“[T]he developers are testing it on Annie, Zach Adams' wife. After a failed
attempt with an earlier version, the latest tutorial took Annie far enough to
where she could ‘tunnel under a bog and drown her fortress.’ Presumably, that
is good.”
posted 10/30/2022 8:00pm ∞
“[I]t was common for deepfake audio to result in vocal tracts with the same
relative diameter and consistency as a drinking straw, in contrast to human
vocal tracts, which are much wider and more variable in shape.”
posted 10/14/2022 8:00pm ∞
“There’s another previously underserved audience that’s responded to Wingspan :
women. Stegmaier doesn’t have gender breakdowns of who’s purchased Wingspan ,
but he does note that the game’s official Facebook group is 40 percent women —
which may not sound particularly high, but the group for Stonemaier’s other
bestselling game, Scythe, is 90 percent men.”
“For years, Judy Malloy would not get the credit she deserved for being one of
the earliest pioneers of ‘electronic literature,’ as the literary hypertext
movement came to be called: pieces by men writing later became more famous and
better-studied.”
Aaron A. Reed ,
1986: Uncle Roger
(50 Years of Text Games April 22, 2021 )
posted 4/24/2021 8:41pm ∞
“It might be embarrassing today to admit that I learned my first bits of English
from the three volumes of the adventures of Larry, a game series that even back
then wasn’t particularly respectable. But this was the only such game I knew,
school in 1989 was still exclusively into Russian.”
posted 3/28/2021 9:17pm ∞