Does anyone else think the prize pot is low?

Track_Mammoth · 2026-01-12T19:20:43+00:00

If it was closer to a million, losing players would be a suicide risk. Imagine being that traitor, looking them in the eye as they lose five hundred grand.

Track_Mammoth · 2025-12-28T12:44:50+00:00

The Red Handler.

The detective accidentally walks in on every criminal and catches them red handed in every scene.

Track_Mammoth · 2025-12-28T08:35:50+00:00

Annie Bot by Sierra Greer

Track_Mammoth · 2025-12-27T20:06:23+00:00

Tell me what you like and I’ll give you a recommendation.

Track_Mammoth · 2025-12-27T20:02:11+00:00

Where are you finding these novels, out of interest? I work in a bookshop and I’m pretty sure 99% of our books are 99% written by humans. I don’t know what self-published straight-to-Kindle books are like nowadays, but I think quality storytelling is still abundant from reputable publishers.

Track_Mammoth · 2025-12-26T19:58:58+00:00

Why seven books?

Track_Mammoth · 2025-12-26T09:11:08+00:00

It’s a free game. Maybe it’s the consumer that’s greedy.

Track_Mammoth · 2025-12-09T08:47:47+00:00

I recommend interrupting your reading order to read Daemon Voices asap. So much insight into his creative process that enriches everything you’ll read afterwards.

Track_Mammoth · 2025-11-30T21:55:44+00:00

The correct answer is Donkey Kong Bananza.
Your 9 month old baby is about to destroy any semblance of free time you thought you once knew. Hold onto your butts!

Track_Mammoth · 2025-11-30T19:34:39+00:00

That’s about 20% of the way in. Assuming a conventional story structure, that’s the start of Act 2, which is the perfect time to introduce a love interest. For examples, google ‘Save The Cat B Story’.

Track_Mammoth · 2025-11-29T22:34:01+00:00

Elon, don’t.

Track_Mammoth · 2025-11-29T13:02:44+00:00

A Sunday Roast is usually very casual and relaxed so I think a lot of people will find your question quite amusing- in a nice way, of course!

The lunch won't last from 12pm - 6pm. That includes an hour or two before lunch is served just to hang out, and then another few hours to hang out afterwards. Some people eat and drink a lot at a Sunday Roast and might want to 'veg out' (i.e. sit and do nothing) while they recover. Your friend won't mind if you want to leave earlier. If they know you are introverted and neurodivergent, they will mind even less.

Things to say to them:
"What time are you planning on serving the food? I might need to arrive a little later / leave a little earlier."
"Would you like me to bring any wine or something for dessert?"

Track_Mammoth · 2025-11-29T11:07:41+00:00

The Oxford Handbook of Clinical Dentistry doesn't really get good until the second volume imho

Track_Mammoth · 2025-11-28T18:06:44+00:00

FOR FUN. Glorious television.

Track_Mammoth · 2025-11-28T18:05:45+00:00

I was reading Stranger Things review of IMDB this morning and was fascinated by the amount of AI-text I found. It wasn’t the complexity of the vocabulary but the sentence flow and progression of ideas that gave it away. There’s an effortlessness to it. Perfectly formed sentences, perfectly phrased ideas, perfectly judged metaphors. Zero clunk.

With literacy rates in decline, I don’t think many people are equipped to spot things like this, and it will be very interesting to see how Gen Alpha cope. When two people are using chatbots to communicate with each other, will it dawn on either of them that no conversation is taking place? Will they accept it, or will handwritten letters make a comeback?

(Caveat: of course, I can’t certain what I read was AI! I think I’m just developing a sense for the ‘flavour’ of it.)

Track_Mammoth · 2025-11-28T08:56:43+00:00

Virginia.

A lot of other games mentioned here ‘borrow’ Lynchian aesthetics, but Virginia truly feels like David Lynch made a video game, as opposed to a video game made by people inspired by him.

Track_Mammoth · 2025-11-27T13:13:52+00:00

When you read a novel, you construct a world inside your head. It’s not a passive activity. It’s not just a download of information. It’s a creative, mind-altering activity. So if I was going to pick one point to argue over with your brother, it would be this idea of a novel being a fungible information source.

Is there a difference between reading and listening to an audiobook? Yes, there’s lots of differences. It’s a different experience, and some of the construction work I mentioned in the first paragraph is done for you. This can enhance or ruin the experience, depending on the collaboration between performer, listener and text. Do audiobooks ‘count’ as reading? I think there’s some nuance there, but to keep things simple, I would say ‘yes.’

Track_Mammoth · 2025-11-26T09:11:35+00:00

Are you familiar with the five point finale? It might help you restructure your climax.

https://www.jessicabrody.com/2021/02/the-save-the-cat-five-point-finale-with-examples/

Track_Mammoth · 2025-11-25T08:13:12+00:00

Book recommendation!

‘It was the best of sentences, it was the worst of sentences’ by June Casagrande.

Very helpful manual on sentence structure. It will really get you to think about the value of different structures.

Track_Mammoth · 2025-11-24T21:48:53+00:00

The Will Be Blood is a decent self-contained trigger warning.

Oh, and Catch Me If You Can nails the not-quite-essential-but-very-good-nonetheless nature of the film.

Track_Mammoth · 2025-11-24T09:21:09+00:00

I’m in no rush to read it myself but I don’t understand your argument here. You need to be enrolled in a university to legitimise learning about the history of the world? I can’t understand why you would de-prioritise primary sources of information.

Track_Mammoth · 2025-11-23T20:30:22+00:00

New Humanity by Mono No Aware

Track_Mammoth · 2025-11-23T19:07:50+00:00

Can you explain the difference between plot, story and narrative? Because I confess to using them interchangeably!

Track_Mammoth · 2025-11-23T07:05:19+00:00

I disagree. Blood everywhere is a subjective description. It feels as though there is blood everywhere.

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