Nicole
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Nicole
@nikamiden.bsky.social
She/her. Sometimes writing.
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In case you were wondering what it’s like to boot a free to play mobile game in 2025
December 8, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Japan's best stop-motion studio isn't loud about it. But the quiet charm of its work speaks for itself.

We're exploring the specialness of dwarf studios in this issue:
animationobsessive.substack.com/p/inside-dwa...
November 24, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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Me, ten years ago: "I love technology! It enables such incredible things, and it's only going to create more wonders in the future!"

Me, now:
November 20, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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Nausicaä.
October 29, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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In the '70s, Hayao Miyazaki tried to revive the cartoons of his youth. And he kept mentioning Fleischer's Mr. Bug Goes to Town.

He loved its animation and use of "space," and the physical way its characters navigate its world. We look into the story:
animationobsessive.substack.com/p/miyazaki-a...
October 27, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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"No Turning Back."

The Three Tomes Indie Animatic Pilot is here.

Time for witches, magic books and vampire romance.

The pilot animatic premieres TODAY on YouTube @ 12pm PST

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fXF...

#indieanimation #thethreetomes
October 24, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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absolute workhorse of a reaction image from over 100 years ago
October 20, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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October 12, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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October 11, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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Anyone who mocks or otherwise doesn’t properly mourn the death of our beloved Dark Lord Sauron will find themselves taken into orc custody and brought to Barad-dûr for questioning. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
September 15, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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New Jubilee Video Features Charlie Kirk vs. 20 Screeching Demons in Hell

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New Jubilee Video Features Charlie Kirk vs. 20 Screeching Demons in Hell
EIGHTH CIRCLE OF HELL — Only slightly diverging from their tried and true formula, the latest installment of Jubilee’s hit YouTube series Surrounded features twenty…
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September 11, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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Some wholesome Trek content to start the week right #startrek #tng #voyager #ds9
August 25, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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all the best windows software in history is called something like "joe's thing doer". it does the thing and nothing else and is available on a html website in plain text and takes up under a megabyte of space and uses default windows ui elements and will work until the heat death of the universe
August 31, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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The U.K. Online Safety Act was (avowedly, as revealed in a recent High Court case) “not primarily aimed at protecting children” but at regulating “services that have a significant influence over public discourse.”
August 15, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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Generative AI by definition is conformity. It is an averaging of anything you ask of it - quite literally guessing what the most likely version of a thing might be. It is, by definition, mainstream, as is everything it creates old and deeply ideological, as every model trains on similar data.
AI filmmaking is peeing. It’s pooping. It’s throwing up. It’s a new kind of liquid coming out. It’s hated by the establishment. It’s what goes in the toilet. It’s wet. It’s what’s in the bathroom.
August 6, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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A remarkable 1987 article about “Q5”, a consultancy that, i’ve now learned, seems singularly responsible for the mass bland-izing of cartoons when i was a kid. I remember the sudden and mysterious Jeanine swap-out in The Real Ghostbusters! this explains so much.

www.latimes.com/archives/la-...
August 2, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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Well this is bad. Google is indexing ChatGPT conversations exposing sensitive user data

I tried a few quick searches. I found someone's chat where I can see their api key

I found some building their resume. Their name, email and phone numbers are exposed.

www.fastcompany.com/91376687/goo...
Exclusive: Google is indexing ChatGPT conversations, potentially exposing sensitive user data
Thousands of shared ChatGPT chats are now appearing in Google search results.
www.fastcompany.com
July 31, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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July 30, 2025 at 7:04 AM
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I saw somebody on TikTok using the word 'slopper' as a slur for people who use ChatGPT, and that's a thing we should start doing.
July 24, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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July 22, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Saw a theater interpretation of Solaris. Stayed remarkably true to the book while injecting a whole lot of gay.
10/10
June 29, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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theres finally research on chatgpt! spoilers: after 4 months of using chatgpt, brain connectivity collapses by FORTY SEVEN PERCENT
1/2 Most of the time, the use of over the top words like "terrifying" just makes the author look like a crank, but in this case, it could very well be justified. Memory of what was written was virtually nonexistent and brain connectivity collapsed by 47%. Read the thread.

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June 19, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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This month, a team endorsed by Guillermo del Toro released Mexico's first stop-motion feature. It's 2 hours of pure imagination.

The film is called I Am Frankelda, and we've taken a deep look into how it came to be: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-film-a...
June 15, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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The Flanderization of ghibli in the public mind is just so insane to me. Acting like it’s entirely wholesome and cutesy but is really overtly anti capitalist, depict the horrors of war and environmental decline, and have TONS of body horror and depictions of death and disease. it legit annoys me
June 2, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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I can't imagine looking at this and feeling anything other than nausea and despair. It's an ad for voluntarily surrendering your humanity in exchange for a low-intensity jerkoff machine.
May 25, 2025 at 6:04 AM