Upping my game with AI

Designing better game streams with AI feedback—turning creative ideas into reality.

September 12, 2024 · 4 min · 735 words · Tipa

Twitch Drops: Why?

It’s an army of low-effort streamers playing commercials to hundreds of hidden browser tabs.

August 27, 2024 · 3 min · 495 words · Tipa

New "Now Playing" Widget

Check out the new widget!

January 19, 2024 · 1 min · 99 words · Tipa

Creating "32 Bullets" -- an AI adventure.

In “32 Bullets”, you play as a professional hitman with only 32 bullets to complete 32 contracts. The catch is that you must complete them all within a certain amount of time.

September 1, 2022 · 3 min · 431 words · Tipa

Kingdoms of Amalur: Sailing to Mel Senshir

Rathir and Mel Senshir are twin cities, on either side of a strait that separates the lands of mortals and Fae from the land of the Tuatha, fallen Fae who seek to destroy the mortal worlds. Mel Senshir holds back the evil horde, but just barely. Like Minas Tirith, everyone feels the fall of Mel Senshir is the will of Fate, and after the bulwark falls, the Tuatha will cross the strait to Renthir, and then their victory will be assured. ...

September 30, 2020 · 5 min · 1021 words · Tipa

Kingdoms of Amalur: I have never actually played this game

I’ve uncovered some unsettling truths about this game, or rather, the original version of it that I played when it came out in 2012, and then again a few years later in 2016. I was pretty sure I’d made it to near the end of the game in my first playthrough, and then had made it quite far in the second playthrough before again getting distracted by a new shiny. ...

September 28, 2020 · 5 min · 869 words · Tipa

Kingdoms of Amalur: Twitch combat

This post today isn’t actually about Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning. Mostly. This post is, how can I talk about Kingdoms of Amalur – and going forward, other things I might play? There’s a few things that are stopping me from being a content creator. For one, I have a slow internet connection. And according to the Twitch app, my video card is of poor quality, even though it’s of the current generation (though not a 3080). I don’t have a webcam any more, I often leave the keyboard to deal with RL stuff, I don’t feel like doing hair and makeup and I don’t like the way my voice sounds on video. ...

September 23, 2020 · 5 min · 1040 words · Tipa

Blaugust #2: Everything You Like is Bad (and you should feel bad)

Today’s Blaugust prompt is from the blog Azerothian Life: What is some popular piece of content/media that seems to be universally loved that you have never been able to understand? I think it takes a very small person to judge what someone else likes. Everyone is different, and this difference, this diversity, is part of what makes us special. This whole social media phenomenon is so transformative because it allows people to connect in ways impossible in any other era of human history. ...

August 2, 2020 · 4 min · 722 words · Tipa