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ABRAoriginal
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I made this account to follow vtubers and people I like. Maybe I'll post things eventually.
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November 19, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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November 19, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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Something funny about the hubris of vibe coders nuking open source projects and just going "if you don't like it then fork it and do it yourself!"
November 19, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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I want to add onto this a picture I found online of Jonathan's english VA, Tiffany Grant, with the Jonathan The Seal plush because I think its a very important photo.
The picture shows Voice Actor Tiffany Grant, who did the voice of Jonathan the Seal from Kaleido Star, in a recording booth with a plush of Jonathan The Seal resting on top of her head.
November 2, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Would you give your worldly possessions for Jonathan The Seal of Kaleido Star fame?
An ad from an Anime Network Quarterly magazine showing the "Hot Stuff" that can be purchased from them. The items include a T Shirt that says "Anime Freak" on it for 15 dollars. Sangaria Soda for 3 dollars. Pocky for 3 dollars. A "Trigun cat-pack" backpack for 15 dollars. A plush of Menchi from the anime Excel Saga for 15 or 10 dollars depending on the size. The final product being the coveted plush of Jonathan The Seal from the anime Kaleido Star which you could purchase for 15 dollars or 9 dollars depending on if you wanted the 10 inch or 5 inch version.
October 17, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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August 25, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Every time I see a sentence ended with "haha" I hear it in the same way Al does it in the MTZ cutscene from Postal 3.
July 6, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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Sometimes its worth it to check changelogs because you'll find some great stuff in there.
A changelog for a Space Station 13 server. The changelog shows 3 changes. The first is "added the ability to toggle showers' water regeneration with a multitool." The second simply says "bespoke materials exist." The third one makes a deranged statement saying "You can tell who's meat was used to make that chair."
April 19, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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Today's #postal3 lesson. Don't create body horror by fucking up the facial flexes. We don't know how in the world Trashmasters fucked up this bad.
A screenshot of the M_Avg model from Postal 3 in the Model Viewer software. The face is heavily distorted and contorted in a horrifying manner after the slider for the "V" face flex is set to maximum.
April 4, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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In other news, today I nuked the shaders for Postal 3's trees in a new way.
A screenshot of Postal 3. All the tree leaves have been transformed into blocky, discolored squares.
April 1, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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This came up again recently so I wanted post some additional screenshots here with some more explanation as to whats going on in the alt text.
This screenshot is taken from the transition from the hub1 map to hub2 with the command g_debug_transitions enabled. Hub1 and Hub2 are designed in a way where you can't see much of either Hub from the other, so theres no reason to transfer anything between them. The g_debug_transitions command makes it so when the transition is touched, it highlights everything in the map that will be transferred. In this instance you can see it highlighting so many entities that the names are overlapping and are hard to read. It should be noted that almost all of the highlighted entities are behind a wall that can't be seen by the player from the transition zone. A screenshot taken from inside Hub2 looking towards where Hub1 would be if you were meant to see it. This screenshot is after going through the transition from Hub1 to Hub2 and having all those entities transfer. You can see several props and NPCs floating off in the distance in the relative position of where they would've been in Hub1. The errors in the upper left are from the NPCs that transferred that are unable to pathfind due to their circumstance. A screenshot taken by noclipping out of bounds in Hub2 to get an overview of the area where Hub1 would have been. You can see a lot more of the entities that transferred from Hub1 to Hub2.
March 16, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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Someone had previously converted this model, but I don't know who did it and as far as I could tell it wasn't publicly available. All that existed was this screenshot which is now on TCRF.
The model for the cut M_Big_SWAT NPC meant for Postal 3. This version from TCRF features the complete texturing with proper materials.
March 6, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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Finally converted and slapped textures on this. This model was in the files of the 2007 Alpha of Postal 3 but in MB (Maya Binary) format and so was stuck unconverted for a long time. Finally got a copy of Maya running in a VM and ran it through 2 conversions so it could be opened in Blender.
The model for the cut M_Big_SWAT NPC meant for the game Postal 3
March 6, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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Sub-optimal
A picture taken in Postal 3 with the mat_wireframe command set to 2 in order to show how the world is split up into triangles. In the picture you can see a huge chunk of a building is missing. Next to the missing chunk are some wireframe lines which seem to show nearly impossible geometry. In general, the building is made up of triangles that should not have compiled as they currently are.
March 4, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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Today I chose to compile my maps with full lighting despite not being done with them. Today I chose violence.
a cropped screenshot of task manager. In the screenshot, it shows that 89.9% of my CPU is being utilized by Hammer Editor, the mapping tool for source engine. Specifically, this CPU usage is attributed to VRAD which is the tool that Hammer uses to compile lighting.
March 2, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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A weird oddity in this build I noticed that might be present in other, older builds is that things using Postal III's plant system appear darker for some odd reason. There are two theories to this, one is the plant color is set darker in hammer. The other is that it relates to the shadercache dll.
A screenshot of the recovered Postal 3 build, showing a tree in Hub 1 with darker leaves. A screenshot of the final build of Postal 3, showing the same tree from the other screencap but now the leaves appear brighter and greener.
December 29, 2024 at 4:50 AM
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One entirely unique and weird oddity in this build is the partial presence of the Gamamet aka Fart Gun. Originally a Russia only DLC that was eventually fully found in english in the files of the disk version, the scripts for it exist in this build allowing it to be used but its missing the icons.
A screenshot of the Postal III build showing the Gamamet aka The Fart Gun being partially present and usable in the build. However its icons for the weapon selector and equipped HUD element are missing, instead showing the infamous source engine "debug empty" purple and black checkerboard texture.
December 29, 2024 at 4:32 AM
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I'd also like to note that despite this being StarForce, it DOES actually accept the ActControl CD Key if you backed yours up before Steam wiped them from your account when the NoDRM update came out.
A picture showing a successful activation of the StarForce DRM on the recovered build of Postal III
December 29, 2024 at 4:24 AM
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One oddity of this build is that it uses the same DRM as the Russian retail release, just translated into English. In the final release, the English release used ActControl(ACPC.exe) which was basically a slightly stripped down version of the DRM the Russian release used, StarForce(PCNSL.exe).
December 29, 2024 at 4:21 AM
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One of the ways we know this isn't 1.12 is the presence of the catnip speedglitch which only appears on previous versions.
December 29, 2024 at 4:16 AM
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Hes still out there somewhere.
A screenshot of twitter user Richter Overtime showing a comparison between the original photo of the face actor for Half Life 2's "Male07" model and a photo of the face actor 20 years later.
December 17, 2024 at 7:15 PM
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Also while I'm at it, 2022 and 2023
My 2022 Twitch Recap. I watched 856 hours of twitch, was on twitch 116 days that year, earned three hundred forty thousand channel points, and sent 958 chat messages. My top streamers that year were Zentreya, Geega, Haruka Karibu, and AiCandii. My 2023 Twitch Recap. I watch eight thousand three hundred and eleven hours of twitch, was on the site three hundred and sixty six days of the year apparently, and sent thirteen thousand chat messages. My top channel was Zentreya with one thousand six hundred and fourteen hours watched and one thousand eight hundred and twelve chats sent. My other top channels watched were Coqui, Meat, Rummy The Boss, and Tobs. I also got an achievement for being a "Chatty Chatter"
December 10, 2024 at 4:37 PM
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Twitch recaps are neat. I always think its funny that I get chatting awards on these when I'm absolutely a lurker.
Twitch 2024 recap. According to Twitch I was "Chatty Just Chatting Champion of the Year" and also watched almost ten thousand hours of twitch streams. I was on Twitch for 363 distinct days and sent over 4.7 thousand chat messages. My most watched streamers were Zentreya with one thousand five hundred and forty one hours watched, Coqui with one thousand three hundred and ninety three hours watched, Rummy The Boss with nine hundred and eighteen hours watched, and Mako Fukasame with three hundred and sixty hours watched.
December 10, 2024 at 4:30 PM
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Decided to open a twitch stream up while I worked on some stuff this morning and I felt a pull to Tob's channel and when it loaded she was talking about Postal 3. How insane do I have to be to develop a 6th sense for when people are talking about Postal 3?
December 8, 2024 at 3:20 PM
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Made me think of this convo I had the other day about Nvidia PhysX documentation. Sometimes devs really do just be doing this.
November 29, 2024 at 6:54 PM