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Semi-Spectral Trucker Buck "Fat Rig" Foss
@theunchosenone.bsky.social
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I gotta get my shit together
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stevemullis.net
[car dealership waiting room]

Me: [chanting] knobs, knobs-

Other car buyers: knobs, KNOBS

Car salesman: [pounding desk] KNOBS, KNOBS, KNOBS!
Knobs Returning To Some Automakers’ Vehicles, To The Relief Of Many
Auto companies are listening to the complaints of consumers, who want their knobs and buttons back.
www.forbes.com
October 5, 2026 at 7:45 PM
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quendergeer.bsky.social
May 26, 2026 at 5:14 PM
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tieadullknot.bsky.social
in the earliest eps of the pod before i knew how an audio compressor could help me (i barely do now) i used to politely pop into the convo to briefly talk about guy debord or w/e. year 3 of pod i spend 2 hours being a gay little chatterbox and STILL get society of the spectacle in there. it's ya boy
tiredpod.bsky.social Tired: The Car Podcast... @tiredpod.bsky.social · 3d
NEW TIRED! On the free feed, Ep #127: Rory pitches the Alloy TV show and reports in from Goodwood, including chance encounters (positive and negative) and how it still manages to be cool & feel good. Plus, Peter reports back from IMSA... how's that going, man? Oh boy. www.patreon.com/TiredPod/pos...
Episode 127: Car Situationists | Tired
Rory pitches the Alloy TV show and reports in from Goodwood, including chance encounters (positive and negative) and how it still manages to
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October 5, 2026 at 3:21 AM
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shinramidmanager.bsky.social
Had to break the bad news to Chadley that the Pope said he wouldn't get into the kingdom of heaven when he died. "That's okay", Chadley told me. "I know I wouldn't deserve it regardless. I've carried on with my life knowing from the beginning that I would burn in the end."
Chadley accepting that he will burn in hell.
October 3, 2026 at 7:50 PM
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tropigotico.bsky.social
October 3, 2026 at 12:49 PM
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patrickrainville.bsky.social
Here is my analysis of all the music featured in the first half of #FinalFantasyVII Rebirth’s Chapter 10, ie: Cosmo Canyon!

youtu.be/oD4QgwZJ7As
Cosmo Canyon | MUSIC ANALYSIS: FFVII Rebirth
YouTube video by Patrick Rainville Music Analysis
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October 2, 2026 at 2:51 PM
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corabora.bsky.social
Nice argument, but I've already depicted you as the sniveling suit and myself as the cool guy with a gun hand
Barret from Final Fantasy 7 remake mogs a Shinra manager
October 1, 2026 at 3:15 PM
theunchosenone.bsky.social
My iPhone doesn’t like when I type “it sucks” and always wants to correct it to “it suck’s,” a phrase which I don’t think would ever be grammatically correct
October 1, 2026 at 12:55 PM
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stopskeletons.bsky.social
Touch grass or touchpads?

The 2015 Steam Controller was maybe the most lovingly crafted hardware failure in video game history. But was it really a failure? Its insane history says otherwise.

New episode of Punching Weight! Watch with your pets! RT's appreciated!

💀 youtu.be/xkMuoA88n4M 💀
September 28, 2026 at 6:20 PM
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10amlunch.bsky.social
random encounters exist because the combat is fun you are supposed to enjoy it, if you dont enjoy it you should be playing a different video game, i dont understand how this conversation keeps happening
September 28, 2026 at 4:42 PM
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wanwanattack.qtbrewer.moe
Genuinely, this completely rules
－Recently, the game has been going viral on X for its beautiful undressing animations. I’ve even read in one of your previous interviews that the development team practiced stripping themselves as reference for the undressing animations. What was the process behind making the animations actually like? Matsui: I’d love to know how far that story has spread. It’s true. First, we write a plot for each undressing scene, then draw storyboards, exactly as the original team did. Then the real work begins, because the animation is essentially all keyed by hand. A designer moves the clothing’s 3D model, frame by frame, manually. It really is pretty much like the claymation method I mentioned. We did try automating it with physics simulation first, but it was a total failure. The cloth moved in a physically correct way, but had absolutely no allure. We learned a profound lesson: accuracy and sensuality are two unrelated properties. In the end, we accepted that humans would have to do all of it. Then VR adds its own weight. In a normal game, if something becomes awkward, you can cut away or swap models between scenes. In VR, the player can look from any angle at any time, so none of those tricks are available. The same model has to undress convincingly no matter where you’re standing. When I described this to a designer at another studio, he said, “I would never do that.” I’ve chosen to take it as a compliment. And then, yes, the part you’ve read about. The undressing motions themselves use motion capture, but the deeper problem was that nobody actually knew the correct rhythm and order in which a person takes off clothes. So, the directors gathered and undressed themselves as reference. “That zipper is coming down too fast.” “She’d pause once before slipping her shoulder out.” These were serious, sober discussions. For compliance reasons, the Super Real Mahjong Venus Returns team works in a walled-off section of our office – and that was the moment those walls truly earned their keep.
September 28, 2026 at 3:14 PM
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adashtra.bsky.social
September 27, 2026 at 1:50 PM
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thestrifeisrife.bsky.social
Rufus Shinra—CEO of a world-dominating megacorp—needing to steal Cid's dinky little plane to go after Sephiroth is by far the funniest thing in OG FFVII.
September 26, 2026 at 1:30 AM
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rpgfan.bsky.social
Do you love Final Fantasy 7 music? Me three! 🎹 Well Patrick Rainville Music Analysis might be your next YouTube splurge with a SUPER in-depth look which is, at the time of this post, 34 videos deep into breaking down the incredible FF7 Rebirth OST.

YT Playlist: youtu.be/URugtYiYW-Q?...
September 25, 2026 at 10:24 PM
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dervine7.bsky.social
if you are trying to explain what @anyaustin.bsky.social is to someone who hasn't watched:
background of a GTA river, in front is Any Austin's face photoshopped onto Ariel from "The Little Mermaid", at the bottom is that text "Look at this stuff, isn't it neat?"
September 25, 2026 at 8:22 PM
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pookleblinky.bsky.social
It's funny that for years now people have been saying that using generative AI very obviously deskills you, and people kept going no no you're wrong you Luddite

And now all the genAI CEO's keep coming out in public to announce they forgot how to read and do math and can't remember their address etc
September 25, 2026 at 8:43 AM
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tomharrison.bsky.social
This is what I mean about how we have to become snobs. When a bitch says shit like this to you, the move is to immediately become very mean, and laugh at them, and say out loud that you don’t respect them, things of that nature, things Ezra Klein would never do
mford.bsky.social Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 14d
Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?”

Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...
So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading. What do you think when you hear that? The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter? That’s my question for you. Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does. But there must be some set of skills that matter. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those. There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address. And I —— I don’t really believe that to be true. It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you. One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it. But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded —— Yeah. I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books. You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans. Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off. Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off. Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers. Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker. What do you mean by systems thinker? They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things. So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.
September 24, 2026 at 4:43 PM
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shanemcpartlin.bsky.social
January 22, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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tiredpod.bsky.social
THEN! EPISODE 126 ON THE PATREON. soundcloud.com/tired-podcas... BOAT MODE? CULT MODE? HOCKEY FANFICTION MODE? THE HIVEMIND OF ALL ANCIENT MARINERS?
Episode 126 Teaser: 299 Percent APR in Der Raketen-Stadt (Patreon-Only Episode)
PATREON.COM/TIREDPOD PETERPETERHUGHES.BANDCAMP.COM ALLOYMAG.COM THANK YOU FOR LISTENING TO THE SHOW!!
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September 23, 2026 at 10:50 PM
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tiredpod.bsky.social
TWO NEW EPISODES! First, on the free feed, episode 125. Rory prepares to head to Goodwood, Peter explains bailing on COTA, and everybody gets a hand on the ball to talk about mortality, as Rory recounts the Summer of GTI... www.patreon.com/TiredPod/pos...
Episode 125: A Finite Quantity of Weekends | Tired
Rory prepares to head to Goodwood, Peter explains bailing on COTA, and everybody gets a hand on the ball to talk about mortality, as Rory re
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September 23, 2026 at 10:40 PM
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particledogs.bsky.social
An energy weapon (work computer) is beaming harmful rays (emails) at me
September 23, 2026 at 12:58 PM
theunchosenone.bsky.social
My review of Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan on Letterboxd is “This movie is really dumb and bad but I don’t know, I had fun watching it.” It’s a 1 1/2 star review with a heart
September 22, 2026 at 7:11 PM
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erikhane.bsky.social
this is a key point btw. I love many things that are not good lol. in the same I know that eating a bunch of chocolate chips before bed is not good, and I should probably make sure I'm eating real food most of the time
kateneely.bsky.social Scare-emy Haunt Wheels @kateneely.bsky.social · 15d
imo it's also fine to enjoy stuff that sucks, but we shouldn't pretend it's important or good
September 22, 2026 at 6:36 PM
theunchosenone.bsky.social
Please God free me from the job hunting mines
September 22, 2026 at 4:10 PM
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fishyash.com
Friendly reminder that Duolingo was initially concieved to trick people into translating articles for free, which they later used as training data for MTL algorithms. Duolingo's primary purpose has NEVER been about teaching you a language, even from the start!

slate.com/technology/2...
If it doesn’t charge users and, so far, doesn’t serve them any ads, how does Duolingo make money? It tricks you into working as an unpaid translation service. At the end of some lessons, Duolingo will ask you if you want to practice by translating a real-world document. Which will turn out to be, say, a BuzzFeed article. By melding together enough stabs at this task from high-level Duolingo users, the app can render a surprisingly accurate translation. Which is worth good money. So far, Duolingo has contracts with BuzzFeed and CNN to translate stories from English into languages such as Spanish, French, and Portuguese. This service is already earning Duolingo hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, but von Ahn predicts he will be adding a raft of new clients soon. “The language translations market is huge,” he says. “It’s a $30 billion per year market.”
September 21, 2026 at 3:27 PM