JPEG artifacts, not AI artifacts.

This isn't pixelated, it's artifacted. It's just a poor quality image that's been compressed too much over months (oldest I can find was 11 months ago) or even years of wandering the internet at various resolutions.

Slasher release chopsticks?

"There's like thirty of you," he says (and seems to be underestimating). Yeah, dude, that's what happens when you barge in uninvited to piss off 30-50 people.

What a world.

(This may be more relevant for longer form writing like prose chapters than for a comic script, though.)

Reading your own writing out loud is also a surprisingly good way to proofread for typos and such! If you proofread in your head, you're likely to just kinda gloss over the words like we do when reading text normally, but reading out loud makes you have to consciously take in each individual word.

Cloud is already really good with some of the other Equipment in that deck. Yesterday I reduced someone from 24 health to 0 in two strikes with Cloud at his base 2/1 P/T, after attaching a Quietus Spike to him.

*looks up the card* Oh holy hell, this would go so well in the Arna Kennerüd Equipment deck I made the other day. Especially if I can get it attached to Cloud, Midgar Mercenary.

Similarly, the original Japanese title refers to a soliloquy, a monologue or speaking to oneself. That sounds like she'd be thinking out loud a lot, but Maomao is generally pretty good at keeping her thoughts inside her head. So she doesn't get executed for them.

Now I'm 8.5 hours into the playlist, have consciously heard around 3.5 hours, but have only actually SEEN maybe one hour.

I can't have made it more than 15 minutes into the first stream before I was gone, and that ~5.5 hr stream ended shortly after I woke back up. Then I left it running on my headphones as I went to get some food.

Asahina: "...needles are scary..."

Koizumi: "Our organization has confirmed that nearly 100% of vaccine recipients are now showing symptoms."

Kyon: "I got mine three weeks ago and I don't feel any different."

Nagato: *nods* "No change detected in your neural activity."

Koizumi: "Yes, well, of course YOU wouldn't."

Kyon: "Huh?"

Koizumi: "Did you know that ever since Miss Suzumiya saw that shoddily made website about the government's ongoing vaccination efforts a couple months ago, the diagnosis statistics for autism in this country have skyrocketed?"

Kyon: "Why would I ever know that?"

They were roommates.

Really wouldn't help anyway. The implication was always the point in the original Vine, so suggesting they've actually seen it just drags them further into "wow, they really didn't get what this meant at all" territory. It removes any excuse they had left.

You're missing a couple syllables in the first and second lines.