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Joshua Grams

@joshgrams.bsky.social

Organic farmer, programmer, hobby gamedev, etc.

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Joshua Grams@joshgrams.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I'm only a quarter of the way through, but what a banger of a book. Dense academic prose interspersed with everyday examples for understanding, amusement, and surprise. Bravo. Pity it's > $100, but I that's academic publishing for you.

The cover of Priority & Prejudice: The Epistemology of Salience & Attention, by Jessie Munton. Looking almost like a nebula, I assume it's a network visualization: a nearly black background with clouds of colored points of light. The title is centered in a black box with an orangey-gold border. I was doing an art project so I made some white paper "flowers" as a contrast against the color of the cover.
Joshua Grams@joshgrams.bsky.social · 6mo ago

This is why I basically never review; I'm almost entirely interested in what doesn't work, or how they could be better. And when buying, I know if I'm interested; I'm asking if a game does things that hit my pet peeves: so positive reviews are almost 100% useless and I only read the negative ones.

Mike Bithell@mikebithell.bsky.social · 6mo ago

RE that RT.. it’s wild how steam reviews are still so damn important to getting visibility. If you play and like indie games, the most generous and helpful thing you can do is spend an hour popping positive reviews onto anything you like with <500 or so reviews.

Joshua Grams@joshgrams.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Ugh. We're supposed to get freezing rain and wintry mix tonight into tomorrow ...at 20F/-7C. Weird weather. Also man, that last snow storm: sounds like southern Maine got 2 feet. By the time it got to us we got less than 7 inches. Not that I'm complaining too hard, but... c'mon, winter!

Joshua Grams@joshgrams.bsky.social · 10mo ago

The farm takes most of my interest in reliability and responsibility, so my hobby time is usually chaos, but... I've been self-indulgently tempted to make an #InteractiveFiction engine for at least 15 years now and I'm hoping to focus on that for the last three months of the year.

Joshua Grams@joshgrams.bsky.social · 10mo ago

I did extensive Twine gardening on William Rous's Type Help, finally putting timecode on the y-axis and intended deduction progress on the x. Pretty cool how it's almost like a gauntlet structure, but for a totally different purpose (give some freedom while controlling the possibility space).

A bumpy diagonal spread of boxes representing the "files" in Type Help, slanting down from the top left to bottom right. They're linked with curving arrows representing possible deductions. In some places there are vertical sprays of boxes extending upwards where someone tells us about a bunch of past events.
Joshua Grams@joshgrams.bsky.social · last yr.

‪@philippawarr.bsky.social‬ I *just* realized that this is the year the book amnesty took place (hopefully you're not utterly fed up with people pointing this out already). Thanks for all the delightful captions!

Messy stacks of books on a museum plinth on a painterly island in the middle of the ocean, with a plaque reading Unread Books: To ease their collective angst, humans held an I-want-to-be-the-kind-of-person-who-reads-this-but-it-turns-out-I'm-not-and-I-feel-bad book amnesty in 2025. The move freed up 9.38 square kilometers of bedside table surface space. (from the game A Monster's Expedition through Puzzling Exhibitions).