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Tallow

@tallow.bsky.social

Bird and Game Dev Project lead at @WalkySquawky.com Catch me on telegram here: http://t.me/Tallow Non-Binary: they/them

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Walky Squawky@walkysquawky.com · 3w ago

We're talked a little about Your Party Blows Ass, but what is it? YPBA is a game about literally fighting your anxieties by beating the shit out of your inner demons Half party-explorer with quirky characters to talk to, half hack-and-slash where you fight to survive a normal adult conversation.

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Zen@beak.zone · 4w ago

I've been on something of a Neopets kick this month, which is both great timing while my fingers heal and terrible timing because despite healing I went and painted my beautiful Hissi boy.

Tallow@tallow.bsky.social · last mo.

It was a lot of fun hosting this and we got a tonne of positive feedback! There are so many furries that are scraping at the wall trying to get their art out there, and we need to do what we can to support, collaborate, and educate! Always feel free to reach out if you want to chat about game dev

Walky Squawky@walkysquawky.com · last mo.

Thanks for those that came to our panel at Aurawra @aurawra.org to learn more about game development! Those that did even got to glimpse some insider looks at our currently in-development title; Your Party Blows Ass! We hope you had as much fun as we did!

Walky Squawky@walkysquawky.com · last mo.

Thanks for those that came to our panel at Aurawra @aurawra.org to learn more about game development! Those that did even got to glimpse some insider looks at our currently in-development title; Your Party Blows Ass! We hope you had as much fun as we did!

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Walky Squawky@walkysquawky.com · 2mo ago

We’re happy to announce that we're working on our first game; Your Party Blows Ass! We’ll be sharing much more in the months to come, so keep an eye out. ;>

A Banner image for Walky Squawky's first game; Your Party Blows Ass. On the left is the player character; An anthropomorphic Black Dingo character wields and irridescent glowing sword. They're facing away from the camera, towards a large and imposing looking scarecrow creature. The title is in the centre of the screen, between the two figures.
✨𝓒𝓱𝓮𝓵 ✨🔞@cawbaret.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I’m not seeing people talk about the closure of Divine Playhouse. An arts hub for queer community, shutdown days after opening because of religious extremists once again attacking queer spaces and people. In trying to preserve a church you’ve quickened the process of turning it into apartments??

Tallow@tallow.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Keen for Aurawra next weekend! @aurawra.org If you're there, I'll be hosting a talk about game development, on Sunday at 12 I'll be discussing how to get into Game Dev, some of the learnings from my journey with @walkysquawky.com as well as wisdom I've collected from Game Dev veterans!

✨𝓒𝓱𝓮𝓵 ✨🔞@cawbaret.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Duckie passed away today. I’m not sure how, we found him when we went to get everyone moved to new place. He just turned 8. Everything is a little duller without him, I miss him so so much. Cherry misses him too I think. Going to get him and Cookie to the vets just to be safe. Sorry Duck-butt 🍉

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Robert Yang@radiatoryang.bsky.social · 3mo ago

cool paper arguing LLMs can be implemented as a shitload of goats in Age of Empires II... thus it'd be silly to assume / project human-like consciousness onto it

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Matthew Sheffield@matthew.flux.community · 3mo ago

This paper doesn't use the term "intentional stance," but it does really expose that imputation of consciousness is an act by the observer that's usually not based on dispassionate analysis of the observed's internal structures. It's just vibes, and those aren't sufficient. arxiv.org/pdf/2605.31514

Much research has been carried out on large language models (LLMs) and LLMpowered agentic workflows. However, many works within the field state emergence of, ascribe to, or assume, generalised anthropomorphic attributes to them (e.g., morality or understanding of natural language). Our goal is not to argue in favour or against the existence of these attributes, but to point out that these conclusions could be incorrect. For this we build and train a simple neural network on the videogame Age of Empires II, and note that any entity in a sufficiently-powerful substrate, such as LEGO or the Greater Boston Area, could also present such attributes. Hence, the purported anthropomorphic attributes of LLMs are empirically non-unique: although some properties (e.g., responses to prompts) could remain constant, others, such as the interpretation of their perceived behaviour, might change with the substrate. Thus, any empirically-grounded discussion requires explicit measurement criteria; otherwise the interpretation is left to the representation. We then show that assuming that these attributes exist or not in a system, independent of the substrate and in a generalised way, leads to either circular or uninformative conclusions, regardless of the experimenter’s viewpoint on the subject. Finally we propose a ‘null’ assumption, where one assumes LLM non-uniqueness instead of assuming anthropomorphic attributes to set up an experiment, along with examples of it. We also discuss potential objections to our work, briefly survey the field, and prove that Age of Empires II is functionally- and Turing-complete.
Zen@beak.zone · 3mo ago

ACHILLEAN MONUMENT. For all the world's a stage and I am the beast who took theater in highschool to meet boys.

My fursona stands against a light purple background, looking at his bare chest which is painted with the MLM pride colours.
Tallow@tallow.bsky.social · 6mo ago

I am a dev currently working in Godot on a game we are taking to full production. It's a brilliant engine, but you can definitely tell it's young software. It's on a fantastic path to become a truly excellent engine, and it is VERY capable, but it's not the solution for every problem unity has.

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Tallow@tallow.bsky.social · 6mo ago

I think one of the key failings where we're not investing in or caring for people is the dire lack of mentoring and knowledge share initiatives. Passing on "the knowledge" is an indescribable value of human connection, culture, and growth that is slowly being lost. Share knowledge with peers!

✨𝓒𝓱𝓮𝓵 ✨🔞@cawbaret.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Will take a lil to unpack it all, appreciate everyone who checked in after! Called nurse mum when we got back to the hotel, helped to chat about it! The guy was alert and sitting in the ambulance as we left so he will be ok most likely, he was extremely lucky how he fell and that we were there!!

Tallow@tallow.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Had a fun, if challenging, visit to MFC Sorry to peeps we saw on Sunday, Chel and I were a bit rattled Sat night as we were getting off the train someone got clipped by the train and hit their head on the platform HARD Chel's first aid training kicked in and saved the dude but we were a bit shaken

Tallow@tallow.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Had a fun, if challenging, visit to MFC Sorry to peeps we saw on Sunday, Chel and I were a bit rattled Sat night as we were getting off the train someone got clipped by the train and hit their head on the platform HARD Chel's first aid training kicked in and saved the dude but we were a bit shaken