Dave Shramek

@dshramek.bsky.social

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Game designer and writer. Currently Broadsword and Star Wars: The Old Republic. Distressingly typical geek interests. He/him.

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Also this but with audio books. Let me multitask my full immersion gameplay.

An open world RPG with a built-in podcast app that lets you stream podcasts while exploring but automatically pauses them for game dialog.

Trying to manifest this same energy in the US.

Here's some fashy tears for your Sunday.

More work in plating. The one in top will get the same wood handle bit as the one below. And then I'll tile those honeycomb brass elements in the baggie on the wooden part as a grip. I've got some art deco elements I'm getting for the activation button.

My week in chemistry. Electroplating is like the grown up version of dying Easter eggs.

This election season, I'm going to get a burner number for all the campaigns I donate to.

How I'm spending my holiday.

An open world RPG with a built-in podcast app that lets you stream podcasts while exploring but automatically pauses them for game dialog.

The insurrectionist on Jan 6 thought that was a second American Revolution and most of those dirtbags are rotting in prison. Of course their leadership is unfortunately not.

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court presidential immunity ruling: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be" www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court immunity decision: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution"www.mediamatters.org

Another before and after of the electroplating process. I've done a couple of pommels and now I need to try the harder, larger pieces.

As @mckelvie.bsky.social well knows, the full name of this store is "Birkenstockagar Bendshoecoagon."

found myself wondering “what’s the most White Lady store in all of Bend, Oregon?” and I think I have my answer

It's an official act to seize assets suspected of being involved in crimes. What if we just asset forfeitured all the GOP billionaire donors. Is Harlan Crow bribing Supreme Court Justices? Better seize yachts and planes and freeze accounts until we know for sure.

Since presidents are monarchs, that must mean all Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients are retroactively knighted.

I hope the president calls a press conference and the only words are "Won't someone rid me of these troublesome justice?"

The Fourth of July is going to hit real different now that we're back under monarchy.

Can’t wait for a tongue in cheek celebration of our nation’s independence from monarchy.

It's maddening to live in a world of facts and reason and have the most unhinged people in the world will their unreality into being through sheer, unmitigated gall.

I'd like to believe that a rebellious district court judge might reverse the Nixon quote and say "If it's illegal, it can't be an official act."

The only way to read this is that John Roberts has become so upset by the radicalism of his court that he's asking the current president to assassinate all the justices that agree that doing so is legal. It would almost be rude not to.

The president is himself forever immune from prosecution for crimes committed using his official power, and he can pardon anyone for helping him to commit federal crimes, explicitly including an actions in furtherance of a coup to illegally hold onto the office of the presidency. That’s the upshot.

There really is only one remedy for removing someone from a lifetime appointment. It seems like folly to declare that the president ordering your assassination is legal, but I don't make the rules. Looks like Biden gets 6 nominations on the Amy Coney Barrett Fast Track Nomination Plan™.

Star Wars is exceptionally hard for television production: Make up, custom outfits for everyone, special effects. But the real difficulty is locations. Shows like to have a mostly a few recurring sets they set most of their scenes in. That's hard in an IP defined by planet hopping to exotic planets.

Experiments in electroplating. This is the first successful pass from aluminum through copper and into brass.

The thing Star Wars needs to do is excise The Rule of Two from the Canon. The insistence on Jedi and Sith being extremely rare means they have to be too special and powerful. There can therefore never be a comedic Drunken Master Jedi story.

Whenever I'm talking with game devs and we talk about a puzzle, my question is always: Adventure game, Myst, or 7th Guest. Mostly because I'm extremely old. But, in Adventure games, the puzzles were very much a part of the narrative. In 7th Guest, you just solved a classic puzzle. Myst was halfway.

I'm about to invent Sprite yogurt.

As a kid, I loved charismatic tricksters investigating crime and corruption with their unorthodox, categorically illegal style to a Harold Faltermeyer soundtrack. Your Beverly Hills Cops and Fletches. Less so Kuffs, where the trend finally petered out. Tango and Cash and Cop Out don't count.

Noodling on some guns-out Sith Warrior outfits this morning.

One of the writers for this week's episode of The Acolyte was "Kor Adana," which full-on sounds like a Star Wars name.

Today's character is a Smuggler adventurer. I love how the High Roller legs look like Jodhpurs like the Rocketeer or old timey directors would wear, so I started from there.

To this day, I'm still not sure what doves crying ACTUALLY sounds like.

Prince was an absolute musical genius but a terrible dove impressionist

Oh, sure. But Louisiana doesn't want to put ALL FIFTEEN commandments in schools? It's like they don't even know the history of the world. What are they teaching in schools?