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Comic. I’m at my desk, leaning over to the doorway, saying “Hey! Foghorn! Foghorn Leghorn! Get in here!” Foghorn Leghorn is walking past the doorway, “Boy, I tell ya, I tell ya, not so loud, boy. What, I say, I say, what d’ya want?” Next panel, I’m gesturing to my computer. “How do I find that really good manga you recommended? It’s an anime now? I keep getting Halloween costumes.” Foghorn leans over my chair, “well, boy, I say, I say, you ain’t typin the entire title.” Last panel, I turn around- “you said ‘witch hat.’ Foghorn gets in my face- “open your ears, boy!! ‘Witch Hat Atelier, I tell ya! I tell ya ‘Atelier,’ I tell ya’”

How I’ve Been Pronouncing It (Feat. Foghorn Leghorn, my… roommate?)

#NSR2 track reveal! 🎧
Turn up the volume and listen to a (work-in-progress) track coming to No Straight Roads 2! Composed by @JamesLandino and performed by Sara Ryan, ‘vs. Rama Irama’ will appear in Bunk Bed Junction’s showdown against rival Rama Irama.
Check it out!🫨⚡️⚡️⚡️

Steam community requesting additional body types for added immersion.

A large block of sentient tofu

Steam community: “Can we play as a male character?”

Me (indie dev in this economy):
“Best I can do is sentient tofu.”

“You have to deceive your company.” Danganronpa and Hundred Line creator Kazutaka Kodaka shares advice for getting even the most unhinged projects greenlit - AUTOMATON WEST Kazutaka Kodaka talks about the mindset creators need to have if they want to get their most "out there" projects approved.

“You have to deceive your company.” Danganronpa and Hundred Line creator Kazutaka Kodaka shares advice for getting even the most unhinged projects greenlit

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Hey Jane Austen novel Pride and prejudice and knuckles

In order: Kaiji - Endou - Tonegawa - Hyodo - Otsuki - Ichijou - Muraoka - Kazuya

Kaiji lineup.

The last update from him showed over 200,000 deepfakes were taken down and $9mil (est.) saved in legal expenses for other creators.

To clarify: I'm not trying to sway or condescend on you at all!
It's totally valid if you can't forgive it.
I just thought I'd share that the story doesn't end there.

Well, like you said, it's a good point!
As for that second part, I think it's worth mentioning the good he's done since that incident: Spending over $100,000 and working with lawyers and experts to provide legal aid to victims and get major deepfake sharing websites/subreddits taken down.

oh i had this realization once

And yet every time I see "This game was made 100% with GenAI" it's just a lottaflops

Maz Co. Archives This is where you'll find full, (mostly) unedited livestreams that the MyMazCo channel has done in the past!

And those VoDs will (eventually) be uploaded to youtube.com/@mazcoarchives! Hopefully before they vanish from twitch forever!

MyMazCo - Twitch Woah, hey! Someone's reading this! It's nice to meet you! I'm Mazarkee, and this is the bio of MyMazCo, a Twitch account that I'm gonna use to stream a variety of content: from Single-Player games, Mu...

Self-promotion doesn't come naturally to me, but in the event anyone's interested in seeing our game, we streamed it over at www.twitch.tv/mymazco! All three VoDs will be available there for a while!

A lineup of NPC assets I created for the Hunt! First on the left is a normal human male student, named Ned, looking for his twin brother. Unfortunately for him, the school he's investigating is partially filled with "Content Corpses" (the three figures on the right). They come in three variants: Male, Female, and Cop (the three genders). In-universe, there are many more variants, but I'm only one man and can only make so much art lol [For all art made during for campaign, I'm sticking to a standard style guide inspired by the art present in the CAIN rulebook by Tom Bloom: art is to be made in greyscale, only using color for supernatural subjects.] Designing the students was fairly simple: just had to give them a simple polo with dark pants/skirt reminiscent of my own experience going to high school. The police officer design is based on a stock image I ended up using in session 1 because I didn't have enough time to draw a proper cop character (the "Content Corpse" version showed up in session 3, so I had plenty of time to draw something by then lol). As for the Content Corpses, I removed their faces to convey the idea that they have been deprived of any original personality. I also used the same pose for all of them just to make drawing them easier, but this ended up conveying the "hive mind" concept really well, so huzzah for shortcuts! Sticking with my style guide, I also let some color seep in here from their phones, which is the source of their condition. These content corpses were created by the IDOL, an influencer-based SIN born from a high-schooler's trauma (more on them in another image). These content corpses, despite the name, are actually living people who are under the influence of a greater supernatural being that the player exorcists were sent to hunt. Upon being compelled to look at their phones, their very faces are pulled into the screens, causing them to become part of the IDOL's hivemind.

Terrence, the players' impromptu handler, backup, and friend :) The left image is his standard standing pose, while the right image is a depiction of him taking an attack meant for the players. [For all art made during for campaign, I'm sticking to a standard style guide inspired by the art present in the CAIN rulebook by Tom Bloom: art is to be made in greyscale, only using color for supernatural subjects.] I designed Terrence to be slightly off-putting: with unnaturally raised shoulders that seem to have an odd shape, a somewhat sunken head that dips into his jacket, and what appears to be a green scar over his left eye. He's also just over 7 feet tall. Primarily, he stands back and lets the players do their thing, evaluating their performance from a distance. But once they find themselves in a dire situation, he wills himself to act. However, he avoids using his own supernatural powers and simply stands between the enemy and the players, taking the full force of anything intended for them.

And here's this hunt's big bad: The IDOL and its host. The host is a completely unassuming, scrawny high-schooler with a bowl haircut and glasses that obscure his eyes, anime style. He has two images here: one standing upright, with clenched fists looking slightly to the right, and another, more unhinged, leaning back as light emanates from his glasses and he screams skyward. The IDOL, itself, however is an amalgamation of a lanky torso and arms, with the head replaced with a webcam, as lamp and microphone arms jut out from behind. Two large monitors with the words "LIKE" and "SUBSCRIBE" extend from the rib cage of the creature. There are many red wires protruding from the body to all of the electronics. [For all art made during for campaign, I'm sticking to a standard style guide inspired by the art present in the CAIN rulebook by Tom Bloom: art is to be made in greyscale, only using color for supernatural subjects.] Designing the student came rather easily: make a dorky-looking loner kid (err, I'm so sorry if the person reading this looks like this; I'm sure you're very cool). The SIN, on the other hand, was a bit more of a process. It came in pieces as I thought of what a content creator-based entity would look like. Eventually, I got a few ideas: Just have a torso and above (since content creators with webcams only realistically show their upper bodies, why not literally remove that lower half), a webcam instead of a face (implying that, for the sake of content, his individuality be removed), and a bunch of gear protruding that a creator might need (and tie it all together with red wires, implied to be blood, fueling this gear). So, super quick look at what a SIN is: when someone with a large amount of "grace" experiences a traumatic event, that emotion twists into something they can't handle and a SIN is born. This guy suffered from extreme loneliness upon approaching high school graduation and something snapped in him, resulting in the birth of a sin.

J̷̡͋u̷͚̓s̶̯̑t̵̨͐ ̴̗̅á̵̙ ̴̲̈ḽ̶̕i̵̮̍l̷̤͌'̶̣͊ ̷̝͝g̷̬͘o̸͖͝o̶̭̕b̵̗́e̶͝ͅr̶͈͆ This lil' goober is a drifter. It's a little ball-like thing with tendrils extending from the center. [For all art made during for campaign, I'm sticking to a standard style guide inspired by the art present in the CAIN rulebook by Tom Bloom: art is to be made in greyscale, only using color for supernatural subjects.] Honestly, this fella's design came about as a result of playing around with brushes in Clip Studio Paint. And I REALLY like how it came out! Looks properly otherworldly, especially alongside the other characters. "Drifters" are (typically unrelated) entities that find their way to our world when SINs appear and distort reality. This lil' goober is just one that stumbled into the players' first hunt. Drifters can come in innumerable forms and you never know what to expect from them (actually, probably something negative).

My TTRPG group and I recently finished our first hunt in CAIN, a really cool game about exorcists and killing trauma monsters :) (made by @orbitaldropkick.bsky.social )

Now that this first arc is completed, I can share some NPC art I made to run the game!

Check ALT text for design notes and lore!

Lookin' ready for BUSINESS!
Love the art!

Kpop Demon Hunters

Drawing of a young woman in a knee-length black dress with white sleeves. She has pale skin and hair in two braids that fall in front of her shoulders. She's also wearing a bright red head scarf and hair ribbons. Her gloved hands are clasped together in front of her, and she holds a hand-scythe.

Drawing of a man with a short beard in a simple black suite and white dress shirt, with medium length hair tied back in a low pony tail. He wears a brown leather eyepatch over his right eye.

Some CAIN exorcist art I made for myself and a fellow player!

#CAIN #CAINTTRPG #oc

I think these awards felt especially boring because categories like Best RPG and Best Indie each honor overall quality among a subset rather than a specific craft. If a game is the best of the year, and it’s an RPG, obviously it is also the best RPG. Needs an overhaul to avoid pointless repetition

a meta 3d render of a cintiq with blender open, and a hand holding the default cube, attempting to evoke the aesthetic of 19th century trompe l'oeil paintings.

trompe l'oeil

this is all fun and games but you gotta go outside and breathe the fucking air to live, this shit ain't real, this is the fucking illusory realm, this is the realm of spectacle and unsuppressed urges man, this is 100% performance, none of this means jack shit, peel your fucking eyes away

YOU GUYS WANNA SEE SOMETHING CURSED???? HOW ABOUT NEON GENESIS LEHIGH VALLEY PHANTOMS HOCKEY?????

Yakuza 0 Fanimated Opening YouTube video by Wildreamz

Really awesome Yakuza 0 (f)animated opening www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zBX...

"Scissor Seven" Season 5 is now streaming on Netflix.

I've had weird bugs with the OnlyPosts feed in the past, where I'd notice some original posts just wouldn't show up at all.

Using this instead, the Following tab is specifically for seeing what people you follow are posting; I now use other feeds for discovering new artists!

Bluesky Settings menu, with "Content and media" specified

Within the "Content and media" category of Bluesky settings, with "Following feed preferences" specified

Within the "Following Feed Preferences" menu in Bluesky settings. Here you can change if you'd like to see Replies, Reposts, or Quote Posts!

Since everyone else has already mentioned OnlyPosts, I figured I'd drop in here to say that you can also change your basic Following tab to not show Replies, Reposts, or Quote Posts!