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@putnam3145.bsky.social
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dwarf fortress programmer (lesser)

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Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
A24 is potentially doing something really fucked up here, but also they have the opportunity to do something extremely fucking cool and make the movie Creative Commons people would still pay to see it in theaters. but you want to benefit from a community project? then contribute to it
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Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
i walk up to a conversation and they're talking about how they aren't interested in dating sims but like it when they're funny like date everything. i cover my mouth so they can't see me seethe
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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Across the US, workers are souring on AI. The tech industry has insisted that AI would make workers’ lives easier and more productive, that the more people understood and used AI, the more they would like it. Something closer to the opposite has happened.
bloodinthemachine.com
Why office workers are turning against AI
Whether or not you like AI at work ultimately boils down to a question of power.
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Kitfox Games 🦊 @kitfoxgames.com · 27/08/2026
📣 Heads up Dwarf Fortress Fans! Myth & Magic begins this year! 🧙‍♀️ youtu.be/8P-FTy6hhp0
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Kitfox Games 🦊 @kitfoxgames.com · 24/08/2026
attn dwarves of #paxwest! Important information: - Zach Adams & Putnam will BOTH be autographing from 2 - 4pm on Friday Sept 4 - @fangamer.com will be selling Dwarf Fortress books and pins a perfect setup to get a Guidebook or Expedition Leader's Journal and get a personal message from DF devs!
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TONY GRAYSON 🗻 @tonycomputerentertainment.com · 19/08/2026
This is such a brazen lie that you almost have to admire the balls they've got.
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Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
"thingpunk" got away from punk pretty bad. and "thingcore"... actually also took off from punk. is there anything more punk than becoming mainstream and losing meaning
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Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Pac-Man 2: The New Adventures. it's a nice little adventure game with a wild control scheme. god forbid game devs have fun at the expense of the player
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Kitfox Games 🦊 @kitfoxgames.com · 12/08/2026
Upcoming Dwarf Fortress talk! @putnam3145.bsky.social will be at SLICE 2026 talking about getting acclimated to Dwarf Fortress' codebase.
I'm speaking at SLICE
SeattleSLICE.org
McCaw Hall, Seattle
September 2nd, 2026

Seattle Indies
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Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
the latest DF update's "tavern keepers will no longer all serve dwarves at once, causing them to die of acute alcohol poisoning" is actually a hackish patch over the real weird behavior, which is of course that dwarves always drink what's in all mugs they hold until they're empty
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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ>∿<ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
eventually I will convert everyone to my the-cloud-is-actually-the-root-evil view
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Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
i don't know why nothing makes me more angry on the internet than someone posting a fake leak that got one thing out of 20 right and going "oh my god it was real". like no it wasn't. come on. raise your standards of evidence
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dan solomon @dansolomon.com · 16/07/2026
anyway i know being told by a dude in his forties that smoking is actually NOT cool isn’t going to persuade anybody of anything but it is a real bummer that young people are selling it to each other again on behalf of some of the most sinister and exploitative companies in the world
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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ>∿<ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
the great filter (opt out only)
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Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
i think now's a good time to say that many games on Steam and Itch.io are DRM free and the concept was not invented by gog
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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ>∿<ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
stumbling into a carbon zero future like mr bean
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Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
i still can't get over every AI usage statement that starts with "like other members of the industry,". it's so funny. i'd be less annoyed if they just owned it
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Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
PIGcon was fun i should probably mention going to places before i go them because i don't have bluesky on my phone because moving my password is a pain oops
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Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
scrolling through linkedin and it looks like the latest trend is finally catching up once again to the act that code is bad, actually, and you want less of it whenever possible
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Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
i'm not going to just stop going because of this but man does it make me feel like the vise is tightening around my head on places to go without alcohol around
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Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
does "we are giving out $1,000,000 to 10,000 eligible people" really dazzle people more than "a chance to win $100"
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Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
when woke 2.0 starts up i'm deinitely making a push to get people to stop saying "baby name". that's only gonna be a baby name for 3 years buddy that's going to be a whole human for DECADES with that name
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Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Do people genuinely *not know* that you don't need to host a git repository *at all*?
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Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
the only criticism of games i always dismiss out of hand is "floaty physics". i have no idea what people mean about this like 99% of the time. what do you mean super mario 64 has floaty physics? literally what does that mean, what specific feel are you conveying with "floaty"
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Tyler Glaiel @tylerglaiel.com · 08/04/2026
turns out it WAS true, the best game dev advice actually was to spend 6 years making a 100+ hour RPG with infinite variety
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Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
based on google suggestions for me i think i'm slacking on the visibility front
Google search; typed into the search box is "putnam dwarf". Suggestions are "putnam dwarf fortress", "putnam dwarf fortress trans", "putnam dwarf fortress pronouns" and "ana putnam dwarf fortress".
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Wander @wanderbot.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
I'm so sick of seeing AI disclaimers like this. The solution to not having the budget for voice acting isn't to use AI, it's to not have voice acting at all! Games don't need VO to be good! By jamming in slopvoices, you're not making your game better, you're making it worse and reprehensible!
A Steam AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

AI-generated voiceovers for ingame characters. This is a indie no-budget production. Sorry :-'(
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S E Case @secase.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
idk I’ve seen a bajillion kids movies where the kids parents die & let me tell you, having a convo with my kid about how anyone can die at any time & it doesn’t matter if they’re someone’s mom or dad is way harder than having a convo about how sometimes someone has two dads or whatever. And yet
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Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
i've been complaining about this for years and they're still trying
Putnam @Putnam3145 Aug 19, 2019
twitter please stop trying to be a platform for discussion. you are not a platform for discussion. this place's literal basic design is ANATHEMA to discussion. it's pessimal for purposes of discussion. it's the actual, mathematically worst possible design. i cannot emphasize enou

(The tweet actually ended by cutting off "enough".)
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Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
simscommunity.info/2016/01/25/t... look all i'm saying is that every gif on this page is applicable to LLM brainrot
simscommunity.info
All About The Sims 2 Aspiration Desperation and Failure
What's the difference between The Sims 2 Aspiration Failure and Aspiration Desperation? We list different types and reactions to your Sim!
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Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
i still can't believe that all it took for LLMs to break peoples' brains en masse was to make them obsequious. people just getting absolutely one-shot by unerring politeness and agreement. if it were in a novel i would call it cynical to the point of being cringe
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Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
whose idea was it to have video both autoplay and muted by default. somehow they found something worse than autoplay already is
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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Once again, immigration is not even a problem. Immigrants are not more criminal, they don't cost jobs, they don't harm the economy. There is no reason for any of this. It is hurting ourselves to hurt them.
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Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
i'm trying to describe how this caption makes me feel and failing. like imagine if you saw the caption "thousands of cars ended up stuck in traffic due to head-on collision resulting in 9 deaths". the actual human lives aren't as important as making sure the commerce wheels stay greasy i guess
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Mrs Dr Syd @mrsdrsyd.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Delicious to me
Headline from PC Gamer, from the writer Tyler Wilde:
Microsoft CEO warns that we must "do something useful" with AI or they'll lose "social permission" to burn electricity on it. 

Works should learn AI skills and companies should use it because it's a "cognitive amplifier," claims Satya Nadella
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Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
one of these days i want to go somewhere with two other logicians and they ask "Do all of you want a beer?" and i say "no" and nobody else says anything
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Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
I proooobably should've mentioned I knew it was fake immediately because I happen to know the "express" thing actually does do something, it makes it so that the driver's scheduled to do no intermediate stops for that delivery, and this is pretty clear and obvious to drivers in general
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Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
found a truly incredible period piece
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Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
www.livescience.com/technology/a... I wish science journalism would stop gormlessly repeating the ideas of billionaires who don't read. "experts are torn" but not a single mention of the fact that radiative cooling happens literally everywhere for free and it's generally the worst kind
livescience.com
'Putting the servers in orbit is a stupid idea': Could data centers in space help avoid an AI energy crisis? Experts are torn.
Google’s proposal to explore space-based AI infrastructure raises fundamental questions about energy, physics and feasibility – and whether Earth has really run out of options.
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Kitfox Games 🦊 @kitfoxgames.com · 30/12/2025
Ostranauts is 20% off! store.steampowered.com/app/1022980/...
A positive Steam review of Ostranauts: Start with Project Zomboid. Replace the zombies with a leaky spaceship and poverty. Add some dwarf fortress back-story generation, text based rpg events, and relationships. Then top it off with some Kerbal Space Program for flight controls and you are starting to get an idea of what Ostranauts feels like. I'm hooked
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
it was one of the worst parts of Twitter & there was an impulse to not do it back in Bluesky Before Times but now if you tell people "actually this sucks" they'll tell you it's praxis to quote-dunk trash takes & that shitting up the timeline is Good, Actually and "exposes bigots to sunlight" or w/e
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Megan Fox @glassbottommeg.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Just gonna say this again for games sphere cus we get the same question: Networking doesn't mean schmoozing up to famous people, it means making friends with your peers. Then in 10 years, 20, one of you might be famous? And sure you're still helping each other cus well yeah friends. Make. Friends.
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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
oh brother, another bad post from political influencer beltway brian. i am furious at beltway brian all of the time. i share screencaps of beltway brian's posts with people who have no idea who he is. i hate all of beltway brian's posts and i read all of them every single day, including weekends
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Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Of course any attempt at explaining this is base bulverizing, but in general it looks like simple defensiveness: they thought "wow this is revolutionary", found other people think it's Utter Crap, and go "nuh uh!! i'm not making utter crap!! nuh uh!!" and it just sorta spirals like that
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Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
this isn't a case of "twitter changed their ToS" so much as "this guy just read the ToS for the first time and found out it sucks". arbitrary termination is something bluesky has to. every centralized social media site you've used has it. it's, like, the literal bare minimum you need to ban people
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
I lived thru the end of public smoking. Early in my career I presented to city councils who were smoking, in front of audiences who were smoking. Smoking in restaurants, airplanes, hospitals… All of that seems insane now, but it was very controversial when we DID change it. We CAN change things.
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Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
managed to get a kara command throw yesterday as Q at the arcade but it whiffed. think that's the worst thing that's ever happened to me, actually
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2 Mello @2mello.net · 15/12/2025
Seeing people in the comments saying that To a T was unfun and essentially that he deserves this if he can't make a good game. Gamers, I don't know how else to say this, artists are not supposed to be punished with financial ruin for making imperfect art. That's such a fucked up idea you have
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