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That's not the kind of stock photos you'd use for photo-bashing.
My point is, literally, ZUN used to use creative commons images to create Touhou backgrounds - the most recent game used GenAI for it.
Literally nobody is being cut out of profit here, it's an imagined problem.
My point is, literally, ZUN used to use creative commons images to create Touhou backgrounds - the most recent game used GenAI for it.
Literally nobody is being cut out of profit here, it's an imagined problem.
November 16, 2025 at 12:36 AM
That's not the kind of stock photos you'd use for photo-bashing.
My point is, literally, ZUN used to use creative commons images to create Touhou backgrounds - the most recent game used GenAI for it.
Literally nobody is being cut out of profit here, it's an imagined problem.
My point is, literally, ZUN used to use creative commons images to create Touhou backgrounds - the most recent game used GenAI for it.
Literally nobody is being cut out of profit here, it's an imagined problem.
You can genuinely already build a really great Commander troll deck if you use Omnath as Commander.
November 4, 2025 at 2:55 PM
You can genuinely already build a really great Commander troll deck if you use Omnath as Commander.
"They thought the endless journey to escape this place was for one victory only... they're gonna be so mad..."
October 30, 2025 at 2:10 PM
"They thought the endless journey to escape this place was for one victory only... they're gonna be so mad..."
So mousing over this video for the preview shows it opens with footage of Pokemon Legends ZA.
The habit of "fuck actual information, just ragebait about Nintendo Game Bad" has led to claiming that Sakurai, a third party freelancer, is the last good developer at Nintendo.
Great stuff.
The habit of "fuck actual information, just ragebait about Nintendo Game Bad" has led to claiming that Sakurai, a third party freelancer, is the last good developer at Nintendo.
Great stuff.
October 29, 2025 at 2:35 PM
So mousing over this video for the preview shows it opens with footage of Pokemon Legends ZA.
The habit of "fuck actual information, just ragebait about Nintendo Game Bad" has led to claiming that Sakurai, a third party freelancer, is the last good developer at Nintendo.
Great stuff.
The habit of "fuck actual information, just ragebait about Nintendo Game Bad" has led to claiming that Sakurai, a third party freelancer, is the last good developer at Nintendo.
Great stuff.
![A screenshot of a tumblr post from "Aokozaki", reading: The real solution to the trolley problem is to set the limit, and exceed it - to trace the conceptual level and replicate every flaw without fail. To push past everything, and then eight steps further.
[An embedded image from Fate/Stay Night, Shirou's magic circuits flowing, overloading, with golden energy as he forces himself past his limits. Below, the text continues:]
Yeah... even if it's ridiculous, even if it's impossible. The only thing these circuits were ever meant to do was stop that trolley!](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hxmux3e6r4p4u4x3szz6e3fq/bafkreigolopvpmz7ayeevtkdpzpddqy3nrzycnqhambzmlx3dpfyroah6a@jpeg)
Oh also speaking of the Ouroborus symbolism, it's two snakes devouring each other, contained in the one object. I'm pretty sure I'm right!
October 26, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Oh also speaking of the Ouroborus symbolism, it's two snakes devouring each other, contained in the one object. I'm pretty sure I'm right!
Gnosia is really good, shoutouts to SQ for having my new favorite "reaction to finding out another character is in a timeloop"
October 25, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Gnosia is really good, shoutouts to SQ for having my new favorite "reaction to finding out another character is in a timeloop"
Oh this article's a riot. In what way is increasing military spending not "hawkish", lol.
October 25, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Oh this article's a riot. In what way is increasing military spending not "hawkish", lol.
Y'know I really don't think that's a fair comparison.
October 20, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Y'know I really don't think that's a fair comparison.
I love the starting top you get, I haven't found anything cuter than that yet.
October 17, 2025 at 1:51 PM
I love the starting top you get, I haven't found anything cuter than that yet.
It's really great so far. You get the distinct impression Kurage *already* thinks he's hilarious because he's like, on the right wavelength to keep up with her.
Being a straight man is a comedy skill! One of the funniest one-liners so far has been his incredibly serious:
Being a straight man is a comedy skill! One of the funniest one-liners so far has been his incredibly serious:
October 13, 2025 at 9:20 AM
It's really great so far. You get the distinct impression Kurage *already* thinks he's hilarious because he's like, on the right wavelength to keep up with her.
Being a straight man is a comedy skill! One of the funniest one-liners so far has been his incredibly serious:
Being a straight man is a comedy skill! One of the funniest one-liners so far has been his incredibly serious:
Manga Plus' Someone Hertz (by Ei Yamano) is the tragic tale of Tsukkomi Boy meets Boke Girl, who says she'd only wanna date someone funnier than her, and his attempts to get his jokes onto a viewer-submitted one-liner radio show to prove it.
Totally unaware he's already hilarious riffing on her.
Totally unaware he's already hilarious riffing on her.
October 13, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Manga Plus' Someone Hertz (by Ei Yamano) is the tragic tale of Tsukkomi Boy meets Boke Girl, who says she'd only wanna date someone funnier than her, and his attempts to get his jokes onto a viewer-submitted one-liner radio show to prove it.
Totally unaware he's already hilarious riffing on her.
Totally unaware he's already hilarious riffing on her.
discussed in Friedrich Nietzsche's work, including Thus Spoke Zarathustra, where the idea of time existing in an eternal cycle, every good and bad thing that happened to you repeating forever...
Is described as a comforting thing.
Is described as a comforting thing.
October 11, 2025 at 2:57 PM
discussed in Friedrich Nietzsche's work, including Thus Spoke Zarathustra, where the idea of time existing in an eternal cycle, every good and bad thing that happened to you repeating forever...
Is described as a comforting thing.
Is described as a comforting thing.
Like the party travels to Rennes-le-Chateu, a place so obviously named after a real life location that I googled it and:
Ah, that's what we're looking for then.
Ah, that's what we're looking for then.
October 9, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Like the party travels to Rennes-le-Chateu, a place so obviously named after a real life location that I googled it and:
Ah, that's what we're looking for then.
Ah, that's what we're looking for then.
I really wish there was a version of FFT with the classic graphics but the modern rebalancing of the Ivalice Chronicles version.
There's something magical about the way the PS1 resolution makes the battle map look like sprites, until you rotate the camera and suddenly see a "2D" scene in full 3D.
There's something magical about the way the PS1 resolution makes the battle map look like sprites, until you rotate the camera and suddenly see a "2D" scene in full 3D.
October 5, 2025 at 12:08 PM
I really wish there was a version of FFT with the classic graphics but the modern rebalancing of the Ivalice Chronicles version.
There's something magical about the way the PS1 resolution makes the battle map look like sprites, until you rotate the camera and suddenly see a "2D" scene in full 3D.
There's something magical about the way the PS1 resolution makes the battle map look like sprites, until you rotate the camera and suddenly see a "2D" scene in full 3D.
Going on a vacation with Ruri and her Rocks and they all start doing geology work through the night.
September 28, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Going on a vacation with Ruri and her Rocks and they all start doing geology work through the night.
Girl you have a published paper under your name, calm down.
September 28, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Girl you have a published paper under your name, calm down.
Silent Hill f's "Lost in the Fog" puzzle difficulty really doesn't mess around...
September 26, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Silent Hill f's "Lost in the Fog" puzzle difficulty really doesn't mess around...
I think it's one of those things where - much like Vagrant Story using microscopic expression changes with pixel animation - the Wii game squeezes as much as it can out of the low poly...
Like, look, out of the sparse detail, he's totally grinding his teeth on the Wii version, right?
Like, look, out of the sparse detail, he's totally grinding his teeth on the Wii version, right?
September 25, 2025 at 3:08 PM
I think it's one of those things where - much like Vagrant Story using microscopic expression changes with pixel animation - the Wii game squeezes as much as it can out of the low poly...
Like, look, out of the sparse detail, he's totally grinding his teeth on the Wii version, right?
Like, look, out of the sparse detail, he's totally grinding his teeth on the Wii version, right?
So much angy in his eyes... gone...
September 25, 2025 at 3:05 PM
So much angy in his eyes... gone...
People often compare Melia specifically but like. Xenoblade 1 characters often have wide mouths because it gives the animators more to work with during the full motion cutscenes and it looks really good!
And also it's a visual style borrowed from FF12, it's super interesting!
And also it's a visual style borrowed from FF12, it's super interesting!
September 25, 2025 at 2:52 PM
People often compare Melia specifically but like. Xenoblade 1 characters often have wide mouths because it gives the animators more to work with during the full motion cutscenes and it looks really good!
And also it's a visual style borrowed from FF12, it's super interesting!
And also it's a visual style borrowed from FF12, it's super interesting!
You mess'test with the bestest, you getsest what you gtesest!
September 23, 2025 at 8:53 PM
You mess'test with the bestest, you getsest what you gtesest!
I wanna follow this up by mentioning that Silent Hill f's content warning on Steam was 100% written or dictated by Ryukishi himself:
September 22, 2025 at 9:37 PM
I wanna follow this up by mentioning that Silent Hill f's content warning on Steam was 100% written or dictated by Ryukishi himself:
Stupid hand-holding tutorials in games... won't even let you do the puzzle on your own...
September 22, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Stupid hand-holding tutorials in games... won't even let you do the puzzle on your own...
WHAT
I didn't know?????
I didn't know?????
September 21, 2025 at 2:41 PM
WHAT
I didn't know?????
I didn't know?????