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Dave Shramek
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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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Finishing the wood elements of the saber. Next is the shroud. Then I greeble up the emitter and pommel.
A wood and brass lightsaber hilt with a filigreed switch box with a roaring lion head. There are grips on the bottom half with decorative loops A wood and brass lightsaber hilt with a filigreed crest. There are grips on the bottom half with decorative loops
November 25, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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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.
Nine brass circular stampings, each about one inch in diameter with various decorative motifs, a gear, lightning bolts radiating out, a jet intake fan, various floral looks
November 24, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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🎶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🎶
Pope Leo holding a microphone like he's singing into it.
November 23, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Me looking at all the stack of unplayed games I own from Kickstarter or just buying outright.
A scene from Ghostbusters with Harold Ramis and Dan Ackroyd in a library looking at a stack of books between the shelves that goes so high it's off camera.
November 20, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Shroud greeble added and I cut a hole for the switch assembly. But the aluminum heated so hot the veneer popped off. So I need to re-veneer that section and drill and thread the holes that will hold the switch assembly, shroud and blade. Then it'll be time to do the electronics.
A brass and wood-veneered lightsaber in a yellow vice clamp. It has decorative brass grips, a brass pommel, a brass filigree switch with a roaring lion's head and a tall brass emitter. A brass and wood-veneered lightsaber in a yellow vice clamp. It has decorative brass grips and a brass filigree switch with a roaring lion's head. A brass and wood-veneered lightsaber in a yellow vice clamp. It has decorative brass grips and a large, filigreed brass shroud with a lion's head and leaf borders.
November 17, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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Today I'm finally getting back to the saber project. Got the switch assembly finished after several failed attempts at brazing and restoring to the same epoxy I used for the USB port in the lion's mouth. And now I'm working out how to do the shroud. Do I bend it first? Or attach the bits first.
A brass lion head about one inch. Its mouth is open in a roar and a micro USB port is in its mouth. It's on a filigreed brass plate with a brass round switch beneath the head. Three wires come out of the switch. A two by five brass plate with decorative brass filigree on the border and a lion head in the center.
November 16, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Post you favorite Star Trek character. Wrong answers only.
Alan Rickman as the alien advisor Dr Lazarus in Galaxy Quest. He has a purple and gray science fiction jumpsuit zipped up and a large latex alien prosthetic covering his hair.
November 15, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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Part of the problem is that our electeds and voices in the news have shied away from such attacks on the other side. After years of working the refs, we're addicted to sane washing our opponents and defaulting to treating them with more good faith than they have ever deserved. Time to try ridicule.
November 15, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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November 14, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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A scene from Starship Troopers. Neil Patrick Harris in a charcoal military uniform has his hand on the head of a huge, elephant-sized tick-like insect as he reads its mind. The text is "It's afraid"
November 14, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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And now the sword is finally on the wall.
A broadsword in a scabbard hanging on a wall between a light switch and a framed picture.
November 11, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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It's craft day on my day off. I'm finally making a thing to hang up my work sword.
A messy work bench with a black leather strip about one inch wide. It is riveted at both ends with brass rivets and a brass grommet on one end. A leather strap with brass rivets and a brass grommet attached to the connection point on the scabbard of a sword.
November 11, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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November 11, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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A scene from the Jurassic Park movie with Sam Neill and Jeff Goldblum looking at Laura Dern, who smiles to herself as she looks out the window of the self-driving car they're in.
November 6, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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A dialogue from Facebook where someone's reporting an image. It says What's going on? x It's annoying or not interesting ✓ I'm in this photo and I don't like it x I think it shouldn't be on Facebook x It's spam
October 28, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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A man with slicked back longish hair, glasses, a black leather coat and a black shirt with a purple tie. He's saying "I know writers who use subtext and they're all cowards."
October 28, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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Jeezy creezy, Pod Bro! Either this is saying that Barak Obama had severe IBS or this is some dude making excuses for a dude with a literal Nazi tattoo. An SS tattoo no less. How hard is it to say "I don't think the guy's a Nazi and he should get rid of that awful tattoo immediately and publicly"?
John Lovett (of Pod Save America) twitter post saying "Only perfect candidates off the harvard law coveyor belt pls, highly disciplined, all boxes checked, well liked and humble, absolutely no spiritual connection to having a physical body except for severe IBS, volunteered at a soup kitchen in high school, signs email "cheers," etc.
October 22, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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People are literally here in the cope.
A Bluesky post from Lauren Hodges, a purported History excusing Platner's literal Nazi totenkopf tattoo by saying What you are calling the Totenkopf symbol was first a pirate flag used by Richard Worley, predating the Nazis by 200 years fgand pirate symbolism is replete in Western culture. I’m a history major and didn’t see anything Nazi oriented nor did it turn up in an internet search until I specifically An SS officer saying "Pirates are fun!" in the Mitchel and Webb sketch where one SS officer asks if they're the baddies because of the totenkopf iconography everywhere.
October 21, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Richard Worley's flag is... not the same
Richard Worley's skull and crossbones flag. A skull straight on with two large limb bones crossed in an X shape behind it.
October 21, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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"I'm a history major"
A blue sky post by Lauren Hodges that incorrectly equates the SS Panzer Division totenkopf symbol with a general jolly roger skull and crossbones. What you are calling the Totenkopf symbol was first a pirate flag used by Richard Worley, predating the Nazis by 200 years fgand pirate symbolism is replete in Western culture. I’m a history major and didn’t see anything Nazi oriented nor did it turn up in an internet search until I specifically
October 21, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Richard Jordan as Jeffrey Pelt, the National Security Advisor in Hunt For Red October. He's in a classic Washington Office with portraits and paintings of leaders on the wall and a tufted leather office chair. He's in a suit with a dark tie. He stares over his glasses in an incredulous look about to say "You've lost another submarine?"
October 20, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Richard Jordan as the Secretary of State in Hunt For Red October. He stares over his glasses in an incredulous look about to say "You've lost another submarine?"
October 20, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Watched The Monkey last night, but I kept getting distracted by how much Theo James looked like Pete Gallagher.
Peter Gallagher, tall white man, short dark hair, glasses, stares open mouthed at something off camera. Chris Kattan, shorter, sweatier, but also with dark hair and glasses looks at Peter. Theo James, tall, dark hair and glasses stares open mouthed at something off camera
October 17, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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It has worked before.
The cover art for Star Wars The Old Republic styled after famed poster artist Drew Struzman's other Star Wars posters. Jedi, Sith, trooper and a bounty hunter feature in various sizes over a city scene with spaceships flying in the background. The game's rating is pending, but it is marked with a PC logo, as well as the logos for LucasArts, BioWare, and EA.
October 16, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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In Tron, when Kevin Flynn enters the Grid, it looks eerily similar.
A more detailed wireframe tunnel with green and red geometric shapes made of a regular grid floating in the tunnel.
October 14, 2025 at 7:20 PM