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R-L-Z

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He/Him/It, '87, French, a bit Polish.
Amateur artist, videogame enjoyer, wannabe videogame maker, paper book reader, broke, Destructo-castaway, friend of Eggbug and all animals, Lego nerd, deflated bunny balloon and all-purpose idiot. Also f**k AI slop.

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R-L-Z @r-l-z.bsky.social · 28d

Reminder that I got a banging track from @alphadeus.bsky.social custom made for me !

youtu.be/qplT-6Z1msk?...

He's incredibly talented, check out his many original compos on bandcamp and think of him if you need atmospheric tracks for a game or movie project !

alphadeus.bandcamp.com

#music

Alphadeus - Major Vortex 87 (R-L-Z)

YouTube video by Alphadeus

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R-L-Z

@r-l-z.bsky.social

A Baroque rerelease ...
😮
#blutoid

Gematsu @gematsu.com · 7h

This Week’s Japanese Game Releases: BAROQUE-YA, Yuukyuu Gensoukyoku Revival, more

BAROQUE-YA and Yuukyuu Gensoukyoku Revival for Switch are the highlights of this week's Japanese video game releases.

This Week’s Japanese Game Releases: BAROQUE-YA, Yuukyuu Gensoukyoku Revival, more

BAROQUE-YA and Yuukyuu Gensoukyoku Revival for Switch are the highlights of this week's Japanese video game releases.

www.gematsu.com

December 15, 2025 at 10:17 AM

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maria

@felicitriste.bsky.social

December 13, 2025 at 2:55 AM

R-L-Z

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Oh, is it ?
Then Happy Birthday @tronknotts.bsky.social !
#blutoid

Skutter.exe in: Endless October @skutterdd.bsky.social · 16h

Me and the boys going out tonight for @tronknotts.bsky.social 's birthday.

December 14, 2025 at 7:30 PM

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Alternatives Economiques

@alternatives-economiques.fr

Les ventes de cocaïne ont dépassé celles de cannabis en France.
➡️ Décryptage dans notre graphorama : https://www.altereco.media/1u3

December 13, 2025 at 3:59 PM

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Leftist Gamer Memes

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🪖🏫🙅‍♀️

December 13, 2025 at 3:54 PM

R-L-Z

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Too real.
#blutoid

December 13, 2025 at 2:24 PM

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#blutoid

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

‘He’s living his best life’: drunk raccoon hit DMV for snacks before liquor store

Officials say raccoon that broke into Virginia liquor store on 29 November had previously hit DMV and karate studio The raccoon that barged into a Virginia liquor store, smashed bottles of booze and passed out drunk in a bathroom this past Black Friday has at least two other break-ins under his belt, a local government official has revealed. Before burgling the Ashland ABC store on 29 November, the raccoon had separately broken into a karate studio and a department of motor vehicles office, all on the same block of businesses, Hanover county animal protection officer Samantha Martin said on an episode of the local government’s official podcast published Thursday. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

December 13, 2025 at 11:21 AM

R-L-Z

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I feel too lazy to fix myself breakfast, send help !
#blutoid #breakfast

December 13, 2025 at 11:05 AM

R-L-Z

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Sylux : Goddangit, stop cramping my style, Samus !
#MetroidPrime4Beyond

December 12, 2025 at 3:01 PM

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Jucika

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We have less than 8 days to finish our fundraiser to help pay for an emergency Kidney procedure and we have $7.7k left to raise.

If you have anything to spare during this time it would help a lot and prevent us from going into medcial debt, shares and generosity help us a lot!

gofund.me/16ef32cb1

Donate to Support Genc (aka @JucikaDaily, @GENCZILLA), organized by Genczilla V

Fundraiser Update 11/22/2025 Thank you all for the support so far, we're s… Genczilla V needs your support for Support Genc (aka @JucikaDaily, @GENCZILLA)

gofund.me

December 12, 2025 at 1:41 PM

R-L-Z

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Yaaay, got a pin !

(From MNS, redeemable for plat points in Europe. It's bigger than I thought it would be)

#blutoid #MetroidPrime4Beyond

December 12, 2025 at 12:57 PM

R-L-Z

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So after reading through #blutoid I gather TGA was mostly a show about more or less expected sequels ?

December 12, 2025 at 9:27 AM

R-L-Z

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#Penny'sBigBreakaway is a delightful game.
The moveset is hard to master but it's still a pleasure going through the levels even if you fumble, it feels like a storybook, just eye candy.
#blutoid

December 9, 2025 at 11:20 PM

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Tom McH

@tommchenry.bsky.social

Posting GARY PANTER'S SKETCHBOOK TIPS to save a life -- the site that used to host these took em down years ago, and they are as useful a list about this kind of thing as you will ever find.

They are like a favorite dogeared paperback to me.

INTRODUCTION

Get a book-size (or paperback-size)d sketchbook. Write your name and date on an early page and maybe think of a name for it — and if you want, write the book’s name there at the front. Make it into your little painful pal. The pain goes away slowly page by page. Fill it up and do another one. It can be hard to get started. Don’t flunk yourself before you get the ball rolling.

You might want to draw more realistically or in perspective or so it looks slick — that’s is possible and there are tricks and procedures for drawing with more realism if you desire it. But drawing very realistically with great finesse can sometimes produce dead uninteresting drawings — relative, that is, to a drawing with heart and charm and effort but no great finesse.

You can make all kinds of rules for your art making, but for starting in a sketchbook, you need to jump in and get over the intimidation part — by messing up a few pages, ripping them out if need be. Waste all the pages you want by drawing a tic-tac-toe schematic or something, painting them black, just doodle. Every drawing will make you a little better. Every little attempt is a step in the direction of drawing becoming a part of your life.

TIPS

1. Quickly subdivide a page into a bunch of boxes by drawing a set of generally equidistant vertical lines, then a set of horizontal lines so that you have between 6 and 12 boxes or so on the page. In each box, in turn, in the simplest way

possible, name every object you can think of and draw each thing in a box, not repeating. If it is fun, keep doing this on following pages until you get tired or can’t think of more nouns. Now you see that you have some kind of ability to typify the objects in your world and that in some sense you can draw anything.

2. Choose one of the objects that came to mind that you drew and devote one page to drawing that object with your eyes closed, starting at the “nose” of the object (in outline or silhouette might be good) and following the contour you see in your mind’s eye, describing to yourself in minute detail what you know about the object. You can use your free hand to keep track of the edge of the paper and ideally your starting point so that you can work your way back to the designated nose. Don’t worry about proportion or good drawing this is all about memory and moving your hand to find the shapes you are remembering. The drawing will be a mess, but if you take your time, you will see that you know a lot more about the object than you thought.

3. Trace some drawings you like to see better what the artist’s pencil or pen is doing. Tracing helps you observe closer. Copy art you like — it can’t hurt.

4. Most people (even your favorite artists) don’t like their drawings as much as they want to. Why? Because it is easy to imagine something better. This is only ambition, which is not a bad thing — but if you can accept what you are doing, of course you will progress quicker to a more satisfying level and also accidentally make perfectly charming drawings even if they embarrass you.

4. Most people (even your favorite artists) don’t like their drawings as much as they want to. Why? Because it is easy to imagine something better. This is only ambition, which is not a bad thing — but if you can accept what you are doing, of course you will progress quicker to a more satisfying level and also accidentally make perfectly charming drawings even if they embarrass you.

5. Draw a bunch more boxes and walk down a sidewalk or two documenting where the cracks and gum and splotches and leaves and mowed grass bits are on the square. Do a bunch of those. That is how nature arranges and composes stuff. Remember these ideas — they are in your sketchbook.

6. Sit somewhere and draw fast little drawings of people who are far away enough that you can only see the big simple shapes of their coats and bags and arms and hats and feet. Draw a lot of them. People are alike yet not — reduce them to simple and achievable shapes.

7. To get better with figure drawing, get someone to pose — or use photos — and do slow drawing of hands, feet, elbows, knees, and ankles. Drawing all the bones in a skeleton is also good, because it will help you see how the bones in the arms and legs cross each other and affect the arms’ and legs’ exterior shapes. When you draw a head from the side make sure you indicate enough room behind the ears for the brain case.

8. Do line drawings looking for the big shapes, and tonal drawing observing the light situation of your subject — that is, where the light is coming from and where it makes shapes in shade on the form, and where light reflects back onto the dark areas sometimes.

9. To draw the scene in front of you, choose the middle thing in your drawing and put it in the middle of your page — then add on to the drawing from the center of the page out.

10. Don’t worry about a style. It will creep up on you and eventually you will have to undo it in order to go further. Be like a river and accept everything.

March 19, 2025 at 4:29 AM

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Mega64

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More Zelda movie set leaks from New Zealand

December 9, 2025 at 1:29 AM

R-L-Z

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Yay !
#blutoid

Eurogamer @eurogamer.bsky.social · 6d

Grasshopper's ultra-violent Romeo is a Dead Man has "no AI-generated stuff whatsoever", Suda51 assures www.eurogamer.net/grasshoppers...

Romeo is a Dead Man screenshot showing a character with a large science fiction and futuristic looking weapon

December 9, 2025 at 10:12 AM

R-L-Z

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And that's #MetroidPrime4Beyond completed !
My overall impression is very positive. It has flaws but the good largely outweights the bad. 8/10.
Prime 5 when ?
98% because I missed a unique enemy and I forgot to scan some forms of the final boss on retries (wouldn't have gotten 100% anyway).
#blutoid

December 8, 2025 at 9:39 PM

R-L-Z

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Not quite, I guess ...

December 8, 2025 at 8:24 PM

R-L-Z

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Ah shit, I missed a unique scan in Metroid Prime 4.😭
#blutoid

December 8, 2025 at 2:36 PM

R-L-Z

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:-(
R.I.P.

Télérama @telerama.bsky.social · 7d

Ses images saturées capturaient avec acidité le kitsch de la société de loisirs et du tourisme de masse. Le photographe britannique est décédée des suites d’un cancer, à l’âge de 73 ans.