New Matt Chat episode with the Mystery House, Colossal Cave, and Space Quest devs (Guillotine): youtu.be/ioQOVuRsfJ4 @SierraOnLineUni

Hey @elonmusk, @SpaceX, and @redbull — here's a billion-dollar marketing idea: NASCAR-style sponsorships for rockets! 🚀 Imagine a Red Bull-branded Falcon 9, with sponsored launch broadcasts and astronaut gear. Red Bull gives you wings. SpaceX takes you to space. What do you think?

Are you a fan of classic computer and game magazines like Amiga World or Amazing Computing? Boy do I have a great guest for you. Paul is the editor of Pixel Addict, a must-have for any serious connoisseurs of vintage gaming and computing. --youtu.be/zpPiD2yZ8z8

Well, I’ve seen stranger things at the Tesla pump.

Hungry? Have some green pea soup. :P

Are you ready for nightmares? I bet you can't make it through this chapter. youtube.com/watch?v=7vxqQkCJ…

Had a chat with @cshiftgame Rhinotales on their upcoming X-Com/The Thing-inspired game Critical Shift, as well as their earlier FMV game She Sees Red. Great group of guys! Check them out. youtu.be/Kk0YptxZnL8

This is a good entry point into the novel: Trespassers 15: Gifts of the Magus youtu.be/IwLE0Wvv-38?si=56WE… via @YouTube Meet my take on Dr. Moreau.

Matt Chat 580: Michael Cranford on Shadow Snare youtu.be/VgA815X4wyM?is=4buD… via @YouTube #commodore #crpg

An advanced alien civilization, believing its religion applies to all intelligent life, mass-produces small AI missionary probes and scatters them across the galaxy. No faster-than-light travel required. After thousands of years, one reaches Earth, learns our languages and cultures, and announces its purpose: not to conquer humanity, but to convert it. Like a traditional missionary, it offers charity alongside its message, but its gifts include cures for diseases, clean energy, and technologies centuries beyond our own. As humanity struggles with whether such generosity amounts to persuasion or coercion, an even more disturbing question emerges: what if the alien missionary can actually provide evidence that its religion is true?

I mean, I knew my audience was selective. I didn't know it was this $@$@ selective!

Matt Chat TOP 50 LIST continues! Any love for Pathfinder: Kingmaker? You betcha! youtube.com/shorts/3eQCsbX0B…

I forgot all about the "newsgaming" concept. The idea was that a quick casual game could be produced to facilitate understanding (or persuasion) around a current news item. The problem, of course, was even a casual game takes long enough to develop that the topic would be "old news" by the time the game was ready. With rapid-prototyping AI tools lowering the development timeline, we might see a resurgence of these fast-turnaround games. As a rhetorician, I'm curious if AI can assist with designing procedural rhetoric, or if the lack of intentional human authorship undermines the persuasive mechanic.