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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 · 19h

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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SpaceQueenEmily @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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Ben Reed @benreedd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Streamlining interactions with my cat in an ill-fated bid to improve productivity. Introducing acronyms. "Pearl, NIBFO!" (No, I'm Busy, Fuck Off). Saves a few seconds yelling at her but I still need to get at least a little ways out of my seat to move her away from my keyboard and/or monitor.

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botoggle @botoggle.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

An underrated feature of not being on Twitter anymore is I'm only subjected to the opinions of teenagers with zero media literary when one of you brings it here like a cat showing off the bird they just nabbed in the back yard

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Argos @ez-ez.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Tsukihime has presented to me the concept of the "coughing hydrogen baby". Tohno Shiki is at every moment the most dangerous thing in the room, but at the same time, he is a sack of potatoes dropped in the middle of said room, unable to get up by himself.

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Minovsky @minovskyarticle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

You must stop comparing Mitch McConnell to a turtle. Turtles have never done anything to deserve that.

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Emily✨ @emilyoram.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Always a treat to be reminded of an old friend

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 23/09/2026

mario renders used to go crazy

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RX @henshinrx.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

This exact moment in the Guilty Gear Xrd reveal trailer.

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Chase | Commissions... Open!! @chaseburns.art · 22/09/2026

"borzoi" really sounds like a kind of mobile suit, doesn't it?

a digital sketch of a zaku ii that resembles a borzoi dog, because of its white coloration and elongated snout

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c3rmen @c3rmen.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Losing my mind while doing some research for my creature design lecture that the closest relative to the maned wolf is the bush dog. Like there has gotta be a fable where the maned wolf took all the leggie from its cousin

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Bundist|Reconstruction 2|UltraDavid @ultradavid.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Green Text Anon: In my post I invented the Verification Can as a cautionary tale. Microsoft: At long last, we have created the Verification from classic green text post Don't Create The Verification Can.

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Colin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Greendog: The Beached Surfer Dude for the sega genesis is not a good game but the idea of bikini babes just standing around on beaches waiting to dispense ancient lore about cursed aztec treasure does crack me up

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