Zael-chan
@aenyazael.bsky.social
atashi wa totemo kawaii desu ne?
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Zael-chan
@aenyazael.bsky.social
· Oct 27
Hi! I’m Zael, AKA Aenya, AKA, ShadowZael. They/Them, UK, I have a dog and 2 cats!
Here are a few of my favourite things:
Anime: Madoka Magica, Evangelion, Monogatari Series, Serial Experiments Lain
Films: Love Exposure, Fight Club, Mr. Nobody
Games: Monster Hunter, Souls, Zelda, Smash, RuneScape
Here are a few of my favourite things:
Anime: Madoka Magica, Evangelion, Monogatari Series, Serial Experiments Lain
Films: Love Exposure, Fight Club, Mr. Nobody
Games: Monster Hunter, Souls, Zelda, Smash, RuneScape
Yesterday, first time having Fondue.
Today, first time skiing.
I’m in the Alps!
Today, first time skiing.
I’m in the Alps!
December 3, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Yesterday, first time having Fondue.
Today, first time skiing.
I’m in the Alps!
Today, first time skiing.
I’m in the Alps!
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Oh my god
November 30, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Oh my god
So season 5 of Stranger Things begins with an extended AI generated sequence that looks like absolute garbage, it looks like they might’ve AI animated everything, even the monsters, even though the only part that “needed” AI was to show a character who was young in season 1 again…?
November 29, 2025 at 6:32 PM
So season 5 of Stranger Things begins with an extended AI generated sequence that looks like absolute garbage, it looks like they might’ve AI animated everything, even the monsters, even though the only part that “needed” AI was to show a character who was young in season 1 again…?
I already voted for Silksong in GOTY and a few other categories, so in this one I'm giving it to Absolum, which isn't a sequel, didn't have a mass amount of marketing, but is definitely a worthy nominee, it's made with so much love and care.
November 28, 2025 at 1:55 PM
I already voted for Silksong in GOTY and a few other categories, so in this one I'm giving it to Absolum, which isn't a sequel, didn't have a mass amount of marketing, but is definitely a worthy nominee, it's made with so much love and care.
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After publishing this article, I've heard from many that CR seems to be using AI to produce dub CCs. Now, thanks to a slip-up CR had with episode 6 dub of The Banished Court Magician, we can say that with 100% certainty: Crunchyroll is using the AI service Ollang.com for its dub closed captions!
November 26, 2025 at 8:27 AM
After publishing this article, I've heard from many that CR seems to be using AI to produce dub CCs. Now, thanks to a slip-up CR had with episode 6 dub of The Banished Court Magician, we can say that with 100% certainty: Crunchyroll is using the AI service Ollang.com for its dub closed captions!
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Imagine if instead of the north Pacific there was an entire busy continent linking Asia to North America. Imagine if it was mandatory that *some* pair of countries on Earth would have to be a handful of miles apart, or even share a land border, but observe different calendar days
November 26, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Imagine if instead of the north Pacific there was an entire busy continent linking Asia to North America. Imagine if it was mandatory that *some* pair of countries on Earth would have to be a handful of miles apart, or even share a land border, but observe different calendar days
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Isn't it an insane coincidence that (1) there is a very wide, almost totally uninhabited segment of longitude which we can drive an International Date Line through with minimal inconvenience and (2) it's on the exact opposite side of the world from our prime meridian, midnight to Greenwich's midday
November 26, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Isn't it an insane coincidence that (1) there is a very wide, almost totally uninhabited segment of longitude which we can drive an International Date Line through with minimal inconvenience and (2) it's on the exact opposite side of the world from our prime meridian, midnight to Greenwich's midday
Watched the first two episodes of The Chair Company
Wow. Incredible. They made a show that probably has the most DPS in terms of consistent psychic damage
Wow. Incredible. They made a show that probably has the most DPS in terms of consistent psychic damage
November 26, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Watched the first two episodes of The Chair Company
Wow. Incredible. They made a show that probably has the most DPS in terms of consistent psychic damage
Wow. Incredible. They made a show that probably has the most DPS in terms of consistent psychic damage
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Fascinating read on how a suspicious pitch highlighted a growing problem in freelance journalism: A flood of generative AI that even prestige publications don't catch, complete with fabricated quotes, from scammers who see opportunity in a field so many real humans are struggling to survive in.
Investigating a Possible Scammer in Journalism’s AI Era | The Local
A suspicious pitch from a freelancer led editor Nicholas Hune-Brown to dig into their past work. By the end, four publications, including The Guardian and Dwell, had removed articles from their sites.
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November 23, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Fascinating read on how a suspicious pitch highlighted a growing problem in freelance journalism: A flood of generative AI that even prestige publications don't catch, complete with fabricated quotes, from scammers who see opportunity in a field so many real humans are struggling to survive in.
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If you fail a mission in Timesplitters 2, the game over music eventually segues into slowed down voice clips that sound demonic. If you sit through THAT, a different ambient track starts playing and getting louder before a somewhat scared woman asks “is… is that too loud?” and the game goes silent
November 24, 2025 at 6:40 AM
If you fail a mission in Timesplitters 2, the game over music eventually segues into slowed down voice clips that sound demonic. If you sit through THAT, a different ambient track starts playing and getting louder before a somewhat scared woman asks “is… is that too loud?” and the game goes silent
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There is no way you can guess how the thread that ends in this instant classic begins.
The damned in hell are not more powerful for the fact that the fires do not consume them; it is part and parcel of their torment.
November 23, 2025 at 6:54 PM
There is no way you can guess how the thread that ends in this instant classic begins.
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Important update: I have received word from insiders that Crunchyroll executives have deemed the user backlash to be small enough that their subtitle enshittification & OOONA plans will NOT be cancelled, only delayed.
I have added an update to the article. There's a summary at the top now too.
I have added an update to the article. There's a summary at the top now too.
New article on ★ daiz.moe ★
Crunchyroll is destroying its subtitles for no good reason
daiz.moe/crunchyroll-...
A ton of research and effort went into this one. This is the article to read to get to the bottom of Crunchyroll's subtitle changes!
Replies here will show up as comments (eventually)
Crunchyroll is destroying its subtitles for no good reason
daiz.moe/crunchyroll-...
A ton of research and effort went into this one. This is the article to read to get to the bottom of Crunchyroll's subtitle changes!
Replies here will show up as comments (eventually)
Crunchyroll is destroying its subtitles for no good reason | Daiz.moe
With the Fall 2025 anime season, Crunchyroll demonstrates zero respect for anime as a medium as the presentation quality of its subtitles reach an all-time low.
daiz.moe
November 21, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Important update: I have received word from insiders that Crunchyroll executives have deemed the user backlash to be small enough that their subtitle enshittification & OOONA plans will NOT be cancelled, only delayed.
I have added an update to the article. There's a summary at the top now too.
I have added an update to the article. There's a summary at the top now too.
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just saw the worst gaming ad ive ever seen
November 15, 2025 at 4:32 AM
just saw the worst gaming ad ive ever seen
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Conflating machine learning tools with GenAI and LLMs are such a favorite of these bad faith arguments, too. Like, machines studying X-rays to better understand cancer is not the same thing as Open AI swallowing all my books via piracy to regurgitate sentences that sound similar. It's just not.
November 15, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Conflating machine learning tools with GenAI and LLMs are such a favorite of these bad faith arguments, too. Like, machines studying X-rays to better understand cancer is not the same thing as Open AI swallowing all my books via piracy to regurgitate sentences that sound similar. It's just not.
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Imagining the alternate universe in which Angels Egg got a UK VHS release in the 90s, somehow resulting in one of those extremely British licensed microcomputer games in which you have to collect 800 bottles for some reason only tangentially related to the actual movie.
November 16, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Imagining the alternate universe in which Angels Egg got a UK VHS release in the 90s, somehow resulting in one of those extremely British licensed microcomputer games in which you have to collect 800 bottles for some reason only tangentially related to the actual movie.
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were so fucking back guys
November 14, 2025 at 7:36 PM
were so fucking back guys
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tanked Savage Omega with Charge Blade which is really difficult but really fun and oh my gosh the damage
November 12, 2025 at 8:23 PM
tanked Savage Omega with Charge Blade which is really difficult but really fun and oh my gosh the damage