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I asked it, are you sure? Can you quote me a verbatim passage from the book supporting this? It told me a chapter number but then gave me a paraphrase. These things are products, evolving in an environment made of laws and money, not organisms evolving in an environment made of stuff. We're cooked.

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Frank Lantz @flantz.bsky.social · Jun 24

Things are going to get so weird. The one thing we desperately need to cure our debilitating self-inflicted brain rot is a return of some method for establishing shared truth composed of facts about reality. And instead we get these little oracle machines that are confidently wrong 20% of the time.

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Frank Lantz @flantz.bsky.social · Jun 24

Ironically, Hil and I had a funny experience last night. We just finished watching a TV version of Middlemarch and were curious about one thread that wasn't fully explained (who got Casaubon's house?) We asked GPT who confidently informed us that Ladislaw gets it. Which is untrue and makes no sense!

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JuniperTheory @bimbo.city · Jun 19

years ago, some flash developer came up with the single coolest idea for a tactics game ever and made a game for the Lego Website called Spybotics: The Nightfall Incident

Today, 23 fucking years later, an indie dev has FINALLY MADE A SUCCESSOR

AND I GET TO PLAY IT ON STREAM!!!!!!

bimbo.city

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Chris Plante @plante.bsky.social · Jun 16

Video games are useful for making sense of all the AI bullshit

What we have in common with world-ending AI

A chat with the creator of the game every AI skeptic and fanatic should play

postgame.substack.com

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Frank Lantz @flantz.bsky.social · Apr 21

The search for “non-problematic” fun is a wild goose chase and just bs ethics theater. Every important creative activity is full of problems. I am very much in agreement with Sontag on this issue. We should struggle to see games as they really are static1.squarespace.com/static/54889...

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Frank Lantz @flantz.bsky.social · Apr 21

For me all types of fun are problematic, all forms of play and games have an ethical dimension. I also think “players have fun” IS an end in itself, and a potentially radically transformative one. Understanding one’s own pleasure honestly and taking it seriously is a positive political act.

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Frank Lantz @flantz.bsky.social · Apr 21

Cool topic. I would maybe start with the Rules of Play Reader: www.amazon.com/Game-Design-... lots of good stuff in there. I would check out Bernie DeKoven’s work, esp. The Well-Played Game. I would look at Metagaming by Boluk and Lemieux.

The Game Design Reader: A Rules of Play Anthology (Mit Press)

Amazon.com: The Game Design Reader: A Rules of Play Anthology (Mit Press): 9780262195362: Salen Tekinbas, Katie, Zimmerman, Eric: Books

www.amazon.com

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Frank Lantz @flantz.bsky.social · Mar 25

we wish

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Frank Lantz @flantz.bsky.social · Feb 4

all maps are competitions!

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Frank Lantz @flantz.bsky.social · Feb 4

why not both

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Frank Lantz @flantz.bsky.social · Jan 27

franklantz.substack.com/p/fractal-bl...

Fractal Block World

Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Video Games Again

franklantz.substack.com

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Frank Lantz @flantz.bsky.social · Jan 12

I loved learning that in Korea Buddhism and Christianity are sort of flipped, B was the established, conservative, traditional religion and C was the progressive, new age, alternative religion (sort of)

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Frank Lantz @flantz.bsky.social · Jan 6

welcome back

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Frank Lantz @flantz.bsky.social · Dec 26

how are those first bites tasting?

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Molleindustria - Wishlist FUTURE? NO THANKS! @molleindustria.org · Dec 12

I also tried a bunch of things to address my other big challenge, ensuring everyone participates in class discussions and critiques.

One approach was assigning roles to authorize students to be more critical instead of just praising.

Anyway, most of the material is here:
mycours.es/playfultheory/

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Frank Lantz @flantz.bsky.social · Dec 9

open.substack.com/pub/franklan...

Artt in the Age of Artifficial Intelligence

That which we call progress is this storm

open.substack.com

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Frank Lantz @flantz.bsky.social · Dec 8

This is our world now. The world of the electron and the switch; the beauty of the baud. We exist without nationality, skin color, or religious bias. Yes, I am a criminal. My crime is that of curiosity. I am a hacker, and this is my manifesto. www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...

868-BACK

The sequel to 868-HACK. A cyberpunk roguelike adventure.

www.backerkit.com

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Frank Lantz @flantz.bsky.social · Dec 5

My whole game design philosophy is based on this idea: when you encounter a design problem, quickly stub in a simple, first-thought solution, not something clever, just something obvious, common-sense, too-dumb-to-actually-work. 9 times out of 10, you’ll never improve on it.

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