flattened beneath the layer cake of history

Talk recording just dropped: youtu.be/rPhXTcVVJmo

when I get mad at a stupid comment online

When you find that exact spot on the puppy to pet... (Caves of Qud)

There Is No Antimemetics Division (2020)

this still works btw

web developer: oh hey you guys are back early infra: four's haunted web developer: what? infra: *loading a pistol and getting back on the computer* four's haunted

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i do not want my it infrastructure to display unearned frivoloty or joy

First post to celebrate yet another year captioning my favorite event! This event has been with me through out of state moves, getting married to my wife, and having TWO kids! Wild. @roguelike.club

Alternate trailer for the new Qud expansion, in which the dev's kid gets excited about mutations

Certified Wizard Professors:

1 minute into @roguelike.club and we already have a “VI & EMACS CONTAINMENT/FUN ZONE OF UNITY AND PATIENCE” on the slides, did you know that our conference rules

It's @unormal.bsky.social and @gnarf37.bsky.social speaking RIGHT NOW about localizing Caves of Qud! Can't wait to hear about this wild thing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8DS...

hello here are two ''sudoku poems'' i made during my talk at @roguelike.club & thanks to whoever taught me the word METALEPTIC

For those not following Mike Cook’s public talk series you’re missing some fantastic stuff! Last year at AIIDE we got “games are generators” and today we got “cities are generators”. The Mike Cook fandom is abuzz with what might be revealed to be a generator next.

I am a type 1 diabetic, and last night Dexcom forced me to agree to a new terms of use in order to continuing using the app and view my blood glucose data. Glad I had the foresight to "view agreements" and then copy the entire document. Because there appears to be NO WAY TO VIEW IT AGAIN. And...

Roguelike Celebration 2026 is now happening! Please pick up a pay-what-you're-able ticket at ti.to/roguelike-celebration/roguelike-celebration-2026 and join us in our custom event space for the first of two days of many fun and interesting talks!

Amped for Caves of Qud!??! Yeah! So go buy a ticket to Roguelike Celebration (pay what you can) and watch @unormal.bsky.social talk about the Project that is localizing the game. Have your mind blown by cutting-edge arcane linguistic architecture: ti.to/roguelike-ce... Sunday, 10:30am Pacific!

I'm giving a talk on Sunday about push your luck games. It's a bit of a design exploration that I think will go to some interesting and unexpected places

No malice on the author's part, but I think this article's headline gets the story slightly wrong here. The closing post acknowledges AI has gotten better at decompilation, but the reason for the close is that the AI users are ruining the community's values and space. www.404media.co/video-game-r...

marketing is easy! just give the people what they want, which is *checks notes* "play as plant and animal mutants without requiring body-hopping via consciousness projection and decapitation"

normal marketing: yeah getting people excited about a DLC, i dunno, it's tough, there's a lot of games marketing caves of qud DLC: are you sure 2 bars on the doors are enough? they're still trying to get in based on like 2 screenshots, let's put a few on the windows too

Announcing Caves of Qud: Diaspora. 🌱 Wishlist on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/5249200/...

if you don't repent and IMMEDIATELY adopt functional programming, when Haskell becomes sapient it will put you in the Hell Monad

Caves of Qud and Thousand Hells are both part of the Roguelike Celebration 2026! Grab a ticket (pay what you can) and tune in this weekend to hear from & chat with experts in procedural generation, about game design: www.roguelike.club/event2026.html store.steampowered.com/sale/rogueli...

oh wow huge if true

There was an old man who once told me, "Wednesday showers bring Thursday announcements." Now that I think about it, it might have been a strange pile of tubes I was speaking with...

...the world currents are in flux... (laudatory)(menacing)

It’s been an honor and a joy to get to work on this project and soon y’all will get to hear about the Horrors(tm) of procedural localization this weekend

The same political movement is simultaneously 1. Telling us "you can't undo AI, it's here, you can't undo a technology" 2. Undoing— successfully— the most life-saving single technology in history other than boiling water www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/u...

It was an honest mistake, but processing shouldn't be parallelized. Do one thing at a time ffs

@unormal.bsky.social and I are giving a talk about the localization of @cavesofqud.com on Sunday! The rest of the conference is always a great time, hope to see some of y'all around the social space MUD during the conference!

Walk around the neighborhood with a 2 year old in October and you can witness concept formation in real time. "Ok. We worship spiders, as a people. Ok."

This is a BANGER off a lineup if I do say so myself, and only the first four talks! We'll be posting about the rest of the talks over the course of the week, but you can see the entire schedule here: www.roguelike.club/event2026.html

Only six days away from Roguelike Celebration! We've been around since 2016. This week, we'll be posting six standout talks from back then. First - a panel discussion with the creators of curses and the one and only Rogue! www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaB7... (Info for 2026 at www.roguelike.club)

Oh you thought we were done with Caves of Qud news?

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I do support anyone who wants to claim that Tracery is a sentient baby god.

Okay @roguelike.club you're ok with me overrunning on my talk slot by like 45-50 minutes right.

I've been given the honor of giving the closing talk at this year's #Roguelike Celebration @roguelike.club, joining a stellar speaker lineup. I'd share my talk's title, but it would go over bsky's character limit! Check out the full program: www.roguelike.club/event2026.html

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Our full schedule is up, and what an amazing one it is! roguelike.club/event2026.html Our delightful alternate-sports themed MUD will be open for you to watch all of this goodness live on October 17-18!

Fanart of the chrome pyramid "Space and time rattle off their hinges and tear your perception apart" #pixelart #pixel_dailies #robot #CavesOfQud