Blaident
@blaident.bsky.social
Host of Covered in Worms and The Bog Frog Book Pod.
Nihei obsessive and Sonic Nerd
Nihei obsessive and Sonic Nerd
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Thanksgiving tables in WOKE America this year:
November 28, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Thanksgiving tables in WOKE America this year:
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if they actually believed ai generated content was fit for purpose, they'd *want* to tell you their games included it.
people like sweeney are literally just saying they should be allowed to scam you lol.
people like sweeney are literally just saying they should be allowed to scam you lol.
November 27, 2025 at 5:53 PM
if they actually believed ai generated content was fit for purpose, they'd *want* to tell you their games included it.
people like sweeney are literally just saying they should be allowed to scam you lol.
people like sweeney are literally just saying they should be allowed to scam you lol.
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even from a purely "consumer & product" perspective, media made with ai is a fundamentally different product from something made without it.
if i buy a cake from the store and i sit down to eat it and it's plastic, i'm not thinking "wow it looked so real, i love this", i'm just mad i got tricked!
if i buy a cake from the store and i sit down to eat it and it's plastic, i'm not thinking "wow it looked so real, i love this", i'm just mad i got tricked!
Epic CEO says AI disclosures like Steam's make "no sense" because AI will be involved in "nearly all" future game development
https://www.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/1p7eh60/epic_ceo_says_ai_disclosures_like_steams_make_no/
https://www.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/1p7eh60/epic_ceo_says_ai_disclosures_like_steams_make_no/
Epic CEO says AI disclosures like Steam's make "no sense" because AI will be involved in "nearly all" future game development
r/pcgaming
www.reddit.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:53 PM
even from a purely "consumer & product" perspective, media made with ai is a fundamentally different product from something made without it.
if i buy a cake from the store and i sit down to eat it and it's plastic, i'm not thinking "wow it looked so real, i love this", i'm just mad i got tricked!
if i buy a cake from the store and i sit down to eat it and it's plastic, i'm not thinking "wow it looked so real, i love this", i'm just mad i got tricked!
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if you internalize codes of conduct that apply only to the working class you're on a dismal road. no one pirates a movie or book or game or album they love and pats their empty wallet thinking "ha ha! these suckers will never get my $20." they think "I can only support this through word of mouth."
November 26, 2025 at 11:36 PM
if you internalize codes of conduct that apply only to the working class you're on a dismal road. no one pirates a movie or book or game or album they love and pats their empty wallet thinking "ha ha! these suckers will never get my $20." they think "I can only support this through word of mouth."
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people pirate most stuff when they're broke as shit and buy all they can when they're not, except for all the shit you can't see without piracy 'cause no one sells it. people pay when they have the cash and, increasingly, they have no cash. blame The End Of Mass Prosperity In The Imperial Core.
piracy discourse is so exhausting and passe, but i will observe that every truly great collector of physical media I know has a big harddrive of pirated books and movies. you literally cannot have one without the other
November 26, 2025 at 11:30 PM
people pirate most stuff when they're broke as shit and buy all they can when they're not, except for all the shit you can't see without piracy 'cause no one sells it. people pay when they have the cash and, increasingly, they have no cash. blame The End Of Mass Prosperity In The Imperial Core.
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(the biography was Divine Invasions: A Life of Philip K Dick by Laurence Sutin btw its pretty fucking incredible) I am really proud of the upcoming episode I think we all did very well and I can't wait for yall to hear it
November 26, 2025 at 7:04 AM
(the biography was Divine Invasions: A Life of Philip K Dick by Laurence Sutin btw its pretty fucking incredible) I am really proud of the upcoming episode I think we all did very well and I can't wait for yall to hear it
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I did it because I really really wanted to but can not explain how good it feels to have finally recorded the 2nd (last) High Castle episode because I was absolutely cramming that PKD biography down my own throat (incredible book) and having that all done is such a weight off my shoulders
November 26, 2025 at 7:02 AM
I did it because I really really wanted to but can not explain how good it feels to have finally recorded the 2nd (last) High Castle episode because I was absolutely cramming that PKD biography down my own throat (incredible book) and having that all done is such a weight off my shoulders
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it's such a good video too, big recommend to anyone who even has a passing interest in eva. river makes some of the best stuff out there
Forever a little sad that my Kaworu essay didn’t get many views. It's one of my better videos, I think. www.youtube.com/watch?v=51FD...
Kaworu Nagisa is a character I am NORMAL about
YouTube video by Pyramid Inu
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November 25, 2025 at 3:57 AM
it's such a good video too, big recommend to anyone who even has a passing interest in eva. river makes some of the best stuff out there
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Forever a little sad that my Kaworu essay didn’t get many views. It's one of my better videos, I think. www.youtube.com/watch?v=51FD...
Kaworu Nagisa is a character I am NORMAL about
YouTube video by Pyramid Inu
www.youtube.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Forever a little sad that my Kaworu essay didn’t get many views. It's one of my better videos, I think. www.youtube.com/watch?v=51FD...
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Because it deserves it I've rescanlated one of the best manga I've shared to date to put it more in line with my current standards!
If you haven't read the whirlpool of gender, art, and anxiety that is "Keep This a Secret From the Laughing Kookaburra" by Masako Yashiro yet...do so NOW. or i'll cry
If you haven't read the whirlpool of gender, art, and anxiety that is "Keep This a Secret From the Laughing Kookaburra" by Masako Yashiro yet...do so NOW. or i'll cry
In Translation | "Keep This a Secret From the Laughing Kookaburra" by Masako Yashiro
An interior manga from an influential master.
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November 24, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Because it deserves it I've rescanlated one of the best manga I've shared to date to put it more in line with my current standards!
If you haven't read the whirlpool of gender, art, and anxiety that is "Keep This a Secret From the Laughing Kookaburra" by Masako Yashiro yet...do so NOW. or i'll cry
If you haven't read the whirlpool of gender, art, and anxiety that is "Keep This a Secret From the Laughing Kookaburra" by Masako Yashiro yet...do so NOW. or i'll cry
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just gonna post this over here too cause im really desperate. things have gone severely wrong in the past few days. it is not okay.
November 23, 2025 at 7:11 PM
just gonna post this over here too cause im really desperate. things have gone severely wrong in the past few days. it is not okay.
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Did y'all know that Phillip K Dick guy could fucking write?? Listen in to the new bog frog where we learn that as well as, did you know the transformers comics rule, did you know that Silver Spoon rules, and did you know Tsui no Sora rules?? It's all true! sites.libsyn.com/485343/episo...
Bog Frog Book Podcast: Episode 37: The Man In The High Castle Part 1
The Bog Boys find themselves in some sort of alternate history where the Axis won WW2 and let me tell ya, Big Bummer! How will those rascals make it out of this? The answers may lie deep within the li...
sites.libsyn.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Did y'all know that Phillip K Dick guy could fucking write?? Listen in to the new bog frog where we learn that as well as, did you know the transformers comics rule, did you know that Silver Spoon rules, and did you know Tsui no Sora rules?? It's all true! sites.libsyn.com/485343/episo...
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Happy anniversary to the Max Headroom incident, the greatest example of signal hijacking.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Hea...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Hea...
November 22, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Happy anniversary to the Max Headroom incident, the greatest example of signal hijacking.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Hea...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Hea...
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Phillip K Dick is the author I think is most spiritually attuned to Bog Frog as a project so please join us in our delve deep into the Trash Stratum and listen to us scramble to find the symbols of the divine
Did y'all know that Phillip K Dick guy could fucking write?? Listen in to the new bog frog where we learn that as well as, did you know the transformers comics rule, did you know that Silver Spoon rules, and did you know Tsui no Sora rules?? It's all true! sites.libsyn.com/485343/episo...
Bog Frog Book Podcast: Episode 37: The Man In The High Castle Part 1
The Bog Boys find themselves in some sort of alternate history where the Axis won WW2 and let me tell ya, Big Bummer! How will those rascals make it out of this? The answers may lie deep within the li...
sites.libsyn.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Phillip K Dick is the author I think is most spiritually attuned to Bog Frog as a project so please join us in our delve deep into the Trash Stratum and listen to us scramble to find the symbols of the divine
Did y'all know that Phillip K Dick guy could fucking write?? Listen in to the new bog frog where we learn that as well as, did you know the transformers comics rule, did you know that Silver Spoon rules, and did you know Tsui no Sora rules?? It's all true! sites.libsyn.com/485343/episo...
Bog Frog Book Podcast: Episode 37: The Man In The High Castle Part 1
The Bog Boys find themselves in some sort of alternate history where the Axis won WW2 and let me tell ya, Big Bummer! How will those rascals make it out of this? The answers may lie deep within the li...
sites.libsyn.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Did y'all know that Phillip K Dick guy could fucking write?? Listen in to the new bog frog where we learn that as well as, did you know the transformers comics rule, did you know that Silver Spoon rules, and did you know Tsui no Sora rules?? It's all true! sites.libsyn.com/485343/episo...
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S tier trope: When the Mediacontent is Slop
November 21, 2025 at 4:16 AM
S tier trope: When the Mediacontent is Slop
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Enjoy the slop suffix, funny and good mouthfeel, but unfortunately people online can't be trusted to use it, so like a toy in preschool, gonna have to take it away, it's ruined for everyone sorry no more slop
November 21, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Enjoy the slop suffix, funny and good mouthfeel, but unfortunately people online can't be trusted to use it, so like a toy in preschool, gonna have to take it away, it's ruined for everyone sorry no more slop
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thinkin' about Half-Life today? why not watch my video about some of the coolest surreal art ever made for it! some (me) are calling it 2025's best youtube video, woah! youtu.be/M8Dr2CxUeME
November 20, 2025 at 1:27 AM
thinkin' about Half-Life today? why not watch my video about some of the coolest surreal art ever made for it! some (me) are calling it 2025's best youtube video, woah! youtu.be/M8Dr2CxUeME
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My trailblazing game industry bad-ass friend Rebecca Heineman has passed away.
Fuck cancer.
Friends, let’s not forget her: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca...
Fuck cancer.
Friends, let’s not forget her: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca...
Rebecca Heineman - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 17, 2025 at 9:52 PM
My trailblazing game industry bad-ass friend Rebecca Heineman has passed away.
Fuck cancer.
Friends, let’s not forget her: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca...
Fuck cancer.
Friends, let’s not forget her: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca...
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This is it. I nearly suffocated by using the reetroom. I’m asking my doctors agreeing on a short cure. Only really sure painful prolonged angona is hereafter the grim reaps me. Please donate on the funeral fund me now.
November 16, 2025 at 6:57 PM
This is it. I nearly suffocated by using the reetroom. I’m asking my doctors agreeing on a short cure. Only really sure painful prolonged angona is hereafter the grim reaps me. Please donate on the funeral fund me now.
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Stuck thinking about the relationship with games between making symbols/abstracting reality and our attempts to immerse in those abstractions AS a sort of reality.....weird! wacky some might even say
November 16, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Stuck thinking about the relationship with games between making symbols/abstracting reality and our attempts to immerse in those abstractions AS a sort of reality.....weird! wacky some might even say
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IT'S HER DAY
November 15, 2025 at 6:32 PM
IT'S HER DAY
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the Alzabo from Book of the New Sun, huge fan of this rendition of the Piggies from Speaker for the Dead my friend and cohost Wren did
November 15, 2025 at 10:21 PM
the Alzabo from Book of the New Sun, huge fan of this rendition of the Piggies from Speaker for the Dead my friend and cohost Wren did
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New translation!
From Masako Yashiro, a major name in shoujo and influence on Year 24 members, comes a startling, complex fairy tale turned existential nightmare ripped straight from a 1969 issue of COM...
Enjoy the masterful one-shot "You Dropped Your Shadow" here!!
From Masako Yashiro, a major name in shoujo and influence on Year 24 members, comes a startling, complex fairy tale turned existential nightmare ripped straight from a 1969 issue of COM...
Enjoy the masterful one-shot "You Dropped Your Shadow" here!!
In Translation | "You Dropped Your Shadow" by Masako Yashiro
Yashiro? more like Yass, She Hero (i respect women you see)
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November 14, 2025 at 9:07 PM
New translation!
From Masako Yashiro, a major name in shoujo and influence on Year 24 members, comes a startling, complex fairy tale turned existential nightmare ripped straight from a 1969 issue of COM...
Enjoy the masterful one-shot "You Dropped Your Shadow" here!!
From Masako Yashiro, a major name in shoujo and influence on Year 24 members, comes a startling, complex fairy tale turned existential nightmare ripped straight from a 1969 issue of COM...
Enjoy the masterful one-shot "You Dropped Your Shadow" here!!
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If you haven't watched the viddy essay I made this year consider: what if you did? Do it as a lil present for your pal Baxy
oh no i've abandoned god's light and become a video essayist
Check out my new vid about dreams and memories and why Myst has the best movement in games
youtu.be/DguUtJzmn0M
Check out my new vid about dreams and memories and why Myst has the best movement in games
youtu.be/DguUtJzmn0M
Moving Through Myst
YouTube video by Tsundoku Diving
youtu.be
November 14, 2025 at 1:37 AM
If you haven't watched the viddy essay I made this year consider: what if you did? Do it as a lil present for your pal Baxy