A Merry AI Christmas to all, and to all a Yippee-Ki-Yay Night.
Hey everyone! It’s me Courtney, reporting back from our Very AI Christmas Party Holiday Extravaganza with guest host Nick Thorburn. Per my last newsletter, we did our best to honor the AI overlords and throw this party to spec. You can read all about it here. Thankfully, we averted an AI apocalypse, but unfortunately that meant John McClane never showed up. We did have a very special surprise guest, though. He went by Andy, and he had just returned from a rock ‘n’ roll tour with Nick’s band, Islands. Lucky for us, he had enough strength leftover to swing by our little shindig and join in on the festivities. He was definitely the life of the party, which is ironic considering he’s not technically alive.
That’s correct, Andy is a robot, and aside from being pure gold (metaphorically of course - he’s actually made mostly of rubber, plastic and aluminum), he’s an absolute party animal. He’s been around the block more than a few times and he’ll tell you all about it. Watch this:
In keeping with Ruined Table tradition, read on for decoration and game ideas, conversation starters and a playlist, all made specifically for our Very AI Christmas Party. And in keeping with tradition for this particular theme, I let AI take the reins on all of it. (Except for the playlist, of course, because the playlist that AI came up with was total garbage, and I think we all know by now how seriously I take my playlists.) All the recipes will come next week, just in time for Christmas.
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