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hitting the weed pen and typing "people being nice to each other" into the youtube search bar

it is only January 3rd

Being born on January 2nd is convenient, because I always remember how old I am. Plus, it's a lovely moment to recalibrate, and reflect on some of my favorite moments from '25. As ever, my one birthday wish is to keep making cool things with cool people in '26. And I plan to.

Happy Birthday @danielvanthomas.com 🎇🎆👏👏👏👏👏🎂

Happy birthday, @danielvanthomas.com! 🎂🎈🎁🎉🎊

Happy New Year from all the hotties & freaks (my two types) that happened to share my voice in 2025 (full 2025 VO credits below, for the lovely community who maintains them; if the past few days have proved anything, you are heroes)

tonight, I will be drinking blackberry wine from the dirt I grew up on. may you find just as much peace in 2026.

Now you see when a couple of guys are up to no good, Kisara and Mari would defend each other! Also, dude, @mollozhang.bsky.social bit @danielvanthomas.com! #WithYouOurLoveWillMakeItThrough @ambermayvo.bsky.social @williamofoegbu.com

I have to take a moment to celebrate just some of things that made me step back and feel grateful this year. 2025 was packed with fulfilling work, but nothing is more fulfilling than doing this alongside truly wonderful creative people. I hope to keep it up till the day I die.

you are not cooler than Skate Story.

🐊 𝗡𝗢 𝗖𝗛𝗔𝗟𝗟𝗘𝗡𝗚𝗘𝗦 🐊

If I could have one holiday wish, it would be for tech bros & venture capitalists to get the fuck out of creative spaces

some of my favorite 35mm cuts from the No Kings protests in Dallas

As it turns out, “you are too stupid: let the water poison computer do everything for you” is not a sustainable business model

Larian seem to have a real weird way of following up the game that sold seventy billion copies largely on the backs of its extensive use of real actors, personal touches, and general humanity :/

Weekend pickups: the duality of man

hire me Geoff

If silent hill f doesn't win any awards I am going to put on a fox mask and become the werehog

the amount of bass drops in the game awards gives me a tummy ache.

at first I thought stupid people were using AI to do stuff despite it being evil. but now I'm seeing use cases so dumb & convoluted, I'm almost convinced they're using it BECAUSE it's evil.

Just 5 more minutes please.... Wait- WAH?! Oof. Maybe not the best way to wake up in the morning... Try out the #kumitantei demo here! : bit.ly/Kumitantei #wishlistwednesday #indiegame

they should invent laws like they have now but applied to rich people too

Tubi is such a crazy streaming service. It’s like if the Criterion Closet was in a gas station

#ChainsawMan – The Movie: Reze Arc is out on digital TODAY in dub and sub. Even if I weren't in it, I'd tell you that it has quickly become one of my favorite animated features, period. Watch it or you're a piece of cheese.

Awaken, Earth Dancer! Forge new bonds as you heal the wounds of a once-prosperous nation, its people, and its gods in Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma. Experience the critically acclaimed hit when it comes to PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S on Feb. 13, 2026. https://youtu.be/ELQJJ76tE0Y

While this article goes very rightly into the disrespect actors have faced in dubbing, underneath that is an entire ecosystem of abused and rushed freelancers doing the timecoding, adapting, directing, engineering, and mixing who Amazon also attempted to cut. www.avclub.com/amazon-ai-an...

guys, I regret to inform you that the narrative in Metroid has been bad since at least 2002. this is not new.

time for another round of the genAI tech broligarch's favorite excuse: but we wouldn't make money if *WE* had to follow laws. laws are for poors!

didn't realize the anime amazon made the ai voices for was a gay show. they really said "the homosexuals will not get an extra dime from us. we do labor crimes here."

The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"

Ah man, hitting that "overwhelmingly positive" on steam less than 2 weeks after launch feels pretty good

If you dub anime, let me hear your human voices; not the ecocidal plagiarized slop #Amazon aims to feed us like pigs at the trough, to save pennies of their $2.4 trillion. By dubbing #BananaFish with AI, they rob it, and us, of humanity. Human performance will not be automated. Not today, fuckers.

Private equityyyyyyyyyyyyyy

Farewell to the absurdist king. An extraordinary man.

Every day in America, you think you've seen the most loser shit you can possibly imagine, & then Amazon hits you with the Banana Fish AI dub & you're forced to experience new levels of corporate loserdom

The only thing less human than these AI dub performances is the decision to sign off on them A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.

re: my friend trying to justify difficult games like Silksong to me

Finally checking out that new Lumines game everyone's talking about

Defeating the dungeon with the power of friendship. (via The Banished Court Magician Aims to Become the Strongest)

One day until demonschool. that's tomorrow store.steampowered.com/app/1900250/... store.playstation.com/en-us/concep... www.nintendo.com/us/store/pro...

just making a cup of the president's favorite tea

Hey, @crunchyroll.com has released the first episode of The Banished Court Magician Aims to Become the Strongest for free on YouTube -- you'll hear me as Eldas right out the gate. This show has become my weekend comfort anime; hope it becomes yours, too www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7dV...

I just walked out of federal court where I pleaded NOT GUILTY to the charges against me. I will continue to stand up to authoritarianism and call this out for what it is: a political prosecution.

Before Kirby Air Riders comes out, I want everyone to know that I loved Gooey before loving Gooey was cool

in 2025 America, the experience of being a single, working-class creative of 15 years who has never had that one career-securing pop is an overwhelming feeling that no amount of work will be enough to avoid eventual ruin

If your game has voice acting, then working with the voice actors is half of your writing process. It's not complete until you've heard it interpreted and reimagined by a voice actor. And they always reimagine it in ways that elevate the writing, in ways you never would have imagined yourself.

Respect to Rick's @eurogamer.bsky.social review of ARC Raiders, which -- instead of reading like a product review -- does something an embarrassing amount of popular games criticism still fails to do in 2025: assesses the work in its context, and meaningfully places it in the context of its time

credits that include the names of everyone who worked on the game at any point