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Dwarf Fortress co-creator Tarn Adams says he has no need for GenAI, because his artists are bursting with cool, weird ideas like meat biomes and sphincter doors. "[Tolkien] didn’t have a sphincter door. I mean, I don’t think he did… Who knows what’s going on in, like, Minas Morgul though."

thisweekinvideogames.com27 Chaotic Minutes with Dwarf Fortress Creator Tarn AdamsTarn Adams talks about Dwarf Fortress, his favourite bugs of the last 20 years, and why it's incredibly important to have a "meat biome"

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"When they call it like the [Houses] of Lamentation or whatever, maybe they just threw Gollum in the sphincter door, and he’s just there getting choked by the sphincter, and he’s all like ‘Shire! Baggins!’. You never know."