Edwin Lyons

I'm the CEO of @Firebolt_Games, building awesome toy-integrated mobile AR experiences. @[email protected]

[Roblox @Roblox]

My nervous system was not prepared for RECLONE

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@TiggerTherese @Pushk1n9 @hzeffman Seems unnecessarily agressive! Just having a conversation 😊

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@smithamundasad Really fascinating and surprisingly amusing, thank you!

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@natashaloder @willnorman @googlemaps @TfL @Google This doesn’t help with Google Maps but @Citymapper which uses @cyclestreets for routing will suggest Barnes Bridge. As far as I can tell google will never(?) tell you to take routes on a bike that require you to dismount - but Cycle Streets is quite happy to do this.

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@drmrbxdev @sleitnick “The C Programming Language”, I believe: https://t.co/mWfBgxsjgQ

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@DrDomPimenta @tortus_AI We use scrum in a different environment and generally have found that backlogs that contain “everything you ever want to do” to be counter productive as they either stop you being agile or take a lot of maintenance. We tend to keep just a sprint or so if stories on it, if that.

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@CarpeDiemJan @SimonOntheverge This paper says that Darwin dismissed it as being important for pollination, but that this was immediately controversial. That theory seems to come from a study in the 80s: https://t.co/NoFCcUByc0

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@Stuartq @mattgreencomedy Yes, “car must slow down now acceleration is reduced” is a more accurate metaphor but also most people would believe that to be the case in the same way The Express are misunderstanding inflation.

[Count Binface @CountBinface]

STOP PRESS! I promise that as MP for Uxbridge & South Ruislip I WILL move the hand dryer in the gents’ urinals at the Crown & Treaty to a more sensible position. TO PROVE IT, I have just signed a treaty with the Crown & Treaty, that if I win they will move it. I keep my promises!

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@lithgaelark @DavidGauke @InsideCroydon Here’s an attempt to get it to add dialogue and improve it - I don’t think it really works, but it shows what it can do. Obviously you could keep guiding it further. https://t.co/8800qJndZ8

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@lithgaelark @DavidGauke @InsideCroydon It can do dialogue - and it is superficially fine, but it’ll still be quite flat.

I think it’ll improve - ChatGPT is designed to be quite neutral - it plays it safe with its answers, often fence sitting or avoiding controversy which I think it partly what leads to blandness.

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@lithgaelark @DavidGauke @InsideCroydon It is - there’s sparks of something interesting but it always lacks any depth and feels unsatisfying. It’s good for coming up with ideas, you could imagine using aspects as a starting point for a better written story. It struggles with humour in general.

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@oneofmoo Thinking about it, it’s probably group discussions that are actually most effective at keeping the games somewhat coherent and fighting the urge to chase shiny things too much! Normally someone will pull it back on track or remember the reasoning.

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@oneofmoo Our documents tend to last as long as the feature takes to implement the first pass of - so normally days/weeks. So the game does sometimes change a bit afterwards. But we don’t normally try to go back and update them and we’ll often make “version 2” documents.

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@oneofmoo We write short-lived documents on confluence and try to keep goals and reasoning within the documents rather than just decisions. I find mini “pillars” for features quite helpful to guide the feature and help justify decisions.

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@garius Our cat obsessively leaps on top of the feeder and quickly turns around to check if food has fallen out. It’s basically the same as bashing a vending machine - but more effective!

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@tompeck Only appears to be affecting Europe including Scandinavia. The Americas, Africa and Asia are fine.

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@tompeck Something wrong at MeteoGroup who provide the BBC’s forecast as their own WeatherPro app is showing the same thing.