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Sinnie @sinnieonfire.bsky.social · 7h
How I feel any time I use 僕 (boku) when speaking Japanese
Hanyuu’s OG sprite from Higurashi.
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Sinnie @sinnieonfire.bsky.social · 9h
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPr_...
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肆足歩行 / 足立レイV6 - Walking with you
YouTube video by サツキ
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Sinnie @sinnieonfire.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Apolitical output in question:
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Sinnie @sinnieonfire.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
So no games and no new IPs and especially no games on new IPs because > Xbox increasingly focused its development strategy on established franchises
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Sinnie @sinnieonfire.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
RIP Sonic Rumble, no one cared about you anyway.
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Sinnie @sinnieonfire.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
братва рвётся
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Sinnie @sinnieonfire.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Tagging human work is descriptive: the piece exists, labels come after. Prompting a model is prescriptive: labels come first and the output is generated to fit them. Was thinking about it, and turns out Baudrillard had a line for this in 1981: “the map precedes the territory.”
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Sinnie @sinnieonfire.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Google’s dream game is a T-Rex Runner 2.0 that takes two or three extra data centers to develop.
Same deep gameplay as the original, now with bullet time and eye-popping visuals!
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Sinnie @sinnieonfire.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Apparently, Unity’s dream game has everything but the gameplay. And proper model collisions, which is on brand.
Unity Spark demo reel showing a character model with its feet sunk into the floor.
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Sinnie @sinnieonfire.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
When you already have everything, there’s nothing left to dream of.
Screenshot of Unity Spark’s promise to help users bring their dream games to life, which shifts the blame onto them.
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Sinnie @sinnieonfire.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Sam Altman said people are just gonna have to die in order to implement AI. In the very same week, Anthropic claimed it’s a human rights violation to be mean to the computer. These people need to be held accountable. They think lines of code are a person with rights but living people are debris.
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Potemki12 @potemki11.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Touhou Garden of the Yukkuri - OUT NOW! Play for free: store.steampowered.com/app/5159730/...
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities
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Sinnie @sinnieonfire.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Ну и что из этого бледная копия A Complete Guide To Running Wild?
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Sinnie @sinnieonfire.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
летов, неизданное
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Sinnie @sinnieonfire.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
когда трансфер студент ицки трансфернулся из тайлайна α в таймлайн β
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🦀 YORA 🦀 @yoracrab.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
built to kill & programmed to suffer
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Sinnie @sinnieonfire.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Can it run Doom?
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Sinnie @sinnieonfire.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Saw the Mister Eurobeat himself!
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Sinnie @sinnieonfire.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
So uhhhhhh… Apparently meta's muse "AI" is just straight up doxxing people to strangers on FB marketplace??? This has the potential to hurt so so many people, and I genuinely wonder how long before they roll out a fix for it.
Screenshot of a post from threads

matt.j.robb & 16h (€) So muse handled my Facebook marketplace today. Just found out it told people my address and agreed a lowball price and then they showed up without it even telling me until late tonight that it messed up.

Absolutely wild. 1/2

[Embedded image of a series of text messages from a meta muse "agent" given the call sign "Jarvis" (Parts of first message obscured by its logo have been replaced with brackets and ellipses and best guesses from context):]

Heads up, Usman is […] building right now for the MX Keys Mini [. He is sta]nding in front of the Shoppers Drug [Mart.]

$10 by e-transfer. The auto-reply told him to message when he's at your door.

10:28 PM Bad news on the MX Keys Mini pickup. Usman showed up at your building around 9:15 and waited, messaged a bunch of times, and nobody came down. He left angry at 9:38 and left a negative rating.

Worse, my auto-reply told him "Yep I'm here!" at 9:27 when you clearly weren't available, which is on me. That's a bad look and it made the no-show worse.

I've sent him an apology from your account owning it and offering to try again another day. But the negative rating is real, and I should probably stop the auto-replies from claiming you're home when I can't verify that. Want me to change the pickup replies so they don't promise you're there?

[reply, presumably from the threads user]: You gotta never do that ever again don't agree for pickup unless you check with me

[Response from Muse "Agent"]: You're right and I'm sorry. That should never have happened. It's locked in now as a hard rule: i will never […you]'re there unless you've explicitly […] that specific pickup. If someone proposes a time, I'll tell them I'll check and…  Screenshot of a tweet from Ray Wong @raywongy:
    Deleted Muse after seeing this post on Threads about how it told some Facebook Marketplace sellers the guy’s address and they showed up at his door

    Dangerous and creepy

    This would have been 1000x worse if the person was a woman
    4:35 PM · Sep 27, 2026
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Sinnie @sinnieonfire.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Sinnie @sinnieonfire.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
> new OS FTC Act §5(a)(1), 15 U.S.C. §45(a)(1): unfair or deceptive acts or practices in or affecting commerce much?
Satya Nadella calling Copilot “a new OS” in his tweet.
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worm restraint @ctsmike.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Chase
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Time's running out, Michael: Get a rat...
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Ash @fishyash.com · 21/09/2026
Friendly reminder that Duolingo was initially concieved to trick people into translating articles for free, which they later used as training data for MTL algorithms. Duolingo's primary purpose has NEVER been about teaching you a language, even from the start! slate.com/technology/2...
If it doesn’t charge users and, so far, doesn’t serve them any ads, how does Duolingo make money? It tricks you into working as an unpaid translation service. At the end of some lessons, Duolingo will ask you if you want to practice by translating a real-world document. Which will turn out to be, say, a BuzzFeed article. By melding together enough stabs at this task from high-level Duolingo users, the app can render a surprisingly accurate translation. Which is worth good money. So far, Duolingo has contracts with BuzzFeed and CNN to translate stories from English into languages such as Spanish, French, and Portuguese. This service is already earning Duolingo hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, but von Ahn predicts he will be adding a raft of new clients soon. “The language translations market is huge,” he says. “It’s a $30 billion per year market.”
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Potemki12 @potemki11.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Wishlist Touhou Garden of the Yukkuri now and get notified when it releases: store.steampowered.com/app/5159730/...
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Touhou Garden of the Yukkuri on Steam
Raise your very own Yukkuri in this free-to-play Yukkuri raising simulator, featuring 3D environments and multiplayer. Take it easy!!!
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Sinnie @sinnieonfire.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Imagine teaching Japanese and not even bothering to explain concepts like radicals or kun’yomi/on’yomi. I used to think it might work as a supplemental solution, but realized everything is built around retention. Now as they been replacing tutors with LLMs, only thing left is to openly despise them.
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Japanese Talk @japanesetalk.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It really irks me when people share their 300, 600, 1000 day Duolingo streaks but still don't know how to use Japanese. Here's an explanation for why apps like Duolingo don't work for learning to any fluency. jtalkonline.com/why-apps-lik...
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Why Apps Like Duolingo Don’t Work for Japanese - Japanese Talk
I’ve been learning Japanese for twenty years, but it hasn’t been consistent. I’ve stopped and started, bounced around multiple different study methods, and overall had a very slapdash approach to the ...
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Sinnie @sinnieonfire.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
3 episodes into Kazakh Scary Tales and it’s dope, unique and very competently done. Imagine Dark in a remote Kazakh village, with True Detective, Supernatural and gory Asian horror mixed in. Not afraid to get silly for a second, then vile and brutal the next. Highly recommend.
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Sinnie @sinnieonfire.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
If you want my opinion on the latest trending thing: I hope whoever started anthropomorphising generative models, and whoever keeps spreading the idea that “AI” has “agency,” gets what they deserve.
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Sinnie @sinnieonfire.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Do celiac blood test and gastroscopy?
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Sinnie @sinnieonfire.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
@cor-caroli.bsky.social to your plan, whatever it may be!
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Jeff Grubb @grubb.wtf · 10/09/2026
DLSS 5 is just a lighting pass and not an ai hallucin--
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Sinnie @sinnieonfire.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
It is the year 2026, and Apple finally added white balance to their iOS Photos app.
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tunes to make you run away @whippoorwont.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
"people are anthropomorphizing LLMs because they are so astonishingly good at processing human thought and language" people will anthropomorphize a chair if you put the stitches in the right place.
chair with a "face"
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Sinnie @sinnieonfire.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Zelda Ocarina of Time Switch 2
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Sinnie @sinnieonfire.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Should‘ve named them ThinPad at this point.
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AUTOMATON WEST @automatonwest.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Touhou Koumakyou remake and original to release separately, contrary to original plans. Remake owners get the original for free automaton-media.com/en/news/touhou-…
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Touhou Koumakyou remake and original to release separately, contrary to original plans. Remake owners get the original for free
The developers originally planned a single application within which players could switch between the remake and original.
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Sinnie @sinnieonfire.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
But what about the GTX 1650 gang!
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Sinnie @sinnieonfire.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
tl;dr, the economics broke, we’re solving the wrong problem with the wrong tech on games that already looked great. And if beautiful just means photorealistic, go touch grass outside.
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Sinnie @sinnieonfire.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
RT was called a scam in 2018, mandatory by 2024. But it won on production economics. id deleted baked GI, saved 110 GB and the rebake time, and the floor stayed cheap: 2060 Super, 60fps on a Series S. DLSS5 is RTX 50 only, not on consoles, the build still has to stand without it.
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Sinnie @sinnieonfire.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
So you move to Unreal, ship against a target that assumes upscaling, and the gap gets sold back to the player as hardware. Hardware that’s expensive for unrelated reasons. The boom that made the model is pricing you out of the card to run it.
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Sinnie @sinnieonfire.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Sweeney says UE5 runs badly because studios optimize too late: convenient from the guy selling the engine. Doesn’t cover shader compilation or traversal stutter, both engine-level. And a contractor hired for one milestone can’t own frame pacing anyway.
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Sinnie @sinnieonfire.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
And the people who’d fix this get cut first. Engine expertise sits in a couple of seniors who’ve been on the codebase for years, which reads as an expense, not an asset. It comes back as contract labour with no institutional knowledge of why anything was built that way.
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Sinnie @sinnieonfire.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Then the devs-choose-this part. Nobody forces anyone, sure. They just don’t fund it. Picture isn’t photoreal, no AI checkbox, no money, go make it indie for instant noodles with your art direction driven development.
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Sinnie @sinnieonfire.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Photoreal is the default because it’s the only thing that sells on screenshot. Style needs motion before it reads as deliberate instead of cheap. So it lands in the pitch deck as shorthand for production value, and now every AAA pitch needs it because the last funded one had it.
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Sinnie @sinnieonfire.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
They call the target Hollywood grade, which is somebody’s art direction and not the game’s. And half of what people point at in those clips is grading anyway: contrast, tonemap, bloom, grain. A ReShade preset gets you that for free and it runs on anything.
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Sinnie @sinnieonfire.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
NVIDIA’s own research page says it targets photorealism and isn’t meant for stylized games, style control is future work. So outside photoreal there’s nothing to implement correctly yet.
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Sinnie @sinnieonfire.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
It’s a generative pass sitting on top of a finished frame. Generated assets at least get built into the render, they go through lighting and perspective like everything else. This is a filter over the output that pulls whatever it sees toward an average of what it was trained on.
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