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Kris DeMeza
@caydiem.bsky.social
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Game designer with a penchant for the absurd. Currently Lead Content Designer on ~something.~ Cold Iron, Carbine, Trion, Blizzard previously. They/them.
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Stay safe out there this Halloween, all you lost shades.
A person dressed as Charon from Hades 2: a tattered black robe; leather bracers around their wrists; a fabricated, exaggerated silver gorget around their neck; and a silver rope draped over their shoulders with silver moon medallions hanging on it. The face is a dark painted skull with purple LEDs for eyes. A wavy grey wig extends down past the shoulders. There is a wide-brimmed black hat with silver medallions for a hat band.
October 31, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Okay. Baldur's Gate 3's photo mode slaps.
A screenshot of Baldur's Gate 3 with a blood-covered, white-bearded, bard duergar front and center squatting and doing jazz hands. Behind and to the left stands Astarion the elven vampire rogue coquettishly looking at the camera from over his shoulder. Minthara the drow paladin stands behind in the center, one fist up, staring off into the middle distance. To the right, Shadowheart the half-elf cleric, her face corrupted with black veins around her eyes, strikes a dramatic pose with one hand in the air and another out to the side. They stand in the Temple of Bhaal, flanked by braziers.
April 16, 2025 at 5:32 AM
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Am I done baking? No! My Swedish coffee bread dough is still rising. But I'm doing an okay spread regardless:
A pic of baked goods on a red plate in front of a li'l fiber-optic Christmas tree. Included is a round of pull-apart milk bread, gingerbread cookies styled like the Adventure Zone characters as well as a gingerbread cat butt, double chocolate crinkle cookies, and peppermint bark.
December 25, 2024 at 12:11 AM
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Got a breezy new haircut just in time for summ-- what do you mean it's the end of November
A picture of the goober who owns this account, with their dark, greying hair shorn into a bixie-style haircut. Their transitioned eyeglasses are pulled down to rest near the tip of the nose, revealing smiling eyes oblivious to the fall foliage behind them.
November 24, 2024 at 12:42 AM
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Me in my echo chamber
A screengrab from Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog depicting the Evil League of Evil. From L to R: Snake Bite, Dead Bowie, Professor Normal, Bad Horse, Fury Leika, and Fake Thomas Jefferson sit at a board room meeting, looking toward the camera.
November 18, 2024 at 11:39 PM
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And my response, tired but trying to inject a little levity (while also maintaining Public Relations Voice):
A forum post that reads: "Mashara, I meant to reply sooner, but I've just been busy. You said you're running Molten Core, how is it farming Luci? Look, I'm really sorry your armor lost its power. I hope that this post makes it up to you; I'm writing at a later hour. I'm sorry I didn't see your urgent thread, I must have missed you. Don't think I did that act intentionally, just to "diss" you. And what's this bit you said about installing a new MMO? I hope you're simply joking friend, I don't want you to go. You have some issues, Mash, so please, give me your feedback To help the devs to separate the fiction from the straight facts. And what's this bit about us meant to be together? That sort of post'll make me skip your thread for another. I really think you should post a bit more civilly. Or maybe you should play a Rogue instead. I hope you get to read this thread. I just hope you can see it in time. Before you cancel with us, I think that you'll be doing just fine If you'd relax a little. I'm glad that I inspired you, but Mash Why are you so mad? Try to understand that I do want you as a fan. I just don't want you to do some crazy stunt. I saw this one thread on the forum a couple weeks ago that made me sad. Some Mage was mad and ninja'd this great epic knife And laughed at all the Rogues, trained them, and ran for her life And the GMs sent a tell but the person had already cancelled their account too Come to think about it... her name was... it was you."
November 18, 2024 at 12:03 AM
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For @adanine.bsky.social - in Ancient Times, a player named Mashara posted a parody of Eminem's "Stan" to the WoW forums and I responded as a blue poster. It has long since been lost to Blizz's several forum revamps, but guild forums live on, so here you go. Mashara's original post:
A forum post that reads: "Dear Mrs-I'm-Too-Good-To-Write-Or-Respond-To-My-Blizzard-Fans, this'll be the last Post I ever write to your Tauren ass It's been 2 minutes and still no response - I don't deserve it? I know you saw my last thread; I wrote the word "BLUE" in the title perfect So this is my last post I'm sending you, I hope you click on it I'm living with my mom right now, I turn 42 next Sunday Hey Caydiem, I drank a fifth of vodka, you dare me to install EQ2? You know that movie by the guild PALS FOR LIFE, "Leeroy Jenkins" about that guy who coulda saved his party from dying but didn't, then when the chums "stuck to the plan" they still wiped? That's kinda how this is, you coulda rescued me from wiping Now it's too late - I'm on a 1000 hour MC run without my item and all I wanted was a blue response or an Unyielding maul I hope you know I ripped ALL of my blizzard posters off the wall I love you Caydiem, we coulda been together, think about it You ruined it now, I hope you can't sleep and you dream about it And when you dream I hope you can't sleep and you SCREAM about it I hope your Blizzard co-workers are in anguish and you can't BREATHE without me See Caydiem; *screaming* Shut up Mom! I'm trying to type! Hey Caydiem, that's my mom knocking on my door but I didn't talk back to her, I listened, see I ain't like you cause if she goes away I won't have to get a job and I can play too Well, gotta go, Wow's almost done uninstalling now Oh @#$%, I forgot, how am I supposed to to get my Obsidian Edged Blade back?"
November 18, 2024 at 12:02 AM
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I appreciate that Qunari seem hard to nail down in #DragonAge and they're redesigned every game, but my boy Adaar stopped going to the gym so hard his horns shrunk.
A screenshot from Dragon Age: Inquisition of a hench Qunari gent in a red uniform with a Tom Selleck-esque moustache, out of control stubble, and hefty curling ram-like horns. A screenshot of Dragon Age: The Veilguard depicting, supposedly, the same Qunari gent as the previous picture, with a too-clean muttonchop-moustache combo, smaller ram's horns, and half a fridge's worth of shoulder width missing. Also a regrettable mullet.
November 12, 2024 at 4:13 AM
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I grew up on these streets.
A screenshot of the EGA Quest For Glory I. The blonde, be-caped hero stands in front of the brightly-colored sheriff's office of Spielburg, with an inn to the left and a barber to the right as the paved streets continue on past the edges of the screen. The sheriff sits in front of the office smoking a pipe, while a tall, ogre-like gent in lederhosen plays with a yoyo by the office door.
November 5, 2024 at 7:56 PM
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I do not have a pet personally, so please accept this picture of Pippin, my parents' friendly Maltese with zero boundaries.
The head of a Maltese, looking back at the holder of the camera with big, wet, insistent eyes as a hand tries to please the lap-dwelling monster near the bottom of the frame.
November 5, 2024 at 5:31 PM
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About 5 hours into DA: Veilguard. Beautiful game, and the combat feels decent. The ramp to choice is slow (I just hit one now) and I imagine the very linear nature of those 5 hours might make some folk bounce off - but I'm enjoying it despite the rails.

My Rook is a reckless, quippy fella.
A screenshot from Dragon Age: The Veilguard. A brown-skinned dwarven man with short, pulled-back black hair, well-groomed, angular beard and curled up moustache stands, arms akimbo, with a slight smile. He wears faded purple pants with gold accents and a scant leather vest, patterned in a dragon scale motif, revealing his washboard abs.
November 1, 2024 at 3:37 PM
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I was only able to get through character creation at lunch (what took longer, making my pretty dwarf gent or building shaders? Who can say) but when I get time, my Rook's gonna make himself everyone's problem. #DragonAgeVeilguard
A screenshot from Dragon Age: The Veilguard. The bust of a man is depicted with light brown skin and short, brushed-back black hair. His moustache curls up slightly at the ends, and his beard is trimmed to a fine point on his chin. Light scars crisscross his face. Only a dark cloak on his shoulders and a faded maroon bandana can be seen of his clothes. He frowns with his brows drawn down: an expression of determination.
October 31, 2024 at 9:24 PM
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Happy Halloween, nerds. Now if you'll excuse me, kid's gotta go rage a while.
It me sitting in a white-walled office, in a foam chestplate/pauldron, red scarf, and anime-esque short white wig in costume as The Kid from Bastion. Headphones are on and I'm flashing the peace sign with my left hand, which sports a brown glove.
October 31, 2024 at 8:30 PM
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Also, just know, Dan - I am a data hoarder, and I have RECEIPTS.
screenshot of an IRC log with the following text: <coil> what's another name for pirate treasure? <coil> hmmm, I think it's booty! <Cyst> booty! <Cyst> Booty booty booty
October 24, 2024 at 9:45 PM
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I hadn't been back to Starfield since they'd done the QoL patch, so I had not realized the new breadth of expressions available to me now in photo mode. I do not know if this is an improvement.
A Starfield screenshot featuring an androgynous individual, arms spread wide. Their eyes regard you coolly while their lips are pursed in a ridiculous teeth-out duckface position.
October 2, 2024 at 5:31 AM
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So HeroForge just updated their Pro service to allow for straight up kitbashing of up to 20 bits put wherever you please, including better custom pose tools than ever before, and it is simply too much fun to play with.
A 3D render of a liontaur (lion lower half, furred man torso, lion head) rears up on its hind legs, brandishing a sword wreathed in blue flame.
September 12, 2024 at 6:47 AM