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Dr. Nic, Namer of the Universe
@quakefultales.bsky.social
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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/
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Dr. Nic, Namer of the Universe @quakefultales.bsky.social · 17d
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!
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pecunium.bsky.social
This is why people spent/saved more during Lockdown.

It wasn’t the stimulus checks, it was not being required to spend all that money just to survive.
2. The Cliff at $45,000 (The Healthcare Trap) The family earns a $10,000 raise. Good news? No. At this level, the parents lose Medicaid eligibility. Suddenly, they must pay premiums and deductibles. • Income Gain: +$10,000 • Expense Increase: +$10,567 • Net Result: They are poorer than before. The effective tax on this mobility is over 100%. 3. The Cliff at $65,000 (The Childcare Trap) This is the breaker. The family works harder. They get promoted to $65,000. They are now solidly "Working Class." But at roughly this level, childcare subsidies vanish. They must now pay the full market rate for daycare. • Income Gain: +$20,000 (from $45k) • Expense Increase: +$28,000 (jumping from co-pays to full tuition) • Net Result: Total collapse. When you run the net-income numbers, a family earning $100,000 is effectively in a worse monthly financial position than a family earning $40,000.
November 26, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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saiivia.bsky.social
Beatrix #granbluefantasy #art
November 26, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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alanbaxter.bsky.social
It really is that fucking simple, friends.
Frames from Star Trek: DS9. The Klingon, Kor, meets Jadzia, who is the new host of the symbiont, Dax. Kor grabs Jadzia in a hug and says, "Curzon, my beloved old friend!" (Curzon being the previous Dax host.) Jadzia replies, "I'm Jadzia now." Kor simply says, "Jadzia, my beloved old friend." Then there's a Klingon flag in trans flag colours that says, If Klingons can get it, so can you.
November 25, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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ykkpanels.bsky.social
Story 59
November 25, 2025 at 6:00 AM
quakefultales.bsky.social
Every single OP and ED from Legend of the Galactic Heroes absolutely destroys me every time
anisongs.bsky.social 🎵 Animusic 🎵 @anisongs.bsky.social · 22h
OP4 - Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu/Legend of the Galactic Heroes (1988)

Must Be Something - Hitomi Konno

#Anime #Animesky #RetroAnime #Opening #AnimeOpening #GingaEiyuuDensetsu #LegendOfTheGalacticHeroes #KFactory #KittyFilms
November 25, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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fayeokay.bsky.social
happy ten year anniversary to my favourite fighting game post of all time
November 25, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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psudonym.bsky.social
If you see this, post a monster 🪷
A woman's face floats above the surface of a dark pool of water with lotus flowers beside it, under the surface she extends into roots and skulls trapped in it
November 25, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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anisongs.bsky.social
OP4 - Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu/Legend of the Galactic Heroes (1988)

Must Be Something - Hitomi Konno

#Anime #Animesky #RetroAnime #Opening #AnimeOpening #GingaEiyuuDensetsu #LegendOfTheGalacticHeroes #KFactory #KittyFilms
November 25, 2025 at 9:29 PM
quakefultales.bsky.social
Hello bluesky hivemind, does anyone happen to have a diagram of Crimson Skies' gamepad joystick dead zones? I remember them doing something clever to avoid unintended pitch and yaw at the same time but google is failing me
November 25, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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kchironis.bsky.social
😈 Maleficent, the evil queen, had her goblins searching for Sleeping Beauty for 16 years.

🛑 BUT…. they were looking for a baby the whole time. Acceptance criteria fail!

🧠 This is why it’s so important for villains to leverage AGILE practices. Don’t let this become your team. My new ecourse will
November 25, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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olafurw.com
meme, man happy: "thinking about learning icelandic", man sad/shocked: "actually learning icelandic"
November 25, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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anireal.bsky.social
🌱Poison Ivy Cover Issue 41🌱

Biding her time~

🎉We're approaching year 4 of Pamela's story! Just blown away~ I'm beyond grateful to the team, peers, & all the readers supporting this & our personal projects ❤️
Character Poison Ivy leaning against prison bars with light shining through a window behind her.
November 24, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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aidenr0.bsky.social
reading together
an illustration by Spindle of the characters Felt (a pink-haired bunnygirl) and Therese (blue-haired elf). Felt is seated on top and behind Therese while hugging her (and her fingers dipping under Therese's bra purely out of "it feels warm"), and Therese is on the bottom and between Felt's legs, looking upwards and smiling while holding a book.
November 25, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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realqrampage.fightins.online
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
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illustration of a catacomb saint standing on a pile of skulls __ #kimgakaku
November 24, 2025 at 7:16 PM
quakefultales.bsky.social
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
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daisyowl.com
maybe i am going insane
November 24, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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brandon.insertcredit.com
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.
Credits for Brent Porter (3D art lead) and Catherine Menabde (2D art lead) are shown here. There's a lengthy description of what they did, with a pastiche of various Demonschool characters underneath, messing around with a computer.
November 24, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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freyjavalentine.bsky.social
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
quakefultales.bsky.social
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
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iceghost.bsky.social
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
Ink if a girl with a big sword looking at a gross piece of a monster on her shoe
November 21, 2025 at 11:53 PM
quakefultales.bsky.social
A movie that takes place where you're from
November 23, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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sundownmcmoon.bsky.social
Thread on some of the really effective uses of lighting and stylization in episode 19 of Mobile Suit Gundam (1979).
Ramba Ral's Gouf rendered in all white, save for its beam saber. Close-up of Rambal Ral, face lit in stark white with high contrast dark shadows. Close-up of Amuro, rendered in expressive blues as a stylistic choice.
April 13, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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amagire.bsky.social
when you get up for 2 seconds and the cat steals your chair
bogue the borzoi curled up in my leather armchair like a large forlorn croissant
November 23, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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roguebananas1.bsky.social
Knight
November 23, 2025 at 5:04 PM