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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮

@unormal.bsky.social

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A semi-sentient colony of self-assembling, cooperative, biological nano-units. Still somewhat functional, despite its age. 🏆Deloitte Fast 500 🏆Red Herring Top 100 Private Companies 🏆IGF Narrative. 🚀Hugo Award Winning Caves of Qud Sproggiwood pronoun* BLM

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✨Mary!!✨ @kobayashimaruu.bsky.social · 10h

me cuddling a carton of eggs: "come sweetings, time to be born anew"

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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 11h

truly precient episode about the threat of incels

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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 11h

mfw i go to the grocery store

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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 11h

klingons just fuck different

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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 11h

star wars: cinematic experience about space politics blah blah something ninjas whatever

star trek: stage play about space fuckin

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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 11h

star wars just cant hold a candle to trek, if you really compare them its not even close

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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 11h

some of my favorite star trek episodes are where a federation star ship finds a planet stuck in a dimensional time loop or something and they beam down and start fuckin

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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 11h

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walking mirage @wolf.observer · 12h

i wish i could work in a mature programming environment

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lincoln carpenter @lincolnhello.bsky.social · 14h

"'The more we try to understand what's going on in the world around us—the more we don't just withdraw into a hermitude of my family and I as a nuclear unit, the more we try to understand our society—I think the more these kinds of games speak to us,' Short said."

Founder of Dwarf Fortress and Caves of Qud publisher Kitfox Games says its procgen sims for sickos are 'giving storytelling tools back to the people when games and passive media took them away'

Streets of Fortuna, Kitfox's own in-development "megasim," is chasing that same systems-driven storytelling.

pcgamer.com

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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 16h

Caves of Qud is one of the most in-depth adventure games I've ever played. The lore is wonderful and the prose in the description of every object is interesting enough to have my examining entire rooms. I've played for longer than I ever thought I would when I saw the game for the first time, and I still haven't even made it past the fifth(?) story quest. The soundtrack is exciting and weird and the combat is rough and rewarding. I cannot possibly recommend this game enough.

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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 17h

it's funny that people kind of intuitively understand that solving walking the state space of chess or go is REALLY hard but the state space of creating good art is just too much for people to even understand theres a state space for choice to be made in. the average chess move isn't a good move.

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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 18h

i want the sheet music

🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 18h

expedition 33 is about inter office politics at a medium sized gamedev studio

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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 19h

any fight is basically trivialized if you just lightningstorm and dodge instead of parry, timing window is pretty huge

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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 19h

yeah makes sense, thanks!

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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 19h

sure, though im like a Gamer playing on hard and it wasn't very hard

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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 19h

just rolled act 3

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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 19h

I was like ah, but now I'm like huh

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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 19h

oh, expedition 33 goes places, hu?

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skeleton hugs (rabbit dad to MooMoo and formerly Tiffany) @skeleton-hugs.bsky.social · 22h

Caves of Qud

Eyes on the Fright 🎃 @eyesontheright.bsky.social · 1d

Look at what they have to face

Person dressed in a silly looking frog costume at a protest.

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Steve Unwin @stunwin.com · 20h

from another time when platforms Just Worked. I don't remember ever thinking "oh no a new vbulletin update, i wonder what bullshit they've added now?"

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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 21h

I'm sorry to say you have to hand it to somethingawful

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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 21h

honestly out of the last 30 years I'd say vBulletin is the best internet comms format

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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 21h

bad ADD

🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 21h

internet breaking again

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