chilton 👁
@chiltonm.bsky.social
Former boy adventurer, now Unwinnable columnist. Also found at PC Gamer, Kill Screen, Bullet Points, Heterotopias. chiltonm.bearblog.dev
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chilton 👁
@chiltonm.bsky.social
· Sep 7
"This is what fixes the world. It’s never that pretty."
@chiltonm.bsky.social explains what makes Promise Mascot Agency the ultimate anti-cozy game:
@chiltonm.bsky.social explains what makes Promise Mascot Agency the ultimate anti-cozy game:
Money Makes Kaso-Machi Go Round - Unwinnable
The most important thing to take from this is that the question of the relationship between cozy games and capitalism is 1) interesting and 2) unresolved.
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Now up on the site!
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"All of this, food bloggers say, erodes the simple promise of a recipe: that someone has actually cooked it before you have."
NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet -- And Thanksgiving Dinner
Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures
www.bloomberg.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:43 PM
"All of this, food bloggers say, erodes the simple promise of a recipe: that someone has actually cooked it before you have."
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this is insane both on its face and with several more insane details once you read the full thing
Our upcoming game HORSES was preemptively banned from Steam, with no path to appeal. The game will still launch next week on December 2nd and will be available on EGS, GOG, Humble, and Itch for $4.99. Here is a detailed FAQ covering what happened: horses.wtf/BannedFromSt...
November 25, 2025 at 5:53 PM
this is insane both on its face and with several more insane details once you read the full thing
Promise Mascot Agency:
Terumaru, a bright young lightbulb and the mascot of the Tokyu Denki electric company, trapped in a door yesterday:
November 23, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Promise Mascot Agency:
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stop and smell the harvesting spires
#scifiart #sciencefiction #solarpunk #procreate #digitalart #illustration #fantasyart #comicart
#scifiart #sciencefiction #solarpunk #procreate #digitalart #illustration #fantasyart #comicart
July 2, 2025 at 3:03 PM
stop and smell the harvesting spires
#scifiart #sciencefiction #solarpunk #procreate #digitalart #illustration #fantasyart #comicart
#scifiart #sciencefiction #solarpunk #procreate #digitalart #illustration #fantasyart #comicart
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Good Morning BlueSky! User #616,721 reporting for duty.
November 22, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Good Morning BlueSky! User #616,721 reporting for duty.
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hey, i'm looking for work! full-time or freelance 💜
journalist, critic, author
proficient in features, criticism, reporting, reviews, previews, news, guides
words at lost in cult, RPS, VGC, unwinnable, gamesradar+, polygon, EDGE, PLAY
muckrack.com/ash-like-a-d...
[email protected]
journalist, critic, author
proficient in features, criticism, reporting, reviews, previews, news, guides
words at lost in cult, RPS, VGC, unwinnable, gamesradar+, polygon, EDGE, PLAY
muckrack.com/ash-like-a-d...
[email protected]
November 22, 2025 at 11:52 AM
hey, i'm looking for work! full-time or freelance 💜
journalist, critic, author
proficient in features, criticism, reporting, reviews, previews, news, guides
words at lost in cult, RPS, VGC, unwinnable, gamesradar+, polygon, EDGE, PLAY
muckrack.com/ash-like-a-d...
[email protected]
journalist, critic, author
proficient in features, criticism, reporting, reviews, previews, news, guides
words at lost in cult, RPS, VGC, unwinnable, gamesradar+, polygon, EDGE, PLAY
muckrack.com/ash-like-a-d...
[email protected]
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Excuse to post a classic?
November 20, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Excuse to post a classic?
We have got to do something about “this is more a comment than a question” at author talks. You sound stupid and everyone hates you. Grow up
November 21, 2025 at 1:45 AM
We have got to do something about “this is more a comment than a question” at author talks. You sound stupid and everyone hates you. Grow up
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My “Trump does not want to execute members of Congress” statement has a lot of people asking questions already answered by the statement.
*LEAVITT: TRUMP DOES NOT WANT TO EXECUTE MEMBERS OF CONGRESS
November 20, 2025 at 7:12 PM
My “Trump does not want to execute members of Congress” statement has a lot of people asking questions already answered by the statement.
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If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
November 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
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Dreaming of Spring (risograph)
November 19, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Dreaming of Spring (risograph)
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Cover art for issue 176 of @unwinnable.com Monthly, step by step.
November 19, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Cover art for issue 176 of @unwinnable.com Monthly, step by step.
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We’re watching a shift where AI simulates the cohesion and reinforcement that used to require an entire online community. A single person can now build a complete parallel reality with nothing more than a prompt window. Which seems bad.
November 19, 2025 at 2:25 PM
We’re watching a shift where AI simulates the cohesion and reinforcement that used to require an entire online community. A single person can now build a complete parallel reality with nothing more than a prompt window. Which seems bad.
A fun part of watching tons of spaghetti westerns in random order is trying to sort out the trick gun trope chronology….. I love when a dude has a gun that folds in half for no fucking reason, I live for that shit
November 19, 2025 at 4:15 AM
A fun part of watching tons of spaghetti westerns in random order is trying to sort out the trick gun trope chronology….. I love when a dude has a gun that folds in half for no fucking reason, I live for that shit
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Good to see that American journalists aren't letting this go unremarked upon. See another appropriate framing from NYT here:
November 18, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Good to see that American journalists aren't letting this go unremarked upon. See another appropriate framing from NYT here:
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This postscript is so telling of what trying to negotiate with MRM is like. Massive respect for Scott in sticking to his principles and not allowing them to bully or gaslight him into signing. I'm disgusted that this is still happening to authors. No market is worth this.
Did you read my post from last week about how contract woes caused me to withdraw an accepted story from F&SF, ending my 54-year quest to be published in that magazine? But wait (as the saying goes) — there's more! Scroll down at the link for an update. www.scottedelman.com/wordpress/20...
A dream denied: My 54-year quest to publish a short story in F&SF ‹ Scott Edelman
www.scottedelman.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:05 PM
This postscript is so telling of what trying to negotiate with MRM is like. Massive respect for Scott in sticking to his principles and not allowing them to bully or gaslight him into signing. I'm disgusted that this is still happening to authors. No market is worth this.
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Ooooh is your internet broken. Did someone's immaterial web of financial speculation and surveillance turn out to have a failure point in material infrastructure
October 20, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Ooooh is your internet broken. Did someone's immaterial web of financial speculation and surveillance turn out to have a failure point in material infrastructure
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"I don't know" is one of the most powerful intellectual positions imaginable.
Where you plant your "I don't know" flag signals your research question, methodology, and even what *counts* as evidence.
Current commercial manifestations of GenAI make it so you cannot even see the spot on the ground.
Where you plant your "I don't know" flag signals your research question, methodology, and even what *counts* as evidence.
Current commercial manifestations of GenAI make it so you cannot even see the spot on the ground.
My biggest GenAI-related intellectual fear is about the future of “I don’t know”
Giving medical advice, sometimes ChatGPT is right, and sometimes it is quite wrong, but it is hard to tell the difference:
"Rather, Wachter identified something more frightening: ChatGPT’s dangerous answers don’t sound risky to a non-doctor. The chatbot always sounds confident and authoritative."
"Rather, Wachter identified something more frightening: ChatGPT’s dangerous answers don’t sound risky to a non-doctor. The chatbot always sounds confident and authoritative."
November 18, 2025 at 12:15 PM
"I don't know" is one of the most powerful intellectual positions imaginable.
Where you plant your "I don't know" flag signals your research question, methodology, and even what *counts* as evidence.
Current commercial manifestations of GenAI make it so you cannot even see the spot on the ground.
Where you plant your "I don't know" flag signals your research question, methodology, and even what *counts* as evidence.
Current commercial manifestations of GenAI make it so you cannot even see the spot on the ground.
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sir this is a McDonald's
Trump: "They don't laugh at us anymore. They respect us now, again. And that's what we want. We want to be liked. We want to be respected much more so than being liked. And you know in a certain way they like us better now too. Because the world was ripping off our country. Not sustainable."
November 17, 2025 at 11:39 PM
sir this is a McDonald's
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A closer look at my finished marionette/puppet, Gourd-fellow the pumpkin sprite. 🌙
November 17, 2025 at 7:43 PM
A closer look at my finished marionette/puppet, Gourd-fellow the pumpkin sprite. 🌙
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my contributor gig at endless mode is drastically changing in november, going from a weekly piece to a monthly one. as such, i’m available to take on more freelance work. i got experience with reporting, criticism, evergreen stuff, consulting, and anything in between.
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November 17, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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