Cam the Friendly Wizard

Careful of the pit in the center, it’s made of hardened soap and it’s not edible.

He had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the babies to make the world safe for children to grow up in.

Harvard’s CS50 is very approachable and truly fun, that would definitely be my recommendation. I know that sounds crazy because Harvard, but it’s very silly and wacky and has a tremendous production value. All free online.

A lot of things like understanding initialization values for valve percentages and how PID controllers function, and the cross-section of how those things interact with chemistry/physics/computer science.

Managing flow control for pipes and valves involves a lot of state design, ladder logic, and mechanical engineering! A ton of problem solving in cidermaking/winemaking/brewing etc., above a certain smaller scale, is about understanding the underlying variables that feed into states.

I use these words all the time as a cidermaker and feel strongly that it’s important everyone else use them too. I’m glad you get to use them in game dev.

A lotta misinformation out there…

I’m 99% sure this isn’t true, please retract and apologize. Thank you.

This with fish sticks and broccoli was what I asked to have for dinner for my birthday until I was like 18.

It was annoying scraping all the waterskins with single drams into a single waterskin, one waterskin at a time. But that’s also why my real life cupboard has like five open mostly empty jars of peanut butter in it… so I said et tu, chef.

Qud update:

I have completed the quest to bring a Girshling corpse to Joppa.

I have found a chef with about 25 waterskins filled with 1-3 drams of honey, salt, etc.

I have found a herd of Gnu with a magnificent and legendary leader.

I found some very tame graffiti about a beetle.

Magnificent.

I am on my 4th death and I have yet to make it further than one screen north of Joppa, but I think I'm learning each time.

Lesson learned #4: If the chitinous puma are attacking a herd of fork-horned gnu, just let nature be. Do not walk into the middle of it, as then you're also fighting 5 pumas.

Sunrise at work yesterday morning was nice.

about your writing, the deeply humanist conversations about meaning. I really, really loved it. I can’t express that enough. I will continue trying to pass it on. Thank you, and all the people who worked on this, so much for sharing it.

I texted like thirty people and gave them individual pleas to listen. I left an iPhone review. That first episode was STELLAR. It was so incredibly well produced; the soundscape was *stellar*. It truly felt like the city was alive, and the people were real. And it carried the throughline I love

Please listen to this. I really can’t express how much I loved the first episode.

I think if you take the time to read the descriptions of items and creatures (arguably a main facet of succeeding at the game), then the stories nearly imagine themselves. It's a tremendously evocative game, with just a tiny amount of effort!

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I guess it’s equally possible that he didn’t like I was attacking what was possibly one of his potential constituents. More investigation required.

“You died. You were accidentally lased to death by the important fish.” The combat log shows it hit me four times with a laser beam for 17 damage (I had 18 hit points.)

Caves of Qud lesson #1: if you take your good bud the important fish with you to let everyone know that, yeah, some fish are important politicians too, DO NOT GET NEAR HIS LINE OF FIRE. Fish have terrible aim. he will hit you for basically your entire health bar and you’ll die. Good lesson.

My solution for this exact problem all year has been… read like six other Le Guin books.

Paradises Lost is another book of hers I don’t see people recommending or talking about, and doesn’t have quite the anarchistic lean to it, but that I found a lot of love in.

Thank you (and to the team as well obviously) for the switch port! I’m having a blast going tremendously slowly and reading every single description, taking screenshots, sharing Ctesiphus the cat with all my friends. I’ve been looking forward to this for many years now.

I look forward to later this week when I can listen and share what you’ve been working on with such wonderful sounding collaborators, and I look forward to purchasing this when you make that available as an option.

Chris Christodoulou working with the De Profundis Ensemble to record music for Azathoth Blues. This gives you a small hint of the amount of effort that went into creating this show. It's really something special.

Damn, now it’s not just Elden Ring calling me out for being maidenless, but my mayor is as well…

This is a complicated bit but I like your commitment to it

I live in Washington State making cider now, and there’s no one who makes me feel more at home than you and your bluesky tweets about Wisconsin, dude.

There’s an ep (Pod People?) where someone says something like “It’s perfectly natural for deer to jump through a glass window” and baby, that’s a Fort Atkinson, WI ref.

I *loved* the previous drama that Jonas Kyratzes made, Gospels of the Flood. I can’t wait to enjoy this new one.

Street team, baby!