Adam W Schmitz

Dr Who meets Game of Thrones! Get lost down the wormhole, but know I cannot save you. Free on Kindle Unlimited. Available on paperback and ebook. amazon.com/The-Archives-o…

I don’t mind that Crimson Desert is a ripoff of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom and other games. I liked those games, and the worst part of beating them was not being able to play them for the first time anymore. Now I do.

Okay who else is playing Crimson Desert?

So, my jam was Princess Bride. In high school band, we were on a bus and that was the only movie on a long bus ride. I was the only one that wanted to watch it and everyone else rolled their eyes. By the 3rd act, everyone was dialed in. A good movie is a good movie.

@BagginsTV @playnewworld The devs did NOT deserve this. So many gamers helped me out when they didn’t need to.

I've heard the news, and yeah, I don't know what to say. I think I'm saddest for our @playnewworld devs, so my initial thoughts go to them.

Amazon just canned the MMO New World. To the devs that were laid off: you made a community that helped each other. Countless times I was struggling and complete strangers helped me out with a pay-it-forward vibe. Devs, you made a great game, and you don’t deserve any of this.

To the MMORPG player that just revived me: you are a saint & proof that we’re not just a bunch of trolls.

Stop everything and go listen to the Hanz Zimmer version of Pompeii. Happy Friday.

If we’re not supposed to pick our nose, why are fingers nose-sized?

Thought experiment: If spacetime is the “thing” you traverse when traveling thru space and time, what do you traverse while in the “hole” part of a wormhole? What would it even look like considering even light traverses spacetime and you need light to see?

One good thing that came from AI: Instead of being tempted to read clickbait articles just to get a swarm of adds, I now just ask ChatGPT what the article is about.

Remember that game when we were kids where we’d try to slap the backs of each other’s hands and fake each other out? That’s the parry/dodge system in Expedition 33.

Is it just me or is literally every video on TikTok a commercial now? I counted 11 videos before I got something that’s wasn’t an ad.

What are everyone’s plans this weekend? Productive or fun?

Someone needs to act out what it would look like IRL for Assassins Creed parkour, but with someone playing that’s awful at the game.

My first Assassins Creed game is Shadows and I’m loving it. Strange because I saw a lot of hate online, but am beginning to think it all came from that one YouTube guy that drinks slurpies all day. #GamingCommunity

@ericsalinas @elonmusk @xai @X @grok Freemium means you’re the product. I’m not aware of a private company that offers a free service out of the goodness of their hearts.

@elonmusk @xai @X @grok does this mean our posts and personal data on X are being used to train xAI’s models without compensation or explicit consent? Are we essentially providing free training data for a company now valued at $80B?

@xAI has acquired @X in an all-stock transaction. The combination values xAI at $80 billion and X at $33 billion ($45B less $12B debt). Since its founding two years ago, xAI has rapidly become one of the leading AI labs in the world, building models and data centers at unprecedented speed and scale. X is the digital town square where more than 600M active users go to find the real-time source of ground truth and, in the last two years, has been transformed into one of the most efficient companies in the world, positioning it to deliver scalable future growth. xAI and X’s futures are intertwined. Today, we officially take the step to combine the data, models, compute, distribution and talent. This combination will unlock immense potential by blending xAI’s advanced AI capability and expertise with X’s massive reach. The combined company will deliver smarter, more meaningful experiences to billions of people while staying true to our core mission of seeking truth and advancing knowledge. This will allow us to build a platform that doesn’t just reflect the world but actively accelerates human progress. I would like to recognize the hardcore dedication of everyone at xAI and X that has brought us to this point. This is just the beginning. Thank you for your continued partnership and support.

@elchandler Congrats!

2094 words written today! I loved the chapter that I just finished! A joy to write 😁😁

While waiting for beta readers to finish In The Valley, I’ve been diving into Elden Ring. Currently stuck on Maliketh. He feels impossible, but that’s a familiar feeling in Elden Ring.

@DawnRossAuthor Different voices. Anything that keeps the fourth wall up.

Apparently, there is a difference in what audible listeners prefer in their narrators. Some prefer the narrator use different voices for each character while others prefer a more uniform tone. What do you all prefer?