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Dobu @dobu.bsky.social · 1d

Don't forget that a MAGA election official just bought Dominion Voting Systems 🙃

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 2d

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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Dobu @dobu.bsky.social · 2d

Chica...

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 3d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Dobu @dobu.bsky.social · 4d

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Dobu @dobu.bsky.social · 5d

It's a little jank but as long as you do that and then follow the rest of the instructions on the mod page you should be good, and you won't have to launch the mod loader again

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Dobu @dobu.bsky.social · 5d

You've gotta use this mod loader to install the font patch gamebanana.com/tools/20028

Just drop the mod loader into your game folder and set the game folder as the mod loader path. It should make a mods folder.

Then you have to unzip the font patch into its own folder in the mods folder

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Dobu @dobu.bsky.social · 5d

But I realize that some of this is a limitation of Japanese engines based on older Japanese VN engines that were already kind of a mess to begin with.

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Dobu @dobu.bsky.social · 5d

Like, games like Tsukihime Remake and Mahoyo would have been significantly elevated by (1) a better font and (2) proper book typography, since those are NVL style and their presentation already feels elevated above most VNs. Imagine if they had a little more polish.

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Dobu @dobu.bsky.social · 5d

gamebanana.com/mods/616379

Font Fix Patch Mod for The Hundred Line -Last Defense Academy- | THL-LDA- Mods

A The Hundred Line -Last Defense Academy- (THL-LDA-) Mod in the Other/Misc category, submitted by deikuns

gamebanana.com

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Dobu @dobu.bsky.social · 5d

It'd also be nice if more VN engines had good typography features. A lot of the time I see a VN without support for styles (bold/italic/both) or typographer's quotes. Proper typography is, I know, not something most people think about, but it'd go a long way in a game that's... you know, a book.

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Dobu @dobu.bsky.social · 5d

I just learned that there's a "better kerning" patch for Hundred Line. Why devs don't fix kerning in English translations of VNs still is beyond me, but this'll make the last few routes I have left feel way better to read

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Devin Kraft @Home for a Bit, shwew @cheshirecat.bsky.social · 6d

Wanted to try two new things: 1) Going back to traditional on a larger scale canvas (on a different medium) to 2) see if you'd like this roughly 18x24" piece on your wall while supporting charity.

www.cheshirecatart.com/product-page...

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Isekai Sensei-Sama @isekai-senseisama.bsky.social · 6d

We had a nice, long chat with @matchafinn.bsky.social as friends. No one turned into a 4 story tall monsters and ripped someone in half. I promise.

Anime Podcaster Speed Date: Finn K.

Are you the prey or are you the hunter? Anime Podcaster Speed Date is a peek into the minds of the creators you love (or will love soon). Li...

www.animepodcasterreincarnation.com

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The Onion @theonion.com · 6d

Travis Kelce Gets Cold Feet After Listening To New Taylor Swift Album https://theonion.com/travis-kelce-gets-cold-feet-after-listening-to-new-taylor-swift-album/

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Dobu @dobu.bsky.social · 7d

I liked SHf a lot, but imo the strongest parts of the writing were not the symbolism or metaphors, but the way the game made me adore the character that in the first five minutes and empathize with the catty fake mfer

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Dobu @dobu.bsky.social · 7d

Yeah, I mean if there's any part of an enemy you can't parse, don't worry, Hinako WILL tell you what it is and exactly what it means with almost zero ambiguity. You don't even need to sit through half an hour of a boring guy explaining it!

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Dobu @dobu.bsky.social · 7d

I think of all the games besides the Western-developed games, SHf is probably the least deserving of an "enemy designs explained" type video (despite being a good game it is perhaps the least subtle SH game in terms of symbolism/imagery) but at least do your research

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Dobu @dobu.bsky.social · 7d

You know Silent Hill is back when the Video Essayists™ are making weird interpretation theory videos based off of misinformation they gleaned in their rush to scrape surface level details from wikipedia articles and get their video out fast

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Dobu @dobu.bsky.social · 7d

Ten days till I leave for Japan. Once again, it's really snuck up on me.

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Dobu @dobu.bsky.social · 7d

Yes all of my playthroughs were on story action difficulty idc I'm not good with horror games with combat

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Dobu @dobu.bsky.social · 7d

The only trophies I'm missing in Silent Hill f are the "complete the game on the higher action difficulty" and with how much you get ganked and forced into combat in the latter areas of the game I'm not super sure I want to do those..... but otherwise I'm at 96% completion so...

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Dobu @dobu.bsky.social · 7d

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Dobu @dobu.bsky.social · 7d

I played through it 4 and a half times to get all the endings it was very good the whole way through

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that ff8 raccoon @deling.city · 8d

me after playing expedition 33 one time

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