Dave Shramek
@dshramek.bsky.social
Game designer and writer. Currently Broadsword and Star Wars: The Old Republic. Distressingly typical geek interests. He/him.
People like Pete Hegseth make me wish God and Heaven and all of it were real so that when Pete eventually dies, he can be told by his God to his face that he's a piece of shit and deserves the Hell he's going to.
December 2, 2025 at 4:28 PM
People like Pete Hegseth make me wish God and Heaven and all of it were real so that when Pete eventually dies, he can be told by his God to his face that he's a piece of shit and deserves the Hell he's going to.
This is my favorite Advent calendar on the internet.
23 days until my Christmas joke.
December 2, 2025 at 4:04 PM
This is my favorite Advent calendar on the internet.
We know that AI models degrade as they get retrained n AI slop. You'd think that AI companies would be extremely worried about correctly identifying AI just to protect their models. But ironically, tech bros are not very forward thinking.
Ginny Di makes an excellent underrepresented point here in that the secondary damage caused by AI is that so many artists have to defend our own work as organic now. I had to put out a statement that BLACK PHONE 2 contained no AI because assholes decided to accuse us of using it and no other reason.
I love paying human artists and I hate gen AI 🩵
I'm not here to fight about whether or not AI is ethical (I've made my decision and I doubt I'm gonna change yours.) I'm just here to talk about what I and many other artists have been dealing with as we adjust to a new media landscape.
I'm not here to fight about whether or not AI is ethical (I've made my decision and I doubt I'm gonna change yours.) I'm just here to talk about what I and many other artists have been dealing with as we adjust to a new media landscape.
December 1, 2025 at 9:39 PM
We know that AI models degrade as they get retrained n AI slop. You'd think that AI companies would be extremely worried about correctly identifying AI just to protect their models. But ironically, tech bros are not very forward thinking.
But... Sorcerer wasn't an innate spellcasting class until 2000.
December 1, 2025 at 5:11 AM
But... Sorcerer wasn't an innate spellcasting class until 2000.
If someone called me "Honey Stringer" or "Energy Waffle" in a cockney accent, I'd be forced to assume it was a devastating insult.
November 30, 2025 at 12:08 AM
If someone called me "Honey Stringer" or "Energy Waffle" in a cockney accent, I'd be forced to assume it was a devastating insult.
Post your favorite "Lord of the Rings" character. Wrong answers only.
November 29, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Post your favorite "Lord of the Rings" character. Wrong answers only.
While I'm visiting the parents, Scout got her own turkey dinner at the boarders.
November 28, 2025 at 12:48 AM
While I'm visiting the parents, Scout got her own turkey dinner at the boarders.
I love @maxgladstone.bsky.social's Craft books (including the recent Craft War series). I could do a whole book with Gav and Donnie. And a whole series in Iskar.
November 27, 2025 at 11:51 PM
I love @maxgladstone.bsky.social's Craft books (including the recent Craft War series). I could do a whole book with Gav and Donnie. And a whole series in Iskar.
I have consumed too much food, in accordance with Ape Law.
November 27, 2025 at 11:39 PM
I have consumed too much food, in accordance with Ape Law.
Faced with unfamiliar-to-them club hits during the Macy's parade, my folks retreat to "I can't understand what they're saying, but people like 'thug this' and 'gangster that.'" About Shaggy and Busta Rhymes. It's going to be a looooong weekend.
November 27, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Faced with unfamiliar-to-them club hits during the Macy's parade, my folks retreat to "I can't understand what they're saying, but people like 'thug this' and 'gangster that.'" About Shaggy and Busta Rhymes. It's going to be a looooong weekend.
Finishing the wood elements of the saber. Next is the shroud. Then I greeble up the emitter and pommel.
November 25, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Finishing the wood elements of the saber. Next is the shroud. Then I greeble up the emitter and pommel.
I really need women's flag football to take off so I can watch that instead. Honestly, if football switched to flag, after a generation no one would notice. And watching old game footage would shock the conscious.
the Monday Night Football sideline reporter just casually described a player getting concussed to the point of vomiting and then returning to the field
November 25, 2025 at 2:57 AM
I really need women's flag football to take off so I can watch that instead. Honestly, if football switched to flag, after a generation no one would notice. And watching old game footage would shock the conscious.
Rep Salazar (R - Terror Drome) providing video evidence for the eventual war crimes tribunal.
Rep. Salazar on Venezuela: "We're about to go in ... we need to go in ... Venezuela for the American oil companies will be a field day"
November 24, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Rep Salazar (R - Terror Drome) providing video evidence for the eventual war crimes tribunal.
Based on my Skyline, the Pritzker Star Wars movie ranking did not heal the bitter divide in America.
Arrested Development Dead Dove GIF
Alt: Jason Bateman as Michael Bluth in Arrested Development standing in the kitchen looking into a paper bag and then saying "I don't know what I expected"
media.tenor.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Based on my Skyline, the Pritzker Star Wars movie ranking did not heal the bitter divide in America.
This is not my ranking, but it's a respectable ranking. Nothing is outright wrong, even if there are generational biases. Good on Pritzker.
haven’t seen ROS or Solo but this seems like a pretty ball-knowing list from Pritzker, particularly if he volunteered the name “Star Wars” rather than “A New Hope”
November 24, 2025 at 7:42 PM
This is not my ranking, but it's a respectable ranking. Nothing is outright wrong, even if there are generational biases. Good on Pritzker.
Decided last week that my lightsaber projects require some custom blade plugs when I get there, so I went a little crazy on Etsy getting some possibilities.
November 24, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Decided last week that my lightsaber projects require some custom blade plugs when I get there, so I went a little crazy on Etsy getting some possibilities.
Seriously, the movie Nuremberg could not ask for better earned media.
November 24, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Seriously, the movie Nuremberg could not ask for better earned media.
This implies that it's somehow AGAINST the Uniform Code of Military Justice to instruct other members of the military of their obligation to ignore or disobey illegal orders? When did they make THAT change?*
*I know they did in spirit, but I mean on paper for real.
*I know they did in spirit, but I mean on paper for real.
Hegseth is now threatening to recall Sen. Mark Kelly to active duty in order to court martial him.
November 24, 2025 at 5:51 PM
This implies that it's somehow AGAINST the Uniform Code of Military Justice to instruct other members of the military of their obligation to ignore or disobey illegal orders? When did they make THAT change?*
*I know they did in spirit, but I mean on paper for real.
*I know they did in spirit, but I mean on paper for real.
Where we're going, we won't need eyes to see, Charlie Brown.
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain, Charlie Brown.
You're too short for that gesture, Charlie Brown
November 24, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Where we're going, we won't need eyes to see, Charlie Brown.
We have such sights to show you, Charlie Brown.
I find your lack of faith disturbing, Charlie Brown.
We all float down here, Charlie Brown
November 24, 2025 at 2:00 AM
We have such sights to show you, Charlie Brown.
🎶Kneelin'
Lookin' through the paper, though he doesn't know to read, ooh, yeah
Oh, prayin'
Now to something that has never showed him anything
Oh, feelin'
Understands the weather of the winter's on its way
Oh, ceilings
Few and far between all the legal halls of shame, hey🎶
Lookin' through the paper, though he doesn't know to read, ooh, yeah
Oh, prayin'
Now to something that has never showed him anything
Oh, feelin'
Understands the weather of the winter's on its way
Oh, ceilings
Few and far between all the legal halls of shame, hey🎶
November 23, 2025 at 7:58 PM
🎶Kneelin'
Lookin' through the paper, though he doesn't know to read, ooh, yeah
Oh, prayin'
Now to something that has never showed him anything
Oh, feelin'
Understands the weather of the winter's on its way
Oh, ceilings
Few and far between all the legal halls of shame, hey🎶
Lookin' through the paper, though he doesn't know to read, ooh, yeah
Oh, prayin'
Now to something that has never showed him anything
Oh, feelin'
Understands the weather of the winter's on its way
Oh, ceilings
Few and far between all the legal halls of shame, hey🎶
Jesus, Sam. Try to contain your Jim Crow boner (Crowner?).
November 22, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Jesus, Sam. Try to contain your Jim Crow boner (Crowner?).
Do we thing the House would ever pass a resolution declaiming Anarcho-capitalism? What about Christian Nationalism? What about Illiberal Democracy?
November 21, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Do we thing the House would ever pass a resolution declaiming Anarcho-capitalism? What about Christian Nationalism? What about Illiberal Democracy?
I'll believe this when the resolution forces Trump to sell the US's stakes in several companies.
BREAKING: The House of Representatives voted 285–98 in favor of a resolution condemning socialism.
Eighty-six Democrats joined Republicans in supporting the measure, including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.
Eighty-six Democrats joined Republicans in supporting the measure, including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.
November 21, 2025 at 6:47 PM
I'll believe this when the resolution forces Trump to sell the US's stakes in several companies.