Dave Shramek

@dshramek.bsky.social

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Game designer and writer. Currently Broadsword and Star Wars: The Old Republic. Distressingly typical geek interests. He/him.

The box art for "Parts The Clonus Horror" where a blond woman lies on a morgue table with a light and a very small patch of blood on the otherwise extremely sheer sheet clinging to her improbably proportioned body. There are several draws around her, and the ones you can read say "Eyes", "Fingers", and "Kidneys."
A blurry screengrab from the Mandalorian and Grogu. The background has all the fungus covered swamp trees, and in the middle, there's a brown ship with two side fins sticking straight up.
The Wookieepedia image of Geode, literally indistinguishable from a slab of rough, gray stone.
A church steeple with a bird perched on the cross.
The cover of the book The Felicity Complex by August Clarke. It features a stylized nuclear explosion with several faces in the mushroom cloud.
Concept art from the Citizen Fleet in Rise of Skywalker. A saucer with two engine pods, one on each side and a Millennium Falcon-esque cockpit in the front.
A Magic the Gathering Card. Galestrike. One blue and two for an Instant that says "Return target tapped creature to its owner's hand. Draw a card. Strong wings make strong winds. The image is of a mostly naked winged man flapping his wings forcefully and kicking up a powerful wind.
A panel from The Watchmen comic. Ozymandias in full regalia saying "'Do it?' Dan, I'm not a Republic Serial villain. Do you seriously think I'd explain my master-strike if there remained the slightest chance of you affecting its outcome? I did it thirty-five minutes ago."
A Sith Sorcerer with pale skin. She's got a large scarf that covers her head like a wimple and a tattered skirt. Electricity arcs from her practice saber.
The cockpit of the Hobbyswift. A Star Wars ship. There are two seats at a console full of buttons and switches and screens. A floating cube droid with red and white is plugged into a scomp link on the side wall.
The Hobbyswift. A Star Wars ship in flight. This shot is from behind where the thrusters and the airlock can be found.
The Hobbyswift. A Star Wars ship parked at a Tatooine spaceport. The stabilizers are rotated and folded, stowed for landing, giving her a compact shape. Forklifts carry cargo away from the ship.
Kathryn Hahn In Glass Onion dressed in beige and standing in a room with fire and debris. She turns back to the camera and looks up worriedly. The caption says "[gasps] Hindenburg."
A SWTOR smuggler, white male, longish hair, in a bright orange vest with pockets and thick padding.
Andrew Robinson as Frank Cotton in Larry Cotton's skin with some skin flaps hanging loose. Pinhead stands in the back, slightly out of focus.
A scene from Demolition Man where Rob Schneider's character laughs at John Spartan for not knowing how to use the "Three Seashells." Sandra Bullock's character laughs along.
A cardboard protest sign that says "Our expectations for you were low, but HOLY FUCK"
A scene from Starship Troopers. Neil Patrick Harris in an SS-ish uniform and gray trench coat has his hand on the head of a bug that's bigger than an elephant -- the brain bug. The caption is Harris saying "It's afraid."
C-3PO on Tatooine, a large skeletal spine behind him. He waves at something off camera.
A man in a black t shirt and a greaser hair cut labs aggressively towards another man with long, wild hat and a plaid shirt. A scene from Dazed and Confused.
A scene from the classic Twilight Zone episode It's a Good Life where a child stares happily at a TV while a "family" of adults are arrayed behind him in chairs, all focused intently on what he's watching.
A still from Josie and the Pussycats where Parker Posey and Alan Cumming's characters are talking to a Pentagon official about how they have found putting subliminal messages in movies to be a better way to influence kids. Superimposed over this scene (and spoken by Mr. Moviephone) is the phrse "Josie and the Pussycats is The Best Movie Ever" and then in slightly smaller text "Join the Army"
A man and a woman awkwardly face another man. Superimposed over them is the text "Josie and the Pussycats is The Best Movie Ever" and then "Join the army" in slightly smaller text. Don't join the army.
Lokai from the Star Trek original series episode Let That be Your Last Battlefield. He's in a gray shirt in and his face is black on the left side of his face and white on the right side. The caption says "This is some black on the right, white on the left nonsense."
Henry Peter Gyrich in a green vest, white shirt and plaid pants. The caption says "Moments later in a very close assembly room." Gyrich is saying "To begin with, I think the main reason why the Avengers have been considered a security risk should be patiently obvious. There are just too blasted many of you! The National Security Council can't even keep track of who's coming and going!" The panel has Captain Marvel, Power Man, Ms. Marvel, Hercules, Hawkeye, Charlie 27, Martinex, Starhawk, Moondragon, Thor, Beast, Yellow Jacket, Wasp, Black Widow, Nikki, Vision, Quicksilver, Black Panther, Scarlet Witch, Iron Man, Captain America, and Jocasta. All but Gyrich, Moondragon and Jocasta have appeared in the MCU.
Henry Peter Gyrich from the 90s X-Men cartoon. Square framed glasses, a green three piece suit, a yellow tie over a yellow shirt with pin stripes.
The composer Gustav Mahler sitting in a chair, legs crossed and hands folded on his knee. He's wearing a brown suit
The title sequence of Friday the 13th VI: Jason Lives. Jason in his hockey mask turns to camera dramatically. Then the camera zooms in on his one eye, where it spoofs the James Bond gunshot bit, Jason walks in from the side of his pupil and slashes a machete at the camera. Blood bubbles up and leaves the words "Jason Lives" behind.
Notifications from the Amazon phone app. The headline is "You've got great taste. Battery Acid is waiting for you."
A six by three brass plate with a stamped plant motif. Brass acanthus leaf filigree borders it and a lion's head relief sits in the middle
A sticker on a white shirt that says "I Voted Yo Voté"
A screen from the movie Wargames. The WOPR computer has given projected population deaths at 110 million. David types in the query "Is this a game or is it real?" And Joshua, the WOPR, responds with "What's the difference?"
Kyle McLaughlin as Agent Cooper in the show Twin Peaks. He's wearing a black suit with a dark tie and driving a car through. He holds a tape recorder up to speak into it and say "Diane. 11:30 am. February 24. I'm entering the town of Twin Peaks."
A meme from Reno 911 where a character is complaining to two officers that he was murdered. Only the text says "Rule of law was murdered"
A close up as Ian McKellan as Gandalf looking down and saying "So do all who live to see such times"
A tray of light blue shop towels with a small forest of machined aluminum tubes and other pieces for eventual electroplating
Captain America and Black Widow standing on a roof. Cap is saying "Yeah, I'm not ready for that."
A robot kicking a man in the crotch
A tweet from Damien Owens which says: I'm 50. All celebrity news looks like this: 'CURTAINS FOR ZOOSHA? K-SMOG AND BATBOY CAUGHT FLIPPING A GRUNT'
Michael Dorn as Worf on the set of Star Trek the Next Generation. He has the leggings, tall boots, and fingerless gloves of a traditional Klingon outfit, but not the tunic or the sash, just a black t-shirt which may have shoulder pads. He is sitting on the edge of the transporter pad and reading.
a crowd of people at a concert all asking, in unison, "Horse tranquilizers?"
Corey Feldman and Corey Haim in the Lost Boys stand in front of a wall of comic books.
Robin Williams as Popeye.
An extremely tiny elderly couple having just crawled through the crack below a door. From the movie Mulholland Drive.
A Japanese man in a suit saying "It may sound primitive and unscientific, but through the fairies, we could ask Mothra to help."
An aluminum tube with threads and an inch window cut out of roughly a third of the side. Inside, a small yellowish crystal stands on a brass ring.
A shot from the original Tron movie with Tron and Yori standing on the solar sail simulation looking off screen. The horizon glows purple and the circuitry on their outfits glows blue.
Simpsons meme of Principle Skinner. The first panel is him questioning "Am I out of touch?" The second is him coming to the conclusion "No, it's my subordinates who are wrong."
Young Anthony Michael Hall being dragged to a bedroom by his friend. He's saying "Anybody with a haircut like that, you know he's an asshole."
Two shots from Clue. Christopher Lloyd as Professor Plum asks "But is the FBI in the habit of cleaning up after multiple murder?" In the next shot, Tim Curry as the butler Wadsworth and standing next to Martin Mull as Col. Mustard says "Yes! Why do you think it's run by a man called 'Hoover'?"
Hardison, Parker and Eliot from Leverage taking off work coveralls in unison to reveal private security uniforms.
A split screen image with Revolutionary Cyclops on the left in his black suit with the red piping and the red X on his face. Krakoa era Cyclops on the right, with the same suit, but the piping is a light blue and the red X is replaced with his classic visor with the red slit for the beam.
Revolutionary Cyclops standing between the Avengers and some regular people. In a close up panel, he says "Rogers, I'm an sure you'd like to think we've come far in this world from your glory days during World War II but I'm telling you firsthand, we have not." "If you are a mutant, in this world, you are guilty until proven innocent. If you are different, if you are like use, they will send the police. They will send the Avengers..." Extreme close up on Cyclops's red X cowl. "And they will do everything they can to knock you down and then decide what to do with you. Then Hawkeye says "Well, that's just a big pile of #$%&" And Cap says "Hawkeye." Cyclops in the far distance of the scene asks "Is it?" Hawkeye responds "It is!" Then we see a full cowboy shot of Cyclops standing in front of the crowd and facing the Avengers. "I see a man, a uniformed man with his hands around the throat of a new mutant coming into bloom..." "I see a man with a gun pointed at the head of a child..." "I am not going to have my people treated that way!" "I'M NOT GOING TO HAVE IT! And shame on you for not seeing that!"
A character model sheet for Revolutionary Cyclops. He's wearing an all black suit and cowl only exposing his nose, mouth, and chin. There is a single red X across his eyes and red piping on the suit around his neck, some around his arms, and down his sides.
A shot from the Avengers Doomsday teaser with Cyclops on his knees going full blast with his optic blasts. He's got the thigh straps and y-shaped suspender thing, but it's slightly off kilter, not straight up and down on the left side.
Cyclops in his Jim Lee suit, an all blue body suit goes from his ears down. A yellow visor holds it above his ears. he has yellow gloves, boots, and trunks. Yellow straps around his thighs for some reason, and a single yellow suspender over his left shoulder with a y-arm coming off mid suspender to go over his right shoulder in contravention of all clothing physics.
A nearly two foot long lightsaber body with one crossguard emitter and a nasty hook on the other side. The hilt is wrapped in oxblood leather.