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Is there a recentish list of interactive fiction games (broadly construed) that use "storylets" as their primary architecture? Or just recommendations for storylet games you've played and liked? (Emily Short's definition of storylets, for those who have no idea what I'm talking about: https://emshort.blog/2019/11/29/storylets-you-want-them/ )
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@darius My Six Ages and the upcoming Six Ages 2 are storylets that can interact with a time element and can connect via the political and economic systems https://sixages.com @darius @radiofreelunch aren't you using a storylet-like system with your folk, @joningold @darius Is it okay to recommend games that I made? Most of my games are storylet-based, and The Archivist and the Revolution is the most recent. https://red-autumn.itch.io/archivist Also Bee by Emily Short is one of my favorites https://inthewalls.itch.io/bee @darius I had a ratty third hand copy of a book with “raise high trbc” and “Sebastian” … it was awesome… i was shooketh etc…. I wrote a story, while riding the high of reading that, wrote it in a yellow notebook with green pen — but I lost my notebook, and lost the book … still bitter bitter Oh hey, Friend Camp turns 5 years old this week. Proud of this little place :AngelDevil: :diogenes: :2vast: :ouroboros_smile:
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Here's a World Wide Web tip: If someone posts about how they hate when people reply a certain way to their posts, do not reply in the way they dislike but with a winky disclaimer that you are in the know and aren't really doing it. I used to do this myself and it turns out it does not actually build rapport like you think it does. (If you respond to this post in a winky self referential way I will mute you forever.)
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 @darius That is actually a good wisdom. On reflection, I've probably done that myself more than a few times.  @darius one of my favorite internet people, Alex Steacy, got so fed up with people doing this to him that he made a comic out of it. Came across this article about an early online gay community founded 40 years ago "The soc.motss name was purposely sort of opaque so as to not raise homophobic admins' eyebrows." https://enervatron.blogspot.com/2023/02/40-years-ago-socmotss-was-newgroupd.html @darius A while back I dug into the origins, IIRC I found an archive of Usenet control messages or something like that, and it looked like net.motss (as it was before the Great Renaming) had to be newgroup'ed twice because a rogue admin deleted it after the first one. Unfortunately I don't think I had the presence of mind to save info on that for future reference. @darius I remember that; I had the name explained to me by my boss at the time. (Dave, I think?) Was reminded of my old bot that generated random titles and covers for the Verso Radical Thinkers series. This was a pretty good one   "We spent the last two decades answering a question — what would happen if you put everyone on the planet into a room and let them all talk to each other?" https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/3/23782607/social-web-public-apps-end-reddit-twitter-mastodon
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  @darius I'm pretty happy with the smaller, easier to talk in room that Mastodon is. Like moving from a huge hotel bar to a neighborhood bar.  - decent human being ...pick two I guess
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 @darius this is a serious risk called "recursive pollution." See https://berryvilleiml.com/results/BIML-LLM24.pdf Today a website for dads told me that the Beastie Boys album Hello Nasty is 25 years old this month :blobsobglasses: https://www.fatherly.com/entertainment/hello-nasty-retrospective-july-1998
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 @darius The one time I saw them live, it was while they were promoting Hello Nasty. They played T in the Park, a music festival in Scotland. I'm old.  @darius I made a "No Sleep til Brooklyn" reference the other day to my driving cross country child. That's song is turning 37 this year @darius that'll be that modern music that I don't hold with. (I seem to go back about 40 years.) Jagged Alliance 3 came out today so now seems like a good time to promote the book I wrote about Jagged Alliance 2. *clears throat* Roughly ten years ago I wrote a book about the 1999 PC strategy game Jagged Alliance 2 and you can purchase it here: https://bossfightbooks.com/products/jagged-alliance-2-by-darius-kazemi
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@darius hey man, I had a gamedev blog you knew of back around '06 called "Shoelace Shader guy" and you remembered that when we met up at GDC later. Anyway I've pinged you via your contact from but I'm not sure if that's even connected to an email you check anymore but you seem active here. I'm reaching out on behalf of Intel (though it was my idea) to have you on a separate show talked about JA with other Intel employee JA nerds, ideally while their current giveaway is still running ;) @darius also I vaguely recall contacting you again at the time you either announced the book or after I read it via the Boss Fight Humble Bundle (was the highlight for sure, the first main reason I picked it up) and yeah it was great. PS I just rebought JA2 again so I could try out the JA2 Vengeance mod which integrates both WF and JA1 mercs, new portraits + new towns and story. Practically a sequel in its own right. Bit overwhelmed by it now in a good way. Looking forward to ur JA3 thoughts The framing of what a Threads account *is* strikes me as a funny thing. Meta is saying "Threads is the fastest growing app in history with 100M users in five days". This doesn't make a lot of sense when you consider that a Threads account *is* an Instagram account. If you accept that Instagram has 2 billion active non-EU users, the story could easily be "Only 5% of eligible Instagram users opted in to Threads in five days".
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 @darius Next episode on “two lawyers and four lines”: if threads is a feature, does that make it legal in the EU? @darius It's true because nothing about Threads is unusual, original, or innovative. To be honest, neither was Facebook. @darius finally someone says this and it gets heard. “…but did they get any **actual** new users or did they already have these users who are now trying this new feature they segmented and branded as an app?” They are new to the thing they made, but they aren’t new to their social network. It’s like if someone moved from one Fedi instance to another and we counted that as a new user.
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@darius love/hate it/you! 😜 I think the only way for me to stop playing it will be to burn it together with my phone  Random idea I haven't thought through at all yet: a twist on allowlist based federation, designed for small invite only servers. Admins could tag an individual remote server X and apply a special rule like: we reject all messages from them to start, as though the whole server were blocked. As individuals on our server follow specific accounts on server X, those accounts can now receive and maybe even boost messages from us. I dunno. Call it "threaderation"? :AngelDevil:
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  @darius really love the idea of breaking out of this binary thinking, and there are some great replies that make me have some hope that this may be the third path that has the right balance. some sort of Threads "condom" that protects community interests in the fediverse but still allows *some* flow of intentional information between the servers  Hi #hometown admins! To keep us up to date with this morning's Mastodon security patches I have released Hometown v1.1.1+4.0.6: https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown/releases/tag/v4.0.6%2Bhometown-1.1.1 (This is a second release in two days, containing further bugfixes released by the Mastodon team.) I'll have a backport for people running the older Hometown version 1.0.8+3.5.5 later today when I'm not stuck on my phone at an airport. Thank you @jasmin and @misty for your help!!
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@darius got the update running well on niagara.social. Really quite lost on how to actually find the nginx config file that to add those hardening lines to though (using proxyed external object storage). Any ideas #mastoadmin ? Hello again #hometown admins -- there was a bug in Mastodon's security patch that caused issues in the admin panel when viewing remote accounts. They released a fix about 15 minutes ago and I am working to get a Hometown release with that fix very soon. You can follow me on Threads as tinysubversions. I'm looking forward to figuring out interoperability with them. I'm also looking forward to figuring out ways to keep people safe from them. I'm also looking forward to figuring out if this server is going to defederate from them. (We might! We will have a discussion and take a vote.)
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Lol federation aside the site is showing me mostly content from people I don't follow so uh don't expect me on there very much  @darius I'd love to see something like List behavior for selected servers. Makes something like a sandbox for posts originating from Threads (or wherever) so it shows up in a separate column on Advanced View. Tangent: Would also love being able to add people I don't follow to lists as on Twitter. Useful for noisy accounts that I don't want in my main feed. |
Like it was very obvious to me even as someone who just followed her work via social media that the world was better for her being in it