Daniel "BigBear" Christian
@bigbeardac.bsky.social
Would like to make things up for a living. Digital artist, aspiring author, fighting game fan, friend to dogs. I will draw for you for money.
#art & comms: https://ko-fi.com/bigbeardac
Socials: https://bigbeardac.carrd.co/
#art & comms: https://ko-fi.com/bigbeardac
Socials: https://bigbeardac.carrd.co/
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Alright, lemme get the shilling out of the way:
I'm taking art commissions through my Ko-fi while I'm on the lookout for a new job.
You can find more details and a gallery of previous work here: ko-fi.com/bigbeardac
I'm taking art commissions through my Ko-fi while I'm on the lookout for a new job.
You can find more details and a gallery of previous work here: ko-fi.com/bigbeardac
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One of the best Saturday Night Live sketches is “Toonces: the Cat who could drive a car” where a cat puppet drives a car off a cliff and that’s the beginning and end of the joke but they went with it for five years and it worked because really that’s all you need to do
November 30, 2025 at 10:13 PM
One of the best Saturday Night Live sketches is “Toonces: the Cat who could drive a car” where a cat puppet drives a car off a cliff and that’s the beginning and end of the joke but they went with it for five years and it worked because really that’s all you need to do
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Licensed PS2 fighters hit different and I don't just mean DBZ Budokai
November 30, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Licensed PS2 fighters hit different and I don't just mean DBZ Budokai
Remembering that Cygames is owned by the same parent company as CyberFight and thinking DDT and/or TJPW could do something really funny with that if they got the chance.
November 30, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Remembering that Cygames is owned by the same parent company as CyberFight and thinking DDT and/or TJPW could do something really funny with that if they got the chance.
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As someone who works in the tech industry--absolutely.
They are testing the waters. These are top-down orders. The ONLY way to stop it is a visceral negative reaction. Write articles. Post your rage. Email. Post. @. All those things.
Only you have the power to kill it.
They are testing the waters. These are top-down orders. The ONLY way to stop it is a visceral negative reaction. Write articles. Post your rage. Email. Post. @. All those things.
Only you have the power to kill it.
Let me give some insight on this, as a producer in the dub industry who worked with major streamers, who's witnessed first-hand where this push for AI is coming from.
tl;dr: Only CEOs want this. Tell them how much you hate it. Be loud, email, call, @, post. You will kill this.
🧵⬇️
tl;dr: Only CEOs want this. Tell them how much you hate it. Be loud, email, call, @, post. You will kill this.
🧵⬇️
The only thing less human than these AI dub performances is the decision to sign off on them
A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.
A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.
November 30, 2025 at 5:07 AM
As someone who works in the tech industry--absolutely.
They are testing the waters. These are top-down orders. The ONLY way to stop it is a visceral negative reaction. Write articles. Post your rage. Email. Post. @. All those things.
Only you have the power to kill it.
They are testing the waters. These are top-down orders. The ONLY way to stop it is a visceral negative reaction. Write articles. Post your rage. Email. Post. @. All those things.
Only you have the power to kill it.
Gotta include the pic when you tell this story.
November 30, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Gotta include the pic when you tell this story.
November 29, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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I see AI slop in anything, I instantly disregard the whole thing. It's like finding a slug in your salad. If you can't write without an LLM, or you can't source art that isn't genAI, you can't be trusted to do anything. Sorry. Absolute deal-breaker.
I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
November 28, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I see AI slop in anything, I instantly disregard the whole thing. It's like finding a slug in your salad. If you can't write without an LLM, or you can't source art that isn't genAI, you can't be trusted to do anything. Sorry. Absolute deal-breaker.
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Guys who play video games but only military shooters are fake gamers only doing it for male attention.
November 28, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Guys who play video games but only military shooters are fake gamers only doing it for male attention.
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Never forget: Furries unabatedly posting hog caused notorious fleaman LARPer 'Jack Dorsey' to delete his account on this website - a project he had personally invested over $30,000,000 and six years of his wretched life in.
November 27, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Never forget: Furries unabatedly posting hog caused notorious fleaman LARPer 'Jack Dorsey' to delete his account on this website - a project he had personally invested over $30,000,000 and six years of his wretched life in.
“You’ll be visited by three spirits.”
The three spirits:
The three spirits:
November 28, 2025 at 7:16 AM
“You’ll be visited by three spirits.”
The three spirits:
The three spirits:
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Since the Arkadyzja dev isn’t on Bluesky, i might as well relay the news to yall: Looks like they are cooking up something big in the future :3
Keep in mind that Ren told me that this will be delayed based and not rollback atm but it’s still HELLA big news for PS2 Netplay overall!
Keep in mind that Ren told me that this will be delayed based and not rollback atm but it’s still HELLA big news for PS2 Netplay overall!
November 27, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Since the Arkadyzja dev isn’t on Bluesky, i might as well relay the news to yall: Looks like they are cooking up something big in the future :3
Keep in mind that Ren told me that this will be delayed based and not rollback atm but it’s still HELLA big news for PS2 Netplay overall!
Keep in mind that Ren told me that this will be delayed based and not rollback atm but it’s still HELLA big news for PS2 Netplay overall!
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Reminder that the Gkids release of Tokyo Godfathers has an English dub where Hana is played by a trans actress (who also helped with the dub script, too!) and she is FANTASTIC.
Reminder to add TOKYO GODFATHERS to your Christmas movie watchlist this season! Grateful to have given (English, dubbed) voice to the trans anime icon, our beloved Hana, in this Satoshi Kon holiday classic from @gkids.com! Watch it for free on Tubi or rent it on AppleTV!
November 28, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Reminder that the Gkids release of Tokyo Godfathers has an English dub where Hana is played by a trans actress (who also helped with the dub script, too!) and she is FANTASTIC.
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AI signs? Get the fuck outta here with that shit #AEWCollision
November 28, 2025 at 1:48 AM
AI signs? Get the fuck outta here with that shit #AEWCollision
Helloween's "The Game Is On" came on the playlist just now and a song about a guy who's so caught up in video games he doesn't notice his apartment on fire around him hits different in 2025.
November 28, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Helloween's "The Game Is On" came on the playlist just now and a song about a guy who's so caught up in video games he doesn't notice his apartment on fire around him hits different in 2025.
Eric Kelso spotted!
November 26, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Eric Kelso spotted!
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y'know, if tech companies weren't so fired up to call every single thing "AI" it would be a lot easier to distinguish "ML spam filter that is well-sandboxed and tuned on your emails" from "giant context and IP-eroding foundation model that makes people paranoid and unhappy"
since the "google is now training gemini on your email contents" thing keeps bumping around here: it's _not happening_. I say this not to defend google but because I know a lot of people that have broken their filtering and made their lives much more annoying from sheer misinformation.
The malwarebytes Google opting-your-emails-into-ai-training thing is not true. The post is based on one bad tweet.
I know anti-tech lamenting is a Bluesky core principle, but please use the same judgement you would for any other clickbait.
www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
I know anti-tech lamenting is a Bluesky core principle, but please use the same judgement you would for any other clickbait.
www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
November 23, 2025 at 12:58 PM
y'know, if tech companies weren't so fired up to call every single thing "AI" it would be a lot easier to distinguish "ML spam filter that is well-sandboxed and tuned on your emails" from "giant context and IP-eroding foundation model that makes people paranoid and unhappy"
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youtu.be/phiWRZ_VCCA fun video about an arcade genre that doesn't seem quite as well-remembered as, like, shmups. i had a little difficulty picking out the voice over from the background music but it's definitely worth it. you gotta share videos like these so they don't fly under the radar!
Arcade Single-screen Elimination Platformers: A Retrospective
YouTube video by dumplechan
youtu.be
November 24, 2025 at 10:06 PM
youtu.be/phiWRZ_VCCA fun video about an arcade genre that doesn't seem quite as well-remembered as, like, shmups. i had a little difficulty picking out the voice over from the background music but it's definitely worth it. you gotta share videos like these so they don't fly under the radar!
Several characters in Fighter's Destiny have hitboxes on their round win animations for god knows why. Which means you can get one last hit in after a time out win. youtube.com/shorts/PRhXJ...
November 24, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Several characters in Fighter's Destiny have hitboxes on their round win animations for god knows why. Which means you can get one last hit in after a time out win. youtube.com/shorts/PRhXJ...
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It's Monday. So I thought I'd checka my email.
flashy: homestarrunner.com/sbemails/210...
tubey: youtu.be/-zhsNdk1_Vc?si
flashy: homestarrunner.com/sbemails/210...
tubey: youtu.be/-zhsNdk1_Vc?si
November 24, 2025 at 2:19 PM
It's Monday. So I thought I'd checka my email.
flashy: homestarrunner.com/sbemails/210...
tubey: youtu.be/-zhsNdk1_Vc?si
flashy: homestarrunner.com/sbemails/210...
tubey: youtu.be/-zhsNdk1_Vc?si
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I will be honest, I did not realize the unreleased Viewpoint 2064 even had a final version. As a fan of the original game and its various incarnations though, I can't wait to sit down with this over the holiday weekend!
FOUND! Viewpoint 2064 - FINAL VERSION preserved (N64)
YouTube video by Hard4Games
www.youtube.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:29 PM
I will be honest, I did not realize the unreleased Viewpoint 2064 even had a final version. As a fan of the original game and its various incarnations though, I can't wait to sit down with this over the holiday weekend!
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I know it's been a little while but I wanted to put together everyone's pngs together for @dot-lvl.bsky.social and @murphagator.bsky.social's street fighter event back in september. I had a lot of fun doing this and watching everyone participating. You're all cool ;w;
November 24, 2025 at 4:17 AM
I know it's been a little while but I wanted to put together everyone's pngs together for @dot-lvl.bsky.social and @murphagator.bsky.social's street fighter event back in september. I had a lot of fun doing this and watching everyone participating. You're all cool ;w;
Going to bed and waking up mad at technology because one of my USB drives write protected itself. And in the process of copying stuff off that to another drive I found out that the PSD with a ton of my sketches from the first half of this year got corrupted.
Sucks, man.
Sucks, man.
November 23, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Going to bed and waking up mad at technology because one of my USB drives write protected itself. And in the process of copying stuff off that to another drive I found out that the PSD with a ton of my sketches from the first half of this year got corrupted.
Sucks, man.
Sucks, man.
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Celebrating TEN years of Arcade Pit in a row, on December 7th. We never missed a single week, a 10 year streak. Also tons of bonus shows and goofy one-off projects.
Sign-ups for a 10-game marathon of Arcade Pit are now open! We need 40 players! arcadep.it
See you at MAGFest too; panel confirmed!
Sign-ups for a 10-game marathon of Arcade Pit are now open! We need 40 players! arcadep.it
See you at MAGFest too; panel confirmed!
November 23, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Celebrating TEN years of Arcade Pit in a row, on December 7th. We never missed a single week, a 10 year streak. Also tons of bonus shows and goofy one-off projects.
Sign-ups for a 10-game marathon of Arcade Pit are now open! We need 40 players! arcadep.it
See you at MAGFest too; panel confirmed!
Sign-ups for a 10-game marathon of Arcade Pit are now open! We need 40 players! arcadep.it
See you at MAGFest too; panel confirmed!
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Funky Head Boxers on the Sega Saturn.
Lead your chosen boxer through a rigorous career to become the funkiest. Wear your opponent down with jabs, hooks, and uppercuts, all the while building meter for a devastating finisher. Solid fundamentals, absurd visuals. Totally not bad at all.
#retrogaming
Lead your chosen boxer through a rigorous career to become the funkiest. Wear your opponent down with jabs, hooks, and uppercuts, all the while building meter for a devastating finisher. Solid fundamentals, absurd visuals. Totally not bad at all.
#retrogaming
May 5, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Funky Head Boxers on the Sega Saturn.
Lead your chosen boxer through a rigorous career to become the funkiest. Wear your opponent down with jabs, hooks, and uppercuts, all the while building meter for a devastating finisher. Solid fundamentals, absurd visuals. Totally not bad at all.
#retrogaming
Lead your chosen boxer through a rigorous career to become the funkiest. Wear your opponent down with jabs, hooks, and uppercuts, all the while building meter for a devastating finisher. Solid fundamentals, absurd visuals. Totally not bad at all.
#retrogaming