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a man in a leather jacket is holding a gun in a room with blood on the wall .

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Ｌｉｇｈｔライト | Comms Open 📌 @lightklok.bsky.social · 1d

hello, I'm expecting some hefty medical bills this month and could use help with paying them off, so I'm offering a small discount on commissions until the end of October

they'll be closed for a while afterwards so please message me or make a VGen request if you're interested, thanks!

A drawing of my character Anais wearing a sheet ghost costume with her pigtails sticking out.

The text in the image says:

Hey, Anais! What's your Halloween costume this year?

I'm going as the looming spectre of capitalism within the healthcare system

oh shit

10% OFF FOR THE REST OF OCTOBER
paypal invoice or vgen.co/lightklok

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Scott Frerichs @kaiserneko.bsky.social · 1d

The consumption and regurgitation of people's work without credit or compensation. The sheer mental toll it takes on people.

All the positive use cases don't matter if regulation isn't present and enforced. Because the damage A.I. can and does cause will outweigh it significantly.

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👁️ Simon Novak 👁️ Ordinary Human Extraordinaire @simonnovak.bsky.social · 1d

ALT: a man in a leather jacket is holding a gun in a room with blood on the wall .

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👁️ Simon Novak 👁️ Ordinary Human Extraordinaire @simonnovak.bsky.social · 1d

Normal and completely legitimate human who likes to play, stream, and learn to make video games.

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Jennifer/Aster Unkle 🏳️‍⚧️ 🔪 @spookycutewitch.bsky.social · 2d

“Why isn’t anyone covering our indie games?”

1. The gaming press has been decimated by business suits, and the whims of an uncaring search engine behemoth
2. Doing the job means you get death threats and harassment
3. There are more games released in 1 week than there were in entire months in 2015

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👁️ Simon Novak 👁️ Ordinary Human Extraordinaire @simonnovak.bsky.social · 2d

I'm so bored I'm willing to play more Sonar Shock right now.

(Wait, you love this game.)

I mean... WOO I GET TO PLAY MORE SONAR SHOCK! Also probably some Dark Mod later if we finish early or performance is still bad.

We're doing that here:
www.twitch.tv/Simon_Novak

#Vtuber #ENVtuber #SimOnline

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👁️ Simon Novak 👁️ Ordinary Human Extraordinaire @simonnovak.bsky.social · 2d

I feel like we're going to need some way of separating the parts of the internet that have been taken over by AI and the parts that are still usable. Kinda like the Blackwall from the Cyberpunk universe. If the AI bubble doesn't pop, first.

Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell @kurzgesagt.org · 4d

AI-generated content is flooding the internet, and we're entering a new era of information overload. Watch our latest video to find out how AI slop affects the internet and why kurzgesagt videos will always remain human-made: https://kgs.link/AISlop

In the middle, there is an AI-generated picture of a duck. Below it, there is a human-illustrated Duck, looking at the other duck in shock, and saying "Wtf is this?"

👁️ Simon Novak 👁️ Ordinary Human Extraordinaire @simonnovak.bsky.social · 2d

THE FREAKIN' BAT HAD COME BACK IN MY DREAMS AAAAAA

👁️ Simon Novak 👁️ Ordinary Human Extraordinaire @simonnovak.bsky.social · 2d

So I had a short dream where I was hearing noise coming from my window. When I go to look and see wtf is going on, I notice that something has somehow climbed through my window and was behind my blinds. Before I can process what's going on, bats wings start flapping out of the edge of the blinds.

Cute little mushroom vs the world!

👁️ Simon Novak 👁️ Ordinary Human Extraordinaire @simonnovak.bsky.social · 3d

It seems turning the pathfinding down to the absolute lowest setting (lazy) greatly improves the FPS. After testing by doing some recording, it looks like the game's back on menu for tomorrow. 🖖

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👁️ Simon Novak 👁️ Ordinary Human Extraordinaire @simonnovak.bsky.social · 3d

God, I want to love this game so bad, but its performance is still absolutely awful. I'll have to research ways to improve it for tomorrow. Otherwise, it's onto spooky fan missions for Dark Mod!

Thank you, Mossy and @myridaptive.bsky.social!
Mossy's channel is here:
www.twitch.tv/princessmossy/

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👁️ Simon Novak 👁️ Ordinary Human Extraordinaire @simonnovak.bsky.social · 3d

We're playing Sonar Shock, fellow humans. If that don't work, the Dark Mod.

We're gonna play it here:
twitch.tv/Simon_Novak

#Vtuber #ENVtuber #SimOnline

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👁️ Simon Novak 👁️ Ordinary Human Extraordinaire @simonnovak.bsky.social · 4d

Also the bsky codec is 𝐦𝐮𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 this clip lmao

👁️ Simon Novak 👁️ Ordinary Human Extraordinaire @simonnovak.bsky.social · 4d

I have no idea what is going on, I think my brain went into dopamine overload.

(Game is @girlypop.net)

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👁️ Simon Novak 👁️ Ordinary Human Extraordinaire @simonnovak.bsky.social · 4d

I turn my head to look at the source of the noise just in time to see a bomb hit a couple hundred feet in the distance. The explosion was huge and the shockwave that it generated was massive but apparently I was in a video game 'cause the framerate started tanking from all the particle effects?

👁️ Simon Novak 👁️ Ordinary Human Extraordinaire @simonnovak.bsky.social · 4d

I had the most vivid dream I had in a while last night:
Apparently I was in prison for some reason, but somebody left the door open (lmao) and I managed to sneak out.

On my way home(🤷), I was minding my own business when I hear a loud whistling, like something was falling from the sky...

👁️ Simon Novak 👁️ Ordinary Human Extraordinaire @simonnovak.bsky.social · 4d

I also decided to do a little stress-testing of the linux version with the beta patch to see if it'll crash.

...just expect today to be a testing stream for this game lol

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👁️ Simon Novak 👁️ Ordinary Human Extraordinaire @simonnovak.bsky.social · 5d

Also I downloaded the beta patch for Sonar Shock and it might be not killing OBS anymore? I'm going to stream it tomorrow to see if performance is better. If not, we'll just do some horror FMs for the Dark Mod, instead.

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👁️ Simon Novak 👁️ Ordinary Human Extraordinaire @simonnovak.bsky.social · 5d

Hello, fellow humans.

Apologies for not streaming today: I was up all night playing the Dark Mod because holy crud it's so good, so I ended up not sleeping.

Also I'm probably not going to have schedules for the month because I'm kinda gonna play it by ear.

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👁️ Simon Novak 👁️ Ordinary Human Extraordinaire @simonnovak.bsky.social · 6d

So I decided to play some the Dark Mod today to see if any issues crop up while playing and...

ugh...

That new imsim feeling I missed it so much.

Gonna stream so much of this.

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👁️ Simon Novak 👁️ Ordinary Human Extraordinaire @simonnovak.bsky.social · 6d

After walking into my bedroom for a pre-stream nap and being hit with a literal wave of heat because we didn't guillotine a few oil execs when we should have, I have concluded that I'm going to stream tomorrow.

👁️ Simon Novak 👁️ Ordinary Human Extraordinaire @simonnovak.bsky.social · 6d

In spite of all my attempts to murder it.