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I'm Britta - Food4Dogs on YouTube and Twitter. Been on Bsky nearly 2 years now! Games, Books, Movies, Anime & Manga. Also occasional tech news. New Zealand.

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Food4Dogs @food4dogs.bsky.social · Aug 16

The amazingly beautiful
Metaphor ReFantazio official game guide by Future Press has arrived!

The photo was taken very quickly because the book weighs 2.4kg - my lifting exercise for the day. 😄

Metaphor ReFantazio strategy guide, me holding it up next to orange tree.

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Food4Dogs @food4dogs.bsky.social · 5h

Thank you.

Food4Dogs @food4dogs.bsky.social · 8h

My copy of Atelier Resleriana finally arrived, from Canada!

So happy to be gambolling through a classic Atelier adventure with 2 eminently likeable characters (reminds me a bit of Escha & Logy).

Me in red jacket in garden with PS5 copy of Atelier Resleriana

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Food4Dogs @food4dogs.bsky.social · 10h

We're living in "end of an era" times in so many ways.
🥺

Food4Dogs @food4dogs.bsky.social · 10h

Bound to be popular, eh?
Nothing that can go wrong, either ... 😵‍💫
#AI #erotica

OpenAI to allow mature content on ChatGPT for adult verified users starting December

OpenAI will allow mature content for ChatGPT users who verify their age on the platform starting in December, CEO Sam Altman said, after the chatbot was made restrictive for users in mental distress.

www.ctvnews.ca

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Food4Dogs @food4dogs.bsky.social · 2d

Scams scams scams ... and the victims go into emotional lockdown. 😟
webworm.substack.com/p/pigbutcher...

Dylan Attempts to Stop a Pig Butchering

Pig butchering scams, big and small, are on the rise.

webworm.substack.com

Food4Dogs @food4dogs.bsky.social · 2d

The frightening thing is: it's not just funny, it's all true.
A Land of Nightmare Parody.
#NewZealand #parody

Honest Government Ad | Visit New Zealand!

YouTube video by thejuicemedia

www.youtube.com

Food4Dogs @food4dogs.bsky.social · 3d

#NobelPrize #Literature

theconversation.com/a-great-pess...

An unapologetic traditionalist.
The arts are our best resource for preventing the slide into barbarism.
László Krasznahorkai

"The bitterness."
László Krasznahorkai talking about his inspiration.

Food4Dogs @food4dogs.bsky.social · 3d

I feel rather similar, too, about another much hyped singer/songwriter called Lorde (New Zealander, of all things).

Food4Dogs @food4dogs.bsky.social · 4d

Great article.
Lots of clear-eyed analysis from someone who clearly knows what good lyrics are and how they're created.

"Using words that sound nice together, that make a simple sentence slightly more complicated, is not what makes writing good."

No Good Art Comes From Greed | Defector

The packages arrived square and thin and carefully wrapped on Saturday afternoon. There were three of them, but only one was mine. If I could have rejected my package, sent it back from whence it came...

defector.com

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Food4Dogs @food4dogs.bsky.social · 4d

Marina Hyde always writes trenchantly funny columns.

"Hilariously, it seemed that the last entity on earth with the power to fight AI theft was OpenAI."
#AI

It’s Sam Altman: the man who stole the rights from copyright. If he’s the future, can we go backwards? | Marina Hyde

His AI video generator Sora 2 has been reviled for pinching the work of others. One giant leap for Sam: for everyone else, not so much, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

www.theguardian.com

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Food4Dogs @food4dogs.bsky.social · 5d

Yup, that's me - oh well, hips are a bit creaky now .. but still jigging around 😄

Food4Dogs @food4dogs.bsky.social · 5d

Only a month away! 🎇⚔️

Sacred 2: Fallen Angel Remaster launches November 11

Sacred 2: Fallen Angel Remaster will launch for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, and PC via Steam on November 11, publisher THQ Nordic and developers SparklingBit and Funatics announced. The PC version …

www.gematsu.com

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Food4Dogs @food4dogs.bsky.social · 5d

Which number shining force is this?

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Food4Dogs @food4dogs.bsky.social · 5d

New Potatoes for Christmas!
PoodlePa used the "compost tip" this year to grow our early spuds.
Never seen such healthy looking taters! 😎

Soil and compost bin - now growing some very happy potatoes.

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Food4Dogs @food4dogs.bsky.social · 5d

21 and very humid in Nelson!

Food4Dogs @food4dogs.bsky.social · 5d

So looking forward to this!
Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era #HoMM

"flawlessly generic high-fantasy art style: fanciful, gold-rimmed and lushly colorful, with toylike knight figures scampering across the maps."

Heroes of Might and Magic is back in all its pipe-and-slippers glory

And there’s a demo out now

www.polygon.com

Food4Dogs @food4dogs.bsky.social · 7d

Haha, had same experience this morning. 😄

Food4Dogs @food4dogs.bsky.social · 7d

Woah. Now subtitles are being slaughtered via dubious software. Great video from Geoff Thew.
#enshittification
This atrocity hasn't reached NZ shores yet .. I bet it won't take long though.
We'll finish watching Kaiji No. 8, S2, in subtitle comfort.

youtu.be/B-DX0Zolr6g?...

The Enshittification of Crunchyroll

YouTube video by Mother's Basement

youtu.be

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Food4Dogs @food4dogs.bsky.social · 7d

I hope you enjoy this video. 😀
I had such a lot of fun making it - don't miss my talk with Morgana about the chocobos!

youtu.be/EusnjsyYZr8

Video: Collector's Box - Final Fantasy Tactice The Ivalice Chronicles
#squareenix #fftactics #finalfantasy

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Food4Dogs @food4dogs.bsky.social · 9d

"people need to also feel good about where they play, and Microsoft is making it incredibly hard to feel good about Xbox right now. It's clearly reaching a crisis point."

No, Xbox's next gen console hardware plans aren't cancelled — for now (UPDATE: Microsoft responds)

Rumors are swirling that Xbox is going to kill its hardware ecosystem. It's not true ... for now, but it easily could've been true, given how nonsensically Xbox acts lately.

www.windowscentral.com

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Food4Dogs @food4dogs.bsky.social · 10d

#Enshittification Explained

Extract from Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It by Cory Doctorow

Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?

Sick of scrolling through junk results, AI-generated ads and links to lookalike products? The author and activist behind the term ‘enshittification’ explains what’s gone wrong with the internet – and ...

www.theguardian.com

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Food4Dogs @food4dogs.bsky.social · 10d

Update:
Pruned my list down to 70, where it finally stabilised. 👍

Food4Dogs @food4dogs.bsky.social · 10d

-2- YouTube spam bin

.. Colin Moriarty and Greg Miller.
Seriously. 🙄

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Food4Dogs @food4dogs.bsky.social · 10d

Good grief.😦
I went into my YouTube "Held" (spam bin) folder today and it was gross.
Thankfully I'm doped up on painkillers rn.
YouTube's algorithm is so poor that loads of lovely comments get trapped in there.
Together with the evil ones. 👹
I reported one for accusing me of "stealing" from ...
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Food4Dogs @food4dogs.bsky.social · 11d

OK - Trash said the same, so I'll definitely check that.