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Driftini

@driftini.bsky.social

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Artist guy, music enthusiast, novice webdev, 2000-early 2010s UI design crackhead

I usually draw:
- #yume2kki #ゆめ２っき
- #zutomayo #ずっと真夜中でいいのに #ずとまよファンアート
- #yama
- #kasaneteto #重音テト

mostly active on fedi (@[email protected])

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Driftini

@driftini.bsky.social

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October 31, 2025 at 12:14 AM

Driftini

@driftini.bsky.social

bonus mandatory jjk brainrot

October 30, 2025 at 11:55 PM

Driftini

@driftini.bsky.social

go go gadget overdone postprocessing

#art #puellamagimadokamagica
#魔法少女まどかマギカ

October 30, 2025 at 11:55 PM

Driftini

@driftini.bsky.social

this was supposed to be a quick warmup sketch not even meant to be colored but I spent so long on it I figured I'd quickly fill it in

healthy break from jjk brainrot huh

#art #mastoart #puellamagimadokamagica #魔法少女まどかマギカ

September 28, 2025 at 11:34 PM

Driftini

@driftini.bsky.social

hello chat I started watching madoka magica

#puellamagimadokamagica

just downed 4 pmmm eps, and yeah the presentation is VERY good, I really like the unconventional artstyles used in witches' barriers (the animation felt.. eh? in the first one with the collage-y theme, but it's definitely getting better with every new barrier)

the plot felt relatively chill at first, but after a couple eps you can start feeling the darker stuff creeping in

I also really appreciate how the characters aren't dumbasses and don't immediately do stupid things to speed up plot development

obviously I couldn't help but notice some similarities with - you guessed it - jjk, particularly the parallels you can draw between witch barriers and innate domains, grief seeds and cursed wombs and whatnot

hell a whole episode gives strong cursed womb arc vibes

anyway yeah I think this will be a really good watch

September 25, 2025 at 9:09 PM

Driftini

@driftini.bsky.social

something something the char limit sucks

#angelbeats

sooo I finished watching angel beats (the main 13 episodes at least, I'll take care of the OVAs soon enough)

the opinions I read before watching led me to expect it was more action heavy, which was very much not the case
still, I don't mean to say I liked it any less cause of it - I think it did a good job with its own set of characters and setting

speaking of characters.. maybe there are too many? a good amount of them only really serve for running gags and I feel like the main cast could easily be boiled down to some 3-4chars less
those characters' total lack of backstory (in the original episodes at least) makes them feel even more like little more than filler
though on that note, I'd rather take a handful of well-written backstories over 7 out of 10 really uninspired ones

one thing I couldn't really figure out was the intended tone the show wanted to set... on one hand, it kinda overuses humor that isn't that excellent to begin with, then again we're talking about something from 2010 so maybe it's just tropes that didn't age well; on the other, you got some really heavy topics going on in the character backstories
I think the show could've taken a more serious approach (considering the overarching theme of acceptance, it would've been fitting) but then again, I'm coming hot off jjk which was very much a show that took itself fairly seriously, so I'll just blame my incorrect expectations for angel beats

(1/3)

going back to the opinions I had read before watching, idk what the people praising the action scenes to hell(heaven?) and back were on? there were maybe.. two action scenes that I really thought were very good?
I don't mean to say the other ones are bad or anything, but they are pretty much standard fare without praise nor blame

another common sentiment I've seen is that the show is too short: in a similar vein to what I said about backstories, I'd take a 13-episode set a thousand times over a longer show that runs out of gas and novel ideas by its midpoint
I think the original episodes were just the right amount to show the meat of the plot without leaving room for complete filler (and while also leaving a very noticeable aura of mystery around kanade in particular)
the fairly limited runtime also definitely helped keep things fresh nearly every episode, which I really appreciated

the music was another thing I've seen being given a lot of praise, I personally didn't find it all that incredible or novel, but it felt fitting + the opening definitely grew on me (as you'd expect)

overall, while not as incredible as people seem to have claimed, this has been a good watch! I feel like the short runtime makes the show quite recommendable - I finished the main episodes over the course of a week with a fairly relaxed pace, so even if it ends up not being your cup of tea it's not like you'll be left disappointed after investing a whole month or smth on it

(2/3)

September 20, 2025 at 8:42 PM

Driftini

@driftini.bsky.social

oh hey new character in my media tab

#art #touhou #東方project

September 19, 2025 at 12:35 AM

Driftini

@driftini.bsky.social

miss me with fiddly threads caused by bs max character counts (has alt text)

the concept of profiles has become pretty common in mod managers and similar stuff (gmod presets...), but I think a much-needed evolution to that would be toggleable mod groups

in games like l4d2, gmod and payday 2 you often rack up a bunch of mods to fix game issues the devs couldn't be bothered with, and having to remember them all individually gets hard really fast; this obviously gets even worse when you start delving into content mods of different kinds

but if you had mod groups? you could just put all content mods of a certain kind under the same umbrella to be able to toggle them on/off in no time flat and without fearing to have forgotten one or two mods

September 8, 2025 at 10:17 AM

Driftini

@driftini.bsky.social

not gonna bother with splitting this into a 10k post-thread

I actually love the sm64 personalization trope

I believe an experimental personalization ai is a much better excuse for unusual game behavior than "ooo game is haunted by a ghost"

a technical excuse like that also works better (on me at least) to create suspension of disbelief in the reader: while with a supposed haunting you almost instinctively go "yeah that's fake", with a for-the-time impossible but nowadays real technology you're just that tiny bit away from instinctively dismissing what you're reading and breaking your immersion

the concept of n64 roms found online just happening to not have the personalization ai built into them, while theoretically being VERY hard for it to happen, is just that tiiiny bit within the realm of possibility, again just barely not enough to instantly break your immersion

the takes on the personalization trope that involve the ai having a personality (stanley from sm64 classified) begin to cross that line where things start getting too cheeky, but if you don't think too much about it it's still an ignorable nitpick (the "ghost-haunted game" excuse would've actually been better for this specifically)

but as far as small, subjectively creepy changes to the game (white-eyed chain chomps, etc) go? or maybe additional castle floors with nonsensical layouts? that's pretty much remixing pre-existing content in the game, so I'd say it could be believable if you assume the personalization ai really exists

September 6, 2025 at 8:07 PM

Driftini

@driftini.bsky.social

remilia sketch

initially this was just to figure out her design but I felt like playing around with colors

considering the pose is refless and this is my first drawing of her, this is uhhh not bad (I am not allowed to praise myself for once)

#art #touhou #東方project

August 18, 2025 at 11:12 PM

Driftini

@driftini.bsky.social

I finished reading touhou wild and horned hermit today, I figured I'd repost my closing thoughts here where there's a 1% chance of there being someone else who has read/is reading the manga

picture with alt text because icba to make a gazillion-post long thread just for this

#touhou

at last, we're finished

the last story arc was honestly surprisingly good for being a much more mystery focused thing (won't get any more specific for the sake of who hasn't read it yet) (probably the entire audience of this post), compared to the slice of life that is the rest of the manga (how did I read a slice of life for a month?????), I wish there were more chapters like that lol

and that's the vague expectation I'm gonna start reading forbidden scrollery with, apparently the premise is more about investigation so it might be more interesting across the board

still I don't wanna paint WaHH in a remotely uninteresting light, I found it pretty entertaining, especially thanks to a poster character as mysterious and interesting as kasen

compare to that miyoi from lotus eaters, and.. yeah I think kasen wins by a long shot

I dropped lotus eaters after like 7 or 8 chapters cause it just felt like barely anything was happening, and miyoi just isn't as captivating of a character as kasen and just generally fails at being a good reason to keep reading, imo

getting back to WaHH, another thing I REALLY loved was the full color pages at the beginning of every chapter, they never failed to look gorgeous with really pleasing color choices

anyway yeah, if you're into touhou I can recommend WaHH, it's a good read (even if you're not into slice of life apparently, going off of my experience)

August 2, 2025 at 10:11 PM

Driftini

@driftini.bsky.social

this was supposed to be a quick warmup shitpost thing but uhhh I skipped 8h of sleep cause of it

#art #kasaneteto #重音テト #defoko #jujutsukaisen #呪術廻戦

July 26, 2025 at 6:21 AM

Driftini

@driftini.bsky.social

you ever so demotivated you draw the king of curses to seek encouragement from his words

#art #jujutsukaisen #呪術廻戦

July 13, 2025 at 11:23 PM

Driftini

@driftini.bsky.social

drawing again apparently

I'm rusty but that's the least that could happen in 6 months of drawing like. twice

#art #kasaneteto #重音テト

June 20, 2025 at 11:53 AM

Driftini

@driftini.bsky.social

I was gonna hold off on posting this but now is simply too good of a chance to not do that

#art #kasaneteto #重音テト #jujutsukaisen #呪術廻戦

June 11, 2025 at 11:53 AM

Driftini

@driftini.bsky.social

Quote this with your 4 most anticipated upcoming games

two cold takes, one seemingly generic, one obscure

tbh I picked radio the universe from my older wishlisted games on steam cause there's not really much I'm super hyped for rn lol