Dave Shramek
@dshramek.bsky.social
Game designer and writer. Currently Broadsword and Star Wars: The Old Republic. Distressingly typical geek interests. He/him.
They're right hand drive!
February 13, 2026 at 12:11 AM
They're right hand drive!
Return to office is just a way to make people quit. It's a layoff that doesn't involve unemployment benefits. There is no reason to work in an office in games dev. We've proven they can be developed exactly the same from home.
Over 1,000 Ubisoft workers around the world have walked off the job.
In response to a return-to-office mandate, layoffs, and the cancellation of several games, workers launched a three-day strike.
The workers walked out in response to five French unions issuing the strike call.
In response to a return-to-office mandate, layoffs, and the cancellation of several games, workers launched a three-day strike.
The workers walked out in response to five French unions issuing the strike call.
Ubisoft workers are on strike: 'We are treated like children'
The strike comes after the publisher revealed plans to cut up to 200 jobs and ordered remote workers back into the office
www.polygon.com
February 12, 2026 at 10:59 PM
Return to office is just a way to make people quit. It's a layoff that doesn't involve unemployment benefits. There is no reason to work in an office in games dev. We've proven they can be developed exactly the same from home.
My rule on sunny side up vs. scrambled is whether the bread product I'm getting will be good for dipping into yolks. English muffin? Tops. Bagel? Better with schmear. Some kind of sweet bread like a cinnamon roll or raisin bread? Scrambled it is.
February 11, 2026 at 6:35 PM
My rule on sunny side up vs. scrambled is whether the bread product I'm getting will be good for dipping into yolks. English muffin? Tops. Bagel? Better with schmear. Some kind of sweet bread like a cinnamon roll or raisin bread? Scrambled it is.
"My phylactery was a sausage and then the dog got it."
February 10, 2026 at 10:30 PM
"My phylactery was a sausage and then the dog got it."
Age verification? I still call them "portal fantasies" not "isekai"
Age verification? My first anime was "Space Cruiser Yamato"
Age verification? On my middle school basketball team we all chewed lemon-lime Gatorgum.
February 10, 2026 at 4:18 PM
Age verification? I still call them "portal fantasies" not "isekai"
Honestly, I think people's biggest beef with Democratic leadership boils down to the fact that their calm tone and measured words sound too much like business as usual. If the party leadership had a little more of that hair on fire alarmism and rage, people would feel seen.
February 10, 2026 at 4:07 PM
Honestly, I think people's biggest beef with Democratic leadership boils down to the fact that their calm tone and measured words sound too much like business as usual. If the party leadership had a little more of that hair on fire alarmism and rage, people would feel seen.
A K-hole so deep he's going to need his engineers to build a device to get him out.
February 10, 2026 at 12:38 AM
A K-hole so deep he's going to need his engineers to build a device to get him out.
It's new TMBG music day! And trust me, this song is nothing to fuck with.
Hear the brand new track from our upcoming album The World is To Dig. The song is Wu-Tang. Arrives in April.... and get your own free download of it right now at TMBGshop. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Io63...
Preview TMBG's new album The World Is to Dig: Wu-Tang
YouTube video by ParticleMen
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February 9, 2026 at 9:49 PM
It's new TMBG music day! And trust me, this song is nothing to fuck with.
Reposted by Dave Shramek
"Watch out for snakes"
"Nipple, nipple. Tweak, tweak... and fly!"
"Nipple, nipple. Tweak, tweak... and fly!"
Does anyone else have an MST3K line they use regularly, even if it makes no sense out of context?
Because I have both "That'll keep your panfish down for a while." and "Come come, boys, we must confound Jerry at every turn!" from MST3K the movie alone.
Because I have both "That'll keep your panfish down for a while." and "Come come, boys, we must confound Jerry at every turn!" from MST3K the movie alone.
February 9, 2026 at 9:15 PM
"Watch out for snakes"
"Nipple, nipple. Tweak, tweak... and fly!"
"Nipple, nipple. Tweak, tweak... and fly!"
Weird that they're not mad about the new The Burbs, which is fully gender swapped and racially diverse.
February 9, 2026 at 5:42 AM
Weird that they're not mad about the new The Burbs, which is fully gender swapped and racially diverse.
Reposted by Dave Shramek
Reposted by Dave Shramek
I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them
February 9, 2026 at 2:11 AM
I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them
I cannot believe they turned The 'Burbs into a TV show. And where are the antiwokes to come out and be mad that the main characters are gender-swapped like the Ghostbusters?
February 9, 2026 at 2:26 AM
I cannot believe they turned The 'Burbs into a TV show. And where are the antiwokes to come out and be mad that the main characters are gender-swapped like the Ghostbusters?
First downs in this game are giving me the thrill of touchdowns in actually exciting games.
February 9, 2026 at 2:19 AM
First downs in this game are giving me the thrill of touchdowns in actually exciting games.
If only there was an allegory for how we shouldn't abuse technology to make things ill-advisedly, like bringing back things from the past, but not quite correctly.
Yeah I’m afraid I’m gonna have to veto that Xfinity Jurassic Park ad.
February 9, 2026 at 2:17 AM
If only there was an allegory for how we shouldn't abuse technology to make things ill-advisedly, like bringing back things from the past, but not quite correctly.
I thought it was meant to be young Benito watching TV and dreaming of being a star like he was watching and the Bad Bunny shows up with his Grammy and says "Keep dreaming, kid. We make it!"
February 9, 2026 at 2:10 AM
I thought it was meant to be young Benito watching TV and dreaming of being a star like he was watching and the Bad Bunny shows up with his Grammy and says "Keep dreaming, kid. We make it!"
Look there's only so many times you can hit a corpse with the paddles. It's not like they have Ed Harris yelling that they've never given up on anything in their lives.
February 9, 2026 at 1:59 AM
Look there's only so many times you can hit a corpse with the paddles. It's not like they have Ed Harris yelling that they've never given up on anything in their lives.
I thought it was him symbolically giving the Grammy to his younger self watching stars of the past in the television and dreaming to one day so that
February 9, 2026 at 1:57 AM
I thought it was him symbolically giving the Grammy to his younger self watching stars of the past in the television and dreaming to one day so that