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Gay Science

How do we make gay worlds in video games? Well, I can tell you how not to make a gay world. You should not rely on the AAA game indus­try to pity you and leave you some table scraps. I’m tired of being 0.1% of a world, right. Why isn’t Dragon Age 100% gay sex, right?

When Algorithms Fail in Our Personal Lives

I won­der with all these vary­ing lev­els of needs that we have as users, and as we live more and more of our lives dig­i­tal­ly and on social media, what would it look like to design a semi-private space in a pub­lic network?

Joanne McNeil at Haunted Machines

I’m going to talk about things that scare me on the Internet, things that I’m afraid of, and things that maybe we can’t yet make a hor­ror film. We def­i­nite­ly can’t make a film as bad as The Ruins about this stuff, but I would say it’s a lot scari­er than The Ruins, which is just gross.

Rise of the Diary Game

Diary games aren’t gen­er­al­ly fun. This is part of why in a com­mer­cial mar­ket, you’re not nec­es­sar­i­ly going to see them. In fact, they’re very rarely fun at all. Some are. But usu­al­ly that’s because of a per­son get­ting into it, get­ting into the mechan­ics, etc. But many are active­ly unpleas­ant to play, even some of the more fun ones.

Fun With Corpora Manipulation

I guess the two ques­tions that I ask myself when I’m mak­ing a bot are what resources and cor­po­ra should I use, and how can I manip­u­late this in inter­est­ing ways to come up with tweets that are more sig­nal than noise. A lot of the time it’s actu­al­ly real­ly hard to gen­er­ate lan­guage that is sig­nal and not noise. And I aim to get a lot of sig­nal in my bots.