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Shariq (SHAH-rick)
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You probably know me from the VGM scene (I run the team that runs @ocremix.org), but On Here I’m rediscovering Bollywood movies and music. Partial to the 90s/00s era.
Neutralize a horror movie.

I Don't Know What You Did Last Summer
December 1, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Follow missions where the guy walks faster than your walk but slower than your run.
November 30, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Watching Disney’s Brother Bear with the kiddo. I had missed this when it came out.

This script is so rough. Like the actual story is fine, but there’s all of this incidental dialogue that just doesn’t land right. The jokes don’t work.
November 30, 2025 at 1:08 AM
God’s work.
Anyway the biggest cultural W of the holiday is finally turning off motion smoothing on my parents' TV secretly in the night
November 29, 2025 at 5:49 PM
They just announced a Final Fantasy IX collab for Another Eden.
We have exciting news about your favorite Game/Series.

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Game/Series will be featured as a collab with Gacha Game!!

😃
😀
🙂
🫠
November 29, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Having a weird opposite reaction. Usually posts like these elicit a “has it really been THAT long?” but 9 years honestly seems like a very short time ago that this game came out.
Celebrating 9 years since we first drove off into the horizon on an unforgettable road trip in Final Fantasy XV.

What was the best recipe you made on this journey?
November 29, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Holy shit
-bust opens the door- Since I have seen absolutely no one talking about it #finalfantasyxv fam wake up! Look what dropped!!!!! Let's show them we still love these guys with mass orders. These were spotted this morning on hlj!
November 29, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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"See you next mission!"

#pixelart #ドット絵 #Metroid
November 28, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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Little friend of the forest 🌱
November 26, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Introducing Slop Detective!

Interactive game where you'll become fraud investigators, learning to spot AI-generated fakes and improve fact-checking skills.

Perfect for kids learning to investigate suspicious stories, images, and audio clips.

slopdetective.kagi.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Sometimes I’ll be reading someone giving some feedback about a game or something and I’ll be like “this person is making a lot of good points.” Then I read the words “this is a slap in the face” and I immediately roll my eyes and think “this guy is full of shit.”
November 26, 2025 at 3:05 PM
A few months ago I instituted a “no food between dinner and breakfast” rule for myself and this is basically how I felt for the first 3 weeks.
November 26, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Every once in a while I remember something weird and cool from the Expanded Universe. I think Disney has mostly dropped the ball on Star Wars but the old stuff is still there and I still love it.
Question: Why are you still a Star Wars fan to this day?

#StarWars #Fandom
November 25, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Better ideas for video game award categories:
- best original game that’s not a sequel or part of an existing series
- best new fighting game character
- best voice performance of grunts/barks/non-dialogue
- best game with no MTX
- best patch/update to a live-service game
- best bang for your buck
November 25, 2025 at 2:47 PM
The trap of the DAW is that it's functionally infinite. As a novice, you should limit your instrumentation so that you can understand the role each part plays in your arrangement. Even in the digital space you should write for small ensemble. Don't just add layers to mask weakness in partwriting.
November 25, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Need a whole-ass Wizard City show after Fiona & Cake is over.
Did I actually forget to post the Wizard City kids boards/designs from the new season?
November 25, 2025 at 1:03 AM
As a player I care a lot about the fonts in a game. If your fonts are super basic, I don't want to play. Arial doesn't belong in your game. The UI needs personality.
November 24, 2025 at 6:46 PM
One of the dumbest and weirdest trends in robocalls is how the prerecorded voice on the other end has this slightly halting delivery of the pitch, with a tinge of upspeak, like it's someone reading from a script for the first time.
November 24, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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My even more unpopular opinion is unless you have personally experienced the thing, you should probably refrain from having an opinion on it.

We need to return to shaming people for parroting YouTube/TikTok with stuff like "When I want your opinion, I'll just find the YouTuber who gave it to you."
November 23, 2025 at 4:04 AM
😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
November 22, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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New article on ★ daiz.moe

Crunchyroll is destroying its subtitles for no good reason
daiz.moe/crunchyroll-...

A ton of research and effort went into this one. This is the article to read to get to the bottom of Crunchyroll's subtitle changes!

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Crunchyroll is destroying its subtitles for no good reason | Daiz.moe
With the Fall 2025 anime season, Crunchyroll demonstrates zero respect for anime as a medium as the presentation quality of its subtitles reach an all-time low.
daiz.moe
October 29, 2025 at 10:44 PM
One thing I’ve realized about Bluesky is that it’s hard to get an answer to a question here. On old Twitter generally you could ask something and someone would give you a correct answer. Here, no such luck. It just drifts away into the aether.
November 20, 2025 at 5:53 AM
The more I read about all these Half-Life 3 predictions, the more it feels like a bunch of delusional fundamentalists predicting the Rapture.
November 19, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Anyone know if this is a full, narratorless audio play?
November 18, 2025 at 11:59 PM
November 17, 2025 at 9:05 PM