edwinet.bsky.social
News editor at RockPaperShotgun, previously seen at Eurogamer, The Guardian, Wired and Edge - writing about (video)games, art, culture, technology - PhD poetics with a focus on procedural and erasure-based verse. He & him. ♾️
👤 Joined on 25 July 2023
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@edwinet.bsky.socialEnjoying Val'ty? No? Fine. But If you're liking it, consider writing a review, recommending it, and/or sharing this post as well. 🧠 No Gen AI. 🙏 Available in Steam Next Fest. I hope I can return to work on it soon. And remember, Get Val'ted! 🇧🇷 store.steampowered.com/app/3860970/...
Show Postbeen thinking recently about the power of ugly outputs within a generator. it's not about the artefacts that the generator produces but about the state-space shape of the possible artefacts that it could produce. (which, yes, is something that is only seen through a sampling of specific outputs)
Show PostThe thing that stresses me about neurodivergence still is that until I was told, I simply never thought there was sth such as "typical". I thought we all had something. This person forgets. That person gets overstimulated. I didn't know there had to be "acceptable" levels to this.
Show PostI've just learned that Freeplay has removed me as a sponsor for Parallels due to an accusation from a speaker that I am a "zionist". Where did the speaker get this idea? Because Unpacking was included in a listicle in an online Jewish publication a few days ago. I didn't even know about the article.
Show Postskimming & rambling thru a couple of Roman Sands RE:Build designers notes; big creative driver is & has always been the various "total theater" practices, whether Bauhaus, as used by some corners of the absurdists, dreamt of by Artaud, or wielded elsewhere (such as Laibach).
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