(Moved) Rusty

At least this makes things easier to repost.

If you haven't followed me on the newer accs, do so.

Apparently Bsky is bugged where I cannot access my accs after reactivating them unless I clear my browser data. Happens on the app too.

I guess I'll just keep this old acc up then.

I'm clean slating and have moved my main.

Moved ➡️ @rustyvanburace.bsky.social

I've been in and out of therapy so many times now... It seems like an uphill battle.

I'll be keeping this acc as a personal archive, however I will eventually be deactivating it (putting in hibernation).

I don't really want to post 'content' on the newer acc anymore and would prefer to keep it small; just as a place where I can chat about my general interests and not really be attached to any one fandom.

For those of you who like Gundam, I post that over at @pegasusclass.bsky.social now.

I'm clean slating and have moved my main.

Moved ➡️ @rustyvanburace.bsky.social

I am in the process of doing that. I moved my preferred handle to the remade one: @rustyvanburace.bsky.social

revolution

This was my white whale for a long time, but the sourced audio sample during Xenogears' "Blazing Knights" boss fight track was taken from Christian Brando's manslaughter trial in 1990!

They should invent headphones that do not hurt my head

Spoke to my source familiar with internal workings at Mastercard. The holiday call campaign re payment processor censorship is working, there is a lot of pressure being felt from your calls. This is resulting in increased response times at a core moment for Mastercard due to the holiday season

Here's the first footage of our Cardcaptor Sakura WonderSwan English patch!

Itaru: It's okay. I'm here with you. Want to take a little rest? I could feel Daru's huge hand rubbing my back. Strangely, it made me feel a little better. Rintaro: Thanks... I'm okay now. Itaru: Don't push yourself too hard, man. Rintaro: Yeah... I started to walk toward the lab again, and Daru followed me, worried.

Here for this.

4 photos of Kate Bush in a lacy bat costume in various poses.

You might not think you needed to see Kate Bush dressed as a bat today, but you were wrong.

Steins;Gate 0 reminds me a lot more of Chaos;Head, particularly with the changing perspectives of multiple characters. It was actually something I expected to see more of in S;G, and was surprised that wasn't the case.

Here though, I'm not entirely sure if I'm fond of that. But staying open-minded.

I don't get it. Everyone loves anime. Everyone loves Mad Max. NOBODY talks about Fist of the North Star. What the HELL is going on? It doesn't add up.

A pedestrian bridge between a parking garage and a Home2 Suites by Hilton in center city Philadelphia

This pedestrian bridge between a parking garage and a Home2 Suites by Hilton does *not* need to go this hard.

Okabe being made to talk with an AI bot resurrecting the likeness and personality of Kurisu, while a suspicious scientist prods him to continue developing a relationship with it at the risk of Okabe developing psychosis, is hitting REAL different in this current year of 2025.....

Important message to my younger self

The completion ceremony for the 'Joja Mart route' in Stardew Valley, accomplished by the first winter.

Accomplished lmao

大変遅くなりましたが
㊗️真女神転生Ｖ発売4周年
おめでとうございます！！✨🎉🎊✨

まさかメガテンで同人を描く日が来ると思ってなかったし、この作品で初めての同人誌発行！！っていう話を結構聞いた気がする･･･同人誌を人に作らせる熱量を与える作品って本当にすごいと思うの･･･出会えたことに感謝を･･･！！✨

Update November 22. We’ve updated this article after realising we contributed to a perfect storm of misunderstanding around a recent change in the wording and placement of Gmail’s smart features. The settings themselves aren’t new, but the way Google recently rewrote and surfaced them led a lot of people (including us) to believe Gmail content might be used to train Google’s AI models, and that users were being opted in automatically. After taking a closer look at Google’s documentation and reviewing other reporting, that doesn’t appear to be the case. Gmail does scan email content to power its own “smart features,” such as spam filtering, categorisation, and writing suggestions. But this is part of how Gmail normally works and isn’t the same as training Google’s generative AI models. Google also maintains that these feature settings are opt-in rather than opt-out, although users’ experiences seem to vary depending on when and how the new wording appeared. It’s easy to see where the confusion came from. Google’s updated language around “smart features” is vague, and the term “smart” often implies AI—especially at a time when Gemini is being integrated into other parts of Google’s products. When the new wording started appearing for some users without much explanation, many assumed it signalled a broader shift. We’ve revised this article to reflect what we can confirm from Google’s documentation, as it’s always been our aim to give readers accurate, helpful guidance.

If you have been sharing that Malwarebytes article on the Gmail thing, you should note the giant correction up top.

www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...

A reminder to everyone who may have missed it that I've split my Gundam posting over to @pegasusclass.bsky.social

This is awful, and Diaz has QTP'd that they have insider info that @crunchyroll.com execs consider the current backlash against their enshittification of subtitles too small to matter.

They've bent to backlash before tho with trying to lower video quality.

This is an important one, anime fans.

I've been really wanting to hop back to drawing again. But between general life stress + declining physical health, I haven't really found many opportunity to do so.

At least I'm still keeping up with my JP studying as a meaningful pastime.

admittedly, i like the way it looks too. but the stylistic “human touch” is running cover here for the fact that the aesthetic was born from a labor crackdown that actually eliminated a large portion of the human beings working on the film

A post from twitter with a screenshot from 101 Dalmatians. The caption says, “A lot of animation snobs will say that the sketchy linework of Disney movies in the 60s and 70s was sloppy and cheap, but man I adore it. The shifting outlines do just enough to remind you that every single frame of the movie was made by a human being.”

the reason 101 dalmations looks like that is because disney incorporated xerography (ie early photocopying technology) into the animation process. rough pencils (by mostly male animators) were copied onto the cels so that disney could fire the (mostly female) inkers. remember that art can lie to you

I really appreciate their attention to detail in looking at era photographs to authentically recreate the settings. But as far as the lab goes, maybe it's just the lighting used, but it looks so sterilized and cold now.

Comparison of the original lab living room with the newly designed one. Top is Steins;Gate original, bottom is Steins;Gate Re:boot's redesign.

Comparison of the original lab computer room with the newly designed one. Top is Steins;Gate original, bottom is Steins;Gate Re:boot's redesign.

I'm gonna be honest with you all: this is such a glow down.