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David Dunham

@radiofreelunch.bsky.social
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Software and game designer (Six Ages, King of Dragon Pass, Opal). My new game, Thousand Hells: the Underworld Heists store.steampowered.com/app/3794210/… is now available!

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Colossal @thisiscolossal.com · 14h
The winners of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year are here 📸 www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/10/wild...
a black-and-white photo of giraffes, elephants, and zebras at a watering hole in Kenyaan up-close view of slime moldsa photograph of a fox with the San Francisco skyline in the background
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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 15h
I recently acquired an Aztec death whistle. Last night I let a friend try it. From the look on her face, she shaved at least six years off her life.
A clay Aztec death whistle
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 17h
The Washington Post obtained the list of donors funding Trump’s ballroom, that includes Apple ($25m), the Adelsons ($25m) and the Winklevoss twins ($5m). Not on the list: Trump, who said the ballroom would be paid “100% by me and some friends of mine”. Gift link.👇 wapo.st/4yiUDPx
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Secret documents reveal donors behind $330 million for Trump’s ballroom
The records offer a panoramic view of a fundraising campaign that is extraordinary for its size and opacity.
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Spooky Thought @roguethought.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
This is legitimately a good way to explain how biases get trained into language models even without trying to, and how they amplify existing human biases from training data. Which should be helping you understand their limitations and how you should and shouldn’t interact with and rely on them.
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Kitfox Games 🦊 @kitfoxgames.com · 14/10/2026
Caves of Qud and Thousand Hells are both part of the Roguelike Celebration 2026! Grab a ticket (pay what you can) and tune in this weekend to hear from & chat with experts in procedural generation, about game design: www.roguelike.club/event2026.html store.steampowered.com/sale/rogueli...
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Roguelike Celebration Celebration 2026
Roguelike Celebration is an annual online conference dedicated to roguelike games and the art of procedural content generation.
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Roguelike Celebration @roguelike.club · 14/10/2026
Back for day three of shouting out all the cool speakers and talks you can see at Roguelike Celebration 2026 this weekend!
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David Dunham @radiofreelunch.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Last night I dreamed about a pair of golden Akhal-Teke horses (see www.horsebreedspictures.com/akhal-teke.asp). Haven’t thought about them since I was doing art direction for Six Ages…
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Akhal Teke Horse Info, Colors, Temperament, History, Pictures
The Akhal Teke (pronunciation: aekal-teki), named after the series of oases in the Kopet Dag mountains and the Turkmen Tekke tribe, is believed to be one of the oldest horse breeds in existence today....
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David Dunham @radiofreelunch.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
@patrickwyman.bsky.social Just ran into www.sidestone.com/books/migrat... (a short illustrated booklet) which is pretty much what you’ve been saying for years, particularly debunking stereotypes about migration.
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Migration Narratives in Archaeology @ Sidestone Press
Migration is not just a recent, crisis-driven phenomenon, but a fundamental part of human life – and has always been so. This booklet is aimed at everyone who is interested in human migration in the p...
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Robin Sevakis @jadedsketch.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Hi #portfolioday! I'm Robin- worked in games, now freelance illustrator. I've worked on several tabletop games. I love creating colorful, character focused artwork, especially fantasy themes, critters, & humor. Currently open for work and personal commissions!
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David Dunham @radiofreelunch.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
@simonroy.bsky.social I haven’t played it but this seems up your alley placeholders.itch.io/tiny-brutali...
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Tiny Brutalism by Placeholders
A Cozy Brutalism Sandbox Game
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David Dunham @radiofreelunch.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Now I wish I could remember details about a Star Trek RPG I did a little pitch work on, trying to rework a parser game (this was decades ago)…
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Chris Kerr @kerrblimey.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I spoke with @gibiz.bsky.social about why I’m launching Vertical Slice. The bottom line? I think game industry workers deserve quality reporting that serves their needs instead of looking to exploit them in pursuit of sales and ad revenue.
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Game Developer veteran Chris Kerr launches Vertical Slice, a games publication "giving workers a voice and holding power to account"
The outlet, which is entirely funded by reader subscriptions, will also include a free repository of pitch and design documents
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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
*The Gray Zone has bizarre standards, but these Ukrainian tanks, transformed into haystack-hedgehog antidrone monsters, must be some of the ugliest military vehicles ever deployed in combat
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Bruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 12/10/2026
I wrote about the Interactive Fiction Competition for Remap!
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 12/10/2026
"'Unprecedented' Cyberattack cripples supermarket fridges across Europe as hackers activate automatic defrosting — delivery and store prices also impacted by incident" www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...
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'Unprecedented' Cyberattack cripples supermarket fridges across Europe as hackers activate automatic defrosting  — delivery and store prices also impacted by incident
A cyberattack has hit supermarkets in Europe, disabling refrigerators.
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David Dunham @radiofreelunch.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
It was OK. And who can memorize all the tarot meanings?
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David Dunham @radiofreelunch.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I assume you’re running the current version? Made some tweaks so that’s less likely.
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Damon Young @damonyoung.com.au · 10/10/2026
“My personal AI agent posted my bank details on company Slack. It's made me rethink how I use it.” These titans of business. These masters of the universe.
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My personal AI agent posted my bank details on company Slack. It's made me rethink how I use it.
Shane Mac, the CEO of XMTP Labs, got a rude shock when one of his AI agents posted his monthly bank audit in a company Slack channel.
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David Dunham @radiofreelunch.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The bit about the lying baker reminded me of a sidequest @aaronareed.bsky.social wrote for Thousand Hells…
Shade of a dead man dressed as a chef, standing proudly in front of a table heaped with a feast. Several candelabras burn on it. In the background are some of the fungus of the underworld.
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Lisounours @lise-l.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Ils étaient mi-cerf mi-escargot, et re mi-cerf derrière
Image de deux cerfs allongés devant des rouleaux de foin
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David Dunham @radiofreelunch.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I’ll be explaining why Thousand Hells is Totally Not a Roguelike Deckbuilder during the Roguelike Celebration (a short talk on 17 October) www.roguelike.club/event2026.html
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Roguelike Celebration 2026
Roguelike Celebration 2026 is taking place October 17th and 18th, with a weekend of talks, games, and conversations about roguelikes and related topics, including procedural generation and game design...
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This would sink a presidency in any other era. I would bet most Americans will never hear it even happened.
wapo.st
Trump bought over $1 million in SpaceX debt days before unveiling space policy
The purchase, revealed in his latest financial disclosure, involved a firm directly affected by his administration’s actions — and led by presidential ally Elon Musk.
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Monica @softtail65.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
🚨-Reminder! Do not use this votesafe website backed by Elon. It is indeed NOT safe. 2 of the best websites to use for voting information are: -The bipartisan nonprofit website: www.vote.org -The DNC website: iwillvote.com
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Universities bring in foreign students ... to undercut the wages of American residents? What? This is exactly backwards. Foreign students subsidize the tuition of American students. I wonder why the VP who follows Nazis online has this all wrong. Probably an innocent, non-racist mistake.
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David Dunham @radiofreelunch.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I don’t know if @janpospisil.bsky.social has any left…
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Kitfox Games 🦊 @kitfoxgames.com · 07/10/2026
Travelling through hell just got a bit easier. The new Thousand Hells update lets you see the odds of a decision after the dice has rolled.🔥 Read the full update: store.steampowered.com/news/app/379...
Thousand Hells encounter showing bad luck after an unfavourable dive roll.
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Congress *can* discipline a president. They can sack his incompetent cabinet secretaries, refuse to confirm anyone who isn't competent and normal, pass laws to constrain his freedom of action and if necessary bully the judiciary into enforcing them.
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Nieman Lab @niemanlab.org · 05/10/2026
ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists’ signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons buff.ly/YJ1mAiP
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ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists’ signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons
OpenAI's chatbot isn't just imitating the magazine's style. It's also falsely attributing AI-generated images to real artists.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 06/10/2026
I LOVE how @propublica.org dealt with official comment here, editorially and stylistically.
The Trump administration says none of this is happening. 

"DHS is NOT arresting U.S. citizens by mistake." "There are no 'indiscriminate' stops." Allegations of "racial profiling are disgusting, reckless and categorically FALSE." "The pattern is NOT of law enforcement using force." "ICE does not zip tie or restrain children." 

But that is precisely what is happening, and at a far larger scale than previously reported.
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David Dunham @radiofreelunch.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Happy 62nd year!
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Jank @jank.cool · 05/10/2026
There are many hells. This one's not so bad. www.jank.cool/thousand-hel...
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Thousand Hells review
Other hell is people
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
There's a ton of video games out now where you have a job, job simulator games are huge right now, but there are none where the entire game is *you quitting a job* Imagine a game where the entire game is you quitting jobs of various kinds as dramatically and messily as possible. Last day simulator
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Ash Poprik 🗡️ @ashleypoprik.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Interested in game writing or narrative design? I put together my favorite narrative-focused resources FOR FREE for your viewing pleasure. You'll find gems from legends including Mary Kenney, Anna Megill, Emily Short, Susan O'Connor, and Toiya Kristen Finley. Enjoy! drive.google.com/file/d/1xIvw...
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ashleyPoprik_NarrativeResources.pdf
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 03/10/2026
You can't get anyone in political media to say it plainly, but GOP strategy for several decades now has been built around the fact that its core goals/policies are *wildly unpopular*. Everything depends on a) polluting the information environment, b) cementing unfair structural advantages, & c) $$$.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Again, you can always detect some faint embarrassment from Democrats when they talk about the ballroom, but “the president demolished a big part of the White House to build himself a palace with bribes from enemy powers” is, by an order of magnitude, the worst corruption scandal in US history
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A Wealthy Russian Businessman Is Helping Fund Trump’s Stupid Ballroom. Nothing Sketchy About That, Right?
Surely, our president will face consequences for this insanity.
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David Dunham @radiofreelunch.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
King of Dragon Pass put text on whichever side of the art wasn’t the focus (rarely in the center). Thousand Hells has text on one side because that’s easier. I think I chose left because it’s more important than the image, so you should see it first. Did Joe’s talk on text presentation cover this?
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Pete is lost in terms of modern war. I use the example of this outgunned Ukrainian army officer who successfully terrorized a Russian unit for weeks because she "did the math." At the time, someone commented, "yeah, in combat, 'I did the math' beats 'I can do 100 pushups' every time."
Ukrainian female soldier: Okay, I said the idea is this: There is enough time to empty one full can of 32 grenades and be gone by the time the return mortar fire reaches us. I did the math.
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David Dunham @radiofreelunch.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
@juliaminamata.bsky.social I now realize I had confused Crimson Diamond (from my wishlist) with Red Pearls of Borneo (from my library). Just bought it, and by coincidence will listen to your GNK podcast when I go for my morning walk.
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Semafor @semafor.com · 30/09/2026
Visitors to the US are on track to drop by almost two million year-on-year. “We’re the only major country in the world losing visitation,” the head of the US Travel Association said. “It’s mind-boggling.” www.semafor.com/article/09/2...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Four-byline alert: “.. Meta claimed that $4.1 billion of stock options exercised by Mr. Zuckerberg counted as a research expense ..” @nytimes.com $META www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...
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David Dunham @radiofreelunch.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Not sure it’s a good marketing quote but it’s true: I keep referring people to the “Games dialogue … is writing for reading like speaking” discussion. — David Dunham
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David Dunham @radiofreelunch.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It’s faster and I can do so without bothering my wife (or digging out AirPods)
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 30/09/2026
Trump officials seem to have realized their AI chatbot was fact-checking the president’s biggest lies. trib.al/G5rU7c2
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Trump Reprograms Government AI Chatbot to Stop Fact-Checking His Lies
Trump officials seem to have realized their AI chatbot was correcting the president’s biggest lies.
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Failbetter Games | Wishlist Mandrake on Steam! @failbettergames.com · 30/09/2026
We're hiring! We're looking for a Writer and Narrative Designer to join the Fallen London team at a senior or mid level. This position is permanent, remote, and full time, which for us means 35 hours a week. #GamesJobs
Night. The House of Chimes - a tower which you might immediately think of as Big Ben - is adrift in the River Thames. It still seems to be keeping time. In the background, a large, alien building looms over the city of London.
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David Dunham @radiofreelunch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Been a while since I felt an earthquake, but I did feel this one from Seattle (about 22 miles/35 km away) earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...
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The Earthquake Event Page application supports most recent browsers, view supported browsers. Or, try our Real-time Notifications, Feeds, and Web Services.
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Gareth DAMIAN MARTIN | Jump Over the Age @jumpovertheage.com · 29/09/2026
Andrey Surnov's concept work for Jusant in my brain again this morning. Can't think of a game set among ruins that made me more desperate to see more of its world. So few games manage such an original and rich aesthetic, so sad the team never got to make more.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Tweed is such a beautiful fabric to wear this time of year because it produces, in Dolly Parton's phrasing, a coat of many colors. Even a solid-colored brown is not just brown, but bits of red, blue, and yellow to produce something that looks lifted off the Scottish landscape.
There are two photos taped together. The top shows a brown stone building with a brown thatched roof. It's surrounded by green grass, stone walkways, and blue-gray sea. Below is a checked brown tweed that reflects the colors in the landscape above it. There are two photos taped together. The one at te top shows a rocky hillside with green and straw-colored grass, gray rocks, and a tan sandy beach below. The blue waters are crashing at the shore. Below is a green herringbone tweed that reflects the colors in the landscape above it. There are two photos taped together. The top shows a field of green and straw colored fields with bits of purple flowers. Below is a a series of checked brown tweed that reflect the colors in the landscape above it. A swatch book of solid-colored tweeds. The green tweed has visible flecks of red, gold, and blue.
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#TeslaTakedown @teslatakedown.com · 23/09/2026
Elon is now above $16,000,000 spent on the mid-terms. Top races so far: -$5,174,007.32 in TX against @jamestalarico.bsky.social -$3,193,553.94 in OH against @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social -$3,092,319.94 in MI against @abdulelsayed.bsky.social
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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Donald Trump increased the price of gas, and now he wants you to have to buy more of it." Doesn't seem like a difficult messaging challenge for Democrats.
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