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ectafoole.bsky.social
ecta foole
@ectafoole.bsky.social
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IGF and Hugo Award-Winning narrative designer for Freehold Games. Founding member of Nightmare Blunt Rotation. fka @inurashii. She/her. BTQ+.

Check my work out at https://ectafoole.itch.io
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selfie of me, a white fortysomething trans woman looking kinda Done
November 10, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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fresh lol meinnnnnnn
a wok-shaped pan filled with lo mein noodles, fried tofu, shiitake mushroom, carrot, and celery
November 9, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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I finally got my finalist pin in the mail so I can wear my Hugo :3c
a tan vinyl purse strap with four pin badges. from the top: a small unlabeled silver rocket pin, a Caves of Qud logo, the words "don't give in. don't give up." and a protect trans rights dagger pin.
November 9, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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November 6, 2025 at 4:31 AM
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archiveofourown.org/works/326380...
a page of sketches by Loccorocco focusing on some red-and-white clad desert dwellers teasing a short guy in a flap-eared hat.
November 5, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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I cured some egg yolks a few weeks ago and dried them and now I reap the reward
a bowl of cheesy macaroni with red sauce, on which rests a microplane grater. On the grater is a little yellow half-moon of hardened egg yolk.
October 31, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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i'm not even trying to beat the game until the pumpkins go away. It's open season on stalker entities and I'm gonna ruin their ecological niche
a screenshot of Receiver 2, showing a pile of broken parts on the ground. The PC holds a colt detective special pistol in one hand, and a figurine of a stalker entity -- a cylindrical robot festooned with camera 'eyes' and supported by five nasty-looking spikes -- in the other. screenshot from Receiver 2 of another Stalker Entity Statuette. The player's pistol, a Hi-Point C9, has its chunky slide locked back to indicate that the gun is empty. another Receiver 2 screenshot, another stalker entity statuette. The PC is holding an M1911 pistol, a bullet casing sticking comically out of the slide in a stovepipe malfunction. one more screenshot of the PC holding a stalker entity statue. Two of the real entity's spike legs lay in the mess of broken parts on the floor. There's nothing wrong with the PC's gun this time
October 31, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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You can really carve anything into still life form in VS. It's awesome
a warmly-lit room with a shining metal floor. Some holographic flowers grow from pots in the corner, and a small console with glowing indeterminate text rests against the wall with numerous pipe-shaped connections running from it
October 30, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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I am making weird Quddish locales in Vintage Story creative mode and someday I'm gonna run a digital LARP in one
screenshot from vintage story of a custom-carved scene: quartz glass windows overlook an arid landscape from a dilapidated fancy bartop, behind which a robot on a rail with a glowing red eye stands in wait. A hole in the floor below a broken pipe suggests an ancient leak, long dried up.
October 30, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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nothin but a roundog
a photo of a brown dog with a dark muzzle and little floppy ears. he's curled up into a almost perfect circle.
October 30, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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We have no guidelines about wearing clothes, but most of us do so because it gets chilly in the caves. We're strict relationship anarchists and people in relationships swap sleeping partners based on emotional need. We have a pair of bonded gauranlen trees and a grizzly bear named Allegra.
a more zoomed-in screenshot showing an outer walled courtyard, the garden grotto, a temple, some storage space and bedrooms...
October 18, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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We've been trying to only focus conversion attempts on residents who are a danger to themselves or others (like Inky here) under their current creed. It's a slow process we don't want to force but we do have to get along.
a screenshot of Rimworld. On the left, an open window displays a list of mood effects for a settler. Those with an ideoligious symbol next to them are particularly grim: Want alien meat -2 Want human meat -2 No alien slaves in colony -2 Led by Doralotroite -2 No bloodfeeders -2 No execution -3 Ate fungus cooked -3 Tons of disliked xenotypes -4 I am disliked xenotype -6
October 18, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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This is Lavego, first settlement of The Confederation of The Cove. We follow Hyper-Doralotroism, an ideoligion that promotes the tenets of tunneling, darkness, and transhumanism.

We are a scant majority here; four of our nine settlers follow other creeds and we generally like that.
screenshot from Rimworld of a settlement carved into a mountain, lit only by subtle darklight torches. Prominent features include a grotto with spots of arable land and a massive carved-out mushroom farm.
October 18, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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I made Brazilian style turkey stroganoff
a pale orange cream sauce covers chicken, mushrooms, and egg noodles. Some potato sticks are sprinkled on top.
October 13, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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this is too much food. no regrets
a soup bowl full of stir fried buldak ramen with scallions, broccoli, and fried tofu
October 11, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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go ahead and judge my messy rangetop. I deserve it
a messy rangetop with a bunch of empty used pans and bowls. There's a pot with boiling noodles, a pasta dish full of fried tofu, and a pan cooking scallions and frozen broccoli.
October 11, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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I took a selfie with moody lighting where I'm smirking a little
a selfie with moody lighting where I'm smirking a little
October 7, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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The output in parser IF is, with a few exceptions, dead simple. Here I'll invoke Andrew Plotkin's how to play IF card, which lists the few dozen words that make up a typical parser vocabulary.

Even accounting for extra arguments, it's an even simpler language than toki pona.
a card, black text on white, describing how to play an interactive fiction game. Crude text dump below: You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door. There is a small mailbox* here.*Try opening!(>|) You just started up a game and now you’re staring at text and a blinking cursor and you don’t know what to do! Don’t panic kids— Crazy Uncle Zarf is here to help you get started... You can try all sorts of commands on the things you see. Try the commands that make sense! Doors are for opening; buttons are for pushing; pie is for eating. (Mmm, pie.) ◇◇◇◇ If you meet a person, these should work: TALK TO name ASK name ABOUT something TELL name ABOUT something GIVE something TO name SHOW something TO name Each game has slightly different commands, but they all look pretty much like these. These commands are very common: EXAMINE it TAKE it DROP it OPEN it PUT it IN something PUT it ON something PUSH it PULL it TURN it FEEL it When in doubt, examine more. You could also try: EAT it DRINK it FILL it SMELL it LISTEN TO it BREAK it BURN it LOOK UNDER it CLIMB it WAVE it WEAR it TAKE it OFF TURN it ON DIG IN it ENTER it SEARCH it UNLOCK it WITH something Or even: LISTEN SLEEP WAKE UP UNDO† JUMP PRAY CURSE SING †Take back one move — handy! { Does the game intro suggest ABOUT, INFO, HELP? Try them first! } N (“Go north.”) NW ┃ NE ╲ ┃ ╱ W ━ ╋ ━ E Also: Up, Down, IN, and OUT ╱ ┃ ╲ SW S SE “What if I only want to type one or two letters?” ◇◇◇◇ N/E/S/W/NE/SE/NW/SW: GO in the indicated compass direction. L: LOOK around to see what is nearby. X: EXAMINE a thing in more detail. I: take INVENTORY of what you posess. Z: WAIT a turn without doing anything. G: do the same thing AGAIN ◇◇◇◇ A service of the People’s Republic of Interactive Fiction: http://pr-if.org/
September 23, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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foosh 🚀
a photo of the 2025 Hugo Award for Interactive Work for Caves of Qud. It's a sleek steel rocket ship rising through a 'plume' of painted glass over the wooden award base
September 14, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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I made wrong shape tteokbokki
a bowl full of veggies and rice cakes in orange gravy. The rice cakes are cut in flat oblong slices rather than tube-shaped tteok.
September 13, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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goo morni
September 6, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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I have been Captured
photo of a bent pale leg whose foot is completely hidden because it's trapped between the head and paw of a cute dog
September 4, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Guess what's happening in just a couple of hours...
a grainy black and white image that reads: SUSPENSE Is a CBS Television Network Production
September 3, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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September 3, 2025 at 3:48 AM
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you're welcome, any time
August 27, 2025 at 2:00 PM