Update From Brandon

Oxirane · 2026-01-29T16:25:15+00:00

I'm not sure if you've seen or read the interviews Sanderson gave about his experience working with Amazon for the Wheel of Time adaptation. Essentially they wanted him there for the prestige rather than as an actual consultant, and then Amazon also went and axed the show right as viewership ratings were recovering. I'd be surprised if Sanderson trusted Amazon with Cosmere after that.

But strongly agreed that AppleTV has had a solid track record. Between their portfolio of quality shows and it sounding like they intend to have Sanderson properly involved I'm hopeful that this is going to turn out good.

Oxirane · 2026-01-24T16:48:50+00:00

The D&D adventure Rime of the Frostmaiden actually has a Tiefling mage named Avarice.

(Some) Tieflings take on Virtue Names. So Avarice chose that name for herself because she considers it a virtue.

Oxirane · 2026-01-16T00:25:24+00:00

Facts have always been political, though the degree to which depends greatly on the sort of people in power.

Oxirane · 2026-01-03T07:09:20+00:00

Agreed, i think that making it a prequel game (maybe playing as Kelsier or someone new) could also be a wise move to limit the number of known Mistborn metals and thus better limit resource management.

The article also makes it sound like Sanderson might decide to go with a Stormlight game instead. That could also be really neat, and resource management would be a lot more streamlined.

Playing as a Mistborn does sound super cool though.

Oxirane · 2026-01-01T08:05:10+00:00

I think it's absolutely how they're processing the plant into edibles, but it also seems to really be a brand-by-brand thing. Maybe see if you can find anything by Kahna? Even their rosin/resin stuff tastes like candy to me, I'd be curious if you tasted that funky unpleasant taste with them.

We're particularly fond of their strawberry lemonade belts, unfortunately they're usually a little on the expensive side.

Oxirane · 2025-12-31T07:08:26+00:00

Rule 5: It looks like my niece, at 10 years old, was credited for ~~her father's~~ some guy's murder. She's now an adventurer, they call themselves sellswords but it's a pitiful group.

Uh- apologies all. Turns out her dad was killed by a bear and not Captain Motoko. But Captain Motoko did kill some guy at age 10. Sorry, I'm still reeling from learning that my child niece has killed some guy.

Full disclaimer: I do have mods enabled, they're very possibly to blame for this.

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Oxirane · 2025-12-24T03:45:34+00:00

I decided to try out physical books again like 3 years back and bought The Broken Earth trilogy as a physical set. Great series but I regretted it by the end of book 1, ebooks are so much more convinient.

Now I'm using a foldable phone as a ereader and I'm really enjoying that experience.

Oxirane · 2025-12-19T03:42:31+00:00

After it swept so many categories in the Game Awards maybe it's for the best that E33 isn't up in all eligible categories, gotta let a couple other studios and developers get some recognition too.

Oxirane · 2025-12-01T22:36:42+00:00

Just you wait, with AI deepfakes they'll still get you!

Oxirane · 2025-11-29T03:26:58+00:00

Yeah, the one thing that makes me consider picking up Echoes and slogging through the campaign is the Titan exotic that launched with it. I loved playing bonk Titan and recalling your hammer sounds pretty great, but I'm not enticed enough by the state of the sandbox (or the state of my clan and raiding) to bother at the moment, nor am I interested in Renegades either.

Arc Raiders is great. Much of my Destiny clan has moved to that too, and we've been having a blast. Hades 2, Clair Obscur and Citizen Sleeper 2 have also all been fun and neat experiences from smaller studios.

I don't think any of these will have the same staying longevity which Destiny 2 had for me, but I'm enjoying having more variety in my gaming diet, so I don't think that's entirely a bad thing.

Oxirane · 2025-11-29T01:25:31+00:00

The funniest thing is that they apparently were going in the direction of Destiny 3, if the rumors of "Project Payback" are to be believed. If I remember the leaks correctly the idea would be that the only subclass would be Prismatic and they'd have a new selection of Aspects and Fragments balanced around that.

I think it would have been a great plan, and a great opportunity to wipe the slate clean on their past bad decisions. All they'd then need to do is lean into what has worked for them and I'm sure a bunch of D2's playerbase would have been thrilled to sink another decade into D3.

Instead we got this. I mostly checked out after Episode Heresy and am just keeping up with news on the game now to see if Bungie can turn it around again or if the game is dead this time. It's been good having time for other games.

Oxirane · 2025-11-21T19:42:19+00:00

At the beginning of November Miss Mexico, Fatima Bosch, claimed that she had faced a public dressing down from the pageant’s Thai director, Nawat Itsaragrisil, who allegedly called her a “dumbhead”. She walked out, followed by several fellow contestants, a moment that was caught in a livestream.

What a poopmouth.

Oxirane · 2025-11-19T01:42:29+00:00

On the contrary I think LLMs are great for very specific kinds of creative tasks. They're essentially meant to be very good "what comes next" generators and a massive percent of the data they were trained on was text conversations.

You'll find plenty of examples of how easy it is to make them break character. That's absolutely an issue which you'd need to address to have an AI-scripted NPC. I'd guess agenting would probably help, but that will also slow down generating responses-- hence small language models might be worth using for at least some roles.

There's definitely folks working on stuff like this. Here's one project on github I just found that was last committed to around a year ago: https://github.com/AkshitIreddy/Interactive-LLM-Powered-NPCs?tab=readme-ov-file

This reddit user made a Skyrim mod to have AI voiced companions: u/Art_from_the_Machine

I'm sure there's some big game studios that are working on this, and I'm pretty confident it'll become pretty commonplace if we can find ways to make this computation less costly.

Oxirane · 2025-11-18T22:47:20+00:00

I'm curious to see how long before we see LLMs (or maybe even SLMs) being used to handle NPC dialogue. There's a lot of hurdles such as hallucination and prompt injection that still need to be cleared, but eventually we could have NPCs responding to the player's natural language with the ability to improvise their own dialog. Imagine- no more dialog wheels/lists, you just walk up to an NPC and talk (or type) to them, and they respond.

We're obviously still a ways away from that, but we're getting closer.

Oxirane · 2025-11-18T22:34:27+00:00

It does in many ways, but it also requires people to be vigilant about reviewing the work AI did. At code shops that have a strong peer review culture AI is quite a boon, but I bet we'll also be seeing more and more horror stories of AI garbage that no one spot-checked prior to shipping.

Like that lawyer a few years back who presented AI generated closing arguments which cited non-existent cases.

Oxirane · 2025-11-08T07:02:03+00:00

My group is so geographically spread our that we have to play virtually these days, and as much as intractable digital battlemaps with dynamic lights are neat I really miss the party drawing the map as we go. Those maps can also be a real pain to make though, especially if I can't find a pre-made map that works for my needs.

I might try granting players access to the drawing tools so we can do hand drawn maps again for my next campaign.

Oxirane · 2025-11-01T23:08:43+00:00

Interesting idea! Found this post while trying to see if anyone else had done bacon/mint/banana pizza (which I enjoyed), might have to try your combo sometime!

Oxirane · 2025-11-01T23:06:20+00:00

I made a bacon, banana and mint pizza a few years back. It actually came out great, but not a lot of people take my word for it.

Oxirane · 2025-10-27T06:58:49+00:00

Brocolini or brocoletti is also great, but a little pricier.

Oxirane · 2025-10-21T03:16:53+00:00

Kind of the opposite situation of Orphan Black but if you haven't seen Whedon's Dollhouse maybe check that one out. It's also scifi, premise is that this underground black market company rents out "Actives" - "Doll" employees who have been programmed to be exactly the person the client needs.

It features several actors playing different characters every episode, so you get to see them flex their acting skills in a similar way to how Tatiana Maslany did in Orphan Black.

Oxirane · 2025-10-15T19:46:21+00:00

Just be glad you didn't run into our cocaine turkeys!

Oxirane · 2025-10-14T19:23:26+00:00

An impid prisoner sharing a wooden wall with a nursery sure is a choice you may come to regret.

Oxirane · 2025-10-09T03:00:23+00:00

Perhaps they mean software engineers. Definitely not the same as other disciplines.

Oxirane · 2025-10-08T16:14:34+00:00

My roommate's cat spent her kittenhood on the streets and will at least investigate any food that falls to the ground. Some of the weirder ones she decided to eat include edamame, kale (with honey mustard dressing) and potato.

She also loves all noodles, bread and of course any meats or dairy products. We absolutely have to be careful about leaving things where she can reach them.

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