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King_Fuffy

@king-of-fuffies.bsky.social

42 followers 170 following 290 posts

strange crustacean phenomenon - amateur author, occasional streamer
some kind of Creature who uses she/her pronouns

https://ko-fi.com/king_fuffy
https://twitch.tv/king_fuffy

business: kingfuffy.business@gmail.com

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King_Fuffy

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The context for Horse Ballsack Modeling is from this very good Prokopetz tumblr post, for the record- it's not a term I drew magically from thin air.

A tumblr post from David J. Prokopetz that reads:
“I want games with worse graphics if it means less crunch time” is a fine sentiment, but, like, it’s still very much buying into a framing of what having good graphics means that’s been constructed to favour AAA studios at every level.

Straight up, the number of polygons a game engine can push tells us nothing in particular about whether it’s nice to look at. I’ve seen games with sixteen-colour pixel art and a native resolution of 320x240 that look amazing, and I’ve seen games with photorealistic 4K graphics that look like shit.

We’ve been suckered into accepting a notion of “good graphics” that’s defined purely in terms of how labour-intensive they are to produce. We’re like a bunch of 16th Century noblemen shovelling our faces full of whipped egg whites and pretending it doesn’t taste like eating a plate of cold air because hey, not just anybody can afford to hire some poor peasant to spend all day destroying their arms whipping egg whites by hand, and exclusivity is the measure of quality, right?

The 2nd half of the post in the first image:

"We can talk about how “good graphics” aren’t important all we want, but unless we challenge the idea that pouring hundreds of thousands of person-hours into shadow-mapping every individual hair on the protagonist’s horse’s nutsack is the definition of “good graphics”, we’re playing by the AAA studios’ rules."

"Like, the AAA studios aren’t stupid – the reason they do ridiculous shit like that is precisely because it allows them to define what a quality product looks like in a way that only they have access to."

December 8, 2025 at 7:58 AM

King_Fuffy

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Magica Riot is a really really good book

Text from the novel Magica Riot: “Gamer aesthetics on a 5G antenna huh,” Hikari said. “Okay that’s a little gauche but I’m not one to judge you should see my apartment I can’t really throw too many stones from my glass house of modded Dreamcasts.”

November 28, 2025 at 11:22 PM

King_Fuffy

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IMPORTANT MESSAGE FOR ALL FOLLOWERS:

November 21, 2025 at 3:52 PM

King_Fuffy

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I can't post in a vacuum. No fit :(

November 20, 2025 at 8:04 PM

King_Fuffy

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this image is literally so real
(credit to @demilypyro.bsky.social for making it)

November 19, 2025 at 2:03 AM

King_Fuffy

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For anyone who was following my #EatGod character creation megathread: I finished creating the thing and didn't post about it. Oops. Meet "Evidence of the Fist of Thumbs on the Scale", also known as Thumbfist, God-eater and master of the Art of Making!

October 25, 2025 at 1:10 AM

King_Fuffy

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I'm in the top 4% of #rtgame viewers. I've watched 7x as much Drift King as all of you. Bow before me

November 21, 2024 at 3:35 AM

King_Fuffy

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my roguelike is showing

October 24, 2024 at 3:28 PM

King_Fuffy

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Your life work? Gosh, I hope so.

October 24, 2024 at 2:12 PM

King_Fuffy

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> How did you pick your username?

"King Fuffy" was a specific character that Young Me had, based off a childhood stuffed animal (pictured below). However, Minecraft doesn't allow spaces in usernames- so the space was replaced with an underscore and my username became "King_Fuffy".

A yellow stuffed animal with two stubby legs, two beady black eyes, and a big smiley mouth, sitting on a purple comforter. A cartoony crown has been photoshopped onto the stuffed animal's head.

October 23, 2024 at 7:19 PM

King_Fuffy

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A drafted skeet, 154 words over Bluesky's word limit. The first paragraph reads "Evidence: Live-streaming, despite its reputation for 'authenticity', actually involves plenty of acting and an extensively handcrafted persona, as well as spontaneous comic performance. The most extreme form of a crafted persona is a V-Tuber, who designs an entire unique second face to use while they perform, and rarely, if ever, use their real face in conjunction with their act."

There is a second paragraph of text that reads "Conclusion: V-Tubers are the internet version of professional clowns. "

October 22, 2024 at 3:01 PM

King_Fuffy

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i have many questions about how they quantify this thing. why are Jon Bois and Daniel RTGame in my immediate circle. JustKaboodle is one ring out??? WHERE'S MOOSE MY GOOD FRIEND MOOSEPLAYS??? Baffling.