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Marauder

Rainbow-1

You are a Californian inmate firefighter, flying out to stop a wildfire in the sierras. You are also a native of this land, descendent of a proud line of firewalker shamans, but the blaze you're facing now is unlike anything you've ever seen. As you stand before it with your high-powered chainsaw, you'll will have to face the demons of your past. Depending on your choices, you may emerge tempered, reforged, or burned to a crisp. The choice is yours, Chief.

This is a game for adults. It has a fair bit of gore, violence, sexual elements, and touches on offensive topics. If that's not for you, turn around now, this site has plenty of other content that you will like better.

Despite the word count this is a short game: Typical time for one playthrough is 25min.

This game was an entry to Sherbet's "Summer's End Synnergy Contest". (I wanted it to be Quentin Tarantino, but it turned out David Lynch.)

The Laconia Incident

It's 1942 and you are Karl Petersen—In another life, you'd still be studying for your doctorate in English Literature, but this isn't another life, and you've been assigned as second officer of the submarine U-156, patrolling the South Atlantic. So come on now, the Third Reich is at war and the Kriegsmarine needs you!

The game was made as an entry to END MASTER'S PROMPT CONTEST 4, with the prompt “A story about naval warfare.”

Content Warning: I thought this one would turn out on the lighter side, but the usual sex, violence, occasional torture and optional suicide crept back in (It also has language!). In cinematic terms think of Hemmingway and the Reservoir Dogs re-enacting the Omen on a submarine.

Regardless of word count, this is a short game: Playtime is only 20-30 min.

There are several storylines but only ONE TRUE ENDING.

Labyrinth of Secrets

unpublished

When she reaches a strange temple, Anna struggles to remember even her own name, but as she explores the temple's vast library she must discover the truth about her past, before an ancient curse claims her. And, is she even Anna?

This was written for Mizal's single-day competition that was "all Suranna's fault."

This story is set in the same world as "Wintertorn" that I am currently writing for Endmaster's prompt contest.

A quick but powerful method to create gripping plots by answering six simple questions.

Starting is hard, finishing is harder. Here are some thoughts on getting started and maintaining productivity and quality while writing.

THey wouldn't need a training source, just don't use potentially secret user inputs to train. (Though there will be a strong temptation to do just that.) But if they put it on top of some military data, it would put that data at risk. I agree that it will be as secure as the network that it is on, so it won't be secure. Networks that many people have access to aren't secure. So suppose an attacker gets access to the network, in that case we are in pretty uncharted territory, because we didn't really have much time how much information can be extracted from transformers, or how much they can be manipulated. So far we have some studies which have revealed some crazy jailbreaks, but there is no broad theory that could be used for a proper risk assessment.

If you like Andy Weir, check out Kim Stanley Robinson. Best start with one of the shorter books, such as "Icehenge." I am pretty sure you'd love that one.

I think this whole points / recommendation / ratings thing is getting a bit out of hand. Sure, a little bit of gamification is fun, especially in dark days like these. The world really sucks in many ways, so you come to this site to escape from it and read a story, or perhaps write one. The next day you might get a commendation or a featured comment or some points and it makes you happy for half an hour, and perhaps your day looks a little less grim, because somewhere in the world somebody read your story or comment or post and liked it. That's great. The problem with gamification starts when you take it too seriously, then it kills the fun that it is supposed to create. If people care too much about points, points become meaningless. If you want more you could just rate every game on the site, but you'd just be wasting your time, and shooting ratings from the hip will not improve the site. You could lobby for commendations, but do they really make your day look any brighter if you had to lobby for them? Some things here are random, intransparent and even a bit biased. But as long as you don't take it too seriously that adds to the fun. The people who are active here, have mostly read each others stories, comments, and posts. So ultimately this is what matters.

Enterpride?

Judges and lawyers are going to be replaced much sooner than this. I would expect that you will have an AI-powered version of small claims courts within the next 3 years.

Leaking information is a major concern with language models. Likely they will not train on the information from the military, so that would eliminate the most blatant leaks. Still there are many other ways in which leaks could occur, due to the nature of the infrastructure involved.

I am done with Polaris. It's a really beautiful story with amazing atmosphere.

I am Gen X, please. I am old, not ancient.

I would not have thought that I am twice your age with a few years to spare.

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