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Jeff Hamilton

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Game designer at Blizzard. He/him. Fan of: comics, music, archery, my cats. Personal account, all opinions are just mine. formerly @jeffahamilton on Twitter https://jhamilton.bearblog.dev/blog/ for blog-shaped thoughts

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Jeff Hamilton @jeffhamilton.bsky.social · May 13

(bored) I should put 3 to 8 irons in the fire

(later)

(juggling 8 flaming irons) damn this is kinda hard

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Alejandro Schuler @aschuler.bsky.social · 23m

This paper isn't only about Italy

Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 4h

Gambetta & Origgi on the LL Game, in which agents prefer to deliver and receive (!) low quality.

This paper is absolutely savage but also feels uncomfortably relevant to parts of academia outside of Italy 👀

diegogambetta.org/wp-content/u...

Abstract
We investigate a phenomenon which we have experienced as common when dealing
with an assortment of Italian public and private institutions: people promise to exchange
high-quality goods and services, but then something goes wrong and the quality delivered
is lower than had been promised. While this is perceived as ‘cheating’ by outsiders,
insiders seem not only to adapt to, but to rely on this outcome. They do not resent
low-quality exchanges; in fact, they seem to resent high-quality ones, and are inclined
to put pressure on or avoid dealing with agents who deliver high quality. The equilibrium
among low-quality producers relies on an unusual preference ranking which differs from
that associated with the Prisoners’ Dilemma and similar games, whereby self-interested
rational agents prefer to dish out low quality in exchange for high quality. While equally
‘lazy’, agents in our low-quality worlds are oddly ‘pro-social’: for the advantage of
maximizing their raw self-interest, they prefer to receive low-quality goods and services,
provided that they too can in exchange deliver low quality without embarrassment. They
develop a set of oblique social norms to sustain their preferred equilibrium when threatened by the intrusion of high quality. We argue that high-quality collective outcomes are
endangered not only by self-interested individual defectors, but by ‘cartels’ of mutually
satisfied mediocrities.

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Jeff Hamilton @jeffhamilton.bsky.social · 19m

instant all timer

Jeff Hamilton @jeffhamilton.bsky.social · 1h

big hospital worker's strike down the street from work today. they had a joyous air about them. solidarity!

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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 22h

pentiment (2022)

The Onion @theonion.com · 22h

Hotshot Peasant Has Window

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Jeff Hamilton @jeffhamilton.bsky.social · 12h

fortunately his attention span is still quite short lol

Jeff Hamilton @jeffhamilton.bsky.social · 13h

i am beset

my cat Tommy curled up on top of my bed. my legs are under the covers around him. he looks a little mischievous, as is his way

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Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 1d

I follow a Norwegian lighthouse keeper named Paal Bjørndal whose whole bit is sharing profound things that are inaudible due to high winds. I love the internet.

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Amanda Watson @amndw2.bsky.social · 21h

I needed to watch a minute's worth of a wolf chomping on a pumpkin today, maybe you do as well?

Wolf Conservation Center 🐺 @nywolforg.bsky.social · 23h

Although classified as carnivores, wolves may sometimes follow an omnivorous diet. They can eat meat, eggs and even fruit!

This time of year, pumpkins are a special treat for our ambassador wolves.🎃 #wolffact

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Jeff Hamilton @jeffhamilton.bsky.social · 15h

it's a heavy burden to bear, the steam deck.

Jeff Hamilton @jeffhamilton.bsky.social · 16h

this is like a LucasArts adventure game solution

Jeff Hamilton @jeffhamilton.bsky.social · 16h

oo fancy

Jeff Hamilton @jeffhamilton.bsky.social · 18h

This gives me the vibes of like the city-wide contests that are cultural touchstones in Firenze and other Italian cities. Real community stuff.

Jeff Hamilton @jeffhamilton.bsky.social · 18h

god that's good

Jeff Hamilton @jeffhamilton.bsky.social · 18h

i started hollow knight on Deck. but playing Deck for too long numbs my arms from its weight. Do i - play on desktop with crosssave but relearn habits to ps5 controller, or suffer the Deck's weight? conundrum

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joe @shariauncle.bsky.social · 20h

jokes aside, that dolphin wrote a good essay about fascism

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Jeff Hamilton @jeffhamilton.bsky.social · 19h

thanks, yeah - bsky.app/profile/pari... specifically

paris martineau @paris.nyc · 2d

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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Jeff Hamilton @jeffhamilton.bsky.social · 20h

glad i never got super into protein powder i guess

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Game Developer @gamedeveloper.bsky.social · 1d

Blizzard Entertainment Platform and Technology workers unionize under CWA

'We can have a voice in our working conditions to empower ourselves to do our best work at Blizzard.'

www.gamedeveloper.com

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Jeff Hamilton @jeffhamilton.bsky.social · 1d

I'm kidding a little but it seems to just go off whenever people start posting the hashtag again, which definitely happens more than once per year lol

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Jeff Hamilton @jeffhamilton.bsky.social · 1d

i love portfolio day I'm so glad it happens once every 77 days

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davemakes🔶 @mixolumia.com · 1d

my body is a machine that turns time into be on computer

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Nessa ✨ @nessathewriter.bsky.social · 1d

driving on the 5 freeway during a torrential downpour that just happens to be the first rain of the season so everyone’s suddenly forgotten how to drive

Terrified Willem Dafoe looking up at the sky

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Jeff Hamilton @jeffhamilton.bsky.social · 1d

reminds me of when a designer used full-size asteroids at .01 scale in the grenade vfx

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Jeff Hamilton @jeffhamilton.bsky.social · 1d

old man yells at cloud

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Shayna Moon (scary) @themoonis.gay · 1d

Hey did you know there are KITTENS in LOS ANGELES and they will be ready for adoption SOON? It’s true! These guys are getting fixed on 10/24 and they’ll be ready to be adopted by the end of the month!

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