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@metarract.stupididiot.club
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danger is my middle name but it's a bit of a misnomer programming / game dev / left / whatever

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big dummy @metarract.stupididiot.club · 27/06/2026
saw some pigeons in edinburgh
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big dummy @metarract.stupididiot.club · 10/09/2025
same energy
screenshot of a news report that reads:

Quote From Man Stabbed

"What are you gonna do, stab me?"
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big dummy @metarract.stupididiot.club · 01/09/2025
made a new drone in-between designing the more important systems~ you can now get a "Sword Drone Bay" which spawns the drone of its namesake, which will follow you around and attack on your command cause what's a space shooter without a melee attack lol #gamedev #indiedev #godot
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big dummy @metarract.stupididiot.club · 21/08/2025
album cover for the new florence has some tremendous aura
The cover for the band Florence + The Machine's newest upcoming album "Everybody Scream"

It features the eponymous Florence herself, sitting in the corner of wood-paneled room facing the camera on... maybe a bed or something, with her legs spread wide and some white cloth covering a mild portion of her lower half. Her right arm is draped upon the back of whatever it is she is sitting on. She is staring directly into the camera with her head slightly cocked to the side.

The shot is done with a fish-eye lens, that is to say the edges of the shot bow inwards, giving the impression that we are peering in on this view. The overall coloration has an earthy tone.
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big dummy @metarract.stupididiot.club · 17/08/2025
been somewhat silently working on a little game project for a bit now; also finally got the aesthetic to something i would call presentable. i also spent several days completely rewriting the underlying arch so now i'm doin junk like this lol #gamedev #indiedev #godot
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big dummy @metarract.stupididiot.club · 07/07/2025
two panels

1st panel:
x-men's wolverine from the 1990's animated tv show laying in bed, in his rather ostentatious costume, staring somewhat wistfully at a photo frame in his hands that is obscured from view

2nd panel:
we now see the frame from his perspective, but inside the frame is a real photo of the Fruit Sniffer
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big dummy @metarract.stupididiot.club · 19/06/2025
(credit @xkcd.com)
here we see an xkcd comic about extrapolation

it features two stick figure people, one dressed in a bridal outfit. the other person is pointing to a line graph in the background with that shows "Number of Husbands" over time, with "Yesterday" at "0" husbands, and "Today" at "1" husbands, and then the line continuing in an upward fashion along that trend

the person then goes on to say the following:

"As you can see, by late next month you'll have over four dozen husbands. Better get a bulk rate on wedding cake."
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big dummy @metarract.stupididiot.club · 11/06/2025
got served this ad on reddit and i genuinely have no fuckin clue what this inscrutable piece of shit is it looks like a damn beyblade
here we see a screenshot of a reddit ad for a kickstarter project. the image is overall white, with a view of some black object in the center. The object has three identical parts arranged in a triangular shape, with exposed nuts and screws facing the viewer. the parts are connected.

there are minimal details on the image which do nothing to explain what the object is, simply saying "Limited Quantities", "Sign Up for First Dibs", and worst of all, "Activate Launch Sequence".
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big dummy @metarract.stupididiot.club · 05/04/2025
bro what i just wanted to make a calzone
a screenshot from a recipe website, that reads thusly:

"Tips

The dough should be "soft as a horse's nose" after kneading"
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big dummy @metarract.stupididiot.club · 26/03/2025
this dude woulda worked up some fucking sweat cracking that whip
an excerpt from the wikipedia page on the Angola prison, that reads thusly:

"As of 2011, the annual budget of the Louisiana State Penitentiary was more than $120 million.[124] Angola still is operated as a working farm; former Warden Burl Cain once said that the key to running a peaceful maximum security prison was that "you've got to keep the inmates working all day so they're tired at night."[126] In 2009 James Ridgeway of Mother Jones wrote Angola was "An 18,000-acre complex that still resembles the slave plantation it once was."[127]"

it also features a picture of the aforementioned Burl Cain, a large greying white man looking down his nose at the camera
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big dummy @metarract.stupididiot.club · 15/03/2025
i'm fucking trying, man
here we see a close-up picture of the greeting card section of a store. there are a few sets of cards around, but notably the shit is centered on one that is labelled, rather tersely, as "Cope"
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big dummy @metarract.stupididiot.club · 13/03/2025
forgot i made this a while back and never posted it was musing on a character design for a possible twin-stick shooter featuring a bullet witch with a friend and drew up this crazy lady (how the do people decide on what to do for backgrounds for this sorta shit???) #pixelart #gamedev #indiedev
here we see a pixel art character. they are squatting a bit and wearing a large brown robe and a brown witch's hat. their skin is a very dark blue-black color, and they are sporting a cartoonishly wide, toothy grin; with large yellow eyes featuring red pupils that together elicits a "crazed" look to them. their hair is frazzled and graying, to evoke a sense that they were caught in a mild gunpowder explosion, and they have several protrusions from their arms and knuckles that resemble bullets. they are holding some sort of semi-automatic weapon in their hands.
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big dummy @metarract.stupididiot.club · 24/02/2025
i caught a friend :)
a snippet of the same scene from before, but this time the skeleton has caught a large brown fish thing with a big goofy grin. it appears to be 33 inches in length according to some text in the image.
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big dummy @metarract.stupididiot.club · 24/02/2025
startin' to feel presentable. fishing is working and i've got like, 19 weird fishies to catch each with a shiny / golden variant again, just an idle thingy for eventual streams so the twitch integration is bare but hopefully it is at least fun to look at lol #gamedev #indiedev #godot
here we see a screenshot of a pixelated game sort of thing i am working on. we see several little pixel humanoids milling about, with one that looks like a tiny skeleton on the right that appears to be fishing. they are pulling back on a fishing rod trying to reel in a supposed fish. there is a small little Windows 98 style window above them that points to them, signifying that they are the one speaking. they are saying "COME ON BIG BUCKS NO WHAMMIES". there are also several messages in a window above them that looks like a chat log.

everything is set against a simple starry background with dark green bricks that all the little people are walking along
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big dummy @metarract.stupididiot.club · 17/02/2025
compelling!
a screenshot of the user's account name that this is in response to, with several labels applied to them. they are, in order:

Transmisogyny
Transphobia (General)
Jesse Singal Follower
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big dummy @metarract.stupididiot.club · 30/01/2025
having fun drawing in webfishing~ i'm really really late to the game here because the idea of being in a lobby with randos gave me anxiety but i finally got on with some friends, and bruh everyone is so fucking chill and cool in that game lmao genuinely a wonderful experience
here we see a screenshot from the game Webfishing of some drawings on the ground. The drawings are presented in a circle surrounding a tree, and feature a large green frog, a golden manta ray, and a partially obscured red dragon that is breathing fire. They are set on an orange background, though in reality the background color was a rainbow color that would change over time. The frog appears to be saying "OBEY", and has a commanding presence to them.
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big dummy @metarract.stupididiot.club · 28/01/2025
haven't posted progress on this dumb thing in a while cause i was trapped in a refactoring loop on a lotta nonsense, like trying out a few different ways of handling state before settling on something i'm happy with, BUT things are doin' #gamedev #indiedev #godot
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big dummy @metarract.stupididiot.club · 27/01/2025
here we see a couple of still screens from an episode of spongebob, where he gives squidward a list of Fun things he wants to do with friends. The captions allude to this, with one major difference

Spongebob: "The companies that are doing EXTRA bad, I've written in RED!"Squidward, nervously: "EVERYTHING'S in red!"Spongebob, excitedly: "YEAH I know~!!"
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big dummy @metarract.stupididiot.club · 24/01/2025
my friends gave me a canadian quarter after coming back from visiting a mutual friend up there so i did this
we see a photo of a hand holding a very small, ornate golden picture frame. The frame is rectangular and surprisingly intricate for its size, as it fits neatly into the palm of a hand. It reflects a warm, diffuse light that highlights its features. Nestled within it, centered upon a dark contrasting background, is the canadian quarter. The quarter has a bust of a caribou, a horned animal, on it. Notably, the picture frame that surrounds the quarter is far more elaborately designed than the quarter itself.

I spent thirty got dang dollars framing a quarter somebody please laugh
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big dummy @metarract.stupididiot.club · 19/01/2025
i have the opposite problem :(
here we see a screenshot of some code

we see several fields of an object called "CombatAttributes" declared

INT (for Intelligence), FTH (for Faith), CHA (for Charisma), SPD (for Speed) and LCK (for Luck). Notably, the only one that is underlined is the "INT" field, which is tossing out a warning that says "Identifier 'INT' contains type name" with a cryptic code assigned to the warning. It is angry because "int" is used to define integers, and it is wagging its metaphorical finger and saying not to do that
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big dummy @metarract.stupididiot.club · 16/01/2025
not a single thought behind those eyes
a screenshot of Donkey Kong taken from the Switch 2 Announcement Trailer, his eyes are VERY close together and he has a very simple grin across his big mug

he looks happy
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big dummy @metarract.stupididiot.club · 10/01/2025
set out to just make a little placeholder portal for players to spawn out of but then i just... kept going cause i was enjoying how it looked and now i feel like it came out pretty nice actually lol one day i'll learn (lie) #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart #wip
here we see a piece of pixel art. the background is a dark blue with a dithering effect towards the bottom that lightens the sky as it progresses downwards. tiny blue and white stars of varying sizes dot the sky.

the focus of the piece is a rocky archway made of stacked dark stones, with a rim of green lighting on the inside cast by a series of concentric rings that evoke a feeling of depth beyond what the archway would normally contain - implying that this is a portal to some verdant dimension, far away from here.
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big dummy @metarract.stupididiot.club · 05/01/2025
a still image from an episode of the simpsons, where mr. burns has gone to the doctor and the doctor has told him he has so many diseases that no more can get in. he has illustrated this with tiny little colorful creatures, and as he attempts to shove them through a tiny door frame, they get stuck. 

i have likened this post to the thing i am responding to by labelling the door "my ruination" and the creatures "bodily humors"

why did mr burns' doctor have that tiny door
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big dummy @metarract.stupididiot.club · 04/01/2025
i wonder how many explanation responses they have under there desperately trying to explain themselves when they found things like this lol
a snip of the image from the nested screenshot showing there are:

238 likes
around 1000 comments
4 reposts
and 4 of some curious 4th thing that looks like a paper airplane, maybe shares? whatever

this is what some might colloquially refer to as a "ratio", which generally means that they are "wrong"
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big dummy @metarract.stupididiot.club · 28/12/2024
dragun
here we see a pink post-it note with a hastily scrawled dragon on it. the dragon is rather rotund, and is sitting with his feet splayed out and wearing a slight grin on his oversized head coupled with a vacant stare that implies his simple nature. he also has some cute lil horns and some spikes on his back, and he is breathing just the tiniest little poot of fire from his mouth
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big dummy @metarract.stupididiot.club · 28/12/2024
decided to toss out all those hours i spent on making a fun little turn-based combat scheduler and turn visualizer replete with actor portraits to see if a more real-time-ish style setup felt nicer, and surprise surprise it sure does ugh we out here, killing our darlings #gamedev #godot #indiedev
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big dummy @metarract.stupididiot.club · 17/12/2024
actually having a little fun with UI for a hot second i wonder what other people use as placeholder text #godot #gamedev #indiedev
a pixelated grassy scene with a bunch of tiny pixel folks on one side battling a sign with an angry face painted on it on the other side

one of the pixel folks has what looks like a windows98 window next to it in a sort of speech bubble type thing, making it look like they are saying "holy gravy holy meat holy moly let us eat", from a famous @dril tweet
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big dummy @metarract.stupididiot.club · 16/12/2024
ah, it would appear that i have "broken" "things"
a closer view of the pixel folks from the original post. some of them have taken damage - but the flash of color that would normally fade immediately appears to have stuck, causing many of them to be permanently red
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big dummy @metarract.stupididiot.club · 16/12/2024
spending too™ much™ time™ refactoring systems teehee anyway again still looks a bit ugly, but a wee auto-turn-based combat scene this time i'm starting to think that each "player" taking a turn might be less cool than just literally everyone attacking all at once lol #godot #gamedev #indiedev
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big dummy @metarract.stupididiot.club · 10/12/2024
do they, google do they really ask that
a screenshot of a section frequently seen in google searches

it reads:
"People also ask"

and then lists the examples:
"What is the meaning of swooce?"
and
"Am I glad he's frozen in there and that we're out here?"
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big dummy @metarract.stupididiot.club · 25/11/2024
glamour shot cause video compression
a closeup of the little pixelated goblins from before to show detail

they are very short and do not have any arms to speak of, one must wonder how they hold their fishing pole or gun
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big dummy @metarract.stupididiot.club · 25/11/2024
just havin' a lil fun please ignore placeholder art, yes that is definitely a pond of water i swear #gamedev #indiedev #godot
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big dummy @metarract.stupididiot.club · 19/11/2024
same man, same
a screenshot from the game "Disco Elysium" 

it is a lot of sorts of the recent dialog in the game, the important bit reads as follows:

KIM KITSURAGI: "Genitalia is male and unremarkable. No evidence of injury" 

i could go into more detail, but there are some perhaps minor spoilers here - however minor they may be, Disco is a game that is about the experience so i will refrain
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big dummy @metarract.stupididiot.club · 18/11/2024
i don't know if this is a thing that i want but i've come too far to back out now
another screenshot of a youtube title, this one from a one "KindaFrankTV". The title reads:

"poopy breakcore to shit your whole butt to"

i did
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big dummy @metarract.stupididiot.club · 16/11/2024
godot's AStarGrid2D is so easy to use damn do i make a lil roguelike for laffs? the answer should be "no" right now, but who knows! (quietly shoves other projects into the closet) #indiedev #gamedev #godot
here we see a pixelart image set up on a grid with a small little skeleton guy on the left side. Various bits of ground-scatter like rocks and foliage can be seen in the grid cells, but notably there are white squares that appear to denote walls - and a path of coins that lead down a circuitous path between them

this is just a quick-n-dirty tool i made to play around with Godot(a game engine)'s A* implementation, which is a pathfinding algorithm
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big dummy @metarract.stupididiot.club · 04/11/2024
what the fuck
a post from a member of bluesky, with a Content Warning label hiding the post itself. What horrible thing could be behind this? (see next)it was monkeys

all of it monkey emojisaye but what's this...?

the post has... 4.1 THOUSAND replies?it was monkeys

every single reply is just them posting the monkey emoji a bajillion times, thousands of replies... all of them monkeys
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big dummy @metarract.stupididiot.club · 28/10/2024
trying out blockbench while still having almost no proficiency for blender, haha whoopsie word of advice to future self: please do not start another gamedev project for the love of god just finish an earlier one holy heck
here we see a screenshot of a little skeleton guy. One version of him is in pixel art, and another that is 3d-modeled but low-poly with a pixelated aesthetic (featuring very low resolution textures), His dimensions are whimsical, stout, and short.
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big dummy @metarract.stupididiot.club · 21/10/2024
easy solution
the same pumpkin as above (broken with its guts spilling out), but this time with two sad eyes and a sweat droplet cutout drawn over top of it, as if it were sad about being broken (it probably would be to be honest)
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big dummy @metarract.stupididiot.club · 11/10/2024
wow this guy must really like the hit 1997 comedy "Liar Liar" featuring Jim Carrey
Here we see an image of a not-so-busy intersection in a city, centered on a grey minivan / SUV type of vehicle. The vehicle has a big red sticker on the back windshield that says in big, bold, red letters "HEMI". The color of the vehicle itself is a weird sort of splotchy grey and black, but most importantly, spray-painted on the side of it in white spray-paint are the words "Liar" three times.

I wonder if somebody was mad at this person for something.
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big dummy @metarract.stupididiot.club · 04/10/2024
oops don't be like me, kids luckily i'm the only one working on this otherwise i'd have a lot of apologizing to do
here we see an image of a "git commit", essentially where someone makes a record of the changes they made to some code

notably it reads that the user has, in one commit: "26 files changed, 673 insertions(+), 447 deletions(-)"

this is something that somebody who is very very bad at this sort of thing does. don't do this.
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big dummy @metarract.stupididiot.club · 04/10/2024
finally starting to work on UI and while i still quite dislike doing UI, the end result with the little hanging signs swinging back and forth turned out kinda fun #gamedev #indiedev #godot
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big dummy @metarract.stupididiot.club · 19/09/2024
how the fuck does a video like this even find it's way to me anyway i listened to the whole thing and it rips
another youtube video title, this one is... like a lot of just random characters. I'm going to put the actual title at the end so you can skip it if you want to because it's not really going to make any sense.

The video is by a "111loggedin // xxenaa"

The title is (warning here it comes): "IXxuSmw2HFNWXLUyJFO7xKIT3E7diFUSa86wgFiMI413xtfZga5hClZ/AgdzP33dhpj+0qc1d5sK2jyH5EqK6g=="
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big dummy @metarract.stupididiot.club · 19/09/2024
i started listening to a lot of long-form music mixes on youtube and somehow my algorithm has just become something wild but i love it
a youtube screenshot of someone's video title

the title reads:
"pov: you're a jellyfish" followed by a lot of fancy nonsensical characters
it is by "jelly", also followed by a nearly identical grouping of nonsensical characters

i can't wait to find out what it is like to be a jellyfishanother title screenshot

this one reads:
"rally house to get low poly to" by Denz1000

what does that meananother one

title reads:
"Gnome Playlist Vol. 2 (EXTRA WHIMSICAL)" by Doggies4Dinner

i'm glad they upped the whimsy, that was the best part (i have not listened to this)another

reads:
"Midnight Scran - Ramen (Full Album)" by High Soul Records

you be the judge, scran or not scran?
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big dummy @metarract.stupididiot.club · 16/09/2024
i was so late to the game damn
here we see an image showing my user number for bluesky, i was the 450,202nd user to join putting me in the top 10%

wish it was sooner RIP me lol
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big dummy @metarract.stupididiot.club · 11/09/2024
okay so it turns out they did NOT want actual videos of bugs but i do send me ur friggin bug videos also here is a TINY weevil on my bathroom floor, likely on a mission from some tiny bug god
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big dummy @metarract.stupididiot.club · 27/08/2024
there are two types of people in this world
a bluesky post from @lizardskelly.bsky.social that reads "american football should be banned btw"two responses to the previous post by @lizardskelly

one is from @eva.computer that reads:
"yeah emo music is annoying"

the second is from @ddyngel.bsky.social that reads:
"One of the shittier sports of all time"
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big dummy @metarract.stupididiot.club · 09/07/2024
hmm
here we see someone's gmail inbox (the someone is me). The most recent unread email is from "University Hospital", it is some sort of regular newsletter with a title asking "Why Do You Wake Up in Pain?"

as if to answer this horribly pointed question almost immediately, the very next 2 unread emails are about an online order for pizza, namely Little Caesars and about how the pizza has been "Loaded Into [the] Pizza Portal(TM)"
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big dummy @metarract.stupididiot.club · 08/07/2024
either this person's tinder profile is some really funny joke i'm not privy to or they need immediate medical attention
here we see a screenshot of the "About Me" section of a Tinder profile. Notably, the text in this section starts out very normal but then ends in gibberish words that just seem like an amalgamation of letters. It reads:

"Hoping to establish some friendships in Cleveland. Just moved to the east side suburbs from Akron and haven't ffgffffgiioott free raqaaar"
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big dummy @metarract.stupididiot.club · 18/06/2024
officer please, if you would just take a moment to read our sign then i'm certain any further questions you might be having on the matter would be answered
here we see a photo of a hanging sign for a restaurant. It was taken in an airport in Boston Massachusetts - most notably, it reads simply "LEGAL SEA FOODS" in large bold lettering.

As opposed to what? ILLEGAL sea food?? We didn't stop to ask. It does make one wonder, however.
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big dummy @metarract.stupididiot.club · 05/06/2024
fucking light novel titles Sekai Saikyou no Majo, Hajimemashita ~Watashi Dake "Kouryaku Saito" o Miseru Sekai de Jiyuu ni Ikimasu~ / I Became the World's Strongest Witch: I Will Live Freely in a World Where Only I can Access the "Guide Site"
two panels of a manga this time! The top panel is a girl with short black hair looking confused and asking "Tomorrow? Is something happening?", then the second panel is a close shot of a very serious woman saying "....Yeah. Tomorrow Is—" which gets cut off for dramatic effect for the next panel, which is in the next image

Sekai Saikyou no Majo, Hajimemashita ~Watashi Dake "Kouryaku Saito" o Miseru Sekai de Jiyuu ni Ikimasu~ / I Became the World's Strongest Witch: I Will Live Freely in a World Where Only I can Access the "Guide Site"a very dramatic panel from an upper view where everything is darkened around the three women standing there as the serious woman from the previous panel finishes her sentence with "WEDNESDAY"
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