Dr. Nic, Namer of the Universe

@quakefultales

They/Them Technical Narrative Designer at Fenris Creations (formerly known as CCP Games) | PhD in Computational Media from UCSC | MFA in Digital Art and New Media | Playwright | Indie Dev of Experimental AI Behavior Tools

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Dr. Nic, Namer of the Universe@quakefultales· 16d

I have been told this is literally me

First panel is a woman saying "i should warn you, I'm an animal in bed". Second panel is the woman curled up under the covers saying "pet me and bring me food".

Dr. Nic, Namer of the Universe@quakefultales· 20d

In full card format

A full image of the MTG card text above put into the correct format of an MTG card using Ragon Dickard's wonderful purple and black rendition of Jimothy the raccoon running

Dr. Nic, Namer of the Universe@quakefultales· Jun 21

Dr. Nic, Namer of the Universe@quakefultales· May 23

Original Series USS Enterprise orbiting a planet. The title reads "A computer can never be held accountable"

Dr. Nic, Namer of the Universe@quakefultales· May 23

The Deep Space 9 with the title card "a few bars of latinum more"

Dr. Nic, Namer of the Universe@quakefultales· May 22

End of Destiny 2 the Final Shape. The Traveler (big white orb friend) is in the distance with the triangle cut and it is emanating colorful waves. A warlock sits watching it with their ghost

Dr. Nic, Namer of the Universe@quakefultales· May 10

Truly one of the most iconic moments in Star Trek

Shaxs the Bajoran hunk of a security officer on the USS Cerritos screaming "fighting fascism is a full time job" as his eyes bulge and he waves around broken pottery in each hand

Dr. Nic, Namer of the Universe@quakefultales· Apr 11

Yeah why not notes: - I don't think games need remakes - I deliberately did not put FreeSpace 2 into the best retro game category so there would be some variety - game antagonists are weird - I'm not a huge stealth game person

Favorite game: FreeSpace 2
Best Story: 1000xResist
Favorite Art Style: Necrobarista
Biggest Personal Impact: FreeSpace 2
Best Combat: Elden Ring
Overhated: Dark Souls
Underrated: Primordia
Overrated: The Last of Us
Needs a Remake: N/A
Criminally Overlooked: Under Night In-Birth
Favorite Protagonist: Trails in the Sky
Favorite Antagonist: Fire Emblem Three Houses
Best Soundtrack: Homeworld
Best Multiplayer: Chromehounds
Not Usually My Thing But...: Dishonored
Turn My Brain Off: Halo Combat Evolved
Best With Friends: Guilty Gear XRD
Best Retro Game: Silent Hill 3
Nostalgic Childhood Game: Submarine Titans
Game Everyone Should Play: Mass Effect 1

Dr. Nic, Namer of the Universe@quakefultales· Apr 6

Champignon Witch is a very good and interesting series and I think more people should check it out

White Wizard Traits
- They eat the same type of food as humans and have a strong sense of humanity
- they can't really live off natural energy (apart from highly skilled ones). They obtain magic power through elixirs, spirits, magic creatures, and sexual contact with humans
- they can chant charming spells that bewitch people. They can use curse to bind magic creatures and gain magic power from them. This is the source of their magic power, longevity, and youth
- Stealing the true name of a familiar lets them control it
- they have less capacity for magic power than black magicians
- they are subjects of a country ruled by the white magician king who has the power to read true names
- they have a strong charm capable of bewitching other people
- they steal magic power from others using their sexual desire and affection. Love enhances their charm and strengthens their magic. Love is power for white witches
- can bewitch black witches with love and steal magic power from them through sexual acts
Black Wizard Traits
- They directly absorb natural energy and transform it into magic power
- they have more capacity for magic power than white mages but individual capabilities vary
- when they fall in love their magic power changes its nature. Love is poison for black witches
- When one becomes a full-fledged black magician, they accumulate natural energy inside them and lose the sense of taste they had during their human years
- they have a weak sense of humanity and tend to lack empathy towards others making it difficult for them to win people's hearts
- liberal and individualistic they aren't bound by any particular country
- they collaborate to purify poison in the world and eliminate the Ruin
- They don't enter into contracts with spirits and magic creatures but they compensate them for the borrowed power if they subjugate them
- they can turn a poisoned living being on the verge of death into a magic creature but only if they give their consent

Dr. Nic, Namer of the Universe@quakefultales· Mar 12

As per my wife's request, here is the current Shepard for this playthrough of the trilogy

FemShep in Mass Effect 1 with the dark purple hair from the legendary edition, light blue/lavender eyes, dark strong eyebrows, fair skin, deep violet near black lipstick, a jawline that can cut glass, long straight nose, and cheek bones that could kill

The same character from a different angle and with heavier shadowing and an orange front light

Dr. Nic, Namer of the Universe@quakefultales· Feb 8

One of my favorite character reveals of all time remains Mittermeyer in Legend of the Galactic Heroes being the ultimate wife guy when he looks like this

Mittermeyer from Legend of the Galactic Heroes. He is blond with thick eyebrows and hair that touches his uniform's collar. He looks like the kind of character you would expect to be a skirt chaser or at least kinda not great with women. But no, he is in fact, the most wife guy

Dr. Nic, Namer of the Universe@quakefultales· Jan 31

video games

a contextual button prompt from a video game reads "Glowing Orb press A to Approach"

Dr. Nic, Namer of the Universe@quakefultales· Jan 6

Snow at times today

Dr. Nic, Namer of the Universe@quakefultales· Dec 16

be the change you want to see in the world

On the left is a pie chart of play time on linux vs windows machines, 95% of the playtime is on linux. On the right is a pie chart of games played on windows vs linux with linux having the vast majority of games played compared to windows

Dr. Nic, Namer of the Universe@quakefultales· Dec 2

Thinking about a version of Mass Effect 3 that used this tweet as the ending in a "so remember Saren" moment

Tweet from Melanie H "RIP to everyone killed by the gods for their hubris but im different. and better. maybe even better than the gods

Dr. Nic, Namer of the Universe@quakefultales· Nov 9

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

Dr. Nic, Namer of the Universe@quakefultales· Oct 27

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

Dr. Nic, Namer of the Universe@quakefultales· Oct 20

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

Dr. Nic, Namer of the Universe@quakefultales· Oct 20

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

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

Dr. Nic, Namer of the Universe@quakefultales· Oct 19

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

Dr. Nic, Namer of the Universe@quakefultales· Oct 16

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

Dr. Nic, Namer of the Universe@quakefultales· Oct 15

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"

Dr. Nic, Namer of the Universe@quakefultales· Oct 13

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".

Dr. Nic, Namer of the Universe@quakefultales· Sep 12

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."

Dr. Nic, Namer of the Universe@quakefultales· Jul 18

This is the platonic ideal of sniffing

Dr. Nic, Namer of the Universe@quakefultales· Jul 16

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

Dr. Nic, Namer of the Universe@quakefultales· Jul 13

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.

Dr. Nic, Namer of the Universe@quakefultales· Jul 9

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-

Dr. Nic, Namer of the Universe@quakefultales· Jun 25

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"

Dr. Nic, Namer of the Universe@quakefultales· Jun 25

My votes for the 10 best games of the 21st century so far www.giantbomb.com/hey/the-10-b...