Reposted by Gary KacmarcikMike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Every AI/HCI paper I review now just sounds like this. 32814197
Gary Kacmarcik @garykac.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I kinda want the top to explode like a volcano when they're angry. 010
Gary Kacmarcik @garykac.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I don't see what's so aggressive about THE MAX THE. 150
Gary Kacmarcik @garykac.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I needed a "Human Made" icon for a soccer game I'm working on and I clearly can't use @hinokodo.com 's (hand-based) icons. So I was forced to create an alternate version: 1180
Gary Kacmarcik @garykac.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Months later, when the official name ("Blink") was decided there was no outcry and everything easily switched to the new name. So now I purposefully choose terrible placeholder names for projects until I can come up with a decent name. 130
Gary Kacmarcik @garykac.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Years ago, when Chrome was planning to fork WebKit and create a replacement, they needed a quick name for the new project knowing that it would be changed to an official name later. To avoid people getting attached to the temporary name, they purposefully chose a terrible name: "Pants". 120
Gary Kacmarcik @garykac.bsky.social · 01/10/2026You see, this is why dead people shun social media. They're never given a chance. 010
Gary Kacmarcik @garykac.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Printed out maps for the upcoming Tokyo Game Market. 11"x17" gives enough room to make all the annotations I'll need. 250
Reposted by Gary KacmarcikVelour Shirt @object.works · 29/09/2026This is a metaphor for so many things these days that I couldn't choose 682147710
Gary Kacmarcik @garykac.bsky.social · 30/09/2026@chrisbrockett.bsky.social It looks like our COLING2000 paper would have fallen in Section 5.2 "Script-Specific Tokenizers". Although looking at the paper now, I see we didn't mention our support for inline parenthetical yomi characters: 食(た)べた => 食べた www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...microsoft.com 110
Gary Kacmarcik @garykac.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Card from an upcoming s̶o̶c̶c̶e̶r̶football card game. 040
Gary Kacmarcik @garykac.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Personally (if this was me) I would be more concerned about forcing myself onto a monthly cadence to produce something creative, whether I was feeling it or not. Setting a personal goal like that – fine because I can reprioritize. But once other people are depending on it... too much stress. 130
Gary Kacmarcik @garykac.bsky.social · 22/09/2026TIL. Sad that I had to double-check it wasn't AI BS before I would accept it though. 010
Reposted by Gary Kacmarcikelia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible 25150273943
Reposted by Gary KacmarcikPrem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026New: Macklemore says Robert Kraft — who owns Gillette Stadium, where Macklemore & Ed Sheeran were to perform later this month — called Sheeran. Kraft rallied other owners together behind an ultimatum for Sheeran: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you won't be allowed in our venues. 31570522534
Gary Kacmarcik @garykac.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I had a similar lack of self control when I saw this one in Korea. No ragrets! 011
Gary Kacmarcik @garykac.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Connor taking a well-deserved break after managing a booth at PaxWest for 4 days to... launch a Kickstarter... 😅 170
Gary Kacmarcik @garykac.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Launching the day after Pax sounds like "out of the frying pan and into the fire" for you. Good luck! 111
Gary Kacmarcik @garykac.bsky.social · 27/08/2026This can be used in combination with a black sharpie where you black out the passages you never need to refer to again. Three levels of highlighting! 330
Gary Kacmarcik @garykac.bsky.social · 27/08/2026The icosaflex being the round-ish camera that you roll on the ground and it takes a random picture from one of its 20 cameras. 110
Gary Kacmarcik @garykac.bsky.social · 11/08/2026theshovel.com.au/2020/06/04/n...theshovel.com.auNRA Accidentally Forgets To Rise Up Against Tyrannical Government — The ShovelAn embarrassed National Rifle Association says it totally forgot to do the one thing it has been saying for years it is solely there to do. 010
Reposted by Gary KacmarcikDaniel Newman // New Mill Industries @dnlnwmn.bsky.social · 11/08/2026The vendors for the 2026 Indie Games Night Market have been decided on! www.newmillindustries.com/ignmnewmillindustries.comIndie Games Night Market — New Mill Industries 36819
Gary Kacmarcik @garykac.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Oh, my goodness. This. His women are either "the ugliest ugly that ever did ugly" or were defined by their breasts: "she may have been old, but she had the breasts of a 20 year old". 070
Gary Kacmarcik @garykac.bsky.social · 06/08/2026And a warning: You'll likely end up with more than one deck. (Perhaps many more) 010
Gary Kacmarcik @garykac.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Also, depending on the goals, a system like Lenormand might be worth considering. 110
Gary Kacmarcik @garykac.bsky.social · 06/08/2026But it's also good to find a deck with art that speaks to you. Although I've found a lot of decks that look really nice are lacking the mnemonic symbolism on the cards. Not a problem for someone familiar with tarot, but possibly more of a challenge for beginners getting started. 110
Gary Kacmarcik @garykac.bsky.social · 06/08/2026+1 to Rider-Waite-Smith as a first deck. It is the baseline by which all others are compared. And so much info available for it in books or online. It's fallen out of copyright, so you'll see lots of variants of it. 110
Reposted by Gary KacmarcikAlways Awake Games (Connor) 🔜 PaxU @connor.alwaysawake.games · 04/08/2026Glad you enjoyed it! And it’s coming to ks soon: www.kickstarter.com/projects/alw...kickstarter.comComing soon: Out of Sorts - 2nd EditionWork together to sort the strange books in an alien's library before time runs out! 063
Reposted by Gary Kacmarcik🎃 Zack o' Lantern 🎃 @zackdavisson.com · 05/08/2026Washington has been 100% vote by mail since 2011. I haven't voted in person since 2000. All of our ballots have individual tracking numbers and we get to watch them go through the whole process. It is the best voting system in the US. 2307
Gary Kacmarcik @garykac.bsky.social · 04/08/2026My Pikachu Anker charger still brings me joy whenever I use it. Pity it was only released in Japan. 030
Reposted by Gary Kacmarciklumpley @lumpley.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Something randomly reminded me to share this! lumpley.games/2019/10/21/g... 211734
Gary Kacmarcik @garykac.bsky.social · 27/07/2026As a content creator, being more content sounds like a good thing. 020
Gary Kacmarcik @garykac.bsky.social · 22/07/2026It must be a bit of a relief thinking about all the future problems you've avoided. 120
Gary Kacmarcik @garykac.bsky.social · 11/07/2026"Her figures are splayed open..." in the alt text should be "fingers". 000
Gary Kacmarcik @garykac.bsky.social · 26/06/2026This movie completely misrepresents train travel in Korea. I took a train from Seoul to Busan earlier this year and it was PERFECTLY NORMAL. 000
Reposted by Gary KacmarcikDr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 25/06/2026I especially love this diagram. 5248542011
Gary Kacmarcik @garykac.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Just pointing out that your other option was a quick round-trip to Japan. 110
Gary Kacmarcik @garykac.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Vernors was my favorite growing up, but at some point they changed the formula and it's not quite the same. Probably when they removed the "flavor aged in oak barrels" tagline. 110
Gary Kacmarcik @garykac.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Next time you're in Japan you can fish some out of the capsule recycling bins. 110
Gary Kacmarcik @garykac.bsky.social · 18/06/2026A hashtag is a "tag" that begins with a hash character (#). Although many people who did know what to call that character have taken to calling it a hashtag. So now we have hashtagtags. 000
![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.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:h5kgtr755iczaqxomeh2pmh7/bafkreicu2p2o3is64z5k37n222hgahp67ssca6ro3nggbjtpwasig2zzbi)
