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The Lone Toad Newsletter - March 2024

The Lone Toad - Croaker RPGs Newsletter • 159 implied HN points • 01 Mar 24
🎨 Art & Illustration Solo RPGs Games Illustration Newsletter
  1. The Lone Toad newsletter is going bi-monthly, offering more content and free-flowing thoughts on Solo RPG development.
  2. Exciting new RPG called Substratum Protocol by Pandion Games launching on Backerkit March 26th, offering a unique solo survival mystery experience.
  3. Croaker RPGs is continuously releasing new games like Night Terror and An Antique Land, with more to come like the Lost City of Cargoth, showcasing their dedication to creating engaging RPG content.
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The Creative Playground

Ralph Ammer • 825 implied HN points • 01 Dec 23
🎨 Art & Illustration Drawing Creativity Games Skills Craft
  1. The secret to jumpstarting creativity is having fun and being immersed in a game with clear goals and rules.
  2. Drawing exercises are like structured games that set creative limitations to free up our creativity.
  3. To build a creative playground, make variations, limit your time, pick a format, and focus on improving a skill.

What time is it? Players' only meeting time HOO

Good Morning It's Basketball • 963 implied HN points • 26 Oct 23
🎾 Sports Basketball Teams Players Games Highlights
  1. The Bulls had a strong start to the season but need improvement in offensive rebounds and field goal percentage from key players.
  2. Kristaps Porzingis made a significant impact in his Celtics debut with 30 points, changing the team dynamics.
  3. The Chicago Bulls faced a rough start to the season, leading to a players' only meeting after a brutal home loss.

Nikola Jokic and the Nuggets are unbothered

Good Morning It's Basketball • 668 implied HN points • 25 Oct 23
🎾 Sports Basketball Teams Players Games Season
  1. The Denver Nuggets, led by Nikola Jokic, have a history of being unbothered even in disappointing finishes.
  2. Despite setbacks like injuries and playoff losses, Jokic and the Nuggets have remained unbothered and resilient.
  3. The Nuggets have established dominance over their rivals, like the Los Angeles Lakers, and seem unfazed by challenges.

TITAA #51: Tool People & People Tools

Things I Think Are Awesome • 157 implied HN points • 01 Feb 24
🕹 Technology AI VR Games NLP Tools
  1. Non-human tools with personality are becoming more common, especially with AI support.
  2. Large Language Models (LLMs) are being explored for creativity and role-playing, showing potential to improve creative output when working together.
  3. Real human behavior can sometimes view humans as disposable tools, with ongoing layoffs in industries like tech and games.

On Scary Chess

Poczwardowski Notes • 177 implied HN points • 13 Dec 23
🎭️ Culture Games Learning Self-Improvement Mistakes Judgment
  1. Playing chess is not about intelligence but about practice and a systematic approach to learning.
  2. Chess is a game of skill and strategy, with no luck involved. It's a battle of brains where the better prepared player usually wins.
  3. Overcoming fear of judgment can lead to valuable experiences. Trying new things, like learning chess, can be rewarding and fun.

Who's top of Steam Next Fest for October 2023?

The GameDiscoverCo newsletter • 255 implied HN points • 16 Oct 23
🕹 Technology Games Indie games Game Development Acquisitions
  1. The top games at Steam Next Fest for October 2023 were a diverse mix of genres and styles, with a focus on deep building and crafting mechanics.
  2. There is a discussion about the existence of an 'indie games bubble,' highlighting challenges in funding new games and market saturation.
  3. Game discovery news includes updates on Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard, Sony testing PC trophies for PSN, and Epic Games Store's new features.

Are the Denver Nuggets a Public Team?

House of Strauss • 24 implied HN points • 29 Feb 24
🎾 Sports NBA Games
  1. The Denver Nuggets surprisingly had four games reaching a viewership of 2 million this season on cable, which is a rare achievement in today's media landscape.
  2. Viewership for NBA games on ESPN and TNT can be challenging to reach the 2 million threshold, but the Nuggets achieved it multiple times.
  3. Reaching 2 million viewers on cable for NBA games is not common, making the Denver Nuggets stand out for their significant viewership numbers.

Database Review

Zwischenzug • 353 implied HN points • 19 Jun 23
🎾 Sports Chess Strategy Analysis Games
  1. In poker, understanding strategy requires looking at the big picture over many hands.
  2. Chess is a game of specifics and calculation, unlike poker which has too many possibilities to calculate precisely.
  3. In both chess and poker, it's essential to have a global view of your strategy to identify and correct systematic mistakes.

TITAA #48: Magic Mirrors and Radios

Things I Think Are Awesome • 117 implied HN points • 31 Oct 23
🎨 Art & Illustration Literature TV Poetry Games VR
  1. Jean Cocteau's film Orpheus explores themes of inspiration and creativity through tech signals and mirror portals.
  2. Mirrors serve as symbols and characters in Cocteau's film, representing death and reflection.
  3. The post also includes recommendations for AI/art creativity, narrative research, and TV shows like Our Flag Means Death and The Terror.

Happy Opening Day!

Mets Fix • 412 implied HN points • 30 Mar 23
🎾 Sports Baseball Teams Players Games
  1. Baseball fans celebrate Opening Day with special memories and stories.
  2. The New York Mets have a strong history of winning on Opening Day.
  3. New rules and exciting matchups mark the start of the 2023 baseball season.

Work, Abuse, and Unwinnable Games

72 Degrees North • 39 implied HN points • 14 Jan 24
🎭️ Culture Work Abuse Games Relationships Capitalism
  1. Life can sometimes present unwinnable situations where moving on is the best option.
  2. People may engage in unwinnable games like pursuing unattainable goals in relationships or falling into abusive patterns.
  3. Corporate work under capitalism shares similarities with abusive relationships, using small rewards and big punishments to keep workers captive.

Games as Training

David Friedman’s Substack • 143 implied HN points • 13 Sep 23
🚌 Education Learning Skills Games Teaching Programming
  1. Games like bridge, chess, and Diplomacy can be viewed as training exercises for skills like coordination, tactics, strategy, and commitment.
  2. Playing games can help develop real-world skills like finding your way around environments and accomplishing goals.
  3. Some games are designed specifically to teach skills, such as computer programming or the principles of mutual advantage over conquest.

TITAA #42: Liqueured Up in the SciFi Wild West

Things I Think Are Awesome • 275 implied HN points • 30 Apr 23
🎭️ Culture Literature Art & Illustration Science Poetry Games
  1. Monks in the Alps make a secret green liqueur involving a mysterious alchemical manuscript and 130 plants.
  2. Chartreuse monks are facing production cutbacks to focus more on prayer due to environmental impact concerns.
  3. Recent advancements in AI art tools, video and sound generation, and narrative agents offer exciting creative possibilities.

Athletes Play Coordination Games – Coordination Part III

Living Fossils • 6 implied HN points • 13 Mar 24
🎾 Sports Athletics Games Rules
  1. Sports are a way for humans to measure and compare abilities, leading to the motivation to compete and demonstrate skills.
  2. Different sports have different rules to solve coordination problems - the rules must be agreed upon to accurately measure abilities.
  3. Penalties and fouls in sports serve two main purposes: maintaining the integrity of the game as a measurement tool and deterring harmful actions.

Applications of induction

Infinitely More • 5 implied HN points • 13 Mar 24
🚌 Education Mathematics Games Numbers
  1. Induction is about the impossibility of minimal counterexamples, and it comes in various forms like common induction and strong induction.
  2. Flexible use of induction is key - choose the valid form that best fits your proof.
  3. Differentiate between examples and proofs - examples can provide insight but don't prove universal statements.

Behold the World

Donkeyspace • 3 implied HN points • 07 Mar 24
🎭️ Culture Games Esports Internet Travel Media
  1. GeoGuessr is a game that highlights the beauty and complexity of perceiving and interpreting the world through online snapshots.
  2. GeoGuessr is a game that relies on skill and intuition rather than complex strategies, making it unique from traditional esports.
  3. GeoGuessr serves as an example of how games can evolve and fill educational voids by engaging players in new ways of navigating and understanding data.

TITAA #41.5: Agents and Rich Description

Things I Think Are Awesome • 78 implied HN points • 15 Apr 23
🕹 Technology AI Games NLP Game design
  1. The post discusses Segment Anything for creative tasks, social agents in game contexts, and new LLMs in the AI landscape.
  2. The content covers AI art tools, game design elements like agents and NPCs, and updates in the field of NLP.
  3. The author mentions increases in paid subscriptions, interesting topics like AI art copyright, and shares a variety of exciting updates.