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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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I have been told I am some combination of these two
Amity Blight with her lavender hair looking all gay and embarrassed about something Lilith Clawthorne now that she has a job as a historian wearing her queer aunt academic outfit of round glasses, waistcoat, and long skirt
November 9, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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I'm just saying
two girls holding a third and looking at her lovingly. The girl in the middle is labeled "warthog driver", the girl on the right is labeled "warthog gunner", the third is labeled "warthog passenger with a rocket launcher". It's very gay
October 27, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Fire emblem three houses box art. Dimitri is in blue on the left. Claude is in gold in the middle. Edelgard is in red on the right. There are tiny versions of both fem Byleth (the boss) and male Byleth (who for some reason exists) in the middle Kentucky Route Zero. A dog is wearing a straw hat. This one's easy ain't it? it's the whole cast of Fatal Twelve but the important ones are front and center: Rinka with her blonde highlight in her black hair and inability to wear a jacket, Miharu with her long blonde hair and blue ribbon around her neck, and Naomi with her pink hair and very green eyes It's the Umineko box art but it's not the original sprites and there's too many characters, but rest assured it's the majority of the cast
October 20, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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A deimos class corvette (gray space brick) getting absolutely shredded by a moloch class corvette (black spiky boy). the title reads "Freespace 2" the title says "dark souls: prepare to die edition". Artorias is in a void, he has a tattered blue cloak and his armor is falling apart but there are still a few shiny parts to it Caves of Qud title: 1000xResist. A close bust portrait of three characters: on the right is principal with her massive red respirator. in the middle is watcher with her blue bob cut. on the left is iris with her golden eyes and black bob cut
October 20, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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sometimes Eve Online is good
the Show Info page of a Fenrir ship in Eve Online named HMS Brick. the Fenrir is a giant freighter that looks like a massive, stone colored, slightly angular brick with some giant engines inside of it
October 19, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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women don't like the vehicle
the USG ishimura from dead space in front of a planet it has cracked. it looks like a cross between an oil derrick, a boat, and multiple rib cages stuck together
October 16, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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A horse is standing in the water. there is A Lot of JPEG compression especially around the text which reads "I just need to lock in"
October 15, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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a white crab like creature deep underwater only lit by a flashlight. the caption reads "this creature has adapted to the crushing pressure and oppressive darkness".
October 13, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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I genuinely love that the plot of Gears of War 5 is just this but for fascism and doomsday weapons, genuinely incredible work on the narrative team's part
The arrested development seen where Lindsay and Tobias are working through their relationship problems. The caption reads "Well did it work for those people? No, it never does, I mean those people somehow deluded themselves into thinking it might, but... but it might work for us."
September 12, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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This is the platonic ideal of sniffing
July 18, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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It was prophesized
Tweet from @jetgreguar Obama: *punches me* what is my fursona Me: fuck you asshole Obama: *throws a chair at the wall: how do I get a fursona Me: go to hell
July 16, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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There was a brief period of time where Wikipedia would not load its default font settings and it would use my browser default (Fira Sans), and I kinda miss that
The Wood stork page on wikipedia. It is using Fira Sans font instead of the default sans-serif font in the body. The text reads: The wood stork (Mycteria americana) is a large wading bird in the family Ciconiidae (storks). Originally described in 1758 by Carl Linnaeus, this stork is native to the subtropics and tropics of the Americas where it persists in habitats with fluctuating water levels. It is the only stork species that breeds in North America. The head and neck are bare of feathers, and dark grey in colour.[2] The plumage is mostly white, with the exception of the tail and some of the wing feathers, which are black with a greenish-purplish sheen. Globally, the wood stork is considered to be of least concern by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. In the United States, the wood stork was previously classified as Endangered due to loss of suitable feeding habitat in the Florida Everglades, its historical population stronghold in the country.[3] The species has been subsequently downlisted to Threatened after northward range expansion and increased population size.
July 13, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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It's #portfolioday! I'm currently a narrative designer at CCP Games and I also work on indie narrative projects like my extremely queer military sci-fi hypertext and my theatrical post apocalyptic road trip visual novel

all of this is available on my itch page!

quakefultales.itch.io
That was a good one, how do you think it's going up there? Gamma puts the reader he was holding onto his exposed chest. We'd probably know if it was getting bad, besides, all the sounds are the same as they've been for the last day. I pull myself into a sitting position. Bets on when our new admiral is going to come see us? Delta's feet patter against their armor. The hand does more for my pain than morphine ever could. 'Hey.' I still can't manage to stand up. 'What should I be calling you today?' 'I think I've settled on something after last time.' The hand gently rubs my back. 'You want to guess? It's an easy one.' Light erupts from both sides of my helmet on command. It doesn't reach as far as it should but it's better than the alternative. Turning around to face the door again, I'm at best a couple meters into the hallway. 'Well, is anyone else coming?' A girl with pink hair, a dark olive coat, and light blue thermal layer leans back in her chair with her black and pink boots up on the dashboard. She is smiling. Across from her a girl with black hair done up in a bun is turned away from her looking angry. The caption reads "Rika (in pink matching the first girl's hair): You okay over-
July 9, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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sometimes you start a story with a sex scene that has a bunch of depressing things in it and sometimes your wife writes a short story that is mostly sex scenes and you go:
Jane Lynch is staring at the camera with her pink track suit top and a look of abject contempt and disgust. The caption reads "I am going to create an follow up so depressing"
June 25, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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My votes for the 10 best games of the 21st century so far

www.giantbomb.com/hey/the-10-b...
list of the following games: - Halo: Combat Evolved - Dead Space - Nier Replicant - Dark Souls - Chromehounds - Fire Emblem: Three Houses - Umineko When They Cry - Caves of Qud - 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim - 1000xResist
June 25, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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There's a few I could swap out but this is about where I'm at

Also 2006 was a hell of a year
The NYT reader's choice ballot for the best 100 movies of the 21st century My 10 choices are: Mad Max Fury Road Devil Wears Prada One Cut of the Dead Children of Men Mulholland Drive Spirited Away Hot Fuzz Pan's Labyrinth Get Out
June 24, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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I apparently just don't watch anything from 2010

There's also a bunch of stuff on here I've been meaning to get to and I'm not counting stuff I've dropped (which would probably include at least a half dozen more shows)
June 19, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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I have assembled some fellas
An unpainted unit of T'au pathfinders walking towards the camera without their drones. They have two snipers with rail guns, one grenade launcher, and a bunch of carbines with a ton of other equipment. Their polycule second in command is in the back with the bond knife symbolizing their commitment to the polycule
June 18, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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This Can Save The Gaming Industry
Dale "Coop" Cooper looking dashing with his tape recorder and perfect hair staring off into the distance
May 29, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Take the fictional characters quiz and post the first four you know: openpsychometrics.org/tests/charac...

yeah this is spot on being a trans fem NB with a weird PhD
Elisa from the shape of water making an okay sign to the camera Willow from Buffy the Vampire Slayer looking inquisitive Marianne from A Portrait of a Lady on Fire looking intense Daniel Jackson from Stargate SG-1 looking way more put together than his usual disaster self
May 18, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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Post a sequel that really hits!
It's the cover of FreeSpace 2. The mini terran space brick, the Deimos corvette, is getting its shit absolutely wrecked by a spiky boy in the distance, the Shivan Moloch corvette, firing a red beam of death through its midsection
May 11, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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This post lives in my head rent free
Freya Holmér posting ??? over a picture of Thor the cat with evenly distributed legs, extending his neck kind of like a giraffe Freyja Valentine replies: How is this cat Thor when he is clearly the midgard serpent in disguise
April 22, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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Two stick figures talking One says "silicate chemistry is second nature to us geochemists so it's easy to forget that the average person probably only knows the formulas for olivine and one or two feldspars" The other says "and quartz, of course" The first replies "of course" The caption reads: even when they are trying to compensate for it, experts in anything wildly overestimate the average person's familiarity with their field
April 8, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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14. Lucatiel of Mirrah

Oh my poor tragic swordswoman. She's one of Dark Souls 2's most frequent summons and truly embodies the core theme of the game, fearing being forgotten and forgetting herself steps away from one of the reasons she came to Drangleic
Lucatiel without her mask, crouched in a shack resting on her sword
March 13, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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13. Kaine from Nier Replicant

The constant swearing she learned from her grandmother is hilarious and endearing and is a tool she uses to push others away in a heartwrenching way
Kaine turned towards the camera
March 13, 2025 at 9:35 PM