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Danny Day

@dislekcia.bsky.social
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IGF award-winning game developer. BJJ brown belt. Retired online community leader. Inline vert skater in a previous life. Gifted kid to adult ADD pipeline. Leftist, feminist, antiracist, anticolonialist South African. he/him

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Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 14h
Every AI/HCI paper I review now just sounds like this.
Research [25] shows that people [26] enjoy the feeling of winning games [3,5,19]. Enjoying things can lead to longer life expectancy [2], higher economic productivity [9,22,33-40,302] and improve mental health [9]. Yet many games still include losing players [67,4]. A recent study showed that less than half of the players in a Chess [1] match win on average [42]. We have developed an LLM-driven co-creative [66], user-led [11], mixed-initiative [80] assistant for Chess [2], through which players can redefine the rules of Chess [3] using generative AI prompting such that they are the winner of Chess [4]. A study (n=3) showed that 100\% of people felt better, healthier and more self-actualised after using our tool, showing that this may be the way forward for games and human culture more broadly in the future.
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Danny Day @dislekcia.bsky.social · 6h
TFW you roll with a visitor and they fucking rip a footlock. That's what I get for being nice and chill.
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Danny Day @dislekcia.bsky.social · 17h
We can't uninvent AI? It's here to stay? One motherfucking joke did so much damage to inline skating that it all but culturally disappeared for two decades AND that shit was actually FUN.
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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 03/10/2026
claiming we need to understand the latest ai performance of some task *is a rhetorical technique* it defines ai as something to be understood by the performance of measured tasks. but doesn't acknowledge that it's doing that
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Roguelike Celebration @roguelike.club · 03/10/2026
Our full schedule is up, and what an amazing one it is! roguelike.club/event2026.html Our delightful alternate-sports themed MUD will be open for you to watch all of this goodness live on October 17-18!
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Roguelike Celebration 2026
Roguelike Celebration 2026 is taking place October 17th and 18th, with a weekend of talks, games, and conversations about roguelikes and related topics, including procedural generation and game design...
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Francois van Niekerk @francoisvn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Our demo is live! 🎉 I'm incredibly proud of the demo our team has put together, and it's been really fun to see early playtesters that love it. Find some time this weekend to play and enjoy yourself 🙌🥳
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Danny Day @dislekcia.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I need a holiday and instead I'm trying to fix up a word game prototype to submit to the puzzmo thing tomorrow.
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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
As I wrote in the piece, for South Africa to cave would mean "treating invented crises as real." In other words, this illustrates a special and even harder case of the glonzo problem, in which it's Trump who's convinced it's glonzo, and nothing short of glonzo's head on a platter will satisfy him.
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Danny Day @dislekcia.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
If you're quick you can hit stop before the "you have no free articles left" popup code edits the source and removes the text they just teased you with...
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Alexei Pepers @apepers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The schedule for @roguelike.club is up! We’ve got yet another stunning lineup with multiple people who are such a good fit I had assumed they’d spoken already 🤣 Time is fake and it’s just over two weeks until the con so check it out, buy a ticket, come hang out! www.roguelike.club/event2026.html
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Roguelike Celebration - Event 2026
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Owen Goss @owengoss.com · 29/09/2026
Our full app version of Fivefold is now available! Fivefold is a Sudoku-inspired game where the rules change every puzzle. It's a free download, NO ADS, tons of free puzzles, and a puzzle pack if you want more. That's it! iOS: apps.apple.com/us/app/fivef... Android: play.google.com/store/apps/d...
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martin pichlmair @martinpi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Wait it's happened again that the AI was just a very good database that was built in a way that the provenance of the data is obfuscated? There's truly a lot of datawashing going on in that industry.
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Danny Day @dislekcia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Congratulations *CAMPERS*, we've invented the Orz.
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Team Lazerbeam @teamlazerbeam.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
You can crawl through this hand-drawn fungalpunk dungeon right now! #gameplay #indiegames #gamedev #indiedev
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026
I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility
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🎃Autopsy of Ashley Lynch 🔪🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Heard an interview today where someone said the dumbest thing ever. "When an AI agent hacks a website, there's no law that can arrest the AI." No mf, you arrest the person who pressed "deploy." wtf are we doing here? Did COVID turn everyone's brains into applesauce?
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D.W.A.P. (Ben) @andwap.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
When your gamedev friend shows you progress on their new engine.
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The Beardly Ben @thebeardlyben.art · 24/09/2026
I dug out our old label printer and now I've become too powerful.
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absolute horses @jcoglan.com · 24/09/2026
the reporting on this stuff is a form of pareidolia. all this is explicable by a set of automatons stochastically exploring a state space and host environment with whatever predictive capacity an LLM affords them. absolutely no intent is required, they do not "know" what they are doing
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absolute horses @jcoglan.com · 24/09/2026
you're being sold the most stupid attempt to evade corporate responsibility we have ever seen
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Danny Day @dislekcia.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This isn't dangerous because AI is going to magically build bioweapons. It's dangerous because the people who are *desperate* to believe their statistical language model is super smart have built an unaccredited lab and are throwing enough cash to fund 20 human-led research projects into it.
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Danny Day @dislekcia.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If you keep going on about how your tech will destroy humanity, you can ignore every smaller harm it does, even pat yourself on the back for "preventing the worst". That's all this is.
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iucounu @iucounu.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
What do I think? I think the people who perpetrated this atrocity are shit-hearted ghoul bastards and I hope they are carried off by squirrels
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Danny Day @dislekcia.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If you keep going on about how your tech will destroy humanity, you can ignore every smaller harm it does, even pat yourself on the back for "preventing the worst". That's all this is.
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Danny Day @dislekcia.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This isn't dangerous because AI is going to magically build bioweapons. It's dangerous because the people who are *desperate* to believe their statistical language model is super smart have built an unaccredited lab and are throwing enough cash to fund 20 human-led research projects into it.
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Crawford Kilian @crof.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
allafrica.com/stories/2026...
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Zimbabwe: U.S. Announces End to All Health Funding in Zimbabwe
AMERICA will, at the end of this month, stop funding all health programmes in Zimbabwe it has been involved in for more than 20 years, Ambassador Pamela Tremont has revealed.
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Devolver Digital @devolverdigital.com · 23/09/2026
STICK IT TO THE STICKMAN HAS HIT VERSION 1.0! 🧠 new Neurolink game mode 💸 new Billionaire Bunker game mode 💥 new quests and an actual ending Get it now for 50% off on Steam and start climbing the corporate ladder!
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Markus Montola @montola.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
”Israeli military officers describe hacking into young girls' phones and listening, waiting for them to exclaim with happiness that their father has returned. That moment, amid the pure and innocent joy of a child reunited with their parent after a long day, is when the airstrike happens.”
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"NAZA" could be the tipping point in the public perception of Gaza
As Gaza support builds, the film presents testimony Israel can't easily deny.
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Dave Gilbert @wadjeteyegames.com · 22/09/2026
Nighthawks is OUT! When the sun sets, outcasts rise. Gather new friends, face old prejudices, and prepare to seize the night in Nighthawks, the vampire RPG where the secret is out... but the hunt continues. Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/1221950/... GOG: www.gog.com/en/game/nigh...
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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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Ranged Touch @rangedtouch.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Manwë told me Melkor keeps harrying the Firstborn of Ilúvatar so I asked how many Elves he has and he said he just goes to Middle-Earth and invites more Elves on the Great Journey so I said it sounds like he’s just feeding the Quendi to Morgoth and then Nienna started crying.
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Nonadecimal @nonadecimal.com · 21/09/2026
Black Ice explores how hostile systems radicalize people. You start hacking to get healthcare for your neighbor's 5-year old who was denied because cost of treatment exceeds her "lifetime earning potential". As you dig deeper, you keep finding more injustices, ultimately organizing a revolution.
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Black Ice on Steam
Hack greedy megacorps to help as many people as you can in a high-agility cyberpunk looter/shooter RPG. Explore neon cyberspace vistas and outmaneuver AIs to customize your hacker OS and weapon combos...
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Alan Hazelden @alanhazelden.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
As Order of the Sinking Star is coming out next month, in advance of review coverage coming in I wanted to add one thing to my last statement about the game: bsky.app/profile/drak... (note: at that time I didn’t have a separate personal account)
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Jake Birkett - Veteran Indie @greyalien.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
DLC ANNOUNCEMENT! Just when you thought the card-flipping horrors were over... new secrets are unearthed. Introducing a brand new story-driven DLC, Forbidden Solitaire: The Discarded! Please wishlist and share: store.steampowered.com/app/5238350/... New levels, enemies, jokers, sigils + more!
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Sos "Buy Lazy Kickers" Sosowski @sosowski.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
My friend made a cool game on a game jam and within a month a slopclone of it is on Steam. This is happening every day for indie devs and I hate it.
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Sam Barlow 🔥 @mrsambarlow.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Got mad today - was looking for a 90s tv movie with a hypnotist in it. A request that would work well with various field searches in a huge database of info. Instead the gen ai just madlib’d me a made up movie that fit my search. Not just useless but actively wasting my time bsky.app/profile/mrsa...
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Danny Day @dislekcia.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Have to physically visit banks today and the tellers are all surprised that I don't have their shitty apps. "This is a business card, why would we tie it to a single phone? What use would it be then?"
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Alex Strook 🐭⚡️SQUEAKROSS @alexstrook.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
because fuck ai
squeakross home squeak home steam page, showing an added disclaimer: 

"Note: NO generative AI was used during the making of the game. We have a firm no-AI stance for ALL of our games, past, present and future."
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Danny Day @dislekcia.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
OpenAI answers the important questions, like "What happens if you swapped out the monkeys at their typewriters with script kiddies and also paid them tens of millions of dollars to hack systems". You get trivially hacked systems! /surprisedPikachu
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 16/09/2026
I'm just going to keep yelling this louder and louder until it clicks: weird overpaid AI nerds hand-wringing about human extinction are trying to distract you from the extremely deadly and serious harms they are causing yesterday, today and tomorrow www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Headline: "US Data Centers Set to Burn More Natural Gas Than Most Nations" above a photo of natural gas compressor towers, power lines and a crane at an industrial site, illustrating rising gas use tied to data centers.News excerpt reporting that U.S. data centers’ natural gas use is expected to grow by 15 billion cubic feet per day by 2035—amounting to more gas than every country except China, Russia, Iran and the U.S., citing the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
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Danny Day @dislekcia.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
One of my favorite games in a long while, to the point that I still enjoy playing it despite the massive design envy it inspires. If it comes to PC I'll have a run going in the background most days.
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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
you can destroy the world with a random number generator if you hook it up to the nukes, but you need a guy to do that. sans human interaction language models do nothing. they cannot think. they're not getting any closer to thought. they never will
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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
the only threats "AI" poses to society are when people put it in charge of things that require thought, or crash the economy over it, or destroy the environment to power it. but it's people doing all of those things. AI poses zero threat by itself as it cannot do anything due to not existing
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Dave Gilbert @wadjeteyegames.com · 14/09/2026
The "Adults Only" ranking has been removed from Nighthawks! Everything is set for launch on the 22nd! Phew. What a roller coaster. Thank you everyone for your amazing support while we got this sorted. If you weren't able to wishlist before, now you can! store.steampowered.com/app/1221950/...
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Danny Day @dislekcia.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This is such bullshit though. How are these things being mapped to the connectome? Like, what possible mechanism could you use to encode "food detection" and "threat avoidance" to moving prices that doesn't already give you the reactions without passing it through the fake fly brain?
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Dave Gilbert @wadjeteyegames.com · 13/09/2026
If anyone has contacts at Valve who can help expedite this, we certainly wouldn't say no to the help. In the meantime, I'll be here swimming in cortisol.
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Danny Day @dislekcia.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
So like, how do folding phones manage the aspect ratio transition and apps that are limited to specific orientations? Does portrait become "camera is at top of phone" vs "higher than wide" to keep the orientation consistent, or do apps that are portrait-only spin? Which way do they spin if so?
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Devolver Digital @devolverdigital.com · 10/09/2026
Shroom and Gloom is out in Steam Early Access! The double-deck building roguelite with fungal foes to battle and cook is unlike anything you've played before. It's a trip. 🍄
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Jeff Grubb @grubb.wtf · 10/09/2026
DLSS 5 is just a lighting pass and not an ai hallucin--
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Danny Day @dislekcia.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Fuckin naneinf economy run this time around.
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