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unacomn

@taleofdoom.com
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I used to make video game and tech content as a day job, from 2007 to 2020. Now I do QGIS stuff, Ignition SCADA things and water loss reduction shenanigans. I also write books that aren't very good. And I'm trying to make a game about a duck. Also, I run.

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unacomn @taleofdoom.com · 13h
God bless the perverts that made the new Street Fighter movie. They understood the assignment.
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unacomn @taleofdoom.com · 16/10/2026
My work was featured in the Bentley (not the car, the other one) Infrastructure Yearbook. I'm, like, a professional and stuff now. Anyone want a hydraulic model done? Need some SCADA? I can hook you up with a sweet GIS infrastructure. www.yearininfrastructure-digital.com/yearininfras...
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Year In Infrastructure - 2025 : Page 195
The Dunarea Brăila Public Utilities Company DC Water The;complete;hydraulic;model;for;the;city;of;BrăilaLocation:;Braila,;RomaniaProject;Playbook:;OpenFlowsFrom;blueprint;to;reality:;DC;Water’s...
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unacomn @taleofdoom.com · 12/10/2026
So, the National Association of water companies is having a symposium type thing regarding SCADA. As one of two SCADA people at the company, I requested to join the IT people who were already going. The CFO said no. So, the SCADA symposium will have no SCADA people representing us.
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unacomn @taleofdoom.com · 09/10/2026
Remembering the time when Nvidia nerfed the Titan with worse FP64 performance than prior gen. We considered that to be a bad thing. Now they're selling their own laptop chipset and touting its outstanding FP4 performance. Sure, different usecase, but, man...is INT2 going to become a selling point?
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unacomn @taleofdoom.com · 07/10/2026
Now listen here, you little shit, I OWN YOU!
A Windows 10 prompt telling me to contact my IT administrator. This is a home PC. I am the IT administrator... now I know how that clown felt.
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Stuck In Attic @stuckinattic.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Get our games in the Autumn Sale! The best value for money is the "All Our Games" bundle which applies an extra discount! Links in replies
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unacomn @taleofdoom.com · 29/09/2026
I had replaced a work colleague's desktop with a picture of the desktop and hid the icons as a prank. She didn't notice. I keep forgetting that people don't actually work here.
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unacomn @taleofdoom.com · 27/09/2026
OK, now I'm done.
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unacomn @taleofdoom.com · 27/09/2026
Yeah, I think that's most of them.
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unacomn @taleofdoom.com · 27/09/2026
OK, this is getting closer to being complete. Maybe one more.
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unacomn @taleofdoom.com · 26/09/2026
Choosing just 9 games to define you is damned hard. Should be 12. Couldn't even fit the racing games.
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
OTD in 1938 Hitler gave a speech demanding the Sudetenland be handed to Germany. He said his countrymen were being mistreated and needed protection. Also promised it was his last territorial demand. He was lying. Imagine that happening today.
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unacomn @taleofdoom.com · 20/09/2026
The bridge race, which turned into 8.5km instead of 21km after an injury, is complete. Running over the Danube was great.
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Miss Self Destruct @miss-self-destruct.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Hell Is Other People is on page 3 on new & trending demos, omgggg!!! 🫠
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SeverLink - Wishlist NOW! @severlink.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
SeverLink crowdfunding campaign is LIVE We have a playable prototype - just grab it at: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/c... If you long for early 2000s stealth revival and you like what you see in our build - GO FUND US and make it happen! #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #lowpoly #y2k
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Doug Savage @savagechickens.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Understanding Pirate. www.patreon.com/savagechicke...
Title: Understanding "Pirate"
1. ARRR! (Generic expression of enthusiasm)
2. HARRR! (Hello!)
3. YARRR! (An emphatic "Yes")
4. NARRR! (An emphatic "No")
5. PARRR! (Having a decent game of golf)
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dannyodwyer @dannyodwyer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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unacomn @taleofdoom.com · 15/09/2026
I would like to thank the developers of the new Wolverine game for highlighting to everyone in very clear terms that quick-time events are a terrible substitute for actual gameplay and that no one should ever use them.
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unacomn @taleofdoom.com · 12/09/2026
You know, for kids.
A scene of mannequins being hanged and prop heads on spikes at a historical re-enactment festival in Braila, Romania. For kids. You know. Kids love a good beheading or hanging.
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unacomn @taleofdoom.com · 10/09/2026
So, I take it that gaming mouse manufacturers just gave up, right? There's, like, nothing out there that's good these days for people who play more than FPS games, is there?
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unacomn @taleofdoom.com · 05/09/2026
Holy fudgenuggets does 15k feel harder than the last 2 times.
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unacomn @taleofdoom.com · 04/09/2026
It's a few days late, but this is part 3 of my documentary. In this episode, I run in Bucharest and publish a horrifying picture from that time I died. youtu.be/u2ZqwJAeOzw
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21K: Partea III - La Bucharest OMV Half-Marathon
YouTube video by unacomn
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Jaws Slayer 🎃 @jesawyer.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I have been searching for a nice vintage Fiat 500 poster and it's now impossible because the internet is flooded with retro graphic design posters and 10x as much genAI slop... die!!!
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unacomn @taleofdoom.com · 01/09/2026
A picture of my cat looking at itself in front of a mirror before going out, because that's what we do and it learned from us.
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unacomn @taleofdoom.com · 26/08/2026
Saddened for the world to have lost two great people who brought joy to billions. Dolly and Tim are and will remain legends.
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unacomn @taleofdoom.com · 26/08/2026
I've been goofing off at work making a learner game before the duck one. After fiddling with a YAML plugin for Godot, I realized that I can just have the engine on my work computer somewhere and edit events in code. Behold, the first screenshot of a game that'll be 3$ in a few months in itch.io.
An early, like, super early, and I mean, oh boy, what did you even post this early, screenshot of a game called Hospital Survival Simulator 2015, previously called Suffering Simulator 2015. It's just a beige background with some bars and some nonsensical text. There's also a framerate counter for some reason. It's not 3D or anything, or 2D for that matter, it's just a UI. The game itself will be about surviving terrible, terrible health related events in terrible, terrible Romanian hospitals. It's based on real world events that happened to me and gave me nightmares for years. 
If I can sell enough copies of it, I can buy my blood back.

I keep saying that, it's a reference to a Johnny Bravo episode.
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unacomn @taleofdoom.com · 21/08/2026
There seems to be some discussion about spreadsheet people around here. Once, when I was really sick, I had a dream that I was a spreadsheet. It was terrible. I kept getting word values in date columns and it physically hurt, like jamming a rusty fork into my eyes. I know how a spreadsheet feels.
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Liam @ GamingOnLinux @gamingonlinux.com · 21/08/2026
First-person gothic adventure 'Night Cart: The Immortal Plague' is a must for your wishlist #NativeLinux #FPS #Adventure #Action #NightCart #Gaming #SteamOS
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First-person gothic adventure 'Night Cart: The Immortal Plague' is a must for your wishlist
Drive a horse-drawn cart through plague-ridden Transylvania in the first-person gothic adventure Night Cart: The Immortal Plague that sounds rather interesting.
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unacomn @taleofdoom.com · 20/08/2026
Took me about 4 years but I finally finished Yakuka 2. So far it's the most "this could have been an e-mail" game of thr series. Stay tuned for when I finish Yakuza 3 in 2030.
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unacomn @taleofdoom.com · 18/08/2026
This is my journey to complete a half-marathon race. Episode 1- Running is a gift. It's in Romanian, but YouTube Auto-subtitles are pretty good these days. youtu.be/eGfrBZ8Fh-E?...
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21K: Partea I - Alergarea este un dar
YouTube video by unacomn
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unacomn @taleofdoom.com · 17/08/2026
Manages to put together the first episode of a new series focused on running. It'll probably go live tomorrow. Still have some effects to finalize. Sharing it feels a bit uneasy.
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unacomn @taleofdoom.com · 16/08/2026
A buddy of mine is releasing a game on Steam soon: store.steampowered.com/app/4769780/... It's about exploring the plague ridden villages of Transylvania in the early 17th century, but with more supernatural elements than usual. Looks a bit like Mount&Blade mixed with Elder Scrolls. Check a look.
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Night Cart: The Immortal Plague on Steam
A first-person gothic adventure where you drive a horse-drawn cart through plague-ridden Transylvania alongside an immortal woman, exploring forgotten places, battling desperate foes, uncovering ancie...
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unacomn @taleofdoom.com · 15/08/2026
Sad news people. They stopped using the giant trout to move the god Neptune around for the Navy day celebration. They uses a normal ship. Like a bunch of basic normies. Apologies to all who expected new photos of a grown man dressed in a bright blue dress riding around in a giant fish on the Danube.
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unacomn @taleofdoom.com · 12/08/2026
I was out watching the skies, so I'm only now screaming to myself at the possibility of Anachronox's story finally being finished. www.youtube.com/shorts/YlcQZ...
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Anachronox 25th Anniversary REVEAL
YouTube video by ThatTomHall
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unacomn @taleofdoom.com · 10/08/2026
23 years ago I only had CD1 of Final Fantasy 7 (ok, it was the broken cracked PC version that still checked for CD2). It took me 3 years to get the full game (a better cracked version). The idea of everyone now waiting years between CDs of FF7 is amazing. Again. I am prophecy.
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unacomn @taleofdoom.com · 06/08/2026
Got a pair of new running shoes. Managed to set a new 5k personal best. The shoes are just 50g lighter than the previous ones, but the difference is gigantic.
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unacomn @taleofdoom.com · 05/08/2026
Part of the 1% 😎💰💲💲
A trio of unopened Western Digital 1TB SSDs.
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unacomn @taleofdoom.com · 03/08/2026
So, the national authority of land management got its systems hacked last month. Everything is down. So, we're all on high alert. In turn, our IT service set a password policy of 8 characters... Maximum. Long passwords are out of style i guess. Glad I'm not the NIS guy anymore.
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unacomn @taleofdoom.com · 31/07/2026
I keep thinking about some of the lines in the film. "Her only crime was that she was special"... and mentally violated people for fun. "You're a murderer"... where as I just strapped a bomb to a tank, drove it through town, blew up buildings, shot people, threw people into traffic and off buildings
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unacomn @taleofdoom.com · 29/07/2026
Man, am I glad that Obsession came out recently with a clear message about consent, because Marvel movies are really sticking to their 'making people do horrible things against their will isn't bad and the heroes will never call the perpetrator out on it' shtick.
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unacomn @taleofdoom.com · 28/07/2026
A, wonderful news, let's see how people are reacting to it... Ah, yes, it seems that Steam has ruined people's brains.
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unacomn @taleofdoom.com · 28/07/2026
For the first time in history, the Brăila Half-Marathon is going to take place over the Danube Bridge. There are some very strict time limits, as the bridge is only open for about an hour, but with more training, I believe I should be able to complete it in time. semimaratonbraila.ro
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Semimaraton Braila
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Miss Self Destruct @miss-self-destruct.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Can you survive the horror of being yourself? Wishlist Hell Is Other People on Steam 🤍 Demo coming soon! #indiegame #horrorgame #cozyhorror
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unacomn @taleofdoom.com · 16/07/2026
Yesterday at a Call of Cthulhu game, we had a monster visitation to a character played by someone who was both tired and wasn't paying attention that well. The result was something akin to something Granny Weatherwax, I feel, would say in a Discworld book.
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unacomn @taleofdoom.com · 15/07/2026
I often wonder why I bother to show up to work early or on time when no one else seems that interested.
A man looking at his watch which reads 8 AM. He is standing in front of a locked door to an office building. He has a set of keys in the door. The picture is meant to signify that no one else showed up on time for work. There is a sadness in his soul that won't go away, not until he is free of this place. And even then, the years spent here, the toll they have taken, will leave marks that may never heal. Maybe help him out by buying his book. That Tale of Doom thing. It's in the bio.
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
OTD in 1940, Soviet Forces, who were in Baltic countries as a result of absolutely nothing to do with our treaty with Nazis, held ‘elections’ whose results were released day before vote. The Baltic countries then ‘voluntarily’ joined USSR ‘on a contractual basis’
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unacomn @taleofdoom.com · 13/07/2026
Went to the capital last week for work. I walked around the old town for a bit on the last day. It's filled with restaurants that have greeters and people trying to get passers by to get a table. They basically ask everyone within distance. Not one asked me. Not a single one. I reek of poverty.
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unacomn @taleofdoom.com · 12/07/2026
Man, that fatal ligma epidemic is just tearing through the US leadership these days.
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unacomn @taleofdoom.com · 09/07/2026
Made a video years ago about how death will follow Philn Spencer leaving Microsoft and boy, did I underestimate it. youtu.be/tDYgqBKue0I?...
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Microsoft will buy Activision-Blizzard and nothing will be the same
YouTube video by GaminGHD
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unacomn @taleofdoom.com · 07/07/2026
Tuned into a 2-1 match 5 minutes ago and now it's 2-3. My attention is like a curse, for whoever is doing well isn't it. I'm like the eye of Crom.
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