Jason Grinblat

@ptychomancer

he/him. Caves of Qud & Sproggiwood. Generated histories, hidden monasteries, sentient plants.🌹🌹

Atop the petrified sea-things
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    3 Apr 2018

    New followers: you may want to check out the weird game we're making, Caves of Qud It's a far-future, sci-fantasy RPG that's heavy on language, simulation, & sentient plants. The tagline is "Chisel through a layer cake of thousand-year-old civilizations."

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  2. 16 hours ago

    demake god

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  3. Mar 21

    I love radicchio. I love when eating a salad tastes like I'm being poisoned.

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  4. Mar 21

    narrative games are too systems-heavy to be systems games

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  5. Mar 21

    A thing that's very funny to me is how narrative and systems are cast in opposition to each other, largely because the rich social systems that drive narrative are too complex for game engines and have to run as human firmware instead

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    Mar 20

    This is rescue archaeology in action. Documenting a possible pre-Christian burial site as it is literally about to disappear under lava

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    Mar 21

    alt 4 color dragon

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    Mar 20

    I read this poem every first day of spring, and it’s still good, every year

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  9. Mar 20

    This gemcutter carved a figurine of her own wheel-scarred hands. Truly a legend.

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  10. Mar 20

    now this

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  11. Mar 20

    To expound on this, the apple farmer's daughter is asking me to cook a meal at the mud oven named after a legendary dragonfly, Melactorus Teltola, who settled in the village some time ago. Specifically, the oven is named after her "love"

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  12. Mar 20

    👀

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    Mar 19

    In half an hour, we'll have the dev team of new indie tactical RPG (developed here in the UCSC Games & Playable Media program) on the show to talk about their game! As always, drop in at 4:30 PM PDT:

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  14. Mar 19

    Here it is, the perfect infant toy

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  15. Mar 19

    there are many good blaseball explainers of various sizes — Sam's thread here very tersely summarizes some of the exciting TTRPG-esque canonizations of player actions that have gone down.

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    okay. grand overview: peanuts are mostly useless, except that they are both a Original Sin whose corruption brought the first grand adversary to blaseball, and the means by which our memory of the beloved dead became the power that saved us
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    Mar 18
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    Happy birthday! I enjoyed this two-part essay about The Dispossessed:

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    Mar 18
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    and two essays I can't get out of my head, from and

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    Mar 18
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    my utopias are about doing the work in the face of disaster; I'm going to share a pairing of short story and an essay, both by by , which I think speak to each other:

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  19. Mar 18

    🥳🎂🤖👋

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  20. Mar 18

    I'd love if folks responded with other insightful perspectives on utopia. Art, writing, games, anything. I'll be offline most of the day but checking in periodically.

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  21. Mar 18

    Every time the NFT discourse rears its head, I think of Le Guin and this essay.

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