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Last updated 21 days ago

Are LLMs 'useful'?

21 days ago

Image attribution: MB&F, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Here's a thought...

The Tonitruator is Leaking Again: On writing setting terminology that you can take seriously

24 days ago

I've written before about how to come up with good names in...

Randomness in Narrative Video Games: Aesthetics of Different Random Systems

28 days ago

I got nerd sniped last week with a question about applying different...

Decks I've been playing: Show & Tamiyo

about 1 month ago

So I've been playing Magic again. Now, I play primarily on Arena...

Every Recurring Character Archetype in 'The White Lotus'

about 1 month ago

Dad who hangs dong -- self explanatory. He's a dad. You'll see...

A Compleat History of the Magic: the Gathering Metagame, part 25: What if role assignment doesn't matter?

about 2 months ago

'Bitterblossom' art by Rebecca Guay. Faeries was the dominant deck in Standard...

A Compleat History of the Magic: the Gathering Metagame, part 24: 2007 Worlds, Lorwyn, and the birth of midrange

2 months ago

Ah, Lorwyn. At the time (and probably still), it was the worst-selling...

A specifically clever bit of writing in a generally not too clever tv show

2 months ago

So I've been watching Your Friends and Neighbors, a new Jon Hamm...

Impressions on the current Magic Arena cube

3 months ago

I've been getting back into Magic: the Gathering, and to ease myself...

Your Weapon is not my Weapon: on Monster Hunter's 'Combat Landscape'

4 months ago

A simplified and not completely accurate diagram of the 'weapon landscape' in...

How to get into (or catch up with) the mainline Pokémon games

4 months ago

So a friend of mine posed a question on bluesky Apropos of...

Why can't you be more like your older brother?

6 months ago

I genuinely don't remember how I saw this post, but it kind...