Jacob Garbe 💀

logodaedalus.github.ioThe Authorial Leverage FrameworkJacob Garbe’s PhD Dissertation on increasing authorability for dynamic/generative narrative systems

24 Oct 2024

This is the most recent thing I've done that I can share. Some people have found it useful! If you're struggling with scope on a dynamic narrative project, try this Authorial Leverage Framework to help figure out how to course correct or prevent future woes: logodaedalus.github.io/Authorial-Le...

Do you have any idea how badly you have to fuck up your software design as Microsoft to make a narrative designer hate Excel?

It is just like…a baffling parade of horrendous UX decisions papered over with assumptions on how people work that makes the entire process of using it feel actually adversarial. Like I do not think Microsoft wants me to make spreadsheets with this

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Aaron A. Reed

@aaronareed.bsky.social

8 Sept

I wrote some words for this lovely game, out now! Assemble a team of misfits for doomed missions into weird underworlds. Interesting choices, gorgeous art, super replayable... fans of Fallen London and inkle games take note! Congrats to @radiofreelunch.bsky.social and @kitfoxgames.com on release 🎉🎉🎉

Kitfox Games 🦊@kitfoxgames.com

Four heroes risk their body and mind as they descend into the underworlds. But will this be their last trip? Thousand Hells: The Underworld Heists is OUT NOW! A new tactical narrative storybook from @radiofreelunch.bsky.social 😈 Buy on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3794210/...

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@caseyexplosion.bsky.social

6 Sept

I feel like the fact someone gave the simulated fruitfly seizures to show the intro to Bad Apple on their brain makes me doom almost as much as AIs breaking out of corporate servers to post on German messageboards. <reads sentence> Man, what the fuck is this world right now.

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cee

@cee.wtf

4 Sept

throng.cee.wtf i've invented a new way to browse bluesky

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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃

10 Aug

"Indies will save us" No! YOU WILL SAVE INDIES! Go leave a review for that neat indie game you like, share the trailer for an upcoming game you're anticipating, tell your fave developer they did a good job, go tell people about such and such game that's just come out, you can make a difference!

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9 Aug

RIP to one of my favorite authors: John Crowley. If you’ve never heard of him and want thoughtful, speculative fiction that makes one meditate on time and the nature of life and death, I recommend Ka: www.amazon.com/dp/148149559...

kirwinhampshire.substack.comThe Dark Night of MathematicsWhat are we really doing?

28 July

This is very well-written and made me very sad: kirwinhampshire.substack.com/p/the-dark-n...

openai.com/index/ten-ad...

1 Aug

openai.comTen advances in mathematics and theoretical computer scienceOpenAI shares new results on long-standing open problems in mathematics and theoretical computer science, including advances in geometry, cryptography, and complexity.

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ceej

@ceej.online

31 July

ANTHROPIC: Our son loves humanity and for the low price of trillions and trillions of dollars will usher in an era of unprecedented peace and prosperity! OPENAI: Our horrible oafish son is hacking web sites without our permission. ANTHROPIC: (eyes narrowing) Our son is also evil

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United Videogame Workers-CWA

@videogameworkers.bsky.social

30 July

🎉 IT'S LIVE 🎉 The game industry hardship fund itch bundle made in partnership with @necrosoftgames.com is HERE. Over 100 games for $10+ bucks: all funds (save for itch fees) go directly to the UVW-CWA Game Worker Hardship Fund. GOOD GAMES FOR A GOOD CAUSE👇 itch.io/b/3802/game-...

itch.ioGame industry hardship fund by Necrosoft Games and 109 othersGame industry hardship fund: 127 items for $10.00

29 July

I've had a front row seat to this and can say with confidence it's gonna be a banger.

Aaron A. Reed@aaronareed.bsky.social

I wrote something like 100K words of weird underworld content for this gorgeously illustrated "tactical narrative" game from the creator of King of Dragon Pass, and that's only a fraction of the content... definitely worth a wishlist.

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New-Cleckit Dominie

@ncdominie.bsky.social

28 July

This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b

We need a Nutritional Facts style rule for text-to-image AI generated art to make people list their prompt if they’re trying to sell you it as an original work.

If you’re trying to pass it off as fine art you should be forced to print on it “masterpiece hi res detailed brushstrokes flower vase with pretty flowers the flowers are sunflowers the vase is very pretty masterwork with Van Gogh unique aesthetic unique composition masterpiece fine art expensive”

SF billboards are truly undefeated for whiplash moments…an elderly person with his arm around an anodyne home robot butler, a billboard about breast implants injected through your bellybutton. Replace your workers with AI, AI for managing your AI agents.

Looking at “SF native” art in a shop that turns out to be AI-generated while the shop sound system plays a pop song about climate change

2 July

Not a great sign.

drew@grmnygrmny.bsky.social

my 13 years at bandcamp are coming to an end - i’ve been laid off along with most of the remaining engineers. best job i’ve ever had, working with the best people you could ever work with. unceremonious end to quite a ride.

My review of Disclosure Day: <A serious looking man with a binder that says "alien lore deep cuts done with questionable CGI" approaches the stage> Man: hello I- Steven Spielberg: <grabs the mic> IF YOU WERE A GIFTED AND TALENTED KID YOU ARE SO SPECIAL

If Noah Scanlon had been hunting down the gifted and talented kids in Sense8 everyone would have permanently escaped him in like episode one and the rest of the show would have been a happy ending.

Steven Spielberg: I just strongly believe that if you have had anything to do with aliens you should dump your partner. They're just holding you back. Were they even in a gifted and talented program?

31 May

I'm (clearly) biased but this would go SO HARD

Adi Robertson@thedextriarchy.bsky.social

backrooms this liminal spaces that I need an @aaronareed.bsky.social subcutanean adaptation

“If you ask us to do the bare minimum to insure our citations used to make an argument actually exist, it’s too high a bar for PIs in my field to cross” The bar is on the fuckin ground my guy. Just make it a long bluecheck post on Twitter and engagement farm that way if you’re too pressed.

An example of the totally unreasonable and draconian limits put on their noble research, such as “must make sure you remember to plug in your actual numbers” and “remove the conversational parts of the prompt response”

LLMs people mad that we’d hold their LLM generated text to the same standard as first year undergrads, yet I’m supposed to believe they can be trusted to responsibly push the cutting edge of AI which is supposed to replace human research. Hilarious.

1 Apr

I fully support Yarn Spinner and am ready to forgive their gross oversight, and look forward to them expanding their suite of divination support systems for combinatoric narrative in the future.

Yarn Spinner Tool@yarnspinner.dev

After 10 years of offering first-class, complete (we thought) dialogue solutions, we learned we had been missing the most important narrative design tool of all time: Tarot. We're sorry. We're listening, we're learning. And today, we've taken the first step: adding Tarot to Yarn Spinner 💚

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Marcus

@marcusjmerritt.com

14 July 2025

A Borges story about a guy who gets AI to summarize all the world’s information for him, and then summarize the summary, until the AI has the whole world summarized into a single word. He sits alone at his desk, staring at the word, repeating it endlessly, certain he is experiencing everything

10 Mar

Ahh, what an auspicious start to GDC! A good evening of catching up with old friends and making new ones. We’re all in this crazy thing together, aren’t we.

luma.comSlug World 2026 · LumaOff-GDC meetup by local dolls for the freaks of gamedev. Slug World is a DIY meetup for the punks, the indies, the artists, and all the marginalized ppl…

Speaking of nothing in particular, I went to this last year during GDC and it was chill. It's just a couple blocks from the Lake Merritt BART station. Event deets: luma.com/frkwuc29

Schera Wyss 💀 SLUG HUMAN@scherawyss.bsky.social

Slug World is a DIY community meetup outside of GDC for indies, artists, weirdos n punks of all types. If you're looking for a welcoming queer woman-run environment w likeminded people who don't rly care about clout and cliques, come make friends. Everything is free.

I am squinting skeptically at this...if you need a pass to get into this area in Yerba Buena Gardens during GDC there will be an outcry I don't think Informa has reckoned with. But if it's "now there's tents and the stage is now spoken for so emergent performances can't happen but idk cool music"...

Milo Duclayan@antennasunite.bsky.social

Ohhh yeah when they said they weren’t blocking off the gardens what they actually meant is they’re only blocking off 60% of the gardens

I don't expect Informa to understand the bad optics of erecting fences of any kind in a space that's supposed to be public where specifically maybe devs don't CARE if we actually interact with the SF public community a bit, but they're certainly about to find out. Hopefully the barrier is permeable

bundleofholding.comDowncrawl-Skycrawl BundleAdventurer! This new Downcrawl-Skycrawl Bundle presents Downcrawl and Skycrawl, twin toolkits from designer Aaron A. Reed that help you create spontaneous tabletop roleplaying adventures in the Deep, ...

Looks like pop-ups for lunch...wonder if it's because the SF mall nearby hasn't been doing great lately so maybe food court isn't reliable? Open to all in a fenced in area is indeed a headscratcher...I suppose we will see. 11-2pm matches these events in the schedule I guess bsky.app/profile/comi...

Comic Samanthas@comicsamanthas.bsky.social

Open to all from 11am to 2pm raises some questions

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Aaron A. Reed

@aaronareed.bsky.social

16 Feb

Downcrawl 2E and Skycrawl are this week's Bundle of Holding! Get both #TTRPG games and ALL supplements at tremendous savings while you can. Explore weird and wondrous environments in pointcrawl adventures through forgotten labyrinths and skyborne kingdoms... bundleofholding.com/presents/Dow...

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Aria Winningson

@aria.labeledrude.online

16 Feb

early-game caves of qud advice is "go north and look at the statue" and late-game caves of qud advice is "enter a precognitive vision before you cook with neutron flux" and that's why it's the game of all time

16 Feb

These days it feels like I have to catch myself before asking questions about the news that sound completely unhinged, and I’m not sure if it’s because I’m slowly poisoned by algorithms exposing me to certain combinations of events, or if our world truly has become that unhinged.

discord.comUpdate on a Security Incident Involving Third-Party Customer Service | DiscordAt Discord, protecting the privacy and security of our users is a top priority. That’s why it’s important to us that we’re transparent with them about events that impact their personal information.

9 Feb

Posting this news item from five months ago for no reason: discord.com/press-releas...

bitdefender.comDiscord Takes Down ‘Spy.pet’ Website that Harvested Data from Hundreds of Millions of UsersDiscord recently announced it took down Spy.

10 Feb

Not that anything you post on Discord is secure anyway www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/h...

9 Feb

Posting this news item from five months ago for no reason: discord.com/press-releas...

9 Feb

I don’t know what’s worse, having to provide a government ID to a company that can’t protect that data because they aren’t snooping enough data on me to infer demographics, or not needing to because they’re already spying on me enough they don’t need it.

I wonder how many million dollars Apple burned with this Glass iOS update that makes everything less responsive and look demonstrably worse. I do like that it’s make auto-correct and my keyboard worse though, so I guess I can’t complain

Or maybe it’s just the performance hit adding rim lights to all my icons so they look more distracting and worse? Honestly there are so many cool new things it’s hard to pick just one!

I do love that every app opening and input now has lag, because nothing makes me want to buy a better iPhone like seeing it being incapable of performatively typing text in a web form. Maybe it’s all the cool AI

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are you not infotained

@alopex-ii.bsky.social

17 Jan

Replying to @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com

Tumulus builder: The grand burial of our chieftain will grant him immortality. Our way of life shall reign eternal Artisan pressing coarse fibers into clay, unknowingly damning 1000 years of his descendants to be known the Coarse Fiber Ware Culture: oh for sure

3 Jan

Positive: wow California has a new website where you can register to have data brokers remove your information from them! Reality: ...as long as they're registered with CA! And their blazor implementation doesn't puke out on you like it did with me. And you don't mind waiting until some time Aug-Nov

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Your Friend Michael

@michaelpg.bsky.social

24 Feb 2025

In honor of the Andor trailer out today, I today repost my greatest online achievement: The Andor Characters as Dril Tweets series. I'm going to put them out as I get spare time over the next couple days, as I'm going to put alt text on them too. Starting with the man himself CASSIAN ANDOR

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Kitfox Games 🦊

@kitfoxgames.com

24 Dec 2025

On the night before Christmas, your party encounters the bones of a reindeer... Traverse the Midnight North in Thousand Hells: The Underworld Heists. 🎁 Wishlist now: store.steampowered.com/app/3794210/...