SpaceDrake (Andrew Dice)

@spacedrakecf.bsky.social

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Founder, Project Director & Lead Editor for Carpe Fulgur. PD/LE on #Recettear /Chantelise/Fortune Summoners/This Starry Midnight We Make/Midnight Sanctuary; LE on #SRW30, editor on #TrailsThroughDaybreak!

A screenshot of Lucile Danilov's Bsky post, showing a screengrab from Reddit, her post saying "Sometimes I wonder why people say Reddit is a cesspool. Then I read things like this, and I get it." The Reddit post reads: "Translation for a game like this is not a big project. There's like a light novel's worth of text. One person could do it in a week. They should just have it redone. It wouldn't cost much. Edit: I'm a professional Japanese translator. Hollow Knight had 20,000 words of straightforward dialogue. That's about 40 pages. Even if Silksong has twice as much, that's possible to do in a day." Aside from obvious inaccuracies with this statement, the "chaser" is in the next image.
A currently-unnamed character from the Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave, wearing a high-collared, sky-blue dress with a white capelet over her shoulders, leather sandals with boot-styled shin-guards glasses, and wearing her dark chestnut hair in twintails.
A thread posted by Zoe Tunnell (@zoewithasword.bsky.social). It reads: "It is truly buckwild to see figures ranging from Newsom to Obama to Booker to Harris and just about every name you would expect--along with every major news organization--mourn this man who had spent his life hatemongering in every possible way he could so quickly and eagerly. I'm not SURPRISED, but seeing how the entire Liberal Wing of the United States has to be fought to even comment on issues like trans bans and discrimination, Palestinian genocide and concentration camps on US soil but will EAGERLY pop up to mourn and lionize a man like Kirk really gives up the game He was a man who, in his own words, claimed black women weren't intelligent enough to hold jobs, that trans people should be removed from society, gay people should be stoned to death, and mass shootings are an acceptable price to pay for gun ownership and he gets THIS treatment. I see how it is. Even if you don't believe deaths should be celebrated, for whatever reason, that doesn't mean that they must be MOURNED. I have no reason to mourn this man who wanted me cast out from society and actively led efforts to harm me and people like me. Dying does not erase your living actions." The comment that spurred it on, from @maysuser.name, reads "charlie kirk has received infinitely more sympathy and support from liberals than every single trans person, immigrant, and palestinian combined" This is a true statement.
Olivier Lenheim, from Trails in the Sky, looking confident.
The Super Robot Wars Y splash image, showing a number of robots posing in space with an energy surge forming a "Y" in the background. Included robots are Dynazenon, Red 5 from Galactic Prince, the Guren from Code Geass, Reideen, Combattler V, Getter Arc, Gundam Aerial, a VF-31 in Hayate Immelmann's colors, the L-Gaim and Jet Jaguar.
The classic box art for Wing Commander: Privateer. It shows a four-engined transport vessel (a player ship) on approach to Perry Naval Station, as a pair of fighters prepare to lift off from it and a pair of naval destroyers patrol in the background. Further back, a planet is shown in the distance (which Perry does not orbit in the actual game).
The first part of a well-known letter J.R.R. Tolkien wrote in response to German publisher Rütten & Loening during the Third Reich, who inquired about his ancestry as a precondition for publishing The Hobbit in German. It is proof that The Professor had the soul of a Poster. It reads: "I must say the enclosed letter from Rütten & Loening is a bit stiff. Do I suffer this impertinence because of the possession of a German name, or do their lunatic laws require a certificate of 'arisch' origin from all persons of all countries? Personally, I should be inclined to refuse to give any Bestätigung (although it happens that I can), and let a German translation go hang. In any case I should object strongly to any such declaration appearing in print. I do not regard the (probable) absence of all Jewish blood as necessarily honourable; and I have many Jewish friends, and should regret giving any colour to the notion that I subscribed to the wholly pernicious and unscientific race-doctrine. You are primarily concerned, and I cannot jeopardize the chance of a German publication without your approval. So I submit two drafts of possible answers."
A block of text from eevee's linked article. The header reads "Case study 1". The (pictured) body reads: "“Ah!” the Hacker News commenters cry. “But have you tried it?” they ask with all the indignity of a kindergartener offended that you won’t eat their mud pie. But yes, thanks: I was once offered this challenge when faced with a Ren’Py problem, so I grit my teeth and posed my question to some LLM. It confidently listed several related formatting tags that would solve my problem. One teeny tiny issue: those tags did not and had never existed. I typed this additional context into the computer, and it generated a profuse apology followed by a different set of fictional tags. That was the end of that grand experiment. The trouble was likely that there was no built-in way to do what I wanted, and no one had ever successfully done it before, so the machine had nothing to draw from… and simply generated something that sounded plausible instead. Because that is what this technology does: it continues a conversation in a way that sounds plausible, as defined by similarity to existing conversations. If there are existing conversations about the topic, great! That makes for a more specific measure of plausibility. If not, even better! Just about anything might be plausible! It can just generate Whatever! I cannot stress enough that this is worse than useless to me. Not only did it not answer my question, but it sent me on a wild goose chase making sure I had not somehow overlooked the fake API it generated." The text continues on, past the alt text character limit.
A man lying on the floor, holding a book titled "heresies". For that is surely what the idea of a Miku without twin-tails is. (Yes, this is a joke.)
A screenshot of a statement issued by the United States White House and the President. It reads: "In recent days, violent mobs have attacked ICE Officers and Federal Law Enforcement Agents carrying out basic deportation operations in Los Angeles, California. These operations are essential to halting and reversing the invasion of illegal criminals into the United States. In the wake of this violence, California’s feckless Democrat leaders have completely abdicated their responsibility to protect their citizens. That is why President Trump has signed a Presidential Memorandum deploying 2,000 National Guardsmen to address the lawlessness that has been allowed to fester. The Trump Administration has a zero tolerance policy for criminal behavior and violence, especially when that violence is aimed at law enforcement officers trying to do their jobs. These criminals will be arrested and swiftly brought to justice. The Commander-in-Chief will ensure the laws of the United States are executed fully and completely.” -Karoline Leavitt, White House Press Secretary
A screenshot from Recettear HD, showing A New Mystery Character dropping by the item shop on Day 16 and having a chat with Recette & Tear.
A post from Reddit, posted back in 2021 to r/lgbt. It reads: "Honestly I don't understand anything about this. Of all things why choose crime? That's like the one thing that is universally considered illegal. That's the very definition of crime. Also another thing I have seen getting thrown aroud is, though this one might be a trans thing, "Arson! It's legal." I am quite confused. Please help a 24 year old straight girl out! <3 "
Excerpt from a New York Magazine article: "Sarah, a freshman at Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario, said she first used ChatGPT to cheat during the spring semester of her final year of high school. (Sarah’s name, like those of other current students in this article, has been changed for privacy.) After getting acquainted with the chatbot, Sarah used it for all her classes: Indigenous studies, law, English, and a “hippie farming class” called Green Industries. “My grades were amazing,” she said. “It changed my life.” Sarah continued to use AI when she started college this past fall. Why wouldn’t she? Rarely did she sit in class and not see other students’ laptops open to ChatGPT."
A screenshot showing the first amendment of the US Constitution. "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
A screen capture from the Dragon Quest I + II HD2D Remake teaser trailer. It shows a new playable character, not featured in previous versions, emerging from what looks like a bedroom to greet the main player character with a wink and a pose.
A screenshot of a tweet from the owner of Twitter. It reads: "My companies make great products that people love and I’ve never physically hurt anyone. So why the hate and violence against me? Because I am a deadly threat to the woke mind parasite and the humans it controls." He then quotes some dipshit who we don't need to bother with.
A screenshot of the Steam Spring Sale banner. Weird alien plants and Steam Decks may be involved.
The police found evidence of an attempted sabotage on Blue Archive by key members of Dynamis One to make their new project successful. Dynamis One was founded at the same time that Park Byeong-lim (former BA Japanese Project Director) and other key members of Blue Archive (such as Isakusan) left Nexon. Various testimonies state that they recruited and encouraged several BA team employees to resign by providing them with false information. There are reports of sabotage of the Blue Archive IP, claiming that the game's development was intentionally neglected, with the goal of stealing Blue Archive’s fanbase once they had left the studio. The police reported that an anonymous source stated: "There was a situation where key team leaders gathered in a separate space after work, discussing their resignations and their next independent project while making negative comments about the company." It started long before they resigned, it began in 2023 after the end of BA’s Part 1 (after Volume F). This is why there were large gaps between the releases of main story chapters after the Vol F, because the future members of D1 were also busy working on their "future independent project." Starting from February 2024, there was a wave of mass resignations within the Blue Archive team. Before that, several reports of unusual long-term vacations and similar occurrences were detected. This coincides with the period when players reacted negatively to BA’s in-game content pacing updates.
A street scene in Wuthering Waves in the city of Ragunna, showing two NPCs named "Orrin" and "Golem". Golem is in fact not a golem and appears as a normal human being.
The character Phoebe from Wuthering Waves, standing in the entry plaza of the in-game city of Ragunna in sunlight.
The Sickos Meme. You know the one.
A screenshot of a tweet from the ILA twitter account. It reads: "HELP pls!! :teardrop-emoji: we just launched the kickstarter, and people are sending me this! I have no idea what it means!! Can someone help me? #savecoco" the tweet then shows a screenshot of an old tweet from Rosa Carbo-Mascarell which reads: "I want a game that uses Disco Elysium's same insanely well crafted narrative system and wonderful writing... but it's about a young witch trying to solve the disappearance of her neighbor's cat in a small village in the Alps." This was an infamous tweet for missing the point of Disco Elysium and why it is the way it is. Mascarell's tweet was accompanied by a piece of art from @megaelod showing an witch girl with long orange hair hugging a potted plant. The design of the main character of ILA is nearly a carbon copy of megaelod's design and the main pitch of ILA is nearly a carbon copy of Mascarell's proposal save for the DE gameplay shifting over to a "skateboarding broom" focus while still having interactivity in the village. It feels absolutely impossible that Magic Rain, the studio behind ILA, was unaware of the tweet prior to launching the kickstarter. #savecoco is one of the campaign's hashtags, to boot, and refers to the cat you have to save as part of the game's objective.
An entry from the Joe Biden Wikipedia entry as of January 20th, 2025. It reads: "Death of wife and daughter: A few weeks after Biden was elected senator, his wife Neilia and one-year-old daughter Naomi were killed in an automobile accident while Christmas shopping in Hockessin, Delaware, on December 18, 1972. Neilia's station wagon was hit by a semi-trailer truck as she pulled out from an intersection. Their sons Beau (aged 3) and Hunter (aged 2) were in the car and were taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, Beau with a broken leg and other wounds and Hunter with a minor skull fracture and other head injuries. Biden considered resigning to care for them, but Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield persuaded him not to. Biden contemplated suicide and was filled with anger and religious doubt. He wrote that he "felt God had played a horrible trick" on him and had trouble focusing on work." This refutes the previous post about Joseph Biden ever losing a child. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Biden
A screenshot of @parsnip.bsky.social's recent post, saying "off by a week" in reply to his own post saying "one week from tomorrow mike johnson is going to be demanding that the federal legislature be allowed to write california state law in exchange for disaster relief"; he has himself posted a screenshot from aaronparnas.bsky.social reporting that Johnson proposed placing conditions on the aid today, January 13th. This is shared in screenshot form so that the full context is visible.
A screen capture of a tweet, stating (jokingly (I think?)): "I can't wait for a comprehensive achievement system, microtransactions, and a second version that adds more content after the initial release specifically for consoles."
The preliminary, in-Japanese title screen for Recettear HD.
The second part of the classic meme from the Invincible animated series, showing Nolan "Omni-man" Grayson saying "that's the neat part, you don't".
A pair of screenshots sourced from Twitter/X. The first is an announcement of UnitedHealth CEO Brian Thompson's assassination. The second is a tweet dated 13 minutes later, saying that "CEO Andrew Witty kicks off 'investor day' noting that Medicare Advantage headwinds will continue in 2025 but says, 'we're going to demonstrate once again, that when the going gets toughm the tough get going'" (punctuation preserved). This indicates that UnitedHealth was able to replace Thompson inside of fifteen minutes without cancelling the show Thompson was presumably in transit to. This would seem to be in contrast to the assertion in the "pledge" of the quoted tweet that executives are the key drivers of success, as Thompson's assassination, the assassination of a Chief Executive Officer, doesn't even seem to have interrupted daily operations or business in any significant way.
A screenshot from Caves of Qud, the final pre-release version. It depicts my character, a custom sprite based on Anna from Final Fantasy IV (which uses character sprites of the exactly correct dimensions to work in Qud as well) discovering and opening a cryogenic tube of a clone of Mehmet, a character found at the start of the game. This is perhaps the least strange thing occurring in the screenshot.
A meme image of Artoria Pendragon, of Fate/stay night fame, chowing down on a Big Mac.
Four depictions of cybernetic eyes, with the irises and/or sclera replaced by obvious machinery.
A listing of people playing Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake on Steam "right now" at time of capture, roughly 15 minutes prior to the post (showing 12,615), and the 24-hour and all-time peaks, both 45,357.
A graph showing players of "Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake" on Steam by hour, ranging from Thursday Nov. 14, 5PM UTC to Sunday Nov. 17, 7PM UTC (roughly time of capture). It shows peaks of 37,000 players on the 15th, 43,000 on the 16th, and 45,000 on the 17th (all UTC). The "lows" bottom out around 13-15,000.
A clip from a CNN broadcast, showing a map of places VP Kamala Harris, in the 2024 US presidential run, outperformed Joe Biden's 2020 performance. To the shock of one of the broadcasters, the map is completely blank, showing that even in states and counties where she won, her overall vote performance was worse than Joe Biden's.
A screen capture from The Guardian, specifically https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2024/nov/06/us-election-results-map-2024-live-donald-trump-kamala-harris-president. It shows the results from the morning of Nov. 6, with Trump confirmed as having won the presidency, with 277 electoral votes at time of capture to Harris's 224. Harris has 66.9 million popular votes tallied to Trump's 71.8 million. This is significant because even factoring in the incomplete vote tally at time of publication, it indicates that the final tally will end up showing Harris with ten million votes or more fewer than Joe Biden secured in the 2020 election, while Trump's support remained relatively flat.
A full-body "character portrait" for a Pathfinder RPG player character, commissioned by @spacedrakecf.bsky.social‬ from @lostastro-art.bsky.social. It depicts a young woman standing, looking at the viewer, wearing a white undershirt and a brown vest, with a "slashed-sleeves"-style of trousers that go down to her ankles and pointed-tipped shoes; she also has a small red cravat and a green cloak. She is holding a small silver pendant that depicts the goddess Pulura from Pathfinder's Golarion setting; a small detail shot of the pendant is provided alongside the portrait.
A screenshot of the game "Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale" as published in English by Carpe Fulgur in 2010. It depicts a famous scene from the game wherein, after learning the basics of the game's item store gameplay loop, main character Recette utters the line "Capitalism, ho!" enthusiastically.