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Five Ducks in a Trenchcoat
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I follow where my ADHD leads.
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Treasure Planet was released 23 years ago today... and literally takes us off in this magnificent shot. ✨
November 27, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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A truly great idea. 10,000 ethical assets freely available.

There’s no excuse for resorting to so-called AI with this and the *many* other assets you can use without resorting to laundered plagiarism.

Support real artists, not con artists.
More coverage of our 10,000 Game Assets Pack, this time on Dexerto. We really do appreciate all the support everyone is giving this - basically it makes the last year of working on it full time worthwhile & spurs us on to create more assets!! www.dexerto.com/gaming/indie... #gamedev #indiedev
Indie studio releases 10k human-made game assets so devs “don’t turn to AI” - Dexerto
Indie creators got a boost as a new 10k human-made asset pack launched to help developers avoid relying on AI tools.
www.dexerto.com
December 5, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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I made some Pokemon Fusions and Type changes for stream today upon request, I may have had a bit too much fun
December 4, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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hi guysss i have an end-of-year sale on my #VGen services that also doubles as my opening sale 🎉🎉 take a look, spread the word
reposts appreciated!!
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December 4, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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HELP, HELP I' M DYIN>G

voxer
fucking
December 3, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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So you need art for your game?

This way guarantees the worst possible experience, from hiring to deadline.

I wrote from an artists' perspective. Every project I ever quit, or that rained out did at least 1 of these.

ranarh.itch.io/how-to-get-t...

#gameart #gamedev #zine #zinester #blog #guide
November 30, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Can't fucking sleep.
November 27, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Zenos new hair style
November 25, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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November 25, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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November 23, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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oh I guess I should qrt this. hi I wrote this! please be normal to me.

this thesis is less about ffxiv and more in that ffxiv and ERP are a mode through which (my) gender and sexuality are negotiated, and how fan studies/games studies/trans studies doesn't "see" or think about ppl like me (yet)
I AM LOSING MY MIND OVER THIS FFXIV ERP MASTER'S THESIS
November 19, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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🎨🖌️ #oc this guy.............
November 19, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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It's that time again
November 18, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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It literally has a disclosure on its Steam page. It didn't "slip through", man. You tried to charge people for a thing that's got slop in it and they're mad.

I have an extension to add a pop-up on the Steam page for it but I really think it should be by default top-of-page.
November 17, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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I finished the entire BLOPS 7 campaign, asked for a refund and Valve granted it to me.

I wrote: "The game constantly utilized AI generated options that were not present in the marketing for the game as well as videos and screenshots of the material."

Shocked they did TBH
November 15, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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this line from cloud is in my head at least once a day
November 15, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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"Players don't read" of the Devil fixes this by giving gamers poker chips for proving their reading comprehension 🧠
November 14, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write to a famous author & ask for advice.

KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.

His reply was a doozy.
November 11, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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many uses for this, allegedly
November 12, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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November 11, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Dialogue option to let my WoL say "Raha"
#wolqotd #wolquestion

You have been granted one (1) minor boon from Yoshi-P: you can add, subtract, or change something about FFXIV in a *minor* way, no restructuring entire systems or expac stories, nothing that changes the course of the narrative. What do you choose?
November 9, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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I am not fucking joking when I say the English-speaking video game world would be nothing without GameFAQs. Everyone and their mom used it (literally, my mom and all her friends). If you played video games in the 2000s you probably knew GameFAQs in the same way most people know, like, Wikipedia
Hey, happy 30th birthday GameFAQs! Launched on November 5th, 1995!

The earliest scrape I can find on Wayback is December 1996, but I doubt the site changed much. But yes, here it is in its earliest days as the Video Game FAQ Archive!
November 5, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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現代AU描くの好きで、ザグくんもフォロワさんへの誕プレ絵で描いてたの見つけ出した🌭🍟
November 4, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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"oooo i'd draw that but i can't draw"

brother get this through your head

NOBODY can draw

we are literally

ALL

BULLSHITTING
November 4, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Ilberd is one of the few antagonists in the game who not only achieves his goal but ends up being proven right by the narrative. His methods were awful and resulted in a lot of people dying, but if he hadn't done what he did, the other city-states wouldn't have intervened to free Ala Mhigo.
October 20, 2025 at 2:57 AM