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Via @via01.bsky.social · 9h

I see.

Well, once more, it can't possibly be worse than Bleach's "this all happens roughly during the school arc" explanation for about 4 different filler arcs.

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Via @via01.bsky.social · 9h

Is this one of those "happens sometime in the past before the Big Ongoing Event but everyone has their current-time powerups" kind of filler arc?

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Via @via01.bsky.social · 13h

I keep seeing my cat everywhere. This sucks.

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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 23h

It seems pointless to fact check someone saying "curry isn't proper British food like fish and chips", just like it's futile to correct someone saying "there are no pronouns in the Bible". They haven't made a mistake. What they're saying is, "Britain is a white country".

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d

It’s tiresome at this point, but again, their entire pitch is “wouldn’t it be great if there were no such things as talent, craft, and skill,” and what that means is a bland, slop-filled world. www.businessinsider.com/marc-andrees...

Didn't go to film school? Don't worry. Legendary investor and movie buff Marc Andreessen doesn't think that will be an issue for future creatives.

During an episode of "Monitoring the Situation," the podcast for the venture capitalist firm that Andreessen cofounded, A16z, he said advancements in AI technology — like OpenAI's Sora 2 — have made it possible for a new type of filmmaker to emerge.

"The filmmaker with no visual skill, or access to a set, or to a camera, or to actors, but with an idea," Andreessen said on Friday. "It's going to start with shorts and animated things and so forth, but it's going to work its way up to full movies."

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Nova Crystallis @novacrystallis.com · 1d

Via @automaton-media.com, composer Uematsu: “I’ve never used AI & probably never will. I think it still feels more rewarding to go through the hardships of creating something myself. When you listen to music, the fun is also in discovering the background of the person who created it, right?"

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Final Fantasy composer Nobuo Uematsu says he's “never used generative AI, and never will.” Hardship is what makes the creative process rewarding - AUTOMATON WEST

Final Fantasy composer Nobuo Uematsu discusses the history and evolution of game music and shares opinion on generative AI.

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Midthommar (2019, dir. Ari Aster) @coldman.bsky.social · 1d

Messages from "???" in Digimon Story: Time Stranger. They read:

"Day 3 since arriving here.
A Digimon shared something called "Digimeat" with me."

"It felt like electrons were firing off in my mouth.
What a strange sensation."

Bourdain: Wow. This meat is so tender and juicy. Falls right off the massive bone in the middle
Flamedramon: This is what we digimon eat every day
Bourdain: God you’re lucky

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Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 1d

Many will assume that Sora represents a new era of social media, but that's wrong. All it does is reanimate our current one. It's trying to hold on to something people have a diminishing use for. "We're certainly beyond the hashtag, clout- chasing, and desire-for-virality era of social
media," Fraser says. Across social media, people have expressed that Sora is yet another example of techies manufacturing supply when there isn't even a
demand. "What problem are we solving here? They're like, 'You can try the new app. You can make a moose have a spa day! I don't need to make a moose have a spa day," comedy writer Matt Buechele said on Instagram. "Like, cancer
still exists." The uptick in artificial social networks, Fraser tells me, is being driven by the same tech egoists who have eroded public trust and inflamed social isolation through "divisive" algorithms. "[Theyl are now profiting on that isolation by creating spaces where folks can
surround themselves with sycophantic bots."

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Via @via01.bsky.social · 1d

It never feels like you're actually meant to fight outside boss battles specifically designed for the system. But then it throws a bunch of random mobs at you.

It's deceptively different from RE8, which is designed all around having to deal with a bunch of mobs and big monsters.

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Via @via01.bsky.social · 1d

I've always been of the opinion that the leech enemies were an afterthought. To add more challenge or tension or something. But the game isn't built around their constant wiggling.

Hell, Jack himself is VERY easy to hit by design, which adds to the tension because he will pursue and barely flinch.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god

The Pope tweets: "The poor are not there by chance or by blind and cruel fate. Nor, for most of them, is poverty a choice. Yet, there are those who still presume to make this claim, thus revealing their own blindness and cruelty. #DilexiTe"

Someone replies: "I was so hopeful I could be a Catholic again after the disaster that Francis was, guess we just get Francis 2.0 now and I am heartbroken. How do I stay a Catholic now...I don't want to lose faith but I am. You belong to someone else, not God."

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Via @via01.bsky.social · 1d

With RE7, I'd say it's not a matter of skill per se, but that regular enemies suck ass.

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Via @via01.bsky.social · 1d

Was going to add RE7 and RE8 but I don't know at what point being *too much* of a standard fps starts counting or not as having a "combat system"

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Via @via01.bsky.social · 1d

For as clunky as they are, I think the original Resident Evil trilogy counts. Having to deal with changing camera angles, stopping to aim, how you're never sure where you're aiming, it keeps you on your toes.

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togebii @bbythgby.bsky.social · 1d

sad to think about a "wikipedia era" internet retrospectively. i would never forgive the world

Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 2d

wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors

“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”

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Via @via01.bsky.social · 1d

My cat passed away. His name was Ulysses.

He was a good boy. Was with us for 12 years, almost to the day.

I'll miss him.

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Via @via01.bsky.social · 1d

I meant to say my cat.

Via @via01.bsky.social · 2d

My car was hospitalized for 4 days. They finally thought he was good enough to come back home.

First night back, he starts shaking and convulsing. They don't know what's wrong with him at the vet.

He's alive, for now, but I preemptively said my goodbyes. I just don't want him to suffer.

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Via @via01.bsky.social · 2d

I remember a lot of retroactively trying to make awful people seem better or be redeemed in the latter half of Naruto. It happens enough that I didn't even remember Gaara's dad.

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conputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 2d

amazing opening
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/p...

You sit, according to the polls, on the cusp of a historic political victory. You would be the youngest mayor in a century. You’d be New York City’s first Muslim mayor. You’d be its first democratic socialist mayor.

I wouldn’t actually be the first democratic socialist mayor.

Who would it be?

David Dinkins was a member of D.S.A., he identified also as a democratic socialist.

Thank you for the correction.

Very welcome.

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Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 2d

Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."