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CINAMONCUNE @cinamoncune.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Day 38 of practicing to draw on pokemon cards!

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hatosauce @hatosauce.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

and it's not a side quest twist or anything minor. it's on the box art

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hatosauce @hatosauce.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

latest onimusha plays with a trope in essentially the way I wanted to in my own future game. and it does it well no reason I can't still do it, but grrrr it feels a kinda way

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hatosauce @hatosauce.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

made this graphic a while back for a local environmental initiative. a little leaf shaped horny toad to liven up their letterhead

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hatosauce @hatosauce.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

she brush tip on my .gih till i gimp

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hatosauce @hatosauce.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

can't overstate how important it was that I gave a live description of the dream scenery around me. my visual memory of these spaces is unusually clear where I was narrating, much worse before. and I remember as clearly the phrases I used, like they anchored the experience into my waking memory

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hatosauce @hatosauce.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I want to try drawing these while they're fresh in my mind. if I have visited some of these spaces, it hasn't been for about a decade by my lights

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hatosauce @hatosauce.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

had a very cool dream. it wasn't lucid, but I have this feeling that my recent goals influenced it I was roaming around a ton of setpieces from past dreams, narrating their architecture, functions, feelings evoked. I'm not sure if I had in fact been there before. just a metacognitive sense

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hatosauce @hatosauce.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

reception of a remake is ball-and-chained to the original media, or until the remake is someone's first exposure to the thing I wonder if the time and hardware permitted in the 90's, would OoT have been imagined this maximally in the first place?

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TBSkyen @tbskyen.com · 08/09/2026

The Zelda remake to me looks like it's going for, in part, Rococo and lush classic fantasy art a la the Brothers HIldebrandt, and the characters (at least the major ones) seem in large part to be trying for a porcelain figurine / doll-like look, uncanny proportions and all.

Brothers Hildebrandt illustration of Gandalf appearing before Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli in Lord of the Rings

Brothers Hildebrandt illustration of the Fellowship of the Ring setting out on their adventure

Brothers Hildebrandt illustration of Old Man Willow from Lord of the Rings

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Calli Giovanini COMMS CLOSED @calligiovanini.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Bird of Prey (Samus Aran from Metroid Ravenous)

Digital painting portraying the Nintendo character Samus Aran, from the Metroid series, as a ravenous creature on top of a totem.
Samus, a woman wearing a full futuristic space suit with giant round shoulders and an arm canom, crouches on top of a totem while holding a pink flame with a off-putting bird claw shaped hand. Her arm canom on the other hand oozes a yellow substance. She looks at the camera like she has just noticed us.

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hatosauce @hatosauce.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

whoo! more metroid and kirby stories, characters, and soundtracks to sink my teeth into. still not sold on an msrp switch 2, so I'll stay on the secondhand uptake not ideal to have to wait on playing stuff myself, but hah, not much is lately

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I Me Mine-lo @hawgle.bird.gay · 08/09/2026

idk why people are ripping on the new style i think it looks great

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hatosauce @hatosauce.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

generally people don't go up to bat for protecting code as they would for say, books and physical media. the sentiment I've seen is that it's already widely copied. the prevalence of open source and free as in libre ware up to now probably did much for this attitude

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hatosauce @hatosauce.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

kitsch in a broad sense, btw. not just visual, but semantic. agent sycophancy is a kind of this. though a large part of it is the bland, underdesigned interface that surrounds never a joke, a personal touch, or wry moment of awareness. just unrelenting product

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hatosauce @hatosauce.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

and to utterly surround yourself with it, I can't help but picture cabinets full of dinky bric a brac, that relative who's nice enough but is inseparable in memory from this crap one user (no names) I followed for their non ai work. but the kitsch set in and I see less and less of them in each post

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hatosauce @hatosauce.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

context for my ai thoughts I looked at what some ai devs were working on and gave it a fair shake. what if this were normal and not a novelty? I looked for upsides and did find some but I keep finding a terrible kitsch to these products. not that they shouldn't exist, just not like that. so hollow

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hatosauce @hatosauce.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I'm no misanthrope, but people are myopic and rarely think at scale scrutinize every use case of ai. don't be as careless as a celebrity taking a 40 sec jet ride. ask, could I have used more efficient tech? I'm really souring on hedonistic ai use. prioritize sustainability, then do what you will

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hatosauce @hatosauce.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

fallacy: ai is just a little worse than the tech before, so what's the harm. driving a truck or suv is just a little worse than a sedan, so what's the harm. suddenly the streets are flooded with gas guzzlers, air quality is tanking fast, and a moment of discretion could have avoided this

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ILLBRAD 🔞 @blasternation.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

CHANGE MY PIK UP SMACK MY BULB ORP

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hatosauce @hatosauce.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

and if you do lean into the generative side, ai disclosure now rules out many channels of word of mouth. even human games struggle to compete for visibility with a growing moral opposition to overcome, who would vouch for your game? gen ai is likely only an expedient for a stillborn career

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hatosauce @hatosauce.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

couple of candid takes here. using an llm to explain code is very different from generating scripts and assets. but how often is this necessary with the plethora of forum posts, docs, and sample projects? Löve and lua are extensively documented ai seems like overkill when a search engine will do

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hatosauce @hatosauce.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

anyways here's bb if I've learned anything, I should probably get around to making her a killer

bb anthology of the killer depicted against swirly abstract swatches. made of polymer clay, acrylic paint, and marker

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hatosauce @hatosauce.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I think now I would have more disconcerting things to say about horror if asked

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hatosauce @hatosauce.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

coming down from my investment in the world was not unlike a big dose of antipsychotics. losing direct, vivid access to a parallel world, not of fantasy but identical to mine, digested and squeezed by cheesecloth into a funny shape. a higher hallucinated dimension collapsed and extant in memory only

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hatosauce @hatosauce.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

it was, well I enjoyed it those claustrophobic little scenes could somehow refract my worst worldly worries and let me view them from cleverly unflattering and exaggerated angles hyperreal escapism, not something that sounds remotely bearable on paper, but this lands it I think

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hatosauce @hatosauce.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

finished the anthology of the killer after a couple years of putting off that last episode until I wanted to shake up a particularly mundane day

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hatosauce @hatosauce.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

alive dove, please feel free to eat

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hatosauce @hatosauce.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

it makes sense to start in the first camp, but the games do make it clear that it's more than a personal hell for the sake of torment some people just don't make the leap and I idly wonder if they'd have what it takes to make it out of their own ordeal

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hatosauce @hatosauce.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

the locus of misunderstanding silent hill is whether you look at the horrors and think "damn this world is fucked up" or "damn this character is fucked up"

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Ember! @emberbat.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Had to draw the burb

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hatosauce @hatosauce.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

hmm, I don't care much about credentials myself so much as the products of reason they try to package but it might give someone down the line crucial context that I'm a stalled philosophy student still debating on finishing out my degree and putting together something publicable

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hatosauce @hatosauce.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

imagery reminded me of scp containment breach's trench dimension. the ludic helplessness too

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BIRBLYFE @aaland.co · 03/09/2026

Commission for @bleat.ing

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hatosauce @hatosauce.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I'm hesitant to tag my stuff as gamedev since I'm mainly learning and prototyping (and not anything that cool to look at) so I'll just drop the keyword here and there until such a time as I'm trying to market something

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Rii Abrego @riibrego.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

runaways (2020) #art

A fan illustration of Mother 2 / Earthbound. Ness, Paula, Jeff, and Poo run from debt collectors alongside the Runaway Five.

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hatosauce @hatosauce.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

finally got discrete vector fields up and running! since they're image data, I only need to write some shaders to mess with them over time and I'll have a very expressive way to whisk bullets around

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hatosauce @hatosauce.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

today I filled up a wheelbarrow with vicariousness, routine, and a little indulgence. poured it into the hole and tamped it down tomorrow I'll do the same when the hole empties again, maybe with a different mixture but one day I'll have saved up enough to fill it with water and koi and be done

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hatosauce @hatosauce.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

this shrine by the lake, could I really deign to speak with that kami without having anything to offer? the way I left things, it seems terribly inauspicious but I keep finding myself here, grateful and torn then let's remain in parallel. theirs is a life already full without me. I add nothing

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hatosauce @hatosauce.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I like when they put this louse on the left because it looks like a before and after

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olyester 🌼 @cco00oo.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

glaceon's day

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hatosauce @hatosauce.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

the license mill giveth (fin, spm #4), the license mill taketh away (the rest) feast or famine, but yeah it starts looking garish really fast

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hatosauce @hatosauce.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

irresistible Poe's law vs immovable plausibility of philosophers genuinely endorsing what they say

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hatosauce @hatosauce.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

undertale clone, genre clone, these are shortcuts people use to set expectations about what's in a game. yes, sometimes derisively, but think about the times it connects people to a game they'll enjoy story rpg danmaku isn't the new hotness, but few things are. me, I'd burn out making anything else

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hatosauce @hatosauce.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Karen, Andean druid: let me speak with the tanager

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hatosauce @hatosauce.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

on a post descended from your own, click the hamburger button -> "Have mercy on this post". all replies newer than a certain age are hidden, especially from the reply metric, until some later time but who would enable such a benediction when it threatens to leave investor money on the table

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