Philip Eloy
@aegixdrakan.bsky.social
Narrative Designer for Nine Dots Studios, your friendly neighborhood "Ace", and lover of puns.
I make little RPGs as a hobby, you can find them for free here:
https://aegix-drakan.itch.io/
I make little RPGs as a hobby, you can find them for free here:
https://aegix-drakan.itch.io/
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It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 12:19 PM
It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.
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While AI scrape-bots steal years of my hard work (and that of so many of my contemporaries), watched lawsuits about ChatGPT assisting suicidal folks with how to off themselves, every art space flooded with garbage, and seeing water and electricity soaked up by datacentres to prop this up: STOP. PLS.
November 24, 2025 at 10:33 PM
While AI scrape-bots steal years of my hard work (and that of so many of my contemporaries), watched lawsuits about ChatGPT assisting suicidal folks with how to off themselves, every art space flooded with garbage, and seeing water and electricity soaked up by datacentres to prop this up: STOP. PLS.
So you're telling me that due to AI bullshit, the price of Ram has, in some cases, damn near tripled?!
All to fuel slop machines, plagiarism engines, deepfake distributors and literal "glaze you so hard you might lose your mind" chatbots?!
Gods, I shoulda' upgraded a year ago.
All to fuel slop machines, plagiarism engines, deepfake distributors and literal "glaze you so hard you might lose your mind" chatbots?!
Gods, I shoulda' upgraded a year ago.
a panda bear is sitting on the ground looking at something .
ALT: a panda bear is sitting on the ground looking at something .
media.tenor.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:58 PM
So you're telling me that due to AI bullshit, the price of Ram has, in some cases, damn near tripled?!
All to fuel slop machines, plagiarism engines, deepfake distributors and literal "glaze you so hard you might lose your mind" chatbots?!
Gods, I shoulda' upgraded a year ago.
All to fuel slop machines, plagiarism engines, deepfake distributors and literal "glaze you so hard you might lose your mind" chatbots?!
Gods, I shoulda' upgraded a year ago.
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Capitalism is its own worst enemy as it ostensibly reqs. a robust & eager-to-spend consumer base in order to thrive, yet it’s simultaneously incentivized to financially asphyxiate that same consumer-base w/ suppressed compensation + maximized costs, thereby basically killing off its own food source.
November 24, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Capitalism is its own worst enemy as it ostensibly reqs. a robust & eager-to-spend consumer base in order to thrive, yet it’s simultaneously incentivized to financially asphyxiate that same consumer-base w/ suppressed compensation + maximized costs, thereby basically killing off its own food source.
I really did not need to burn my fingers on a grill thingy today.
Fortunately, not a really bad burn, but enough to still hurt.
Fortunately, not a really bad burn, but enough to still hurt.
November 22, 2025 at 11:53 PM
I really did not need to burn my fingers on a grill thingy today.
Fortunately, not a really bad burn, but enough to still hurt.
Fortunately, not a really bad burn, but enough to still hurt.
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Excellent speech by @charliejane.bsky.social about imagination in service to society. Great stuff.
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November 22, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Excellent speech by @charliejane.bsky.social about imagination in service to society. Great stuff.
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buttondown.com/charliejane/...
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It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
November 21, 2025 at 12:49 PM
It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Man, it would be nice if random problems could just stop happening? XD
November 21, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Man, it would be nice if random problems could just stop happening? XD
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My most woke opinion is that the whole point of society is to collectively help each other. My taxes should be going towards housing and feeding everyone. No one should be without food or shelter. Rich people should be contributing more towards this. It shouldn't even be controversial!
November 20, 2025 at 12:58 PM
My most woke opinion is that the whole point of society is to collectively help each other. My taxes should be going towards housing and feeding everyone. No one should be without food or shelter. Rich people should be contributing more towards this. It shouldn't even be controversial!
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psst, no one is struggling with this - we are trying to create singular things that resonate with a huge audience or resonate hugely with a specific audience. We "struggle" with how tech and VC funding has broken almost every creative economy we have. So thanks but no thanks
November 19, 2025 at 11:54 PM
psst, no one is struggling with this - we are trying to create singular things that resonate with a huge audience or resonate hugely with a specific audience. We "struggle" with how tech and VC funding has broken almost every creative economy we have. So thanks but no thanks
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This is...sort of brilliant.
November 19, 2025 at 12:56 PM
This is...sort of brilliant.
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every author in the class action, please file the claim.
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:41 AM
every author in the class action, please file the claim.
Spring: Bus is nearly empty.
Summer: Bus is nearly empty.
Fall: Bus is nearly empty.
The moment there's a snowfall: Bus is packed, no seats available. Soon as there's lots of snow, you're literally squeezed in.
Why is this??? There ain't that many cyclists in this city!
Summer: Bus is nearly empty.
Fall: Bus is nearly empty.
The moment there's a snowfall: Bus is packed, no seats available. Soon as there's lots of snow, you're literally squeezed in.
Why is this??? There ain't that many cyclists in this city!
November 18, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Spring: Bus is nearly empty.
Summer: Bus is nearly empty.
Fall: Bus is nearly empty.
The moment there's a snowfall: Bus is packed, no seats available. Soon as there's lots of snow, you're literally squeezed in.
Why is this??? There ain't that many cyclists in this city!
Summer: Bus is nearly empty.
Fall: Bus is nearly empty.
The moment there's a snowfall: Bus is packed, no seats available. Soon as there's lots of snow, you're literally squeezed in.
Why is this??? There ain't that many cyclists in this city!
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authors you have the chance to do the funniest thing right now
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:35 AM
authors you have the chance to do the funniest thing right now
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WHAT ANNOYING GUYS THINK SUN TZU'S ART OF WAR SAYS: show everyone in every single situation you're the big dog, literally bark in your bosses face to assert dominance
ACTUAL SUN TZU: no but seriously you do have to feed your army
ACTUAL SUN TZU: no but seriously you do have to feed your army
November 18, 2025 at 12:53 AM
WHAT ANNOYING GUYS THINK SUN TZU'S ART OF WAR SAYS: show everyone in every single situation you're the big dog, literally bark in your bosses face to assert dominance
ACTUAL SUN TZU: no but seriously you do have to feed your army
ACTUAL SUN TZU: no but seriously you do have to feed your army
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Why am I so against generative AI in games?
Because I simply do not want my initial reaction to art to be one of suspicion and scrutiny, AI slop is fundamentally damaging my relationship to art and artistry, and I am deeply resentful that it is forcing me to be guarded when I should be wowed.
Because I simply do not want my initial reaction to art to be one of suspicion and scrutiny, AI slop is fundamentally damaging my relationship to art and artistry, and I am deeply resentful that it is forcing me to be guarded when I should be wowed.
November 17, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Why am I so against generative AI in games?
Because I simply do not want my initial reaction to art to be one of suspicion and scrutiny, AI slop is fundamentally damaging my relationship to art and artistry, and I am deeply resentful that it is forcing me to be guarded when I should be wowed.
Because I simply do not want my initial reaction to art to be one of suspicion and scrutiny, AI slop is fundamentally damaging my relationship to art and artistry, and I am deeply resentful that it is forcing me to be guarded when I should be wowed.
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Thought I'd check in on chatgpt and see if it had gotten any better at game history research. It hallucinated an unreleased "Wizards and Warriors IV" project for NES and when I asked what the source was it made up a tweet by...me.
November 15, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Thought I'd check in on chatgpt and see if it had gotten any better at game history research. It hallucinated an unreleased "Wizards and Warriors IV" project for NES and when I asked what the source was it made up a tweet by...me.
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this goes right along with my theory that the AI obsession in *users* is often bc…
1. they were never educated (esp "ipad generation") & don't know how computers work
2. our tools and services are all SO AWFUL NOW, degraded at best, actively user-hostile at worst
1. they were never educated (esp "ipad generation") & don't know how computers work
2. our tools and services are all SO AWFUL NOW, degraded at best, actively user-hostile at worst
November 15, 2025 at 6:47 PM
this goes right along with my theory that the AI obsession in *users* is often bc…
1. they were never educated (esp "ipad generation") & don't know how computers work
2. our tools and services are all SO AWFUL NOW, degraded at best, actively user-hostile at worst
1. they were never educated (esp "ipad generation") & don't know how computers work
2. our tools and services are all SO AWFUL NOW, degraded at best, actively user-hostile at worst
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Happens so much in gaming now. Yes, video games have always adopted new tech, and AI like machine learning has been a part of that. Hell, Rogue used generative algorithms in the 80s.
But the use of GenAI in gaming is new, and quite different. Although companies using it love to say it isn't.
But the use of GenAI in gaming is new, and quite different. Although companies using it love to say it isn't.
Conflating machine learning tools with GenAI and LLMs are such a favorite of these bad faith arguments, too. Like, machines studying X-rays to better understand cancer is not the same thing as Open AI swallowing all my books via piracy to regurgitate sentences that sound similar. It's just not.
November 15, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Happens so much in gaming now. Yes, video games have always adopted new tech, and AI like machine learning has been a part of that. Hell, Rogue used generative algorithms in the 80s.
But the use of GenAI in gaming is new, and quite different. Although companies using it love to say it isn't.
But the use of GenAI in gaming is new, and quite different. Although companies using it love to say it isn't.
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Random person who plays indie games, you are the most important cog in an indie game's success.
Most gamers don't know or care that indies exist.... unless a friend tells them.
Our games succeed because you tell other people you liked our game. Word of mouth is the best marketing there is.
Most gamers don't know or care that indies exist.... unless a friend tells them.
Our games succeed because you tell other people you liked our game. Word of mouth is the best marketing there is.
November 14, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Random person who plays indie games, you are the most important cog in an indie game's success.
Most gamers don't know or care that indies exist.... unless a friend tells them.
Our games succeed because you tell other people you liked our game. Word of mouth is the best marketing there is.
Most gamers don't know or care that indies exist.... unless a friend tells them.
Our games succeed because you tell other people you liked our game. Word of mouth is the best marketing there is.
Oh. So THAT'S why people are talking about "Nag Lines" and posting memes about Metroid Prime 4.
Oh. Oh no... Ohhh noooo.
Isolation, experimentation and quit solitude are core elements of the Metroid Experience why would they throw in an un-turn-off-able sidekick? x_x
Oh. Oh no... Ohhh noooo.
Isolation, experimentation and quit solitude are core elements of the Metroid Experience why would they throw in an un-turn-off-able sidekick? x_x
November 14, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Oh. So THAT'S why people are talking about "Nag Lines" and posting memes about Metroid Prime 4.
Oh. Oh no... Ohhh noooo.
Isolation, experimentation and quit solitude are core elements of the Metroid Experience why would they throw in an un-turn-off-able sidekick? x_x
Oh. Oh no... Ohhh noooo.
Isolation, experimentation and quit solitude are core elements of the Metroid Experience why would they throw in an un-turn-off-able sidekick? x_x
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This is what it’s like to read about the American governing elite right now.
![At least five Tang dynasty (618–907) emperors were incapacitated and killed by immortality elixirs. In historic recurrences, the newly enthroned emperor understandably executed the Daoist alchemists whose elixirs had killed his predecessor, and then subsequently came to believe in other charlatans enough to consume their poisonous elixirs.
Emperor Xianzong (r. 805–820) indirectly lost his life due to elixir poisoning. The Xu Tongzhi (Supplement to the Historical Collections) says, "Deluded by the sayings of the alchemists, [Xianzong] ingested gold elixirs and his behaviour became very abnormal. He was easily offended by those officials whom he daily met, and thus the prisons were left with little vacant space." In response, an official wrote an 819 memorial to the throne that said:
Of late years, however, (the capital) has been overrun by a host of pharmacists and alchemists ... recommending one another right and left with ever wilder and more extravagant claims. Now if there really were immortals, and scholars possessing the Tao, would they not conceal their names and hide themselves in mountain recesses far from the ken of man? ... The medicines of the sages of old were meant to cure bodily illnesses, and were not meant to be taken constantly like food. How much less so these metallic and mineral substances which are full of burning poison! ... Of old, as the Li Chi says, when the prince took physic, his minister tasted it first, and when a parent was sick, his son did likewise. Ministers and sons are in the same position. I humbly pray that all those persons who have elixirs made from transformed metals and minerals, and also those who recommend them, may be compelled to consume (their own elixirs) first for the space of one year. Such an investigation will distinguish truth from falsehood, and automatically clarify the matter by experiment.
After the emperor rejected this appeal, the palace eunuchs Wang Shoucheng and Chen Hongzhi 陳弘志 assassinated him in 820.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4d2snfeymcblmvoaxvgfs7i6/bafkreicj4uaxsxrzzrod3yxa3uihy7odewkf4jpynd6mplgxek23u2rx5q@jpeg)
![When Xianzong's son and successor Emperor Muzong (r. 820–824) came to the throne, he executed the alchemists who had poisoned his father, but later began to take immortality elixirs himself. An official wrote Muzong an 823 memorial that warned:
Medicines are for use against illnesses, and should not be taken as food. ... Even when one is ill medicines must be used with great circumspection; how much more so when one is not ill. If this is true for the common people how much more so will it be for the emperor! Your imperial predecessor believed the nonsense of the alchemists and thus became ill; this your majesty already knows only too well. How could your majesty still repeat the same mistake?[27]
The emperor appreciated this reasoning but soon afterwards fell ill and died from poisoning. Palace eunuchs supposedly used poisonous elixirs to assassinate Muzong's young successor Emperor Jingzong (r. 824–827).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4d2snfeymcblmvoaxvgfs7i6/bafkreieltlwjzprlfasqdo67fgciczehab5vw7qrdojwhixyyet6f33yc4@jpeg)
November 14, 2025 at 6:46 AM
This is what it’s like to read about the American governing elite right now.
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Computers were a skill. They were taught in classrooms as a skill. Skills give you power over your tools because you work them as an expert and that is leverage to multiply externally.
And then computers became an A/B tested telemetry-based advertising conduit to brains for SaaS recurring revenue.
And then computers became an A/B tested telemetry-based advertising conduit to brains for SaaS recurring revenue.
November 14, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Computers were a skill. They were taught in classrooms as a skill. Skills give you power over your tools because you work them as an expert and that is leverage to multiply externally.
And then computers became an A/B tested telemetry-based advertising conduit to brains for SaaS recurring revenue.
And then computers became an A/B tested telemetry-based advertising conduit to brains for SaaS recurring revenue.