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I arrived at the Sprint Football game against Navy at halftime when Cornell was down 40-0.
The second half was an entirely different game where Cornell shut out Navy and Cornell's № 89 Cooper Patterson scored a touchdown despite № 32 T.J. Silvernale of the Midshipmen.
#photo #photography

Series B, Episode 03 - Weapon
OFFICER: My apologies, sir; I meant no offence.
CARNELL: I was offensive. Why shouldn't you be?
OFFICER: Sir?
CARNELL: Give me the report. [Flips the folder open and closes it] Do you play chess?
OFFICER: A little, sir.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/203/374

Generation and Evaluation in the Human Invention Process through the Lens of Game Design
Katherine M. Collins, Graham Todd, Cedegao E. Zhang, Adrian Weller, Julian Togelius, Junyi Chu, Lionel Wong, Thomas L. Griffiths, Joshua B. Tenenbaum
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10914

Generation and Evaluation in the Human Invention Process through the Lens of Game Design
The human ability to learn rules and solve problems has been a central concern of cognitive science research since the field's earliest days. But we do not just follow rules and solve problems given to us by others: we modify those rules, create new problems, and set new goals and tasks for ourselves and others. Arguably, even more than rule following and problem solving, human intelligence is about creatively breaking and stretching the rules, changing the game, and inventing new problems wort…

Appcharge, which runs a DTC platform for game publishers, raised a $58M Series B led by IVP, taking its total funding to $89M, and powers stores for 100 games (Globes)
https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-mobile-games-sales-platform-appcharge-rai…

Mobile games sales platform Appcharge raises $58m
The Israeli company has developed a direct-to-consumer (DTC) platform for mobile game publishers to maximize profits through owning player relationships.

13yo: "Well, at least I won one game of parcheesi before [our friends] left."
13yo: *looks at me*
13yo: "UNLIKE SOMEONE"
me: "Alright, that's it. Go to bed."

2025 NFL Week 1 bold predictions: Malik Nabers ties single-game receptions record https://www.nfl.com/news/2025-nfl-week-1-bold-predictions-malik-nabers-ties-single-game-receptions-record

Pic 6: Backup QB questions remain, Cowboys' LBs shine in loss to Ravens https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/pic-6-backup-qb-questions-remain-cowboys-lbs-shine-in-loss-to-ravens

The Game is the Game: Dynamic network analysis and shifting roles in criminal networks
Daniel Catlin, Giulia Berlusconi, David J. B. Lloyd
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08028 https…

The Game is the Game: Dynamic network analysis and shifting roles in criminal networks
Objectives: This paper incorporates time as a crucial variable to identify key players in criminal networks and explores how actors' positions change over time. It then assesses the accuracy of the results against the uncertainty around network data collected from criminal justice records. Methods: Network data are from a judicial document for a two-year investigation targeting a drug trafficking and distribution network. We use Katz centrality in its dynamic version to explore changes in rel…

SET! From Groups to Games
Andrey Boris Khesin, Tanya Khovanova
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11235 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.11235

SET! From Groups to Games
The game of SET is one of the best mathematical games ever. It is no wonder that people have tried to generalize it. We discuss existing generalizations of the game of SET to different groups. We concentrate on two types of generalization: a) where a set consists of cards that multiply to the identity; b) where a set consists of three cards that form an arithmetic progression. We finish with a discussion of some properties of the games that influence how enjoyable they are.

Series B, Episode 11 - Gambit
KRANTOR: [To Avon] Stand aside from your friend's chair, sir. If he loses the game, you might share his shock.
CROUPIER: Les jeux sont fait.
[Loading bay. Blake is standing beside Docholli, his gun aimed at Travis.]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/211/476

A Look Back on Raiders' Bowers' Breakout Game https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-brock-bowers-davante-adams-baltimore-ravens

A Proof of the 2004 Albert-Grossman-Nowakowski-Wolfe Conjecture on Alternating Linear Clobber
Xinyue Chen, Taylor Folkersen, Kamillah Hasham, Ryan B. Hayward, David Lee, Owen Randall, Luke Schultz, Emily Vandermeer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08985

A Proof of the 2004 Albert-Grossman-Nowakowski-Wolfe Conjecture on Alternating Linear Clobber
Clobber is an alternate-turn two-player game introduced in 2001 by Albert, Grossman, Nowakowski and Wolfe. The board is a graph with each node colored black (x), white (o), or empty (-). Player Left has black stones, player Right has white stones. On a turn, a player takes one of their stones that is adjacent to an opponent stone and clobbers the opponent's stone (replaces it with theirs). Whoever cannot move loses. Linear clobber is clobber played on a path, for example, one row of a Go board.…

Lions RB Jahmyr Gibbs finds new pass-catching role under OC John Morton

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/lions-rb-jahmyr-gibbs-finds-new-pass-catching-role-…

#XenobladeChronicles3 REVIEW:
Characters: A
Story: B-
Boss design C
Game play: A
#videogames #gaming

Computing optimal trajectories for a tethered pursuer
Aurelio Barrera-Vicent, Jos\'e Miguel D\'iaz-B\'a\~nez, Fabio Rodr\'iguez, Vanesa S\'anchez-Canales
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08724

Computing optimal trajectories for a tethered pursuer
In this paper, we introduce a trajectory planning problem for a marsupial robotics system consisting of a ground robot, a drone, and a taut tether of bounded length connecting the two robots. This problem can be framed within the context of a pursuit-evasion game. Using a geometric modeling approach, we present an optimal algorithm to compute a minimum-link path for the pursuer (ground robot), given the known path of the evader (drone). Furthermore, we address and solve three related geometric …

I also believe that those who disrespect pizza do not deserve to live! https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:hf7ezrajxadu7v3tzcyij424/post/3ltahk7md4k2d

On the Same Wavelength? Evaluating Pragmatic Reasoning in Language Models across Broad Concepts
Linlu Qiu, Cedegao E. Zhang, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Yoon Kim, Roger P. Levy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06952

On the Same Wavelength? Evaluating Pragmatic Reasoning in Language Models across Broad Concepts
Language use is shaped by pragmatics -- i.e., reasoning about communicative goals and norms in context. As language models (LMs) are increasingly used as conversational agents, it becomes ever more important to understand their pragmatic reasoning abilities. We propose an evaluation framework derived from Wavelength, a popular communication game where a speaker and a listener communicate about a broad range of concepts in a granular manner. We study a range of LMs on both language comprehension…

Exploring the Stratified Space Structure of an RL Game with the Volume Growth Transform
Justin Curry, Brennan Lagasse, Ngoc B. Lam, Gregory Cox, David Rosenbluth, Alberto Speranzon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22010

Exploring the Stratified Space Structure of an RL Game with the Volume Growth Transform
In this work, we explore the structure of the embedding space of a transformer model trained for playing a particular reinforcement learning (RL) game. Specifically, we investigate how a transformer-based Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) model embeds visual inputs in a simple environment where an agent must collect "coins" while avoiding dynamic obstacles consisting of "spotlights." By adapting Robinson et al.'s study of the volume growth transform for LLMs to the RL setting, we find that the…

The curious case of "XOR repetition" of monogamy-of-entanglement games
Andrea Coladangelo, Qipeng Liu, Ziyi Xie
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01831 https://

The curious case of "XOR repetition" of monogamy-of-entanglement games
In this work, we consider "decision" variants of a monogamy-of-entanglement game by Tomamichel, Fehr, Kaniewski, and Wehner [New Journal of Physics '13]. In its original "search" variant, Alice prepares a (possibly entangled) state on registers $\mathsf{ABC}$; register $\mathsf{A}$, consisting of $n$ qubits, is sent to a Referee, while $\mathsf{B}$ and $\mathsf{C}$ are sent to Bob and Charlie; the Referee then measures each qubit in the standard or Hadamard basis (chosen uniformly at random). T…

Contest vs. Competition in Cournot Duopoly: Schaffer's Paradox
Rabah Amir, Igor V. Evstigneev, Mikhail V. Zhitlukhin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00960 https://

Contest vs. Competition in Cournot Duopoly: Schaffer's Paradox
The paper compares two types of industrial organization in the Cournot duopoly: (a) the classical one, where the market players maximize profits and the outcome of the game is a Cournot-Nash equilibrium; (b) a contest in which players strive to win a fixed prize/bonus employing unbeatable strategies. Passing from (a) to (b) leads to a perfect competition with zero profits of the players (Schaffer's paradox). Transition from (b) to (a) results in a substantial decline in the production output, w…

Two huge narcissists walk into a bar.. erm, I mean election. https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/07/game-of-chicken-eric-adams-cuomo-want-each-other-out-of-nyc-mayoral-race-00441398

Replaced article(s) found for cs.GT. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.GT/new
[1/1]:
- A Principled Approach to Randomized Selection under Uncertainty: Applications to Peer Review and ...
Alexander Goldberg, Giulia Fanti, Nihar B. Shah

Limited-visibility Cops and Robbers on Hamming graphs
John Jones, William B. Kinnersley
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05196 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.05196…

Limited-visibility Cops and Robbers on Hamming graphs
In the classic game of Cops and Robbers, a team of cops pursues a robber through a graph. The traditional model of Cops and Robbers operates under the assumption that the cops know the robber's location at all times. Recently, however, there has been growing interest in models wherein the cops have only partial information about the robber's location. In this paper, we study the limited-visibility variant of Cops and Robbers, in which the cops only know the robber's position if some cop is with…

Behavior Driven Development for 3D Games
Fernando Pastor Ric\'os, Beatriz Mar\'in, I. S. W. B. Prasetya, Tanja E. J. Vos, Joseph Davidson, Karel Hovorka
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17057

Behavior Driven Development for 3D Games
Computer 3D games are complex software environments that require novel testing processes to ensure high-quality standards. The Intelligent Verification/Validation for Extended Reality Based Systems (iv4XR) framework addresses this need by enabling the implementation of autonomous agents to automate game testing scenarios. This framework facilitates the automation of regression test cases for complex 3D games like Space Engineers. Nevertheless, the technical expertise required to define test scr…

Series B, Episode 12 - The Keeper
JENNA: Gola, don't kill him, please. [Vila is heard shrieking protests off stage]
GOLA: We'll see, we'll see.
[THE DUNGEONS - Blake hides as Vila is dragged in.]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/212/362 B7B4

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Not to brag, but I can _still_ complete this level in the TMNT (NES) game. A few years ago I installed a rom emulator for my kid, and obviously I needed to test it out.
A lot of games I sucked at (Street Fighter 2 (for SNES), which I spent countless hundreds of hours playing, somehow I'd forgotten all the combo moves), but some games I still had locked down. Punch Out I was able to almost beat. And TMNT, I disarmed the bombs and finished this level on my first try.

Cincinnati Bengals News https://www.foxsports.com/nfl/cincinnati-bengals-team

My brain likes to game the system.
mouth: "Damn, that [food] was good!"
brain: "Y'know, if you hurry.. you can have another one before stomach starts to feel full!"
stomach: "Wait, but won't that hurt us la.."
hands: *grabbing another and quickly shoving it into mouth*
brain: "Oops, too late!"
mouth: "Fuck yeah!"

Optimal play in Guess Who
David Cushing, Stuart Gipp, Ezra Levick, Em Rickinson, David I. Stewart
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00799 https://arxiv.org/pdf/25…

Optimal play in Guess Who
We prove an optimal strategy for the children's game Guess Who? assuming the official rules are in use and that both players ask `classical' questions with a bipartite response. Applying a technique described in [Rabern, B \& Rabern, L 2008, 'A simple solution to the hardest logic puzzle ever', \textit{Analysis}, vol. 68, no. 2, pp.~105-112.] allows for questions with tripartite responses; we explain this innovation and give an optimal strategy for two players applying it.

Maker playing against an invisible Breaker
Dennis Clemens, Fabian Hamann, Mirjana Mikala\v{c}ki, Yannick Mogge, Milo\v{s} Stojakovi\'c
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22519 https…

Maker playing against an invisible Breaker
We initiate the study of the phantom version of Maker-Breaker positional games. In a phantom game, the moves of one of the players are hidden from the other player, who still has the complete information. We look at the biased $(a:b)$ Maker-PhantomBreaker games where the board is the edge set of the complete graph on $n$ vertices, $K_n$, and Maker has no information about PhantomBreaker's choices of edges. We give randomized strategies for both players in four classical games: connectivity game…