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I think thats about everything worth linking from whats on Discmaster but I'll be keeping my eye on that uploader on Archive. Explore at your own caution, most of the drives were boring and a few had porn

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And here's one with some stuff from Applied Graphics Technologies, that did some photo editing work. Figure its worth mentioning for having some Disney related templates. I swear I saw some more of these in another drive but I cant find it again discmaster.textfiles.com/browse/46657...

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Here's a test animation of Iron Giant. Some of the frames seem corrupted, so not sure if this is much of anything discmaster.textfiles.com/browse/46714...

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Here's another full of Plant Doctor stuff, seems like just something Brian Gardner made to show off his shaders. There's a lot of renders, a few textures, and some write-ups on the tech discmaster.textfiles.com/browse/46685...

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This drive has some in-progress shots and renders for the movie "Red Planet" (2000) Also a lot of in-progress renders from something called "Plant Doctor" that I can't find any info on discmaster.textfiles.com/browse/46664...

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Been doing all this downloading and unpacking and just noticed these have been getting picked up by Discmaster. So here's some direct links to the cool stuff: Camelot Ogre: discmaster.textfiles.com/browse/46648... Iron Giant: discmaster.textfiles.com/browse/46622... discmaster.textfiles.com/news

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Having some trouble importing these old files, and it may be incomplete?, but this drive includes the models for the Ogre from 1998's "Quest for Camelot" archive.org/details/jazG...

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Judging by an email in the first drive, "Bob's Stuff" is referring to visual effects artist Bob Powell (www.imdb.com/name/nm06940...). Contents is mostly graphic design work though, like illustrator files for food packaging archive.org/details/jazB...

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I was hoping for more out of this Xmen drive, but it seems to just be test renders for Cerebro and not any of the source files. I had to use HFSexplorer to open a Mac drive though, so its possible I'm not seeing all the files correctly archive.org/details/jazX...

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I think anyone obsessed with a specific movie would love to have things like this: detailed breakdowns day by day of exactly what was being worked on when by a specific person

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Terrible TV @terribletv.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Some crazy cool stuff in just that first drive. Like its not just models. For example: everything on Brian Gardner's "Gartoon" shader, developed for the movie Here's an old article on it: www.cgw.com/Publications... Def gonna be digging through this for a while

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Apparently there's a HUGE backup of JAZ drives that were recently put on the Internet Archive. One of them (at least) includes the original Maya 3D models used in the The Iron Giant.

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sarah zedig 🐐 @hmsnofun.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

every discussion of comic book adaptations needs to start from the baseline assumption that comics are the superior medium. something will always be lost in translation. if you can't be humble enough to admit this, you'll be chasing shadows in the labyrinth for the rest of your natural life.

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sarah zedig 🐐 @hmsnofun.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

the gamers have come full circle to do what must be done: Hunt the Wumpus

the TI-99 version's boxart for the ancient game from which Wumpus gets his name: Hunt the Wumpus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunt_the_Wumpus

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maybe part of the problem with education right now is that getting an education is objectively the least important part of getting educated, and in fact if you DO want to get educated instead of just memorizing test-facts you are actively antagonized by software, bureaucracy, and most college staff

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We gotta get edutainment back. I wanna learn about dinosaurs or geography or specific artistic movements in a digital space that isnt just a wikipedia page and also not be getting outdated information from a 30 year old CD-Rom. I'm sick of all modern information being a Youtube video

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More than like a VRChat map or a one-off passion project or ones that are focused on uniquely digital art, Virtual Museums should be an established genre of thing. Museums should have divisions dedicated to offering digital collections of their work that are spatially curated

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Grinda 🏳️‍⚧️🔞 @grindagoat.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

There should be more Virtual Museums

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There was a brief period on the early internet where economic circumstances allowed for a lot of nerds with cheap scanners to put up their little indie comic and there wasn't yet as much shame about being "bad at art" to stop them from confidently posting their gamer couch magnum opus. That was cool

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Grinda 🏳️‍⚧️🔞 @grindagoat.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

But it was beautiful that so many of them could be made by broke-ass bums with dead-end jobs, supporting themselves with banner ads and a tip jar. It's what sickens me about how heavily they've been supplanted by webtoons, with fake-currencies, intrusive editors, "professional presentation", etc

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Lumin @screwy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

my sense of humor is so fucking shot that this image has been forcing me to stifle my laughter all day

A dark knight sitting on a throne, with the text:

"[Dark Souls] IS A DISH BEST SERVED [2]"

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Skyplayer37 @earth-64.com · 25/09/2026

Is this an earlier version from the ad on the Marz site or did the image get blasted by some bad ai upscaling somewhere in the process? Gotta be careful with that stuff, I would have thought the whole thing was AI if I didnt see the other image Marz version: cdn.marzbrewery.com/cdn-cgi/imag...

Bluesky version: "Naturally And Artificially Gravorea(?)"

Marz version: "Naturally And Artificially Flavored"

Bluesky version showing a round pig with one nostril, a blobby blast of some kind, and a guy not quite holding two weights that aren't connected

Marz version showing a well defined pig, a virus?, and a man clearly holding a barbell

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SPARKLEDOGCORE @sparkledogcore.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

you feel like you failed at life

a never before seen version of this art that i originally posted in 2022. stuck in my minimum wage job and barely making rent, i felt like a complete failure. one of my biggest compulsive fears is that i am scared i will be killed while at work, and die in my capitalism costume.

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theres a lot of people that think they hate capitalism but they direct all their anger at little symptoms and extremities of capitalism. you gotta really focus to direct your hate at capitalism directly. its a skill you gotta practice. reading some theory helps.

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are there camrips of star wars detours yet

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I spend the first like 2-3 hours of every day just really angry that other people don't hate capitalism as much as I do. Its not ideologically productive nor very conducive to me getting anything done. I really wish I could control my moodswings (<- girl who quit her stabilizers 2 years ago)

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(It *is* a case of artificial scarcity and value by charging so much above production cost for the merch, but if I go into that then this thread would go on for a loooooong time about Magic the Gathering and Makeship and a hundred other things I think about all the time.)

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But gaming is about controversial headlines so you bring up the fact that a few Assassin's Creed games a couple decades ago came with a shitty statue so obviously this merch must be some kind of scam

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Instead you let every retailer get the maximum number of pre-orders of the base game, the SKU that matters, and then sell the extra stuff as an add-on through a single channel, so there's no cancellations and no supply issues. It's literally the best thing they could do for consumers and businesses

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And maybe it was staggered on purpose! A given Gamestop would want to order what, two of these boxes at most? You'd have a terrible supply and scalper problem and people who wouldn't know if they were actually getting the product they want at midnight launch

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Like the box of merch was a staggered release from the game pre-orders. If it had the game they'd have every retailer dealing with a mountain of cancellations, which would look very bad.

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