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Any. 90's 🇭🇰 Cultural Refugee, 1st Gen Immigrant, Tragically Acculturated. Intersectionality & Anti-Imperialism./🥐🏴‍☠️👯🪶🛸💜/Icon+Header: Saekano S2E7

Somebody asked me on Reddit why people who use AI to generate Recomp projects are currently being rejected from the communities and what they can do to fix this. I might tweak parts of this to be a more general blog post at some point, but this should be of help to anyone in a similar situation.

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finding a midsize indie vtuber and finally getting curious enough to look up her history and oh she was a startup corp vtuber that has stuck around on the grind since the corp dissolved a few years ago... oh... glad you've kept at it, brave warrior

Turns out I never posted this here when I made it in 2024. Québécois Miku Ça bien l'air que je n'ai jamais posté ça quand j'lai dessiné en 2024. Miku Québécoise.

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I'm trembling while writing this: Kamaitachi no yoru—not the PC remake, not the iOS port, but the actual original SFC version—has been translated at last by ButThouMust, who graciously brought us an English patch for Otogirisou in the past. This is HISTORICAL.

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finally got around to buying a wireless handheld nipple mouse so it's easier to play visual novels and click through long dialogue scenes at the TV while standing or pacing around or on the step machine

little one hand trigger grip object with a nipple mouse and a disk around it, plus a second dial with a button in the middle, and a scroll wheel to the side

thinking about how every time star rail doesn't let someone die people complain about low stakes but every time ZZZ kills a sexy woman NPC people also never let it go not 1:1 though but trying to write something no one will get mad at you for is just not possible it's not a worthwhile goal

I've never been brave enough to ask but I keep coming across it once it a while and I keep thinking about it why did they give the protagonist of WuWa a dog's name? (Rover)

I remember hating the way anime used to try to write around running out of manga for smaller, 1-2 cour affairs but at this point in the world of overwhelming "our battle has just begun, go read the manga/light novel" the old way is kinda just nostalgic now

#AveMujica imo Sakiko drinks the coffee and admits she hates it represents how they're avoiding confronting the obvious contradictions and problems of them choosing to be together, and how Sakiko is still choosing to take the entire burden on her own shoulders and Uika is too dog stupid to notice

hearing about Chiikawa movies apparently doing a plotline about not falling to the temptation of comfortable stasis and instead doing the brave, courageous thing of "moving forward" lol honestly when it hits it hits but once you notice that as the evergreen theme of unspecified optimism in Japan,

NEW: After a 404 Media report about ISBNdb sourcing printed books for AI companies to train on because they don't contain AI slop, the company has removed its webpages about training AI citing backlash and says it was just a "test of market interest."

Company Offering Printed Books to Train AI Stops After 404 Media Coverage

Citing backlash, ISBNdb removed its webpages about training AI, denied ever buying, scanning, or selling a book for AI training, and said the site was a "test of market interest."

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I'm not like 100% on US politics tbh but the impression I've gotten from non-institutional primary winners and institutional dems who refuse to endorse them is, like, shit is so bad the coward politicians aren't even trying to U-Turn to the obvious winning team and pretend they were always on it

the big epic QTE set pieces in #zzzero aren't actually very numerous or lengthy so I think they're mostly fine but it contrasts with the launch of the game full of puzzles and deliberate gameplay so much lol watching a long cutscene being told to press B occasionally is what the players deserve