Weekend project: building a (site) search engine www.redblobgames.com/blog/2025-08... just for fun! :)
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Weekend project: building a (site) search engine www.redblobgames.com/blog/2025-08... just for fun! :)
What's more, it was written by a game dev! Jake T. Forbes
Truly
Wow and he didn't disclose a conflict of interest on A Warm Place? smh
How is Trent Reznor his real name? "Reznor" is the most late 80s post-industrial made-up ass word. It's like if I were named Jason Wordyworm
Oh no... how are you posting??
Thank you Ian! The award means a lot but the outpouring of congrats means just as much
I was tart cherry radicalized at Worldcon. Middle age unlocks access to the taste of prostate health
(going to hell and starting to freak out) okay, okay. five things i can see. the devil,
The Crimson Diamond thumbprint cookie charms can now be ordered on my e-shop! Either 10k gold or sterling silver versions, anywhere in the world! heron-perch-748w.squarespace.com The Crimson Diamond (cozy mystery adventure game) is STILL 25% off until Friday! store.steampowered.com/app/1098770/...
Ahh I saw you at the lore in videogames panel and was hoping to say hi! But got caught up
Thank you!! It has fucked us up
I always fuck this up but I think they're the territory
You are correct!
This pull thanks to @logodaedalus.bsky.social, I got as far as "tastes bad"
Crushed aspirin for me
Thanks Josh!!
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<3 <3 I'm enjoying it!!
I'm with you on it not feeling real, haha! Thank you loren, as always you're an inspiration. The open world project you've been posting has me ๐, some cool resonances with a thing we're working on. Will have to chat about it sometime
Yeah the base is different each year, made by a worldcon artist. This one is such a nice Qud fit! The shape of the glass piece varies a lot too, Brian's is quite different
thank you Florence!
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thank you!!
if you're wondering the pebble quote is from thecatamites' "10 Manifestos", maybe my favorite piece of writing on games harmonyzone.org/ManifestoJam...
okay I had a few words bsky.app/profile/kitf...
Two and half days later & I still don't have words So proud and happy for our team So thankful to the WSFS voters So honored to be in this cohort of finalists and past winners Live and drink ๐๐
I was worried
Ok but not the finale of The Bear S2 on repeat?
It's honestly so touching, and yeah agree with Brian that I'd expect the same trend if the positions were reversed
Exhausted and floaty, hope to say more tomorrow. Until then, to all of you who reached out, ๐๐๐
I am here and getting confused for several other Hugo finalist Jasons, but that's fine
nice
We'll be there Thurs and part of Sun. We're doing a couple panels if you wanna drop by, I'll send you links in a bit
right? haha. "Guy who remembers things a normal amount" the anti-Wolfian protagonist also, hell yeah to you starting this!!
Yeah! Are you going to worldcon by chance?
What a stunning thing. Not done yet so more to say later
I'm shotgunning 1000xResist ahead of Worldcon and good lord it's oops all gut punches (laudatory)
Doctor: What? No. Pagliacci is the street name for MDMA.
A true gamer
This truism is the backbone of the entire streaming ecosystem
Video games have a Challenger Deep-sized deficit to make up for when set against film & tv because of how hard they are to enjoy while eating a bowl of spaghetti
Doctor: What? No. Pagliacci is the street name for MDMA.
Refusing to react to the controversy I'm at the center of until I figure out whether I'm enmeshed, embroiled, or entangled
If you've spent any time over the past year or 10 playing @cavesofqud.com you've no doubt marvelled at its worldbuilding So, for WS7 we sent @rossignol.bsky.social to grill @jfg.land & @unormal.bsky.social & find out more Loads of great @elkowalczuk.bsky.social art in this one shop.wyrd.science
One of the ones I get recommended to me a lot. Haven't read yet!
1) @wyrdscience.bsky.social issue 7 coming out soon! Pre-order: shop.wyrd.science/products/wyr.... 2) Featuring article about @cavesofqud.com, written by @rossignol.bsky.social, illustrated by me. 3) More about these illustrations: ko-fi.com/post/51-BtS-.... 4) Can't wait for Switch edition of CoQ!
Na'vi are real and James Cameron has one locked in the server room of Lightstorm Entertainment
High ROI purchase
even excepting all the overhype, it turns out having your life-changing tech in the hands of one corporate entity with completely divergent goals from you is a setup for a fair amount of anguish
I'm only comfortable sticking to the centrist take: blueberry has 2.5 r's
a bit that never fails is when someone doesn't remember something they're supposed to in a social context and overcorrects by lying hyperspecifically. Just always funny
Having a chuckle imagining a Caves of Qud segment on a Nintendo Direct
You're all gonna look stupid as hell when in 10 years a computational linguist proves that blueberry does in fact have 3 r's
a sustainable software product that might improve the lives of its users has utility that can be too predictably baked into its investment plans. however, if we upend several nation states and introduce New horrors such that no one knows what's going on, we -could- reach the 100x return ideal
at this pace we are in danger of undershooting the terminal velocity needed to propel Bluesky into a state Nazi platform and existential threat to our species
ok so if you like the idea of Qud on Switch or you like the idea of Thousand Hells or Streets of Fortuna or all our games getting more updates YOU CAN DO SOMETHING TO HELP buy a Kitfox game for a friend, every $ matters and literally everything's on sale: store.steampowered.com/sale/kitfoxf...
๐ Announcing Thousand Hells: The Underworld Heists, a procedural narrative RPG by A Sharp @radiofreelunch.bsky.social and published by us! โถ Wishlist the game now on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3794210/...
I'm more excited about this than the tone of my repost indicates. let's try !!! LIVE AND DRINK ๐พ๐๐ตโ๐ซ๐๐ค
Nintendo made us cut "this one's for you Alexei!!" from the end of the trailer, unconscionably
live and drink ๐น๏ธ๐
sweet regression free time
I'm gonna announce a new game TOMORROW ya'll no it's not related to Nintendo we too cool and weird and kaleidoscopic for that but we did delay the announce just a little bit as a result, you're welcome
Modern peoples don't understand that if you saw one of those yellow Sony Walkmen or a translucent beeper as a kid, you entered a trance state and communed with a deity who existed very briefly from 1988 to 1993
So please, do not move forward as normal. This isn't normal. It's imperative to put pressure on Microsoft to end this. Whether that's by canceling Game Pass, refusing to cover their games with your normal cadence on your platforms, or to pressure them internally as employees. Now is the time.
I know a lot of you have already heard or read about BDS Movement's call against Microsoft, and felt weird and bad about it all, but decided to move forward as normal because of some degree of ambiguity. "What service is Microsoft providing?" Here it is, clear as day. A direct line to death.
Doctor WH40k
Hey, it would mean so much to me if y'all kept up the pressure with phone calls to payment processors to show to them how much people care and that they can't just ignore itโmy livelihood depends on adult games not being censored! You can find info and phone scripts here: stop-paypros.neocities.org
If you're from a country with a weaker economy or difficult entry requirements into the US: do not spend money on GDC. Do not book a ticket. Do not book a hotel. Do not pay for a visa. Skip that cynical for-profit extortion, or the US will take your money & spit you out. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
There are settings everywhere for those with the eyes to see
Even by the funhouse mirror logic of a list like this, putting historian #2 is dirty work
Everyone knows that "Preferences" should be found under Edit (because you edit them), under Tools (because they control the parameters of your tools), under General (because they are categorically broad), & under File (because a preference is a 'filing off' from a marble block of possibility)
Okay a couple of people have pointed out that my parents' names are blue on wikipedia for being famous Mentats. Nevertheless,
And I fired this off while eating a peach. Get back to me when a computer can factor a number, peace
Computers struggle with Prime95 stress tests? 95 isn't even prime *smh*
Ghost window: a spectral trace in brick and flint. Every now and then I come across a scene that is utterly beautiful but not intended to be so...here at St. Lawrence, Beeston St. Lawrence, Norfolk.
there was a time when a software update was an opportunity for hope and not a naked threat
Ursula Le Guin on eggs. โMy current egg spoon is stainless steel; on the handle are the letters KLM. I will not go into how we came to own this spoon.โ www.ursulakleguin.com/blog/29-with...
Not the literal worst but the most jokerfying outcome is something like Newsom winning in 2028 and keeping 70% of Trump's ruinous institutional dismantling going under the banner of "rediscovering our country's moral center of personal liberty" or some shit
Would you love me if I were a rack mounted matrix processing unit?
You need this kind of confidence going into the hypothetical
so if anyone does not recognize the name, this is probably the most famous living mathematician on earth. you basically fund his group to pay salaries and random shit like MRI machines becomes several times more efficient, like magic.
"Cameron Kunzelman spent years writing the definitive monograph on a cultural phenomenon uniquely suited to his research program and personal interests. He also wrote a book about Magic the Gathering."
This month on Paper Labyrinths: nic and I talk with @ckunzelman.bsky.social about his books of science fiction, Assassin's Creed, and the upcoming book on Magic the Gathering - as well as a bunch of other work from Cameron's past and future. Available now! sites.libsyn.com/568595/site/...
Fully unwatchable show
Musk's DOGE destroyed, crippled, or vastly reduced the effectiveness of international humanitarian relief mechanisms that were miracles of modern civilization
*jack nodding*
he's doing this for a consistent source of Gems because he hasn't drawn the Workshop to craft the jackhammer
it some ways exercise gets harder as you age but in one key way it's easier. what once felt like the tortuous passage of time is now pleasant and sandy drizzle in my second home the hourglass. Go all out for 3 minutes? Easy. That's a cinch. I die so little in that time
Trying this with udon today
\ This place is not a place of honor. No highly esteemed deed is commemorated here. > But I want to go, it's treasure and stuff?? \ You're right! There is much of value; let's get going. Where would you like to visit first? I recommend the Hall of Glowing, beautiful in autumn
It's not near the level of utter bonkersness it is now, where the volcanics are worth like 10x the mana drain, but even then it was shocking
a few years earlier a guy at a local tournament traded me an Antiquities Strip Mine for a 4th edition one because "it seem[ed] like you really want it". ahhh the days before hyperfinancialized Magic
Thinking about the time in 2001 I bought a Mana Drain on ebay and the seller was a few days late so to apologize threw in two VOLCANIC ISLANDS
probably! a mere decade โณ
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