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De: Michael Rowe Michael Martine Andy Piper
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  • e535 — The Poetry of DOOM

    e535 — The Poetry of DOOM
    Dec 15 2025
    Photo by David Klein on Unsplash Published 15 December 2025 e535 with Michael M and Andy – adversarial poetry to jailbreak LLMs, iFixit’s FixBot, power of digital twins, putting the breaks on Rewind, Nintendo Virtual Boy and a whole lot more. Michael M and Andy start things off with a most intriguing concept – adversarial poetry. By using ‘memetic language’, researchers formulated prompts with imagery and metaphor instead of direct operational phrasing to trick LLMs into providing unsafe responses. Michael makes the point that AI prompts are becoming more and more like spells or incantations. See the show notes below for a link to the paper for any budding AI poet laureate wannabes. Perhaps Jabberwocky can be used in a snicker snack way. Switching to another AI use case, Andy and Michael discuss the iFixit FixBot. The FixBot provides expert advice and guidance for repairs, by talking to the human who likely needs both hands to effect the repair. Next up are a couple of stories on digital twins, and how they leverage game technology. By taking sufficient data points to create a digital twin, multiple attempts can be made virtually to see the improvement before applying the capability to the non-digital twin. Andy is reminded of an article that outlines the affinity between the metaverse and digital twin concepts. Nvidia has a concept of this in their Omniverse capability. Another example of a digital twin with a game overlay is the Job Simulator Game. This game is written as a 2050 historical virtual reality environment allowing the player to experience what it was like to have a job in 2020. This fun VR historical reenactment experience is one of the stories that Tobi Lütke discussed in his recent interview with the Acquired team. Staying on the VR simulation theme, Andy and Michael take a look at the Rats Play Doom game which trains rats in an immersive way to play Doom. In the last section of the episode, the team takes a look at some metaverse news. Meta has acquired limitless.ai and is shutting down Rewind on the Mac, and is also shifting more investment from the metaverse to AI. Wrapping up the episode, Michael and Andy look at the Nintendo Virtual Boy and Xteink 4. What poetry would you write to prompt an LLM? Have your bots 🤖 drop our bots 🤖 a line at @gamesatwork_biz@mastodon.social (our home for now) and let us know! These show notes were lovingly hand crafted by a real human, and not by a bot. All rights reserved. That’s our story and we’re sticking to it. Selected Links AI PC Gamer article: Poets are now cybersecurity threats: Researchers used ‘adversarial poetry’ to trick AI into ignoring its safety guard rails and it worked 62% of the time arXiv paper: Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large Language Models Gilbert & Sullivan: Hail Poetry The Verge article: iFixit’s FixBot helps with repairs ‘the way a master technician would’ iFixit: Introducing FixBot: We Built an AI That Actually Knows How to Fix Things Digital Twins ComputerWorld article: Digital twin tech is a double-edged sword ComputerWorld article: ‘Digital twin’ tech is twice as great as the metaverse Nvidia Omniverse Job Simulator Game acquired.fm AC2 interview: How to Live in Everyone Else’s Future (with Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke) Games at Work e490: Codename – “Amelia” (for digital twins) Doom Reddit post: Open-source VR framework for training rats to play DOOM Rats Play Doom Metaverse 9 to 5 Mac article: Rewind Mac app shutting down following Meta’s acquisition of Limitless limitless.ai WSJ article: Meta Plans to Shift Spending Away From the Metaverse Retrododo article: Virtual Boy Accessory For Nintendo Switch/Switch 2 Is Available For Pre-Order My Nintendo Store: Virtual Boy for Nintendo Switch 2/Nintendo Switch Tech The Verge article: This tiny magnetic e-reader sticks to the back of your iPhone Xteink x4 Web 11.0 mashup junkie, and co-founder / co-host of the GamesAtWork.biz podcast. My views are my own. Michael Martine
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    36 m
  • e534 — Hiding in Plain Sight

    e534 — Hiding in Plain Sight
    Nov 24 2025
    Photo by Tim Wildsmith on Unsplash Published 24 November 2025 e534 with Michael, Andy and Michael – AI and ML training data, camouflage, ppen source Zork, Deadpool VR, NPH movies and a whole lot more. Michael, Andy and Michael start things off with with an intriguing AI analysis of the heist from the Louvre. The Ars Technica article takes the examples of mathematical machine learning and human psychology to show how both were defeated what was considered to be ordinary versus suspicious. This is a terrific reminder on the importance of the training data sets used for AI models and how the “performance of normality became the perfect camouflage”. Michael R highlights the On Intelligence book, and Michael M brings up visual pattern recognition of the human form which ghillie suits help disguise. Switching to a hackster.io article, the die is cast – or rather the die is 3d printed. Andy shares his thoughts on this bluetooth enabled die, and mentions how dice have featured prominently in the the podcast over the years. E132 from 2016 appears to be the earliest reference to dice in the show notes. Next up is Microsoft’s announcement to open source the Zork family of text based adventure games from Infocom. Zork is another favorite of the podcast, and e78 from 2014 is the earliest reference! Then the team discusses the Deadpool VR game. The Kotaku article mentions that Neil Patrick Harris does the Deadpool voice acting in the game. This leads the cohosts down the rabbit hole of NPH acting with a number of movies and TV shows. Oh, and the reason for the “I don’t want a McRib” part of the show title was because the Kotaku article kept serving up McDonalds McRib ads to Michael M, while Michael R with his PiHole does not get such ads. What is your favorite NPH movie or tv show? Have your bots 🤖 drop our bots 🤖 a line at @gamesatwork_biz@mastodon.social (our home for now) and let us know! These show notes were lovingly hand crafted by a real human, and not by a bot. All rights reserved. That’s our story and we’re sticking to it. Selected Links AI Ars Technica article: How Louvre thieves exploited human psychology to avoid suspicion—and what it reveals about AI Wikipedia article: On Intelligence: How a New Understanding of the Brain will Lead to the Creation of Truly Intelligent Machines by Jeff Hawkins IMDb: Now You See Me: Now You Don’t 2025 movie Wikipedia article: Ghillie Suit Bluetooth Dice hackter.io article: Travis Bumgarner’s Dice of Sending Are Bluetooth-Connected Dice for Fairer Digital Roleplays Games at Work e132: Wake Up! (For earliest description of dice) Games and NPH The Verge article: Microsoft makes Zork open-source Games at Work e78: The Show is Already in Progress (for earliest reference to Zork) Kotaku article: Deadpool VR Is A Game For Deadpool Fans And Nobody Else marvel.Fandom.com : Wade Wilson (Earth-616) IMDb: A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas IMDb: Starship Troopers IMDb: Doogie Howser, M.D. IMDb: Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale Web 11.0 mashup junkie, and co-founder / co-host of the GamesAtWork.biz podcast. My views are my own. Michael Martine
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    29 m
  • e533 — Rings of Power

    e533 — Rings of Power
    Nov 17 2025
    Photo by Fallon Michael on Unsplash Published 17 November 2025 e533 with Andy, Michael and Michael – rings to chart the heavens and control your home, repurposing smart TVs, retro La Machine and Vectrex hardware made newly available, new Valve Steam hardware and a whole lot more. Andy, Michael and Michael start things off with a 400 year old ring that unfolds into an astronomy tool. Check out this amazing technology in the show notes below. If you want to have such a ring of your own, the design team from Black Adept have them available for sale! Sticking with the theme, the next powerful ring follows the Tron Master Control Disk concept. This interesting design expression reminded Michael M of the Mini circular dashboard display. Next up is a great way to repurpose an old TV. The team explores an article with instructions for making a smart mirror using two way glass and a Raspberry Pi. You may want to ensure that the TV has the automatic content recognition features turned off. Andy remarks on the continuing evolution over the years of the Magic Mirror software that enables this to work. After talking about the bright idea of using the circuity of a smart lightbulb to serve as a Minecraft server, the cohosts look La Machine. Then the team takes a look at the recent announcements from Valve. New Steam hardware has captured their imagination. The Steam Machine, Steam Frame and a new Steam controller provides great excitement for the platform. Wrapping up the episode, Michael R takes a look at the World of Warcraft new in game currency used for building houses. The blog post announcing this from Blizzard has 2,817 replies when these show notes were written! What legacy hardware would you most like to have again? Have your bots 🤖 drop our bots 🤖 a line at @gamesatwork_biz@mastodon.social (our home for now) and let us know! These show notes were lovingly hand crafted by a real human, and not by a bot. All rights reserved. That’s our story and we’re sticking to it. Selected Links Maker A 400-Year-Old Ring that Unfolds to Track the Movements of the Heavenshttps://www.openculture.com/2025/11/a-400-year-old-ring-that-unfolds-to-track-movements-of-the-heavens.html — Ronan (@ronanmcd@mastodon.green) 2025-11-06T12:16:00.036Z Open Culture article: A 400-Year-Old Ring that Unfolds to Track the Movements of the Heavens hackster.io article: Welcome to the Grid IMDb post: Tron movies and tv shows Photo by Nicole Logan on Unsplash Boy Genius Report article: You Can Use Your Old TV As A Smart Mirror – Here’s How Raspberry Pi Magic Mirror^2 documentation Games at Work e479: Listen Up Outlaws! for smart tv automatic content recognition Tom’s Hardware article: Hardware hacker installs Minecraft server on a cheap smart lightbulb — single 192 MHz RISC-V core with 276KB of RAM, enough to run tiny 90K byte world La Machine Gaming Hardware (and Software) Games Industry article: Valve announces 3 new Steam hardware devices: Steam Machine, VR headset Steam Frame, and a new Steam controller PC Gamer article: Valve announces the Steam Frame: ‘a new way to play your entire Steam library’ Eurogamer article: How did Valve design its new Steam Machine? It started with the fan, of course Kickstarter: Vectrex Mini The Verge article: World of Warcraft is getting a new kind of fake money Blizzard blog post: Developer Insight: Hearthsteel Virtual Currency and Housing in Midnight Web 11.0 mashup junkie, and co-founder / co-host of the GamesAtWork.biz podcast. My views are my own. Michael Martine
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    32 m
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