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Sign me up for the AI criticism softener.

I am incredibly susceptible to agonizing over critiques of my creative work. Congrats to Zach Gage (designer of Spelltower and Really Bad Chess) for hitting on a pretty clever way to get the relevant criticism with a layer of distance... and still luxuriate in fully human praise.

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