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@toxophilala.bsky.social

Alright now they’re close but not quite done-enough that I can say what the hell these are. We made job sigil coasters for my FC. Designed, laser-cut, sanded, stained and sealed everything. 15 total!!

And just in time, I’m giving these out at a small IRL holiday party tomorrow!! 🥹

December 5, 2025 at 9:55 PM

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Josh Foreman

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Tumblr user nocryptographer:
I talked with someone who works in book publishing, and they mentioned they get a lot of AI slop these days. I asked how they know what's human-written, and they said that there's one thing that will reveal AI slop without error, and that's the author not knowing their own creation.
A real author can talk about their story for hours. They love to elaborate every character, every twist, every detail. Because those existed in their head long before they ever made it to the paper. They were loved before they were written.
AI slop wasn't. It was just vomited into existence.
Someone who generates their story with AI will never bond with their story the way real writers do. That's why they may not know what to say when they're asked why did the character do this, or even remember the scene in the first place. It's something they read, not something they wrote. And to a writer, those are not the same.
There's a unique bond between the creator and the creation. If your writing doesn't come of you, you'll always lack that.
I keep hearing soon we won't be able to tell. And perhaps, in a superficial sense, that's true. But there is a difference. It's not em dashes or repeated words. It's whether the story was made by someone who loves it and cares about it.
If the writer's eyes light up when asked why did the character do that? and they start their very own Ted Talk about that specific scene...
then it's real.

December 3, 2025 at 5:37 AM

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@toxophilala.bsky.social

STOP: “please slow down Tank, I can’t heal you!!”

START: “the Toyotathon Sales Event already ended, you don’t have to run”

December 2, 2025 at 11:37 PM

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Sean Gardner

@seangardnerxiv.bsky.social

Dawntrail discourse is exhausting, cause you’ll say something like “Wuk Lamat is nice,” and some guy with an AI avatar will be like “uhhh yeaaaaaah, have you seen the sub numbers? Have you seen how many words Woke Lmao says? We need to chase the English localization team with a big scary knife.”

December 1, 2025 at 6:49 PM

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Erogeist 👻

@erogeist.bsky.social

#Nekovember day 26: Instrument!

I just wanted to draw a keytar and some vaguely 80s retro-future synthwave vibes.

November 26, 2025 at 9:47 PM

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@toxophilala.bsky.social

what’s THIS????

November 29, 2025 at 6:47 AM

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@toxophilala.bsky.social

what's this?

XIV job icons in some sort of plotting interface

November 28, 2025 at 1:48 AM

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@toxophilala.bsky.social

Alright I’m making an exception here. OpenAI is allowed to use my FFXIV character’s likeness on one condition: all depictions must be of a 6ft tall impossibly smooth handsome gentleman with a really big hog (important)

The Verge @theverge.com · Nov 3

Studio Ghibli, Bandai Namco, Square Enix demand OpenAI stop using their content to train AI

No more Spirited Away and Demon Slayer in Sora 2.

buff.ly

November 4, 2025 at 2:25 PM

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@toxophilala.bsky.social

that’s MY dog yellin. but don’t tell anybody that

Dandy G🍌 @dangyd.bsky.social · Oct 28

Aoooooo (that’s my dog yellin)

October 28, 2025 at 3:47 PM

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Dandy G🍌

@dangyd.bsky.social

Aoooooo (that’s my dog yellin)

October 28, 2025 at 5:44 AM

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Thermi

@thermi.bsky.social

#lofiartparty

October 28, 2025 at 12:50 AM

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@toxophilala.bsky.social

Everyone else: hooray new content!! hooray deep dungeon! hooray all saints wake!!

Me: fuck fuck fuck I don’t know dude I don’t fucking know which food is better

(The game is www.scrandle.com)

A scrandle.com mobile comparison where you select the food that more players vote in favor of. Which is better? Loaded fries from Leeds or Chili Cheese Fries from Farnborough

October 28, 2025 at 5:38 AM

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Kokomori - CEO of Vierafell

@kokobunboy.bsky.social

take this with no context

October 8, 2025 at 5:41 PM

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@toxophilala.bsky.social

Ringo is just a layering of favorite anime stereotypes, filtered through the conditions of making them believable within the setting. I actually don’t like to impart personal traits into characters!!

Ikumi Yamoshi 📚WOLQOD Enthusiast📚 @moon-petals.bsky.social · Sep 29

#wolquestion / #wolqotd

How much of your wol / oc can be called a self-insert? Are they maybe their own character or an idealized version of yourself?

September 29, 2025 at 8:59 PM

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@toxophilala.bsky.social

god damn it Gamers™️ are lumping hate on the lead translator for FFXIV because they posted about {Recent US Political Upheval} on their privated personal account

September 13, 2025 at 5:33 AM

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@toxophilala.bsky.social

Obama 1 game: Final Fantasy XIV
Obama 2 game: Final Fantasy XIV
Trump 1 game: Final Fantasy XIV
Biden 1 game: Final Fantasy XIV
Trump 2 game: Final Fantasy XIV

Really makes you think….

September 4, 2025 at 6:00 PM