Matthew Rowland
@conundrum.bsky.social
Systems Designer @ riffraff.games
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Switch 2: SW-6355-6662-7216
Wishlist Sleight of Hand :D
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2857810/Sleight_of_Hand/
It's been a while since I played HK, but isn't this how healing worked in the original? Your Soul bar replenished from hitting enemies and you could heal as long as you had one full Soul?
September 11, 2025 at 6:16 AM
It's been a while since I played HK, but isn't this how healing worked in the original? Your Soul bar replenished from hitting enemies and you could heal as long as you had one full Soul?
It was a nice surprise however that the BOTW and TOTK upgrades are included with Switch Online sub - not sure if this was announced previously and I missed it but I was fully expecting to have to buy em
June 5, 2025 at 12:21 PM
It was a nice surprise however that the BOTW and TOTK upgrades are included with Switch Online sub - not sure if this was announced previously and I missed it but I was fully expecting to have to buy em
LOL yes ok. Big "elite mobs in the Maw playing canned animations while standing around waiting for adventurers to come kill them" energy
May 16, 2025 at 1:57 AM
LOL yes ok. Big "elite mobs in the Maw playing canned animations while standing around waiting for adventurers to come kill them" energy
Is this a me issue or a you issue? This warning seems to be stopping me from clicking Continue to Payment
April 7, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Is this a me issue or a you issue? This warning seems to be stopping me from clicking Continue to Payment
I am 100% definitely in for a bundle pre-order! I will float past my friends to see if any of them would commit too
April 7, 2025 at 3:53 AM
I am 100% definitely in for a bundle pre-order! I will float past my friends to see if any of them would commit too
It's ok, you know how to get up em if they are
February 25, 2025 at 5:40 AM
It's ok, you know how to get up em if they are
And, for the purposes of this law, specifically the word "adaptability", I think that puts NNs into a different (different! not better!) class of software that should be able to be separated and targeted by the law
February 4, 2025 at 9:18 AM
And, for the purposes of this law, specifically the word "adaptability", I think that puts NNs into a different (different! not better!) class of software that should be able to be separated and targeted by the law
I do not buy into AI hype, and I have at least a working approximation of how NNs work. By "black box" I only meant that a human can't reasonably look at what's going on in there and understand how it reached its outputs.
February 4, 2025 at 9:17 AM
I do not buy into AI hype, and I have at least a working approximation of how NNs work. By "black box" I only meant that a human can't reasonably look at what's going on in there and understand how it reached its outputs.
Maybe what I meant by my statements wasn't clear - I'm not suggesting that NNs are better than procgen, or that NNs are good (for generating strings of text OR anything else), or that it being a "black box" is some kind of good/magical/desirable quality.
February 4, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Maybe what I meant by my statements wasn't clear - I'm not suggesting that NNs are better than procgen, or that NNs are good (for generating strings of text OR anything else), or that it being a "black box" is some kind of good/magical/desirable quality.
It's entirely possible the law doesn't capture that nuance, but I'd agree with you that it's far more likely that the law doesn't actually hit ANY existing software than that it actually hits all games etc
February 4, 2025 at 8:03 AM
It's entirely possible the law doesn't capture that nuance, but I'd agree with you that it's far more likely that the law doesn't actually hit ANY existing software than that it actually hits all games etc
You can't just chuck a bunch of new training data at Spelunky's level generator and have it suddenly spit out a Metroidvania map; you CAN just chuck a bunch of new training data at an LLM and have a new bot that is specialised at producing strings of text for a certain purpose
February 4, 2025 at 8:02 AM
You can't just chuck a bunch of new training data at Spelunky's level generator and have it suddenly spit out a Metroidvania map; you CAN just chuck a bunch of new training data at an LLM and have a new bot that is specialised at producing strings of text for a certain purpose
Depends how you define "what they were programmed to do" - yeah none of them are doing anything other than "generate strings of text"; but the means by which they generate the text is a black box that has adapted beyond the original programming in ways that (eg.) procgen game levels have not
February 4, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Depends how you define "what they were programmed to do" - yeah none of them are doing anything other than "generate strings of text"; but the means by which they generate the text is a black box that has adapted beyond the original programming in ways that (eg.) procgen game levels have not
Since they haven't provided a definition of adaptiveness, I'd think it'd fall back to a dictionary definition of "the ability to change or modify to suit a different purpose, environment, or conditions" - the system isn't doing that in any non-ML games/software
February 4, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Since they haven't provided a definition of adaptiveness, I'd think it'd fall back to a dictionary definition of "the ability to change or modify to suit a different purpose, environment, or conditions" - the system isn't doing that in any non-ML games/software
Wouldn't adaptiveness be the ability to do something that it wasn't explicitly programmed to do? eg. the "learning" part of ML?
February 4, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Wouldn't adaptiveness be the ability to do something that it wasn't explicitly programmed to do? eg. the "learning" part of ML?
I'd read the "may exhibit adaptiveness" line as: in order to qualify as an AI system, you must be able to say that it "may exhibit adaptiveness", rather than that "exhibiting adaptiveness" is optional. There's no way that MS Paint or a regular video game can exhibit adaptiveness. But of course IANAL
February 4, 2025 at 7:31 AM
I'd read the "may exhibit adaptiveness" line as: in order to qualify as an AI system, you must be able to say that it "may exhibit adaptiveness", rather than that "exhibiting adaptiveness" is optional. There's no way that MS Paint or a regular video game can exhibit adaptiveness. But of course IANAL
What level of investment do the dead have in living affairs? Would you have Tywin Lannister types continuing to run their family from beyond the grave, or does death inherently grant a kind of separation from the cares of mortals?
December 30, 2024 at 11:18 PM
What level of investment do the dead have in living affairs? Would you have Tywin Lannister types continuing to run their family from beyond the grave, or does death inherently grant a kind of separation from the cares of mortals?
I think there are a few follow-up questions that might make wildly different versions of this - eg what kind of leverage (if any) can be used against the dead? Can the dead be "killed" again (removed from the communicable afterlife), or experience pain? Can anyone block access to specific ghosts?
December 30, 2024 at 11:17 PM
I think there are a few follow-up questions that might make wildly different versions of this - eg what kind of leverage (if any) can be used against the dead? Can the dead be "killed" again (removed from the communicable afterlife), or experience pain? Can anyone block access to specific ghosts?
Oh shit they're doing ancient Rome? And somehow I missed this news??
December 26, 2024 at 10:49 AM
Oh shit they're doing ancient Rome? And somehow I missed this news??
Reposted by Matthew Rowland
I summarized some of my learnings on testing and feedback in two pages.
December 14, 2024 at 12:15 AM
I summarized some of my learnings on testing and feedback in two pages.
I'd post a link to this if someone asked me to "show me a skeet that makes you think of Joe" though
December 12, 2024 at 11:45 AM
I'd post a link to this if someone asked me to "show me a skeet that makes you think of Joe" though