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Action Shakespeare 🐙🤤 @thatgalinthehat.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Environmental storytelling at the elementary school

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Colin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

the fmv point and click adventure protagonist 'power' stance

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Ben Reed @benreedd.bsky.social · 12h

Remedial Dark Souls: Centipede Demon down in one try. Now for the real boss of the area -- the fucking lava everywhere. Good thing I got the ring from whiff punishing CD's Sagat st.HP.

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Imperer Ric - l'big forehead féerique qui fait des gâteaux @impererric.bsky.social · 18h

Kawaii Jenny is just a proof that Tokusatsu as a genre have no limits when it comes to overall creativity and variety A magical girl serie with elements from series like Charlie Angels who main selling point is how the characters are all DOLLS, and is awesome

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The Town That Dreaded @sundownmcmoon.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

In case anyone's confused as to what's going on here, this is how the cast of Cleopatra (1970) is introduced to clear things up.

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Ben Reed @benreedd.bsky.social · 18h

Remedial Dark Souls: The fuck kinda library has a jail? No wonder nobody likes you, Seath.

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Ben Reed @benreedd.bsky.social · 21h

Already no rooms available at the Westin for Frosty next year. Fuck. Guess I'll be hoofing it back to an alternate hotel from the Westin at midnight after all.

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Dan Pearce @gamedesigndan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'm so fucked up

A man in a VR head set looking at his hands

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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 01/10/2026

Entire generation of tech nerds never realized that talking to the computer on star trek was a narrative device and it is very rare that anyone wants to so this except necessary hands free situations

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Blur @tomboypepsilove.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Gundam 00 is a show that asks questions such as "How much can you distance yourself from your humanity in pursuit of an ideal before losing yourself?", "Can you truly make peace with someone who doesn't see his fellow humans as people?" and "Can a white boy walk the path of the bushido blade?"

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Arlan Skellington (famous) @thehell.zone · 30/09/2026

no it isn’t! fuck you!!

picture I took of my tv playing Bloodsport (1988). JCVD strikes a thoughtful martial arts pose as text says “This motion picture is based upon true events in the life of Frank W. Dux”

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yixura @yixura.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

look at my mechanics dawg my car is fucked 😭

the golden kamuy cast in a collab with a car? parts? company? theyre dressed as mechanics

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Ben Reed @benreedd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Dark Souls boss attempts to down so far: - Asylum Demon: 1 (ok, good start) - Taurus Demon: 1 (surprising) - Gargoyles: 1 (very surprising, but I also brought Solaire) - Capra Demon: 1 (very surprising) - Moonlight Butterfly: 2 (was out of Estus on attempt 1 and flubbed a few rolls)

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Joe Sparrow @torpordust.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

brittany murphy's line reads for Luanne are so so good

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Privaty Business @wanwanattack.qtbrewer.moe · 28/09/2026

Genuinely, this completely rules

－Recently, the game has been going viral on X for its beautiful undressing animations. I’ve even read in one of your previous interviews that the development team practiced stripping themselves as reference for the undressing animations. What was the process behind making the animations actually like?

Matsui:

I’d love to know how far that story has spread. It’s true.

First, we write a plot for each undressing scene, then draw storyboards, exactly as the original team did. Then the real work begins, because the animation is essentially all keyed by hand. A designer moves the clothing’s 3D model, frame by frame, manually. It really is pretty much like the claymation method I mentioned.

We did try automating it with physics simulation first, but it was a total failure. The cloth moved in a physically correct way, but had absolutely no allure. We learned a profound lesson: accuracy and sensuality are two unrelated properties. In the end, we accepted that humans would have to do all of it.

Then VR adds its own weight. In a normal game, if something becomes awkward, you can cut away or swap models between scenes. In VR, the player can look from any angle at any time, so none of those tricks are available. The same model has to undress convincingly no matter where you’re standing. When I described this to a designer at another studio, he said, “I would never do that.” I’ve chosen to take it as a compliment.

And then, yes, the part you’ve read about. The undressing motions themselves use motion capture, but the deeper problem was that nobody actually knew the correct rhythm and order in which a person takes off clothes. So, the directors gathered and undressed themselves as reference. “That zipper is coming down too fast.” “She’d pause once before slipping her shoulder out.” These were serious, sober discussions. For compliance reasons, the Super Real Mahjong Venus Returns team works in a walled-off section of our office – and that was the moment those walls truly earned their keep.

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かわわぎ @kwwg.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

🍔🍔🍔

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Ben Reed @benreedd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

People will have all sorts of answers for "what is your least favorite area in Dark Souls?", but so far, my answer is "Tomb of the Giants". Navigating in the dark to avoid death pits is annoying enough, but then I finally made it all the way down...and then clipped through the floor.

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weibun🔞 @weibun.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I hope nothing bad happens #leonskennedy

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

just saw a guy walking in the rain with an umbrella. and i’m just like, come on man. that’s cheating. don’t be a dick

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Ben Reed @benreedd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Remedial Dark Souls, day 3: Me: "Wow, I've hardly died on any of the bosses so far, I'm doing way better than I thought!" The Blowjob Brothers, stomping my mangled corpse into the arena floor: "...And we took that PERSONALLY."

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Ben Reed @benreedd.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Remedial Dark Souls: I'm still trying to decide whether I hate Toxic or Curse worse. Toxic is annoying cause I'm already out of Big Purps to cure it and puts a rapid time limit on any pre-death treasure hunting. But curing Curse without fast travel is both obnoxious AND expensive.

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Ben Reed @benreedd.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Sixty-four degrees Fahrenheit. Low humidity. Cool breeze. In Florida. In September. It'll be back to normal (ugh) by early next week, but I needed this brief taste of humane temperatures to come. Glory to the heralds of autumn, Earth, Wind, and Fire. Bah-dee-ah.

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Ben Reed @benreedd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Replaying Dark Souls to ease my mind on days when I'm too trashed from work to do anything else (which are many, these days). I had forgotten how territorial Havel was. I opened his door once, said hi, decided to leave him alone, and he comes up the stairs to visit. Friendly fellow.

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VGJunk @vgjunk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Thrilled to have found a slightly higher-res version of the greatest videogame cover of all time.

Cover art for unlicensed NES game Luck Bingo. A chrome cyber-donkey with a klaxon on its head vomits out a stream of 7s.

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 25/09/2026

ok but how many of these so called ‘100 best tv shows of the century’ had illegal sold out stadium screenings in mexico for their finales. that’s what i fuckin thought

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 24/09/2026

ME: So I can't put anything else on the scale? ANUBIS: No. Just your heart ME: No money, no good deeds? ANUBIS: No ME: What about steam points? I've got a ton of steam points ANUBIS: The point is to be lighter than the feather ME: I was just hoping to finally do something with the steam points

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Em-vira, Mistress of the Dark @spacequeenemily.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Kagura trying to stop Professor Von Vogler from creating The Beautiful Night

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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

ceo of burger king: our burgers have gone rogue again and infected people with e coli

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sebmal @mrdo.pro · 24/09/2026

this is the famous Operator from hit game Lifeline

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