Nooka Dascalu 🔜 GDC

@nookada.bsky.social

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Video game producer with a passion for art history & cooking https://www.nookada.com/

Two lamps from the Crystal Palace near the border with Adventureland. In the background are tropical palm trees, whose fronds are echoed in the flowery, organic design of the polished brass lamps.
Some years ago, Philippa Foot drew attention to an extraordinarily interesting problem.' Suppose you are the driver of a trolley. The trolley rounds a bend, and there come into view ahead five track workmen, who have been repairing the track. The track goes through a bit of a valley at that point, and the sides are steep, so you must stop the trolley if you are to avoid running the five men down. You step on the brakes, but alas they don't work. Now you suddenly see a spur of track leading off to the right. You can turn the trolley onto it, and thus save the five men on the straight track ahead. Unfortunately, Mrs. Foot has arranged that there is one track workman on that spur of track. He can no more get off the track in time than the five can, so you will kill him if you turn the trolley onto him. Is it morally permissible for you to turn the trolley?
That is because the hypothesis I proposed says nothing at all about the source of the threat to the five. Whether the threat to the five is, or is caused by, a human being or anything else, it is not permissible to do what will kill one to save the five except by making what threatens the five itself threaten the one. By contrast, it seems to me very plausible to think that if a villain has started a trolley towards five, we may deflect the trolley towards one—other things being equal, of course. If a trolley is headed towards five, and we can deflect it towards one, we may, no matter who or what caused it to head towards the five.
A photograph of Hilma af Klint’s painting, The Swan. Two swans on a blank background touch beaks. The white swan, on a black background, reaches down to touch a black swan on a white background. They meet in the middle, perfectly mirroring each other.
The “look inside cat” meme. The text is formatted green text style, and reads: > “Ghibli-inspired art” > Look inside > a cel shaded deciduous tree
A zoom in on a beaten up Danny Devito from “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” reverently saying, “Oh my god. I get it.”
A photo of the board game Sefirot
A picture of one of the stages on the GDC Expo Floor
A very zoomed-in, blurry photo of Kenn White
HARD SKILLS: MECHANICS OF MANAGEMENT Definition: Proficiency with methodologies, software, and data analysis. • Project Mgmt Software: Mastery of Jira, Confluence, Trello, or Hansoft. • Methodologies: Understanding Agile, Scrum, Kanban, and Waterfall. • Data Proficiency: Excel/Sheets wizardry (Pivot tables, VLOOKUPs). • Documentation: Creating clear GDDs, TDDs, and meeting minutes.
A photo of Yerba Buena gardens in the early morning. Most of the gardens are in shadow, but the tops of the buildings in the distance stand in a small sliver of sunlight
A photo of Nooka, Neil, Andrea, and some new friends at GDC.
People chatting amongst themselves while others play some of the demos available at Day of the Devs
A close up photo of a bush, with a layer of ice starting to gently separate from the leaves beneath them
A screenshot of TGA bingo, with the first row filled in
A photo of a laptop & a second monitor. On the laptop is a discord stream of The Game Awards, on the monitor is TGA Bingo.
Screenshot of my Apple Music Replay for 2025 showing my top artists. 324 total artists, the top 15 of which are: 1. Imagine Dragons 2. Metric 3. Gang of Youths 4. Charli xcx 5. Florence + the Machine 6. Lida 7. Matchbox Twenty 8. Rigoberta Bandini 9. Snow Tha Product 10. Bastille 11. Sam Quealy 12. Bizarrap 13. Arcane 14. League of Legends 15. Bruce Springsteen
A screenshot of Penguin Random House’s website, on the page for the new 2026 “Knight of the Seven Kingdoms” calendar. A pop-up takes up the majority of the screen, asking the visitor to sign up for a mailing list. The pop up is titled, “Never miss a new book by George R. R. Martin.”
A photograph of a gaming pillow with a mechanical arm to hold a Steam Deck in place
A screenshot of a tumblr post. User memecucker writes: “do people actually read books while in the bathtub? how do you not get everything wet?” User karnsway responds with a picture of a music stand, a picture of binoculars, and a picture of a grabber reacher. User rosalui responds with “why is this making me laugh so fucking hard”. Finally, user tophatfloof responds with a hand drawn illustration of a person in a bathtub holding up binoculars while using a grabber reached to turn the pages of a book on a music stand. User isabellaphant responds with “THANK YOU FOR ADDING A VISUAL OMG”
A promotional image of Cirri from The Witcher. She’s wearing a full face of makeup while dressed in a ridiculous leather jacket & carrying a sword. Presumably, considering that she’s walking down a road, she’s meant to be dressed practically.
A picture of a sparklingly clean freezer filled with a variety of frozen food.
A picture of a sparklingly clean fridge filled with a wealth of condiments, some milk, and a tupperwares.
A screenshot of Hollow Knight's Steam page, showing a play time of 129.4 hours.
Six glass bottles stand on a counter top filled with fruit chunks & kombucha. Five of them used to be tomato passata bottles, and the sixth is an old milk bottle.
A glass decanter of homebrewed kombucha with a thin pellicle floating at the top
A photo of many different Sefirot-related items. Spread open is an art book detailing how the Knight of Pentacles card was developed. It rests on a tarot altar cloth with an ouroboros pictured on it. On top of the cloth are two packs of cards—one the size of a normal set of playing cards, and the other traditional tarot size. The tarot card box is open, revealing the phrase “Don’t resist the call of the void” on the inside of the box lid. On the other side of the cloth is the folded game board, covered with six illustrations fanning out. The top illustration is a print version of the Magician.
A photo of a living room TV playing a Dreaming Spanish video where two people are playing Stardew Valley together. All the text in the game has been localized into Spanish.
Screenshot of 5 Steam purchases ranging from February 2016 to March 2017. Listed (from oldest to newest) are Never Alone (Kisima Ingitchuna), Undertale, Braid, Bioshock, and Bioshock 2 Remastered.
A screen capture from The Princess Bride, from the iocane powder picnic.
A photograph of a glass jar with a spigot sitting on a countertop. The jar is covered by a towel & secured around the opening with a rubber band. Inside the jar is the beginnings of homemade kombucha.
Pilou Asbæk playing the character “The Mule” on AppleTV’s Foundation
The “Yes Honey” meme—a smug woman with large breasts calls her exhausted partner over.
A photo of a paper bag filled with green peppers, cucumbers, and onions
Sabrina Carpenter’s album art for “Man’s Best Friend.” She’s on her hands & knees in front of a man while looking flirtatiously at the camera. The man holds the ends of her hair in his tightly clenched fist.
Image text: “When Americans say awesome, it means good. Fabulous = good. Amazing = good. Great = fine. Fine = bad. OK = bad. Not so great = really bad. Challenging = driving me completely nuts. Hilarious = unexpected. For sure = probably. Forever = 30 minutes. Let’s get coffee sometime = goodbye; I like you. Let’s stay in touch = goodbye; I don’t like you that much. My friend = a person I know. My best friend = a person I know and also like.”
Zapp Brannigan from Futurama lounging on a bed saying “Cham-paggin”