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heaven left me unfinished and hell left me unpunished

http://zaratustra.itch.io
reptilian behaviour
Additionally, OpenAI argues its not liable because Raine, by using ChatGPT for self-harm, broke its terms of service
November 26, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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Chainsaw Man is simultaneously worthy of serious discussion for its heartfelt look at society and cycles of abuse and dehumanization, and it's also like, a fantastic nonstop barrage of shitposts
November 25, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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Here are the upcoming scheduled Bolted! game streams, with a true murderer's row of badasses. (Live calendar links are on the Kickstarter page - www.kickstarter.com/projects/mal...)
November 25, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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Santa Ragione are a well-known studio, covered by a great many mainstream outlets. Their latest game will not be releasing on Steam for... reasons? Steam won't tell them why, won't tell them what needs fixing, and won't communicate in general.

Every other store will carry it. Just not Steam.
Our upcoming game HORSES was preemptively banned from Steam, with no path to appeal. The game will still launch next week on December 2nd and will be available on EGS, GOG, Humble, and Itch for $4.99. Here is a detailed FAQ covering what happened: horses.wtf/BannedFromSt...
November 25, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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This remains the funniest way to hear about an internet outage, though.
October 20, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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I've barely posted on this kind of social media anywhere but I have a reason to now. I made a game!!

It's called nuworm and you can play it for free in the browser.
I worked on it over three years, it might take you three hours to experience. cubestudio.itch.io/nuworm
November 25, 2025 at 1:33 AM
"Marquez-Sharpnack said she was suspicious of the photos, in which the cookies were a little too perfectly pink. But her husband trusted the post because “it was on Facebook.”"

brave new world, that has such people in it
NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.

Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet -- And Thanksgiving Dinner
Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures
www.bloomberg.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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In the anticipation of my upcoming puzzle board game Herd (it truly is only about a week away from being finally officially released - more news soon!), Vojta Karen, the designer of the game’s figurines, wrote a really cool blog post about the process: vojta.karen.plus/2025-11-25-d...
Designing figures for Herd | Vojta Karen+
So thrilled to have been a part of this!
vojta.karen.plus
November 25, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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NULLPTR is out now! Plan server heists and avoid getting caught by megacorp sentinels!
NullPtr · Thinky Games
Plan server heists and avoid getting caught by megacorp sentinels.
thinkygames.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:08 PM
first two seconds: huh. how did they do this effect in MUGEN?

after that: aha. not very well is how they did it
November 25, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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one of the best scores in golf is "crow in the donut hole". one of the worst scores in golf is "cormorant in the tax office"
November 25, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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the steam-driven missile was powerful, but required careful aiming and a lot of engineering effort to build the rails each time
April 19, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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Get in here animators specifically on fighting games
when trying on pants, do this in the store. then tell the sales associate "the menswear guy told me to do this."

IG mr.funkys0ul
November 25, 2025 at 3:18 PM
𝅘𝅥𝅮 LOUP GAROU DON'T YOU KNOW I'M A BEAST OF A BOG 𝅘𝅥𝅮
it sucks when you’re a beast of a bog and you just want to wander without wreaking havoc :-/
November 25, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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maybe i am going insane
November 24, 2025 at 6:49 PM
November 25, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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one of the risks entailed by going deep underwater is that dolphins may try to touch you with their horrid rubbery beaks
November 25, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Following yesterday's discussion with @nifflas.bsky.social I decided to fix my dialogue widget to prevent words from jumping to next line as they get typed in. Right now I'm only using this widget for info terminals around the city, but it will be used for NPC dialogue as well in the future.
November 25, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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None of us eat canned cranberry sauce but we figured it needed to be on the table for symbolic reasons (like the bone on a seder plate). So every year since 1995 we are presented with the SAME unopened ceremonial can at the table. It still hasn’t exploded.
November 25, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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I saw some chat about Arc Raiders' use of AI voice actors recently - I'm probably not going to rerecord the talk I gave at EXAG but I thought I'd drop in a few slides about the idea that you can make generative AI ethical by getting people to sign a piece of paper to say you can use their data.
November 25, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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It is a disgrace that the BBC now routinely use the openly bigoted language of the evangelical Christian right under the dishonest pretense that their elderly audience are 'confused' by 'unfamiliar' terms. Spite as editorial policy. No better than Fox News at this point.
November 25, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAxW...

New commercial from Fangamer! I wrote the spoken text, but I didn't end up seeing most of the visuals until the commercial was basically finished. Steve and Everdraed did an amazing job with them. (Also, it goes without saying, but commercials are non-canon.)
And now a word from Mr. "Ant" Tenna…
YouTube video by Fangamer
www.youtube.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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bicho eu to PASSANDO MAL
November 24, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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Only for processual prison, e. G., only when prison is needed during the process to preserve law enforcement. Once you’re convicted you have no right for that. But if you have a college degree you no longer have that right either way. The Supreme Court has ruled that out.
November 25, 2025 at 11:18 AM