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After 40 years of adventure games, Ron Gilbert pivots to outrunning Death

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/12/after-40-years-of-adventure-games-ron-gilbert-pivots-to-outrunning-death/
14•mikhael•3d ago

Comments

HelloUsername•3d ago
Ah, too bad to hear his upcoming game is cancelled!
abnercoimbre•38m ago
Do we know why it was?
kg•18m ago
The publishing and investment climate https://www.gamesindustry.biz/ron-gilbert-cancels-rpg-projec...

It's pretty tough getting a game funded right now.

acomjean•21m ago
His website is pretty fun.

https://grumpygamer.com/

He also blogged the development of tumbleweed park

https://blog.thimbleweedpark.com/archives.html

AV1: A Modern, Open Codec

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256•CharlesW•4h ago•113 comments

BMW PHEV: Safety fuse replacement is extremely expensive

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128•mikelabatt•3h ago•73 comments

I have been writing a niche history blog for 15 years

https://resobscura.substack.com/p/why-i-have-been-writing-a-niche-history
20•benbreen•10h ago•1 comments

Trick users and bypass warnings – Modern SVG Clickjacking attacks

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92•spartanatreyu•5h ago•15 comments

NeurIPS 2025 Best Paper Awards

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50•ivansavz•3h ago•6 comments

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State of AI: An Empirical 100T Token Study with OpenRouter

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144•anjneymidha•6h ago•54 comments

After 40 years of adventure games, Ron Gilbert pivots to outrunning Death

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/12/after-40-years-of-adventure-games-ron-gilbert-pivots-to-ou...
14•mikhael•3d ago•4 comments

CUDA-l2: Surpassing cuBLAS performance for matrix multiplication through RL

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93•dzign•8h ago•11 comments

The Ofcom Files, Part 4: Ofcom Rides Again

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Multivox: Volumetric Display

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247•jk_tech•12h ago•31 comments

Transparent leadership beats servant leadership

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394•ibobev•15h ago•184 comments

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How elites could shape mass preferences as AI reduces persuasion costs

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CSS now has an if() conditional function

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Fast trigram based code search

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Why are 38 percent of Stanford students saying they're disabled?

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551•delichon•11h ago•797 comments

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271•yurivish•7h ago•299 comments

Django 6

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270•wilhelmklopp•7h ago•126 comments

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140•AwkwardPanda•13h ago•126 comments

We gave 5 LLMs $100K to trade stocks for 8 months

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209•cheeseblubber•5h ago•176 comments

I ignore the spotlight as a staff engineer

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441•todsacerdoti•17h ago•211 comments

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187•geox•15h ago•177 comments

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73•indigodaddy•11h ago•19 comments

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22•todsacerdoti•5h ago•7 comments

Nice Functions [pdf]

https://math.mit.edu/~gs/dela/nice_functions.pdf
7•tzury•6d ago•1 comments

Autism should not be treated as a single condition

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225•bookofjoe•12h ago•272 comments

Converge (YC S23) is hiring a martech expert in NYC

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It’s time to free JavaScript (2024)

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678•pavelai•20h ago•342 comments

PGlite – Embeddable Postgres

https://pglite.dev/
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