Everest Pipkin

also because i'm a shill, this is the tool i mentioned midway through some of you on the patreon already started using it last week and that makes me extremely happy

watching @roguelike.club; this morning has been really good and I have been looking forward to @everest.bsky.social’s talk

Flickgame is out for iOS and free to get from the AppStore apps.apple.com/de/app/flick... (feedback welcome!)

When colonization came to call in the US, many folks wrote about america as a pristine Eden whose forest were filled with delights and bounty. This was because indigenous folk (Like mine) built up food forest. Things that were razed and destroyed as a part of racist violence. Colonization is ongoing

I'm a mound

Some personal highlights: - Qud localization, obviously - @everest.bsky.social on gamers yearning for the mines - @droqen.bsky.social making a sudoku poem LIVE - @codingcrafter.bsky.social on proc gen and pedagogy - a 45 minute special on recovering and repairing the Hack sourcecode

The schedule for @roguelike.club is up! We’ve got yet another stunning lineup with multiple people who are such a good fit I had assumed they’d spoken already 🤣 Time is fake and it’s just over two weeks until the con so check it out, buy a ticket, come hang out! www.roguelike.club/event2026.html

The lineup is so good! I went 👀 seeing that @everest.bsky.social will be doing "a retrospective of video game holes." Their 2023 presentation on gardens is one I still think a lot about. www.youtube.com/watch?v=O78u...

you hear no news; read no gazettes; extras with startling accounts of commonplaces never delude you into unnecessary excitements; you hear of no domestic afflictions; bankrupt securities; fall of stocks

obsessed with this 4 minute open laptop talk about an phone dollhouse from wordhack this week (should start at ~39:20)

rip annie dillard

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In mid-2025 Alex Spencer did an incredible preview of Big Walk for Edge, doomed to print purgatory. Been thinking about this vignette of Jake's hand-placing rocks ever since. As the slop wave intensifies, it's just a beautiful depiction of a game made by people who care (and have the time to care).

I'm truly relating to @meredithgran.com 's fear of making a game known for having bannable content rather than, you know, what the game is actually about.

the energy costs are catastrophic. the companies you rent them from are destroying the world in multiple axes. they are addictive and cause damaging brain patterns. they destroy community and shared knowledge through isolation and independence.

the software that LLMs write is not software i want to run on my computer. the text LLMs generate is not text i want to read or write. the images LLMs generate are not images i want to see or make. the music LLMs generate is not music i want to listen to or write.

using LLMs violates so many of my morals that its hard to even begin with arguing about it. any one is more than enough to not consider it, that when i see ppl dismissing it all at once, its so overwhelming.

work on the warehouse game continues

Needs some beeswax to do that. Where'd I leave that beeswax...? I can't. I need to get the beeswax. Everyone's waiting on that beeswax. Beeswax... come on, Oddy, think! Know I saw some beeswax somewhere... Surely I can find some beeswax. Need to find the beeswax first.

Making a period tracker yourself is a really amazing way to take over your digital agency!! I want to teach a workshop where we each make a simple securely hosted (or locally hosted) website (that doesn't rely on large hosting platforms) where you can easily go to and enter your data

permanent daylight savings doesn't go far enough

thank you for all the object contributions. i'm going to cherish seeing them populate the warehouse - i really do feel i was handed everyone's treasures

there is some soft and kind spirit moving through the world these days I can sense it