“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.”
“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 ∞
“The concern trolling book lovers miss the point that other people’s bookshelves
don’t exist to please or displease them: they exist because the owner of the
rainbow shelves likes their books to be that way.”
posted 3/28/2021 8:47pm ∞
“Over time, it became a master at [Diplomacy ], reportedly achieving ‘more than
double the average score’ of human players and ranking in the top
10 percent of people who played more than one game.”
(Andy Baio
adds
“building extremely persuasive AI s that are more effective
negotiators than humans, what could go wrong”.)
posted 12/3/2022 8:00pm ∞
“Ogbogu wasn’t familiar with Hollie Mengert’s work at all. He was helping
another Stable Diffusion user on Reddit who was struggling to fine-tune a model
on Hollie’s work and getting lackluster results. He refined the image training
set, got to work, and published the results the following day. He told me the
training process took about 2.5 hours on a GPU at Vast.ai,
and cost less than $2.”
posted 11/19/2022 8:00pm ∞