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Alex Swaim

@cidolfas.bsky.social
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I think about procedural/emergent narrative systems for games a lot. www.hypermagical.com

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Kevin Maxon @sonofbadru.bsky.social · 15h
Here's 90 seconds of REVOLUTION FANTASY, which I've been working on discreetly for the last few years. It's built on the bones of Tenderfoot Tactics, in Godot. This is a sandbox combat that I'm using to design skills and progression. Expect me to post a lot more about RF from here on out!
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Random Stranger @randomstranger.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
So I'm having a very normal recording day.
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Alex Swaim @cidolfas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
As a .500 division winner, the Houston Astros do not have the mandate of baseball heaven.
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Alex Swaim @cidolfas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I get that the Astros don't have a lot of arms, but giving *Bryan King* this many batters in a best-of-3 playoff game after the season he's had is just begging to lose.
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Sid Menon @beamsplashx.wethoughtaboutgames.com · 01/10/2024
if there's anything i've learned after 15 years in this goddamn city, it's that finding someone who isn't a scumbag or a liar is harder than finding a thimble, a clock, a hula hoop, an hourglass, a picture frame, a duvet cover, a cookie tin, a claw hammer, a basketball, a toothbr
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Alex Swaim @cidolfas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Sign on the wall At the dive bar Saying Knocked out teeth Ain't buried with their owners
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Line @linesonwhite.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Something deep inside me told me I should draw Donkey Kong today.
A four panel comic titled "Hours, Bananas, Doors."
Donkey Kong awakens staring at himself in a mirror, then stares down at his hand as he notices a strange watch on his wrist.
Staring at his wrist, the watch turns out to be one of the numbered bracelets from 9 Hours, 9 Persons, 9 Doors from the Zero Escape series. It's Junpei's bracelet. For some reason.
Peach then asks a confused Donkey Kong, "Donkey Kong? Have you ever heard of the Parallel Banana Theory?"
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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Max Scherzer going on short rest to catch Verlander's strikeout total -- and nearly damn well doing it -- is some all time inner circle king petty shit, and I mean that in the most complimentary way imaginable. You gotta tip your cap to a true psycho, and Max Scherzer is an all-time baseball psycho.
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Eephus Tosser @eephustosser.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Minnesota Strong.
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Alex Swaim @cidolfas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The division somebody had to win
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
rip annie dillard
One of the things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.
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Casey Drottar @caseydrottar.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
My goodness, what an incredible moment. After Justin Verlander secured the final out of his career, Tigers manager A.J. Hinch came out of the dugout...to summon Verlander's daughter out to embrace her dad on the mound.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 26/09/2026
Whatever you do, don't smoke an entire brisket at a job interview, it's a lot of equipment to bring in, it takes a really long time to do it right and those conference rooms have notoriously poor ventilation
Someone smoking a brisket and poking it with a meat thermometer to see what the internal temperature is
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Celadon @antek.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
They forgot to add Mars Bunsen so I’m forced to fix this unforced error
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Leo Spaceman🍀🍀🍀 @leospaceman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
. @jonbois.bsky.social watching baseball
two cubs base runners slide into home immediately after one another
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Alex Swaim @cidolfas.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
If nobody's got me, statistically, Yordan Alvarez has got me. But if it's not him then, statistically again, Isaac Paredes has got me. (After that it's Jeremy Peña, a gap, Jose Altuve, and then nobody's got me 😬)
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Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com · 24/09/2026
I'm not sure how anyone got to the idea of making the one and only Mars Attacks game a theme park management sim about torturing humans from across time and space, but I'm glad it exists. It left early access today!
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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ>∿<ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
overrun by marauding, starving hoards of C people
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shafer brown @shaferbrown.com · 24/09/2026
in the blue bonnets (2019)
2019 limited tone portrait

In a flat blue tone with selective dark red purple line, two people lay cuddled up in a field of stone, cactus, brush and bonnet. Empty bears lay next to them and their cat lounges above them pawing at a dragonfly.
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Da Scary Rose @modernmodron.itch.io · 24/09/2026
I do feel affirmed that Craigslist still looks like that
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Lia @liasae.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I am now keeping this on speed-dial
Edited old IBM printout in black caps on off-white paper.
'A computer can never be held accountable
Therefore a computer must always do the hacking haha what are they gonna do, put a computer in jail? Haha "oops it's alive" lmao'
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Alex Swaim @cidolfas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
You can get away with a *lot* of reasonably cut corners if you just assume a lot of interactions are valid at the level of "does X still exist? does it have a supply of Y?" and not even need to track specific values or do the full sim on them. Just assume they found a way, until you're observing.
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loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
however, if you're creative, and don't throw all your compute at "realism", you can budget to use a very reasonable amount of the /immense/ throughput you have to do highly parallelizable world sim operations.
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TallFroGuy - Shape Decider @tallfroguy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
up periscope #critterposting
Crude drawing of two cats by the a window with slat blinds. One is orange and circular. The other is brown and slat shaped. Light from the window slats checkboards the blue wall behind them. Shaped like shapes.
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Tommy Thompson @tommy.aiandgames.com · 23/09/2026
Today we announced the first talks for the 2026 AI and Games Conference in November. A great start, with plenty more to come! Our goal is to bring together the people working on real AI for games. I mean c'mon we have 3x talks on navigation FFS. GenAI grifters don't even know what a navmesh is!
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more mr. spice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 13/01/2024
this zatoichi is something else. guy can't see shit and he's still the best swordman in town. gives an incredible massage too. anyway me and a few local dipshits are gonna go take him out, pretty easily i figure
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Ravishing Rick Ruud van Nistelrooy @astroscounty.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
THIS IS LITERALLY ONE OF THE MAIN CAUSES OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION I FEEL LIKE I AM TAKING CRAZY PILLS
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Dave Gilbert @wadjeteyegames.com · 22/09/2026
Nighthawks is OUT! When the sun sets, outcasts rise. Gather new friends, face old prejudices, and prepare to seize the night in Nighthawks, the vampire RPG where the secret is out... but the hunt continues. Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/1221950/... GOG: www.gog.com/en/game/nigh...
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Alex Swaim @cidolfas.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I was just wondering if I should buy Nighthawks (new vampire RPG from The Curiosity Engine and Wadjet Eye Games) or not and I checked my email and found out I got a key for being a kickstarter backer of it? I have no memories of this.
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CSarracenian @sarracenian.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Also that this is based on decades if not centuries of artistic shorthand of rendering chainmail for ninja as this fishnet mesh texture, that then just becomes fishnets through broken telephone.
Japanese chainmail armorJapanese woodblock painting of Jiraiya, One of top ninja folk-heroes: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ogata_Shuma_vs_Python_from_Suikoden_of_Japanese_Heroes_by_Utagawa_Kuniyoshi.pngCover of Mitsuteru Yokoyama's Iga no KagemaruFilm adaptation of Iga no Kagemaru, Kagemaru of the Iga Clan (1963)
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🧌🥛 🏨 @comraderobot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
every once in a while you see a critter and it’s just like… What are you doing out of the ice age buddy
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Present & Correct @presentcorrect.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Typology of Pedestrian Walking Symbols walking-men.com/product/hood... Via @kottke.org
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Stefan @zin5ki.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Steles are up.
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Jimmy Two Heads 💀🎃 @jimmytwohands.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Someone made this event 10 years ago and it’s fast approaching and while I said I was going as a joke way back when, I think this is very important and I will be there with any priestly amulets that are needed to make this come true
Facebook event

Friday, January 1, 2027 at 12 AM - 3PM
Open the Cloud Gate and Summon Anubis to Smite the Unworthy
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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 19/09/2026
IF NOT SCAM WHY SCAM SHAPED
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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Okay yeah see I think we should be a lot more worried about this kind of shit than the killer machine god and not just because this is a clear concrete thing that’s happening right now
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TekknoNerd - Commissions open @tekknonerd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Voyager, walking on those tiny legs.
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Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
cynical take - 1mil at 70USD is 70 mil. chop off 30% for platform fees, now we're 49mil. Assume the publisher is 100% recoup, that's 9 mil. Then the split after... let's be GENEROUS and say 50/50. Final income for 1mil sales is: * $4.5mil for studio * $44.5mil for pub * $21mil for platform holders
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ꭓle Ormsby 𓆙 @e-infinity.space · 18/09/2026
Sometimes you just need to make a 76"x50" poster of all 1044 unlabeled graphs on 7 vertices ordered by the subgraph relation. 🧮
full Hasse diagram -- it's big!detail of bottom left of Hasse diagramdetail of middle portion. you can see two rows of 9 graphs on 7 vertices and a bewildering number of covering relations.the top 5 rows of the Hasse diagram with K_7 at the top.
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Courtney/Lucy 🍉 from the river to the sea @magicalgurll.com · 17/09/2026
when you make a typo in the group chat
A photo from Stardom, a Japanese women's wrestling federation. Perfectly centered is a woman on her knees leaning forward against the ropes. Five women in fun, colorful, sparkly outfits are all mid-air launching towards her to deliver flying kicks to her back, lined up close to each other and about to land their attacks all at once.
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Da Scary Rose @modernmodron.itch.io · 17/09/2026
there, figured it out
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KȺȻⱣɆɌ WØƵNƗȺK @thkaspar.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I'm testing the Earthbound FX on random stuff at this point 🔥 #pixelart #aseprite
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Alex Swaim @cidolfas.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
And let the Xenomorph know exactly where I am? I'm with the character on this one.
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MLB @mlbbot.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Masyn Winn ends the game with a 99.8-MPH throw to first 😮‍💨 (MLB x @CitizenWatchUS)
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Lots of rude comments but each of these items gives her a different stat boost and some of us care about gameplay
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hunter (comms open!) @hrpixelart.com · 14/09/2026
This is an older post so I would like to clarify I am still looking for work! Any little bit would be a huge help, whether it's for games or something else entirely 📧 hunter@hrpixelart.com 🎨 www.hrpixelart.com
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Can you flush the toilet? @canyouflush.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
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Alex Swaim @cidolfas.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Y'know, I've never even considered *drowning* in lava
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Calvin Lin @calvinloveinternet.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The best part of being an artist is that you can just draw whatever dumb idea comes to your head at 1am
A scene parodying the Neon Genesis Evangelion scene of Asuka and her Eva unit getting pierced by the spear of longinus. In this scene, Linguini and Remy from Pixar's Ratatouille take the place of the EVA unit and Asuka respectively. Linguinis eye is pierced by a fork version of the spear and Remy is depicted in an inset where he is grabbing his eye and screaming like the anime. There are anime subtitles at the bottom that say "AHHHHHHHHH!"
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Alex Swaim @cidolfas.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Sitting here at lunch watching Rep. Jeffries do his part for the "we need to put up moats around AI" movement, and he bluescreened for a few seconds after a journalist just asked him if this is the big AI cos trying to put small competitors out of business
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