About to light the Forge to finish the remaining Warlord for Legio Gryohonicus. A quite cathartic paint pot sorting session first however! #WarhammerCommunity #AdeptusTitanicus #Wargaming
Gav Thorpe
@gavthorpe.bsky.social
New York Times Bestselling Author, world creator, consultant and games developer specialising in SF and Fantasy. Proud daddy. Whitecishet. He / him.
This is part of a larger research project at Lancaster University exploring perceptions of fantasy fiction. Our first stop will be 24th October 2-3.30 at The Games Emporium in Mansfield. Stay posted for more visits!
We’re researching fantasy settings for science! Thanks to support from @britishacademy.bsky.social & @artscouncilengland.bsky.social, @gavthorpe.bsky.social & I will be visiting local gaming clubs on 24th October with our mini postbox where you can share your thoughts on fantasy settings :-)
Regular Reminder: The Guardian is in a commercial relationship with OpenAI.
Rob Beschizza@beschizza.com · 3h agoWell this turns out to be misleading! The LLM was used to rewrite human-written stories in commercial registers ("literary magazine", "published short story collection"). You'd have to read supplemental materials from a zip fle to know that was the methodology. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Well this turns out to be misleading! The LLM was used to rewrite human-written stories in commercial registers ("literary magazine", "published short story collection"). You'd have to read supplemental materials from a zip fle to know that was the methodology. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
AI-generated stories rated better quality than human-written ones, study finds
Researcher says simpler writing by AI is easier to read and digest, but this does not mean human authors are obsolete
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Right now anyone can learn to write or create art. The price of admission is incredibly, super-duper low. Don't have a computer? You can write or draw on paper. Yes, it takes time to learn how to tell good stories or create compelling art, but there is no gatekeeper. 3/
We are live! Celebrating 20 years of Dwarf Fortress! ⚒️ Witness Tarn and Zach travel back in time to the original build of the game! With special guests and more! You won't want to miss this. 🥳 www.twitch.tv/kitfoxgames 👈️
I always find it funny to table the most tonally inconsistent stuff at game night. (THE GUERRILLA GENERATION and BABA IS YOU)
This is the future liberals want
Food, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.
Here’s the latest stop motion animation from my Tiny Angry Witch team. (I’m the writer, I can’t take credit for the animating!) It’s one of our longest, and it nearly drove us all mad, but we’re really proud of getting it made! 1 x Tiny Angry Witch 1 x broom No AI
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I'm not sure why we're posting about ai but I don't use AI in my writing, in my cover art, etc. I've had every feature that could automatically modify text in Word turned off for decades, and AI is just more of the same. Every edit lovingly done by hand.
Weird how the dogshit austerity fiscal rules are a red line but things like environmental protection and stopping domestic violence aren't
Lucy Fisher@lucyfisher.ft.com · yesterdayEXC: UK govt is “stripping back” onerous public procurement rules in pro-growth shake up of system, Louise Haigh tells FT Overhaul will make job creation/skills development the only ‘social value’ requirement for biz competing for Whitehall contracts worth £90bn annually www.ft.com/content/9878...
The EHRC guidance slipped its way into law by default overnight. Do not self-police and do not let toilet weirdos and changing room weirdos dictate how you go about your life.
It does still surprise me that people get so bent out of shape over the four seconds in each video where I say 'Hello and welcome to a very special How I Paint Things.' My guy. The rest of the 30s to a minute of intro are usually what the miniature is, where to find it, or similar. Relax.
Direct, full-time jobs opening Rosebank oilfield would create: 450 D, f-t jobs opening Jackdaw gasfield would create: 27 D, f-t jobs in UK's net-zero economy: 300,000 + 400,000 more on the way D, f-t jobs in the rest of the green economy: 600,000 Is that really the hill Burnham wants to die on?
Revealed: major oil firms make $93bn profits amid war and #climatecrisis That’s $700,000 a minute Iran conflict windfall over 3 months reignites calls for companies ‘cashing in on human misery’ to pay for environmental damage Story by Jillian Ambrose and me www.theguardian.com/business/ng-...
Revealed: major oil firms make $93bn profits amid war and climate crisis
Iran conflict windfall over three months reignites calls for companies ‘cashing in on human misery’ to pay for environmental damage
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I dunno maybe on the week when the River Danube dries out it's a bad time to roll back on Net Zero But I'm not a big shot Labour politician
I don't think anyone envisaged the day that the worlds of national shed competitions and nerd wargaming would collide, but here we are! Seriously inspirational on so many fronts, and Otty seems such a lovely guy. Well worth a watch! youtu.be/ZSVpTdYr7bE?...
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The water in our house is out and it's absolutely incredible scenes from Thames Water, with their WhatsApp customer service down and only a FB AI chatbox for company
Leaders of flag-raising group Raise the Colours Oxfordshire placed trackers on highway workers’ cars to find out their home addresses, the High Court has heard. RTC then attempted to intimidate the highway staff into no longer removing flags by repeating their addresses to them.
Honestly, I can't bear to see another AI poster for local events. What happened to a good old, badly laid out word doc? I even feel a pang of nostalgia for a bit of Wing Dings or Comic Sans. Better that than this mindless crap.
This will probably be the most normal-looking War Dog I'm gonna do
Aasa T 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸@rosgakori.bsky.social · yesterdayGuess I'll give this 11th edition a whirl
Bede's World! Bede's World! Party time! Venerable!
Okay so we move it to a small town in Nevada--stay with me--sharks are overdone these days so we are gonna change it to uhh land sharks. But we don't wanna be Sharknado so, like, worms? And its a small isolated town so they can't go get help. And for the big name? I'm thinking Kevin Bacon.
weinberg@weinbergs.bsky.social · 7mo agolet's pretend: Universal announces a screenwriting contest for Jaws 5. What's your pitch?