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Yoon Ha Lee (he/him)

@deuceofgears.bsky.social

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Sf/f writer (NINEFOX GAMBIT, DRAGON PEARL). MFA student in media composition. Hobbies: 2D animation, game design, destroying readers. Rep'd by @sethasfishman.bsky.social. https://www.yoonhalee.com/ https://ninefoxgambit.com/ https://candlearc.com/

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Yoon Ha Lee (he/him) @deuceofgears.bsky.social · 9d

After foxing up WordPress last year, I've finally gotten the Ninefox Gambit webcomic back online. Echoes the Candle Arc *comic* although the *2D animation* (preproduction) is over at the sister site candlearc.com. Signed, still buried under orchestration homework, back to work!

ninefoxgambit.com

Ink and wash portrait of General Shuos Jedao from Ninefox Gambit

Ink and wash portrait of Captain Kel Cheris from Ninefox Gambit

Yoon Ha Lee (he/him) @deuceofgears.bsky.social · 7h

En passant, bad things that happen when I take a break to slip in revisions on A Personal Project and end up with [$YET_ANOTHER_PLACEHOLDER]. (SORRY MENOWEN)

Back to work on actual work!

snippet from Candle Arc 2D animation script WIP

JEDAO
"You've never been defeated," Kel Command says. The Lanterners must have missed the foxing memo.

Jedao sways unsteadily.

MENOWEN
You can’t be seriously considering--

Jedao sways, but this time he's obviously faking it.

JEDAO
I was hoping to die of boredom after the hospital nicked my gun.

MENOWEN
[SNARKASM]

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Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 1d

Ran out of words and not tagging @imagecomics.com and @stephaniehans.bsky.social. Also, appreciate any spreading of this. It is that time.

Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 1d

October 20th is the order cut off for DIE: LOADED, sequel to the three-time Hugo-nominated DIE. I've pulled together a short primer it with all the info you need on it - what it is, previews, full cover details (check out our sketch variant!) and more. Go nose! Join our party. It's an experience.

DIE: Loaded

The sequel to the three-times Hugo-nominated, award winning dark fantasy comic, DIE.

bindings.app

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Bear McCreary 🐻🎶 @bearmccreary.bsky.social · 1d

The #Deathstalker soundtrack and music video are finally here!

I had a blast collaborating with Slash, Brendan McCreary, Gene Hoglan, Omer Ben-Zvi, and Pete Griffin to reimagine Chuck Cirino's timeless theme for the 80’s cult classic Deathstalker II (Steven Kostanski) ...

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Yoon Ha Lee (he/him) @deuceofgears.bsky.social · 1d

This is not a drill: Cliff Eidelman's Star Trek VI Concert Score reading copy! (Previously only the End Credits Suite had been available.) This score has lived rent-free in my head for over three DECADES.

(Okay, lunch and a relisten now!)

www.cliffeidelman.com/concert-work...

Concert Works Links Page — CLIFF EIDELMAN

www.cliffeidelman.com

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Brian Keene @briankeene.bsky.social · 1d

I know I'm old and grumpy, but the only way this article could have made me grin even more maliciously was if the AI had led all the influencers over the rim of a volcano. www.thetimes.com/world/articl...

ChatGPT plans the perfect holiday … to places that don’t exist

Tech-driven itineraries may look appealing, but travellers have found their recommended destinations and activities exist only in AI’s imagination

www.thetimes.com

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Failbetter Games - Wishlist Mandrake on Steam! @failbettergames.com · 1d

Thank you to everyone who's picked up the new Fallen London merch! The presale on the Arcana and the new Mysterious and Indistinct t-shirt will be open for a while, and it's going to help us be prudent in how many of these things we make. There will be some stock, too.

gametee.co.uk/products/the...

The Fallen London Arcana

PRE-SALE PRODUCT - SHIPPING LATE NOVEMBER / EARLY DECEMBERThe Fallen London ArcanaCreated by Gametee for Failbetter Games A deck of characters and concepts from Fallen London, in celebration of its 15...

gametee.co.uk

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Yoon Ha Lee (he/him) @deuceofgears.bsky.social · 1d

I have thought up a unhinged fake MUD combat mechanic running off the Chinese Remainder Theorem = good grief, Yoon Ha, GET SOME DLEEP.

Yoon Ha Lee (he/him) @deuceofgears.bsky.social · 2d

Sitting here during downtime wondering if I could refactor that 60% WIP Shuos Academy game from ChoiceScript into MUD... Easier (smaller) starting points would probably be From Every Spark a Fire or Turnabout Is Fair Prey, Amiable Planet from Twine etc.

Yoon Ha Lee (he/him) @deuceofgears.bsky.social · 2d

Lol, in some cases THIRTY YEARS (Fidonet) or twenty-plus (Usenet, various listservs...), then onward to LJ etc.

✨🥀Persephone Evil🥀✨ @bipolarpisces35.blacksky.app · 2d

God damn, some of yall been following each other online for a decade?!!

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Andrew Plotkin @eblong.com · 2d

I snapshotted the opening of each transcript in my old Infocom transcript printout collection.

blog.zarfhome.com/2025/10/old-...

Doesn't reveal much new, but it was fun.

(I was hoping to determine the release number of the version of Suspended that I played, but the transcript doesn't show it.)

My old Infocom transcripts

Back when I was a kid, after I solved an Infocom game, I'd print out a transcript of a

blog.zarfhome.com

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Yoon Ha Lee (he/him) @deuceofgears.bsky.social · 2d

I feel personally attacked... /o\

The Onion @theonion.com · 2d

Woman Tends To Do Best Creative Thinking When Backed Into Corner With Livelihood At Stake https://theonion.com/woman-tends-to-do-best-creative-thinking-when-backed-in-1851338274/

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Yoon Ha Lee (he/him) @deuceofgears.bsky.social · 2d

Figuring out where the additional MUD components were loading from means I can STOP scope creep BS like researching preliminaries for implementing the Z-Machine (.z3) into Forth on a baremetal ForthOS on Raspberry Pi, that's obviously a NORMAL AND SANE COPING METHOD.

intfiction.org/t/implementi...

Implementing a Z-Machine for the first time

Definitely target version 3. It has a large number of story files, and lacks some complex features found in 5. Once you have a handle on things, adding support for other versions should come fairly ...

intfiction.org

Yoon Ha Lee (he/him) @deuceofgears.bsky.social · 2d

Getting started coding a Ninefox MUD using NakedMud (Python 3 MUD server - github.com/NakedMud/nak...). Thanks to a friend I worked out where the heck the entities were loading from and ripped out two of the starter example races/species. Everything else is on defaults so time to build!

screenshot of a MUD WIP using the NakedMud engine (Python 3)

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Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 2d

I'm reminded of this scene I wrote in Darth Vader, which is born of me pitching "Okay - the reason Droids don't generally beat humans in Star Wars is they don't have blood, as that's where midichlorians are. So, how about syringe-powered vampire robots?" and (rightfully) being told no, kieron, no.

Page from Darth Vader 19, drawn by Salva Larocca. Triple Zero makes a speech to scare the humans attacking teh robots, claiming all the robots are definitely NOT vampires.

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Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 2d

INACTION FIGURES!

Steven Warble @stevenwfafnir.bsky.social · 3d

Also, I think I no longer want an Etienne Lux action figure. #PowerFantasy

Seriously though, I would love a set of Power Fantasy action figures..

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Failbetter Games - Wishlist Mandrake on Steam! @failbettergames.com · 3d

The Fallen London Arcana.

(Very) Soon.

A tarot card entitled The Chariot, depicting a large bat in silhouette, flying over a London skyline against teal water and a teal sky. It is balanced against a leatherbound book.

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Yoon Ha Lee (he/him) @deuceofgears.bsky.social · 3d

Genuinely cannot ascertain whether catten is about to taste-test the graphic novel or the husband... 😅

Yoon Ha Lee (he/him) @deuceofgears.bsky.social · 3d

classical orchestra conductor, mixing engineer, speakeasy jazz pianist

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 4d

quantitative methods, qualitative methods, mixed methods

Photo of a Kansas City Chiefs press conference with Andy Reid, Travis Kelce, and Patrick Mahomes. Reid is wearing a gray suit and red tie with a lapel pin. Kelce is wearing a camp-style short-sleeved shirt with a bird print, along with a suede cap, and Mahomes is wearing a white collared shirt, a pink checkered double-breasted vest, and a pale pink tie.

Yoon Ha Lee (he/him) @deuceofgears.bsky.social · 4d

I'm increasingly in agreement with @niq.aeli.net that probably the point-of-no-return error in the entire life form thing was multicellularism... /o\

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 4d

I love retrospectives like this. We are obsessed with the same imaginary problems, generation after generation

Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 4d

A Brief History of Men are Becoming Less Manly

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Yoon Ha Lee (he/him) @deuceofgears.bsky.social · 4d

My favorite example is VEGETIUS in IIRC De Re Militari kvetching about the ~effeteness of Roman men vs. those strapping Germanic barbarians...

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Yoon Ha Lee (he/him) @deuceofgears.bsky.social · 4d

I hope you get good recs!...was wildly confused for a second thinking of the -musical instrument- mandolin...

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Yoon Ha Lee (he/him) @deuceofgears.bsky.social · 4d

Okay, one more for the road: There's a Forth implementation for the Z-Machine! #interactivefiction

github.com/llasram/zmfo...

GitHub - llasram/zmforth: ZmForth! is an ANS Forth implementation for the Z-machine

ZmForth! is an ANS Forth implementation for the Z-machine - llasram/zmforth

github.com

Yoon Ha Lee (he/him) @deuceofgears.bsky.social · 4d

This is literally why I took up handspinning. It's hard to doomscroll while you're repairing/swearing at your treadle wheel. Speaking of which, back to spinning cotton for no good reason!

Yoon Ha Lee (he/him) @deuceofgears.bsky.social · 4d

Today's readings in progress:
- Gforth Manual (www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/gforth...)
- Ed. J. Robinson, MUSIC AND MEANING
- Naomi Novik's THE SUMMER WAR
- Martin Van Creveld's COMMAND IN WAR
- McShaffry & Graham's GAME CODING COMPLETE 4th ed (a 2013 discussion of A* is still useful!)