Amanda Harper
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ariadnegames.bsky.social
Amanda Harper
@ariadnegames.bsky.social
🦋 Co-founder | Engineer @ariadne.games
🦋 30s, she/her
🦋 Books, horror, retro games, women in tech, how cute my dog is.

itch: https://adafish.itch.io/
Like I see so many reviews that assume because a character wasn't where they said they were that the author must have left a plot hole; it's like they think it's like a game of Clue or something where characters aren't allowed to lie or to be wrong about stuff.
November 21, 2025 at 11:11 PM
YES and like, also people don't always understand that characters might be unreliable (or get the subtext hinting that this character is lying). I see readers do this all the time now and I don't know if it's a growing literacy problem or if I just started picking up on it more as I got older.
November 21, 2025 at 11:04 PM
That is absolutely the sort of detail you need to validate before acting on (if you get it from an LLM), so there's no reason to not just do the research correctly at the outset. And personally I've found that to be the case for most scenarios where people want to use some LLM as a search engine.
November 12, 2025 at 7:19 PM
So, two things about that. The first is that (unless the studio is a hot mess) this information should be in searchable documentation. The second is that if this information is not easily searchable in a reliable dataset, then asking an LLM is a great way to get a hallucinated answer.
November 12, 2025 at 7:19 PM
💯 I feel like I've never seen companies try to browbeat their userbase into using something so aggressively. Like usually when a big company is confident they have a good product, I feel like they trust users to seek it out on their own more.
October 30, 2025 at 9:07 PM
This could be the opening of a horror movie. Like the young couple is stuck in the culty town because they let an LLM tell them that using prune juice as a fuel additive would help them up steep hills.
October 20, 2025 at 3:21 PM
I'm super new to the Midwest but I agree! It seems like a great spot to build a game in; all the game dev folks I've met from here have been really helpful and cool.
October 17, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Thank you for the recommendations! These seem like great events.
October 17, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Thank you for the recommendation!
October 17, 2025 at 10:19 PM
I always really liked The Killers' version of Shadowplay. youtu.be/wrbKvxGgFfg
The Killers - Shadowplay
YouTube video by TheKillersVEVO
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October 14, 2025 at 5:14 PM
And I know this is such a tiny complaint in the grand shitstorm of things but I really wish google would stop wasting electricity and my time just to lie to me about vegan pizza.
October 1, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Snippets were way more useful! And sometimes my brain incorrectly interprets the AI answer as a snippet and I get excited before I realize that it's the AI overview and it's probably lying to me about the pizza I want.
October 1, 2025 at 7:11 PM