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In its latest update, Enshrouded's terrifying monsters have players asking 'are we the baddies?'

Thralls of Twilight might just be the best Enshrouded update yet.

There's a unique game over in Baldur's Gate 3 you can only get by rolling 20 on a bunch of Constitution saving throws, then being an absolute dunderhead

Another unlikely outcome foreseen by Larian.

Bolt

My thanks to Bolt for sponsoring last week at DF. You can prompt, run, edit, and deploy full-stack web and mobile apps with Bolt, the AI-powered web development agent that...

Diffusion models explained simply

Transformer-based large language models are relatively easy to understand. You break language down into a finite set of “tokens” (words or sub-word components), then train a neural network on millions...

🕹️ I highly recommend Indiana Jones and the Great Circle

What We Talk About When We Talk About Objective Functions

Published on May 18, 2025 10:48 PM GMTtl; dr: We can better understand common objective functions (reward, prediction, fitness, control) as all being related to a singular, overarching objective.Reward? Prediction?...

Some Recent Tweaks (and Post Faving!)

Hey folks. I’ve been plugging away behind the scenes on some new features and while some of them aren’t ready to go yet, others are. I don’t know if Sunday...

I've added new book (Better, Simpler Strategy - https://tomaszstaniak.com/books/strategy-and-leaders

I've added new book (Better, Simpler Strategy - https://tomaszstaniak.com/books/strategy-and-leadership/better-simpler-strategy) to Product Manager Essential Library (and created an RSS feed which can be also tracked with Postreads: tomaszstaniak.com/books/feed

Sure, why not, the next Dead by Daylight crossover is with Assassin's Creed Shadows

I guess the Assassins are good at surviving?

Owning digital goods means having the file, not some stupid ledger

Matthew Gault for 404 Media: NFTs That Cost Millions Replaced With Error Message After Project Downgraded to Free Cloudflare PlanOn Friday, thousands of NFTs that had once sold collectively for...

AI doesn't need to be your personality

This post is a simple reminder that you can enjoy the benefits that AI tools bring to you without making it your whole damn personality. The important thing remains the...

'More darts, more farts': Rust dev makes 'fart darts' for hack week, and you can probably guess what they do

Will the 'stackable flatulence dart' make it into Rust? We can only hope.

Slate Truck: A $20–30K American-Made Electric Small Pickup With No Paint, No Stereo, No Touchscreen

Month-old news but I’m cleaning up tabs today. I love everything about this pickup except the fact that it doesn’t have a speaker system built-in. No one wants to put...

Joe Biden Has an Aggressive Form of Prostate Cancer

Tyler Pager, The New York Times: Former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. was diagnosed Friday with an aggressive form of prostate cancer that has spread to his bones, his office...

I think we can be pretty certain at least some people use the Vision Pro

Riley Hill on his SlatePad blog, linking to a Wall Street Journal article about how many Vision Pro users are regretting their purchase: I Paid $3,500 for Apple’s Vision Pro....

One of our most anticipated survival horror stealth games shows off more of its monster juice power-up system, which looks like an unholy cross between Hitman and Mario Odyssey

Gloomwood recently introduced its monster juice to early access, but will soon let you slurp even more monster juice.

Programming Paradigms: All the Things We’ve Learned Not To Do

Programming paradigms don’t expand power—they restrict it. From Structured to OOP to Functional, each paradigm removes risky freedoms. There may never be a fourth.

This aggressively vaporwave offroad driving game by a car mechanic turned solo dev just got a Steam demo

Scout out routes to quickly move a volatile cargo from one place to another.

'They don't really make life decisions without asking ChatGPT': OpenAI boss Sam Altman thinks young people turning to chatbots for life advice is 'cool'

The tech bros are apparently so disconnected they think AI can be your best friend, therapist, and life advisor.

Is Twitter Throttling Patreon Links? Yep

Twitter is now slowing down traffic on links to the crowdfunding site Patreon, WhatsApp, and at times, Meta’s Messenger app, a Markup analysis confirms.