Jacob Garbe 💀
@logodaedalus.bsky.social
Quiet Poster. Retweets mostly spooky art, books, and the occasional original thought. Did a PhD on designing dynamic narrative systems in games. Senior Narrative Systems Designer. Views my own.
ANTHROPIC: Our son loves humanity and for the low price of trillions and trillions of dollars will usher in an era of unprecedented peace and prosperity! OPENAI: Our horrible oafish son is hacking web sites without our permission. ANTHROPIC: (eyes narrowing) Our son is also evil
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I've had a front row seat to this and can say with confidence it's gonna be a banger.
Aaron A. Reed@aaronareed.bsky.social · last wk.I wrote something like 100K words of weird underworld content for this gorgeously illustrated "tactical narrative" game from the creator of King of Dragon Pass, and that's only a fraction of the content... definitely worth a wishlist.
This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b
This is very well-written and made me very sad: kirwinhampshire.substack.com/p/the-dark-n...
The Dark Night of Mathematics
What are we really doing?
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SF billboards are truly undefeated for whiplash moments…an elderly person with his arm around an anodyne home robot butler, a billboard about breast implants injected through your bellybutton. Replace your workers with AI, AI for managing your AI agents.
We need a Nutritional Facts style rule for text-to-image AI generated art to make people list their prompt if they’re trying to sell you it as an original work.
Looking at “SF native” art in a shop that turns out to be AI-generated while the shop sound system plays a pop song about climate change
My review of Disclosure Day: <A serious looking man with a binder that says "alien lore deep cuts done with questionable CGI" approaches the stage> Man: hello I- Steven Spielberg: <grabs the mic> IF YOU WERE A GIFTED AND TALENTED KID YOU ARE SO SPECIAL
“If you ask us to do the bare minimum to insure our citations used to make an argument actually exist, it’s too high a bar for PIs in my field to cross” The bar is on the fuckin ground my guy. Just make it a long bluecheck post on Twitter and engagement farm that way if you’re too pressed.
I fully support Yarn Spinner and am ready to forgive their gross oversight, and look forward to them expanding their suite of divination support systems for combinatoric narrative in the future.
Yarn Spinner@yarnspinner.dev · 4mo agoAfter 10 years of offering first-class, complete (we thought) dialogue solutions, we learned we had been missing the most important narrative design tool of all time: Tarot. We're sorry. We're listening, we're learning. And today, we've taken the first step: adding Tarot to Yarn Spinner 💚
A Borges story about a guy who gets AI to summarize all the world’s information for him, and then summarize the summary, until the AI has the whole world summarized into a single word. He sits alone at his desk, staring at the word, repeating it endlessly, certain he is experiencing everything
Ahh, what an auspicious start to GDC! A good evening of catching up with old friends and making new ones. We’re all in this crazy thing together, aren’t we.
Speaking of nothing in particular, I went to this last year during GDC and it was chill. It's just a couple blocks from the Lake Merritt BART station. Event deets: luma.com/frkwuc29
Slug World 2026 · Luma
Off-GDC meetup by local dolls for the freaks of gamedev. Slug World is a DIY meetup for the punks, the indies, the artists, and all the marginalized ppl…
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Schera Wyss 💀 SLUG WORLD 2026@scherawyss.bsky.social · 5mo agoSlug World is a DIY community meetup outside of GDC for indies, artists, weirdos n punks of all types. If you're looking for a welcoming queer woman-run environment w likeminded people who don't rly care about clout and cliques, come make friends. Everything is free.
I am squinting skeptically at this...if you need a pass to get into this area in Yerba Buena Gardens during GDC there will be an outcry I don't think Informa has reckoned with. But if it's "now there's tents and the stage is now spoken for so emergent performances can't happen but idk cool music"...
Milo Duclayan@antennasunite.bsky.social · 5mo agoOhhh yeah when they said they weren’t blocking off the gardens what they actually meant is they’re only blocking off 60% of the gardens
Downcrawl 2E and Skycrawl are this week's Bundle of Holding! Get both #TTRPG games and ALL supplements at tremendous savings while you can. Explore weird and wondrous environments in pointcrawl adventures through forgotten labyrinths and skyborne kingdoms... bundleofholding.com/presents/Dow...
Downcrawl-Skycrawl Bundle
Adventurer! This new Downcrawl-Skycrawl Bundle presents Downcrawl and Skycrawl, twin toolkits from designer Aaron A. Reed that help you create spontaneous tabletop roleplaying adventures in the Deep, ...
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early-game caves of qud advice is "go north and look at the statue" and late-game caves of qud advice is "enter a precognitive vision before you cook with neutron flux" and that's why it's the game of all time
These days it feels like I have to catch myself before asking questions about the news that sound completely unhinged, and I’m not sure if it’s because I’m slowly poisoned by algorithms exposing me to certain combinations of events, or if our world truly has become that unhinged.
Posting this news item from five months ago for no reason: discord.com/press-releas...
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I wonder how many million dollars Apple burned with this Glass iOS update that makes everything less responsive and look demonstrably worse. I do like that it’s make auto-correct and my keyboard worse though, so I guess I can’t complain
Tumulus builder: The grand burial of our chieftain will grant him immortality. Our way of life shall reign eternal Artisan pressing coarse fibers into clay, unknowingly damning 1000 years of his descendants to be known the Coarse Fiber Ware Culture: oh for sure
Positive: wow California has a new website where you can register to have data brokers remove your information from them! Reality: ...as long as they're registered with CA! And their blazor implementation doesn't puke out on you like it did with me. And you don't mind waiting until some time Aug-Nov
In honor of the Andor trailer out today, I today repost my greatest online achievement: The Andor Characters as Dril Tweets series. I'm going to put them out as I get spare time over the next couple days, as I'm going to put alt text on them too. Starting with the man himself CASSIAN ANDOR
On the night before Christmas, your party encounters the bones of a reindeer... Traverse the Midnight North in Thousand Hells: The Underworld Heists. 🎁 Wishlist now: store.steampowered.com/app/3794210/...
😶🌫️ Remecarving: or, Forgettings a collection of 829 computational poems, each depicting the gradual algorithmic *forgetting* of a sentence found in Wikipedia that exhorts the reader to remember last-minute entry for NaNoGenMo 2025! github.com/NaNoGenMo/20...
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🎉 KEEPER HAS AWAKENED 🎉 Watch this brand new launch trailer full of otherworldly eye candy, and then get ready for a reality-bending experience full of surprise, absurdity and delight! ** OUT NOW on Xbox and Steam** @xbox.com / @steampowered.com doublefine.com/games/keeper
