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Nick but in a haunted hat

@gotenonnimbus.bsky.social

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I draw things and also like things Mostly post about media I'm consuming, TTRPGs, and my cats. Gen AI sucks. #Artfight - all my attacks for Art Fight #OctoberArtChallenge - October art list doodles

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Nick but in a haunted hat @gotenonnimbus.bsky.social · Nov 20

I keep up a small repository of art resources that I come across for different disciplines.

Click the View button to get to the different organized lists sorted by type and whether they're paid or free. I look through the resource to see if it's legit before I post it.

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ぴぃたぁそると @pesalt.bsky.social · 9h

秋のデニム(2025)
※新作です。
#illustration #イラスト

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Raven Paine @ravenpaine.bsky.social · 22h

my friend just shared this with me

Dr Eggman Robotnic drawn in two images, Designed with Gamers in mind: Caked up Robotnic, Designed with activists in mind: no ass Robotnic looks sad

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Nick but in a haunted hat @gotenonnimbus.bsky.social · 1d

Duck flute from Link's Awakening

Pop over to get some groceries via duck flight? Heck yeah

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Retro Game Books @retrogamebooks.com · 4d

🚨 Free book giveaway contest 📙

Win a free copy of Video Game Maps: SNES - Vol 2. To enter, tell us which of Link's items you'd like to have in real life.

Contest ends Sunday October 12th.

Reskeets appreciated.

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#retrogaming 💌

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Nick but in a haunted hat @gotenonnimbus.bsky.social · 1d

Ow ow owww

Nick but in a haunted hat @gotenonnimbus.bsky.social · 1d

I'm still not going to check here most of today since I have a ttrpg to run later, but a nice busy set of days

Food pics, because they were both spectacular

Eggs Benedict with BBQ sauce and pulled pork, and a side of bananas foster pancakes

Buttery white bread, sausage, pork ribs, brisket, bacon Mac and cheese, green onion potato salad, blueberry cobbler

Nick but in a haunted hat @gotenonnimbus.bsky.social · 1d

I don't think I've had a more productive break

Had an awesome anniversary
Reached act 3 of Silksong
Saw Perfect Blue in theaters
Saw a magic show and was pulled up on stage
Hit up a Round 1 for a while
Checked out the new TESO Life that opened out my way
Cleaned up old physical documents

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Nick but in a haunted hat @gotenonnimbus.bsky.social · 6d

I think I'm going to stay off here for the better part of this week. Wedding anniversary is this week and I'd like to lessen the brain poison for a little while.

Still going to work on doodles and post after, but I think a digital cleanse is due.

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Samantha Ferreira Is Creating An Anime Mag @sam-animeherald.bsky.social · 6d

Just saying, "the book is there to serve me, not vice versa" is a very - VERY odd thing to say when discussing literature.

˗ˏˋuıʍʇdəəɹɔˎˊ˗👑King of the Reply Guys😺 @creeptwin.bsky.social · 8d

Okay, skip the therapy, straight to jail.

A post from Jay graber from 6 years ago

"Maybe my brain is internet poisoned, but I often don't try to read books linearly. Like, look, the book is there to serve me, not vice versa. I'm going to read it how I want.

I've appalled people by sometimes starting in the middle of fiction books. If the end was good I'll go back and read the beginning. There are so many books out there, I had to see if it was worth my time!"

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Plate Stealer @platestealer.bsky.social · Feb 15

The thing about "prompt engineering" is that you don't even need AI to do it. Just write the prompt. I can write stegosaurus-with-huge-naturals.jpg and your mind does the rest

jay marie 🏳️‍⚧️ werewolf time @jmawork.bsky.social · Feb 15

If this is your reaction to someone telling you to not post AI, buddy idfk what to tell you

Screenshot of a post from Open Culture @opencultire.bsky.social:

"OK next time I will go out and take art lessons for a month, then spend an afternoon on a sketch, just to make my point. Thank you!"

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Nick but in a haunted hat @gotenonnimbus.bsky.social · 6d

That's kinda how I became spoiler-averse to a higher degree, if someone is going to regale me with the whole thing, guess I don't have to see it

Nick but in a haunted hat @gotenonnimbus.bsky.social · 6d

I will never willingly watch any of it, and I will leave the room if it's on

Nick but in a haunted hat @gotenonnimbus.bsky.social · 6d

The Office
Game of Thrones
Friends
Black Mirror
Elf
40-Year-Old Virgin

I know there's plenty more, but I think The Office is probably the most frequent I encounter in the wild

Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 7d

Inspired by a post I just saw in which someone admitted they hadn’t seen a single episode of Friends nor the film Love Actually… what cultural hole do you have that’s a bit weird for your generation?

I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.

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𝕲𝖔𝖉𝖎𝖛𝖆 𝕲𝖍𝖔𝖚𝖑 @godivaghoul.bsky.social · 7d

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Nick but in a haunted hat @gotenonnimbus.bsky.social · 6d

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

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Rakesh Khanna @blaftrakesh.bsky.social · 7d

When I was researching my book Ghosts, Monsters, and Demons of India, I learned of a 1000-year-old myth about Roman tech being used to build killer robots to guard the Buddha's remains in Pataliputra, and a Hungarian folklorist read my book & got excited about it, & she managed to dig up a🧵(1/3)

Romanised Pali manuscript of the Lokapannati

Ghosts, Monsters, and Demons of India
p. 60
Bhoota Vahana Yanta
Bhoota Vahana Yanta means “spirit movement machine.” The term is used
for several varieties of robot drone assassins and sword-wielding machine-
men mentioned in the Lokapannati, a Pali-language text written between
1000 and 1200 CE by Saddhammaghosa of Thaton, but concerning
events that took place much earlier, around 500 to 200 BCE.
According to the story, robots were first invented by engineers of the
early Roman Republic. These robots were used for commerce, in agriculture,
as a police force, and as executioners. The secret of how to build these
spirit-engines was fiercely protected. If any engineer dared to take the designs
out of the city, one of his own executioner robots would come after
him and kill him.
At that time, in Pataliputra (then in the kingdom of Magadha, now
Patna in the state of Bihar), there lived a young man who had heard of the
Romans’ magical androids. He became so determined to learn the secrets
of their manufacture and share them with the people of Magadha that he
arranged his own death. Then, on his deathbed, he vowed to be reincarnated
as a Roman.
This indeed took place. In his new life, the man grew up to join the
Roman guild of engineers. He even married the daughter of the Master
Robot-Maker, and had a son by her.
Once he learned the secrets of the Bhoota Vahana Yanta, the man resolved
to transfer the information back to Pataliputra. But he was well
aware that now, since he was a member of the guild, he would be killed as
soon as he left. So he cut a gash in his thigh, inserted the plans in his flesh,
and sewed the wound back up.

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Nick but in a haunted hat @gotenonnimbus.bsky.social · 7d

[Kiryu sound clip Naruhodo.mp3 plays]
So you're a boy with the properties of rubber, but you can't go swimming, huh? Kids have it rough these days.

Nick but in a haunted hat @gotenonnimbus.bsky.social · 7d

Tiny circus clowns

Emilico in a Halloween themed cube tent, Sylphie confused outside of it

Emilico biting the cube, Sylphie still confused

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 7d

chat, is saying you want to destroy a computer program the same as genocide?

Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 7d

*takes massive bong rip*

hailey
@hailey.at • 6h
an unfortunate irony about this post - and even if you are the staunchest anti-ai critic out there, i think you'd agree - is that some of the most bigoted things are being said to respond to this. copy/pasting phrasing and terminology used by bigots but replacing "dna" with "bits" doesn't make it ok
4J @dystopiabreaker.xyz • 3d
i'm completely serious when i say that much of the dismissive ai discourse on here fires the bigotry neuron
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hailey
@hailey.at • 6h
if you're writing a sentence that sounds like eugenics but you go "oh that's fine to say because it's not a real person" (whatever that means) you may want to consider what made you okay with saying that

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Nick but in a haunted hat @gotenonnimbus.bsky.social · 7d

Sure why not

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Programancer @programancer.com · 7d

Oh I have one of those fancy Scarlet/Violet SHINY KORAIDON/MIRAIDON codes that I don't need because I don't play POKEMON, so if anyone wants it uhhhh

I guess FOLLOW and REPOST and I'll send it to someone in like a week or so. Or go to GameStop and get one, idk

Pokemon Scarlet and Violet Shiny Koraidon and Shiny Miraidon code receipt with the code obscured by a stinky fingy

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Kara Ling @metacrab.org · 7d

The game in which the premise is "the odds are real but gamers struggle to conceptualize or even believe them" has negative reviews from gamers who don't believe the odds are real (game: Unfair Flips)

A 'Not Recommended' Steam review with 4 hours played

Review text reads: It's a decent idea for a game where you flip a coin and depending on your percentage chances you get heads or tails. However the odds are a lie. You will flip tails 100 percent more than you will heads no matter what your percentage is. Even when you get it up to 60% you will still flip tails way more often then you will heads.

The Dev can try to defend it, but when I flip the coin 2500 times and only hit heads a third of the time even when at 60% then the odds are broken or a lie. I've also watched gameplay and seen fellow players have the same flips so I know it isn't just me having bad luck.

Still not bad for $2, but I'm saying no because the game is coded against you instead of it being fully on chance and luck.

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 7d

Went to a party hosted by an absolute icon

A hanging banner spelling out “PLEASE LEAVE BY 8”

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🕸Nye🐇 comms open! @nigelgraz.bsky.social · 7d

My OC Maria 🍷 she's an evil lesbian vampire and i'm in love with her

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Nick but in a haunted hat @gotenonnimbus.bsky.social · 7d

I work so I can do more interesting things with my time, if at all possible I want to work less and do more things for and with people not tied to money

Also "working hard"=/="ruining my health for my employer"

Fortune @fortune.com · 8d

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