Topher Gerkey
@topherg.bsky.social
Gaming, witchery, queerness, parenting, pop music, mental health, disability, whatever. He/him/his.
I think my daughter fears for her life if she were ever to touch an LLM.
AS SHE SHOULD.
AS SHE SHOULD.
December 21, 2025 at 10:24 PM
I think my daughter fears for her life if she were ever to touch an LLM.
AS SHE SHOULD.
AS SHE SHOULD.
You're not wrong!
But also I'm saving this for the next time you get super mad at someone saying "Liberals" when they mean "Some liberals."
But also I'm saving this for the next time you get super mad at someone saying "Liberals" when they mean "Some liberals."
December 17, 2025 at 5:02 PM
You're not wrong!
But also I'm saving this for the next time you get super mad at someone saying "Liberals" when they mean "Some liberals."
But also I'm saving this for the next time you get super mad at someone saying "Liberals" when they mean "Some liberals."
Also, a lot of the time the third installment is supposed to be a conclusion - if not THE conclusion - and writing endings is hard. No sarcasm, even for excellent writers, writing endings is just hard.
December 16, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Also, a lot of the time the third installment is supposed to be a conclusion - if not THE conclusion - and writing endings is hard. No sarcasm, even for excellent writers, writing endings is just hard.
...is there a downside?
December 16, 2025 at 1:42 AM
...is there a downside?
I feel 97% certain that wall of self-contradictory text was generated by an LLM. It has that sycophantic aura they can never quite disguise.
December 16, 2025 at 12:01 AM
I feel 97% certain that wall of self-contradictory text was generated by an LLM. It has that sycophantic aura they can never quite disguise.
NGL, there's a part of me that thinks he peaked with Meet the Feebles.
December 15, 2025 at 11:56 PM
NGL, there's a part of me that thinks he peaked with Meet the Feebles.
I shouldn't have been surprised but after all the Kirk canonizing, to see Trump saying "yeah, sorry they died, but really they kinda deserved it, right?" left me flabbergasted.
December 15, 2025 at 6:09 PM
I shouldn't have been surprised but after all the Kirk canonizing, to see Trump saying "yeah, sorry they died, but really they kinda deserved it, right?" left me flabbergasted.
Yeah, I turned that on. I'd never remember to doublecheck otherwise.
December 15, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Yeah, I turned that on. I'd never remember to doublecheck otherwise.
Sadly, some of us have no choice but to wear a piece of clothing until it literally disintegrates off our bodies. And we almost always replace that clothing with something used from a thrift shop.
December 15, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Sadly, some of us have no choice but to wear a piece of clothing until it literally disintegrates off our bodies. And we almost always replace that clothing with something used from a thrift shop.
It's wild that I have to explain to people that I can be concerned about many different things while only talking about one of them at any given time.
Humans only have so much bandwidth and focus makes us more effective. This is hard to understand?
Humans only have so much bandwidth and focus makes us more effective. This is hard to understand?
December 14, 2025 at 7:28 PM
It's wild that I have to explain to people that I can be concerned about many different things while only talking about one of them at any given time.
Humans only have so much bandwidth and focus makes us more effective. This is hard to understand?
Humans only have so much bandwidth and focus makes us more effective. This is hard to understand?
(And indeed that the various management companies are doing their genuinely talented artists a big disservice by not letting them sing live.)
December 14, 2025 at 6:06 PM
(And indeed that the various management companies are doing their genuinely talented artists a big disservice by not letting them sing live.)
You know those big plastic cubic containers that are for gumballs/candy, large amounts of spices, flour, etc? I've seen those used for dice before, but never glass jars.
December 14, 2025 at 1:43 AM
You know those big plastic cubic containers that are for gumballs/candy, large amounts of spices, flour, etc? I've seen those used for dice before, but never glass jars.
The math nerds/theater kids RPG divide goes all the way back to midwest/west coast factions at the very beginning of things. West coast gamers were *not* playing the same way as the Lake Geneva crew in the early days.
December 13, 2025 at 8:40 PM
The math nerds/theater kids RPG divide goes all the way back to midwest/west coast factions at the very beginning of things. West coast gamers were *not* playing the same way as the Lake Geneva crew in the early days.
I was in a huge, unwieldy Exalted game once that was hard enough for the poor GM to keep moving - ten players is too many players - but on top of that one of my fellow players insisted on eating up everyone's precious time with extended "but I don't want to be a hero, I want to be a farmer" scenes.
December 13, 2025 at 6:38 AM
I was in a huge, unwieldy Exalted game once that was hard enough for the poor GM to keep moving - ten players is too many players - but on top of that one of my fellow players insisted on eating up everyone's precious time with extended "but I don't want to be a hero, I want to be a farmer" scenes.
What in the clown shoes hell.
December 12, 2025 at 2:20 PM
What in the clown shoes hell.
Obligatory "by the time of Fate Core, it was just Fate, not FATE."
December 12, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Obligatory "by the time of Fate Core, it was just Fate, not FATE."
There will be so much litigation.
December 12, 2025 at 1:16 AM
There will be so much litigation.
There's a type of player that wants to "solve" a game rather than play it, and quite frequently the needs/wants of that playerbase are actively detrimental to the "I enjoy actually playing this game" playerbase.
December 11, 2025 at 5:13 PM
There's a type of player that wants to "solve" a game rather than play it, and quite frequently the needs/wants of that playerbase are actively detrimental to the "I enjoy actually playing this game" playerbase.