

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Reminder that Discord is a tool designed for real time chat. It lacks the persistence and search functionality required to replace forums. In a Discord, you should expect the same question to be asked a dozen time a day... and the quality of the answer will depend on who's present when asked.

submitted 43 days ago • 11 comments

Support human workers. Support human artists. Buy a t-shirt. aftermath.site/buy-destroy-ai...

submitted 46 days ago • 29 comments

We are coming to Pax East! 🤩 Come meet our team at booth 12071 and see the new edition of CATAN 🎲✨

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First half of PAX East complete! Come say hi at the CATAN booth this weekend if I haven’t seen you.

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Panel time!

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Boston, I am here, and this is tomorrow. The inimitable @carlivelocci.com is also on this. We’re gonna have so much fun. Come say hi!

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The lesson to be learned from the development of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is very similar to the thing you can learn from Baldur's Gate 3, which is that if you were exactly that group of people at exactly that moment in time doing exactly that specific thing, it'll work out for you.

submitted 46 days ago • 27 comments

The fact that Steam reviews and wishlists matter as much as they do has got to be the most "what are we doing here, man" thing about the indie games business

submitted 47 days ago • 27 comments

Packing up to head to Boston for PAX East for the first time since 2015! Excited to see friends. You can come visit me at the CATAN booth, or you can join @writualmagic.bsky.social, @sarahthebeef.bsky.social, myself, and others at the Our Worst Gaming Takes panel: east.paxsite.com/en-us/schedu...

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I’m just about sick of correcting terminology, especially “trauma bonding”.

submitted 56 days ago • 47 comments

If anyone who wrote about tabletop for Polygon has a pitch, reach out to Rascal. We'll make something happen with the budget we have.

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This is horrific in ways words cannot do justice to.

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At long last, my true calling. I do not Tok the Tiks, I do not Reel unless I am fishing, my YouTube history is almost nonexistent. I welcome the RETVRN to text-based goodliness.

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genuinely curious - given the general unreliability and inward-lookingness of american media - how many americans realize the kind of rhetoric that just won the canadian election

submitted 53 days ago • 11 comments

these two posts explain so much about game development and i think about them more than i ought to admit

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