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Andy Corrigan @flameroasttoast.com · 1d

*good time

Andy Corrigan @flameroasttoast.com · 1d

Oh I didn’t even hear about that. I dunno, I just liked the vibe and had a good. But I also I don’t think it’s near best in series or anything, I’d place it bang in the lower middle somewhere.

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Andy Corrigan @flameroasttoast.com · 1d

Imma stay quiet as a Skyward Sword enjoyer.

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Andy Corrigan @flameroasttoast.com · 1d

Oh wait, i missed that they’re posting here again. @streetfighter.capcomusa.com, Oceanic BattleHub/Custom room servers please.

The Asia servers are not kind to our ping indicators, even with Aussies whose connections are good.

It means people won’t play with us. Your competitors have this.

a woman wearing glasses and a suit is making a please sign .

ALT: a woman wearing glasses and a suit is making a please sign .

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Andy Corrigan @flameroasttoast.com · 1d

I wish I didn’t know this. Vile on both counts.

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Andy Corrigan @flameroasttoast.com · 2d

Please tell me you’ve also posted this to LinkedIn so I can repost and annoy techbros?

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Ian Malcolm @ianmalcolm.bsky.social · 4d

No-one commissioning an actual human artist considers themself to be the “artist” of the final work, no matter how much detail they might include in the brief.

Claiming to be “the artist” when it’s machine-generated prompt-slop is no different.

You’re not the artist, you’re the client.

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Andy Corrigan @flameroasttoast.com · 3d

Me going ‘oh no, I’ve only got half the month left to watch horror movies’, like I’d get arrested for watching them outside of October.

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Andy Corrigan @flameroasttoast.com · 4d

It is! Download just finished. It’s not like it’s a self-insert. I have no idea why they didn’t just give him a face. It’s so weird!

Andy Corrigan @flameroasttoast.com · 4d

Can you see Ethan’s face in it? That whole thing seems weird.

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Andy Corrigan @flameroasttoast.com · 4d

Finished RE8. Loved RE8. Didn’t realise there was a story expansion until after I deleted RE8, so now I’m reinstalling RE8.

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Andy Corrigan @flameroasttoast.com · 4d

Nope! Trashier!

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Andy Corrigan @flameroasttoast.com · 6d

If I said I recently watched a horror movie where the plot was loosely just the Simpsons Treehouse of Horror episode ‘The Thing and I’, can you guess what movie it was?

Screen grab from The Simpsons’ Treehouse of Horror episode called ‘The Thing and I’. Bart is confronted by his evil twin Hugo.

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Andy Corrigan @flameroasttoast.com · 5d

Recently watched Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City for the first time and while it's definitely not a very good film, I think it might have turned out better if they narrowed their focus to the events of one game rather than two, even if those games take place at the same time.

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Andy Corrigan @flameroasttoast.com · 5d

No idea why whoever approaches making Resident Evil movies is adverse to just making a slow burn horror where a special forces unit find themselves in a creepy mansion and uncover what's happening bit by bit.

Welcome to Raccoon City tries both intrigue and action but does them the wrong way round.

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Andy Corrigan @flameroasttoast.com · 5d

Recently watched Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City for the first time and while it's definitely not a very good film, I think it might have turned out better if they narrowed their focus to the events of one game rather than two, even if those games take place at the same time.

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Andy Corrigan @flameroasttoast.com · 6d

I don’t like spoilers, which I guess this will kinda be, so I’ll DM if you wanna know.

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Andy Corrigan @flameroasttoast.com · 6d

No! But good guess. Think less conjoined twin, and more hidden sibling in the house.

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Andy Corrigan @flameroasttoast.com · 6d

I realise I wrote this like a Threads-style engagement farming post. Sorry about that.

Andy Corrigan @flameroasttoast.com · 6d

If I said I recently watched a horror movie where the plot was loosely just the Simpsons Treehouse of Horror episode ‘The Thing and I’, can you guess what movie it was?

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Andy Corrigan @flameroasttoast.com · 7d

It’s either a subscription model or GenAI shit.

If it’s the former, I’m staying on Affinity 2. If it’s the latter, I’ll uninstall it from every device in a heartbeat. That company will be dead to me.

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Andy Corrigan @flameroasttoast.com · 7d

I love how orgs always try to deliver news they know will be unpopular by pretending it's great news, actually.

Max! @littlepolygon.bsky.social · 7d

Serif has stopped purchases for #Affinity apps in preparation for a "big announcement" and are responding to user concerns about subscriptions or genai with meaningless doublespeak. Feels bad!!

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Creative Freedom Is Coming - Affinity

Creative Freedom Is Coming. October 30

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Andy Corrigan @flameroasttoast.com · 8d

Yup., definitely glad I ditched Audible when they started floating the idea of AI narrators. Somehow, this is even more depressing.

lindsey adler @lindseyadler.bsky.social · 9d

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Chibdm @chibdm.bsky.social · 9d

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

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Andy Corrigan @flameroasttoast.com · 9d

As the perennial Honest Ryu in Third Strike, it pains me to say that I’ve learned far more about hit confirms and buffering Supers from just a few hours playing around with Ken and Super 3 than I have with years using Ryu (much prefer Ken’s Level 1, though).

a pixel art of a man standing next to a bicycle with the word ken on the wall behind him

ALT: a pixel art of a man standing next to a bicycle with the word ken on the wall behind him

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