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Itzu the Tak

@itzu.bsky.social

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CLAP AND CHEER, SMILE AND SCREAM!

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Former failure analysis engineer, current indie gamedev & creator of FPS puzzle game Escape Velocity: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3210690/Escape_Velocity/

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Itzu the Tak @itzu.bsky.social · Feb 8

Hi! I'm Itzu!

I'm an indie game developer and former mechanical engineer. I also sometimes write stories!

I have three characters but the main one is Itzu. Attached is his ref sheet (My other characters are Sura the secretary-bird-taur and Warranty Void the undead protogen)

A reference sheet for the Tak (scaly alien) Flint "Itzu" the Tak.
He looks like a bipedal dragon-pangolin, with large bronze scales on his back and softer tan scales underneath. his eyes are green with slightly reddish sclera. He has two horns that point backwards from his head like the two prongs on a hammer.

Below the ref is some information on the character:
HEIGHT: 7'4" (2.27m)
SPECIES: TAK
AGE: unknown, around 25-35
OCCUPATION: Belligerent Vagrant
Gender: X

There is also a paragraph of text alongside:
"Itzu is an oddity, even among his fellow Tak. He is paranoid and delusional, destructive and impulsive. He distrusts society as a rule, and believes any form of control, from policing to language, to be the greatest sin. He lives on the streets of the first Tak empire, Ortemat, where he harasses passersby he judges to be deserving of his attention-- generally merchants, oligarchs, priests, or guards. His arguments are firey, passionate, but oftentimes irrational and difficult to follow. Despite appearance and behavior, Itzu is tragically intelligent, but broken by a traumatic past and his undiagnosed severe mental illness. He's also not bad with a spear and quick to escape trouble."

The second picture is an expression sheet for Itzu. Expressions include happy, suspicious, angry, smug, and hungry (where he's eating a burger)

There are two paragraphs of text. The first one is as follows:
"Due to contrivance, Itzu ends up in a wide variety of settings and realities. His incredibly reactive personality means that his behavior changes drastically based on where in the universe he is. In a D&D campaign, for example, he might be an antihero attempting to play both sides in order to slay the god he ostensibly worships. In a capitalist space setting, he might be a space pirate and terrorist. What Itzu desires above all else is control over his own life.

The second paragraph is as follows:
"Diet: Itzu is on a personal mission to taste everything at least once. Not just food. With his metal beak and impossibly robust stomach he's gone through an alarming amount of his list, including many things most species consider toxic or impractical. He enjoys exotic tastes and seeks out new experiences where he can. His favorites, however, tend to return to the basics: Fat, greasy foods or raw meat, although he also enjoys soft metals and earthy, peaty flavors."

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girl who draws 32,768 rf/t @39c3

@nightshade.technology

ordered food here. the server did 7 frame-perfect turnarounds in a row and launched themselves through the door speeding past my table at 700km/h but the plate was perfect. 5 star service, would eat here again

April 28, 2025 at 2:46 PM

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corvid of many numbers tactics

@fuckmelikea.dog

November 28, 2025 at 8:03 AM

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Jay Edidin

@edidin.bsky.social

Today we are reading vintage Richard Scarry

A Richard Scarry drawing of a cat leaning out a smoky window. A caption identifies her as “beautiful screaming lady”

November 23, 2025 at 11:34 PM

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earses

@howlitzer.art

i didn't notice this until I'd already consumed the last of it

earses @howlitzer.art · 14h

nothing bad ever happens to anybody

November 27, 2025 at 8:37 PM

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`”°º× јόέч вόήžό ×º°”˜`

@phoharr.bsky.social

November 27, 2025 at 4:36 AM

Itzu the Tak

@itzu.bsky.social

so is it just me or does hades 2 look more...compressed? i feel like the video files used for UI stuff was sharper in the first one

wouldn't surprise me if it is more compressed, Hades 2 covers like twice the ground of the first, just noticing it

November 27, 2025 at 4:49 PM

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Roasted Garlic & Herb Paoli

@huhhowdoibluethis.bsky.social

Was not expecting this blatant xenophobia on my tv first thing in the morning...

NBC's broadcast of the Macy's parade has superimposed the word "FOREIGNER" over the balloon of Mario.

November 27, 2025 at 1:40 PM

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Dave Capdevielle

@cadaverdave.com

Don't forget that Sam Raimi's Spider-Man is a Thanksgiving film.

November 26, 2025 at 9:05 PM

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Dan Sheehan

@dansheehan.bsky.social

AI kind of feels like the endgame of this bit Graeber described in the original Bullshit Jobs essay: these people have been so thoroughly cleaved from any sense of purpose that they resent those who have one. They hate artists for their skill and think poverty should be the price of having a calling

November 27, 2025 at 4:57 AM

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Ossie

@ossiefisheater.bsky.social

I know exactly who needs to hear this. *releases messenger pigeon with scroll attached to it; it quickly flies upward and east until it's out of sight*

November 27, 2025 at 1:14 AM

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Ammnontet!

@bleakvision.info

i keep laughing bc i imagine someone clicking this video and it's just a no-commentary compilation of john marston murdering people, no mention of gamespy

This video explains the impact of the GameSpy shutdown on multiplayer games:

[thumbnail of a youtube video uploaded by IGN. it shows a cutscene from red dead redemption where john marston is pointing his revolver at somebody out of frame]

November 26, 2025 at 7:59 PM

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▼ Vosyl ▲

@vosyl.bsky.social

If we're talking turkeys, this one is my favourite.

The turkey being taken out of a freezer to defrost meme with a change in text I don't know who needs to hear this even if it was your fault you can't dwell on your past mistakes forever. You have to move on and strive to be the person you want to be, not the person that you used to be.

November 24, 2025 at 3:50 AM

Itzu the Tak

@itzu.bsky.social

took a bite of my breakfast salmon and it was RANCID :( :( :( I was hoping to make that last until the end of the week...

November 26, 2025 at 5:04 PM

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Stella Sacco

@antlervel.vet

ME POSTING: Good pussy sound like the Silent Hill radio
ME AFTER I NOTICE A FAMOUS PERSON JUST FOLLOWED ME: More than ever it is so inportant to be apprised of all that is to be and furthermore to learn of all that could in the best manner we are able as this is the true delight of Life

November 25, 2025 at 9:48 PM

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antlers

@cervine.online

Have a god blessed thankgiving 💖

November 25, 2025 at 10:04 PM

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Aerith Gainzbro

@br3l00m.bsky.social

I got so stoned at a Mets game once I compared the Jumbotron to the top screen of a Nintendo DS bc it had “a bunch of useful contextual information” and the field to the bottom screen bc “it’s where the game is actually played”