Svante Landgraf

@svantelandgraf.bsky.social

PhD in literature and culture studies, writing on sf and posthumanism. TTRPG game designer and writer, doing work on Mörk Borg, Dragonbane and others. Playing old-school Magic the Gathering. Reading books. Drinking beer. https://dimfrost.itch.io

UK Games Expo has banned generative AI art, text, and merchandise across all NEC exhibition halls, bringing the convention in line with broader British tabletop standards. Standholders face removal or bans if their products aren't made by humans. #UKGE

UK Games Expo bans generative AI art and text across all trade halls

UK Games Expo has introduced a mandatory policy prohibiting generative AI art and text across all NEC trade halls, requiring exhibitors to sell only human-made games.

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Increasingly convinced the main damage cell phones have done to creativity isn't decreased attention spans or what not but the elimination of productive boredom. Inspiration comes from the mind filling the void inside. Hard to make art when you're constantly silencing the silence with "content."

Just watched The Phoenician Scheme. Average Wes Anderson, which for me still means very entertaining, but the most interesting thing is that there are no meta levels. After the three levels of Asteroid City, and the stylized shorts, it's a welcome break.

I wish there was more of a push from writers/websites to have people use RSS. I know Google Reader's death made it harder, but there's apps now like Inoreader and Feedly that work on phones that I think people would use. It's just easier to see something through RSS feeds than checking social media

Not as fun as the time we were in a night club circa 2002 (the height of Warp record EDM-style music) and the fire alarm went & me and my friend kept sitting there all like ”this is interesting. Is it German, you think?”

Alright wait wait wait. It's old. Over a year old. And its last post was March 2024. Need far more evidence they're doing this at scale and have "started again"

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When you're exploring a new city or learning a new language, you don't understand everything all at once. You take little details and put them away for later. That's how I run megadungeons. References to old rulers, strange coins, repeating themes. They make sense eventually.

Newsletter: Our digital lives are unregulated growth-hacked ecological disasters. The modern tech ecosystem's growth-at-all-costs mindset is actively harming billions of people, pushing them toward authoritarianism for profit. We must fight back. www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/

Never Forgive Them

In the last year, I’ve spent about 200,000 words on a kind of personal journey where I’ve tried again and again to work out why everything digital feels so broken, and why it seems to keep getting wor...

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