Steph (Paddock || Shaver)
@sdshaver.com
Personal account chockablock full of dumb takes. Mamawizard, urgency wrangler + horrible goose. Jira/Yargle/HA enthusiast. Former: Blizzard, Simutronics. Write as Shaver // Work as Paddock on @mtgarena.com (she/her/Braids)
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Steph (Paddock || Shaver)
@sdshaver.com
· Oct 18
Hey new people. I’m Steph. I’ve been a game dev for 30 years. I sold my first short story when I was 13. You probably haven’t heard of me.
I sometimes post photos of cats and food and kids. I also love weird disasters and…MURDER.
I sometimes post photos of cats and food and kids. I also love weird disasters and…MURDER.
lol 50 years of preventing infant death and one asshole and his band of merry dipshits is trying to undo it all
Kennedy says adding folic acid to tortillas is “waging war” against poor residents. Folic acid has long been added to cereal and bread and the CDC website currently says it’s safe for those with the mutation mentioned in the thread Kennedy is replying to.
December 27, 2025 at 8:30 PM
lol 50 years of preventing infant death and one asshole and his band of merry dipshits is trying to undo it all
My first house. Built in the 30s. Solid brick and could survive a bomb blast but no room in the kitchen for a dishwasher. Became my first lesson in creating a “non-negotiable” list when house buying.
Also a house my family rented in the 80s. One bathroom. No dishwasher. 4-5 of us crammed in there.
Also a house my family rented in the 80s. One bathroom. No dishwasher. 4-5 of us crammed in there.
imagining living with anyone or in any place *without a dishwasher* is what gives me the ick
OK team, there is a debate in the girls chat, and I have absolutely no idea which side to join in with, if any
If you, a girl, go home with a guy, and he has dishes in his sink or dish drying rack, does that give you the ick
If you, a girl, go home with a guy, and he has dishes in his sink or dish drying rack, does that give you the ick
December 27, 2025 at 8:21 PM
My first house. Built in the 30s. Solid brick and could survive a bomb blast but no room in the kitchen for a dishwasher. Became my first lesson in creating a “non-negotiable” list when house buying.
Also a house my family rented in the 80s. One bathroom. No dishwasher. 4-5 of us crammed in there.
Also a house my family rented in the 80s. One bathroom. No dishwasher. 4-5 of us crammed in there.
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"Did you see what Mark Cuban posted? Oh did you see the clapb—"
You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.
You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.
December 27, 2025 at 2:06 AM
"Did you see what Mark Cuban posted? Oh did you see the clapb—"
You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.
You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.
This, but with the “tell your dog I said hi” quote.
December 27, 2025 at 3:47 AM
This, but with the “tell your dog I said hi” quote.
Hey so for my kids at least, the Nex Playground has turned out to be a big hit. Living in a state that’s 99% rainfall, I’m very excited to have a game toy that gets them tired out during these wet months.
I’ll let you know if they’re still into it in 6 months.
I’ll let you know if they’re still into it in 6 months.
December 26, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Hey so for my kids at least, the Nex Playground has turned out to be a big hit. Living in a state that’s 99% rainfall, I’m very excited to have a game toy that gets them tired out during these wet months.
I’ll let you know if they’re still into it in 6 months.
I’ll let you know if they’re still into it in 6 months.
If you wander into /r/fantasy and ask for a book rec, 9 times out of 10 the answer is:
- Sanderson
- Jordan
- Martin
- Rothfuss
- Abercrombie
- Erikson
- Tolkien
- Sanderson
- Jordan
- Martin
- Rothfuss
- Abercrombie
- Erikson
- Tolkien
This shit is made up, actually
December 26, 2025 at 7:01 PM
If you wander into /r/fantasy and ask for a book rec, 9 times out of 10 the answer is:
- Sanderson
- Jordan
- Martin
- Rothfuss
- Abercrombie
- Erikson
- Tolkien
- Sanderson
- Jordan
- Martin
- Rothfuss
- Abercrombie
- Erikson
- Tolkien
Nature out here making the Yuletide gay. 😌
December 25, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Nature out here making the Yuletide gay. 😌
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Look, I'm sure that Nolan's adaptation of "The Odyssey" will be fun, but I highly doubt it will be as good as the original.
December 25, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Look, I'm sure that Nolan's adaptation of "The Odyssey" will be fun, but I highly doubt it will be as good as the original.
Sitting amidst the wreckage. This year was particularly good for kids due to some well timed windfalls.
The difference between Christmas today and Christmas 10 years ago is that the kids now bring me coffee before I come downstairs. 😌
The difference between Christmas today and Christmas 10 years ago is that the kids now bring me coffee before I come downstairs. 😌
December 25, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Sitting amidst the wreckage. This year was particularly good for kids due to some well timed windfalls.
The difference between Christmas today and Christmas 10 years ago is that the kids now bring me coffee before I come downstairs. 😌
The difference between Christmas today and Christmas 10 years ago is that the kids now bring me coffee before I come downstairs. 😌
Someone give the Fallout series marketing team a raise.
December 25, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Someone give the Fallout series marketing team a raise.
Finishing up Severance S1 and this is quite possibly the most intense waffle party I’ve ever seen.
December 25, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Finishing up Severance S1 and this is quite possibly the most intense waffle party I’ve ever seen.
I appear to have knit a very long rainbow scarf.
December 24, 2025 at 9:53 PM
I appear to have knit a very long rainbow scarf.
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teenage lesbian necromancers in space be like
December 24, 2025 at 3:32 PM
teenage lesbian necromancers in space be like
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And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, was present at the end of the universe, having witnessed every black hole evaporate and every proton decay. Even so, Death would not come.
December 24, 2025 at 1:32 AM
And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, was present at the end of the universe, having witnessed every black hole evaporate and every proton decay. Even so, Death would not come.
Sometimes amazed at the garbage people will code and allow to post on Al Gore’s Internet.
December 24, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Sometimes amazed at the garbage people will code and allow to post on Al Gore’s Internet.
A much younger Steph went to an E3 after-party in the mid-2000s with some White Wolf and CCP Games people at a really nice home in the Hollywood hills. When I (very intoxicated) asked whose home it was, my WW friend said, “He’s the CEO of Infinity Ward.”
December 23, 2025 at 11:03 PM
A much younger Steph went to an E3 after-party in the mid-2000s with some White Wolf and CCP Games people at a really nice home in the Hollywood hills. When I (very intoxicated) asked whose home it was, my WW friend said, “He’s the CEO of Infinity Ward.”
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The confusion and conflation of ‘generative ai that is built on stolen artwork’ and ‘machine learning, character behaviour modelling and proc gen’ is intentional on the part of the grifters peddling the former. They benefit from murkiness of classification, because the latter predates their bollocks
December 23, 2025 at 6:08 PM
The confusion and conflation of ‘generative ai that is built on stolen artwork’ and ‘machine learning, character behaviour modelling and proc gen’ is intentional on the part of the grifters peddling the former. They benefit from murkiness of classification, because the latter predates their bollocks
Lived here over a year and finally took a longer than 10 minute walk around the surrounding environs.
December 23, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Lived here over a year and finally took a longer than 10 minute walk around the surrounding environs.
Normally at this time of year it’s colder. Like at least ~10-15 degrees colder. But due to (gestures frantically at the sky) it HASN’T been and thus all my garlic and bulbs are sprouting way, way too early.
December 23, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Normally at this time of year it’s colder. Like at least ~10-15 degrees colder. But due to (gestures frantically at the sky) it HASN’T been and thus all my garlic and bulbs are sprouting way, way too early.
NICE TRY, WIKIFEET.
December 23, 2025 at 5:07 PM
NICE TRY, WIKIFEET.
Sat on my couch and read this and cried a lot.
Melissa Hortman Died in a Shocking Act of Political Violence. This Is the Story of Her Life
Melissa Hortman died in a shocking act of political violence. This is her story
www.rollingstone.com
December 23, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Sat on my couch and read this and cried a lot.
“But I didn’t have the salmon mousse!”
December 22, 2025 at 7:48 PM
“But I didn’t have the salmon mousse!”
DEATH BY LIGHTNING is really damn good, in spite of being riddled with inaccuracies and anachronisms, and a strangely prophetic First Lady.
But the cowards made NO MENTION OF THE PRESIDENTIAL BOOFING which is probably fine for most of you.
But the cowards made NO MENTION OF THE PRESIDENTIAL BOOFING which is probably fine for most of you.
Episode 126 - The Horrible Death of President James Garfield
Podcast Episode · Lions Led By Donkeys Podcast · 10/19/2020 · 1h 32m
podcasts.apple.com
December 22, 2025 at 10:15 AM
DEATH BY LIGHTNING is really damn good, in spite of being riddled with inaccuracies and anachronisms, and a strangely prophetic First Lady.
But the cowards made NO MENTION OF THE PRESIDENTIAL BOOFING which is probably fine for most of you.
But the cowards made NO MENTION OF THE PRESIDENTIAL BOOFING which is probably fine for most of you.