marzipan! @ manuscript stress
@marzipansweets.bsky.social
32. perpetually exhausted chembio phd candidate
i love dragon age, pikmin, umineko
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i love dragon age, pikmin, umineko
header art: https://www.eriart.net/
icon: rinnyleep
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My sister gave me an unethical Christmas gift: a pet
December 25, 2025 at 4:53 PM
My sister gave me an unethical Christmas gift: a pet
Thinking about how back in August my partner and I overheard a dude in the Detroit airport literally saying "I can take one million dollars and make ten million" loudly on a phone call repeatedly
December 24, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Thinking about how back in August my partner and I overheard a dude in the Detroit airport literally saying "I can take one million dollars and make ten million" loudly on a phone call repeatedly
Hung out with my friend who I haven't seen in literally 3 years (he helped me move across the country though!) and honestly glad we're still friends like damn I have a good time chatting with him
December 23, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Hung out with my friend who I haven't seen in literally 3 years (he helped me move across the country though!) and honestly glad we're still friends like damn I have a good time chatting with him
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Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.
December 23, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.
There's too many damn teslas here I hate the bay area
December 23, 2025 at 8:25 PM
There's too many damn teslas here I hate the bay area
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Quantic Foundry does legit trustworthy analysis of gamer behaviour, and these survey results are shockingly negative toward genAI, to the point where I’m more hopeful that data driven mobile and AAA backpedals on their uses.
everyone dislikes genai in games, but kids and story-focused players the most.
sounds like we'll be ok. just have to stay the course here and the "inevitable" new technology nobody likes will die. again.
quanticfoundry.com/2025/12/18/g...
sounds like we'll be ok. just have to stay the course here and the "inevitable" new technology nobody likes will die. again.
quanticfoundry.com/2025/12/18/g...
Gamers Are Overwhelmingly Negative About Gen AI in Video Games, but Attitudes Vary by Gender, Age, and Gaming Motivations.
Learn about how gender, age, and gaming motivations shape the perception of Gen AI in video games.
quanticfoundry.com
December 20, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Quantic Foundry does legit trustworthy analysis of gamer behaviour, and these survey results are shockingly negative toward genAI, to the point where I’m more hopeful that data driven mobile and AAA backpedals on their uses.
First meal back
December 22, 2025 at 5:56 AM
First meal back
I get to see Appa today!!!! (Going home for the holidays)
December 21, 2025 at 5:57 PM
I get to see Appa today!!!! (Going home for the holidays)
Why are people so weird about being friends with people older than you like a lot of my very good group of friends back in California are like 6-10+ years older than me (I met them when I was 21) and they're the most together group I know lol
December 17, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Why are people so weird about being friends with people older than you like a lot of my very good group of friends back in California are like 6-10+ years older than me (I met them when I was 21) and they're the most together group I know lol
ugh i want to get back into art but i just keep frustrating when i try
December 17, 2025 at 1:14 AM
ugh i want to get back into art but i just keep frustrating when i try
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Look man I don’t think the people being poisoned by data centers really care if you remove the generated assets before shipping, and I don’t really care if you “only” use the machine that stole my shit and convinced teens to off themselves for internal PowerPoints.
Cool motive. Still bullshit tho.
Cool motive. Still bullshit tho.
December 16, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Look man I don’t think the people being poisoned by data centers really care if you remove the generated assets before shipping, and I don’t really care if you “only” use the machine that stole my shit and convinced teens to off themselves for internal PowerPoints.
Cool motive. Still bullshit tho.
Cool motive. Still bullshit tho.
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Lost in Moonlight
(commission. do not use)
(commission. do not use)
December 16, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Lost in Moonlight
(commission. do not use)
(commission. do not use)
thinking of my top 5 games of the year (no particular order): the seance of blake manor, silent hill f, death stranding 2, silksong, the hundred line: last defense academy
December 13, 2025 at 12:34 PM
thinking of my top 5 games of the year (no particular order): the seance of blake manor, silent hill f, death stranding 2, silksong, the hundred line: last defense academy
I told my partner that my friend who is the same height as him (6ft) is always calling me short when we hang out and my partner was like "that's because you're short" but like. I'm like 5'4. That's average!!!! But my partner was like. Well everyone who is shorter than me is short.
December 11, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I told my partner that my friend who is the same height as him (6ft) is always calling me short when we hang out and my partner was like "that's because you're short" but like. I'm like 5'4. That's average!!!! But my partner was like. Well everyone who is shorter than me is short.
My lab mate told me my outfit was giving wood elf today and I am so happy about that
December 10, 2025 at 10:32 PM
My lab mate told me my outfit was giving wood elf today and I am so happy about that
This is the snowiest December that I have ever experienced living in Michigan for the past 4.5 years and it rules but today I have learned that when it rains after a big snow it REALLY SUCKS SO BAD STOP RAINING
December 10, 2025 at 12:42 PM
This is the snowiest December that I have ever experienced living in Michigan for the past 4.5 years and it rules but today I have learned that when it rains after a big snow it REALLY SUCKS SO BAD STOP RAINING
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Help us, we're poor, we're so poor, we can't possibly greenlight new projects or keep from laying off employees by the thousands :( :( oh wait nm, we just found $100 billion to try to buy Warner Bros :)
December 8, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Help us, we're poor, we're so poor, we can't possibly greenlight new projects or keep from laying off employees by the thousands :( :( oh wait nm, we just found $100 billion to try to buy Warner Bros :)
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I played Horses this weekend and I wrote down some messy thoughts not only on the game but especially on the specter of formalism that emerged to haunt us all for a moment.
transgamerthoughts.com/post/8023277...
transgamerthoughts.com/post/8023277...
I Hope You Get To Live Your Entire Life As A Human
I thought this was going to be a review of my time with Santa Ragione's Horses, the controversial art game recently banned from Steam and the Epic Store. To some extent, this will be that but after...
transgamerthoughts.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:06 AM
I played Horses this weekend and I wrote down some messy thoughts not only on the game but especially on the specter of formalism that emerged to haunt us all for a moment.
transgamerthoughts.com/post/8023277...
transgamerthoughts.com/post/8023277...
lrp they're working on building a data center down the road I regularly take to get to my partner's place and every time I see the construction it infuriates me
December 8, 2025 at 5:16 PM
lrp they're working on building a data center down the road I regularly take to get to my partner's place and every time I see the construction it infuriates me
I've kind of known I've had OCD for a few years but thought it was specific to food scenarios but now that my therapist has decided to focus on OCD I am realizing it was NOT just food scenarios
December 8, 2025 at 2:02 AM
I've kind of known I've had OCD for a few years but thought it was specific to food scenarios but now that my therapist has decided to focus on OCD I am realizing it was NOT just food scenarios
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I'll say again: we are oddly selective about the government services about which we will say, they operate at a loss.
We say Amtrak and the post office "lose money" but we never say highways, the court system, the Pentagon, etc lose money
We say Amtrak and the post office "lose money" but we never say highways, the court system, the Pentagon, etc lose money
The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
December 7, 2025 at 7:24 AM
I'll say again: we are oddly selective about the government services about which we will say, they operate at a loss.
We say Amtrak and the post office "lose money" but we never say highways, the court system, the Pentagon, etc lose money
We say Amtrak and the post office "lose money" but we never say highways, the court system, the Pentagon, etc lose money
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RFK Jr.'s claim that COVID vaccines are deadly? Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. In this new extraordinarily large study, vaccinated individuals had a 74% lower risk of death from severe COVID-19 and a 25% lower risk of all-cause mortality compared to those unvaccinated. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
COVID-19 mRNA Vaccination and 4-Year All-Cause Mortality Among Adults in France
This cohort study uses the data from all adults aged 18 to 59 years living in France on November 1, 2021, to evaluate whether there is an association of receipt of an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine with long-t...
jamanetwork.com
December 7, 2025 at 8:08 PM
RFK Jr.'s claim that COVID vaccines are deadly? Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. In this new extraordinarily large study, vaccinated individuals had a 74% lower risk of death from severe COVID-19 and a 25% lower risk of all-cause mortality compared to those unvaccinated. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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it does feel like an intense societal problem that the founder of palantir, the biggest survellience company, thinks like this
December 7, 2025 at 5:27 PM
it does feel like an intense societal problem that the founder of palantir, the biggest survellience company, thinks like this
Engaging in normal behavior (took a walk in the snow)
December 7, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Engaging in normal behavior (took a walk in the snow)