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please watch movies and read books and play games and look at art, please view it with your own eyes through a lens you made yourself and not just through video essayists and ending explained videos please im begging you

I was gonna remake the "delayed game good eventually, rushed game bad now" image with this quote instead, but in the process of looking up that older quote, I found it most likely actually originated from an industry veteran who's since transitioned. another W for trans women 🏳️‍⚧️

we all have to pretend we're angry about winemoms marching with us because the only way centrists will support anything is if they think it made a leftist mad. of course internally we're all thinking "winemom x communist agitator yuri" but its just not practical to say it out loud at this juncture.

This is something I've seen a lot of over the past couple years. Unhinged American right-wing sorts are utterly aghast at the concept of european arts grants and think it's some kind of leftist propaganda movement rather than a normal thing that most functional countries do.

found my super old library card and I'm gonna bring it in when I renew next week just to see if I'm still in the system for funsies. I've used the quiet study rooms for the past 2 years or so on my off days but haven't actually borrowed anything from there ._.

Fantasy Maiden Wars has appeared in the “Popular Upcoming” section on Steam's front page!!!
This is no exaggeration—it's all thanks to everyone around the world!!
To everyone at Blue Sky, thank you sooooo much!
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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.

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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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD ***************** Investigation of: LOSS OF THE SUBMARINE TITAN IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN ON JUNE 18, 2023 * * * * * * Accident No.: *********** * * * * * * Interview of: Co-designer/Pilot Deepsea Challenger DCA23FM036 via Microsoft Teams Friday, July 26, 2024

INTERVIEW OF 10 BY LCDR 11 Q. So how did you get yourself started into submersible 12 operations? 13 A. Well, I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic. When I 14 set down the path to make that film, the first thing that I did 15 was arrange to be introduced to the head of the submersible 16 program at the P.P. Shirshov Institute in Moscow, a guy named 17| Professor I. I did that through a mutual friend 18 of ours, a guy named , who is one of the preeminent underwater cinematographers in the world. And had been on a 20 submersible expedition out to Titanic the previous year with the 21 Russians. And that was organized by a Canadian company that was 22 doing an IMAX film which was released under the title Titanica.

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."

A bunny, dressed like a sea captain, smokes a pipe as he sits on the roof of his tavern in a town by the sea. The tavern is called "The Birb & Bun", and there are a few seagulls on the roof with him, relaxing. At the entrance to the tavern, younger sailor bunnies are on shore leave.

Daily bunny no.3109's seafaring days are behind him

New installation of Windows 95 on a 1990s ThinkPad

Another option to upgrade from Windows 10 is Windows 95.
It's 85 versions ahead, it will blow your mind how advanced it is.

watching streamers playing the wu zetian fmv game is giving me flashbacks to having to overhear my mom and aunties watching their historical cdramas in the living room while us kids did homework on the dining table

front view of a NES cartridge PCB, featuring ROM, RAM, and two logic chips

forums.nesdev.org/viewtopic.ph...

wrote up a bit of info on a less common US revision of Micro Machines for the NES, featuring a pretty nasty bug, discovered just a little too late and then worked around by using a PLD to patch a single *bit*. this is what day one patches looked like in 1991!

Internet: It's October! Post your scary content!

Me: Okay. *sticks a SEGA Saturn disc into a CD player*

YouTube video by Dominic Ninmark Gravity Circuit | Release Trailer

A reminder that Gravity Circuit is still free this week on Epic. One of my favourite platformers of the past few years, and a huge, highly refined tribute to the Mega Man Zero series.

Great music, great bosses, lots of extra play-modes and optional systems giving it great replay value too.

C-Chocobobo-bo Bo-bobo...

lmao, someone requested drakengard's E route end credits bgm for SE's chill music stream and staff played it to follow it up with the FF victory theme

In Final Fantasy Tactics if a unit gains too much faith they leave your party to go find God. Have you ever wondered what would happen if you had Beast Tongue and got a monster unit to maximum faith? Of course you haven't. No one has.

Everyone, please get to know the super great game: "Fantasy Maiden Wars"｜JAKE Hello, world. I'm Zyake. I'm born and raised in Japan, and just your average video game nerd. First and foremost, I want to express my heartfelt gratitude to you for opening this page. And if you can...

To everyone reading this right now.
I'm JAKE.
I'm the Japanese person who recently published this article and promoted it on Twitter (X).
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This article introduces Fantasy Maiden Wars, an amazing game I absolutely love.

Hard to argue with steam reviews like this

social media is exhausting to look at any feed on any platform lately for me, but I enjoy looking through neocities and other personal websites of that nature

🎵 Louie Zong Inspired VTuber Model 🎵

This is just fanart of @everydaylouie.bsky.social's streamer piece, and thank you for giving me permission to make fanart of what an actual VTuber would look like inspired by the art!

I'm a big fan, keep make amazing stuff Louie!!! 🙏

I have letter to the editor this week in our local paper.
Our community is, once again, facing a developer who wants to turn public, protected coastal land into a golf course. We've been here before. This time, it's shadier. And God knows it was shady last time. www.invernessoran.ca/top-story/co...

Aphrodite

I hear and see your concerns. Over the weekend, a couple users hosted on Blacksky's PDS were banned from the Bluesky app and thus the Bluesky API servers. This was a weakness of our system I've been aware of and hoped we had more time to address before any kind of public incident. 1/11

io9: Your portrayal of Indigenous and transgender characters—like the Lnu tribe and Cordelia—stands out in a media landscape where such representation is still rare outside of series like Golden Kamuy, Skip and Loafer, and Paradise Kiss, where they’re often mishandled. What impact do you hope these characters have on expanding the narrative terrain? How do you see your storytelling challenging the ethnocentric lens that dominates much of mainstream media when it comes to that representation?

Yukimura: I did have written characters in [Vinland Saga] from a marginalized ethnic group [and] who are LGBTQ featured here. I actually wanted to portray a character with a disability in the story, too. However, because of the setting, I really couldn’t find the right place to incorporate such a character into the story. One thing I really don’t understand, though, is why do people attack such folks? Is it because they’re different? Why do they just focus on bad things about these groups and generalize them? I truly don’t understand why people do such things. I plainly feel sad when it comes to the way people treat each other.

To me, it’s quite normal for people to have uniqueness. It’s almost needless to say that we all individually have a uniqueness that might be considered different than what is the majority. For example, I grew up in an era where higher education was considered to be the most important thing in society in Japan. You almost had no paths in life outside of that structure. I actually do live outside of that structure, and I’m living perfectly fine. I really want to say that uniqueness is okay. I don’t understand why people are making those judgments to say, “This is okay, but this is not okay.”

I haven’t really thought about what this type of storytelling or character would have an impact on society at all. I’m just writing, drawing, and portraying society as I see it and what I think is normal from my eyes in the manga. If people don’t agree with that version of what I think is a normal society, then oh well. (Laughs) That’s too bad. Those people don’t have to read my manga.

Also, Makoto Yukimura said trans rights.

One of the more incredible stories out of LA this year has been how a taco review blog became the best on-the-ground coverage of ICE raids in the city.

They do a dispatch every day, follow-up on the kidnapped people (which almost no media outlet has done), and fact-check government claims.

props to the translator for attempting to do the
僕たちは
俺たちは
私たちは
リズちゃんたちは
medley in English without running into repetition issues god Japanese is a language

if you needed another reason to stop using spotify: