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Brauny || COMMS OPEN @brauny.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

I've read the whole LN series until Alicization, and watched some essays on it, and let me be honest, I think Abridged remains the best version

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Brauny || COMMS OPEN @brauny.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

I have a feeling he got this idea from NFTs and he might even try to bring them back for that, because second time the charm, surely?

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Brauny || COMMS OPEN @brauny.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Despite Kawahara being mostly clueless about games, he at least had a somewhat working explanation, that they stole the Kayaba's SAO code wholesale and added flight just to look a bit different. It wasn't even intended there, just a result of sloppy plagiarism

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Brauny || COMMS OPEN @brauny.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

They did that to Japan before the TL feature was added. I think people just want to believe there's a place out there where People Figured It Out, since it gives them hope their place will also eventually Figures It Out.

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Brauny || COMMS OPEN @brauny.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

brauny74.itch.io/vacation-on-... Updated this little game, added new effects, such as a fire, a stasis field, moving screen. Works better as a Windows downloadable.

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Vacation on Freya by Brauny74

A small graphical demo

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Brauny || COMMS OPEN @brauny.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

It feels pretentious and deeply untrusting of translators as a profession, though. If you trust your players to understand your text, why not trust the localization team with retelling it in their language? Yes, some meaning might be lost, but it's inevitable with any reading of any text.

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Brauny || COMMS OPEN @brauny.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

brauny74.itch.io/vacation-on-freya I made a little game-like thing where you can walk around. I made all the models and wrote all shaders. Might expand on it a bit later.

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Vacation on Freya by Brauny74

A small graphical demo

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Brauny || COMMS OPEN @brauny.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

As always, you can purchase model ready for #VRchat, to use as a #vtuber or with fbx to use in games. Itch.io: brauny74.itch.io/soldier-girl Vgen: vgen.co/Brauny/produ... Or on booth: brauny.booth.pm/items/7935446

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Brauny || COMMS OPEN @brauny.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

A military style girl, inspired by watching LycoReco, Rimworld playthroughts, and maybe, a bit of Metal Gear Solid. Gun included.

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Brauny || COMMS OPEN @brauny.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

You can purchase the model on Vgen: vgen.co/Brauny/produ... Itch.io: brauny74.itch.io/christmas-elf Or on Booth: brauny.booth.pm/items/7774641

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Christmas Elf by Brauny (@Brauny)

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Brauny || COMMS OPEN @brauny.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

With the holidays approaching, I thought it might be appropriate to create a model of the #Christmas elf for those who want to spread the cheer! As always, available as #vtuber model and as an avatar for #vrchat

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Brauny || COMMS OPEN @brauny.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

You can purshase the model on VGen: vgen.co/Brauny/produ... On Itch: brauny74.itch.io/monitor-head Or on Booth: brauny.booth.pm/items/7762533

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Monitor Head by Brauny (@Brauny)

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Brauny || COMMS OPEN @brauny.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Another character. Inspired a little by Tenna and Vox, of course, but I decided to make someone a lot more casual and chill in comparison. Made into a #VRChat avatar. Also available as Vtuber.

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Brauny || COMMS OPEN @brauny.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/... Added my OCs as playable figurines into Tabletop Simulator. If you want characters like that on your own, you can awlays commission me: vgen.co/Brauny as a custom inquiry!

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Steam Workshop::Low-poly Adventurers Mia and Charlotte

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Brauny || COMMS OPEN @brauny.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

And obviously, if I made two girls, couldn't just not make them kiss. She sure caught Renako by surprise. #lowpoly #yuri #renako

A lowpoly render of two girls kissing, one of them looks surprised.

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Brauny || COMMS OPEN @brauny.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

The very Ashigaya High's Little Sister Koyanagi Kaho! Another #WATANARE character. #lowpoly

An lowpoly render of an anime girl with green hair and yellow eyes

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Brauny || COMMS OPEN @brauny.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

The punishment for not forking money to remove them. Which again is not helping form a positive connection to the product. Am I the only one who feels this way?

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Brauny || COMMS OPEN @brauny.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

And I feel like it's not the same as on TV because there's no sense of control with TV, I can't really pause TV or choose a show to watch beyond flipping channels. So ads taking this control away feel a lot more intrusive. And as such instead of serving their purpose they become the punishment.

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Brauny || COMMS OPEN @brauny.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

You know one thing about ads on streaming services and YouTube, is that by interrupting your show suddenly, they do not help sell the product. Quite the opposite they help you develop a negative association with the product, since it interrupts stuff you liked.

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Brauny || COMMS OPEN @brauny.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Not just mods, RimPy too. It still works thankfully, but sucks it has no updates.

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Brauny || COMMS OPEN @brauny.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Muri Muri Aomori Renako from #WATANARE #わたなれ I am reading the novels, and enjoy them quite a bit, and I enjoyed the anime quite a bit too. Looking forward to the adaptation of the 4th volume.

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Brauny || COMMS OPEN @brauny.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Yeah, I know the elbows are a bit wonky, but at least I figured out curves on a 7-heads tall model.

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Brauny || COMMS OPEN @brauny.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Another #lowpoly model, of my kunoichi OC Karasu.

A low-poly model in the style of Playstation 1 of a kunoichi woman doing a ninja pose.

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Brauny || COMMS OPEN @brauny.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Sanseito is adamant about not having a coalition with LDP though, the reasoning being they exist in the first place because LDP is not enough (what not enough depends on your thoughts about Sanseito)

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Brauny || COMMS OPEN @brauny.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

If you want something in that style, hit me up. #lowpoly #3d

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Brauny || COMMS OPEN @brauny.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

People measured it, somebody on Reddit ran like hundreds of tries, and it does lean towards 16%. So maybe it's one case where gamers are right about odds.

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Kaylyn Saucedo - MarzGhoul @marzgurl.com · 03/10/2025

Aegisub is free software, by the way. What the fuck are we doing?

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Brauny || COMMS OPEN @brauny.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

The whole CR new subtitling software debacle is so weird, because it's not like they're saving money on that. Aegisub is literally free. And it's a lot more powerful than what CR does with its subtitles anyway. It just reeks of shady. It's a really weird change.

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Brauny || COMMS OPEN @brauny.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

That and its very specific weird quasi realistic style is what people love Half-Life 2 for, but I believe if anyone praises its plot is because they project their fun with the systems or intrigue over setting onto extremely bland characters.

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Brauny || COMMS OPEN @brauny.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

It's a very gameplay/tech game series as a whole, and that shit fucks immensely. Playing around with physics is fun, and while gunplay was outdone by any other game in years after, there's still something special about ragdolling a Source NPC with a well placed shotgun blast.

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Brauny || COMMS OPEN @brauny.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

I think it's because nobody cares too much about the character writing in HL2, I think. It does suck, and there's not much to care about. The world is interesting, and people want to know more about it, but also everybody was making fun of "please breed my daughter" Eli for 20 years.

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Brauny || COMMS OPEN @brauny.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

I was once coup'd (flamed from) from my own gaming telegram chat, but it was because I was stupid enough to admin a gaming chat at the height of gamergate.

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Brauny || COMMS OPEN @brauny.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Can this company not be evil for 5 minutes?!

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Brauny || COMMS OPEN @brauny.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Oh it's not the point to make artists be educators, it's to avoid hitting educators while banning all the 🔞 artists. They will come for educators when they run out of artists though.

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Brauny || COMMS OPEN @brauny.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

I don't think it's the plan by Big Fascism, but it is a convenient consequence of its many little brothers, like the glorification of the military, the patriarchy, and the machoism of violence.

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Grinda 🏳️‍⚧️🔞 @grindagoat.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

And like, bluntly? I am actually going to ask why on a Systemic Level (individual preferences are individual, but this sure is a weird trend) we're so incredibly comfortable with the most horrific violence imaginable but the Very Normal And Common Act Of Sex is more awful than a disembowelment

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MOTORSLICE | Regular Studio @regularstudio.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

MOTORSLICE demo available NOW

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Brauny || COMMS OPEN @brauny.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Dostoyevsky started writing Crime and Punishment because he needed something to publish in a magazine to get money. It doesn't make it any less a masterpiece of classical literature.

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Brauny || COMMS OPEN @brauny.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Kinda reminds me how in the 2010s some people used the symbol of Team Dai-Gurren during protests. But never on this scale.

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Maren 🌱💀 @vespervines.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

This proposal would mean a massive blow to our privacy and digital security, it's crazy that this is a discussion at all. If you live in an undecided/support country (like I do, sadly) please contact your representatives. I just did it and it took no longer than two minutes fightchatcontrol.eu

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Fight Chat Control - Protect Digital Privacy in the EU

Learn about the EU Chat Control proposal and contact your representatives to protect digital privacy and encryption.

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Brauny || COMMS OPEN @brauny.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Absolutely love how they decided to post this engagement bait on this site and are now being grilled both in replies and quote posts. Just check them, if you're curious about reasons to dislike CR.

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Brauny || COMMS OPEN @brauny.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Reminds me how people were calling new state flags woke. At least they had a point, albeit horrible, in Mississippi. But in Utah? Or Minnesota? They didn't remove any hate symbols there, some people just can't accept change.

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Brauny || COMMS OPEN @brauny.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

It's not an unfathomable question for a kid to ask, although it kinda speaks to education they receive (if they assume a couple must have kids), nor it actually has any world-shattering answers (just say they adopt)

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Brauny || COMMS OPEN @brauny.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Unity is adding AI in the next update to its tools. Can this engine not be evil for 5 fucking minutes, man.

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Rev. Poppy Haze 𓅋 @poppyhaze.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

every “ancient tradition” was invented between 1848-1870 and every “modern perversion” is so ancient as to predate writing

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Brauny || COMMS OPEN @brauny.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Unfortunately can't tell the name, it was a long time ago. It most probably was a Russian book, if it helps to narrow it down.

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