my view is if you're posting anything other than The Horrors, it doesn't make you a bad person. You're just trying to find joy in the small things to keep sane. It's not apathy, it's a part of being human.
A stock photo of a woman sitting on the floor of a kitchen with a glass of water, a plate of two croissants, a closed laptop with an airpod case on top. She is holding a device and smiling. Overlaid with An alert from Caves of Qud which reads, "You fall in love with the sign!"
Happy Valentine's Day from Caves of Qud!
Oh I'm so glad to hear it!
for me it was the fact that the author is one of the main driving forces behind the global movement to kill my trans friends and erase their existence
hope that helps
I don't love flying and I've been using this style of logic puzzle to deal with airplanes lately (specifically, the Murdle books) (being the logic puzzles not the airplanes).
"Rewriting the Player Contract" suggests 4 framings for managing high trust with your players:
1 - Tiered commitments (core pillars vs possibility spaces)
2 - Trust Reserves (over-deliver small promises)
3 - Provisional language
4 - Protect mysteries
Read more: polarisgamedesign.com/2025/rewriti...
Another question I came here with was: how effective are the whistles and honking? Does it stop abductions? And the answer is, surprisingly to my cynical self, yes, and often. I have talked to so many people who have successfully interrupted kidnappings.
I think we’ve got better and more culturally-varied street food than I could have imagined, cool jackets galore, and drugs that make us think we’re really fast and strong before they kill us.
There are not two kinds of citizens, 'naturalized' and 'born' or 'heritage' or whatever bigoted nonsense they have.
There is one kind of citizen: citizen.
That's it. We're one group. You wrongly arrested a citizen.
You fuckwits.
I've seen this question before and I always lean on the time I broke my hand during Vampire LARP (the character had Puissance, but I do not). A close second though is the time I bent over to type my password and then couldn't straighten up for three days. Deeply offended by that one.
While pretending to be a vampire, slapped a chair and broke my hand.
Screenshot of dialog with Barathrum the Old from Caves of Qud: *Barathrum breathes a deep and relieved sigh.* You are ever a courier of bright tidings, =name=. I am fond of this fact. Categories and types are decohering in these historic times. Nonetheless, the ritual nourishes us. You are raised to Meyvn, Nyshum. The one who understands.
🍄 happy new year ✨
may the ritual nourish you
You and me both. To all of it.
HmmmMMmmMmm...
Against the Storm and Blue Prince were both very interesting for similar reasons - showing that the roguelike/light loop is not actually deeply married to combat
caves of qud is and remains deeply interesting for the possibilities of procgen alongside authored content
- osteolaryngology
- oncomycology
- paleohydrology
- arthrodynamics
- podagogy
- ovipolitics
- endobotany
- exosophy
- astroichthyology
- aerocetology
- psychogeology
- ornichemistry
- macrohelminthology
- microcosmology
- hydroneurology
- cryoplasmology
- kinetostatics
- applied autoeschatology
Oh no, I totally forgot drawing this 🤣 What inspired you to repost it?
I think the corollary that a lot of people miss about "write what you know" is that *you have the power to know more things.* Research and talking to people are a central part of writing!
Happy Amazing News Day
opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/11...
Hey, I bet you didn't hear that Zork 1, 2, and 3 were open-sourced today!
…Oh, you have heard. Yeah. Way ahead of me. :)
Here's my comments, and some details that you might not have seen.
blog.zarfhome.com/2025/11/zork...
Oh my gosh that's amazing!
I was *just* about to add this. Good reading taste you have!
My name is Ozymandius, king of kings, and ye may only look upon my works after ye click all the squares showing crosswalks.
Hitting ❤️ doesn't feel quite right, but thank you for sharing this essay.
"Write enabled by default"
Unlike Vegas
Acceptable - we have a ball python and snek sneak also
"sneak" and "snek" are different!
Give folks their flowers
No, I mean right now. Go tell someone you loved their work right now. They're on social media just say it, it has never been easier
"They know how much people love--" no they don't go say it right now to a composer or artist or game dev or writer or anyone AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH
Black hole star
Super far
Please stay away from me
Black hole star
Super far
Stay away
(black hole star, black hole star)
Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth
You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people
