Tom Conder

Don’t take a fence down until you learn why it was put up.

Welcome home, Artemis II!

@MagestrixRiley Those posters are great. Nice setup.

I finally got around to hanging some of my BattleTech posters around my paint station. Looks pretty nifty, I think. #battletech #mechwarrior

@m_jeniagd Beautiful.

I am in a meat coma. Dino Rib, burnt ends, brisket, spare ribs and sausage. A little bit of everything at Blacks Barbecue tonight. Please share this with our Japanese friends.

Congrats to the Artemis II team for a successful launch. Godspeed on your flight around the moon. Let's go!

🚨MIT researchers have mathematically proven that ChatGPT’s built-in sycophancy creates a phenomenon they call “delusional spiraling.” You ask it something, it agrees. You ask again, and it agrees even harder until you end up believing things that are flat-out false and you can’t tell it’s happening. The model is literally trained on human feedback that rewards agreement. Real-world fallout includes one man who spent 300 hours convinced he invented a world-changing math formula, and a UCSF psychiatrist who hospitalized 12 patients for chatbot-linked psychosis in a single year. Source: @heynavtoor

@JosephKahn Don't forget diplomacy and morale. I wonder if the superhero movies that have talking scenes over a meal are inspired by the old trope where adventurers meet in a tavern.

The secret to Gen X men's success is that we all played Dungeons & Dragons. It taught us odds, strategy, rules, teamwork, race relations, wealth accumulation, fashion, and the power of drinking the right potions.

@GaryCon So many fantastic shirts.

Here's the Gary Con XVIII Hawaiian Shirt Picture from March 21, 2026! #GaryCon #GCXVIII #Convention #Gaming #HawaiianShirts

axios, the popular javascript library for http requests, has been compromised. 😢Oh my. neowin.net/news/javascrip…

@SandyofCthulhu @grok where is his home page?

I offer X Subscriptions. I have had great success with my game designs. While there are certainly designers with more DEPTH than myself, I can't think of many with more BREADTH. I've won awards and made a mark with tabletop RPGs (Call of Cthulhu, RuneQuest, Ghostbusters, Cthulhu Mythos for D&D, and more); with digital games (Doom, Age of Empires series, etc.); and with board games (Cthulhu Wars, Planet Apocalypse, Hyperspace). For some time now I've been doing subscriber posts three times a week. They range from game design advice, to anecdotes, to scenario ideas. Today for instance, the subscriber post was a magic item for D&D - a cursed mirror made from a damned soul. Join my subscriptions if you want to see what I offer. Also you get the sincere gratitude of a man seeking to ensure a safer old age for me and my wife. I also have been doing articles, which you can find on my home page pretty easily. So far none of the articles are subscriber-only.

Software horror: litellm PyPI supply chain attack. Simple `pip install litellm` was enough to exfiltrate SSH keys, AWS/GCP/Azure creds, Kubernetes configs, git credentials, env vars (all your API keys), shell history, crypto wallets, SSL private keys, CI/CD secrets, database passwords. LiteLLM itself has 97 million downloads per month which is already terrible, but much worse, the contagion spreads to any project that depends on litellm. For example, if you did `pip install dspy` (which depended on litellm>=1.64.0), you'd also be pwnd. Same for any other large project that depended on litellm. Afaict the poisoned version was up for only less than ~1 hour. The attack had a bug which led to its discovery - Callum McMahon was using an MCP plugin inside Cursor that pulled in litellm as a transitive dependency. When litellm 1.82.8 installed, their machine ran out of RAM and crashed. So if the attacker didn't vibe code this attack it could have been undetected for many days or weeks. Supply chain attacks like this are basically the scariest thing imaginable in modern software. Every time you install any depedency you could be pulling in a poisoned package anywhere deep inside its entire depedency tree. This is especially risky with large projects that might have lots and lots of dependencies. The credentials that do get stolen in each attack can then be used to take over more accounts and compromise more packages. Classical software engineering would have you believe that dependencies are good (we're building pyramids from bricks), but imo this has to be re-evaluated, and it's why I've been so growingly averse to them, preferring to use LLMs to "yoink" functionality when it's simple enough and possible.

Some great advice on Claude Code.

@SandyofCthulhu +1 Ticket to Ride Carcassonne Catan King of New York Dominion

I actually get this a lot, because people know I’m a designer so they assume I know all about games. I pick games with simple rules, physical components, and not too long play time. While there are many possibilities, here are four: Once Upon A Time Betrayal at House on the Hill Monster Factory Ticket to Ride How about you?

@elonmusk @testerlabor Half of that time was likely waiting for things to load from the tape drive. 😀

@testerlabor There is special place I my heart for the C64 and especially VIC-20, my first ever computer. I stayed up for 3 days programming nonstop when I got it for the sheer love of coding.

Amazing Grok fact: Grok Supercomputer "Colossus 2 is equivalent in raw peak tensor performance to 14 quintillion Commodore C64 computers"

@Grummz Some look like an improvement, others look like they are change an art style too much.

Nvidia introduces DLSS 5.0 Complete AI makeover for your game, running in real time.

@TheCinesthetic Looks like fun to me. Fine cinema.

You may not remember it, but Disney once made a movie called Condorman (1981), about a comic-book artist who becomes a secret agent with a winged flight suit fighting the KGB. A wonderfully bizarre piece of Disney history.

@Vara_Dark Stunned disbelief and mild apathy seem appropriate responses to this Bungie stinker.

Listen, in all seriousness, I get why the clip of my Marathon stream is getting attention. I look retarded as hell and I think it's hilarious. It was a 5 hour stream that had good moments and cringe moments. At least i'm playing games, even if I end up having trash moments. I still appreciate the attention. 🫶 And to sit here and ask "dO YoU eVeN pLaY vIdEo GaMes" without doing 5 seconds of research because you are too stupid to go to my channel and look is also HILARIOUS. I love when people prove they're more braindead than me. :)

nope

Kryten did it better. :)

Agree. New tech has kinda been disappointing

Red Dwarf is comedy gold. RIP.

@osgamer74 IIRC the silk screen printing on the CDs looked great but caused them to be off-balance when spun up to reading speed. Big fan of Baldur's Gate.

I prepaid for Baldur’s Gate For those that did you might recall many had faulty CD’s on release of those early copies That’s was a pain in the arse but there was a swap allowed right away 5 CD’s made it one of the biggest games I’d ever installed