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OC commission, her name is Beat! Thank you so much @sgroove.bsky.social for your patronage!

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Heart surgery coming soon and I got a better idea of the cost (a few thousand)

Everyone has already helped so much, so DON'T feel like you have to, but if you like the stuff I do on the web, one way to say thanks is throwing a dollar to my ko-fi! It's all being set aside to help cover those costs 🙂‍↕️

For years, Graceware has gotten away with abusing the DMCA because they've targeted large platforms that comply quickly with takedowns, or individuals without the resources to push back.

Then they fucked with us, a non-profit organization with a special interest and an expert legal team. Whoops!

We've freed Cookie's Bustle from copyright hell. Here's how. | Video Game History Foundation We've stopped a persistent copyright troll who was trying to impede our work. Here's everything we learned—and how we beat them.

BREAKING: We've freed Cookie.

Following an investigation by VGHF, Ukie and Web Capio have suspended DMCA takedowns for Cookie's Bustle on behalf of Graceware, SL.

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The hole in the ozone layer was actually very serious and a global effort allowed it to recover. Y2K WAS actually a serious problem and people worked countless hours to make sure nobody even noticed. Air and water pollution was catastrophic in many places and incredible effort reversed that damage.

YEAH!! HE'S THE BEST!!!

A small bump! Didn't do a sketch for this one, but I'm glad to see how much people enjoy this (and Fantasy Zone, in general), thank you! ❤️💚

The protagonist from Ghost Trick, there is a red highlight coming from the left, and a blue highlight coming from the right.

GHOST TRICK

A Fantasy Zone themed illustration, Featuring Opa-Opa, a shop balloon, a Base and some coins in front of a surreal backdrop.

Just a small Fantasy Zone doodle! #fanart #SEGA

Remember the old 2000s fansub days, when groups would race to get subs out so that they'd be the first and get the most viewers even if it meant tons of preventable errors?

Or how some groups would pick a neglected series/genre, produce a slapdash, low-effort TL, then go "It's better than nothing"?

*SHIT, I meant 1979! Not again!!

(P.S. I watched the original theatrical cut, but I'm definitely curious about Redux and The Final Cut as well. Also planning on watching that documentary on it's filming, too, because again, how on EARTH did they do all that??)

(Also! I think I'll try and do this as weekly batches from here on out, as my previous method of 'wait a few days before commenting' really hasn't worked with my general dopiness... 😅 see you next Monday!)

The poster for the animated movie FLow, featuring the main protagonist (a black cat) looking down at the viewer, floating amongst a school a colourful fish. Mountains can be seen behind him, and the film's logo underneath him, taking up roughly a third of the poster.

📼 Flow (Gints Zilbalodis, 2024)

Wow, it really DID feel like a genDESIGN game, and not just it's art direction! I adored this, in other words. I can't get over the massive sense of scale overall & how the camera was utilized in such dynamic, creative ways in order to sell it. Animals are so cool..

YouTube video by Tsundoku Diving The Cabbage Butterfly (Sumiko Haneda, 1968) w/ English subs

📼 The Cabbage Butterfly (Sumiko Haneda, 1968)

Light as a butterfly's touch, and as pleasant to watch as well! The way other animals see the world will always be fascinating, and this documentary did such a graceful job presenting it to us. Watch here, if you want to: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hl-...

The original poster for Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now, featuring a painted collage of various visuals throughout the film. The logo is off centre below the main image, and the last quarter of the poster is dedicated to cast and crew credits.

📼 Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, 1978)

Two thoughts went through my mind while watching: 'How the fuck did they do THAT?' & simply 'What the fuck?'. Decadent & disturbing, elaborate & grueling, a great many things at once! But always unrelenting, uncaring and profoundly sad at it's core.

According to payment processors, purchasing fictional sexy art is grossly immoral.

Betting on school children getting blown up is fine though.

I do not like this gen AI
I do not like what it implies
I do not want it in my art
I do not think it makes you smart
I do not want it in my games
I do not like its goals and aims
I do not want it in my books
I do not like the way it looks
I do not like it, I don't care
I do not want it anywhere

Superstar Saga finally has some competition

I just blocked two people who were like “we need to see the bodies of blown up children for people to get how serious this is,” and as a former human rights lawyer I cannot tell you how wrong that is.

Do not inflict bystander trauma on people. It will make them shut down and go numb, not wake up.

A screenshot of Wild ARMs 2. Lilka is inside the Millennium Puzzle. Her dialogue is edited to read "A Millennium Puzzle! Just like in YuGiOh!"

Felt sour after all the discourse about AI translation, and wanted to go and do something positive as a mostly retired human translator. So I've decided to resume my dropped Wild ARMs 2 retranslation. Just familiarising myself with the workflow.

(No, I'm not actually putting Yu-Gi-Oh references in)

Nothing is surprising about the US starting another war. Nothing is more dangerous to Earth and mankind at large than the United States and its complete and utter failure to curtail the worst excesses of humanity. The US oligarchy and its influence on global politics must end.

Fired Up Training at the Charicific Valley 🔥 (2023)

I realized I never posted this to bsky before, so I thought the anniversary would be an appropriate spot to do so!

#pokemon30 #ポケモン30周年

It’s one of the most interesting games on the system/its generation, and despite its many quirks (I can genuinely see you either loving or loathing it), it’s one I wish more people talked about... Would love to hear your thoughts whenever you get around to it!

I'll stop reblogging about it but *man*, what a shitty way to end a terrible week...

It's time for some people to stop being polite and draw some lines here. Don't let the scene get infested with this or the people that turn a blind eye to it. I'm serious.

They should honestly never live this down. Segagaga was a crazy white whale in the Dreamcast and FanTL world, hugely culturally important. No one that worked on this and knew it was ChatGPT should ever be trusted with a FanTL again. Or be seen as anything but a slop peddler. I'm pissed.

I want to take this attention of showing awful news to talk about something you could use that energy on something beneficial: doing anything to preserve Myrient bsky.app/profile/blaz...

My disappointment is immeasurable. Holy fucking shit man. Fuck this.

Also calling people who don't want AI in their translations "purists" is a fucking ridiculous thing to say.

FYI, AI was used in the development of the newly released Segagaga English patch: github.com/ExxistanceDC...