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Ron Gilbert (GrumpyGamer)

grumpygamer@mastodon.gamedev.place

<p>Owner of Terrible Toybox, the designer/creator of Monkey Island, The Cave, Pajama Sam and the designer/co-creator of Maniac Mansion, DeathSpank and Thimbleweed Park. Co-designer of Return to Monkey Island.</p><p>All ideas are my own, but you&#39;d be crazy not to agree.</p>

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    I hate that I&#39;m at that age where my childhood heroes are dying.

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    A critical flaw has been found in the color Arylide yellow. All artists need to immediately update their paintings.

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    Forget billionaire algorithms, use RSS. Most sites have them. Both the Thimbleweed Park Blog and Grumpy Gamer do. Full text feeds. I&#39;ve been using and serving RSS since 2005. All the cool kids are doing it. https://toolbox.rss.here.now/

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    If you&#39;re using AI to make content you&#39;re saving time and money but you&#39;re making shitty content. If you can&#39;t see the shittyness of the content, it&#39;s all the more reason you shouldn&#39;t be doing it.

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    No! Your 23 year old son that moved back home doesn&amp;#39;t get to be a &amp;quot;Production Baby&amp;quot; in the credits.

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    Why was this note left on my desk? It isn&amp;#39;t in my handwriting. Should I be afraid?

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    &amp;quot;People Training AI Fired for Using AI to Train the AI&amp;quot; Real or The Onion headline.

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    If I had been born 70 years earlier I could have gone to Minor League Baseball games in the town I grew up in, instead I got stuck learning to program computers. Look where that got me. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Grande_Babes

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    What are the odds of a new Thimbleweed Park dev blog post? I&amp;#39;d give it 97.3% https://blog2.thimbleweedpark.com/the_odds/

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    I&amp;#39;m heading to NZGDC in Auckland. Not sure why I&amp;#39;m telling you this. Maybe it&amp;#39;s my proof of life Mastodon post. If I haven&amp;#39;t posted on Mastodon in over a week, send help.

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    Back from NZGDC. Reminded me of GDC in the 90&amp;#39;s, before it jumped the shark. Less people, better conversations, good times.

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    New Thimbleweed Park page tracks build numbers in realtime. Line goes up! https://blog2.thimbleweedpark.com/builds/

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    My DVD ripping pipeline might be out of control. I blame streaming services for erratic behavior.

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    Yet another exciting Thimbleweed Park dev blog post. Lock the dog up and grab some coffee. https://blog2.thimbleweedpark.com/dave_grossman/

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    For Sunday chores day I suggested to my wife we play prison chain gang music. She was not impressed.

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    Drives me crazy that markdown uses **bold** and not *bold* like _italic_

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    Thimbleweed Park 2 podcast episode 2. I bet you thought we&#39;d quit after the first one. Yeah, you and me both. https://blog2.thimbleweedpark.com/twp2_podcast_2/

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    The first podcast is live! The first podcast is live! The first podcast is live! https://blog2.thimbleweedpark.com/twp2-podcast-1/

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    After waiting 37 minutes it logged me in and then said I was disconnected. How dare their beta servers not work perfectly.

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    With the upcoming release of classic inspired World of Warcraft: Forever, Thimbleweed Park 2 will be delayed indefinitely. Thank you for your patience.

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    With Meta perv glasses, Apple new always listening AI watch and Smart TVs tracking everything you watch, I fear that all my future meetings will be conducted naked in a Faraday cage.

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    How are steam keys generated? 1. Randomly generate a key and if it&#39;s taken, generate another one and loop. 2. There is a database of (millions) available keys, when it runs out make more with step 1. 3. Key aren&#39;t random, it&#39;s a algorithm (seems dangerous if figured out). 4. Something I haven&#39;t thought of because I&#39;m just a simple game designer.

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    Current status:

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    Thimbleweed Park was 10 years ahead on the whole AI thing. The key is Tron Tube technology.

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    The Thimbleweed Park 2 dev blog is live. https://blog2.thimbleweedpark.com/first_post/

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    You heard it here first: https://www.grumpygamer.com/twp2_announce/

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    Yes or No?

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    Being a pessimist means you&#39;ll never be shocked by bad news and always surprised by good news.

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    “Remember: when people tell you something’s wrong or doesn’t work for them, they are almost always right. When they tell you exactly what they think is wrong and how to fix it, they are almost always wrong.” ― Neil Gaiman &quot;Extra ++true when playtesting&quot; ― Ron Gilbert

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    &quot;AI Fiction Is Easy to Detect Because It&#39;s Stupid and Bad&quot; https://www.404media.co/ai-fiction-is-easy-to-detect-because-its-stupid-and-bad-research-finds/