Chris Guanche
@cguanche.bsky.social
Writer. Co-founder, MAHQ (www.mahq.net). Check out @mahqdotnet.bsky.social. Co-host of the Gundamn! podcast (@gundamn.bsky.social). He/him.
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#Gundamn325 New Ep! A double-fisted review of the latest projects set in the #AlienVerse - the 2024 film #AlienRomulus and the 2025 FX series, #AlienEarth"! Join us live on Thurs 11/20 @ 10:15 pm! #MAHQ #Mecha #Anime #Podcast
Live Stream: youtube.com/live/jpTYiVq...
Live Stream: youtube.com/live/jpTYiVq...
November 19, 2025 at 11:39 PM
#Gundamn325 New Ep! A double-fisted review of the latest projects set in the #AlienVerse - the 2024 film #AlienRomulus and the 2025 FX series, #AlienEarth"! Join us live on Thurs 11/20 @ 10:15 pm! #MAHQ #Mecha #Anime #Podcast
Live Stream: youtube.com/live/jpTYiVq...
Live Stream: youtube.com/live/jpTYiVq...
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I am so excited to share this feature I worked really hard on. Thanks to @arkada.bsky.social for his input:
Does the Light Novel Translation Process Need AI?
As machine translation tools under the banner of AI become increasingly accessible and easy to use, the light novel landscape is at a crossroads. Do light novel publishers compromise their product for...
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November 7, 2025 at 3:41 PM
I am so excited to share this feature I worked really hard on. Thanks to @arkada.bsky.social for his input:
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"Crows roost on large background ornaments before swooping in for the kill, candles flicker on huge chandeliers hung from high ceilings, and enormous skeletal figures dramatically kneel in reverence on their plinths"
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Dracula Densetsu II: Atmospheric improvisation
The Game Boy’s Castlevania adventures have always been just that little bit apart from the rest of the series, offering a slower pace, a greatly reduced enemy count, and a relentless demand f…
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November 6, 2025 at 4:15 AM
"Crows roost on large background ornaments before swooping in for the kill, candles flicker on huge chandeliers hung from high ceilings, and enormous skeletal figures dramatically kneel in reverence on their plinths"
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MyAnimeList scores are as irrelevant and useless as IMDB scores. Don't let arbitrary numbers influence and dissuade you from enjoying or checking out what looks interesting to you.
Friends, #weebwednesday is upon us once again! You know the drill - quote-post with your weebiest hot takes, nothing racist, nothing intentionally inflammatory, have fun with it ♥
November 5, 2025 at 7:45 PM
MyAnimeList scores are as irrelevant and useless as IMDB scores. Don't let arbitrary numbers influence and dissuade you from enjoying or checking out what looks interesting to you.
Every time someone asks for a suggested watch order for a big franchise like Gundam or Macross on social media, it turns into a shitshow of people who have no chill getting way too serious about it and being unhelpful. You're better off just picking something random and seeing if you like it.
Friends, #weebwednesday is upon us once again! You know the drill - quote-post with your weebiest hot takes, nothing racist, nothing intentionally inflammatory, have fun with it ♥
November 5, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Every time someone asks for a suggested watch order for a big franchise like Gundam or Macross on social media, it turns into a shitshow of people who have no chill getting way too serious about it and being unhelpful. You're better off just picking something random and seeing if you like it.
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Holy shit. @shmuplations.bsky.social translated a massive thread of old tweets from Hideo Yoshizawa that goes deep into the NES Ninja Gaiden's development, including finally confirming the Castlevania influence shmuplations.com/ninjagaiden/
Ninja Gaiden – Developer Commentary (2023) - shmuplations.com
Taken from a string of social media posts shared in 2023, these comments from director Hideo Yoshizawa recount the making of Tecmo's classic side-scrolling action game, Ninja Gaiden.
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October 31, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Holy shit. @shmuplations.bsky.social translated a massive thread of old tweets from Hideo Yoshizawa that goes deep into the NES Ninja Gaiden's development, including finally confirming the Castlevania influence shmuplations.com/ninjagaiden/
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As I keep saying, IP owners need to learn to start behaving more like farmers who plan for the long term and who know when to rotate crops & let the soil fall fallow, rather than greedy robber barons who relentlessly stripmine until there’s nothing left and the whole thing collapses.
October 30, 2025 at 4:23 PM
As I keep saying, IP owners need to learn to start behaving more like farmers who plan for the long term and who know when to rotate crops & let the soil fall fallow, rather than greedy robber barons who relentlessly stripmine until there’s nothing left and the whole thing collapses.
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FINAL FANTASY IV
SQUARE 1991
SUPER FAMICOM
SQUARE 1991
SUPER FAMICOM
October 27, 2025 at 11:09 PM
FINAL FANTASY IV
SQUARE 1991
SUPER FAMICOM
SQUARE 1991
SUPER FAMICOM
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NINJA GAIDEN TRILOGY
TECMO 1995
SNES
TECMO 1995
SNES
October 16, 2025 at 11:36 PM
NINJA GAIDEN TRILOGY
TECMO 1995
SNES
TECMO 1995
SNES
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Every anime fan should have at least one Blu-ray player. 4K UHD Blu-ray if you can swing it, consoles and PC’s with disc drives count, just get something that will playback discs. If you’re younger and grew up on streaming, please just listen to old people on this one thing: Get a Blu-ray player.
Friends, #weebwednesday is upon us once again! You know the drill - quote-post with your weebiest hot takes, nothing racist, nothing intentionally inflammatory, have fun with it ♥
October 15, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Every anime fan should have at least one Blu-ray player. 4K UHD Blu-ray if you can swing it, consoles and PC’s with disc drives count, just get something that will playback discs. If you’re younger and grew up on streaming, please just listen to old people on this one thing: Get a Blu-ray player.
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RIP the legendary Drew Struzan (1947-2025) 😩
Even though we were expecting the news any day now, it makes me very sad. What an artist.
Even though we were expecting the news any day now, it makes me very sad. What an artist.
October 14, 2025 at 3:33 PM
RIP the legendary Drew Struzan (1947-2025) 😩
Even though we were expecting the news any day now, it makes me very sad. What an artist.
Even though we were expecting the news any day now, it makes me very sad. What an artist.
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so Google just added a bunch (more) AI bullshit to Chrome
Go through these steps to disable it:
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#chrome #aibullshit
Go through these steps to disable it:
opus.ing/posts/how-to...
#chrome #aibullshit
How to Remove AI From Your Google Chrome Experience - Opus
Follow these steps to resist the AI-pocalypse in your everyday web browsing.
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October 11, 2025 at 12:04 AM
so Google just added a bunch (more) AI bullshit to Chrome
Go through these steps to disable it:
opus.ing/posts/how-to...
#chrome #aibullshit
Go through these steps to disable it:
opus.ing/posts/how-to...
#chrome #aibullshit
Super NES or the individual letters. SNES is an abomination.
October 9, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Super NES or the individual letters. SNES is an abomination.
Learned this lesson the hard way...
It's very telling that even in the earliest days of the internet, any community that reached a certain size had to institute a rule like, "We can ban you on vibes, fuck you," if they wanted to maintain the peace. Because it's impossible for rules to cover everything bad faith might think of.
October 2, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Learned this lesson the hard way...
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People were *big* mad about banning indoor smoking. People were *big* mad about seatbelts being mandatory. People are always gonna be mad about something, if you're not willing to make people mad you're never gonna get shit done.
October 1, 2025 at 7:24 PM
People were *big* mad about banning indoor smoking. People were *big* mad about seatbelts being mandatory. People are always gonna be mad about something, if you're not willing to make people mad you're never gonna get shit done.
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Buying a company by taking out a massive loan, then making the company you bought responsible for paying off that loan, is so patently evil that it should be beyond illegal. The kind of thing that inspires enlightened societies without corporal punishment to bring back the death penalty as a one-off
September 29, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Buying a company by taking out a massive loan, then making the company you bought responsible for paying off that loan, is so patently evil that it should be beyond illegal. The kind of thing that inspires enlightened societies without corporal punishment to bring back the death penalty as a one-off
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the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.
September 25, 2025 at 11:09 PM
the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.
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My most millennial take is that software as a service and anything explicitly browser based that requires an internet connection and does not run off the drive inside my machine is a fucking scam
No I do not want to sign into software.
90% of software should just run on your computer and do the thing it's built to do.
Not everything needs to be signed into.
There's no reason I should have to sign into Adobe Acrobat reader!
90% of software should just run on your computer and do the thing it's built to do.
Not everything needs to be signed into.
There's no reason I should have to sign into Adobe Acrobat reader!
September 24, 2025 at 8:11 PM
My most millennial take is that software as a service and anything explicitly browser based that requires an internet connection and does not run off the drive inside my machine is a fucking scam
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"if you dont use smart glasses with an always-on AI assistant youre going to fall behind intellectually" i cannot express how little i am concerned about being shown up by people who have paid money to have a simpering computer lie into their ear at all times
September 19, 2025 at 3:03 PM
"if you dont use smart glasses with an always-on AI assistant youre going to fall behind intellectually" i cannot express how little i am concerned about being shown up by people who have paid money to have a simpering computer lie into their ear at all times
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I actually had to explain to someone recently that the AI that tells enemies in video games how to react to player inputs is NOT genAI and has existed for literal decades. they genuinely had no idea there was a difference. this shit has poisoned the well so bad.
I hate AI, but I think we should think more critically about blanket-condemning anything that could be ai. Big genAI, which steals copyrighted works, poisons our collective knowledge, and consumes unconscionable amounts of energy is BAD. On-device ai that lets me search my photos for dogs is FINE.
September 1, 2025 at 7:36 AM
I actually had to explain to someone recently that the AI that tells enemies in video games how to react to player inputs is NOT genAI and has existed for literal decades. they genuinely had no idea there was a difference. this shit has poisoned the well so bad.
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Gundam X feels like the logical extreme of early UC series. Humanity is near extinct, Newtypes are still exploited, and the fate of all humanity rests on one teenager that grabs a Gundam controller.
I adore X's atmosphere so much, both through its visuals and its gloomy soundtrack.
I adore X's atmosphere so much, both through its visuals and its gloomy soundtrack.
September 11, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Gundam X feels like the logical extreme of early UC series. Humanity is near extinct, Newtypes are still exploited, and the fate of all humanity rests on one teenager that grabs a Gundam controller.
I adore X's atmosphere so much, both through its visuals and its gloomy soundtrack.
I adore X's atmosphere so much, both through its visuals and its gloomy soundtrack.
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What an expertly called shot
September 10, 2025 at 2:55 PM
What an expertly called shot