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Dieting Hippo

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i make games and maps and things dhippo.net dietinghippo.itch.io Mastodon: @dietinghippo@mastodon.social he/him pfp by @bransonreese.bsky.social

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Dieting Hippo @dhippo.net · 30/09/2026
there's been so many batches of 10k mareep. an astronomical number of mareep.
Top image: A slot machine showing three mareep at the payline. The top lights of the machine read "MACHINE PAYS UP TO 10000 MAREEP" "ALL OTHER WINS DO NOT EXIST" "PLAY 3 COINS". A down arrow on the right side reads "INSERT BILLS BELOW".

Middle image: Special Agent Dale Cooper is looking at the winning mareeps and yelling "Hello-o-o-o!".

Bottom image: The slot machine below him is paying out the viewer's pen of mareeps from The Mareepathon 2.
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Dieting Hippo @dhippo.net · 22/09/2026
been replaying ffta and its wild how unlikable marche is. forget that leaving ivalice means his little brother won't be able to walk again, he forgot his brother even existed for the first 3/4 of the plotline. only reason they even see each other is because doned is trying to Kill Marche.
Front view of marche from final fantasy tactics advance against a blue/green gradient bg. Text reads "Brother. I must seal this dark world. You must lose your legs Brother."
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Dieting Hippo @dhippo.net · 03/09/2026
oh shit if i were back east i would have a different bulk option THE CRAVE CASE
A WHITE CASTLE CRAVE CASE WITH 30 GOD DAMN BURGERS
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Dieting Hippo @dhippo.net · 28/08/2026
sometimes you just wanna draw a gengar
Drawing of Gengar, loosely colored in against a dark field of white and red splatters. He is grinning and his arms are up.
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Dieting Hippo @dhippo.net · 28/08/2026
i'm extremely suspicious of the qud-in-doom mod when the dev uses claude for other stuff.
countless bats @countlessbats.bsky.social · 6mo (February 21st, 2026 at 2:59 PM PST)
I made a free D&D 5e 2024 character creator! dragonizer.netℹ About Dragonizer
About This Project

Dragonizer is a free, fan-made character builder for 5E tabletop RPGs.

Designed by sevrL_bats — @sevrlbats on Bluesky

Built with Claude by Anthropic
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Dieting Hippo @dhippo.net · 26/08/2026
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Dieting Hippo @dhippo.net · 18/08/2026
lmao cosmic timing
Time since last Claude dork
000 minutes
Total kills 29
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Dieting Hippo @dhippo.net · 03/08/2026
oh yea, they're "organized"
Screenshot of voodoo closets in UDB with green lines showing the actions triggered by the extra player objects on conveyor belts. The players are loosed by lowering the sectors tagged 5 to allow movement up the belt.
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Dieting Hippo @dhippo.net · 03/08/2026
a few sector shenanigans, and now the light is gradiented. plus an elevator reveal at the end of the sequence.
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Dieting Hippo @dhippo.net · 02/08/2026
ok now check this out
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Dieting Hippo @dhippo.net · 02/08/2026
lets go
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Dieting Hippo @dhippo.net · 02/08/2026
hell yea new map time. gonna be boom compat using OTEX 1.1
Screenshot of Ultimate Doom Builder. It is the 3D view mode and has a player start point inside an industrial-themed map with caution tape on the floor and pipes along the wall dropping lava.
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Dieting Hippo @dhippo.net · 15/07/2026
for anyone else getting The Bug it's BGR555 for the BIN files, those ones have pretty easy image data to display. here's a couple i quickly converted. haven't looked into enemy/object images too hard but i assume that's in the .GOB files.
Opening SEGA screen from Virtual Hydlide. The blue SEGA logo is on a black background.Opening screen for Virtual Hydlide showing the title, a fairy silhouette, development/publishing credits, and a castle in the background.

Virtual
Hydlide™

© SEGA ENTERPRISES, LTD. 1995
© T&E SOFT Inc. 1984, 1995
All rights reserved.
PUBLISHED BY ATLUS
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Dieting Hippo @dhippo.net · 05/07/2026
this went very well and i finally got all the coins in hazy maze cave thank fuck
Screenshot of twitch stream the moment i got all the coins in hazy maze cave with mario on a conveyor platform.

5 Lives, 139 coins, and 58 stars with 7/8 power.

Left side:

Focus:
Treasure VI
Collect 139 coins in Hazy Maze Cave

Last unlock:
Treasure V
7/5/2026 1:16:34 AM

Super Mario 64 - Coin Collector

Bottom Right:
Rare Achievement Unlocked - 2.22%
Treasure VI (10)
Collect 139 Coins in Hazy Maze Cave

Bottom Right Chat:
megadrivers: we get these fucking coins tonigt
megadrivers: tonight*
DoubleCakes: This some sort of RetroAchievements thing?
DoubleCakes: Where you're trying to maximize your coin score?
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Dieting Hippo @dhippo.net · 25/06/2026
axe ghost dev is kind of a shithead AI apologist huh! don't buy axe ghost, on steam!
Dieting Hippo @dhippo.net - 3d
Game Dev

how fair is it that the godot foundation gets to benefit from code generated off training data with my code in it, and i get no credit while the code generation company collects their fee from the people generating code from my code?

Axe Ghost. On Steam!
@axeghostgame.bsky.social
Game Dev

"how fair is it that the [any third party] gets to benefit from code written by people who learned things from code that i freely posted online, and i get no credit?"

ethically identical situation. it's not a serious position.

1:03 AM · Jun 25, 2026
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Dieting Hippo @dhippo.net · 24/06/2026
i took a dip in the nedroid pool for make a terrible comic day. they are very fun dudes. #makeaterriblecomicday2026
Title: MAKE A TERRIBLE COMIC DAY 2026     by dhippo.net

Panel 1:
Reginald says to Oval Beartato "Hey Beartato, what are you staring at the wall for?"

Oval Beartato, facing away toward a wall, responds "Reginald, I'm not Beartato..."

Panel 2: Zoom-in on Oval Beartato who turns around and reveals "I'm his cousin- BEARTAMAGO!" as Beartamago throws his arms up.

Panel 3: Zoom out to Reginals and Beartamago both laughing heartily with "HAHAHAHAHAHEHAH" filling up the top third of the panel. Reginald is hunched over in merriment while Beartamago holds his stomach(?).

Panel 4: Reginald is cooking an egg on the stove and throwing spices in with a little "HUP" and laughing to himself with "HA HA HEE HEE HA HO HA HEH HA HA HO HO HA". Beartato has just walked into the kitchen and says "HEY THAT SMELLS GOOD".

Footer: WITH SO MANY APOLOGIES TO ANTHONY CLARK
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Dieting Hippo @dhippo.net · 23/06/2026
nightmare blunt rotation
Screenshot of Emi (@coppolaemilio.com) Blocking list. 6 users are listed. The most recent is me (@dhippo.net) and two others are the nazi organization ICE and notorious transphobe Jesse Singal.
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Dieting Hippo @dhippo.net · 22/06/2026
Screenshot of Github PR merged into godotengine Github repo with link to tinyexr v1.0.13 changelist. Text reads:

tinyexr: Update to 1.0.13#118779
Merged Repiteo merged 1 commit into godotengine:master from Chubercik:tinyexr-1.0.13 on Apr 20

Chubercik commented on Apr 20:

https://github.com/syoyo/tinyexr/releases/tag/v1.0.13

Changelog: syoyo/tinyexr@v1.0.12...v1.0.13
Changelist of tinyexr v1.0.13 showing a list of commits coauthored by syoro and claude. The center highlighted commit reads:

Fix B44 decompression output layout bug and correct UnpackB44Block
syoyo and claude committed on Dec 30, 2025

5dbddc0
A screenshot of the commit 5dbddc0. The commit shows syoyo and claude as co-authors. The file tinyexr.h is included in the changelog and is in the merged Godot PR as well. The full changelog text reads:

Fix B44 decompression output layout bug and correct UnpackB44Block
This commit fixes a critical bug in B44 decompression where the output
data layout didn't match what DecodePixelData expected, causing incorrect
pixel values to be read.

Bug Fix in tinyexr.h (DecompressB44):
- Changed output from scanline-interleaved to per-channel format
- Previous: for y { for c { write } } (scanline-interleaved)
- Fixed: for c { for y { write } } (per-channel)
- DecodePixelData expects ch_offset = c * width * num_lines * bytes
- The bug was masked in test files where all channels had identical values

Bug Fix in tinyexr_v2_impl.hh (UnpackB44Block):
- Replaced incorrect log-space delta encoding with correct ordered-magnitude
  representation matching OpenEXR's unpack14 algorithm
- Added UnpackB44FlatBlock for 3-byte flat blocks (shift >= 13)
- Fixed flat block detection: check src[2] >= (13 << 2) instead of src[0] & 0x80
- Added proper p_linear (log table) conversion support

Test Results:
- V1 tests: 48 test cases, 8983 assertions - all passed
- V3 tests: 37 tests - all passed
- B44 round-trip compression verified against V1 output

🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code)

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>Screenshot of an approval with a comment on the merged tinyexr PR from akien-mga acknowledging the use of Claude and Copilot in the tinyexr changelog. The comment reads:

akien-mga approved these changes on Apr 20

akien-mga left a comment



A bit sad to see the changelog overrun by Claude and Copilot... but let's trust the upstream maintainer with keeping good code quality. There are a number of security adjacent fixes in there (made by AI...).

Commits should be squashed.

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Dieting Hippo @dhippo.net · 19/06/2026
this tekken tag tournament pad's got a similar inner plate layout. the one you've got must have been someone's handiwork, there's a slug where the select button should go on it.
PS1 Tekken Tag Tournament Fight Stick from an ebay auction
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Dieting Hippo @dhippo.net · 19/06/2026
oh hey this tekken 4 stick matches the outer shell with the two gray buttons at the top. maybe the inner metal plate you got there is a custom job?
PS1 Tekken 4 Fight Stick from an ebay auction
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Dieting Hippo @dhippo.net · 19/06/2026
looks like it says HORI at the bottom. the only question is which ps1 hori stick since there's a boatload. i found a HORI tekken stick on ebay that's got a similar shell. www.ebay.com/itm/37694365...
PS1 Tekken 3 Fight Stick from an eBay auction.
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Dieting Hippo @dhippo.net · 09/06/2026
this is what that might look like
Title: 
couldn't think of an evil plan today
so im just gonna fly around over
sonics house and honk the horn
all night - Dr. Ivo "Eggman" Robotnik
@hatethathedgehog.bsky.social

Panel 1: 
Sonic's bloodshot left eye is visible in the dark as he tries to sleep in bed. Outside the window can be heard two loud HONKs.

Panel 2:
Outside nighttime view of Sonic's house in front of a forest. Robotnik is in his Egg Mobile honking the horn three times high in the sky.

Panel 3:
Sonic zips to the window and yells up at Robotnik "dude it is 3 IN THE MORNING" and is cut off by a HONK. He yells again at Robotnik "STOP IT" and is cut off halfway by another HONK.

Panel 4:
Closeup of Robotnik in his Egg Mobile grinning.

Panel 5:
Same shot of Robotnik but he has swung his right index finger high in the air.

Panel 6:
Same shot of Robotnik, he swings his finger down to press a button that blasts a HONK. Sonic starts screaming offcamera, his dialogue a large and shaky AAAAAA at the bottom of the panel.
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Dieting Hippo @dhippo.net · 30/05/2026
ok one more, i'm expanding out to a bend in the river. i've got a lot of terraforming to do to connect some of these by land.
Screenshot of the city Poopton 2 in sc2kfix. It's expanded to reach both sides of the map and a third expansion is starting on the riverbend.
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Dieting Hippo @dhippo.net · 30/05/2026
there have been expansion plans
Screnshot of the city Poopton 2 in sc2kfix. The west town is labeled Poopton, and the northeast town is labeled North Poopton.
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Dieting Hippo @dhippo.net · 30/05/2026
here is my town of Poopton 2 in the snow circa january 1st 2026, named after the town of Poopton that unfortunately collapsed because there was not enough funds for power. lessons were learned in Poopton 2 and its been thriving.
The town of Poopton 2 in sc2kfix. It is winter and the city is bustling next to a river.
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Dieting Hippo @dhippo.net · 27/05/2026
enough people responded to the KCLS survey (over a weekend!) that they sent out a followup. looking forward to driving the point home at the listening sessions.
King County Library System

Update on AI Community Listening Sessions

Dear KCLS Community –

Over the weekend many of you saw a message about some upcoming KCLS listening sessions on artificial intelligence. The wording caused confusion, and we want to correct that before these conversations take place. KCLS has made no plans or decisions for how, or whether, to provide patrons access to AI tools in the future. These sessions exist so we can listen to you, hear our community needs, requests and concerns.

We believe the most important thing we can do, even in a conversation about technology, is keep people at the center. AI is changing how people find information, learn, and get things done. It’s also creating new problems: our staff get requests from patrons who have been told about books that don’t exist, and it’s getting harder to know what to trust online.

KCLS's position on AI is straightforward. Our role is to ensure every community has access to information and resources, including about AI, so no one is left behind as this technology impacts daily life. We are not advocates for AI, nor are we opposed to it. We are a library, and our job is to make sure people can learn, evaluate, and decide for themselves.

We’ve heard your concerns about job loss, AI in collections, and what happens to the human connection that makes libraries matter. Those concerns are ours too. KCLS has no plans to replace staff with AI. Our staffing decisions are driven by the needs of our communities and our people, not by automation or perceived efficiencies. And our collections reflect the work of human authors and creators.

These listening sessions are a chance for your voice to shape what comes next. We’d also welcome your input through this survey. We hope you’ll join us.

Sincerely,

Heidi Daniel
Executive Director
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Dieting Hippo @dhippo.net · 26/05/2026
started doodling a little comic in pencils about some alternate universe robotnik meeting the first robotnik and gushing in an elevator about how rad scrap brain is. mainly an excuse to draw my three favorite things: robotnik, establishing shots with greebles, and dramatic panel timing.
A pencil-drawn comic of two Robotniks meeting in an elevator in Scrap Brain Zone.

Panel 1: Establishing shot of Scrap Brain Zone. Two Robotniks can be seen toward the top of an elevator tube on the right foreground building.

Panel 2: Classic Robotnik is staring forward as the offscreen Alternate Robotnik says "It's amazing what you've been able to build here..."

Panel 3: Classic Robotnike turn his head to look at Alternate Robotnik who continues saying "full assembly lines, automated smelters, and massive data centers!"
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Dieting Hippo @dhippo.net · 25/05/2026
ooh a metroid i was in the middle of drawing a while back. you can see i ran out of steam drawing the greebles on the third ball.
Unfinished drawing of a Metroid, pencil on paper.
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Dieting Hippo @dhippo.net · 25/05/2026
i picked up an ames lettering guide! it's going to be nice having some more structured lettering.
Tests of a STAEDTLER Ames Lettering Guide in a notebook. 

The 1/16 test area says: 
TEST 1234567890!
ABCDEFG

The 2/16 test area says:
Test 1234567890AaBbCcDd
Testing at 2/16 size for lettering

The 3/16 test area says:
TEST1234567890!
More testing, but with
the Ames lowercase guide
Getting better...
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Dieting Hippo @dhippo.net · 20/05/2026
okapi sketched from reference on sketchdaily.net photographer: Momotte
A pencil sketch of an Okapi.
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Dieting Hippo @dhippo.net · 18/05/2026
here's the full setup without paper on it. it's slapped together for cheap but works great. i had no issues drawing on it, i kept about 2 previous frames under what i was drawing for reference.
Picture of an animation lightbox consisting of a table easel, an LED light board sitting on the table easel, and a metal animation paper guide clamped to the top of the light board.
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Dieting Hippo @dhippo.net · 18/05/2026
i rigged up an animation lightbox from an LED lightboard, angled table easel, an animation paper guide, and two clips to hold the guide on the lightboard. check out this armature doing a backflip!
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Dieting Hippo @dhippo.net · 04/05/2026
The Holden Bloodfeast pic but with edited text, apologies to beany tuesday:

Barney Frank
(D) Massachusetts

-118 years old
-Please god just let us kill trans kids,
nothing else matters, I'll do
anything please I just want to
see denied healthcare one last time
before I die
-Respectable bipartisan
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Dieting Hippo @dhippo.net · 01/05/2026
it's still gamemaker staff normalizing the use of AI via gamemaker even if it is opt-in. are their opera bosses telling them to push the ability to do it? yeah probably, but this guy is still a little worm for selling it.
Speaking to Game Developer via email, GameMaker head Russell Kay said AI-assisted coding has become an important part of many developers' workflows and claimed it's important GameMaker reflects that reality.
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Dieting Hippo @dhippo.net · 27/04/2026
the next webcomic island visitor: Jack from A Ghost Story (by @beesmygod.bsky.social!) looking just about as tired as he does in the comic. it's gonna be funny seeing him pop up on the news broadcasts.
Jack from A Ghost Story sitting on a bench in Tomodachi Life. Lizzie from Dead Winter and Samus Aran can be seen in the background leaving a restaurant on a date.
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Dieting Hippo @dhippo.net · 26/04/2026
the latest arrival to webcomicville is Shirley from @vigilsforfriends.com! she'd pop someone! also props to tomodachi life for letting me make her non-binary but with she/her pronouns As Established Canon. now to wait for the clothing shop to stock a puffy jacket.
Shirley, a ghost botherer from the comic Vigils for Friends in Tomodachi Life. She's got on a beanie and a close enough jacket.
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Dieting Hippo @dhippo.net · 25/04/2026
a good ol' college try at adding in Lizzie from deadwinter.cc (by @rally.luckyraven.cc), the editor options aren't *perfect* but still pretty damn close! soon this will be webcomics island.
Lizzie

Ambitious

At a glance: Confident

Traits: A by-the-book straight-talker. Puts a premium on results.

Achiever

Diligent, productive, and highly efficient. Equally as skilled at planning and executing plans.
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Dieting Hippo @dhippo.net · 25/04/2026
oh his mouth is kinda fucked up too lol
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Dieting Hippo @dhippo.net · 25/04/2026
took a crack at making swan boy (by @bransonreese.bsky.social go read it!!) in tomodachi life, and even though his eyes came out funky it's a pretty decent shot!
Swan Boy

Outgoing

At a glance: Sociable

Traits: Optimistic and passionate. Follows their instincts.

Go-Getter

Bold and captivating. Their wit and charm light up a room. It's never a dull moment when they're around!
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Dieting Hippo @dhippo.net · 20/04/2026
I do need to now get some guides up and more examples of it in action that weren't as copyright-infringing, but at least for now the latest version is posted. If you do use it, let me know! Using dither with a limited color selection gets some great results, esp. if you play with scene lighting.
Suzanne rendered in Blender using Palette Studio along with three lights of varying colors. The full NES palette is applied with Bayer 4x4 dithering.Suzanne rendered in Blender using Palette Studio along with three lights of varying colors. A limited pink palette is applied with Bayer 4x4 dithering.Suzanne rendered in Blender using Palette Studio along with three lights of varying colors. A limited green palette is applied with Bayer 4x4 dithering.Suzanne rendered in Blender using Palette Studio along with three lights of varying colors. A limited purple palette is applied with Bayer 4x4 dithering.
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Dieting Hippo @dhippo.net · 15/04/2026
at this point it's a salted field, they've been letting this go on for a while now. there's one from february called Kreatur Bout that used generated code, art, and sound. well then what the fuck did they even make in the fucking game???
Kreatur Bout's product information and disclosures on the Playdate Store

27.5 MB.

First published 02/17/2026

The developer used generative AI to create game code, game sound, and game art.

This game contains: Mild Violence, Suggestive Themes

This game uses the D-Pad and the A and B Controls. Crank controls are optional.
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Dieting Hippo @dhippo.net · 15/04/2026
what weasel wording! they say they "no longer accept" games using stuff like AI-generated music, but there's slop on the store from *today* using AI-generated game sound. this is Dig-Pit Runner's disclosure and tbh their capsule art also looks AI-generated.
Dig-Pit Runner's Playdate Store Information

54.5 MB.

First published 04/14/2026

The developer used generative AI to create game sound.

Action Platformer, run, shoot, find way out from catacombs with dark horror creatures. Simple story, different gameplay mechanics.

D-Pad to Run / Climb A to Shoot B to change weapons
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Dieting Hippo @dhippo.net · 28/03/2026
A mitochondrion was an organelle found in the cells of most eukaryotes,
A screenshot of Parasite Eve where mitochondria are setting an actor on fire during the intro opera cutscene.
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Dieting Hippo @dhippo.net · 27/03/2026
i made this a year ago but i can't remember if i posted it here so here's THE MOTHERFUCKER but i edited it to be about a son of a bitch monster hunter monster
THE MOTHERFUCKER comic but edited to be about Tigrex.

1: Hunter John McCain says "Tigrex is a motherfucker."
2: "A Motherfucker in low rank." "A motherfucker in high rank." "A motherfucker in G rank."
3: "He's a motherfucker when he army crawls."
4: "A motherfucker about the Desert." "A motherfucker over Mega Potions."
5: "He has motherfucker subspecies." Person in crows interrupts with "I hate Tigrex because he fucked his mother."
6: Hunter John McCain responds "Yes that's absolutely correct."

Original credit to MR.FIDH is at the bottom of the comic.
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Dieting Hippo @dhippo.net · 24/03/2026
cool thanks now i have to log in to github to go yell at kagi, kindly go fuck yourself
a github screenshot of the dhippo.net RSS feed included in Kagi's Smallweb list.
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Dieting Hippo @dhippo.net · 23/03/2026
can confirm this site builder is easy and rules
Screenshot of "The Cool Ass Website" in a site builder. Text in a box reads "This website is for Cool Asses." and an image of a few feral burros (from Wikipedia) is located to the right of the text box.
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Dieting Hippo @dhippo.net · 23/03/2026
weee oooo i am gonna kill wario
mario singing into a phone that he is going to kill wario in front of a backdrop containing the band weezer from the song "Buddy Holly"
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Dieting Hippo @dhippo.net · 22/03/2026
Screenshot of Sega Bass Fishing for Sega Dreamcast. A line with bait has been cast and a bass is eyeing it hungrily. Source footage from YT: Graviton https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5mRnH2z4zA
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Dieting Hippo @dhippo.net · 22/03/2026
sometimes, when shooting a pigpoopballs at someone defending AI and using slurs, you catch others in the crossfire. and it lets me know that my efforts don't go unnoticed.
2h

oh yeah, and I just saw someone sent an uncensored image of a pig taking a shit at someone who announced blast solely because of AI being used on the code, worse yet, it's a REAL LIFE image, not a silly cartoon one.

these people aren't any better than those pro-AI tech bros, aren't they?
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Dieting Hippo @dhippo.net · 21/03/2026
hey i got your streamlined workflow right here pal
a pig with a streamlined workflow sitting on its balls
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