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Gotta say, was not expecting to come across a dragons fucking cars joke while reading #manga this morning Though I'm not particularly surprised that Dowman Sayman would be the first mangaka I see go for it

A two-page spread from the manga Dungeons That Surely Slaughter Adventurers by Dowman Sayman. It starts with a girl asking in surprise what "Grampy is doing" (Grampy is an old dragon). Grampy replies "It's no what it looks like!" Another girl rushes in, worried for the first one, and they're both shocked to see the dragon is in fact fucking a car. "Dragons really do have sex with cars... I've heard rumors about this", the second girl remarks in shock. On the second page, it continues "Word has it car-fucking is all the rage among dragons these days. I Hear they've used summoning spells to import hundreds of automobiles from the other world." Grampy apologizes in shame to the first girl that he "never wanted you to see me like this". We see the car (a kei truck) covered in an ominous white liquid.

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Daiz @daiz.moe · 13h

Yeah, looks like it was updated to not be so messy. Though now it's messy in a somewhat different way with the dialogue overlapping the original sign. But well, that's about the best you can do when you're restricted to numpad positioning for sign translations. Worse than what CR could do in 2009!

Screenshot from Vertex Force anime episode 1, showing a line of dialogue on bottom (overlapping Japanese text for a messy look), with two lines of sign translation in the top center of the screen and another two on the right center of the screen. It's an improvement on what they had previously but still messy and a major downgrade to previous Crunchyroll typesetting quality.

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Daiz @daiz.moe · 13h

Yes that is literally the joke. The manga is even more explicit about it

Screenshot from Even the Student Council Has Its Holes manga volume 1, showing two panels where the student council goes to tell the Light Music Club their budget is getting cut. The student council had apparently received a report that the club is using their club room to have lesbian sex (at this point the club members cuts the council out and runs)

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Daiz @daiz.moe · 03/10/2026

These new OOONA subs are not as catastrophically bad as the fully Netflix-compatible subs Crunchyroll was serving to users a year ago, but they still represent a significant downgrade in especially typesetting quality. Numpad notation positioning only, with no colors used. Plus issues like this too.

Screenshot from Vertex Force anime episode 1, showing a line of dialogue on top, with two overlapping lines of sign translation in the middle of the screen that are impossible to read properly because they overlap

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Daiz @daiz.moe · 03/10/2026

Remember when Crunchyroll tried to make their subtitles significantly worse a year ago? They backtracked on it at the time, but I suspected they were just delaying their plans to shift from Aegisub to OOONA, and sadly, it seems I was right: Crunchyroll is actively pushing OOONA subs to users now.

Screenshot of Crunchyroll English subtitle metadata for #I'm Looking For a Zombie episode 1, showing "Exported from Ooona Tools" and "Internal Delivery"

Screenshot of Crunchyroll English subtitle metadata for Vertex Force episode 1, showing "Exported from Ooona Tools" and "Internal Delivery"

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Daiz @daiz.moe · 03/10/2026

I know this is a joke and all but I do want to point out that The Collector was explicitly female back in StS1 already

Slay the Spire 1 early access weekly patch 56 banner, featuring a clearly feminine Collector

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Daiz @daiz.moe · 02/10/2026

Ah yes, an official plugin for Elon Musk's Child Porn Generator is exactly what my indie #gamedev needed. Thanks, @unity.com!

Screenshot of an X/Twitter post by @unitygames (which is an official Unity-related account):

Introducing the official Unity plugin for Grok Build - bringing our engineering guidance directly to your terminal in our continued effort to meet you where you work.

Unlock 30+ Unity skills covering UI Toolkit, Shader Graph, multiplayer, physics, and more with nothing to configure by hand.

One install, no manual setup, built by Unity.

Get started: [unity.com link to Grok Plugin]

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Daiz @daiz.moe · 02/10/2026

LRT: Kurt Eichenwald actually blocked me at the time for posting this in response to his hentai tab screenshot making the rounds (Also, for all his claims about wanting to prove the existence of "tentacle hentai", curiously the hentai manga he had open had absolutely no tentacles in it whatsoever!)

Screenshot of a Twitter post by Daiz from 2017-06-08: Dear
@kurteichenwald, as no doubt you prefer people get paid for their work, you should read your hentai on @FAKKU instead of pirate sites 😉

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Daiz @daiz.moe · 01/10/2026

Thank you Tapas for giving us yet another great example of why digital "purchases" that don't come with DRM-free downloads are no purchases at all, just rentals with an undefined time period :) I just loooove spending hundreds to thousands on a digital platform only to have you take it all away!

Screenshot from the Tapas shutdown "Ink and Refunds" section, with highlight on the last two paragraphs that basically say "Can my purchases be transferred to other Kakao-owned services? No. Can I get refunds? No." You just lose everything you've ever paid for on Tapas!

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Daiz @daiz.moe · 30/09/2026

I also recorded my drawing sessions so I could make a timelapse for this, and thanks to that I can tell you this one took ~9.5 hours to complete. Making the (300x) timelapse was its own pain and the end result is super flickery... probably shouldn't have made it 60fps. Photosensitivity warning:

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Daiz @daiz.moe · 30/09/2026

Mint Fantome #pixelart based on an illustration by Moorina #fantography Draw-through & reference drawing. 192x192, 12 colors.

Pixel art illustration of vtuber Mint Fantome, a ghostly anime girl with a short white-to-teal gradient hair, wearing a white summer dress and half-wearing a teal sports jacket. Original art by Moorina, pixel art adaption by Daiz.

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Daiz @daiz.moe · 26/09/2026

I also took some screenshots while I was working on this, which means I can share this rough progress timelapse. Maybe at some point I'll do a proper recording of the whole drawing process, but I'll need to figure out how to best go about that since these take multiple sessions to finish.

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Daiz @daiz.moe · 26/09/2026

Dripsokyo Patchouli Knowledge #pixelart based on an illustration by Shirenai #東方 #東方Project Draw-through & reference drawing. 256x256, 12 colors.

An anime girl with a long purple hair dressed in a light purple long-sleeved track crop top and purple sweatpants. Her stomach is very visible and you can see dark purple strings poking out from the sweatpants. In the top right you have text: Dripsokyo Patchouli Knowledge - Original art by Shirenai, pixel art by Daiz. 256x256, 12 colors.

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Daiz @daiz.moe · 25/09/2026

Here's also a little behind the scenes screenshot. I'm using Aseprite with mouse for this. I start by building the palette from a downscaled image, then use draw-through to get the big shapes and lines in place, then it's pixel work while zooming around in the full image to figure out the details.

Behind the scenes screenshot of working on the Shirao Eri image. The full-sized image is shown on the left in Paint.NET, with Aseprite on the right showing the finished pixelart in the middle and downscaled original art on the right, with blobs of color in the corner to show the palette. There are lots of layers.

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Daiz @daiz.moe · 25/09/2026

Shirao Eri from Blue Archive, #pixelart based on an illustration by HON3Y. Draw-through & reference drawing. 256x256, 12 colors.

Shirao Eri from Blue Archive. Anime girl with white hair in a white & dark-red schoolgirl uniform, with a long dark gray jacket and a witch hat. She is adjusting her left shoe while standing up. Original illustration by HON3Y, this pixel art adaption by Daiz. Compared to the original, the color of the skirt and the gun holster has been adjusted to keep it readable due to the limited 12-color palette.

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Daiz @daiz.moe · 24/09/2026

Shirao Eri from Blue Archive, #pixelart based on the quoted illustration by HON3Y. Draw-through & reference drawing. 256x256, 12 colors.

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Daiz @daiz.moe · 24/09/2026

To give you a better idea of what I mean by "basic pixel wrangling skills", here's a mockup/redraw of the desktop of Factory 95 I did a while back. On the left is a screenshot of the actual game, on the right is my redraw. I did this because I wanted to see what it would look like "pixel perfect"

Screenshot of the game Factory 95, in which you use a Windows 95 -inspired fake OS to make slideshows. The game's emulation of the Windows 95 UI is sadly not very accurate and it uses mixed-resolution elements all over, which means the game doesn't really have a true "native" low resolution and it's very hard to make it look pleasing at any size.

Pixel art redraw of the previous screenshot, with much more accurate Windows 95 UI look, combined with appropriately sized icons and text for everything. It has an authentic 640x360 native resolution, upscaled here to 1280x720.

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Daiz @daiz.moe · 22/09/2026

The rest of the Northernlion Super Show crew after Dan "No Politics Here" Gheesling's completely non-political three-day sponsored stream with the US military

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Daiz @daiz.moe · 18/09/2026

ie. overpowered goofballs trying to live a normal life and failing to do so. The ending was nice and fitting for its vibes! I originally discovered this series through scanlations of its manga, and I might go back and read that one day because the art is really cute. Fits the series really well.

The Invincible Little Lady manga volume 2 cover, featuring our protagonist Mary Regalia in a school uniform and holding her Legendary Sword (Cringe). The character design in the manga is all around softer and cuter than in the original light novels

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Daiz @daiz.moe · 18/09/2026

It's not every day that you actually end up finishing a #lightnovels series so I might as well post about it - The Invincible Little Lady is officially all wrapped up in English with volume 8. Nothing truly special by any means, but well, I have a soft spot for this kind of thing...

The Invincible Little Lady light novel volume 8 cover, featuring our protagonist Mary Regalia and her maid Tutte standing next to each other and smiling

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Daiz @daiz.moe · 16/09/2026

Wife was in touch with Lidl customer service and the email response included this customer service specific(?) mascot character and I had to do a double take when she showed it to me cause it looks exactly like a stylistic rendition of Serenity of "Whoops! Can't show that in a Christian manga!" fame

Signature from Lidl customer service email, featuring a young cartoon woman with a red undershirt, a yellow open jacket/overshirt of some kind, and short electric blue hair. She is smiling and waving at the viewer.

A cartoon panel from Serenity, an original English language "Christian manga", featuring the main character Serenity, a young woman with a red undershirt, a yellow hoodie, and short electric blue hair. She is angrily showing a middle finger to someone and saying "You and your [censored] bibles!" and the middle finger is covered up with a yellow box that says "WHOOPS! Can't show that in a Christian manga!"

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Daiz @daiz.moe · 12/09/2026

Doing some stuff and came up with this regex to determine if a word is likely to be romanized Japanese by checking if it fits a JP-like syllable structure: /^(?:(?:(?:([kstnhmrwgzdbpzjf])\1?|sh|ch|ts)?y?[aiueo])|n'?)+$/i It has false positives in EN (eg. "woman") but should work generally fine!

Screenshot of console output testing the regex in question with a bunch of English and Japanese media titles. "superman", "wonderwoman", and "breakingbad" return false, while "gen'eiwokakerutaiyou", "higurashinonakukoroni" and "sakurasounopettonakanojo" return true.

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Daiz @daiz.moe · 09/09/2026

All I can say is

xkcd 386: A stick figure is sitting seriously in front of a computer. A discussion happens with an offscreen character: "Are you coming to bed?" "I can't. This is important." "What?" "Someone is *wrong* on the internet."

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Daiz @daiz.moe · 08/09/2026

The character models just have these Temu Dollfie Dream vibes to them

Link in an Y-pose showing off his five Deku nuts he just purchased from a shop

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Daiz @daiz.moe · 08/09/2026

Looking at the footage of the Ocarina of Time remake and while it looks fine-ish in motion it has a very NINTENDO HIRE THIS MAN quality to it whenever you stop and have the opportunity to look at it more closely. Cloth texturing looks odd for the style, sword is weirdly greebled, it just feels off

Screenshot from Ocarina of Time remake equipment menu screen with Link standing in the middle in a green tunic and cap, with a sword in hand a shield on his back. The skin texturing is smooth, practically cartoony, while the tunic texturing is jarringly detailed in comparison. Link has a very cartoony face, which feels at odds with the relatively realistic hair and lighting. The sword Link is holding has a LOT of greebles all over it for some reason. The cap is also rather weirdly decorated. It just all feels off and at odds with each other.

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Daiz @daiz.moe · 07/09/2026

An insanely legit lowpoly 3D recreation slash reimagination of a 2D anime opening, and even more wildly impressive for the fact that they pulled it off on the Playstation 1 in 1996. The devs were fucking cooking

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Daiz @daiz.moe · 04/09/2026

Been seeing this MyDialect thing on the timeline so I took the extended test because I was interested in seeing how it would turn out for me as a fluent but not native English speaker. My speech is pretty California/New York-coded apparently. Very coastal.

MyDialect extended test result, showing a map of the US with "most like you" areas being in California on the west coast and New York / New Jersey on the east coast. Most similar cities for me would be Philadelphia, PA (46%), New York, NY (46%), and Baltimore, MD (46%)

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Daiz @daiz.moe · 28/08/2026

"Veneer"? What veneer exactly? Literally the game's own short description calls it a casual game. If you somehow manage to get "deceived" about what the game is like despite it laying its cards very openly on the table that's entirely a you problem buddy

Steam capsule for Vampire Survivors, which includes a short description: Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!

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Daiz @daiz.moe · 27/08/2026

The Gumroad website literally has a top level entry for "Gumclaw", which proudly proclaims that "Gumroad is run by an [AI] agent"... Well, I can certainly see why the founder would think along the lines of "surely this is what everyone using my service wants as well!" 🤪 gumroad.com/gumclaw

Screenshot of the Gumclaw top level navigation pageon Gumroad, which features white text on a black background saying "Meet Gumclaw. Gumroad is run by an agent. Gumclaw is the autonomous AI agent that runs Gumroad, handling support, operations, and engineering end-to-end."

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Daiz @daiz.moe · 26/08/2026

Went to a photography exhibition yesterday and came across this photo that made me go "that is one Gollum-ass creature" and then I looked at the description which said "Gollum scales a wall in a Lord of the Rings summer theatre show" so props to them for getting the Gollum vibes just right I guess

A framed black and white photo showing a stark white bald man climbing a dark stone wall in a frog-like pose. A ponytailed person with a bag is walking toward the left in the foreground while looking at the wall.

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Daiz @daiz.moe · 21/08/2026

Actually, let's be a real hater for a moment, to set a proper example: The author of this piece seems to fancy himself an intellectual word wrangler, yet he can't even spell "pseudo" right. And why would the pursuit of gamefeel be a "pseudoart" to begin with? What's supposed to be "fake" about it?

An excerpt from the article quoted in the opening post:

Self-playing games take microdecisions away from you in favour of macrodecisions. You don't need to choose where to aim your gun every second, but you will need to decide what ammo upgrade to select for the next level. This is an inviting approach for game designers (and not unique to the self-playing game). It allows designers to sidestep the difficult psuedoart of "gamefeel", and player skill becomes less of an issue to account for. You can focus on the metagame, the upgrades and abilities and perks and extras. The exofun. All you need to do is make the braintickling numbers work, and then make it look flashy.

But what if some genres are the microdecisions?

If somebody automated Devil Daggers, I would stab them in the hands with a barbeque fork. If somebody automated Tetris, I would have them arrested. When a designer of a racing game makes drifting round corners

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Daiz @daiz.moe · 21/08/2026

The article's "argument" in a nutshell: "Many games are both apples and oranges. Some are all oranges. I like oranges. These games are all apples, though. How could anyone like games that are all apples?" It's a fundamentally incurious take that downplays the strategic focus many of these games have

Excerpt from an article:

Self-playing games take microdecisions away from you in favour of macrodecisions. You don't need to choose where to aim your gun every second, but you will need to decide what ammo upgrade to select for the next level. This is an inviting approach for game designers (and not unique to the self-playing game). It allows designers to sidestep the difficult psuedoart of "gamefeel", and player skill becomes less of an issue to account for. You can focus on the metagame, the upgrades and abilities and perks and extras. The exofun. All you need to do is make the braintickling numbers work, and then make it look flashy.

But what if some genres are the microdecisions?

If somebody automated Devil Daggers, I would stab them in the hands with a barbeque fork. If somebody automated Tetris, I would have them arrested. When a designer of a racing game makes drifting round corner

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Daiz @daiz.moe · 11/08/2026

So what was number 1000? Well, it was Return of the Corpse King: Reining in my Cringe Secret Society, volume 1. Kind of a "we've got Eminence of Shadow at home" but from a different angle. It was okay. But it's also a good representation of what it takes to get to a 1000 books read...

Return of the Corpse King: Reining in My Cringe Secret Society, light novel volume 1 cover. A handsome dude in gray robes is surrounded by three ominous women in similar gray robes, plus a gray-bearded old man in gray robes as well.

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Daiz @daiz.moe · 09/08/2026

Like Crunchyroll has had seemingly zero quality control for third party localization for basically its entire existence and it has led to many cases of them serving some hot garbage (including clearly MTL'd stuff) to its paying customers. I'd hope Omoi's standards with 3rd party stuff to be better!

A screenshot from the anime The Yuzuki Family's Four Sons featuring an extremely nonsensical subtitle saying 'What you are doing is a carcinogen.

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Daiz @daiz.moe · 27/07/2026

So I finally got around to reading Sweat and Soap... and gosh was it delightful. A healthy adult couple that talks through their problems and are just incredibly cute and sweet together. Peak romance #manga for sure. A certified hetgem. If it wasn't obvious yet, can highly recommend!

Sweat and Soap manga volume cover 2, featuring Asako and Kotaro laying on a sofa with both of them somewhat flustered

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Daiz @daiz.moe · 27/07/2026

Elsewhere too. On many Finnish forums back in the 00s it was quite common to see people using this as their avatar. The text roughly translates to "(you can) beat the anime out of the child" Anime was seen as a particularly perverse and disturbed hobby during those times, a veritable bully magnet

A yellow badge showing a sad JP emoticon style face with a blue circle around one eye, indicating a black eye from a beating. On the edges, it features the text "anime lähtee lapsesta hakkaamalla" (see post body for translation"

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Daiz @daiz.moe · 21/07/2026

For 3 I ended up adding manual noops in a functions.lor file for now but I imagine this could cause issues during actual engine integration. Could maybe add an abstract/extern keyword so you could write "extern function clear()" or so, then engine-side could even warn if all externs aren't provided

function clear(): return in a Loreline file to act as a manual noop for eventually externally provided function

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Daiz @daiz.moe · 21/07/2026

Also, more of a general Loreline issue, but the choice conditional parsing seems to break down when you add a second dot to it here (stops highlighting as a conditional once you get to "job.available.")

Screenshot of a Loreline choice reading `Shop Assistant <money>$50</money> if job.available.has("shop_assistant")`, with the whole thing parsed as the choice text rather than having the part after if acting as a conditional

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Daiz @daiz.moe · 18/07/2026

In related news I've clocked in about a tenth of my StS1 playtime into StS2 already at ~160 hours. It's a good game!

Screenshot of Steam showing a playtime of 164.4 hours for Slay the Spire 2

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Daiz @daiz.moe · 18/07/2026

Played a normal run too and got to do some fun Game Piece + Subroutine + Spinner+ Clone nonsense on Defect. I got the Game Piece by trading a White Star at the relic trader, which is not a trade you would normally do but when you've already got the Spinner with Clone it was a no-brainer lol #sts2

Screenshot of Slay the Spire 2 deck view at the end of a ~27 minute run, showing 12 (out of 16) Spinner+ cards with clone (Spinner+, 1 cost rare power, channel 1 glass, at the start of your turn, channel 1 glass)

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Daiz @daiz.moe · 18/07/2026

Cool Slay the Spire 2 daily today, always a fun time when you get to do Bury + Lethality shenanigans on Necrobinder. Ivory Tile (gain 1 energy when you play a a 3+ cost card) powered it up even further #sts2

A cropped screenshot showing a part of my deck at the end of the run, with Bury+ (4 cost attack, deal 64 damage), Dash+ (2 cost attack, gain 15 block, deal 13 damage), Borrowed Time+ (1 cost skill, Gain 6 energy, cards cost an additional energy this turn), Lethality+ (1 cost power, Ethereal, the first attack each turn deals 75% additional damage), and Lethality (same as + but only 50% extra damage).

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Daiz @daiz.moe · 17/07/2026

Some runner-up entries, now that I've had the chance to look at my list: - Black Bullet - Chaos;Head - Nobunaga Teacher's Young Bride

Nobunaga Teacher's Young Bride promo art

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Daiz @daiz.moe · 03/07/2026

Love it when a website I use on the regular rolls out new a design exclusively for phone screens that contains literally zero useful information for me above the fold (I don't read on the site but I opened a preview once and now can't get rid of continue reading, and I already saw the sale contents)

J-Novel Club's new homepage, with a huge "Welcome back! Continue reading!" section that is completely useless for me and a gigantic summer sale banner that is also completely useless for me because I already checked the sale content on an earlier date

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Daiz @daiz.moe · 03/07/2026

I want to throw a #lightnovels recommendation out there: More people should be reading Pens Down, Swords Up: Throw Your Studies to the Wind. The premise might sound like the most generic thing in existence, but it executes on it with excellence and most importantly: it is just damn funny.

Cover for Pens Down, Swords Up: Throw Your Studies to the Wind light novel volume 1, featuring our protagonist Allen Rovene in the foreground with a pile of books and a sword. Behind him we see a mansion, Allen's older sister Rose, a girl named Fey and the Rovene family steward slash private tutor Soldo.

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Daiz @daiz.moe · 03/07/2026

You know, it really is fascinating that Bluesky decided that it needed a "Sexually Suggestive (Cartoon)" label on top of the "Sexually Suggestive" label that users can apply on their own. For what purpose? What sort of mindset must you possess that an extra label for cartoons becomes a necessity?

Screenshot of Bluesky's "Labels on your content" modal, featuring "Sexually Suggestive" as applied by me and "Sexually Suggestive (Cartoon)" as applied by Bluesky Moderation.

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Daiz @daiz.moe · 27/06/2026

THIS IS OUR FIGHT

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Daiz @daiz.moe · 26/05/2026

Having a Screentone Moment at work again

A meme image featuring a muscular shiba inu (doge) and a pitiful-looking shiba inu. The muscular one is labeled "Full grayscale" (and is presented in grayscale), and is saying "Use your worst resize algorithms on me. I don't care. I'll still look fine." The pitiful shiba inu, on the other hand, is labeled "Screentones", and is presented in mangled, moire'd screentones, saying "You *looked* at the resize dialog? Guess I'll die"

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Daiz @daiz.moe · 25/05/2026

Reactionary web guy even has the balls to complain about "being harassed" when his timeline is full of him going into every discussion about Patricia Taxxon to scream "PEDO PEDO PEDO" at anyone standing up for her There really are so many people on this site who really want to be Kiwifarms but woke

Anonymized screenshot of a Bluesky post by the same fellow as in the last post.

I've also been getting harassed by these people. They've taken to just screenshotting my posts so I can't detach or see what lies they're saying about me.

Screenshot of anonymous guy's Bluesky timeline, showing a series of replies where's he's calling people pedophiles, pedophilia apologists, pedos and thier defenders, etc.

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Daiz @daiz.moe · 25/05/2026

Shoutouts to this "leftist web guy" who says he went to art school so he "knows what he's talking about" when he calls lolicon Uniquely Evil and then just screams "PEDO PEDO PEDO" and blocks the moment he's asked to elaborate for even the slightest amount. Reactionary web guy would be more accurate

Screenshot of two anonymized Bluesky posts:

I really didn't think this was something I'd have to say, but loli doesn't have artistic merit. It's child porn.

I did art school up to a masters (so far) so I do, in fact, know what I'm talking about. It absolutely does do "real harm", just the way Birth of a Nation did.

"but violent video games" yeah it's almost like that's a completely different thing, huh

Screenshot of me responding to the previous posts:

How is it completely different though. Why is enjoying one type of fiction about activities that would be illegal in real life any different from enjoying another type of fiction about activities that would be illegal in real life

Please, do elaborate

Screenshot of an anonymized Bluesky post, in response to my post:

Oh gladly! You see masturbating to images of children is pedo shit, while GTA is a video game.

Anyway thanks for making yourself known so I can block you.

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Daiz @daiz.moe · 22/05/2026

I mean you are quite clearly saying that there are things you consider to be bad forms of sexualization in fiction. I'm just asking you to define what exactly the rules for what counts as bad are for you, since I doubt it's just a matter of canon age. Or is a 600 year old vampire totally fair game?

Shinobu from Monogatari. She is 598 years old

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