MVEssick
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Digital media artist. Illustration and Graphic design🔞 #VR/#AR indie dev (he/they)
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The games industry brings in 300 billion dollars a year. The guy who made DOOM gets his projects canceled, the guy who made Katamari Damacy is broke, everyone in your feed is begging for a job and there are 50 new games coming out on Steam every day all going towards buying Gabe Newell's next yacht
Keita Takahashi (Katamari, Wattam, Noby Noby Boy) has moved back to Japan, and says he may be forced to quit the games industry due to To a T underperforming.
He also says he'd love to work on Katamari again, and for someone to invest in his studio.
(Read more at GamesRadar)
He also says he'd love to work on Katamari again, and for someone to invest in his studio.
(Read more at GamesRadar)
December 15, 2025 at 12:57 PM
The games industry brings in 300 billion dollars a year. The guy who made DOOM gets his projects canceled, the guy who made Katamari Damacy is broke, everyone in your feed is begging for a job and there are 50 new games coming out on Steam every day all going towards buying Gabe Newell's next yacht
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Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.
December 15, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.
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The Internet was never perfect but it used to be usable, functional. I know how we got here and I want the old Internet back. I want forums back. I want personal sites. I want stuff not written by a machine. I just want shit to work again.
December 15, 2025 at 12:31 AM
The Internet was never perfect but it used to be usable, functional. I know how we got here and I want the old Internet back. I want forums back. I want personal sites. I want stuff not written by a machine. I just want shit to work again.
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Two victims of previous school shootings — Mia Tretta, who was shot in the stomach in 2019 at Saugus High School, and Zoe Weissman, who survived the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School — are now at Brown. Gun violence is out of control in this country.
December 14, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Two victims of previous school shootings — Mia Tretta, who was shot in the stomach in 2019 at Saugus High School, and Zoe Weissman, who survived the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School — are now at Brown. Gun violence is out of control in this country.
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Also most of the people say "skill" when they mean "style". They don't think the various anime inspired styles online are as skilled because it's not realism.
December 14, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Also most of the people say "skill" when they mean "style". They don't think the various anime inspired styles online are as skilled because it's not realism.
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This is your regular reminder that EVERYONE who speaks speaks with an accent.
December 13, 2025 at 10:31 AM
This is your regular reminder that EVERYONE who speaks speaks with an accent.
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"Conservative views" are the threat and promise of unending violence enatced on people for the crime of making conservatives even momentarily uncomfortable, and they HATE that people have figured this out and are acting accordingly in self-defense.
What conservatives mean when they say they are "under attack for their views" is that they are being accurately understood as the sort of people who hold the sort of views conservatives hold, and that makes them afraid they will be treated the way conservatives treat those whose views they scorn.
The fact is no presenter has ever had to leave the BBC for expressing conservative views, or even explicitly endorsing a right-wing party.
Was never a problem for Jeremy Clarkson. Was never a problem for Andrew Neil. Was never a problem for Alan Sugar
Was never a problem for Jeremy Clarkson. Was never a problem for Andrew Neil. Was never a problem for Alan Sugar
December 14, 2025 at 2:00 PM
"Conservative views" are the threat and promise of unending violence enatced on people for the crime of making conservatives even momentarily uncomfortable, and they HATE that people have figured this out and are acting accordingly in self-defense.
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AI has actively made life worse for literally everyone
- tech is now more expensive
- you cannot trust most media of reality anymore
- programs barely function
- energy prices
- literal psychosis
- your voice can be literally stolen for evil
- more spyware
but hey, you can avoid paying an artist.
- tech is now more expensive
- you cannot trust most media of reality anymore
- programs barely function
- energy prices
- literal psychosis
- your voice can be literally stolen for evil
- more spyware
but hey, you can avoid paying an artist.
December 14, 2025 at 4:19 AM
AI has actively made life worse for literally everyone
- tech is now more expensive
- you cannot trust most media of reality anymore
- programs barely function
- energy prices
- literal psychosis
- your voice can be literally stolen for evil
- more spyware
but hey, you can avoid paying an artist.
- tech is now more expensive
- you cannot trust most media of reality anymore
- programs barely function
- energy prices
- literal psychosis
- your voice can be literally stolen for evil
- more spyware
but hey, you can avoid paying an artist.
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the internet is currently designed to cause you as much rage as possible.
Browsing sketchy porn sites in the early aughts could not prepare me for the sheer number of pop-up ads on today's internet
Browsing sketchy porn sites in the early aughts could not prepare me for the sheer number of pop-up ads on today's internet
December 14, 2025 at 2:49 AM
the internet is currently designed to cause you as much rage as possible.
Browsing sketchy porn sites in the early aughts could not prepare me for the sheer number of pop-up ads on today's internet
Browsing sketchy porn sites in the early aughts could not prepare me for the sheer number of pop-up ads on today's internet
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Glitch Productions responds to Disney licencing over 200 characters to Sora and ChatGPT and investing $1 BILLION in OpenAI in a new post:
“the fuck are they doing”
“the fuck are they doing”
December 13, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Glitch Productions responds to Disney licencing over 200 characters to Sora and ChatGPT and investing $1 BILLION in OpenAI in a new post:
“the fuck are they doing”
“the fuck are they doing”
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it's annoying people thinking us transmascs have to be drawn one way or another with nothing in-between but so many trans guys, post transition or pre transition/hrt/surgery all look different!!!! some of us are just curvy man, especially fat curvy.
December 14, 2025 at 12:30 AM
it's annoying people thinking us transmascs have to be drawn one way or another with nothing in-between but so many trans guys, post transition or pre transition/hrt/surgery all look different!!!! some of us are just curvy man, especially fat curvy.
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epic will pay for every game that gets claimed this way so yes, you are still giving money to rowling (and by extension an international campaign against trans people) by claiming this
there are other, better franchises - let this one go
there are other, better franchises - let this one go
Epic Games partnered with The Game Awards to give away this week's free game on the Epic Games Store.
Hogwarts Legacy is now at the right price: $0
Epic Games partnered with The Game Awards to give away this week's free game on the Epic Games Store.
www.polygon.com
December 13, 2025 at 5:27 PM
epic will pay for every game that gets claimed this way so yes, you are still giving money to rowling (and by extension an international campaign against trans people) by claiming this
there are other, better franchises - let this one go
there are other, better franchises - let this one go
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OTD, December 13, 1925, Richard Wayne Van Dyke was born in West Plains, Missouri.
A man of many talents who impacted comedy, theater, and music as well as heading one of the greatest sitcoms ever created and lauded by his peers and fans for generations.
Happy 100th birthday, Dick Van Dyke.
A man of many talents who impacted comedy, theater, and music as well as heading one of the greatest sitcoms ever created and lauded by his peers and fans for generations.
Happy 100th birthday, Dick Van Dyke.
a man in a hat is dancing with a woman in a striped shirt
Alt: Rob Petrie (Dick Van Dyke) is doing the Twizzle.
media.tenor.com
December 13, 2025 at 5:02 AM
OTD, December 13, 1925, Richard Wayne Van Dyke was born in West Plains, Missouri.
A man of many talents who impacted comedy, theater, and music as well as heading one of the greatest sitcoms ever created and lauded by his peers and fans for generations.
Happy 100th birthday, Dick Van Dyke.
A man of many talents who impacted comedy, theater, and music as well as heading one of the greatest sitcoms ever created and lauded by his peers and fans for generations.
Happy 100th birthday, Dick Van Dyke.
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Please get vaccinated. This doesn’t have to happen. But it will happen more, and with more fatalities as long as RFK Jr and his anti-science enablers continue to spread disinformation. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
South Carolina measles outbreak is 'accelerating,' driving hundreds into quarantine
Some students who remain unvaccinated are now in a second 21-day quarantine since the beginning of the school year.
www.nbcnews.com
December 12, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Please get vaccinated. This doesn’t have to happen. But it will happen more, and with more fatalities as long as RFK Jr and his anti-science enablers continue to spread disinformation. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
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When I was in high school we made 69 jokes but the economy is so bad kids these days can only joke about 67
December 12, 2025 at 11:29 PM
When I was in high school we made 69 jokes but the economy is so bad kids these days can only joke about 67
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My first ft job was making t-shirt designs for Disney. Their brand guidelines were crazy strict. For ex multiple princesses couldn’t interact/look at each other or have their feet visible.
I guess you can just slopify as much spiderman elsa feet stuff as you want now. Brand integrity? Who cares lol
I guess you can just slopify as much spiderman elsa feet stuff as you want now. Brand integrity? Who cares lol
December 12, 2025 at 3:25 AM
My first ft job was making t-shirt designs for Disney. Their brand guidelines were crazy strict. For ex multiple princesses couldn’t interact/look at each other or have their feet visible.
I guess you can just slopify as much spiderman elsa feet stuff as you want now. Brand integrity? Who cares lol
I guess you can just slopify as much spiderman elsa feet stuff as you want now. Brand integrity? Who cares lol
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Fucking incredible dystopian shit, comparing super rich people risking millions if not billions of lives just to make more money to people that risked their life actually building incredible things that would then make millions of dollars for super rich people.
December 11, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Fucking incredible dystopian shit, comparing super rich people risking millions if not billions of lives just to make more money to people that risked their life actually building incredible things that would then make millions of dollars for super rich people.
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no rights only titillation
Trans being the second most popular category during a time of extreme transphobia perpetuated by both the porn industry and general society is not at all surprising but y'know..... trans porn is apparently niche
December 11, 2025 at 10:13 PM
no rights only titillation
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Also, congratulations everyone who made something this year. A comic, a song, a film, a novel, a painting, a poem, a short story, a sculpture, crochet, embroidery, whatever it is. In this era of slop and theft, if you *make* something you are a shining jewel and I am so grateful for you.
December 11, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Also, congratulations everyone who made something this year. A comic, a song, a film, a novel, a painting, a poem, a short story, a sculpture, crochet, embroidery, whatever it is. In this era of slop and theft, if you *make* something you are a shining jewel and I am so grateful for you.
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Generations of steely eyed, take-no-prisoners Disney IP lawyers are screaming anew in hell today
December 11, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Generations of steely eyed, take-no-prisoners Disney IP lawyers are screaming anew in hell today
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This is quite a thing from the people who brought you a copyright extension act that strains the rule against perpetuities. Actual human artists can't tell stories with your characters for decades to come, but Sam Altman's toy can put them into porn, no problem.
December 11, 2025 at 2:23 PM
This is quite a thing from the people who brought you a copyright extension act that strains the rule against perpetuities. Actual human artists can't tell stories with your characters for decades to come, but Sam Altman's toy can put them into porn, no problem.
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Indie-Animation wont save us. I wont pretend that small creators have the capacity to dethrone and FIX the ills of the industry.
But we can provide an alternative. We can develop stories worth telling.
But we need YOU to do it.
But we can provide an alternative. We can develop stories worth telling.
But we need YOU to do it.
Disney and OpenAI sign a deal to bring 200+ Disney characters to Sora
Disney makes $1 billion investment in OpenAI and will become a "major" OpenAI customer
openai.com/index/disney...
Disney makes $1 billion investment in OpenAI and will become a "major" OpenAI customer
openai.com/index/disney...
December 11, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Indie-Animation wont save us. I wont pretend that small creators have the capacity to dethrone and FIX the ills of the industry.
But we can provide an alternative. We can develop stories worth telling.
But we need YOU to do it.
But we can provide an alternative. We can develop stories worth telling.
But we need YOU to do it.
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fujoshi'd too close to the sun (transitioned into a gay man)
December 11, 2025 at 1:40 AM
fujoshi'd too close to the sun (transitioned into a gay man)
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Maybe tech feels so empty these days because it's trying to solve problems we don't have, or pretending every challenge is a problem to be solved.
Grief isn't a problem. It's a challenge, and painful, but it's not a PROBLEM. If we're never challenged, we'll never grow.
Grief isn't a problem. It's a challenge, and painful, but it's not a PROBLEM. If we're never challenged, we'll never grow.
we talk a lot about the weirdo techbro obsession with immortality these AI necromancy projects embody, but I'm arguably even MORE fascinated by the terror of allowing yourself to experience deep, complex emotions they so obviously reveal
you cannot prevent yourself from feeling grief with an app??
you cannot prevent yourself from feeling grief with an app??
IN DEPTH | If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
December 10, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Maybe tech feels so empty these days because it's trying to solve problems we don't have, or pretending every challenge is a problem to be solved.
Grief isn't a problem. It's a challenge, and painful, but it's not a PROBLEM. If we're never challenged, we'll never grow.
Grief isn't a problem. It's a challenge, and painful, but it's not a PROBLEM. If we're never challenged, we'll never grow.