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TopatoCo @topa.to · 24/08/2026

Happy belated bday to our friend @neilcic.com! 🥳 The lemon industry hasn't been the same since his tunes hit the scene. After buying the fruit, consumers may start hearing sweet melodies of ancient aliens and cabinet mans drifting in from their kitchens at night.. 🍋 Topa.to/lemondemon | neilcic.com

A photorealistic lemon with red horns and beady red eyes sitting behind a drawing of a cake with a single candle whose flame reaches dangerous heights (for a birthday candle).

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Neil Cicierega @neilcic.com · 11/08/2026

recently discovered you can alter the default EGA palette color values in DOSBox-Staging... playing with some gamer sacrilege here

Secret of Monkey Island, original EGA palette

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Neil Cicierega @neilcic.com · 02/07/2026

for those who want to inspect my work closely, I've uploaded all the edited posters in full res! www.neilcic.com/guideto/horr...

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Index of /guideto/horror

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Neil Cicierega @neilcic.com · 29/06/2026

at 7:05 I'm posting a NEW video on my channel.... followed by the premiere of a clown-themed episode of Camp Computer Games. You're all in for a night of terror

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Neil Cicierega @neilcic.com · 13/06/2026

Life is a mystery Everyone must stand alone I hear you call my name but then who was phone

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Neil Cicierega @neilcic.com · 31/05/2026

hats off to sean karolus here who I think is the only person on the internet to ever clock this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=537J... Starting around :25, that's totally where some elements of The Simpsons theme come from

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Neil Cicierega @neilcic.com · 11/04/2026

What do you think of Dental Puppets

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Neil Cicierega @neilcic.com · 14/03/2026

I appreciate when google street view cars drive behind a strip mall. Thanks for letting me see what's back there

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Neil Cicierega @neilcic.com · 18/02/2026

I like to use real life as a sort of internet

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Neil Cicierega @neilcic.com · 12/02/2026

Unused iron-on from 1984. I'm afraid to try and transfer it, so it's just art for now

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Neil Cicierega @neilcic.com · 30/01/2026

www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7sh... 2:44: "When good taste goes into the computer... spectacular pictures come out."

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Neil Cicierega @neilcic.com · 30/12/2025

It all started when they cancelled ALF

The Great Depression of 1990, a book by Dr Ravi Batra. "Why it's got to happen-- How to protect yourself"

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Neil Cicierega @neilcic.com · 28/12/2025

I recommend this book to anyone who owns a Lakhovsky Multiple Wave Oscillator

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Neil Cicierega @neilcic.com · 26/11/2025

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qdT... Watch the premiere! (If you please)

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Neil Cicierega @neilcic.com · 02/11/2025

Fun fact! My great-grandfather was a flight instructor who in 1956 died in small plane crash. I was researching this and came across a small news article from two months later saying that the Massachusetts Aeronautics Commission requested he be EXHUMED FOR AN AUTOPSY

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Neil Cicierega @neilcic.com · 22/10/2025

This book series needs a reboot. What 21st Century Mysteries would you like to see the man in the rumpled raincoat solve??

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 03/10/2025

Sora 2 is also unbelievably expensive, costing OpenAI at least $5 per 10 second video - and likely more considering Sora 2 also generates synced-up audio. OpenAI loses one subscriber's revenue *every four images generated*. It's unbelievably stupid. www.wheresyoured.at/sora2-openai...

Sora 2 Is Unbelievably Expensive, With Each Video Costing $5 Of Compute and Users Allowed To Generate 100 Videos Every 24 Hours — Meaning OpenAI Will Lose A Month’s Subscription Revenue Every Four Videos Generated
Let’s establish some facts:

Once you have access to Sora 2, you can generate what appears to be an unlimited amount of videos, at least on a $20-a-month subscription, and OpenAI has promised “generous limits” for a non-specific amount of time.
Every Sora 2 generation is at 1280x704 — a variant of 720p resolution — and every single one is 10 seconds long, even if you ask it to generate a longer one.
Each video appears to have sound, whether or not you asked for it.
It takes about a minute to generate each video.
Now, I’m a curious little critter, so I found that Microsoft actually publishes the prices of using Sora on its Azure AI Foundry page if you select “US East 2” as your region. To be clear, this is the pricing for the first Sora model, rather than Sora 2, which is likely more expensive.

Nevertheless, based on Azure’s pricing, it’s likely that each Sora 2 generation is priced at the “720 Global” rate of 50 cents a second, meaning that each video generated on Sora 2 costs $5 in compute, if not more, because it’s very likely that OpenAI’s costs are more than it charges on an API basis.

Now, according to The Information, OpenAI’s gross margins were projected to be 50% this year, meaning that even in the most kindly, sweet maths of all time, it’s annihilating all of its margin in two generations, and another subscriber’s margins in two more.

I also understand that some may argue that OpenAI’s costs “might not be as bad,” and there’s no evidence that this is the case.

Sora 2, by OpenAI’s own description, is a “video and audio generation model,” suggesting it’s one main model rather than a combination with its audio-generation models it released earlier this year.

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Neil Cicierega @neilcic.com · 19/09/2025

New Camp Computer Games starting soon!! Featuring my dear hacker bride @mingdoyle.bsky.social Watch here at 7 ET: twitch.tv/neilcic/home

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Neil Cicierega @neilcic.com · 05/09/2025

Watch me and my sister "goof" on some good old Disney Games: twitch.tv/neilcic/home

Neil Cicierega @neilcic.com · 25/08/2025

a special Sideways Heaven for people killed by someone holding their gun sideways

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Neil Cicierega @neilcic.com · 24/08/2025

there was time in my teens, I think, where I Mandela Effected my own birthday and could've sworn it was the 24th. So happy birthday, original timeline me!

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Eric Colossal @ericcolossal.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

My new game comes out tomorrow. 10 years ago I texted myself an idea "what about a shooter with no lights and all you had was a flashlight and a gun?" And now here it is. If anyone has played it and wants to leave a review, I would be every so grateful store.steampowered.com/app/2698870/...

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Midnight Murder Club on Steam

A heart-pounding and hilarious horror party game set in a pitch-black mansion. Armed with a flashlight, a revolver, and proximity chat, you and up to five friends sneak, shout, and stumble your way th...

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Neil Cicierega @neilcic.com · 12/08/2025

in Blender if you are working on a character pose for a really long time and then you click on the timeline, it just resets and Undo doesn't fix it. I love features like that

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Neil Cicierega @neilcic.com · 02/08/2025