Rainwhisker
@rainwhisker.bsky.social
32/M | 🇮🇩 | Enjoying the journey of life. Adores RP, storywriting, gaming, eating, anthropology, philosophy, and coding. I also make it rain!
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IMO You can rephrase it to "If you feel like it, I'd love to see you there." so it's more dependent on how the person feels, but showing enthusiasm for them if they did. For many, the enthusiasm makes the consideration matter more because the thought is: If someone isn't excited to see them, why go?
December 22, 2025 at 1:58 AM
IMO You can rephrase it to "If you feel like it, I'd love to see you there." so it's more dependent on how the person feels, but showing enthusiasm for them if they did. For many, the enthusiasm makes the consideration matter more because the thought is: If someone isn't excited to see them, why go?
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People with trauma histories often interpret neutral cues as negative.
"You can come if you want." sounds to them like the person doesn't actually want them to come.
Affirming that you want them there helps remove any doubts.
"You can come if you want." sounds to them like the person doesn't actually want them to come.
Affirming that you want them there helps remove any doubts.
December 21, 2025 at 3:01 PM
People with trauma histories often interpret neutral cues as negative.
"You can come if you want." sounds to them like the person doesn't actually want them to come.
Affirming that you want them there helps remove any doubts.
"You can come if you want." sounds to them like the person doesn't actually want them to come.
Affirming that you want them there helps remove any doubts.
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Reposting old articles that have no source or have a dubious source or have outright been debunked, reactionary behavior. I think flooding the room with misinfo/disinfo is going to do a lot more harm than good.
December 24, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Reposting old articles that have no source or have a dubious source or have outright been debunked, reactionary behavior. I think flooding the room with misinfo/disinfo is going to do a lot more harm than good.
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Kept an eye on that Slop Detected account for a few days and my scientific prognosis is that it looks like an unscrupulous rando with an itchy trigger finger who seems very excited about all the new attention. Early bluesky vibes (derogatory).
December 24, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Kept an eye on that Slop Detected account for a few days and my scientific prognosis is that it looks like an unscrupulous rando with an itchy trigger finger who seems very excited about all the new attention. Early bluesky vibes (derogatory).
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consider my feedback: i loved working at @larianstudios.com until AI. reconsider and change your direction, like, yesterday. show your employees some respect. they are world-class & do not need AI assistance to come up with amazing ideas.
December 16, 2025 at 4:21 PM
consider my feedback: i loved working at @larianstudios.com until AI. reconsider and change your direction, like, yesterday. show your employees some respect. they are world-class & do not need AI assistance to come up with amazing ideas.
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american kestrel kitty 🪶
(design commission)
(design commission)
December 13, 2025 at 10:51 PM
american kestrel kitty 🪶
(design commission)
(design commission)
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Offer received and accepted, funemployment ends homies.
I release my employment jelly to the wild now, thank you friend.
I release my employment jelly to the wild now, thank you friend.
July 16, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Offer received and accepted, funemployment ends homies.
I release my employment jelly to the wild now, thank you friend.
I release my employment jelly to the wild now, thank you friend.
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defunctland videos are great because everyone in charge of disneyland for the past half century have been trying to carry out what they think walt would’ve wanted like they’re the patriots in MGS trying to carry out the boss’s will. coincidentally both involve giant robot dinosaurs
November 26, 2025 at 4:25 AM
defunctland videos are great because everyone in charge of disneyland for the past half century have been trying to carry out what they think walt would’ve wanted like they’re the patriots in MGS trying to carry out the boss’s will. coincidentally both involve giant robot dinosaurs
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the best way to get out of an extrinsic game that you find yourself still playing despite disliking is to just force yourself to miss an event in-game. if you're the completionist type it's an extremely fast way to sever yourself from it
November 17, 2025 at 10:56 PM
the best way to get out of an extrinsic game that you find yourself still playing despite disliking is to just force yourself to miss an event in-game. if you're the completionist type it's an extremely fast way to sever yourself from it
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The amount of varied, fabricated excuses I saw pardoning Clair Obscur's use of AI art was absurd
"contractors did it" "it was an asset they bought they didn't know" "They patched it out it's fine" "it was just one rogue artist" or the ever present "who cares" when something they love is attacked
"contractors did it" "it was an asset they bought they didn't know" "They patched it out it's fine" "it was just one rogue artist" or the ever present "who cares" when something they love is attacked
November 16, 2025 at 1:37 PM
The amount of varied, fabricated excuses I saw pardoning Clair Obscur's use of AI art was absurd
"contractors did it" "it was an asset they bought they didn't know" "They patched it out it's fine" "it was just one rogue artist" or the ever present "who cares" when something they love is attacked
"contractors did it" "it was an asset they bought they didn't know" "They patched it out it's fine" "it was just one rogue artist" or the ever present "who cares" when something they love is attacked
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In recent memory this is the 3rd game caught using so called "placeholder" AI generated work
The alters did it, this did it, & Clair Obscur did it
Though one of these got away with it with almost no recognition because it was critically acclaimed
The alters did it, this did it, & Clair Obscur did it
Though one of these got away with it with almost no recognition because it was critically acclaimed
November 16, 2025 at 1:34 PM
In recent memory this is the 3rd game caught using so called "placeholder" AI generated work
The alters did it, this did it, & Clair Obscur did it
Though one of these got away with it with almost no recognition because it was critically acclaimed
The alters did it, this did it, & Clair Obscur did it
Though one of these got away with it with almost no recognition because it was critically acclaimed
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a couple of stickmen swordfighting in mspaint that's a placeholder, AI-gen shit has no use case for this & only leads to shit like this being snuck into games only for publishers to throw their hands up and say "oops you got us, that was a placeholder" only in the case of being caught
November 16, 2025 at 12:58 PM
a couple of stickmen swordfighting in mspaint that's a placeholder, AI-gen shit has no use case for this & only leads to shit like this being snuck into games only for publishers to throw their hands up and say "oops you got us, that was a placeholder" only in the case of being caught
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This shit is exactly why placeholders are commonly pink/black checkerboxes with PLACEHOLDER in giant text on it so that shit doesn't get missed and go to fucking retail
Ubisoft admits AI-generated loading screen "slipped through" into final build of Anno 117: Pax Romana
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November 16, 2025 at 12:55 PM
This shit is exactly why placeholders are commonly pink/black checkerboxes with PLACEHOLDER in giant text on it so that shit doesn't get missed and go to fucking retail
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You don't need to make grand gestures.
You don't need to do something big and hard.
Maybe you choose to walk away from something, just for a few minutes. Maybe you don't feel you can love yourself yet, but you look for the little buds of things you like starting to sprout.
You don't need to do something big and hard.
Maybe you choose to walk away from something, just for a few minutes. Maybe you don't feel you can love yourself yet, but you look for the little buds of things you like starting to sprout.
November 1, 2025 at 6:21 PM
You don't need to make grand gestures.
You don't need to do something big and hard.
Maybe you choose to walk away from something, just for a few minutes. Maybe you don't feel you can love yourself yet, but you look for the little buds of things you like starting to sprout.
You don't need to do something big and hard.
Maybe you choose to walk away from something, just for a few minutes. Maybe you don't feel you can love yourself yet, but you look for the little buds of things you like starting to sprout.
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You there. I want you to say, aloud, at some point today "I'm really glad I'm good at..." And then you're gonna say something you think you do pretty well.
If you don't think you do anything pretty well, I want you to say "one little thing that makes me unique is..."
And if you can't do either?
If you don't think you do anything pretty well, I want you to say "one little thing that makes me unique is..."
And if you can't do either?
November 1, 2025 at 6:09 PM
You there. I want you to say, aloud, at some point today "I'm really glad I'm good at..." And then you're gonna say something you think you do pretty well.
If you don't think you do anything pretty well, I want you to say "one little thing that makes me unique is..."
And if you can't do either?
If you don't think you do anything pretty well, I want you to say "one little thing that makes me unique is..."
And if you can't do either?
I used to be a big fan of these as ways for people who don't have the patience for lore. But I would make it a point to drink in the lore and choose every option.
Nowadays the branching LORE DUMPS irritate me because I want to learn while Doing.
And in repeat playthrough I hit all options anyway!
Nowadays the branching LORE DUMPS irritate me because I want to learn while Doing.
And in repeat playthrough I hit all options anyway!
I think nearly all choice-based dialogue is actually bad storytelling that mostly exists as a way to get lore dumps about the world and is often bad, repetitive writing.
November 1, 2025 at 1:35 AM
I used to be a big fan of these as ways for people who don't have the patience for lore. But I would make it a point to drink in the lore and choose every option.
Nowadays the branching LORE DUMPS irritate me because I want to learn while Doing.
And in repeat playthrough I hit all options anyway!
Nowadays the branching LORE DUMPS irritate me because I want to learn while Doing.
And in repeat playthrough I hit all options anyway!
I groggily turned on the TV. Square announced kingdom hearts 4,5,6 and I saw vividly toy story world and combat. I heard the orchestral theme of hikari and started crying. My partner was pogging. You can ride on a boat and run with red xiii.
Then I go 'wait am I dreaming?'
I woke up.
Me:
Then I go 'wait am I dreaming?'
I woke up.
Me:
a cartoon of spider-man kneeling down on a tile floor
Alt: a cartoon of spider-man kneeling down on a tile floor as someone disappears in smoke. He yells "nooooooo" in the cartoon if there was sound.
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October 21, 2025 at 11:13 AM
I groggily turned on the TV. Square announced kingdom hearts 4,5,6 and I saw vividly toy story world and combat. I heard the orchestral theme of hikari and started crying. My partner was pogging. You can ride on a boat and run with red xiii.
Then I go 'wait am I dreaming?'
I woke up.
Me:
Then I go 'wait am I dreaming?'
I woke up.
Me:
There's something to be said about a story that introduces a promising antagonist but they end up either just being misunderstood or have to have moral justification for evil. It knocks the villainy away because more often than not it's less a character excuse for evil but a systemic one.
and there's nothing wrong with doing that, but like, when writers start catering to that crowd by filing the edges off the villains to make them merely edgy and not actually _bad_ so it's ~okay~ that the characters are into each other... we start to see an overall flattening of available stories
October 20, 2025 at 12:32 AM
There's something to be said about a story that introduces a promising antagonist but they end up either just being misunderstood or have to have moral justification for evil. It knocks the villainy away because more often than not it's less a character excuse for evil but a systemic one.
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I don’t know who needs this today, but here you go..
August 11, 2025 at 6:40 PM
I don’t know who needs this today, but here you go..
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Hey! New article! This one's about the history of first person shooters, what makes 'em work, and why I like the shooters I like. It's also me lamenting how they've died, and talking a bit about why I want to go ahead and make one.
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first person shooters are extremely fun, but the industry rarely makes the ones i like anymore
There’s something about that anticipation as your dropship passes over open ocean and the fighting on the beach comes into view…
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August 3, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Hey! New article! This one's about the history of first person shooters, what makes 'em work, and why I like the shooters I like. It's also me lamenting how they've died, and talking a bit about why I want to go ahead and make one.
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