Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

DurandalX8

@durandalx8.bsky.social

430 followers 250 following 4.9K posts

Video games, comics, books, manga, anime, and sports are things I talk about on here. He/Him. On Steam, Switch, and FFXIV (on break). House husband for Psylocke (all three).

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Pinned

DurandalX8 @durandalx8.bsky.social · Jan 1

Gonna start a 2025 media thread. I don't know how long it'll last but I'm gonna try and try my best to make thoughts and reviews sound nice and I guess wordy. Also, I guess help my social skills.

4 16

DurandalX8 @durandalx8.bsky.social · 24m

Seeing this comment best summarize I like Jed MacKay characterization of Moon Knight in his run.

DurandalX8 @durandalx8.bsky.social · 26m

I been hearing a lot about OWUD and that should of ended much sooner and it got dragged out. Part of me feels like this was meant to be happening around Avengers Doomsday but since that movie is having issues, they dragged the event out. Or I'm over thinking it.

Reposted by DurandalX8

Ultima @ultimashadow.bsky.social · 2h

Also, LMAO at an “AI investor” being a member of the board of directors. This shit is doomed to pop before they even get two projects out the door.

Fighting-Games Daily @fgcdaily.bsky.social · 9h

The venture will have on its board of directors as chair Majid Al-Ibrahim, Feig, former Disney film chief Sean Bailey, Andreessen Horowitz general partner and AI investor Andrew Chen. It will also include Epic Games CCO Charlie Wen.

4 12 110

Reposted by DurandalX8

Ultima @ultimashadow.bsky.social · 2h

SNK can’t stop losing, dawg. You can’t just keep throwing money at something and expect it to work.

17 49 210

Reposted by DurandalX8

Pokémon Gems @pokemongems.bsky.social · 1h

the onion you left in the fridge for three weeks

Screenshot of Ash holding a dying celebi in the pokemon 4ever movie

7 74 440

Reposted by DurandalX8

Jonty @fairless.xyz · 3h

Windows 10 goes out of support today. My fave useless fact about w10 is that the iconic blue desktop background is a *photograph* - not CGI.

Tiny 'making of' vid here - youtu.be/_2RacX9DgWM...

13 270 830

DurandalX8 @durandalx8.bsky.social · 3h

I think I should go read Black Cat stories.

Reposted by DurandalX8

gus🔞 @emmarrgus.bsky.social · 7d

the uncontrollable devil

4 110 440

Reposted by DurandalX8

TekoNSFW @tekonsfw.bsky.social · 4d

Luna Snow

1 27 110

Reposted by DurandalX8

kanokoga.bsky.social @kanokoga.bsky.social · 5h

[Halo3] #208 The Storm (18)

1 44 260

Reposted by DurandalX8

Mr. Chau @srirachachau.bsky.social · 8h

Real

CRIMINAL SIMPSONS @criminalsimpsons.com · 10h

1 11 160

Reposted by DurandalX8

Themperor Kennedy🐸🏳️‍🌈 @kennedytcooper.bsky.social · 1d

shot / chaser

headline: Washington Post columnist proudly boasts ‘we’re now a conservative opinion page’

headline: The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

4 93 350

Reposted by DurandalX8

Micah @rincewind.run · 11h

“you can’t make fun of this” - famously an edict that the military obeys unquestioningly and would never disobey out of earshot of an officer

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 13h

NEW: Pentagon officials are forcing staff to watch Pete Hegseth's "Warrior" speech he forced generals to listen to.

Officials are even "testing" staff to see if they watched — and are threatening consequences if they lie about watching it or if they mock it, sources tell @swin24.bsky.social and I.

The Pentagon Is Ordering Staff to Watch Hegseth’s ‘MAGA Garbage’ Speech… Or Else

Defense Department sources tell Zeteo that staff have been warned that if they don’t watch or read the speech, or if they speak negatively of it, they could face severe consequences.

zeteo.com

28 260 1.3K

Reposted by DurandalX8

Why you should have a cat @shouldhavecat.bsky.social · 12h

my new coworker 😼

2 44 320

Reposted by DurandalX8

Osaka: None/bun - A sack of nuns @osakanone.bsky.social · 14h

remigrate is not a dog whistle, and is open nazi language

Remigration

Not to be confused with Return migration.
Remigration is an originally European far-right proposal of ethnic cleansing[1] via the mass deportation of non-white immigrants and their descendants, sometimes including those born in Europe, to their place of racial ancestry.[2][3] It is popular especially within the Identitarian movement.[4][5] Some proponents of remigration suggest excluding some persons with non-European background from such a mass deportation, based on a varyingly defined degree of assimilation into European culture.[6][7][8]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remigration

8 430 930

Reposted by DurandalX8

summer but shes scary now! @midnightfestival.bsky.social · 17h

something about modern graphical fidelity has made fighting game stages worse in a way i cannot explain
the kof99 park stage is literally just a park in the rain but you can feel through the screen how painstakingly made it was, i feel like remaking this in a 3D game would be incredibly boring

5 39 92

DurandalX8 @durandalx8.bsky.social · 12h

Plus I feel like Moon Knight and Psylocke would have good and funny dialogues with each other. So that's a big plus to me.

DurandalX8 @durandalx8.bsky.social · 13h

Since Jed MacKay does writing for both of them. I want to see a Moon Knight and Kwannon Psylocke team up mini run and them just basically scare the living piss out of any baddies that's causing problems. Yeah, you'll probably live but they'll go through all of y'all like a runaway Combine.

DurandalX8 @durandalx8.bsky.social · 13h

Finished Jed MacKay first Moon Knight. Short summary till I put a review out after Thursday, it was pretty fucking good. Like damn good. I look forward the next runs of Moon Knight under Jed. I see why he was picked too do just X-Men run and certain characters he picked for his run.

1 2

Reposted by DurandalX8

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 16h

Good. Even if this doesn’t work, it’s time to go on offense.

www.newsweek.com/jb-pritzker-...

JB Pritzker looking at prosecuting ICE agents in Chicago

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has suggested that state prosecutors might examine the conduct of ICE agents.

www.newsweek.com

820 5.7K 25K

Reposted by DurandalX8

Rob MacWolf, Werewolf Hitchhiker @robmacwolf.thevoice.dog · 18h

When we write or draw porn or erotica, we get banned from having a bank account and our livelihoods get seized even if we give it away for free.

When billionaires steal what we've written or drawn to churn out a slop-approximate of porn, they're allowed to charge for it.

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 21h

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

38 3.4K 6K

Reposted by DurandalX8

Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 14h

Hey look, Israel broke the cease-fire, twice, in two different ways, within 24 hours - again.

Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 20h

NEW: Israel informed the UN it will permit only 300 aid trucks into Gaza daily, not the 600 mandated by the ceasefire it just signed.

53 2.9K 6.4K

Reposted by DurandalX8

Jane Parker 🏳️‍⚧️ ★ @playingps2.xyz · 16h

Probably said it before but I think Major Zero in MGS4 is like the oldest person ever depicted in any media. I swear to god. It's so weirdly realistic too

major zero (from mgs3) in metal gear solid 4

3 7 27

Reposted by DurandalX8

HiMyNameisChair 🏳️‍⚧️ @himynameischair.bsky.social · 17h

The short version: the Gzdoom team has finally had enough of Graf Zhal's shit (including but not limited to pushing AI code into Gzdoom).

The entire team has packed up and made a new fork of Gzdoom.

github.com/DZDoom/DZDoo...

GitHub - DZDoom/DZDoom: DZDoom is a feature centric port for all Doom engine games, based on ZDoom, adding an OpenGL renderer and powerful scripting capabilities

DZDoom is a feature centric port for all Doom engine games, based on ZDoom, adding an OpenGL renderer and powerful scripting capabilities - DZDoom/DZDoom

github.com

7 260 430

Reposted by DurandalX8

HiMyNameisChair 🏳️‍⚧️ @himynameischair.bsky.social · 17h

It's been said many times, but Graf's legacy should have been defined by many things.

As the lead of Doom's most popular source port.

As the lead dev of a game engine that powers countless commercial retro shooters.

But instead... It's defined by him being a stubborn, controlling little shit.

7 47 200