Ben Roberts

@alitescape Unfortunately no, however the 4-book series is basically the length of a single standard epic fantasy book, and the Claw is a significant artefact in all of them!

@alitescape The Claw of the Conciliator 😋

I've always found it interesting and useful to see other authors talk about their sales figures, so I put together a financial summary of my 2023 as an indie author. Lots of info in the full post linked below, but I'll share some of the graphs here. #indieauthors #indiebooks

@thebrianasman What about Skeletor

All morality is relative. If you make a claim like ‘the Cenobites are evil,’ you not only have to define what ‘evil’ is but also explain why your definition is more valid than, say, Chatterer’s

@_NATSU_KAZE_ @NinEverything I miss approaching a big chest and actually being excited to find out what's inside

@NinEverything Aonuma's "must be nostalgia" comment is pissing me off. BotW/TotK are amazing, but classic Zelda games have a TON of things they're stronger at than these two games. It's not nostalgia. The old games are legitimately better at a lot of things. Also: follow me, classic fans!😌💪

Zelda producer on fans who say they miss the series’ more linear games nintendoeverything.com/legend-of-zeld…

@thebrianasman @RoxyWright0 Should I rent or buy?

@RoxyWright0 Do not watch I beg of you

The real answer is this guy reading the Wikipedia page for the Salem witch trials, which he has never heard of, somehow

@thebrianasman youtube.com/watch?v=lO78gt…

What sounds like a Halloween song but isn’t? I’m going ‘Teddy Bears Picnic’

@HCNewell1 I had the flu last week. Drink lots of water, alllll the water. And good luck 😬

Woke up with the flu. Have never had it before. PS: it sucks Any advice on how to survive the torture would be great. I’ll be MIA for a few days, wish me luck 🙃

@jwwartick The only person who's read more sci-fi than JW Wartick is distant-future-cyborg JW Wartick

@shaunaLwrites I remember getting a bit tired by the third act when I saw it in the theatre. But yeah, watched it again recently and was hooked all the way through, cannot wait for the next part!

Watching Dune Even better on rewatch

@JoshSEdwards Copyright issues are short-term. We already have tools like Adobe Firefly trained on private sets, and if there's enough fuss made then 100% provably ethical models (including LLMs) are inevitable. Then everyone will pivot to the job-loss argument.

In light of what's going down with Shadiversity, I'm curious to collect some thoughts. What's your biggest concern about the use of generative AI as it pertains to writing and digital art? (If you share multiple concerns, choose whichever is *most* concerning to you.)

@foozzzball Ah yeah good point - I see those "new month, no sales" posts get some decent traction as well. I don't think I've ever seen an in-character tweet - is that a thing?!

I reached a writing milestone today - one million pages of my novels read in Kindle Unlimited. For comparison, a million pages is about 1700 full books, and it represents earnings of about $4500. This isn't that big a deal, and it's just a number, but it's pretty neat for me.

Oven Knights

@heliofractal Poison slime?!

the beautiful slimescape

@codez333 Thanks so much! Ghostie was a favourite of mine, was awesome jamming with so many cool games!

@BenjaminJRobots Congrats! I was really happy to see you won, defiantly my favorite game that I played during the jam!!!

@mikesroberti What are the names of the months / seasons / days of the week?

Saw this going around again, ask away!

@GCDaveDobson @JoeBerne1 There are lots of initiatives like this! Adobe Firefly is trained only on their stock databases, although I'm not sure about royalties. And you could easily create a model trained only on classical artists in the public domain. Theft is not fundamental to genAI

@BenjaminJRobots @JoeBerne1 I’ve wondered if there could be something akin to certified organic generative AI, only trained with purchased art with rights granted for training, maybe with royalties paid to artists per use. Seems like that would address the theft concerns but maybe not other issues.

The "AI is good b/c it lets untalented people create art" arg would, if valid, hold for any kind of plagiarism. We don't say "copying art and claiming credit is good" even though it's supported in exactly the same way.

@St_EdPool Yeah I think the question is specifically about how ratings affect the algorithm. Am I more likely to be recommended a book with two 4-star reviews, or a book with one 5-star review? What gets surfaced in the search results?