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Sam Logan @samandfuzzy.com · 08/10/2026

Skull Panda Fills In (for Blocktober #4)

a four panel comic. Skull Panda notices a t-shaped hole in the blocky ground. He fills it with what resembles a t-shaped Tetris block. The ground disappears and he falls out the bottom of the panel

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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 05/10/2026

[car dealership waiting room] Me: [chanting] knobs, knobs- Other car buyers: knobs, KNOBS Car salesman: [pounding desk] KNOBS, KNOBS, KNOBS!

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Knobs Returning To Some Automakers’ Vehicles, To The Relief Of Many

Auto companies are listening to the complaints of consumers, who want their knobs and buttons back.

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Crowsa Luxemburg @quendergeer.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

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wizard on computer dot jpg @tieadullknot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

in the earliest eps of the pod before i knew how an audio compressor could help me (i barely do now) i used to politely pop into the convo to briefly talk about guy debord or w/e. year 3 of pod i spend 2 hours being a gay little chatterbox and STILL get society of the spectacle in there. it's ya boy

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Shinra Middle Manager @shinramidmanager.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Had to break the bad news to Chadley that the Pope said he wouldn't get into the kingdom of heaven when he died. "That's okay", Chadley told me. "I know I wouldn't deserve it regardless. I've carried on with my life knowing from the beginning that I would burn in the end."

Chadley accepting that he will burn in hell.

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o faquir da dor @tropigotico.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

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Patrick Rainville @patrickrainville.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Here is my analysis of all the music featured in the first half of #FinalFantasyVII Rebirth’s Chapter 10, ie: Cosmo Canyon! youtu.be/oD4QgwZJ7As

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Cosmo Canyon | MUSIC ANALYSIS: FFVII Rebirth

YouTube video by Patrick Rainville Music Analysis

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Cora Neas, ghost reporter @corabora.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Nice argument, but I've already depicted you as the sniveling suit and myself as the cool guy with a gun hand

Barret from Final Fantasy 7 remake mogs a Shinra manager

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Semi-Spectral Trucker Buck "Fat Rig" Foss @theunchosenone.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My iPhone doesn’t like when I type “it sucks” and always wants to correct it to “it suck’s,” a phrase which I don’t think would ever be grammatically correct

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StopSkeletonsFromFighting @stopskeletons.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Touch grass or touchpads? The 2015 Steam Controller was maybe the most lovingly crafted hardware failure in video game history. But was it really a failure? Its insane history says otherwise. New episode of Punching Weight! Watch with your pets! RT's appreciated! 💀 youtu.be/xkMuoA88n4M 💀

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zac @10amlunch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

random encounters exist because the combat is fun you are supposed to enjoy it, if you dont enjoy it you should be playing a different video game, i dont understand how this conversation keeps happening

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Privaty Business @wanwanattack.qtbrewer.moe · 28/09/2026

Genuinely, this completely rules

－Recently, the game has been going viral on X for its beautiful undressing animations. I’ve even read in one of your previous interviews that the development team practiced stripping themselves as reference for the undressing animations. What was the process behind making the animations actually like?

Matsui:

I’d love to know how far that story has spread. It’s true.

First, we write a plot for each undressing scene, then draw storyboards, exactly as the original team did. Then the real work begins, because the animation is essentially all keyed by hand. A designer moves the clothing’s 3D model, frame by frame, manually. It really is pretty much like the claymation method I mentioned.

We did try automating it with physics simulation first, but it was a total failure. The cloth moved in a physically correct way, but had absolutely no allure. We learned a profound lesson: accuracy and sensuality are two unrelated properties. In the end, we accepted that humans would have to do all of it.

Then VR adds its own weight. In a normal game, if something becomes awkward, you can cut away or swap models between scenes. In VR, the player can look from any angle at any time, so none of those tricks are available. The same model has to undress convincingly no matter where you’re standing. When I described this to a designer at another studio, he said, “I would never do that.” I’ve chosen to take it as a compliment.

And then, yes, the part you’ve read about. The undressing motions themselves use motion capture, but the deeper problem was that nobody actually knew the correct rhythm and order in which a person takes off clothes. So, the directors gathered and undressed themselves as reference. “That zipper is coming down too fast.” “She’d pause once before slipping her shoulder out.” These were serious, sober discussions. For compliance reasons, the Super Real Mahjong Venus Returns team works in a walled-off section of our office – and that was the moment those walls truly earned their keep.

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Ash Parrish, Kotaku's LeBron James @adashtra.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

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Odysseus @thestrifeisrife.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Rufus Shinra—CEO of a world-dominating megacorp—needing to steal Cid's dinky little plane to go after Sephiroth is by far the funniest thing in OG FFVII.

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RPGFan @rpgfan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Do you love Final Fantasy 7 music? Me three! 🎹 Well Patrick Rainville Music Analysis might be your next YouTube splurge with a SUPER in-depth look which is, at the time of this post, 34 videos deep into breaking down the incredible FF7 Rebirth OST. YT Playlist: youtu.be/URugtYiYW-Q?...

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Nvidie @dervine7.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

if you are trying to explain what @anyaustin.bsky.social is to someone who hasn't watched:

background of a GTA river, in front is Any Austin's face photoshopped onto Ariel from "The Little Mermaid", at the bottom is that text "Look at this stuff, isn't it neat?"

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It's funny that for years now people have been saying that using generative AI very obviously deskills you, and people kept going no no you're wrong you Luddite And now all the genAI CEO's keep coming out in public to announce they forgot how to read and do math and can't remember their address etc

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Tom the Anime Sicko 🔜 Hell @tomharrison.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is what I mean about how we have to become snobs. When a bitch says shit like this to you, the move is to immediately become very mean, and laugh at them, and say out loud that you don’t respect them, things of that nature, things Ezra Klein would never do

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Shane ValShane @shanemcpartlin.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

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Tired: The Car Podcast... @tiredpod.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

THEN! EPISODE 126 ON THE PATREON. soundcloud.com/tired-podcas... BOAT MODE? CULT MODE? HOCKEY FANFICTION MODE? THE HIVEMIND OF ALL ANCIENT MARINERS?

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Episode 126 Teaser: 299 Percent APR in Der Raketen-Stadt (Patreon-Only Episode)

PATREON.COM/TIREDPOD PETERPETERHUGHES.BANDCAMP.COM ALLOYMAG.COM THANK YOU FOR LISTENING TO THE SHOW!!

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Tired: The Car Podcast... @tiredpod.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

TWO NEW EPISODES! First, on the free feed, episode 125. Rory prepares to head to Goodwood, Peter explains bailing on COTA, and everybody gets a hand on the ball to talk about mortality, as Rory recounts the Summer of GTI... www.patreon.com/TiredPod/pos...

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Episode 125: A Finite Quantity of Weekends | Tired

Rory prepares to head to Goodwood, Peter explains bailing on COTA, and everybody gets a hand on the ball to talk about mortality, as Rory re

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particle dogs @particledogs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

An energy weapon (work computer) is beaming harmful rays (emails) at me

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Semi-Spectral Trucker Buck "Fat Rig" Foss @theunchosenone.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

My review of Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan on Letterboxd is “This movie is really dumb and bad but I don’t know, I had fun watching it.” It’s a 1 1/2 star review with a heart

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Erik Hane @erikhane.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

this is a key point btw. I love many things that are not good lol. in the same I know that eating a bunch of chocolate chips before bed is not good, and I should probably make sure I'm eating real food most of the time

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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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My Name is Grant @mynameisgrant.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I would never feel less safe than I would inside a high-powered machine that invites me to imagine it is piloted by Heero Yuy. Absolutely not.

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Jonathan Cooper @jonathan.gameanim.com · 21/09/2026

Devil May Cry 3 (2005) motion capture behind-the-scenes and live-action previz. Capcom were really ahead of the game in terms of stunt choreography even then.

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Semi-Spectral Trucker Buck "Fat Rig" Foss @theunchosenone.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

About a quarter of the way through it and I do not think it is going to persuade me that making the combat feel better was a good idea. Silent Hill combat should feel kind of bad and clunky

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Semi-Spectral Trucker Buck "Fat Rig" Foss @theunchosenone.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

If I was employed right now I’d probably pick up Wolverine to see what all the fuss is about

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Semi-Spectral Trucker Buck "Fat Rig" Foss @theunchosenone.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I was planning to wait until October to start playing the Silent Hill 2 remake but today was cloudy and rainy and kind of chilly so it felt like a good time to start it

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Shinra Archaeology @shinraarchaeology.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

FFVII event planner Jun Akiyama was responsible for creating Cid's running animation. The rest of the staff loved it so much that at one point they had all the NPCs in the towns running around like Cid. Akiyama eventually caught wind and put an end to it. (Famitsu #1224)

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Semi-Spectral Trucker Buck "Fat Rig" Foss @theunchosenone.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I don’t really understand why they’re remaking Splinter Cell, aside from the obvious nostalgia play. If ever there was a series that would survive a simple reboot, it’s that one

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Mitchell Hammond 𓆙 @bipedalbastard.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Snake is Back

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buster skeetin @busterskeetin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

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Calvin Lin @calvinloveinternet.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The best part of being an artist is that you can just draw whatever dumb idea comes to your head at 1am

A scene parodying the Neon Genesis Evangelion scene of Asuka and her Eva unit getting pierced by the spear of longinus. In this scene, Linguini and Remy from Pixar's Ratatouille take the place of the EVA unit and Asuka respectively. Linguinis eye is pierced by a fork version of the spear and Remy is depicted in an inset where he is grabbing his eye and screaming like the anime. There are anime subtitles at the bottom that say "AHHHHHHHHH!"

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Scorigami @nflscorigami.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

🏈 GB 22 - 39 MIN FINAL ✅ That's Scorigami!! It's the 1097th unique final score in NFL history.

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Scorigami @nflscorigami.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

🏈 CHI 59 - 37 CAR FINAL ✅ That's Scorigami!! It's the 1096th unique final score in NFL history.

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slowbeef @effinslowbeef.com · 12/09/2026

Ok NOW I’m hype for Kingdom Hearts IV

Disney Store Marquee that says New Jersey like a KH World

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Laurielle ☕ @lauriellemaven.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

5 more chapters (11-15) of @playframe.bsky.social 's #Silksong run have been doodled! Rejoice! 🔔🔔🔔

Silksong doodles over a terracotta background. Bug corpses hanging from the ceiling while Hornet pokes one with a stick. Bell-themed enemies, Widow hurling bells while Hornet fangirls a bit, Hornet checking the map, completely lost, Zaza and his rider.

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Semi-Spectral Trucker Buck "Fat Rig" Foss @theunchosenone.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I still maintain the Final Fantasy VII Remake trilogy overall maintains a good balance of being for both old timers and newcomers so long as you’re a newcomer who understands sequel hooks, but that moment looks at newcomers and says “Fuck you”

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My Name is Grant @mynameisgrant.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Thinking of him(?) today