J. Martin

@gyokusai

All my snark is sincere. Writer, PhD, Professor of Game Design. Not necessarily in that order. Indie Dev Studio in HK until 2010. On Twitter JAN2007–DEC2022 as gyokusai, movethirtyseven, newsoftheend. Currently in Europe. 加油 🇭🇰 🟩 🇺🇦 🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🌮 🕎 ☮️

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J. Martin@gyokusai· 24d

Listening to the album The Royal Scam by Steely Dan, released April 1976 rateyourmusic.com/release/albu... #jazzrock #music

Cover art from the album The Royal Scam by Steely Dan

J. Martin@gyokusai· 27d

Listening to the album Dog of Two Head by Status Quo, released November 1971 rateyourmusic.com/release/albu... #Boogie #Rock #music

Cover art from the album Dog of Two Head by Status Quo

J. Martin@gyokusai· 28d

Listening to the album A.I. (original score) by John Williams, released July 2001 rateyourmusic.com/release/albu... #score #soundtrack #music

Cover art from the album A.I. by John Willlams

J. Martin@gyokusai· 29d

Spot-on. #AI

AI Design logic: claiming to have created the ordered pizza

J. Martin@gyokusai· Jul 12

三鷹の森ジブリ美術館 | Mitaka Forest Ghibli Museum Canon PowerShot, June 2026 #Japan #Mitaka #Ghibli #Photography

Side entry to a museum surrounded by greenery.

J. Martin@gyokusai· Jul 11

太魯閣國家公園 Cimu Bridge | 太魯閣國家公園 Taroko Gorge May 2025, Canon PowerShot #Taiwan #Photography

J. Martin@gyokusai· Jul 7

Rare to see a controversial assumption—type question in the wild.

Spiegel Headline: Debatte: Ist die Fifa nach der Balogun-Entscheidung noch glaubwürdig für Sie?

Spiegel Headline: Debate: Does FIFA still have your trust after the Balogun decision?

J. Martin@gyokusai· Jun 30

焼肉

J. Martin@gyokusai· Jun 25

絵馬、お守り、サイレントヒルf 。 Useful things. #games #horror

PS5 Game Silent Hill f, two Ema, and an Omamori on a wooden floor.

J. Martin@gyokusai· Jun 24

大阪市

J. Martin@gyokusai· Jun 18

東京都、調布市 #books #horror

Reading “In the Hills, the Cities” on the balcony in the sun

J. Martin@gyokusai· Jun 3

LOL. Every fucking time. Plate’s hot, burrito not. And it wasn’t even frozen!

X-Men meme where “Microwave heat” and “Plate" are kissing and “My burrito” is looking sad at the viewer.

J. Martin@gyokusai· May 31

臺北市 Taipei Night City #Taiwan #Taipei #Photography

Aerial shot over the illuminated city at night

J. Martin@gyokusai· May 27

Well.

Sarcastic take on a tool that identifies part of Shelley’s Frankenstein as “100% AI GPT-generated.”

J. Martin@gyokusai· May 23

艋舺青山宮 Bangka Qingshan Temple May 2025, Canon PowerShot #Taipei #Taiwan #Photography

J. Martin@gyokusai· May 18

花蓮港 Hualien Port April 2025, Canon PowerShot (color-corrected) #Hualien #Taiwan #Photography

Port gate during sunset with an empty street and a traffic light in the foreground and a slice of the Pacific in the center under a cloudy sky.

J. Martin@gyokusai· May 17

Don LaFontaine voice: “it has started”

Three German news items, side by side:

Police shoot escaped tiger near Leipzig
The animal had escaped from the premises of a tiger trainer: Police shot an escaped tiger in Dölzig, Saxony. A man was reportedly slightly injured.

Fatal Attack
Dozens of cows attack couple in pasture in Austria—woman dies
A hiker has died in a cattle attack in Austria. According to authorities, a herd of around 20 cows charged the woman and her husband.

Bear Kills Man in Bulgaria
For the first time in 16 years, a person has died in Bulgaria following a bear attack. The man was out walking in a popular recreational area near the capital, Sofia, and apparently tried to defend himself.

J. Martin@gyokusai· May 17

Each time I test Gemini with a specific question, it’s half, fully, or catastrophically wrong. Only *once* was it fully correct, for a French BBQ sauce—but when I asked again but mistyped 1954 as 1967, it produced an equally elaborate marketing story about a BBQ sauce that doesn’t exist. #LLM #AI

French Burger King BBQ sauce « 1954 Grilled Flavor »

J. Martin@gyokusai· May 17

臺北市 Taipei Cityscapes May 2025, Canon PowerShot #Taiwan #Photography

Street by night with neon advertisements

J. Martin@gyokusai· May 15

四四南村 Forty-Four South Village, Taipei, Taiwan May 2025, Canon PowerShot #Taipei #Taiwan #Photography

Mid-20th century period style room with coats, sewing machines, and a tabletop game.

J. Martin@gyokusai· May 5

Time to repost one of my favorite tweets ever, apropos of current revelations #ai #LLM

Avery Edison
@aedison
I wrote “I am alive” on a piece of paper, and placed it into a photocopier. What I saw next has shocking implications

J. Martin@gyokusai· May 3

Listening to the album Hold That Tiger by Sonic Youth, released in 1991 (probably February) rateyourmusic.com/release/albu... #experimentalrock #music

Cover art from the album Hold That Tiger by Sonic Youth

J. Martin@gyokusai· May 3

祥德寺 Xiangde Temple Mountain Sanctuary April 2025, Canon PowerShot #taiwan #hualien #photography

J. Martin@gyokusai· May 1

First listen: Watersong by Savina Yannatou with Primavera en Salonica and Lamia Bedioui, released April 2025 rateyourmusic.com/release/albu... #folk #folkmusic #music

Cover art from the album Watersong by Savina Yannatou

J. Martin@gyokusai· Apr 21

#MOVIES QUESTION In Resnais’s Marienbad’s final shot (hotel going dark) I noticed a shuttle or ambulance enter from the left & stop in front of the hotel. Checked at home the 2018 Studiocanal BluRay: yes! 1:33:32 to 1:33:40 then immediate cut to »fin«. Thoughts, anyone? The internet has *nothing*.

Release poster of L'année derniére à Marienbad

J. Martin@gyokusai· Apr 17

PRIORITY ONE AUTOMOBILES, EUGENICS, BILLIONAIRES. ALL OTHER CONSIDERATIONS SECONDARY. DEMOCRACY EXPENDABLE. Deutschland -> Schlaaand! -> ArSchland -> Nazi Bar

Alarmierend: im Familienministerium fragen sich Mitarbeiter nun, ob sie sich »nicht eher zum Mittäter« bei der Vernichtung zivilgesellschaftlicher Organisationen machen.

Vom Angriff auf die demokratische Zivilgesellschaft profitieren nur die Rechtsextremen.

Die Union muss ihn endlich stoppen.

(S+) »Demokratie leben!«: Was steckt hinter dem großen Umbau bei der Demokratieförderung?
Bundesfamilienministerin Karin Prien kürzt mehr als 200 Projekten das Geld. Insider sagen: weil sie ihr zu links sind.

Bürgergeld-Snktionen steigen um 25 Prozent vs. Fast jede dritte Sanktion trifft ein Kind

Für Einsparungen von ein paar Milliarden Euro ist man im Kanzleramt bereit, zentrale Werte und Errungenschaften unserer Gesellschaft zu verkaufen. Es fällt schwer, nicht angewidert zu sein.
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Sozialstaat: Kanzleramt sammelt Sparvorschläge für Behinderten- und Jugendhilfe
Die Kassen vieler Kommunen sind leer, ihre Ausgaben für Menschen mit Behinderungen und für die Jugendhilfe hoch. Teils drastische Kürzungsvorschläge liegen auf dem Tisch.
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Repräsentative Umfrage
Politbarometer sieht AfD erstmals vor Union
Die rechtsextreme AfD ist einer Umfrage des ZDF zufolge erstmals stärkste Kraft geworden. Derweil sinkt die Zufriedenheit mit Bundeskanzler Friedrich Merz und seiner Regierung auf ein Rekordtief.

J. Martin@gyokusai· Apr 16

Head -> Desk #LLM #AI #ChatGPT

We just found out our Al has been making up analytics data for 3 months and I'm gonna throw up.

So we've been using an Al agent since November to answer leadership questions about metrics. It seemed amazing at first fast answers, detailed explanations, everyone loved it.

I just found out it's been hallucinating numbers this entire time.

Our VP of sales made territory decisions based on data that didn't exist. Our CFO showed the board a deck with fake insights. The Al was just inventing plausible sounding percentages.

I only caught it by accident when someone asked me to double check something. I started digging, and holy shit, it's bad.

J. Martin@gyokusai· Apr 14

(The internet doesn’t know; Gemini thinks it’s misheard lyrics; and Perplexity is so high on drugs it opens up whole new dimension of bonkers, attached for your edification.)

Perplexity: The quote appears in Garrison Keillor's essay "Forget the bunny, it's about resurrection." It's part of his humorous reflection on death and bad news, where he says, "There are things in the world I fear even more than the singing of the Everly Brothers."

Perplexity: Why did Carpenter fear the Everly Brothers singing in relation to Tolkien
Carpenter was probably using the Everly Brothers line as a joke about something he found more unnerving than ordinary horror Tolkien's dislike of drama. In Humphrey Carpenter's biography of Tolkien, he describes Tolkien as not being enthusiastic about drama, calling it "tiresomely anthropocentric and therefore restricting," which is the context behind the broader discussion of Tolkien's views. So the connection is indirect: the Everly Brothers remark is not a Tolkien quote itself, but a witty aside that fits the kind of Tolkien discussion Carpenter was making about drama, performance, and what Tolkien regarded as too human-centered for fantasy. If you want, I can also explain where Carpenter made that remark and how it relates to Tolkien's essay "On Fairy-Stories?

J. Martin@gyokusai· Apr 13

“WofC to start outsourcing D&D content again If the company can rebuild trust with the creators it once alienated, new externally developed D&D content could become the most interesting thing the game has in store in the near future.” Sorry, couldn’t resist. #DnD www.polygon.com/dnd-dungeons...

“Do you trust me? … No.” meme, but with “Wizards of the Coast” and “Creators” instead of “Autosave” and “Gamers.”

J. Martin@gyokusai· Apr 13

Listening to the 1984 digital version of the album Siren by Roxy Music, originally released October 1975 rateyourmusic.com/release/albu... #ArtRock #GlamRock #Music