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H (エイチ) @therealhanamaru.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Finally the -tober prompt that I can follow to my heart's content

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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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Ida Ꮚ•ꈊ•Ꮚ @floofyfluff.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Bumble shark plushies! She's so fuzzy 😭🐝

A photo of Humlehaj, the bumble shark, being held by two arms up in the air against a background of sunflowers and a traditional red Swedish house. Humlehaj is a hybrid between bumblebee and shark, and has therefore a fuzzy body and brown and yellow stripes, as well as small bumblebee wings. She looks like she is ready to buzz away and towards the sunflowers! If only those hands would let her go... Free her!!!

A photo of Humlehaj, the bumble shark, being hugged sweetly against a person wearing a striped t-shirt. There are some sunflowers in the background. Humlehaj has two hands cosily hugging her against the person's chest. She is such a cosy cuddle buddy!

Humlehaj has been caught again in this photo, and is being held against someone wearing a dark brown coat while she is pointed outwards, her fins sticking out a little.. Humlehaj does not seem to mind much, though, as she is smiling and as round as ever. One could even say she loves a good play session!

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Ed Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Happy Stanislav Petrov Day He passed in 2017. As Encyclopedia Britannica puts it, “He is survived by his two children, two grandchildren, and the entire human race.” If you don't know his story, please take 3 minutes now to learn it. @gchalliance.bsky.social @docsforclimate.bsky.social

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Happy Stanislav Petrov Day

Take five minutes to not destroy civilization

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.escher//G.A.Y. @escher.gay · 25/09/2026

these are the guys we're all dying for. I hate it here

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Momo @heyheymomo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

For a limited time you can get show your love for egg on a shirt! Check it out at www.heyheymomo.com!

Different color variations of the shirts with a drawing of a fried egg on it

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.escher//G.A.Y. @escher.gay · 24/09/2026

genshin fandom has such bad taste in ships i fuckign hate it here haikavetham was the last time this fandom had any taste and I still can't forgive how so much of the fandom moved on as soon as the next shiny thing appeared hkvthm is FOREVER

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 22/09/2026

Happy mushroom season!

A comic titled "Types of mushrooms" with 12 mushroom species. A wrinkly-looking morel is labeled "creepy but tasty". A brownish deadly galerina is labeled "boring but deadly". A witch's butter on a branch is labeled "jiggles if you poke it". A large puffball is labeled "egg". A creepy red-dripping bleeding tooth fungus is labeled "deeply disconcerting". A fly agaric with a green treefrog sitting under it is labeled "frog umbrella". A black chanterelle is labeled "chalice for forbidden elixers". Three straight-stemmed entolomas are labeled "haha, nipples". A bright purple viscid violet cort is labeled "purple is nice". A birch polypore sticking out of a birch trunk is labeled "tree nose". A complex yellow-tpped coral fungus is labeled "cursed citadel where dwells a fairy queen". A Ravenel's stinkhorn is pixellated at the top for your safety, and labeled "NSFW".

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.escher//G.A.Y. @escher.gay · 19/09/2026

furiously devising "sharing body heat" alyosha/aether schemes in my head right now. I need them to fuck so bad

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Jinti is Making Passive Notice Checks @jinti.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

y'all should push for Universal Basic Income 'cuz artists that aren't stressin' over rent and groceries and taxes all the time WILL draw freakier, more unmarketable shit

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.escher//G.A.Y. @escher.gay · 15/09/2026

sorry for the mention but have you heard about this? @sabato-n.bsky.social

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.escher//G.A.Y. @escher.gay · 13/09/2026

I am congested and should absolutely not eat ice cream however, I really want it

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Shisui Glam Enjoyer | Carbuncle Connsoisseur @st4rd1ver.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

This is what I mean when I say that its depressing doing art, writing fics, gposing, ect and getting crickets in response. "Do it because you like it" only goes so far when fandom is supposed to be nerds and creatives supporting each other.

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☀️ @stel.energy · 09/09/2026

nintendo indirect is where you just read everyone's posts about it

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.escher//G.A.Y. @escher.gay · 08/09/2026

I just bought the battle network collections through humble bundle and I can't wait to replay it (and play many of them for the first time)

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.escher//G.A.Y. @escher.gay · 08/09/2026

I hope someday I'm able to draw again

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ines 💥 semi-wristed @inesvisual.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

i miss my own ocs. what are those little guys up to. they should call me

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.escher//G.A.Y. @escher.gay · 07/09/2026

I really gotta draw something this week... even if it's just some crappy doodle or something.. gotta draw aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

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mcf @mangycarface.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Kids today are less interested in "Skyrim", and more interedted in "Guy Rim"

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.escher//G.A.Y. @escher.gay · 04/09/2026

I am trying so hard not to be depressed in ppls DMs but Man I'm Tired

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Protostar in LDN 1527 - From Judy Schmidt (geckzilla.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/2o1cFqj

Update: Simeon Schmauß over on Twitter (@stim3on) recommended G'MIC for taking care of the horizontal noise / banding. It worked pretty great. There's a Photoshop plugin for it, too.

Wanted to process my own version of this one, since nebular landscapes are some of my favorite views. Having a hard time with the linear noise pattern, especially near the top of the image.

In the center of this view is a newly forming star crossed by a dark disk of dust (say that three times fast!) which is casting shadows to the left and right, and allowing cones of light out the top and bottom. Think of it like a light bulb inside of a donut with a bunch of fog. Though the infrared light can penetrate much of the dust, there are clues in the image that show some of the dust is still too thick to see through. At the lower right especially are a lot of background galaxies. On the left, the background galaxies are fewer, and what we see are dimmer, so we can tell there is more dust there.

You can see the official release here. They've got a much better description than I could ever write.

Orange "screen": NIRCam/F444W-F470N (not arithmetic)
Red: NIRCam/F444W
Green: NIRCam/F335M
Blue: NIRCam/F200W, F187N, F115W

North is 100° counter-clockwise from up.

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.escher//G.A.Y. @escher.gay · 29/08/2026

Alternatively, just start playing copyrighted music. Check thread for suggestions.

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poorly drawn cats @poorlycatdraw.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

strike a pose

a poorly drawn cat with an oversized paw, toe beans AND claws!

a black cat sitting on a tiled floor with one hind paw raised very close to the camera, showing its toe beans and claws, while the cat's body appears farther away in the background

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K'eeg @armormodekeeg.blacksky.app · 26/08/2026

getting into a battle in The World Ends With You be like Joshua: [standing in a sort of gay way] Hee hee, isn't this exciting, Neku? Neku: Eat shit and die my man the actual fucking wolves and bears in the streets of Shibuya: grrr the music for some reason: 🗣️ DID! YOU! WASH! THEM! NICE! AND! CLEAN!

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 27/08/2026

📚 What looks like the work of a solitary author can be the product of a system. In BIG FICTION, Emory professor Dan Sinykin argues books are shaped by a larger system: agents, editors, marketers & others whose decisions shape the page. 🎧Listen: futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/big... 🧵

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ファミ通.com / Famitsu.com @famitsu.com · 27/08/2026

『逆転裁判』タイホくんぬいぐるみを先行販売。曲が流れるボイスボックス内臓 www.famitsu.com/article/2026... Fangamer Japanの東京ゲームショウ出展情報が公開。『4』なるほどくんのニットキャップや、『蘇る逆転』の登場キャラ集合Tシャツなども販売予定。 x.com/famitsu/stat...

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Louie Zong @everydaylouie.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

queen of hearts 💔

a stylized 3d render of dolly parton playing the banjo. the queen herself.

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Celestial Fang 🩸 Artist @celestialfang.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Some long vertical oil paintings I’m working on!

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.escher//G.A.Y. @escher.gay · 23/08/2026

oh this bitch CRAZY crazy. damn. well now I know

Screenshot of a post by Taylor Lorenz in which she says with her whole chest that "decades of research has shown that social media use has no causal effect on mental health of children." Deadass.

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Cheap Ass Gamer @cheapassgamer.com · 22/08/2026

Free Candy via Van.

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Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com · 22/08/2026

In every creative industry worth speaking of right now, there is a boggle-eyed billionaire fresh from an ayahuasca binge, slowly sawing the head off the goose while it's laying the golden egg, while a stadium full of shareholders clap riotously. They do not have a plan. They're acting on impulse.

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Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com · 22/08/2026

Was just typing a post about how there are more and better games than ever before, and more demand for them than ever, while games journalism is being actively gutted before our eyes and development being made harder and harder to make a living in. This is happening across all media industries.

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.escher//G.A.Y. @escher.gay · 22/08/2026

trying to get the skills together so I'm prepared when luck finally shines down on me...

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 21/08/2026

I tell people all the time that I got lucky with my career and it annoys a lot of them. "No, but you're good," they will say, and I will say, yes, I am good, and also here are all these people who write as well as I do but did not get the same break, so being good isn't the issue, being lucky is.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

How your email finds me.

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.escher//G.A.Y. @escher.gay · 21/08/2026

I am asking... yet again... can y'all please use alt text on your art 🫠

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.escher//G.A.Y. @escher.gay · 20/08/2026

hungry but no energy to cook time 2 wither away

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.escher//G.A.Y. @escher.gay · 20/08/2026

tired of thinking of all the things I'd like to do and doing none of them ADHD sucks 😩

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.escher//G.A.Y. @escher.gay · 20/08/2026

now that I do Electronics Things I'm having insane thoughts about a DIY Tourbox someone tell me no

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chira 🎋 @artofchira.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

genAI is rapist technology. lack of consent and thrill of domination/conquest is the feature, not a side effect. it's about taking and violating the sanctity of what's precious to others.

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