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Is There an LGBTQ+ Canon?

3 weeks ago | daily.jstor.org | Livia Gershon |John Pruitt

The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. What should a class about LGBTQ+ literature teach? When English professor John Pruitt began working on an independent study course on “the contemporary gay male American novel” in 2012, it led him on a quest to figure out what texts students interested in queer literature ought to read—and whether making a list like that even makes sense.
DUCKSIDE Review for Steam Early Access

Oct 7, 2024 | gamingcypher.com | John Pruitt

Welcome back to another tour of tinyBuild’s DUCKSIDE, an open world survival game with crafting, multiplayer, and funny hats. There have been significant changes since our last duck hunt that have left me beakless, so let’s get into it!The DUCKSIDE Archipelago now includes new biomes from burning hot sands to wintery slopes. It is a wonderful addition of assets that help immerse us in these server worlds with new monuments to boot.
DUCKSIDE Review for Steam Early Access

Oct 7, 2024 | t.ly | John Pruitt

Welcome back to another tour of tinyBuild’s DUCKSIDE, an open world survival game with crafting, multiplayer, and funny hats. There have been significant changes since our last duck hunt that have left me beakless, so let’s get into it!The DUCKSIDE Archipelago now includes new biomes from burning hot sands to wintery slopes. It is a wonderful addition of assets that help immerse us in these server worlds with new monuments to boot.
Demon’s Mirror Review for Steam

Sep 11, 2024 | gamingcypher.com | John Pruitt

Demon’s Mirror is a rogue-like card battler, by developer Be-Rad Entertainment and publisher Good Shepherd Entertainment, with procedurally generated campaigns that are not so easily completed. I certainly tried to get to the end, but I failed. Failure, however, built me up and trained me to be a more skilled pathfinder and pattern identifier. Demon’s Mirror is an engaging card battler, and it turned out to be more than I expected. There is not much of a story to explore right out of the box.
Deadlock Station Demo Impressions for Steam

Aug 14, 2024 | gamingcypher.com | John Pruitt

Deadlock Station is a rogue-lite tactical auto-battler, by developer Luxorix Games and publisher CRITICAL REFLEX, that will be released on Steam, but currently has a demo available. I enjoy sallying out into hostile territory, bringing home loot, and leveling my team. Deadlock Station covers each of those things. As far as stories go, Deadlock Station does fairly well. I thought that an alien invasion on top of an AI revolution leading to humanity’s catastrophe was interesting.
DUCKSIDE Preview for Steam

Jul 1, 2024 | gamingcypher.com | Matt O'Toole |John Pruitt

Welcome to tinyBuild’s Duckside! If you like open world survival games with crafting, multiplayer, and funny hats, then we welcome you to the latest addition to the genre. Finding a server has not been a problem so far, and there is a wide spread from California to Europe. Some servers are flagged for PVE, and I really appreciated that as a first-time player. Before jumping in, I watched the two-part tutorial on how to get started.
Heading Out Review for Steam

May 20, 2024 | gamingcypher.com | John Pruitt

Heading Out, by developer Serious Sim and publisher Saber Interactive, is a narrative RPG with elements of choose your adventure and racing. I enjoyed playing this game so much that I decided to finish all four acts before concluding with my final score. While I don’t think there is as much replayability as we might expect, players can walk away with a meaningful experience. The game starts in the middle of our story, waking up with memories of the last race we had.
Buckshot Roulette Review for Steam

Apr 24, 2024 | gamingcypher.com | John Pruitt

What is the most you are willing to risk for $70,000? I used to think my 9-to-5 prepared me for that answer, but today I signed a waiver to allow a stranger to wave a shotgun in my face with a 50/50 chance of it blowing up in my face! Buckshot Roulette is a surprisingly addictive gambling game. There is not much to say. We wake up in a dirty bathroom at the top floor of an industrial style building or tenement hall.
Refining Vector Search Queries With Time Filters in pgvector

Apr 1, 2024 | timescale.com | John Pruitt

Vector databases have emerged as a powerful solution for working with high-dimensional data. These databases store vectors and perform vector searches. A vector is an array of numbers representing a data point in a multi-dimensional space, and vector search finds the most similar vectors to a query vector in this space. Vector search capabilities are powerful in machine learning and artificial intelligence, where traditional text-based search falls short.
Connecticut Insurance Department adopts NAIC model bulletin on AI | JD Supra

Mar 15, 2024 | jdsupra.com | Michael Coburn |Daniel McCarty |John Pruitt

On February 26, 2024, the Connecticut Insurance Department (the CID) adopted Bulletin No. MC-25 on the “Use of Artificial Intelligence Systems in Insurance” (Connecticut Bulletin). This Connecticut Bulletin is similar to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) Model Bulletin regarding the “Use of Artificial Intelligence Systems by Insurers” (Model Bulletin), which was adopted by the NAIC on December 4, 2023.