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Vook🏳️‍🌈🔞 @antonvuk.bsky.social · 1d

Been scanning games on Steam and adding "genAI" tag to those that use the devil's tools. I wonder how many people you need to do this for them to show up. Hoping at least one game gets it, even if low on the list so that people see it and follow in my steps

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Marena Sironenko @dudethejesus.bsky.social · Sep 19

The algorithm difference is CRAZY

I definitely need to post our stuff here more often.

Screenshot of my Twitter post about my OC. It has 6 likes.

Screenshot of the same OC post but on Bluesky. It has 94 likes.

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Marena Sironenko @dudethejesus.bsky.social · Sep 19

Thank you so much!!

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Marena Sironenko @dudethejesus.bsky.social · Sep 19

Oh wow, did not expect you guys to like them so much! Follow for more cyberpunk and dark fantasy OCs then, me and my wife have PLENTY of them to share!

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Marena Sironenko @dudethejesus.bsky.social · Sep 18

RIGHT, thank you! There's a chance I was subconsciously inspired by Monsoon, I love MGR designs, their cyborgs are some of the best.

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Marena Sironenko @dudethejesus.bsky.social · Sep 18

Aww, thank you! What do you mean by Monsoon in this context though? I assume not the wind sdsdjk

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Marena Sironenko @dudethejesus.bsky.social · Sep 18

My wife was on vacation for a couple of weeks which meant she had a lot of time to draw :) Here's my OC, Nari-O: a sapient robot from my cyberpunk setting neon-24. They're a former assassin who joined a resistance cell that fights for robot rights.

Drawing of a robot named Nari-O, by Yuralga “Krug” Korien. They’re humanoid but not fully identical to a human. They’re tall and elegant, with thin digitigrade legs, thick thighs, tiny waist, small chest and thin arms, colored bright cherry-red and black, with rare white elements. Their white face lacks most facial features, having only big creepy-looking round red eyes. They wear a stylish black coat that barely covers their body, shaped like a sharp hourglass, with a red hexagonal pattern inside and white lines outside, both glowing. Optionally they can wear a red mask over their face.

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Marena Sironenko @dudethejesus.bsky.social · Aug 8

This is Bhaskara "Naloikiasu" Harpreetaya Yatravamayabiya, and he's a very sad young man: his mother was forced to give him away at a young age to a wandering surgeon so that her new husband wouldn't eat the lad. Dark fantasy do be darking all over the place.

Marena Sironenko @dudethejesus.bsky.social · Aug 8

Made a new OC for my wife's story, Tragedy of the Divine, and she drew him :)

Drawing of a humanoid character named Bhaskara by Yuralga “Krug” Korien. He’s a young nonbinary man of Ahagayan heritage (equivalent of Romani). He has dark greyish-brown skin with small white spots at the tips of his ears and in the middle of lower lip. His eyes and hair are black, the latter is very thick, voluminous and long. He has average-sized (by human standards) black bull-like horns. His face looks kind and tired.

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Marena Sironenko @dudethejesus.bsky.social · Jul 8

Thank you!!!

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Marena Sironenko @dudethejesus.bsky.social · Jul 4

Completely forgot that I have this amazing OC design :) Jagnieszka, a former bodyguard from Drježdźany (aka Dresden).

Drawing of a cyberpunk character by my wife, Yuralga “Krug” Korien. Jagnieszka is a cyborg with a fully augmented body. She’s tall and beefy, has light skin, brown eyes and short blond hair. She looks like a regular human but most of her skin is artificial, covered in seams and clearly enhanced with armor, also her legs are huge and digitigrade, of khaki color, feet resembling hooves. Her face is scarred.

As a bodyguard she had a fully shaved head and wore a tuxedo. After an accident she lost her job and had to replace her right arm and left forearm with more industrial, less human-like augmentations, of the same color as her legs. Because she also had to replace her right shoulder, her left breast is gone. The right side of her torso is covered in scars. She also slightly grew her hair, it’s very fluffy and curly.

In her civilian form she wears a black punk leather jacket with metal elements, it has only one sleeve. She also wears short white-red skirt with a long black loincloth, an ammo belt, and a red low-hanging tank top with a music band title “The Songbird”.

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Marena Sironenko @dudethejesus.bsky.social · Jul 2

True S.T.A.L.K.E.R. is a very pretty mod.

First of 4 screenshots from the “True Stalker” mod. It’s night time, and the full moon shines in the cloudy sky. The player stands at the outpost at the northern end of Cordon location, looking at an abandoned APC that stands in the grass next to a road. Behind it are Soviet concrete walls and a small outpost tower. There’s trees and bushes. Hills stand on the right. A small pile of bandit corpses lies on the road.

Inside of the Cordon outpost. It’s a barren room with a couple of mattresses, a closet, sink and a wooden box. The whole room lit in red light produced by the campfire in its center. The ceiling is covered in soot from the campfire.

Rookie village of the Cordon. The player stands on a side of the hill, looking at an abandoned house behind the trees and old wooden fence. It’s night time, the moonrays pierce the tree crowns.

The car graveyard of the Garbage. It’s foggy, the player hides and peeks from behind a car as they hide from bandits. They hold a two-barell shotgun with optic sight.

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Marena Sironenko @dudethejesus.bsky.social · Jun 30

Gave my wife the biggest whiplash by first watching The Batman (2022) with her and then following it up with Batman & Robin.

...we absolutely love both btw.

Screenshot from The Batman. Officer Gordon hold back Batman in the police office while yelling something, the atmosphere is very tense and moody.

Batgirl, Batman and Robin from the Batman & Robin movie. They're dressed in shiny dark-blue outfits with silver elements, looking like action figures.

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Marena Sironenko @dudethejesus.bsky.social · Jun 29

Also I feel that Euroamericans don't have any right to criticize anyone over disgusting food when they invented aspic. I don't have a problem with it but imagine inventing this and then being racist about eating different kind of meat, lmao.

A photo of pork jelly aspic from Wikipedia by Gmelfi.

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Marena Sironenko @dudethejesus.bsky.social · Jun 29

Some people (mostly Russians) are also nasty about Central Asians eating horse meat. Like, of course former nomads would eat horse meat, horses were the pillar of their civilization! Till Russians came along and forced everyone to settle...

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Marena Sironenko @dudethejesus.bsky.social · Jun 27

The first two BioShocks are one of my favorite games ever, and Infinite infuriates me. I personally never use the word "pretentious" but this is the only time I genuinely can call a game that. It hurts my brain how badly it handles the idea of multiple timelines, such a waste of potential.

Marena Sironenko @dudethejesus.bsky.social · Jun 27

I recently replayed BioShock Infinite, and this game has nothing going for itself except for presentation. The protagonist is boring, the story grossly misunderstands how multiverse works, the gameplay is downgrade on multiple levels. 5 years of development!!!

headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · Jun 26

❗️HATER CHECKPOINT❗️

you have reached the hater checkpoint. please respond with the worst games on this wikipedia page. i’m going for a nap and won’t be checking the replies for at least a few hours:

List of video games considered the best - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

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Marena Sironenko @dudethejesus.bsky.social · Jun 27

I would be happy to help! I have a chronic leg pain and, as a bonus. spent most of my life in a rural village.

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Marena Sironenko @dudethejesus.bsky.social · Jun 27

🥴

3 outfits.

1. Glitter around eyes, silver chain over his torso, shoulders and arms, short denim shorts, stockings, peep-toe heels. Everything except for the chain is black.

2. Short black nightgown and pink lingerie underwear. The tattoo is visible.

3. Bright-purple glitter, blue high-waist skirt with a bronze chain around it, pink high heels, purple & blue eye make-up. The only outfit without long black nails.

3 outfits.

1. Beige lingerie: a nightgown and underwear.

2. Black one-piece lingerie.

3. Long beige robe. He looks much sleepier with this one.

Marena Sironenko @dudethejesus.bsky.social · Jun 27

I have a weakness for Griffith-looking men and my wife exploited it to create the hottest Sims character possible.

A screenshot from Sims 4 Character Creation. The character is a light-skinned Iberian man of androgynous appearance. He’s of average height, has slim body build with thin waist, long platinum-blonde hair (untied), thin black eyebrows, long eyelashes, dark eyes and long black nails.

Screenshot features 3 outfits.

1. Fancy 19th century white blouse, shiny black pants with flowery pattern, black high heels.

2. Black collar with heart-shaped lock, blue shirt with colorful flowers (mostly unbuttoned, revealing some of his chest and stomach), black knee-long skirt, black stockings, same heels.

3. Same collar, beige turtleneck with separated sleeves and naked hips, shiny gray disco pants, same heels.

3 outfits.

1. White wedding dress, silver necklace with white gems, long ear pendants that almost reach shoulders, and dark-red lipstick.

2. Same collar as before, short pink dress with peach prints, long black stockings, same heels as before.

3. Skin-tight gym outfit with black-red shorts and black top that reveals his stomach and back, black sneakers.

2 outfits.

1. White swimsuit with black shoulders, round sunglasses and black summer panama hat.

2. Same collar as before, transparent white shirt with long sleeves and dark-pink flower print, black crop-top under it, short black skirt, long black stockings, black peep-toe heels with gray-pink rhinestones.

2 outfits.

1. Scarf, denim coat with sweater under it, stockings with flowery patterns, high-heel loafers. All black, except for gray stockings with brown patterns.

2. Black crop-top with pearlescent harness belts over it, shiny gray underwear, black stockings, round sunglasses, black summer panama hat and black sandals with covered toes. The only outfit where we can see the black tattoo on his lower back.

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Marena Sironenko @dudethejesus.bsky.social · May 5

Planning to organize a TTRPG campaign (not D&D, my own system), here's premise and some fun lore stuff

We're one player short btw, wink-wink nudge-nudge

The premise of my campaign and how it affects the character customization.

It's been 20 years since the estabishment of the powerful Artanay Hoorbo - the Beastfolk Confederacy, a realm build on the ideas of democracy and equality, ideas deeply alien to the Alda Voeleda, the Elven Empire. With the Elven hegemony challenged, Tashgharad, the Orcish Trade Republic, starts pursuing its own goals, eager to shake off the status of the Elven puppet. Between these three power-hungry realms lies the independent Duchy of Warok which struggles for independence, unwilling to be annexed by anyone.

One of the strongest defenders of this city's independence is the noble Pilsud dynasty, but what is one family when faced against three super-powers? One dark night the main heiress of the dynasty, Jadwiga, disappears, half a year before her planned wedding with an duke of another small independent realm, endangering a union that would make Warok much stronger. Unwilling to believe that this is a mere coincidence, the head of the house, Pana Szlacheta, in desperation hires a group of adventurers to quietly investigate the disappearance. And this group just happens to be you...

For one reason or another the Pana entrusted you a secret mission so your character is somehow worthy of this trust. The reason why is up to you - maybe you're a friend of the family or its specific members, maybe you're famous for something (but not too famous, since it's a secret mission) maybe you owe Pana something, etc.

Warok is very diverse culturally and species-wise. Its main population is Dwarves of various kinds, with Elves, Orcs, Beastfolk and mixed people of all kinds comprising a bit part of it. Obviously your characters don't need to be from Warok.

A short list of some of the species available to the players.

- Elves are the most common sapient species of Synbilinia, its equivalent of humans (who do not exist in Synblinia), with hundreds of races. The main species of Alda Voeleda, the biggest (and most incompetent) empire in history of Synblinia, famous for their affinity for magic, bureaucracy and build-in OCD.
- Dwarves, an underground race. A big part of them have been enslaved by Elves to function as sewer maintenance for Elven cities (who use Dwarven cities as sewers).
- Angels. Because of their semi-immaterial nature they live very high in the sky, most surface-dwellers are unaware of their existence.
- Orcs. Hyperfixations are in their nature, their biggest realm is a trade republic (so most of them have a hyperfixation on economy),
- Golems. Can be made of pretty much any material, often used by mages for labor.
- Halflings. Once half-breed of elves and dwarves, now a race of their own. Suffer from OCD just like elves, stubborn just like dwarves, party like nobody else. Somewhat isolationist because of Elven imperialism.
- Treefolk. Near-immortal with everything that comes with it: small in numbers, never in a hurry, fond of long-term plans and schemes.

- Dwarves are an underground species with a poor eyesight, good hearing and echolocation.
- Disproportionally strong - an average dwarf is 130 cm tall but is about as strong as an orc. Very stocky & wide.

- There's 3 main groups of dwarves. Aldany are the biggest, divided into many races, nations, religions and other sociopolitical groups, united by their social status: they're enslaved by the high elves, & a lot of their cities are used as sewers, with the dwarves forced to be maintenance workers. Before the Sewer War were the most technologically advanced dwarven group due to industrializaion. Their humiliating status might change soon: Alda Voeleda is too busy doing a dick measuring contest with Artanay Hoorbo & Tashgharad, so dwarves are getting bolder, increasing their autonomy & rebuilding their destroyed society.
- Waroski are the second dwarf group & the only one who enjoys living on the surface, due to active intermixing with other species that helped them adapt. Their languages and culture are inspired by West Slavic people. They're the shortest, being 1m in average.
- Third group are Stranniks, former Aldany who chose to leave their land and embrace nomadic way of life instead of submitting to the elves. Long history of travels created a diverse culture where every nomad group is their own people with unique languages and customs. Their languages and culture are inspired by East Slavic people.

- Dwarven technological superiority comes from the quirks of their psychology - if elves are famous for their OCD, Dwarves are, in layman terms, "terminally applied science-brained", making them great mathematicians, biologists, engineers & so on. It doesn't mean that they're bad at humanities, but they do approach them in their own way - when they look at art, they're less concerned with what author tried to say and are more intrigued by the technical aspects and work-process. So the process of making is just as much art to them as the finished product.

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Marena Sironenko @dudethejesus.bsky.social · Mar 30

I'm very happy to hear that our work gives you motivation, for me it's the ultimate compliment 💚

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Marena Sironenko @dudethejesus.bsky.social · Mar 30

Wrote a big post about my wife's cyberpunk character :)
www.tumblr.com/krugkorien/7...

Drawing of Scum by my wife, Yuralga Korien (like all the drawings in the post). Scum is a tall (221 centimeters) muscular Georgian nonbinary cyborg person with gray skin, short back hair, thick and angular eyebrows, bright gray eyes with vertical pupils. Their bangs are long enough to cover her eyes, while the back of the head and temples are shaven.

Their visible augmentations include: aforementioned eyes; nose; hands; artificial skin covered with tidy seams; gills; glowing animated shark tattoos on arms & upper part of her torso; pointy ears; huge digitigrade legs with hooves. Most of her augmentations are black.

They wear a jacket, short turtleneck that covers only their chest, and pants with harness, all black.

Scum in her civilian form. Their skin is of snow-white color. Her wig, jacket, make-up, belt, phone and wheelchair are all of holographic color. They also wear black shorts, crop-top (with a pink harness with metal-gray chains and metal hearts over it), fingerless gloves and another belt. The last two have holographic rhinestones. Their wig has short hair with 2 long bang curls. She has no leg augmentations.

There are multiple captions in Russian.
— Bangs are their trademark haircut, both her civilian and battle forms have them.
— Wheelchair has no handles because she hates being carried.
— Doesn’t wear their scaly skin out of combat because it’s very expensive to repair.
— Has 2 phone trinkets: a shark & a dolphin.
— Thin tubes (meant for injections since her skin is too thick for needles) stick out of their stomach seams. It doesn’t bother her.
— Their leg augmentation sockets look like a bodyhorror mess of wires, so her pants are sewn up to hide that.
— Wheelchair’s footrest is taken off.

Scum’s three sets of legs, all tall and digitigrade. Stompers are heavy, strong legs with hooves; Swimmers are the shortest, gray, smooth-looking, capable of fusing together into a shark tail; Piercers are the tallest, black, cone-shaped with pointy, very sharp tips, and are the least protected, with “naked” synthetic muscles.

Scum wears a jacket, crop top and shorts with harness, all black.

Drawing of a narrow alley, cluttered with garbage bins and bags. It’s night, and the only sources of light are a dim neon sign that says “Tobacco” and bleak teal light that comes from a door next to it. The only people in the alley are Scum and Oca, standing near the door. It’s raining. Scum stands over Oca, protecting her from the rain, while Oca stands with her back leaning against the wall.

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Marena Sironenko @dudethejesus.bsky.social · Mar 23

We love doing the same with our cockatiels - we headcanon Maya as a foul-mouther Victorian child and Blaster as an incel sdksdjkdsj It's just never stops being funny to imagine these cuties being evil.

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Marena Sironenko @dudethejesus.bsky.social · Jan 11

And my wife drew the handsome cyberpunk OC in question!!!

It's simply absurd how hot he is.

Drawing of Jozwe Cassara by me. He’s a Maltese intersex man. He has brown skin, voluminous curly black hair (long & untied), big nose & eyebrows, hazel eyes with shadow & eyeliner make-up, golden kintsugi tattoo on his chin, neck & chest. He has a light case of resting bitch face. He’s also very hot, handsome and gorgeous.

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