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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 29/09/2026

This period will go down as one of the greatest moments for Democrat attack ads in history. We're seeing LBJ "Daisy"-level spots daily.

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Dave Shramek @dshramek.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I wish I could block a particular podcast advertisement as easily as I block something on social media or tell YouTube to never recommend a channel.

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Dave Shramek @dshramek.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Hey Google, this is just called "not falling asleep yet" and you don't need to track it as part of my sleep.

A sleep tracker app readout. The score is 8@, the duration is 7h 26m. But there's a 34 minute block of awake at the start of the graph tracking sleep states.

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Dave Shramek @dshramek.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'd like to see what Lanterns looks like with more of the 2026 timeline sprinkled in the whole time so I care more about it and its mystery.

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Dave Shramek @dshramek.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Sometimes you blow forty minutes making a long list of Star Wars names. George Lucas used to keep a notebook full of names to pull from when he was writing.

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Dave Shramek @dshramek.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Some Reaction channels react to Clue like "Can we solve this mystery before the end of the movie?" Guaranteed you can't. I'd love to show them one of the theatrical versions with only one ending, then offer to show it to them again to see if they pick up on the clues, but it's one of the other ones.

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Dave Shramek @dshramek.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Marx and Smith were largely in agreement. Mostly about the failure modes, but Marx actually had prescriptive solutions instead of just warnings about where it goes wrong. That's why Marx gets all the fans. If Smith had solutions like stronger labor protections and Brandeisian laws he might've also.

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Dave Shramek @dshramek.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is the pull quote for me. The C-Suite needs to cut, but those cuts make it even less possible to meet their performance demands. I think we've artificially hit that point that has been prophesied for decades: games are finally too expensive to make. At least in the AAA corporate-led space.

"Things are still very chaotic," a current id Software employee who was granted anonymity because they are not authorized to speak publicly told Aftermath. "While there has been an attempt to communicate to the studios, it is still entirely in bullshit corporate speak. I still don't believe they have a clear vision for the future. The only concrete thing they have communicated is they want higher profits, and they want it now. Aggressive goals are being set that would have been unrealistic even before the layoffs. ... To say the workers within Xbox have a dim view of the future is putting it mildly. We keep thinking morale can't sink lower but the obvious incompetence of Xbox management somehow keeps driving it down worse."

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

As shocking as this case is I know @czedwards.bsky.social is shaking their head at the same thing I am - this is some PISS POOR MONEY LAUNDERING. Check 1001 of a brand new account? Jesus we used to be a proper country.

A check made out for
$150,000 to Susan Collins’s
PAC, check number 1001

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Dave Shramek @dshramek.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Superweapons and the Deaths of Empires: Thermostatic Resistance or a Greater Law of the Galaxy

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Dave Shramek @dshramek.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Bane of the Sith: The Rule of Two was Poorly Conceived and Rarely Followed

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Dave Shramek @dshramek.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Fear and the Loss of Faith: The practice and methods of dueling with a dark side adherent.

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Dave Shramek @dshramek.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Exactly. "Write what you know" is an imperative to know more things and do research, not to try to bring into the world ANOTHER story about being a twenty-something listless man child.

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Dave Shramek @dshramek.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I would play the crap out of a Green Arrow game, especially if it had the Arrow family and Black Canary, etc.

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Dave Shramek @dshramek.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

According to my smart watch and attending app, I'm at best a B sleeper, and usually a C+ or B- sleeper. Despite practicing all my life, I can't crack an A in the activity. I was never good at PE either.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

They can self-regulate, says the guy who shares a porn accountability app with his son.

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Dave Shramek @dshramek.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I can tell it's a bad brain morning since I almost spooned kosher salt into my coffee.

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Michael Fry @bigdirtyfry.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Your Grandad Cyclops talks about his school days

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Dave Shramek @dshramek.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"'Sex Cauldron?' I thought they closed that place down."

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Dave Shramek @dshramek.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Star Trek Away Team. It's basically X-Com, but your team is being killed by weird science things and you don't just phaser, but you need to tactically diplomacy or strategically science your way through the map.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

underrated part of El-Sayed’s messaging strategy seems to be shaming journalists who ask dumb questions that play into right-wing frames. you can’t answer these in a way that satisfies them, but you can make it embarrassing enough that you impose a toll on asking.

Abdul El-Sayed: "Weijia, with all due respect, this is the third time you've asked about a Twitch streamer ... their whole game is to make us fight culture wars so that we don't pay attention to the fact the president has made $2.2 billion ... "

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Dave Shramek @dshramek.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Hey @jamestalarico.bsky.social, maybe take a break from sending me 20 fundraising texts a day to watch this video to learn how not to betray a vulnerable minority in an attempt to get some mythical centrist votes your overpaid consultants say you should care about.

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Dave Shramek @dshramek.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Decades of using Photoshop professionally and I will never get over "Save a Copy" just to get something other than a PSD. And I will NEVER get over how they insist on adding " copy" to the file name, especially once I change file formats.

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Dave Shramek @dshramek.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It's this in combination with the notion that executives are attempting to maximize ROI with big swings and big bets. Because otherwise, the solution would be medium-sized bets in smaller, neglected genres (see: Star Wars Zero Company).

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Dave Shramek @dshramek.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I am more than happy to give these people a big L.

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Dave Shramek @dshramek.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The world is far too stupid to parody.

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Andrew @athomashemlock.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

[Benoit Blanc during a Reacher Christmas episode crossover] Listen, son, I myself am of the conviction that violence is the crude weapon of an incurious mind, but I will admit that my gigantic friend here makes the most convincing argument I've yet heard on the virtues of expediency through force.

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John Walton @thatjohn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

this second session being impossible to schedule is the most D&D thing you could possibly imagine

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Dave Shramek @dshramek.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I'm going to need this as a political poster. I want a propaganda poster T-shirt of this for every political march I'm going to go on for the foreseable. (cc: @anamariecox.com)

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Dave Shramek @dshramek.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Idly lining up the villains of 80s cartoons with evil undead boss monster types. Skeletor is clearly a lich. Hordak is a vampire lord. Mumm-ra is pretty obvious.

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Dave Shramek @dshramek.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Every Star Trek movie pitch is like "What if everyone in Star Fleet were kind of jerks and said 'fuck' all the time. And they got in fistfights and gunfights and did trench runs in space battles." My brothers in Surak, if you can't deal honestly with the source material make something else.

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Dave Shramek @dshramek.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I really appreciated all the food stands and restaurants and kitchens in Star Wars Outlaws. Those are also my obsession. I've made more than a few kitchens, kitchenettes, cafes, food stands and food trucks in SWTOR.

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Dave Shramek @dshramek.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I doubt there will be another Zero Company based on the news about the developer furloughing most of the staff, but man I'd love another version of it that took place in the New Order era. Same idea, the New Order is showing up, so you're the founding Resistance as a deniable New Republic operation.

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Dave Shramek @dshramek.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

In keeping with my "All I want to do is write about philosophical debates in my favorite IP universes" I want a story about whatever the New Republic had for a Continental Congress. Surely there was a former Separatist who was there feeling vindicated? Now they're arguing for Galactic Federalism

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Dave Shramek @dshramek.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Here's the result of the fretting. May go back and change everything when I'm done with all the tutorials, but here's my Scoundrel Hawks.

A pink skinned Mirialan with tattoos on her forehead and chins. Her head is topped a mass of messy dark blue curls in a pixie cut. She has an off-white, light tan shirt, an orange vest, and a scarf under her collar.

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Dave Shramek @dshramek.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

One of the many headlines I want to send back in time as a warning. Imagine Kyle Reese showing up naked in an alley at the height of the popularity of Bawitdaba and he's got this issue of the Washington Post with him.

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Dave Shramek @dshramek.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

My Zero Company download finished, so I expect start it up after dinner and spend all night fretting about what I want my Hawks to look like before I ever get to fretting about what class to take.

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Dave Shramek @dshramek.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

It's really funny that kids today watch old movies and are baffled by all the credits before the start of the movie, but someone from that era would be baffled by all the production company logos before the start. A good indie movie has like ten minutes of production animated company logos.

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Dave Shramek @dshramek.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Welp, sometimes you spend the afternoon smashing the last few RPG games you've been reading together into a Star Wars RPG. Mostly it's the last two: Shadowrun Anarchy 2.0 and Legends in the Mist, plus some ideas I never shook in Cortex Prime and VtM 5.

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LAISSEZ LES BON QUESO ROULER @thequeso.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

A choice so obvious only Texans could fuck it up

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Dave Shramek @dshramek.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

This picture gave me trypophobia.

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Dave Shramek @dshramek.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

YouTube algo served me a trailer for a new movie called Best of the Best and to my immense disappointment, it has nothing WHATSOEVER to do with an American team of martial artists training to beat a Korean team in a tournament.

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Dave Shramek @dshramek.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

One of my superpowers is to buy a console just before a hardware refresh. I bought a PS4 less than a year before the PS5 came out. I got a Steam Deck weeks before the OLED versions came out. Same with my Switch, my Xbox 360, etc. If I buy gaming hardware, rumor sites should pay attention.

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Dave Shramek @dshramek.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Darline Graham's risible answer in that debate "I don't know anything about foreign policy, but I DO support the military" is just about the perfect distillation of most Republican voters.

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Dave Shramek @dshramek.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Great. Now HR is going to begin every meeting with a Wokeness Acknowledgement?

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