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Thinks way too much about Caves of Qud

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Thanks to everyone who watched my talk at @roguelike.club yesterday!

Slides / links: codeberg.org/librarianmag...
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caves of qud is a video game about the power of sharing
December 19, 2025 at 6:20 AM
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New blog post (and email newsletter): azhdarchid.com/designing-fo...
Thematic expression in game design, or: Why Dune (1992) rules
Games like Dune (1992) and Pirates (1987) are hardly ever made any more. What sets them apart?
azhdarchid.com
December 15, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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December 14, 2025 at 5:22 AM
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so after being bedridden for 16months due to a hernia, I've finally got my surgery!
now I'm bedridden for recovery, fun!

I'm still about 2000$ away from paying all my storage bills, so if you've got a couple dollars, it'd help me get through this last stretch. Thanks so much!

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December 15, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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"the tech is inevitable" is not the winning argument you think it is in this debate*

*applies to many debates
December 9, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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caves of qud
ed3d.net Ed @ed3d.net · 17d
this is the obvious correct answer and I do not know why you would buy water from these goop merchants
I thought the research was interesting, even if the conclusions it came to were unsurprising. What bugs me is that it's so busy trying to wring Meaning out of the information that it never gets around to pointing out that you can just buy the concentrate yourself and add your own water
December 8, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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I'm not going to re-write a whole piece I already wrote 8 years ago, so here

www.vice.com/en/article/s...
Stories in Games Aren't Problems, They're Solutions
Lots of video games have terrible stories, but that's no reason to give up telling them.
www.vice.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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They should do MyChart Wrapped
December 3, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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Apparently they did a study and if you put googly eyes on weird misshapen veg people like them more.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
December 2, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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December 2, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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😶‍🌫️ Remecarving: or, Forgettings

a collection of 829 computational poems, each depicting the gradual algorithmic *forgetting* of a sentence found in Wikipedia that exhorts the reader to remember

last-minute entry for NaNoGenMo 2025!

github.com/NaNoGenMo/20...
November 30, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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i've been putting it off for a bit but i have to pull the fundraising rip-cord or, as things currently stand, i'm just not going to have money next year

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November 29, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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November 29, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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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
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when im forging the thesis: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!!

when it inevitably incubates the antithesis: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.
September 29, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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[reading about history] wow. this is just like caves of qud
November 27, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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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!
November 27, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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I am ELIGIBLE 😏
Reasons to nom Caves of Qud for the Steam Awards:

▶ Loved by science fiction writers, sickos and critics alike
▶ Flexible pick, can nominate for almost every category
▶ The one the cool kids are picking
▶ This is the ONLY year you can do this
store.steampowered.com/steamawards/...
November 25, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Qud sweep
November 25, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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The epic, nearly four-hour finale of our Into the Depths series on Caves of Qud just posted early to our Patreon. Linking that here in case you've been thinking of supporting TSLOG, since these funds allow us to pay @dylliebar.bsky.social to edit our four-hour convos: www.patreon.com/posts/into-d...
Into the Depths: Caves of Qud Finale (Early Access) | The Secret Lives of Games
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November 24, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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a world without trans people has never existed and never will
April 5, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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I wrote about the exhaustion and dissonance of writing about TDOR for the past 15 years
I’m sick of writing about dead trans people | Xtra Magazine
For 15 years, I hoped my words would change something. Now I’m grieving the world that could’ve been
xtramagazine.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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Good evening all. For this year's Trans Day of Remembrance (TDOR), TFR remembers three transfeminine authors who passed away this year: Miss Major Griffin-Gracy (78), Valerie Amelia Thompson (38), and Michelle Duff (85) 🖤

We also remember 367+ victims of anti-trans violence and suicide 🕯️

#tdor
Observing Trans Day of Remembrance 2025
Remembering those we’ve lost over the past year.
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November 21, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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Fun Gra fact: I scripted and almost performed a trailer for the 1.0 release of Caves of Qud. This is the future you could have had if Kitfox weren't so focused on "actually selling the game" and "marketability to an audience of regular people"
November 18, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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the linguists are asking me to pronounce Qud names. real reaping / sowing moment
your team: 3 shader programmers

qud team: 3 linguists
November 18, 2025 at 6:41 PM