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oculis flashes in the hue of FF blue, named @serenaoculis.bsky.social · 13h

these arguments are fucking crazy. disproving evolution by exemplifying evolution

oculis flashes in the hue of FF blue, named @serenaoculis.bsky.social · 13h

"sir the folds that used to be gills in fish are not gills in humans. they turn into different stuff." indeed, as humans are no longer fish. thanks for exemplifying evolution, Christian Baby

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oculis flashes in the hue of FF blue, named @serenaoculis.bsky.social · 16h

it's hard to keep having internalised prejudice when the people selling it to you love going out in public and saying shit like this

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oculis flashes in the hue of FF blue, named @serenaoculis.bsky.social · 20h

culture shock when people in 2026 use redditor instead of lesswronger to describe this genre of person

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oculis flashes in the hue of FF blue, named @serenaoculis.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

but i feel a strong endearment towards the teenaged characters and i like watching kris run around and ruin their own life for really dumb reasons. i find it cathartic to see a 16 year old who thinks their life is just The Biggest, Most Tragic Fucking Deal

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oculis flashes in the hue of FF blue, named @serenaoculis.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

as i've grown older i've had to admit that my enjoyment for it is not very intellectual; it's deep in terms of how thoroughly it was constructed, but i don't think what it's saying is necessarily Profound outside of the context of its commentary on its medium

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oculis flashes in the hue of FF blue, named @serenaoculis.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

the reason why off is still so remembered and loved today is precisely because it managed to be so good despite the obvious fact that mortis stinks at game design

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oculis flashes in the hue of FF blue, named @serenaoculis.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

off is a story that's in the medium of videogames because its narrative relates to videogame narratives, but not because mortis knew in any way how to make a videogame that was like, good

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oculis flashes in the hue of FF blue, named @serenaoculis.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

it's fine 🥹 i already knew he sucked and it probably incremented my enjoyment of the movie so i guess it's a net positive right now that i'm not putting up with his shit haha

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oculis flashes in the hue of FF blue, named @serenaoculis.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

you could make wreck it ralph into a poignant transgender allegory if you related to vannelope at the start and then at the happy ending your father came into the room and said "haha that shit was so fucking stupid! life is only pain forever for people like you!"

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oculis flashes in the hue of FF blue, named @serenaoculis.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

it resonated with me a lot but it was probably because the allegory was very close to my real life experiences as a trans woman living with her parents, and when i watched it my parents were in the room and when nimona killed herself my father immediately mocked the movie

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oculis flashes in the hue of FF blue, named @serenaoculis.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

how will this change the review of our permanent vacation i wrote for my niche internet microblog

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oculis flashes in the hue of FF blue, named @serenaoculis.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

"is there a place for artists that make things which are not intellectually nurturing and will not stick with me long after i've read them" and other burning questions with no good answers by oculis systems

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oculis flashes in the hue of FF blue, named @serenaoculis.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

just looked up skullgirls on google and immediately got hit with "people also ask: is skullgirls a gooner game?"

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oculis flashes in the hue of FF blue, named @serenaoculis.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

the originals thing has always confused and scared me. i think if when i was doing the original run of michael quest the comicfury guy wrote me an email saying "hey kid, want to sign a contract?" i would have immediately turned into a software engineer

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oculis flashes in the hue of FF blue, named @serenaoculis.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

i just went over the webtoon TOS and found at least five Quadrillion rules that could be selectively applied to nuke your work (or a lot of other webcomics i value for that matter) even disregarding the webtoon original update schedule garbage

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oculis flashes in the hue of FF blue, named @serenaoculis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

i was told to put my comicfury comic on webtoon and then saw it had an extensive terms of service and noped out just from vibes

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oculis flashes in the hue of FF blue, named @serenaoculis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

a friend told me "it's crazy how this is my country's biggest cultural export" and that's how i learnt she was bosnian

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oculis flashes in the hue of FF blue, named @serenaoculis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

recently a youtuber i know nothing about had pretty serious allegations made against them so i looked it up. one of the suggested searches came with a dismissive reply from google gemini; i posted it here with the undertone "llms shouldn't be trusted", and you wouldn't guess what people replied

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oculis flashes in the hue of FF blue, named @serenaoculis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

this is also why i stopped updating michael quest frequently and have the project on hold. i hate making bad things and would rather die accomplishing nothing than die having made mistakes. this is a problem

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oculis flashes in the hue of FF blue, named @serenaoculis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

now that i've finally gotten support from my friends and stuff and especially at the current point in time that i'm pumping out a lot of work for a class i'm starting to realise why i delay homework so much, and it's because holy shit do i hate making bad things

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oculis flashes in the hue of FF blue, named @serenaoculis.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

cool, thank you i've considered backing it up and maybe hosting a stripped down mirror on my personal website because the current archive of sbboard has a little too much link rot for comfort

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oculis flashes in the hue of FF blue, named @serenaoculis.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

i read it in the intonation of that one video of toby fox

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Video Essay Bot @videoessaybot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

When Did Every Game Become About Quests?

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oculis flashes in the hue of FF blue, named @serenaoculis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

put it on itch; it being a file for people to download on a website already tailored toward jam type stuff will make it much easier to approach

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oculis flashes in the hue of FF blue, named @serenaoculis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

just reread this and saw some threads about it, and it led me to a lot of your other older works, as well as other stuff. would you recommend floatillion to people nowadays even though (as far as i can tell) it's not finished

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oculis flashes in the hue of FF blue, named @serenaoculis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

haha i love Milo. he looks like you vertically squashed him with the transform tool in an art program, which is the most accurate visual metaphor for his whole deal

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USER WAS BLOCKED FOR THIS POST @blockedforthispost.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

That's ok. Not everyone likes cheese.

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oculis flashes in the hue of FF blue, named @serenaoculis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

i think the fact that there's something that can speak but cannot think before it does is just extremely headache inducing to people with cursory or no knowledge of its technical side. this has happened to me at times even

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oculis flashes in the hue of FF blue, named @serenaoculis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

i personally look objectively better in old school menswear than in skirts and stuff and it still makes me immensely uncomfortable

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USER WAS BLOCKED FOR THIS POST @blockedforthispost.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Got anything meaningful to say?

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oculis flashes in the hue of FF blue, named @serenaoculis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

if you really need some rando on the internet to tell you that they agree with your extremely standoffish reply to the post they made on their personal account: i agreed with you before even you elucidated all of this, and didn't feel the need to explain it because it'd be obvious. in other words

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oculis flashes in the hue of FF blue, named @serenaoculis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

serious question relevant to my usage of this platform: does bluesky have a "for you" type algorithm that i somehow dodged until now or are you looking up "oneyplays" for people defending an alleged groomer

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oculis flashes in the hue of FF blue, named @serenaoculis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

why is a post i made about google gemini being dysfunctional to my 30 followers turning into a public forum for discussing workplace harassment that i have no reason to disbelieve

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oculis flashes in the hue of FF blue, named @serenaoculis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

the game becomes substantially better if you play this way, but in an artistic, hard-to-market way, or so suggests the mild sense of intellectual superiority i get for doing it even though this is a game where horses follow roads automatically precisely to facilitate this stuff

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oculis flashes in the hue of FF blue, named @serenaoculis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

i learnt this lesson by playing minecraft with large biomes on but i had already primed myself to becoming this type of weirdo by playing breath of the wild as a teenager and not using fast travel at all

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oculis flashes in the hue of FF blue, named @serenaoculis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

*why* can't it be rolled before you talk? i'm unfamiliar why that wouldn't work and it sounds like there's probably good reason 👀

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oculis flashes in the hue of FF blue, named @serenaoculis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

not to be nostalgic about a website i regularly use, but tumblr's lack of an algorithm not only means that you don't spend entire days doomscrolling, it also means there's a lower bound of followers you need before some rando jumps in your mentions to aggressively misinterpret your post

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oculis flashes in the hue of FF blue, named @serenaoculis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

the point is that whenever models fuck up, it's not only easy to blame the model itself (which cannot be held accountable in any way), but since the output itself is nondeterministic it is no different from me describing a dream i had to someone else. deciding an accuser lied makes accusations false

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oculis flashes in the hue of FF blue, named @serenaoculis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

then again i guess this sort of thing strengthens my argument - i have no way of proving you didn't inspect element for this (although it looks more legitimate than my copy-paste), and i have no way of knowing how public discourse looks right now vs a few hours ago

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oculis flashes in the hue of FF blue, named @serenaoculis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

than *i* did? i thought i was explicit enough about the fact that i know nothing about this. if it helps i can link the video that gemini listed as its source re: that; again, language model output is non-deterministic by design, so if you want to believe i'm lying i will have no way of objecting

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oculis flashes in the hue of FF blue, named @serenaoculis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

people instinctively think that liking the jokes a funny guy made before finding out he was a pedophile will retroactively make you a piece of shit or something and they desperately want to avoid becoming Evil

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oculis flashes in the hue of FF blue, named @serenaoculis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Fan Response: The document deeply divided the fanbase, with some demanding direct clarification from Chris while others dismissed the claims as private matters that should not have been weaponized publicly. Chris O'Neill largely refrained from issuing public statements addressing the document.

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oculis flashes in the hue of FF blue, named @serenaoculis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Ex-Girlfriend Allegations The Accusations: Around the same period, an ex-girlfriend of Chris O'Neill (Oney) published a viral Google Document containing private screenshots and accusations regarding their past relationship and alleged inappropriate communications.

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oculis flashes in the hue of FF blue, named @serenaoculis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Community Reaction: Much of the fanbase and outside commentators viewed the accusations as a mixture of old burnout and sour grapes, largely treating the lengthy rant as a "nothingburger" while continuing to support the main cast.

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oculis flashes in the hue of FF blue, named @serenaoculis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

alleging a toxic working environment, subtle personal jabs in old videos, and feeling overshadowed by the subsequent mainstream success of Chris O'Neill and Zach Hadel's projects like Smiling Friends.

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oculis flashes in the hue of FF blue, named @serenaoculis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Trigger: In July 2026, an OneyPlays social media post promoting merchandise led users to repost an old comic by Julian expressing unease about commercialization. The Streams: Former hosts Ding Dong and Julian held extensive, multi-hour streams airing grievances about their time on the channel,

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