Jay Castello 🌻

Jay Castello 🌻

@jaymcastello.bsky.social

freelance culture writer 🍏 book & game editor ☕ narrative designer 🎲 short (& long) fiction author 📚 ace attorney podcast host @turnaboutbreakdown.bsky.social 🌈 basically if it involves words i'll do it 🌙 jaycastello.com 🦢 they/she

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Chris Tapsell
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A cracking piece here from @jaymcastello.bsky.social on unofficial AI-made game wikis taking over, often pushing genuine fan-made efforts or even official wikis out of the top search results. A kind of misserable mix of the AI search apocalypse, dead internet theory and the post-truth world at once.

eurogamer.net"These tools have made it very easy for bad actors to flood things" - AI video game wikis riddled with errors are taking over, and pushing real fans to the sideLLM-powered wikis, often full of inaccurate or irrelevant information, are starting to take over, leaving fans sidelined and publishers playing whack-a-mole.
Jay Castello 🌻
@jaymcastello.bsky.social

ended up on an extremely weird site while trying to look up some basic information a couple of weeks ago and it sent me down a deep rabbit hole www.eurogamer.net/ai-fan-wikis...

eurogamer.net"These tools have made it very easy for bad actors to flood things" - AI video game wikis riddled with errors are taking over, and pushing real fans to the sideLLM-powered wikis, often full of inaccurate or irrelevant information, are starting to take over, leaving fans sidelined and publishers playing whack-a-mole.
Jay Castello 🌻
@jaymcastello.bsky.social

after that we've got 3) What if evil woman was river 4) Go for a big walk outside 5) Space is pretty cool I think 6) Woman chosen by god ruins everything 7) Short story collection about platonic intimacy

Jay Castello 🌻
@jaymcastello.bsky.social

it feels weird to not have any particular goals on youtube. i don't plan for it to ever pay my bills (i get a little ad revenue i'm not interested in sponsorships or patreon), and more views typically just equates to less quality of viewing ime

Jay Castello 🌻
@jaymcastello.bsky.social

(there's usually a spike after a few days where the numbers go up and the comments get way more annoying). i probably won't put out something with the level of effort of the last video for a long time if ever. but i like having a platform that goes a little wider than blogging

Jay Castello 🌻
@jaymcastello.bsky.social

probably this is only weird for me because i have very specific ambitions in most of my many other work formats, lmao. and also because youtube wants you to chase numbers soooooooooo bad

Jay Castello 🌻
@jaymcastello.bsky.social

spent like 2 hours on 90 seconds of this video essay today which is going to make people who know how to edit video be like "how the fuck did it take you this long and also it looks janky as hell" and everybody else be like "i'm folding my laundry not looking at the screen"

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Jay Castello 🌻
@jaymcastello.bsky.social

i'm technically in this issue twice, once talking about what makes romance work and not work and once gently pushing back on the recent framing around "women in games." you know, scary halloween things!

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Nicole Carpenter
@nicolecarpenter.bsky.social

oral history of lorelei and the laser eyes!!!!

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For our next big story, @nicolecarpenter.bsky.social talks to Simogo about one of 2024's best games. (Available now for paid subscribers, next week for all.)

designroom.siteLorelei and the Laser Eyes: An oral historyJust a couple of years post-release, we round up the team behind Simogo's puzzle masterpiece to look back at its five-year development process.
Jay Castello 🌻
@jaymcastello.bsky.social

i'm technically in this issue twice, once talking about what makes romance work and not work and once gently pushing back on the recent framing around "women in games." you know, scary halloween things!

Unwinnable@unwinnable.com

It's the scariest month of the year and Unwinnable's murder of writers are here with blood-curdling cultural commentary to turn your hair white while filling your brain with new ideas. Backrooms! Werewolves! Babysitters in peril! Don't miss it! Buy: buff.ly/krs7Gl9 Subscribe: buff.ly/QW6Mdeu

Jay Castello 🌻
@jaymcastello.bsky.social

i've edited one (1) minute of the zero parades video i've been "working" on for months and i'm kind of happy to be vindicated in it being exactly as annoying as i anticipated

Jay Castello 🌻
@jaymcastello.bsky.social

i got a rejection on a piece of short fiction recently (normal, not taking it personally) but i can't stop thinking about the feedback that said part of it was "unrealistic" when it was just. something that happens in the UK but not america

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Zach Weinersmith
@zachweinersmith.bsky.social

Replying to @zachweinersmith.bsky.social

Mostly I'm laughing about this but there really is something sick at the heart of our epistemology on this site sometimes. Probably it was always like this, but things aren't true because your ideology demands it. All you have to do is read.

Jay Castello 🌻
@jaymcastello.bsky.social

sometimes i wonder whether being hard to impress is valuable in my criticism/reviews work and then i play an indie game from a few years ago that was acclaimed and i'm like Everyone Get Meaner Right Now

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Willa Bloomfield-Rowe
@thewillarowe.bsky.social

Almost every movie could be 15 minutes shorter, most games could be five hours shorter, and almost ever review/feature I read could be like 500 words shorter. Snip snip.

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Diego Nicolás Argüello
@diegoarguello.bsky.social

very few nü independent sites place such a big focus on freelancers, despite us perpetually being the outsourced bulk of every understaffed masthead. support DR however you can - who knows, you may read something from me on the site in the future, too

Design Room@designroom.site

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Jay Castello 🌻
@jaymcastello.bsky.social

i would sincerely like to know how this compares to the same experiment but using a search engine or, like, a calculator

Shannon Vallor@shannonvallor.bsky.social

We are soon going to have to come to grips with the fact that this shit is asbestos for the mind

news.berkeley.eduUsing AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things - Berkeley NewsA UC Berkeley researcher co-authored a study that raises profound questions about how we interact with artificial intelligence in education — and daily life.