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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 · 12h
Thanks. 👍
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unacomn @taleofdoom.com · 14h
It makes both of the last Mortal Kombat movies (apart from the first 10 minutes of MK1) look like a bitch.
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unacomn @taleofdoom.com · 14h
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 · 08/10/2026
Same 🥹
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unacomn @taleofdoom.com · 07/10/2026
(Windows doing windows things again)
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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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unacomn @taleofdoom.com · 05/10/2026
Dang, that's about as close to confirmation it happened as we'll ever get.
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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 · 02/10/2026
Seeing that dog-rat thing run at the window and crash trough it in the first 10 seconds of playing the game was one of the most frightening things I've ever experienced in a video game. It's only topped by most of Clock Tower, bits of Amnesia and any jump in a 3D game that doesn't have quicksaves.
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unacomn @taleofdoom.com · 29/09/2026
For years I worked for a site that most times barely broke even. And we considered that to be a financial failure. We should have done an IPO. We'd be swimming in money.
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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 · 24/09/2026
I sometimes load up that level and just walk around, pretending I'm on a tropical vacation. When the storm hits, it's magnificent.
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unacomn @taleofdoom.com · 24/09/2026
Imagine if they showed that initiative in protest to the opinion wars.
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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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unacomn @taleofdoom.com · 18/09/2026
The series felt like that initially, what with the undead gas mask child,going insane trying to kill the last dalek, the trauma of rose having to let her dad die.
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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 · 16/09/2026
He'll always be Jimmy James to me or The Raven
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unacomn @taleofdoom.com · 16/09/2026
That is slander!
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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 · 11/09/2026
Calling the President of the USA a 'spanish woman' is a weird take.
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unacomn @taleofdoom.com · 10/09/2026
"But there's this Razer thing that...." That costs more than a computer monitor. No. It's not
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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 · 09/09/2026
Until I clicked on it, I wasn't sure it was dirt or a long exposure of the night sky.
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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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unacomn @taleofdoom.com · 03/09/2026
Unless you have telekinesis.
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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 · 02/09/2026
"Would you look at that, I dropped my keys somewhere around here, I'm just looking for them, be with you in a second" Vs "Yeah, I did it, and I'll do it again, gladly."
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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 · 31/08/2026
It's not!?
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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 · 23/08/2026
The way they released the cinematic trailer for it, piece by piece, over a year, single handedly brought the cyberpunk genre into the limelight for the next decade. That trailer was so good that EA pushed Syndicate just to ride the wave of made.
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unacomn @taleofdoom.com · 22/08/2026
To be fair, they did try a lot to tank it with various bad decisions over the years. So, that fact that it got this far is an even more incredible achievement than replicating it would be.
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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 · 21/08/2026
I especially love how every few months a Windows update breaks the libre fonts pack for some reason and every file I open is blank. Or when having a 1080p, 2k and 4 k display connected caused LibreOffice to run like it was Crysis on a Pentium 2.
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unacomn @taleofdoom.com · 21/08/2026
EA cares very little for the IP. About a decade ago they gave it a go on a sequel-remake of Ultima 4 with a budget of a half a shoelace and a used piece of gum. Mythic Entertainment did what they could. It did not go well.
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