Arentios
@arentios.bsky.social
Hi, I'm old and boring. Mostly here for art, animals, chatting and to shoot stray thoughts into the void.
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Arentios
@arentios.bsky.social
· Oct 20
Hacking together one of those '10 pieces of media that influenced you' lists
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Essentially, I think that LLM-generated dialogue only makes sense if you believe that the product of writing is words.
But the product of writing isn't words, any more than the product of justice is prisoners, or the product of love is weddings. The product of writing is meaning.
But the product of writing isn't words, any more than the product of justice is prisoners, or the product of love is weddings. The product of writing is meaning.
I had five fascinating conversations for this RPS piece, gathering perspectives on genAI chatbots in games, as seen in Where Winds Meet. Thanks to @meghna.bsky.social, @pyrofoux.bsky.social, @maxkreminski.bsky.social, and @chrisgardiner.bsky.social www.rockpapershotgun.com/horrible-bor...
"Horrible", "boring", and "cheap": Experts pan new chatbot NPCs, but some leave room for optimism
We speak to a collection of developers and AI experts about the potential impact of LLM-powered NPCs in videogames.
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December 23, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Essentially, I think that LLM-generated dialogue only makes sense if you believe that the product of writing is words.
But the product of writing isn't words, any more than the product of justice is prisoners, or the product of love is weddings. The product of writing is meaning.
But the product of writing isn't words, any more than the product of justice is prisoners, or the product of love is weddings. The product of writing is meaning.
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If you pay attention to any large industry long enough and follow it to its logical conclusion you eventually end up sounding like a communist even if you started off testing CPU case fans. youtu.be/cUrJVdF2me0?...
December 22, 2025 at 5:58 PM
If you pay attention to any large industry long enough and follow it to its logical conclusion you eventually end up sounding like a communist even if you started off testing CPU case fans. youtu.be/cUrJVdF2me0?...
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In general, AI adoption levels are a measurement of to what extent a particular reward system (a corporation, a market, academia as a whole system) has ceased to distinguish between doing a thing and pretending to do a thing
One of many things the pro-AI crowd doesn't seem to understand is the very important distinction between academic scholarship and the production of papers. Of course they can be related but they're not necessarily the same thing
December 22, 2025 at 12:04 AM
In general, AI adoption levels are a measurement of to what extent a particular reward system (a corporation, a market, academia as a whole system) has ceased to distinguish between doing a thing and pretending to do a thing
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Must be on an SSRI
Humanoid robots are coming. Eventually?
Humanoid robots are coming. Eventually?
China sees humanoids as an economic engine and Musk wants a ‘robot army.’
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December 21, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Must be on an SSRI
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Phantasy Star Online ver.2 (DC / Sonic Team / 2001) - Pioneer II
December 21, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Phantasy Star Online ver.2 (DC / Sonic Team / 2001) - Pioneer II
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I've long held the belief that people going all in on AI art don't actually believe anything they say about making art, they only covet artists' role as the charismatic giant panda of Internet Attention, cosplaying the "poor misunderstood visionary who suffer for their craft" like a status symbol
December 21, 2025 at 1:16 AM
I've long held the belief that people going all in on AI art don't actually believe anything they say about making art, they only covet artists' role as the charismatic giant panda of Internet Attention, cosplaying the "poor misunderstood visionary who suffer for their craft" like a status symbol
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men only want one thing
August 26, 2025 at 7:05 PM
men only want one thing
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hello. Fledgling Manor is on sale for 50% off right now. it makes a perfect holiday gift for the freak in your life. look around at your closest friends. if you dont see a freak, its you. get yourself something nice
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Save 50% on Fledgling Manor on Steam
A supernatural horror visual novel where vampires compete to save their eternal unlives in a high-stakes reality show.
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December 19, 2025 at 1:14 AM
hello. Fledgling Manor is on sale for 50% off right now. it makes a perfect holiday gift for the freak in your life. look around at your closest friends. if you dont see a freak, its you. get yourself something nice
store.steampowered.com/app/3238510/...
store.steampowered.com/app/3238510/...
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Eliza is 50% off. It’s a fully-voiced visual novel about an AI therapy app. It was released in 2019, years before the idea of AI became what it is now. How much did it get right? What did it get wrong? Play it for yourself (play the whole thing) and decide.
store.steampowered.com/app/716500/E...
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Save 50% on Eliza on Steam
Eliza is a visual novel about an AI counseling program, the people who develop it, and the people who use it. Follow Evelyn Ishino-Aubrey as she reconnects with people from her past, gets to know the ...
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December 18, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Eliza is 50% off. It’s a fully-voiced visual novel about an AI therapy app. It was released in 2019, years before the idea of AI became what it is now. How much did it get right? What did it get wrong? Play it for yourself (play the whole thing) and decide.
store.steampowered.com/app/716500/E...
store.steampowered.com/app/716500/E...
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i wrote about how mundanity in your AAA games adds to world and character building, by referencing The Date quest line from Beyond: Two Souls 😅
Interested in game-writing?
In early 2026 we'll be publishing a kaleidoscope: short articles by 100+ game writers - experts, freelancers, and juniors - about the craft.
~1/3 of them are in: multiple bangers, from some very famous names and games.
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In early 2026 we'll be publishing a kaleidoscope: short articles by 100+ game writers - experts, freelancers, and juniors - about the craft.
~1/3 of them are in: multiple bangers, from some very famous names and games.
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In early 2026 we’ll be publishing The Game Narrative Kaleidoscope, a collection of over 100 short essays by game writers about writing.
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December 18, 2025 at 11:40 PM
i wrote about how mundanity in your AAA games adds to world and character building, by referencing The Date quest line from Beyond: Two Souls 😅
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I highly recommend Final Profit. I describe it as a shop RPG where capitalism is the enemy but you have the great idea to defeat the Business Lords by infiltrating them from within and becoming a Business Lord yourself, and it goes as well as you hope, and also there is a "horse dimension"
It's that special time of year again where it's way too hot in Australia to be putting up with Winter bulls***.
Oh, and Final Profit is 50% off for the Steam Winter Sale ❄️
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Oh, and Final Profit is 50% off for the Steam Winter Sale ❄️
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December 18, 2025 at 10:26 PM
I highly recommend Final Profit. I describe it as a shop RPG where capitalism is the enemy but you have the great idea to defeat the Business Lords by infiltrating them from within and becoming a Business Lord yourself, and it goes as well as you hope, and also there is a "horse dimension"
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this is to me the same issue in terms of why I was upset about Larian: a pattern of behaving badly towards the labor that makes a game possible
NEW: For the last seven weeks, Naughty Dog has enacted mandatory overtime for staff to finish an internal demo of their next game, Intergalactic. The game won't be out until 2027, leaving some staff wondering: If they're crunching now, what will next year be like? www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Naughty Dog Studio Orders Employee Overtime for ‘Intergalactic’
The Sony-owned gamemakers have been racing to hit a December deadline
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December 18, 2025 at 7:40 PM
this is to me the same issue in terms of why I was upset about Larian: a pattern of behaving badly towards the labor that makes a game possible
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the disdain for workers losing their livelihoods just drips off of this whole fucking thing like mud off a pig. The smug confidence of a man who has convinced himself that HE is definitely uniquely irreplaceable, only LESSER work is under threat.
December 18, 2025 at 12:02 PM
the disdain for workers losing their livelihoods just drips off of this whole fucking thing like mud off a pig. The smug confidence of a man who has convinced himself that HE is definitely uniquely irreplaceable, only LESSER work is under threat.
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The Xbox Boycott (Still) Matters
YouTube video by People Make Games
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December 18, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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December 16, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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This is wild: Jason Clinton is the deputy CISO of Anthropic. Also a mod of a queer gamers Discord. Clinton forced a version of Anthropic's AI on the server, despite the community's wishes, and it's killed the server. AI was reading messages it shouldn't be too
www.404media.co/anthropic-ex...
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Anthropic Exec Forces AI Chatbot on Gay Discord Community, Members Flee
“We’re bringing a new kind of sentience into existence,” Anthropic's Jason Clinton said after launching the bot.
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December 16, 2025 at 3:02 PM
This is wild: Jason Clinton is the deputy CISO of Anthropic. Also a mod of a queer gamers Discord. Clinton forced a version of Anthropic's AI on the server, despite the community's wishes, and it's killed the server. AI was reading messages it shouldn't be too
www.404media.co/anthropic-ex...
www.404media.co/anthropic-ex...
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Central Park remains blanketed with snow--the perfect setting for capturing the beauty of a Northern Cardinal! Looks like he's been doing a little foraging this morning. ❤️❤️❤️ #Cardinal #CentralPark #birding
December 15, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Central Park remains blanketed with snow--the perfect setting for capturing the beauty of a Northern Cardinal! Looks like he's been doing a little foraging this morning. ❤️❤️❤️ #Cardinal #CentralPark #birding
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oh, that character there is genocide guy, he's kind of a fan favorite. the one next to him, though, that's the one everyone hates, she was rude once.
December 9, 2025 at 12:59 AM
oh, that character there is genocide guy, he's kind of a fan favorite. the one next to him, though, that's the one everyone hates, she was rude once.
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