New Release: Magpie (v0.2 - Joy). Magpie is a visual livecoding tool made in Picotron! Some changes in 0.2: 🔮 Dive into past code with Code Explorer 🎨 Lots of new functions to call and play with 🙋 Improved controls and help text 📚 Documentation website! Get it here: illomens.itch.io/magpie

I just recorded a backup version of the talk for Saturday and this is a weird one, as I wanted, but I do really love it and I really hope you love it too. It'll also be on YouTube after if you can't catch it live! I'm also giving a super-extended version at ITU Copenhagen later this month.

ROCKSTAR UPDATE: The employment tribunal is no longer going to finish this Friday, as initially planned. The closing submissions from both sides will instead take place next month, with a further two tribunal dates now having been scheduled in Glasgow for the 17th and 18th November.

Do you think this is better or worse in terms of the timing around the game’s release?

This is nothing, I am so tired.

Blade Runner is set in 2019 in Los Angeles and features flying cars, which were not available on the west coast until late 2022.

Do you love folk tales? Join me this winter as we play a story not unlike Alice in Wonderland where YOU get to be the magical helper friend. Bonus points if you choose a creature from your own culture that few people would know about 🧚🏻

Genuinely terrifying idea but then I think about the median graduate from my CS degree year and…

That's ok, we plan to gradually scale down the number of polygons allowed in games over time, to allow for a smooth transition.

Important thread about some behind-the-scenes discussion in the IGF regarding AI, and the broader moment of what it means to want or not want to use AI right now.

haha yeah great point! good one. yeah no absolutely. hey could you wait right there for a sec while i cancel my internet contract and delete every account i have on every website and then destroy all my computers i own and all ways of receiving electronic communications from the outside world? perf.

between the ages of like 11 and 30 my understanding of pokemon was "cute animal rpg" and then since then i just keep learning stuff like "there's a pokemon that abducts kids" and "the sandbox crafting game lets you build a cia blacksite"

On the other hand, very little would surprise me these days I suppose.

This one feels pretty hard to believe. I have met some of the most AI-pilled people you can imagine, and I don't think even the most extreme of them would attempt to do something like this, even at their most unstable. I'm not even sure what it means.

... roko's health insurance?