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Hatok @hatok.bsky.social · Nov 19
Twitch schedule for the week

it's Wolfenoot this Saturday so we're playing the ultimate wolf game, Okami!

No stream on Wednesday

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robinandcat.bsky.social
I’m never giving an app get my ID. I follow Professor Garfield’s internet safety advice.
Internet safety infographic, starring that son of a gun, that gigantic thing, Garfield.
February 9, 2026 at 5:47 PM
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gaorush.bsky.social
me and eri
February 10, 2026 at 7:01 AM
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envinyon.bsky.social
weird start to a pokemon mystery dungeon game
February 10, 2026 at 6:04 AM
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mandateofheaven.bsky.social
My zoruadibl;e just hit
February 10, 2026 at 5:51 AM
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mackeza.bsky.social
Ironic, as this was the magazine that referred to Pokémon as a "pestilential Ponzi scheme" in 1999, characterising its creator Satoshi Tajiri as a literal monster "His eyes are bloodshot; dark circles ripple beneath them... His monsters are a child's predelictions." He never gave another interview.
February 9, 2026 at 12:28 PM
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gaorush.bsky.social
JoJolion characters
wr0ngdoll.bsky.social ana from situations @wr0ngdoll.bsky.social · 7h
the only thing im "ai generating" is "giant centipedes" in the "dark corners" of your "room"
February 10, 2026 at 5:14 AM
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unburntwitch.com
when it’s my turn to say “a” at the “a”-saying contest
July 7, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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taffywabbit.bsky.social
not even an extremely tiny buny is safe from controversy
August 9, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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shinraarchaeology.bsky.social
In a reddit AMA, film director Nia DaCosta says that in early development of The Marvels there was a fight scene in the core of a planet where the gravity keeps shifting, and she thought the way the Tifa vs Loz church fight and that sequence at the end dealt with weightlessness was great.
January 10, 2026 at 8:28 AM
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eigenvectrix.myatproto.social
As a user affected by the Australian rollout: they're lying about pre-verification. Every Australian Discord user with whom I regularly interact is over 30, but we were still all required to verify
legendofnerd.bsky.social Brian M @legendofnerd.bsky.social · 10h
Discord is already starting to walk things back a little, so people should keep doing what they're doing (cancel Nitro, leave feedback/criticism, direct contact through support tickets/phone/email/etc)
Tl;dr: The vast majority of adults will never have to interact with our age assurance systems and their experience won't change, because we know Discord and how people use it, so we're designing to respect privacy and deliver a safer experience while minimizing friction for adults. Hey folks – I’ve been on Discord since very early 2016 and actually joined the company in 2017. Safety is one of my areas, so today’s announcement on our blog is something I’ve been pretty involved with. I’ve always cared about Discord's approach to privacy (E2EE for A/V was another of my projects here), so I figured I’d add some more context to today's news. I can say confidently that the vast majority of people will never see age verification. I say this because we launched age assurance in the UK and Australia in 2025, and we have some pretty good data on this now. The idea here is that we can pre-identify most adults based on what we already know (not including your messages!), and that looks to get us pretty far here. No face scans, no IDs, for the vast majority of adults. And if you are one of the smaller subset of folks that we can't definitively pre-identify, then still, you only have to do it if you're accessing age-restricted servers or channels, or changing certain settings. That's really not most users. (Altho... might be more Redditors, tbh.) Last, I know that there is concern about privacy and data leaks. That's a real concern. The selfie system is built purely client-side, it never leaves your device, and we did that intentionally. That'll work for a bunch of users who aren't pre-identified as adults. But if you do end up in the ID bucket, then yeah, you're right that has some risk. We're doing what we can to minimize this by working with our range of partners (who are different partners than the data leak you read about), and if it's any help, we learned a lot internally from the last issue. But I get if that doesn't necessarily inspire more confidence. Anyway, we’ll be sharing more next month as we get closer to the global roll out about the system, including the technology behind it in March. I honestly wouldn't be happy if we didn't build something good and I am excited about what we’re launching, but please let us know what you think when we share more details. And I really appreciate everybody's feedback here today. We’re definitely reading it!
February 10, 2026 at 2:38 AM
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marstectomy.bsky.social
This is how Pikmin 1 got me
February 10, 2026 at 12:33 AM
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shinraarchaeology.bsky.social
Moving on to Vol. 8 of Tetsuya Nomura's Game Walker column!

Nomura dives into his creative process:
-He rarely uses singular model references
-Nojima thinks Seifer takes after him (personality-wise)
-He draws late into the night watching VR'd TV shows

Thanks to moku_moku131459 for the photo!
Tetsuya Nomura’s Super-Special Journey with Square, Vol. 8 Special Feature: You Ask, Nomura Answers! (Part 2) Square’s Tetsuya Nomura returns for his fan-favorite column full of Tosa flair. This month sees the artist answering more questions from readers, and offers an exciting glimpse into his private life! Tetsuya Nomura - Profile A graphic designer on Square Co, Ltd.’s development team. Born October 8th, 1970. Hails from Kōchi Prefecture. Known for his work on FFVII, FFVIII, Parasite Eve, and more. Likes to watch TV in his free time. Lately obsessed with The Future Diary. Q1: Who do you use for reference models when drawing characters? (M, Tokyo) Almost always foreigners. And not celebrities or anything, just total strangers. If they’ve got a distinctive face or eyes, I’ll take a feature and use it as reference. There ends up being a lot of collaging, so it’s really rare I use an individual actor or someone as the sole model. Oh, and I place particular emphasis on the eyes, even compared to the rest of the face. Also, I wouldn’t say there’s any character that really matches my image, but according to Nojima, our scenario writer, Seifer evidently comes close [in terms of personality] [laughs]. Whenever I draw a protagonist, there’ll be people who point out a resemblance, but it’s not something I’m purposely trying to do, and I really don’t think there is any. It’s probably the same with the other characters, too, though I do think there’s some cross-influence with the hairstyles. In which case, I guess I’m like Selphie right now [laughs]. With the character modeling, it’s basically never the case you look at them and go, “Oh, that’s so-and-so!” At best you might think, “Huh, maybe that’s so-and-so…” I actually don’t really think it’s a good thing if you can figure out who the model is. Yet whenever I come out with a new character, everyone’s like, “This guy must be modeled after so-and-so” [laughs]. The guesses are usually wrong, but then again, it’s up to Q2: How would you describe your cubicle at work? (F, Aichi) Right now it’s nice and tidy, but it usually looks like a dump [laughs]. I actually don’t do a whole lot of personal work at my cubicle. I do most of my drawing at home, so the cubicle has kind of turned into a storage unit. And then I’ve decorated it with all sorts of things up top, but it’s almost all stuff other people have given me. So I’ve kind of just scattered everything around without much thought [laughs]. And now because of the projects I’m on, I’ve actually got two cubicles, which means twice the headache. Q3: How do you come up with ideas for stuff like summoning scenes? (Kanagawa, F) I guess I think it through as I write… Like, “What comes next after this?” Anything can turn into a new idea—nothing’s locked in, you know? So for example, I’ll be watching a movie or TV show or reading a book. Whenever I’m doing that, I’m trying to predict what’ll happen next. But my predictions are usually wrong [laughs]. So in those cases when things turn out differently, I’ll take that prediction and the process I went through coming up with it and sort of stockpile it as an idea. But I never actually jot that stuff down when it comes to me, and I eventually end up forgetting it [laughs]. So when inspiration does strike, I try to talk about it with whatever staff or friends are around. That way, the person I talk to can remember it for me. And then whoever hears those ideas will sort of expand on them with their own touches. That back-and-forth pretty often gives rise to more new ideas. [Image caption:] Nomura: When I was coming up with the summoning scenes for FFVII, I figured I’d use the first one I made—Leviathan—to sort of set the standard for the rest, and I decided to have just two other ones be more elaborate than that. Q4: You’ve said you like to watch TV in your free time. What shows are you into? (F, Saitama) I’ve got a list of programs I watch each week, including lots of variety shows. I’ll s
January 28, 2026 at 3:55 PM
hatok.bsky.social
xenoblade 3 is kinda that yugioh arc-v of the series if you think about it
February 10, 2026 at 2:49 AM
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grantthethief.bsky.social
They said part of the discord age rollout thing involves inferring age from activity or whatever. It’s gonna open up one of my messages saying:

“I used to walk to the comic book shop on the corner to buy anime tapes” and go

🤖AGE DETECTED🤖
🤖USER IS 85 YEARS OLD🤖
🤖RECOMMENDING NURSING HOMES🤖
February 9, 2026 at 4:17 PM
hatok.bsky.social
I was watching pat stream in tandem with a yugioh stream and it led to a bunch of good moments where a character would explain what their card does and then pat would say "the fuck is this bullshit?"
February 10, 2026 at 2:44 AM
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kegger98.bsky.social
I went to cough at work and a fly flew into my mouth, bugs have no will to live
February 10, 2026 at 2:41 AM
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sobunoaiyu.bsky.social
if you're thirsty they're thirsty
February 10, 2026 at 2:42 AM
hatok.bsky.social
a spider crawled into the straw of my water bottle, should I stop drinking liquids forever
February 10, 2026 at 2:39 AM
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kaius.bsky.social
"Guys it's ok we'll only be stealing the personal info of minors"
legendofnerd.bsky.social Brian M @legendofnerd.bsky.social · 10h
Discord is already starting to walk things back a little, so people should keep doing what they're doing (cancel Nitro, leave feedback/criticism, direct contact through support tickets/phone/email/etc)
Tl;dr: The vast majority of adults will never have to interact with our age assurance systems and their experience won't change, because we know Discord and how people use it, so we're designing to respect privacy and deliver a safer experience while minimizing friction for adults. Hey folks – I’ve been on Discord since very early 2016 and actually joined the company in 2017. Safety is one of my areas, so today’s announcement on our blog is something I’ve been pretty involved with. I’ve always cared about Discord's approach to privacy (E2EE for A/V was another of my projects here), so I figured I’d add some more context to today's news. I can say confidently that the vast majority of people will never see age verification. I say this because we launched age assurance in the UK and Australia in 2025, and we have some pretty good data on this now. The idea here is that we can pre-identify most adults based on what we already know (not including your messages!), and that looks to get us pretty far here. No face scans, no IDs, for the vast majority of adults. And if you are one of the smaller subset of folks that we can't definitively pre-identify, then still, you only have to do it if you're accessing age-restricted servers or channels, or changing certain settings. That's really not most users. (Altho... might be more Redditors, tbh.) Last, I know that there is concern about privacy and data leaks. That's a real concern. The selfie system is built purely client-side, it never leaves your device, and we did that intentionally. That'll work for a bunch of users who aren't pre-identified as adults. But if you do end up in the ID bucket, then yeah, you're right that has some risk. We're doing what we can to minimize this by working with our range of partners (who are different partners than the data leak you read about), and if it's any help, we learned a lot internally from the last issue. But I get if that doesn't necessarily inspire more confidence. Anyway, we’ll be sharing more next month as we get closer to the global roll out about the system, including the technology behind it in March. I honestly wouldn't be happy if we didn't build something good and I am excited about what we’re launching, but please let us know what you think when we share more details. And I really appreciate everybody's feedback here today. We’re definitely reading it!
February 10, 2026 at 2:05 AM
hatok.bsky.social
the algorithm can't even be trusted on that level because every xmas amazon decides that I'm a child because I bought presents for kids, ignoring 11 months of normal boring adult purchases
tannerofthenorth.bsky.social Neco-Tan - LowPoly #EnVTuber @tannerofthenorth.bsky.social · 9h
funny that Discord is like "we won't need to get your ID if we know you're an adult" cause I know many adults who are incredibly unemployed and discuss Theories About Children's Cartoons all day and then there's teens who have jobs and post degenerate NSFW shit so you don't know they're minors
February 10, 2026 at 2:38 AM
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wsdigi.bsky.social
#ガオモンの日
#GaomonDay
#DiaDeGaomon
#DiaDoGaomon
February 9, 2026 at 10:29 PM
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envinyon.bsky.social
I think everyone should have at least one OC
February 10, 2026 at 12:28 AM
hatok.bsky.social
it's kinda funny seeing people try to build up this mythology around Nagoshi with Like a Dragon, kinda comparable to how people talk about Sakaguchi with Final Fantasy, but people who are big into the games go "nah he would've loved this shit"
February 10, 2026 at 12:27 AM
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taniel.bsky.social
ok, I think we all need a dose of adorableness today like a NEWBORN GIRAFFE www.sltrib.com/news/2026/01...
two giraffes greet a newborn giraffe
February 10, 2026 at 12:00 AM
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zyphex-skybreaker.bsky.social
It could also be really bad for Discord if Canadians informed the Privacy Commissioner about this future violation of PIPEDA.
February 9, 2026 at 10:46 PM