Vidya Researcher

Researcher and theorist of cognition, games, technology. Nintendo, FromSoft, Metroidvania, kinetic challenge, strategy.

[Vidya Researcher @VidyaResearcher]

Deleted all my personal media from Twitter (I left screenshots from released games, for others to enjoy and because they are but a drop in the bucket of Grok for copyrighted material, sadly). Denouement.

[Vidya Researcher @VidyaResearcher]

Thinking about disengaging from Twitter after today. It will probably be good for me, and I don't know if I can stomach the new TOS, or the owner's new imperative.

It's been a fun run. We'll see. I probably won't delete the account so I can keep finding people elsewhere.

[Vidya Researcher @VidyaResearcher]

Truly, I'm not sure how much more embarrassing and less serious we can get as a country, which makes all the horrors we inflict on the rest of the world that much more horrifying. The US is recursive clowns with nuclear codes, literally and metaphorically.

[Jake Sherman @JakeSherman]

Musk and Ramaswamy will lead the DOGE -- Department of Government Efficiency.

It will provide "advice and guidance from outside of Government"

[Vidya Researcher @VidyaResearcher]

@RobinPoedev This reminds me of the time I was watching a Bloodborne speedrun, and the streamer mentioned it was his birthday, and I said "Oh hey, it's my birthday too!", and he said "Oh yeah what year?" and I replied truthfully and he just said "Oh. Oh no."

💀💀💀

[Vidya Researcher @VidyaResearcher]

@NPurkeypile Discovering Blackreach is an all-time video game moment for me, a feeling that wasn’t really replicated until finding Siofra in Elden Ring. Magical stuff.

[Vidya Researcher @VidyaResearcher]

Used e.g. incorrectly instead of i.e.

[Vidya Researcher @VidyaResearcher]

I'm finding it nearly impossible to run a survey of general game players (e.g. not recruited through known player pools of specific games) because 40-60% of responses are now genAI bullshit.

There's probably going to be a new market of Real Human Response Validators soon.

[Vidya Researcher @VidyaResearcher]

It sucks that the only solutions are to 1) review, cut, and re-run over and over until you get the sample you need of real people, playing a raw numbers game of cutting the bot-half each time, or 2) build in multiple catch questions that make the process onerous for real people.

[Vidya Researcher @VidyaResearcher]

@tha_rami I initially thought you were removing "libs" from the code lol, but it's list items and I read in the b.

[James Medlock @jdcmedlock]

One takeaway from the last 4 years is we should do good things because they’re good, not because we can expect reliable electoral payoff from them.

[Vidya Researcher @VidyaResearcher]

The "Probably not" in this statement is incredible. Two words cut to the heart of the problem.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them.

While the Democratic leadership defends the status quo, the American people are angry and want change.

And they’re right.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them.

While the Democratic leadership defends the status quo, the American people are angry and want change.

And they’re right.

[Vidya Researcher @VidyaResearcher]

Hopefully there's something better on the other end, whatever effort it takes to get there.

[Vidya Researcher @VidyaResearcher]

I genuinely thought that the United States had demographically moved beyond the possibility of a republican winning the popular vote and their only hope came from anti-democratic institutions like the electoral college. But no! Democrats' propensity for failure proved me wrong.

[Vidya Researcher @VidyaResearcher]

Heads should roll at the DNC. Every advisor in this campaign, anyone setting party direction. Abject embarrassment and gross failure of their purported constituents. It's incompetence or obstruction, and both warrant excision. Squandered the brief spark of hope they were granted.

[Vidya Researcher @VidyaResearcher]

@jesawyer Watch out for the poll watchers, I hear those two are pretty nasty.

[Vidya Researcher @VidyaResearcher]

Despicable.

[Ryan T. Brown 🎮🩷 @Toadsanime]

Days after shutting its studio filled with veteran game developers, Netflix has announced its push into gen-AI games:

https://t.co/xNGP8y2SU4

[Vidya Researcher @VidyaResearcher]

@sweetpotatoes Highly recommended! Technically starts with the Assassin's Apprentice I think, but it's a pretty slow burn before the world really unfolds.