Mike Cook

New Post: Why I Love AI Next month it'll be twenty years since I went to university, learned to program, and studied AI. I wrote about why I loved it, why I still love it, and why, unfortunately, it no longer exists. www.possibilityspace.org/blog/posts/i...

I used to commute into London in the early 0's and sneeze out a clog of black soot each night. Good things are possible.

me: ahhh a free sticker! your art is so cool i am going to treasure this forever this is the best day of my life my tattoo artist: i just put my art permanently on your body?? me: AND i got this sticker!!!!!

A player found something very very very hidden

Unbelievable loss. An amazing talent, and just a really, really good person. www.instagram.com/p/De8RFy4pyov/

Even the games name "Penguin Colony" is to play into this idea. A Colony? They are Indigenous. Almost every penguin in the game has a colonial name -- "King" "Emperor" "Magellan" "Gentoo" "Adelie" After the game we are shown all of this information as our expedition results.

Lightroom. Oxford Street, London. October 2026.

The top two frames of the slop comic are pretty much the first part of how Marx explains technological innovation to work under capitalism. But it's missing the stage where once everyone is using the same technology, you end up back at 1-year development and only breaking even again.

Lightroom. Oxford Street, London. October 2026.

After learning from @jimmunroe.net at last night's Video Game Arts Appreciation Night that its brutalist architecture was the inspiration for the level design in @metanetsoftware.com's game "n", I can't look at Robarts Library / "Fort Book" the same way…

re: what is the earliest game that let's you be non-binary, someone responded with this: "wizap ankoku no ou" on SNES, a game that lets you literally pick your gender on a spectrum. unassailably cool!

I'm giving a talk tomorrow at Peckham Digital! you can grab free tickets here :) www.tickettailor.com/events/peckh...

Completing my quest to be the most annoying man in existence, I have set a lightly videogame-themed cryptic crossword for Jank. www.jank.cool/the-jankword...

Flowers.

I won’t be at this one but perhaps… you will????? (Free tickets for students/unwaged, good time with nice people, cool sound and visuals and art!)

when the new tax legislation comes into effect at the guild of mages

Video games has decided to discontinue its once leading product, the video game

youtube recommends me a lot of shite but every now and then something deeply moving like this comes up

kinda just one of those can't-do-any-work days huh.

That's me! I'll be at ITU Copenhagen next week to talk about street photography, games and procedural generation - an extended version of the talk I gave last weekend at Roguelike Celebration. Looking forward to meeting everyone. 📸

Thank you so much to everyone who came along and took part in the first ever From Scratch London!!! We saw live music, visuals, vocals, dance, drumming, ukulele strumming, synth, and live drawing AND live drawing, also live kazoo and jaw harp, all completely improvised!

logging on

There Is No Antimemetics Division (2020)

Think about it this way though: with all this public fuss, in the future *no-one's* gonna think to check 4 for private keys. It's probably the safest private key you could pick now. Who would believe it could happen twice.

This is an excellent, calm and precise discussion of what it means to draw lines for AI use in a creative community, and the problem of AI users feeling entitled to both have their cake and eat it.

this rules so much

ok non-tech ppl might be hearing some scary things about "critical vulnerabilities" involving certificates. the main thing you need to know, without getting down in the weeds about it, is that the fourth seal is broken. lo, a rider approacheth upon a pale steed, and his name is Death

caves of qud

This game is clever, full of heart, beautifully drawn, and very human.

wrote about penguin colony and boycotts meaning something

thinking about this today

Protestors Criticized For Looting Businesses Without Forming Private Equity Firm First https://theonion.com/protestors-criticized-for-looting-businesses-without-fo-1843735351/

🔥 HOT WAX is coming out on Oct. 29th!! 🔥 🕯️ Place candles. Light a wick. Burn it all down. ⛓️ Build chain reactions, then keep them running. 🧩 A fresh take on falling block arcade puzzlers. Wishlist (and try the demo!) at s.team/a/3041750 💖 #screenshotsaturday #pixelart

feel free to fill out the apology form whenever silksong fans

500 FINGER FILLET has a demo in Steam Next Fest!! Stab yourself 500 times to escape a deadly trap in this pulse-pounding horror roguelite!! 🔪 Gamble with your fingers 🔪 Unlock special knives to stab yourself with 🔪 Fall in love with an eldritch hand monster store.steampowered.com/app/4973880/...