While most lectures and seminars have shifted back onsite since October, our game design students’ end-term project presentations last Friday were conducted online for several good reasons. Later that day, however, we did go out and physically celebrated—for the first time since Covid-19 hit Germany around February 2020! From well-earned pints (mostly Guinness) to tequila shots to returning home at 5:30am, it felt as if the tiniest amount of balance had returned to the world. (Which, sadly, can’t be said for the world at large.)
Last week, I published another AI/LLM/GPT roundup at just drafts on Bing Antics & AI Pareidolia, with a brief linked-list follow-up yesterday on OpenAI’s grandiose AGI declaration. And I finally unboxed Free League’s Blade Runner tabletop RPG, accompanied by some Japanese kanji lore. There’s a new album on Flickr with 12 images from Seoul’s Jogno district, featuring high-rise shots and the bronze statue facing the Japanese embassy (info here). Plus, as usual, vintage-style travel squaries at Pixelfed and assorted stuff at my Instagram accounts betweendrafts and voidpunkverse.
For today’s Sunday funnies, some extreme YouTube nerdiness: setting up the original Doom 1.1 shareware version for multi-monitor setup over IPX, which overwhelms me with nostalgia. Not only because of Doom; I’m a certified computer support technician myself, and I worked with ancient PC hardware on a regular basis. Also, I remember it as if it were yesterday when I set up IPX half a life-time ago on different Windows versions and Mac OS 9 in our freelancer network’s former office, so we could all play Diablo together in multiplayer mode. But yes, I know, we can’t end without some cute animal stuff, so please enjoy this cat imitating art!
J.
Last week, I published another AI/LLM/GPT roundup at just drafts on Bing Antics & AI Pareidolia, with a brief linked-list follow-up yesterday on OpenAI’s grandiose AGI declaration. And I finally unboxed Free League’s Blade Runner tabletop RPG, accompanied by some Japanese kanji lore. There’s a new album on Flickr with 12 images from Seoul’s Jogno district, featuring high-rise shots and the bronze statue facing the Japanese embassy (info here). Plus, as usual, vintage-style travel squaries at Pixelfed and assorted stuff at my Instagram accounts betweendrafts and voidpunkverse.
For today’s Sunday funnies, some extreme YouTube nerdiness: setting up the original Doom 1.1 shareware version for multi-monitor setup over IPX, which overwhelms me with nostalgia. Not only because of Doom; I’m a certified computer support technician myself, and I worked with ancient PC hardware on a regular basis. Also, I remember it as if it were yesterday when I set up IPX half a life-time ago on different Windows versions and Mac OS 9 in our freelancer network’s former office, so we could all play Diablo together in multiplayer mode. But yes, I know, we can’t end without some cute animal stuff, so please enjoy this cat imitating art!
J.