Geoffrey White
@geoffw0.bsky.social
Programmer, runner, intermittent game developer based in Yorkshire, England.
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Geoffrey White
@geoffw0.bsky.social
· Aug 31
The Trouble With Robots by geoffw0
A downloadable game for Windows
geoffw0.itch.io
I put my deck building game from 2012 on #itchio - The Trouble With Robots is available again for Windows, just $4 this time, free demo: geoffw0.itch.io/ttwr . It never sold very well (outside of bundles) but some people really liked it!
Games I made #3 - Merry Clickmas. Somewhere between a clicker and idle game. Seasonal, fun, kinda short for a clicker / incremental but it's free.
www.digitalchestnut.com/merryclickmas/
www.digitalchestnut.com/merryclickmas/
December 11, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Games I made #3 - Merry Clickmas. Somewhere between a clicker and idle game. Seasonal, fun, kinda short for a clicker / incremental but it's free.
www.digitalchestnut.com/merryclickmas/
www.digitalchestnut.com/merryclickmas/
Annoyed there's been no real progress at #COP30. This is a critical time, we should not be wasting opportunities like this and bickering over the same topics as 20 years ago.
November 17, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Annoyed there's been no real progress at #COP30. This is a critical time, we should not be wasting opportunities like this and bickering over the same topics as 20 years ago.
The Chilling Effect just effected me. :(
October 4, 2025 at 4:48 PM
The Chilling Effect just effected me. :(
Games I made #2 - The Trouble With Robots. Real time customisable card / deck building game. Not free but there's a fairly generous demo.
www.digitalchestnut.com/trouble/
www.digitalchestnut.com/trouble/
September 27, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Games I made #2 - The Trouble With Robots. Real time customisable card / deck building game. Not free but there's a fairly generous demo.
www.digitalchestnut.com/trouble/
www.digitalchestnut.com/trouble/
Games I made #1 - A Quest Too Far. Free roguelike I made in 7 days, and was very pleased with. Play as a veteran hero who's back is giving out!
www.randomstuff.org.uk/~geoffrey/ro...
www.randomstuff.org.uk/~geoffrey/ro...
September 20, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Games I made #1 - A Quest Too Far. Free roguelike I made in 7 days, and was very pleased with. Play as a veteran hero who's back is giving out!
www.randomstuff.org.uk/~geoffrey/ro...
www.randomstuff.org.uk/~geoffrey/ro...
I put my deck building game from 2012 on #itchio - The Trouble With Robots is available again for Windows, just $4 this time, free demo: geoffw0.itch.io/ttwr . It never sold very well (outside of bundles) but some people really liked it!
The Trouble With Robots by geoffw0
A downloadable game for Windows
geoffw0.itch.io
August 31, 2025 at 2:31 PM
I put my deck building game from 2012 on #itchio - The Trouble With Robots is available again for Windows, just $4 this time, free demo: geoffw0.itch.io/ttwr . It never sold very well (outside of bundles) but some people really liked it!
While I'm on a philosophical topic, I really want to mention The Precipice (www.goodreads.com/book/show/50...) - written by philosopher and old friend Toby Ord. Despite the subject and my status as a climate doomer when I read it, it left me feeling positive. We can survive the next 100 years.
The Precipice
This urgent and eye-opening book makes the case that pr…
www.goodreads.com
August 21, 2025 at 6:58 PM
While I'm on a philosophical topic, I really want to mention The Precipice (www.goodreads.com/book/show/50...) - written by philosopher and old friend Toby Ord. Despite the subject and my status as a climate doomer when I read it, it left me feeling positive. We can survive the next 100 years.
Maybe LLMs are about as conscious as an ant?
August 21, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Maybe LLMs are about as conscious as an ant?
They were discussing whether LLMs are conscious on the radio this morning. I have some thoughts:
• beware of working back from the result you want.
• it's probably a scale, not a yes/no thing.
• that they are "made of silicon" or are "just algorithms" is not a good justification for anything.
• beware of working back from the result you want.
• it's probably a scale, not a yes/no thing.
• that they are "made of silicon" or are "just algorithms" is not a good justification for anything.
August 21, 2025 at 4:46 PM
They were discussing whether LLMs are conscious on the radio this morning. I have some thoughts:
• beware of working back from the result you want.
• it's probably a scale, not a yes/no thing.
• that they are "made of silicon" or are "just algorithms" is not a good justification for anything.
• beware of working back from the result you want.
• it's probably a scale, not a yes/no thing.
• that they are "made of silicon" or are "just algorithms" is not a good justification for anything.
Why are the big LLMs so sycophantic? Apparently they're prompted *not* to be, and I find it hard to believe the training data (e.g. books and internet content) is full of people constantly being overly nice to each other. So where does it come from?
July 23, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Why are the big LLMs so sycophantic? Apparently they're prompted *not* to be, and I find it hard to believe the training data (e.g. books and internet content) is full of people constantly being overly nice to each other. So where does it come from?
Reposted by Geoffrey White
X’s head of product posted yesterday in the pre-dawn hours that he works in “an office where Al researchers are building the Antichrist”:
July 9, 2025 at 3:56 PM
X’s head of product posted yesterday in the pre-dawn hours that he works in “an office where Al researchers are building the Antichrist”:
UFO 50 - Overbold has a very addictive loop (in a good way - we're talking old fashioned fun gameplay not microtransactions, loot boxes, login rewards etc). Really makes you push your luck to get more upgrades!
June 2, 2025 at 1:00 PM
UFO 50 - Overbold has a very addictive loop (in a good way - we're talking old fashioned fun gameplay not microtransactions, loot boxes, login rewards etc). Really makes you push your luck to get more upgrades!
Dicey Dungeons was lots of fun. Most of my gaming time is still going into UFO-50 though.
May 26, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Dicey Dungeons was lots of fun. Most of my gaming time is still going into UFO-50 though.
More UFO 50 play - today I cherried Pingolf! :)
May 3, 2025 at 5:02 PM
More UFO 50 play - today I cherried Pingolf! :)
Reposted by Geoffrey White
Dr. Anthony Fauci urges Americans not to accept "Normalization of Untruths".
May 2, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Dr. Anthony Fauci urges Americans not to accept "Normalization of Untruths".
Reposted by Geoffrey White
Last night I was asked to reshare a talk I did back in 2017, which didn't get filmed the many times I gave it.
Let's do it as a thread. I've not done an informational thread on here before, interested to see how folks like it.
(forgive obvious stuff, it was ever so slightly fresher 8 years ago)
Let's do it as a thread. I've not done an informational thread on here before, interested to see how folks like it.
(forgive obvious stuff, it was ever so slightly fresher 8 years ago)
April 20, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Last night I was asked to reshare a talk I did back in 2017, which didn't get filmed the many times I gave it.
Let's do it as a thread. I've not done an informational thread on here before, interested to see how folks like it.
(forgive obvious stuff, it was ever so slightly fresher 8 years ago)
Let's do it as a thread. I've not done an informational thread on here before, interested to see how folks like it.
(forgive obvious stuff, it was ever so slightly fresher 8 years ago)
Waldorf's Journey is pure UFO-50 weirdness. Love it!
March 13, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Waldorf's Journey is pure UFO-50 weirdness. Love it!
My current UFO 50 addiction - Party House. It's a fairly straightforward deck builder with push-your-luck elements, good balance, and excellent theming.
March 8, 2025 at 9:56 AM
My current UFO 50 addiction - Party House. It's a fairly straightforward deck builder with push-your-luck elements, good balance, and excellent theming.
I made the mistake of listening to the news this morning, now I'm looking for reasons to be even slightly positive about the future. Any suggestions?
March 6, 2025 at 11:23 AM
I made the mistake of listening to the news this morning, now I'm looking for reasons to be even slightly positive about the future. Any suggestions?
Reposted by Geoffrey White
Spaces are still available for the Ilkley Moor Fell Race on Sunday [2nd March] starting at 11:30am; Junior Races start at 10:30am.
Sign up at ilkleymoorfellrace.wordpress.com
Sign up at ilkleymoorfellrace.wordpress.com
February 27, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Spaces are still available for the Ilkley Moor Fell Race on Sunday [2nd March] starting at 11:30am; Junior Races start at 10:30am.
Sign up at ilkleymoorfellrace.wordpress.com
Sign up at ilkleymoorfellrace.wordpress.com
I've been enjoying Warp Tank (from the UFO 50 collection). This one's a simple but fairly deep puzzler, with occasional action elements and lots of variety. And for some reason an obsession with coffee.
February 9, 2025 at 5:22 PM
I've been enjoying Warp Tank (from the UFO 50 collection). This one's a simple but fairly deep puzzler, with occasional action elements and lots of variety. And for some reason an obsession with coffee.
Reposted by Geoffrey White
Revitalising vaccine uptake is about education and honest, balanced explanations of how the immune system works.
No medicine is perfect, individuals will have adverse reactions. We are the other side of the coin.
But, population benefit is undeniable.
www.longcovidkids.org/post/covid-1...
No medicine is perfect, individuals will have adverse reactions. We are the other side of the coin.
But, population benefit is undeniable.
www.longcovidkids.org/post/covid-1...
COVID-19 Vaccines, Myths and Misinformation
6th January 2023By Dr Stephen Griffin Associate Professor of Viral Oncology in the School of MedicineUniversity of LeedsLong Covid Kids Expert and ChampionWith data analysis from James Neill Consultan...
www.longcovidkids.org
February 7, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Revitalising vaccine uptake is about education and honest, balanced explanations of how the immune system works.
No medicine is perfect, individuals will have adverse reactions. We are the other side of the coin.
But, population benefit is undeniable.
www.longcovidkids.org/post/covid-1...
No medicine is perfect, individuals will have adverse reactions. We are the other side of the coin.
But, population benefit is undeniable.
www.longcovidkids.org/post/covid-1...
My thought of the day: If you do something upsetting, you have to expect people to be upset about it. This reaction shouldn't be surprising or funny.
January 30, 2025 at 12:53 PM
My thought of the day: If you do something upsetting, you have to expect people to be upset about it. This reaction shouldn't be surprising or funny.
Avianos - my favourite UFO 50 game at the moment (all hail the dinosaur gods!)
January 22, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Avianos - my favourite UFO 50 game at the moment (all hail the dinosaur gods!)