Dr. Nic, Namer of the Universe
@quakefultales.bsky.social
Narrative Designer at CCP Games | PhD in Computational Media from UCSC | MFA in Digital Art and New Media | Playwright | Indie Dev of Experimental AI Behavior Tools
https://njunius.github.io/
https://njunius.github.io/
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Hey folks, I'm a narrative designer at CCP Games and have a PhD in Computational Media and an MFA in Digital Arts and New Media from UC Santa Cruz
My indie work includes interactive fiction, visual novels, plays, and tabletop games
A lot of my work deals with gender and queerness!
My indie work includes interactive fiction, visual novels, plays, and tabletop games
A lot of my work deals with gender and queerness!
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my problem with gyoza is that they normally come in an order of about 6, but what I really need is 100 of them
November 24, 2025 at 5:22 PM
my problem with gyoza is that they normally come in an order of about 6, but what I really need is 100 of them
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every day my soul grows closer to that one computer engineer who put a bug into the compiler he wrote because he thought compilers were dumb and useless and took away from the craft
November 24, 2025 at 11:29 PM
every day my soul grows closer to that one computer engineer who put a bug into the compiler he wrote because he thought compilers were dumb and useless and took away from the craft
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maybe i am going insane
November 24, 2025 at 6:49 PM
maybe i am going insane
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We did something different with the credits for Demonschool. We used this format: name, title, lengthy description of what they did. Often you see credits in games where you don't know what the credited developer was actually responsible for. We wanted to give people proper, actual credit.
November 24, 2025 at 10:23 PM
We did something different with the credits for Demonschool. We used this format: name, title, lengthy description of what they did. Often you see credits in games where you don't know what the credited developer was actually responsible for. We wanted to give people proper, actual credit.
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I want to talk about player-front VS GM front mechanics in ttrpgs and why mixing them isn't a great idea via the medium of Sting, the sword from the Hobbit that glows when goblins are near:
November 24, 2025 at 7:31 PM
I want to talk about player-front VS GM front mechanics in ttrpgs and why mixing them isn't a great idea via the medium of Sting, the sword from the Hobbit that glows when goblins are near:
Watching the new Defunctland video and yelling "Star Wars Hotel" at the screen more frequently as time goes on
November 23, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Watching the new Defunctland video and yelling "Star Wars Hotel" at the screen more frequently as time goes on
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Quick break ink. Ive started inking straight off the roughs with my light table and its interesting. A lot looser but in a way i think im okay with
November 21, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Quick break ink. Ive started inking straight off the roughs with my light table and its interesting. A lot looser but in a way i think im okay with
A movie that takes place where you're from
November 23, 2025 at 8:10 PM
A movie that takes place where you're from
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Thread on some of the really effective uses of lighting and stylization in episode 19 of Mobile Suit Gundam (1979).
April 13, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Thread on some of the really effective uses of lighting and stylization in episode 19 of Mobile Suit Gundam (1979).
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when you get up for 2 seconds and the cat steals your chair
November 23, 2025 at 5:15 PM
when you get up for 2 seconds and the cat steals your chair
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We finally went and had lunch in the one French style bakery in Reykjavik and it was so goddamn good
They serve sourdough pasta too
Also they do pretzels and it's probably the best pretzel I've ever eaten
They serve sourdough pasta too
Also they do pretzels and it's probably the best pretzel I've ever eaten
November 23, 2025 at 5:52 PM
We finally went and had lunch in the one French style bakery in Reykjavik and it was so goddamn good
They serve sourdough pasta too
Also they do pretzels and it's probably the best pretzel I've ever eaten
They serve sourdough pasta too
Also they do pretzels and it's probably the best pretzel I've ever eaten
Every time I play FreeSpace 2 I find new ways that Volition showed off how absolutely idiotic the fascists in the game are and how even the less fascist human government is still extremely susceptible to the ideology just with clever use of references
November 23, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Every time I play FreeSpace 2 I find new ways that Volition showed off how absolutely idiotic the fascists in the game are and how even the less fascist human government is still extremely susceptible to the ideology just with clever use of references
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November 23, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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November 18, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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November 21, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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need-a-penny, take-a-penny
November 21, 2025 at 7:16 PM
need-a-penny, take-a-penny
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🌊The Angler's Bride🐟
'I will love. Thrive. And never forgive.'
A preview of my piece for Villainess, an artbook from @novamali.bsky.social & @damesprod.bsky.social with 60+ artists, each illustrating hot evil women! We support women's wrongs~ Less than a week to support it! ⬇️
'I will love. Thrive. And never forgive.'
A preview of my piece for Villainess, an artbook from @novamali.bsky.social & @damesprod.bsky.social with 60+ artists, each illustrating hot evil women! We support women's wrongs~ Less than a week to support it! ⬇️
November 20, 2025 at 8:14 PM
🌊The Angler's Bride🐟
'I will love. Thrive. And never forgive.'
A preview of my piece for Villainess, an artbook from @novamali.bsky.social & @damesprod.bsky.social with 60+ artists, each illustrating hot evil women! We support women's wrongs~ Less than a week to support it! ⬇️
'I will love. Thrive. And never forgive.'
A preview of my piece for Villainess, an artbook from @novamali.bsky.social & @damesprod.bsky.social with 60+ artists, each illustrating hot evil women! We support women's wrongs~ Less than a week to support it! ⬇️
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I grew up in the theater watching plays I was way too young for most of the time and was also playing FreeSpace 2 and Halo so I became obsessed with the way people and characters collaboratively tell stories so I got a PhD about it
Now I make tiny little fae computer gremlins In Space
Now I make tiny little fae computer gremlins In Space
November 23, 2025 at 2:24 PM
I grew up in the theater watching plays I was way too young for most of the time and was also playing FreeSpace 2 and Halo so I became obsessed with the way people and characters collaboratively tell stories so I got a PhD about it
Now I make tiny little fae computer gremlins In Space
Now I make tiny little fae computer gremlins In Space
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I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
AirBnB CEO calling it “vibe revenue” just 👨🍳 😘
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
November 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.