🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮
@unormal.bsky.social
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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Black Friday is ON for one whole week on the Mighty Merch store! Grab your favorite game’s merch with:
🔥 25% off selected Caves of Qud and Haste items
⚡️ 15% off selected Haven and Furi items
✨ 10% off every order
Shop now: mightymerch.store/collections/...
🔥 25% off selected Caves of Qud and Haste items
⚡️ 15% off selected Haven and Furi items
✨ 10% off every order
Shop now: mightymerch.store/collections/...
November 27, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Black Friday is ON for one whole week on the Mighty Merch store! Grab your favorite game’s merch with:
🔥 25% off selected Caves of Qud and Haste items
⚡️ 15% off selected Haven and Furi items
✨ 10% off every order
Shop now: mightymerch.store/collections/...
🔥 25% off selected Caves of Qud and Haste items
⚡️ 15% off selected Haven and Furi items
✨ 10% off every order
Shop now: mightymerch.store/collections/...
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truth coming out of her cup noodles to shame mankind
November 28, 2025 at 5:48 AM
truth coming out of her cup noodles to shame mankind
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People want to know why my gravy is so good. Bitch there’s 3 sticks of butter in there. That’s why.
November 27, 2025 at 8:12 PM
People want to know why my gravy is so good. Bitch there’s 3 sticks of butter in there. That’s why.
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ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:35 PM
ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
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back at the grind, working on dynamic skybox volumetric clouds and occlusion (what good is a dystopian megacity without a massive thick oppressive fog layer?) #shadowlandsbbs
November 28, 2025 at 1:54 AM
back at the grind, working on dynamic skybox volumetric clouds and occlusion (what good is a dystopian megacity without a massive thick oppressive fog layer?) #shadowlandsbbs
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[reading about history] wow. this is just like caves of qud
November 27, 2025 at 10:23 PM
[reading about history] wow. this is just like caves of qud
rebranded as the slog
November 27, 2025 at 9:54 PM
rebranded as the slog
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Here's a long Thanksgiving listen if you wanna go ultra deep on the Caves of Qud endgame. The hosts & Brian/Caelyn are so insightful as always, but I'm also thankful they let me rattle on re: the teeming melange that went into the ending. This was the post-release exhale I needed. Hope you enjoy!
Into the Depths: Caves of Qud Finale
We're joined by @ectafoole.bsky.social, @unormal.bsky.social, and @jfg.land, with special guest host @thisisstar.bsky.social, to discuss the challenge of finishing a game you've been making for 18 years... and what comes next.
secretlives.games/into-the-dep...
We're joined by @ectafoole.bsky.social, @unormal.bsky.social, and @jfg.land, with special guest host @thisisstar.bsky.social, to discuss the challenge of finishing a game you've been making for 18 years... and what comes next.
secretlives.games/into-the-dep...
The Secret Lives of Games: Into the Depths: Caves of Qud Finale
We’re proud to present the final installment of our over-a-year-long Into the Depths series on , as well as our last episode with our recently retired Eggplant branding. Caves of Qud is a massive open...
secretlives.games
November 27, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Here's a long Thanksgiving listen if you wanna go ultra deep on the Caves of Qud endgame. The hosts & Brian/Caelyn are so insightful as always, but I'm also thankful they let me rattle on re: the teeming melange that went into the ending. This was the post-release exhale I needed. Hope you enjoy!
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Facepunch has open sourced their Unity-like C# editor framework they're building on top of Source 2 ("S&box") github.com/Facepunch/sb...
November 27, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Facepunch has open sourced their Unity-like C# editor framework they're building on top of Source 2 ("S&box") github.com/Facepunch/sb...
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Still fully optional
November 27, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Still fully optional
[scribbling in my video game ideas notebook]
People say the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is corny and corporate, but where else can you see Busta Rhymes and the Ninja Turtles together for 35 seconds
November 27, 2025 at 9:09 PM
[scribbling in my video game ideas notebook]
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friend met this character Sheba Hagadias in caves of qud and I had to draw her 🥺
November 27, 2025 at 12:04 PM
friend met this character Sheba Hagadias in caves of qud and I had to draw her 🥺
thinking about the turing test
November 27, 2025 at 8:38 AM
thinking about the turing test
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off-main-thread rendering now done, and moved all chunk streaming to a block/block basis, and built out the frustum culling so i'm sitting pretty at vsync with almost no perf drops when chunks form in. fuck yeah.
November 27, 2025 at 7:35 AM
off-main-thread rendering now done, and moved all chunk streaming to a block/block basis, and built out the frustum culling so i'm sitting pretty at vsync with almost no perf drops when chunks form in. fuck yeah.
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they're calling Ned Ludd the most vindicated man in all of human history
November 27, 2025 at 7:25 AM
they're calling Ned Ludd the most vindicated man in all of human history
im proud of everyone learning to hate technology so much
November 27, 2025 at 7:23 AM
im proud of everyone learning to hate technology so much
cant call it jacking in anymore because we got rid of miniplug
November 27, 2025 at 7:20 AM
cant call it jacking in anymore because we got rid of miniplug
wow visual studio 2026 is pretty damn snappy navigating around the caves of qud project
November 27, 2025 at 7:11 AM
wow visual studio 2026 is pretty damn snappy navigating around the caves of qud project
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Netsuke of a Rat Grasping a Soybean Pod, 19th century Japan
November 26, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Netsuke of a Rat Grasping a Soybean Pod, 19th century Japan
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its so crazy that young people became less interested in movies & tv at the same time weird tech guys mostly started deciding what gets made
November 27, 2025 at 3:42 AM
its so crazy that young people became less interested in movies & tv at the same time weird tech guys mostly started deciding what gets made
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to heal this broken nation, we MUST devise a breakfast cereal that HELPS you jerk off
in america during the second great awakening the women joined apacolyptic cults awaiting the destruction of earth and the men started inventing breakfast cereals that would stop them from jerking off so much and you can see how from there we got here
November 27, 2025 at 5:45 AM
to heal this broken nation, we MUST devise a breakfast cereal that HELPS you jerk off
the first human to log on
November 27, 2025 at 5:45 AM
the first human to log on
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