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Mana Opal @manaopal.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Most of those chapters' runtimes were spent in a jungle, a frozen-over city and corresponding pocket dimension, and an emotionally-unstable mountain whose moods infamously include becoming an active volcano! But sure, let's ignore all that and shove everyone into swimsuits anyway I guess 🤷

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Mana Opal @manaopal.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Dude. Last I checked, Steven never wound up becoming a walking-talking Ship of Theseus scenario smh

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Mana Opal @manaopal.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Land of the Lustrous was marketed? The closest thing to that I saw at the time was bad faith Tumblr posts making fun of those very surface-level similarities.

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Mana Opal @manaopal.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Hattrem and Galarian Ponyta are Mono-Psychic to keep from spoiling the twist in Bede's character arc, with the added benefit of having them go through the same arc. As bad as his team is mechanically, it does make for some solid diegetic storytelling~

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Mana Opal @manaopal.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Odd how they didn't mention that The Goose™️ occasionally starts to fizzle out of reality before reanchoring itself. What is this beast of the dancefloor???

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Mana Opal @manaopal.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Exactly! It's been translated in so many languages and formats with little issue that it came as a surprise when Limbus Company chose to use the original Greek word. If South Korea considers that to be creative license, then he doesn't have a leg to stand on!

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Mana Opal @manaopal.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

As much as I have beef with the Nobody scene for how badly it damaged the general perception of cyclopses, there's no denying that it's one of the most iconic scenes in the whole epic. Skipping over it just feels almost heretical!

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Mana Opal @manaopal.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Oooh, the Mist Drifter title on pokemon that hang out in ocean spray 👀 One could argue that Basculegion's ghost horde counts as a sort of mist, too 🤔

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Mana Opal @manaopal.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Nonononono-! WaitwaitwaitWAIT-!!!

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Mana Opal @manaopal.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Nah, these companies don't see MS Paint art as legitimate enough to bother with, despite how important it's been to internet culture for decades. Should be safe.

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Mana Opal @manaopal.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Man. Everything going on with Sony right now is making me glad that I haven't been interested in any Playstation exclusives in well over a decade. What a mess.

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Mana Opal @manaopal.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Unfortunately, making noise is the point for a lot of people.

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Mana Opal @manaopal.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

From kidnapping to guarding the kids while they're napping! ...Ah, who am I kidding. Teddy doesn't know the definition of the word 'nap'.

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Mana Opal @manaopal.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

*You call for aid from the Avatar of Peaceful Deaths For the Overworked. *It hands you a gattling gun. *You can't help but feel that something had gotten lost in translation here. #LimbusCompany

This thing deserves Unfocused Volley far more than the pistols that FoDB gave Gregor, that's for sure!

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Dafisha || COMMISSIONS OPEN! @dafisha.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

(DELTARUNE SPOILERS) Can we start including Mew Mew in Vocalsynth arts now #deltarune #flavorfoley

"Vocalsynth songs about being trans" banner up top, Ego Renegade Boy Len puts his arms up in happiness, with Human Miki doing the same. Mad Mew Mew, or Pink from Deltarune in the middle suddenly there, with poof effects, she is confused. she says * ...Mew??

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Table🍂 (takin a lil break) @tablepersonified.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

#deltarune #deltarunespoilers #chapter5 #deltarunechapter5spoilers WARNING!! SPOILERS FOR ADDED CHARACTER IN CHAPTER 5. YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO CLICK IF YOUVE GOTTEN TO THE NEW DARK WORLD. 💐 ___ ___ WARNING!!! -- i had to make this im sorry 🥹 #flowery

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Mana Opal @manaopal.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Asgore says that he got them for his proposal bouquet, which can reasonably assume was around two DECADES ago, and Flowery states that they were only supposed to live for a single day. That's well beyond their lifespans, so of course they'd sit between Lightner and Darkner like yokai! (2/2)

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Mana Opal @manaopal.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

#Deltarune Ch. 5 spoilers! - - - - - - - - - - In retrospect, it makes sense that the Flowers' Dark World would be so Japanese. Shinto mythos holds that beings that live far beyond their normal lifespans eventually become yokai, creatures that sit between the mortal and the divine. (1/2)

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SirToastyToes @sirtoastytoes.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

All the theories around Kris losing a hand and I'm thinking their hand/arm seems to be the body part they have the most control over. Regaining control of their arm is distinctly animated almost every time they take out the Soul and most often when they want to interrupt our choices they use a hand.

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Mana Opal @manaopal.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

One would think they'd do a little bit of research before sending those out, considering how clearly you established your stance on this stuff. Alas, even these recruitment "efforts" are probably done via AI to...

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Mana Opal @manaopal.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Jax picking fights he has no business picking is unfortunately in character, but Kinger? Of all people?? The guy whose symbolic avatar is of the only passive piece in the game its from??? Wack.

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Mana Opal @manaopal.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Meltan in Pokemon Go 2: Meta-Shifting Boogaloo

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Mana Opal @manaopal.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Base Froslass, mostly. It's a bit faster than Tauros, and its fairly lackluster 80 Sp. Atk keeps it from tenderizing the beef too badly in the setup phase. Will-o and TWave are always nice support options to have on hand, too.

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Mana Opal @manaopal.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Definitely has raw surprise value going for it, that's for sure. I can definitely see how it'd bowl over the unsuspecting.

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Mana Opal @manaopal.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Ooh, I hadn't considered Flower Trick as a secondary option! And it hits into Tauros' higher Defense stat too~

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Mana Opal @manaopal.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

...They were using something with base 155 Attack to activate Anger Point on their pokemon with 70 HP and Defense with a neutral hit? Boy howdy, is that playing with fire! Getting STAB EQs off is a very solid payoff, sure, but that poor camel ain't exactly long for the world either...

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Mana Opal @manaopal.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

I have considered running Anger Point on Paldean Tauros alongside a Frost Breath user since the move is guaranteed to Crit. The Aqua and Blaze Breeds resist Ice, though, which is something that cannot be said about Camerupt. Seems like a riskier pick to me 🤔

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Mana Opal @manaopal.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Did this fellow get into a pie or something? That mess looks both really flaky and a bit yet.

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Mana Opal @manaopal.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Like, what was even the point here? Nomura's original art for the collection already served its role masterfully. Whoever decided to feed it to the Slop Machine to expand it instead of asking him to move a few layers around the canvas for this render needs to rethink their position.

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Mana Opal @manaopal.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I had hoped that Sqeenix had abandoned the AI idea when I hadn't heard anything about it for many months after Yoshi-P denounced it on stream. That was evidently naive of me 🙄

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Mana Opal @manaopal.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Ah sweet, Materia with built-in thought surveillance capabilities! If the new macguffin stones have this many red flags right out the gate, then inevitable twist about them is bound to be extra freak! #XenobladeGenesis

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Mana Opal @manaopal.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Accidentally slept through the Direct, what did I miss? Touhou?! This isn't Reitaisiai yet! "a team within Team Shanghai Alice"? Bro, that was a one-man show for three decades! Does this mean Zun's finally hired help??? I've haven't seen the English one yet, and my flabbers are already gasted 😲

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Mana Opal @manaopal.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Good to see I'm not the only one 😔 Unleashing that blight upon the world would be an act of cruelty far greater than I thought he was capable of...

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Mana Opal @manaopal.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

It's been half a decade since Covid shut down the world, so I dunno about "current". That *is* roughly the same amount of time since Atlus pivoted on what P5 would be following the 2011 earthquake, though, so I'd definitely expect it to have some sort of impact on P6.

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Mana Opal @manaopal.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

AI data centers are extremely noisy across multiple frequencies, and many animals- especially young cats- have very sensitive hearing. This will make their lives a living nightmare. If for nothing else, then at least fight back for an innocent kitten's sake! 🐱 www.nashvillezoo.org/our-blog/pos...

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Nashville Zoo Celebrates 50th Clouded Leopard Birth

Nashville Zoo is proud to announce the birth of a female clouded leopard cub. Born on March 18, the cub is currently the size of a large, fresh pineapple, weighing a little over two pounds. This birth...

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pau @sillypau.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

SHE TRANSITIONED

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Mana Opal @manaopal.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Silvally already stood out as being the only pokemon without Blaze/Torrent/Overgrow to get any of the Pledges, but that coding error makes the fact even weirder! GF didn't fix it when they brought Silvally back in SwSh, either. Side effect of it getting hastily shoehorned in, perhaps?

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Mana Opal @manaopal.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

That's right row, Okumura didn't take that well at all!

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Mana Opal @manaopal.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Dang. Even under the sea, Sumi cannot escape The Horrors 😔

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Mana Opal @manaopal.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Meanwhile, Alolan Marowak gets ENTIRE TYPING from the ghostly flames it only sometimes has at the end of its weapon. Buddy's even less justified than Florges would've been!

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Mana Opal @manaopal.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

No need to wait for permission with this one, it's just true. What was even the point of taking the guy out of the fridge if they were just gonna throw him straight into the compost like that?

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Mana Opal @manaopal.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

If there's one thing I've learned from talking with movie people, it's that "the antiquated effects are part of the charm" is a feeling that they share with gamers. And even then, most children don't care about visual fidelity at all, so long as it's entertaining to them.

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Mana Opal @manaopal.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

>Aquabel Are you sure the game isn't reading your fics?😂

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Mana Opal @manaopal.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Well, uh... at least he found a place that accepts his eccentricities this time? Not quite sure how to feel about the sisters' enthusiasm tho

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Mana Opal @manaopal.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Considering how his time in the Toy Story world played out, I don't imagine his take would be very flattering at all 😰

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Glitch @glitchxcity.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Hi, I'm a human artist that's been producing VGM remix covers for the last 15 years WITHOUT USING AI. I run a 24/7 lofi radio featuring solo & collab tracks I've made, & also paid a human artist for the animation! 🎵 Playlist: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... 🎵 Radio: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGfM...

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Mana Opal @manaopal.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Aw man, that really IS a disaster! 😱

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Mana Opal @manaopal.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Niko, how could you? You were supposed to fight the crime, not join it!

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Mana Opal @manaopal.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

I've always seen it as the left, through the glasses angle.

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