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r/HobbyDrama · u/EnclavedMicrostate27 de jul. de 2026, 04:01

[Hobby Scuffles] Week of 27 July 2026

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u/rigby333327 de jul. de 2026, 04:11
Hello, scufflers! It's Sunday, which means a new Scuffles thread and a new chance for me to ask What's Everyone Playing this week?

I finished up Unicorn Overlord early in the week having a play time of about 30.5 hours after doing the post game quest. It was pretty good, although the countries after Elheim felt a tad short.

Just a few hours ago I started Final Fantasy VII Remake. I've played it before on PS4 but I figured a PC playthrough would be fun. I had a when I first started it, but fixed it!
- u/arahman81927 de jul. de 2026, 04:20
  With the surprise announcement of the DLC revival, went back into Age of Empires III with the beta. Tried to test out the infinite cards mod, kept throwing errors. Thankfully, just needed to diff the new file with the old, and port in the changes. Team Resources will likely be quite fun for multiplayer, could actually make one member going eco-focus viable.
- u/Spinwheeling827 de jul. de 2026, 04:22
  After randomly firing up ZombiU recently, I got the good ending for the first time. It's such a weird game that oscillates wildly between being absolutely fantastic and exceedingly frustrating I've also been playing the New Super Mario Bros. U mod "Clouds 2" after jailbreaking my Wii U. I've always felt that NSMBU got unfair flack when the gameplay is quite fun (though I'll admit the visuals/art direction are a bit uninspired).
- u/Poncho136827 de jul. de 2026, 04:36
  Finally finished Persona 3 Reload and my god did that ending hurt. On the other hand, the lagging stopped once I got to the final block of Tartarus and had no problems after that. Also got the Reaper on my third try courtesy of some coaching from my brother so that was cool.
  
  Might take a crack at Episode Aigis @ some point, but for now I'm going all in on Persona 4 Golden. I got like 5 hours into it before giving it up for Reload because Shadow Yukiko was pissing me off; now I'm restarting my save and making sure to prep accordingly this time around.
  - u/RX8Racer556427 de jul. de 2026, 05:171 resposta
- u/TheCheeseOfYesterday1227 de jul. de 2026, 04:39
  Mario & Luigi Dream Team (or as it's known here in Europe, Dream Team Bros - this happened to Paper Jam too and Paper Jam Bros might just be one of the dumbest names I've ever heard. I have no idea why they did this) is actually really good and I wished I'd played it sooner. It's, ah, very slow paced, but I love the environments and enemies.
- u/OPUno627 de jul. de 2026, 04:40
  Trying gacha and rythm games for the first time all at once with Hololive Dreams. Very much riding the hype with the regular Hololive fans, the story is kinda bland which is a weak point but hey, it looks crisp and the rythm game parts play good. Very much about walking around with your favorite VTuber and taking screenshots everywhere.
- u/Necessary-Board-830627 de jul. de 2026, 05:05
  Just finished The Mermaid Mask, which is a part of the Detective Grimoire series and it was great! I highly recommend checking it out. I've also been playing Super Auto Pets (always), Cat Mail Co and Baulder's Gate 3!
  - u/part-snorlax327 de jul. de 2026, 08:331 resposta
- u/niadara827 de jul. de 2026, 05:20
  I'm close to wrapping up the last of the main three routes in Fire Emblem Three Houses. I've come to the conclusion that while I appreciate everything this game is trying to do, I don't think the writing is good enough to actually pull it off. I also feel like the structure of the game, having 3/4 different routes, is hurting the main plot quite a bit. Still enjoying my time with it but I do find myself wondering how much better a more focused game with only one route would have been.
- u/8brz527 de jul. de 2026, 05:40
  Was craving some impulse purchases + tryna build up my gameboy collection. Came across a very clean copy of Pokemon Pinball in Japanese and decided to snag it 'cause . Which is because it takes a triple A battery to power a rumble feature.
  
  Anyways once that arrived I immediately got hooked. Unfortunately mine has a dead battery so I can't work on building up my pokedex but the actual gameplay is solid. And while a bit aggressive, I quite enjoy the rumble. It's pinball you can't really go wrong there tbh
- u/KennyBrusselsprouts327 de jul. de 2026, 06:09
  finished Stray Children. yeah i should've bought this when it came out, i vibed with the story and overall vibe so much. yes, the battle system can be frustrating, and i suppose those who dislike super linear games wouldn't care of it (couldn't be me tho), but i was still able to enjoy it all, especially because of the story and atmosphere. only thing is that it's very easy to miss the true ending and i actually had to look it up and fight the final boss a second time to experience it, which was a little annoying, but not enough to ruin it for me. the game's exploration of the relationship between Children and the Olders was very interesting to me, and i'll probably have that on my mind for awhile.
  
  also started TEOCIDA, the sequel(?) to the indie horror puzzle-platformer TAMASHII. dev Vikintor really has that cursed atmosphere down, and left me feeling so uncomfortable (in a fun way) throughout my whole playthrough. pretty fun platforming and inventive puzzles (although i had to look up a couple of the key door puzzles lol), and lots of intriguing secrets. i actually managed to beat this quickly, in under 3 hours, but there's more difficult versions of the levels to beat, and i would like to see if i can stumble upon more hidden weird shit for a bit, anyway.
  
  anyway im quite happy that i seem to be making good progress on my haul from the steal summer sale for once. i'm usually so bad about getting around to at least trying all the games lol.
- u/ThunderlordTlo627 de jul. de 2026, 06:20
  I bought and beat Urban Myth Dissolution Center in just around 12 hours a couple of days ago and I’m still not over it. Don’t even know why, but its just stuck itself in my brain and won’t go away.
  
  It was a fun time, not much else to say except that the seventh most popular video on the Japanese Shueisha games YouTube channel is a gay as hell music video that they put out with two other less gay ones for the 1 year anniversary of the games release. So maybe that’s why I can’t get over it, so much Yuri potential but not much art or fanfics.
- u/AzureGale4727 de jul. de 2026, 07:54
  Finished People of Note. Really fun and charming game, and all the musical references was right up my alley. The battle system was interesting too, with the actions being laid out on a musical staff, and parts of it can be modified in various ways. I enjoyed my time with it.
  
  I've also been enjoying my time with Granblue Fantasy Relink: Endless Ragnarok. Of all the new characters, Fraux's been the one I've played the most. Conflux has been all right - at least it's nice for getting lots of materials quickly.
  
  Finally, I got back into Umamusume because of the independent training feature. It is pretty nice to hop in and let a run go through on its own while I quickly take care of other business. Might stick with it for a bit longer now :o
- u/Notmiefault527 de jul. de 2026, 09:24
  I am two wins away from clearing Ascension 10 on all 5 characters in Slay the Spire 2. It is, unsurprisingly, the two new characters (Regent and Necrobinder) that are giving me trouble.
  
  I'm still blown away by how good this game is. The first game felt like bottled lightning (heheh), so it's amazing how much they've been able to maintain the core gameplay while drastically expanding the variety in mechanics, cards, enemies, etc.
- u/lady_skyskipper327 de jul. de 2026, 09:25
  Playing Night Striker Gear which is pretty fun although I haven't beaten it yet. Am amused that the plot is you have to fight a rouge AI system. XD
- u/Mad_Aeric527 de jul. de 2026, 10:43
  Been going on Little Rocket Lab. It's what you get when you cross Factorio with Stardew Valley. I learned the hard lesson in not taking jobs for parts I don't have automated yet. Being on a clock is a little anxiety inducing, since I tend to play my factory games at a leisurely pace. Lots less screwing around with building my factory than I usually do. I think there's some sort of gifting mechanic I haven't figured out yet, since I don't play those sorts of games. All I know is that some characters have a partly filled heart bar or friendship meter or something, and I have no idea what's going on there. I'm ashamed I didn't think to check >!the bakery!< for the >!missing toast robot!<, that's exactly where you'd expect to find it.
- u/hikarimew727 de jul. de 2026, 10:54
  Finally had some time to properly play through the new UmaMusume mode myself. This is important bc the game mode's ending song, Girls Legend U, has two versions: the Default you get from just completing the story, and if you overshoot and go beyond at every checkpoint, you get my favorite performance in the game, the Full version
  
  And I remain a weenie despite knowing this song for years as a JP player who still tears up at kimi to kachitai! every fucking time. Good shit.
  - u/TheFrixin427 de jul. de 2026, 11:211 resposta
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- u/ManCalledTrue827 de jul. de 2026, 11:23
  Current obsession: Monster Sanctuary is a Metroidvania/Pokemon hybrid, where many of the abilities you use to traverse your surroundings come from the monsters you capture. Haven't gotten very far, but I've enjoyed what I've played.
  - u/Arma_chillo327 de jul. de 2026, 12:30
- u/palabradot427 de jul. de 2026, 12:19
  Got into Palworld, playing with a friend. Never thought I'd like a survival game, but add in "We have pokemon at home" and yeah, it's surprisingly addictive.
  
  However, I let my friend know that she will probably want to work on her solo game for the next couple of weeks, as FFXIV's next patch drops on Tuesday. RELIC WEAPON TIME BABY! After seeing a pic of the completed DNC weapon at the last Live Letter, I actually have relative high hopes for how the rest of them look. She is a former XIV player, she understands. :)
  
  And no, although they've revealed the new job Bastion, I'm not in the least interested in picking it up. Tank is just not a job I'm good at.
- u/soganomitora427 de jul. de 2026, 12:58
  After talking with a member of my DnD group, we both found that we neither of us have ever finished a playthrough of Baldurs Gate 3. We both keep getting ideas for new characters and restarting, or taking breaks and forgetting where we were. In hopes that an anime rivalry will inspire some motivation in us, we are now in a race to see who will finish BG3 first. There is no prize beyond finally finishing the game and getting bragging rights. I'm a bit behind him, because he already had a fresh playthrough going when we decided to race, but I think i can catch up because he has a life and I don't. God made me unemployed just for this moment!
u/Pariell11427 de jul. de 2026, 04:32
Miichan and Yamada-san is a manga about two prostitutes in Japan. It is currently one of of the more popular mangas in Japan. We know from a time skip that one of the titular characters, Mii-chan, is going to be found dead in a mountain. Mii-chan is also intellectually disabled, and the series portrays her life under a grandmother who refuses to get her support and a mother who is also intellectually disabled, being taken advantage of by various people, her interpersonal troubles and lack of social skills, not always in a sympathetic light. Recently an anime adaptation has been announced. The series was already controversial for monetizing and entertainment-izing the struggles of disabled people, and for making "Mii-chan" a new insult for intellectually disabled people on the internet. Now people fear that the term might break containment and lead to it being a widely used insult, especially in schools, to bully those with intellectual disabilities in real life. The announcement also coincided with the 10th anniversary of the Sagamihara stabbings, where a former employee of a care facility for intellectually disabled people stabbed 55 people, killing 19 of them, explicitly because he thought disabled people had no right to live. There are calls for the anime adaptation to be cancelled and for the manga to be ended.
- u/PhantasmalRelic627 de jul. de 2026, 05:14
  Joy. The circus freakshow era never ended. It just found new media. This also reminds me of how "Borat" became a racial slur for Kazakhstan, yet white people kept defending it under the grounds that "it's satire!"
  - u/HexivaSihess1527 de jul. de 2026, 11:291 resposta
- u/Arilou_skiff3527 de jul. de 2026, 06:21
  
  Miichan and Yamada-san
  
  checks out
  
  Wow, I did not expect that artstyle.
  - u/DungeonBotanist227 de jul. de 2026, 06:312 respostas
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- u/EthosUnharvestedClay3727 de jul. de 2026, 06:33
  I saw the anime announcement trending in Japan on Twitter this morning and it looks like most of the comments aren't happy with the adaptation happening. I even came across one that said something like "I have a feeling this will cause huge backlash overseas" and, yeah, they're not wrong. A few people were excited but overall the sentiment is pretty negative amongst the Japanese crowd, which I don't always see. I do wonder how in the world this one got an anime. I know it's popular but it does seem like a very odd choice.
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- u/semtex944927 de jul. de 2026, 07:19
  From anyone who has actually read it, how well does it actually handle the subject matter? Because I have a sneaking suspicion that the pushback is another case of someone confronting the public over a taboo topic (the social maltreatment of those with intellectual disabilities) and the notoriously conformist culture not taking it well.
  - u/orreregion-627 de jul. de 2026, 09:462 respostas
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- u/Notmiefault4827 de jul. de 2026, 09:22
  Every sentence was worse than the last What on earth is the tone of a manga about an intellectually disabled prostitute and soon to be murder victim?
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u/Deruta4227 de jul. de 2026, 05:04
I haven’t touched a model kit in exactly 20 years, but just today took my first step towards making a custom gunpla (priming some plastic spoons to test paint colors)! The plan is to combine my extremely specific interests in Gundam and Formula 1 to make a Demi-Trainer with Williams livery. I have all my paints and materials, worked out the color blocking in photoshop, and plan to get a custom decal sheet for sponsor graphics since the one shop I found that sells them closed its doors before I could finish ordering. And now that the withering heat and torrential downpours have stopped (105 is outside my primer’s recommended temperature and I don’t have any space ventilated enough to spray indoors) I can finally get started! I’m super excited! But also 98% sure I’ll fuck it up somehow and be left with a half-assembled monument to my hubris…
- u/PhantasmalRelic927 de jul. de 2026, 05:10
  It's worth checking if the manufacturer offers replacement parts. I had to get one for a model piano, but it now works very nicely.
- u/rigby3331627 de jul. de 2026, 05:40
  Oh I always enjoy seeing gunpla done up in F1 liveries and such, I hope it turns out well! If your potential mistake involves breaking a part, Bandai offers a free part replacement service, at least in the US. You'll need your receipt for it and a few other things, and it may take a few months but free is good!
- u/CrazyGreenCrayon727 de jul. de 2026, 08:09
  Good luck. Sounds like a fun challenge.
u/JoyFerret5927 de jul. de 2026, 05:08
Drama is brewing on the Blue Archive community because of changes to the gacha system. The TLDR is that they are changing the gacha system to one that is arguably worse, speculation is that this might have been brought on by someone who previously worked at EA, and how it develops should be interesting to watch given the Korean player's history with pushing back against unwanted changes. The longer story is that the game just announced changes to the gacha system. The current/old system is as follows: Blue Archive tends to run 2-3 special banners at the same time for featured 3★ characters, usually related to whatever event is going on, and in addition to the permanent banners. For every pull on these special banners you get "recruitment points", which is Blue Archive's spark system. 200 points can be exchanged for any of the featured 3★ characters. This means that every 200 pulls you're guaranteed at least one featured 3★ character. Players like this system because if you're lucky you can, for example, get the feature character A from the special banner A at your 190th pull, then pull an extra 10, and exchange your 200 recruitment points for character B from the special banner B. The new system ditches this in favor of a "hoyo" system (dubbed that because it's the system hoyoverse games use). In the new system, at 100 pulls you hit "pity" and you're guaranteed a 3★ character, with a 50/50 chance of it being the special featured character of the banner. If it is not, the next 3★ is guaranteed to be it. This system is better if you're looking to get a single character, since it's a 50/50 chance of getting it at 100 pulls, and it is still guaranteed at 200. However, it is worse for getting multiple characters. If you get your character at the 190th pull, the pity resets and it is again a 50/50 chance (at best) of getting another character in the next 100 pulls, instead of just needing another 10. There is also uncertainty as to wether this pity is shared amongst banners and wether it carries on to future banners. Also I might be wrong about this, but there's speculation that this change might have been brought on by someone at Nexon (the developers) who was previously employed by EA. Whatever the case, this should be interesting to watch unfold as Blue Archive players, specially in Korea, are notorious for being very vocal about stuff they don't like. Take for example when the game's rating was changed to 18+ by the Korean rating board and the players protested to the point that an investigation was launched and it uncovered corruption by the officials.
- u/ReXiriam427 de jul. de 2026, 05:36
  
  by someone who previously worked at EA
  
  So in the end it wasn't KT that would kill BA, but EA.
- u/TheFrixin2527 de jul. de 2026, 05:36
  
  Also I might be wrong about this, but there's speculation that this change might have been brought on by someone at Nexon (the developers) who was previously employed by EA.
  
  I’m not sure about the EA connection, but the devs at Yostar did release a statement blaming it on their publisher Nexon. Backlash has been significant.
  
  Over the long run i think you tend to get a more rounded out roster on the 200-pity system. Games with 50/50 you tend to pick up a core roster of your faves quicker. Which is really better from an F2P perspective depends on whether you like the broader cast or are okay with reliably pulling a few characters per year.
  
  Though tbh none of my gacha are 50/50 so ymmv with how good each system “feels” - I hear part of the reason 50/50 gets such a bad rap is that it feels horrible to lose the 50/50.
  - u/Kilo1811927 de jul. de 2026, 06:001 resposta
- u/soranetworker2427 de jul. de 2026, 07:48
  Notably people have done the math and it's *slightly* better for players looking to pull 2 units, and then worse past that point. Debatable whether that's worth the extra stress this new system brings though.
u/La_knavo44327 de jul. de 2026, 09:54
So, I looked up "the odyssey" on Reddit thinking I'll get interesting discussions about the film but I ended seeing posts bizarrely claiming that there's a conspiracy to shill the movie and give it good reviews Umm... why?
- u/ChaosFlameEmber2827 de jul. de 2026, 10:14
  Maybe you'll find an answer in last week's discussion.
  
  Also this subreddit drama thread.
- u/Mad_Aeric3827 de jul. de 2026, 10:51
  For months people have been ragging on it, mostly because racism. Elliot Page is in it, so transphobia too, I suppose. So it can't possibly be a huge success on it's own merits, there must be a conspiracy to prop it up, because reasons. Woke reasons. I swear, I've about had it with humans.
  - u/Arilou_skiff3227 de jul. de 2026, 12:48
- u/soganomitora3727 de jul. de 2026, 11:14
  I saw one or two people claiming that film websites have been slower publishing their negative reviews as opposed to other users more positive ones. But there might be a dozen reason why the publishing would be slow, from backlog holding things up to "user included racist slurs in their review". Whatever the case, i wouldn't be surprised to hear that Certain People would take those slow review publishings and decide that there was a grand conspiracy happening.
- u/2Completion2Ography5227 de jul. de 2026, 12:43
  14 of the internet's loudest people are screaming because they need their existence validated. Everyone else is watching the movie in peace.
u/TheCheeseOfYesterday7927 de jul. de 2026, 09:59
So there's a longstanding myth that Kefka, from Final Fantasy VI, basically had his iconic gleeful, sadistic, playful, and nihilistic personality built from whole cloth by the translator Ted Woolsey, and that in Japanese he was more generic. The story then goes that his English personality was backported into Japanese in future games like Dissidia.

But if you look at genuine translation comparisons, such as on Legends of Localization here, he's more or less the same in Japanese. The 'Son of a submariner!' line being a more generic curse word in Japanese maybe sticks out, but that doesn't mean every line or even every iconic line was just generic. 'Run! Run! Or you'll be well done!' was the similarly playful 「逃げろ！逃げろ！出ないと黒焦げだジョー！」 'Nigero! Nigero! De nai to kurokoge da jō!' (lit. 'Run! Run! Or else you'll get charred!'), with the final 'yo' pronounced 'jo' like a child sort of lisping it and then elongated to 'jō' for a kind of sing-songy tone.

In one case I even saw someone saying Woolsey turned Kefka from a generic villain to a nihilist when, looking at the final dialogue here, it's the other way around; a lot of Kefka's nihilism got lost in Woolsey's translation (probably due to time constraints) and was restored in Tom Slattery's later touchup.

I think there's maybe two factors going on here. One, there's a lot of kind of hero-worship of Ted Woolsey going on among RPG fans who grew up with the games he translated, and two, in more 'literal' translations like the fan translation the comparison I've linked also covers, a lot of nuance gets drained out. You can even see it here with the 'literal' translation of the line I've provided. So people who think the 'literal' translation provides a more accurate picture of the Japanese script end up getting the wrong idea.
- u/La_knavo44527 de jul. de 2026, 10:05
  Interesting, Ted Woolsey seems to be the only time I know about where an insulator nerd community of Japanese media *likes* a localizer for changing things in translation
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- u/Milskidasith2627 de jul. de 2026, 12:23
  I've heard that Woolsey did a lot to punch up the translation or to keep stuff from reading boring, but I've rarely heard it go so far as to say that he's the entire reason for Kefka's personality; the dude's still a clown with a crazy laugh.
- u/TehCubey3227 de jul. de 2026, 13:03
  
  I think there's maybe two factors going on here.
  
  I noticed that Final Fantasy fan circles in particular have a minor but substantial subsection of people who are very vocal about how english localizations are just "better" than the original script. And it's probably partially related to the second factor you mentioned, but rather than talking about overly literal translations, just as often I find them just... making shit up about the original japanese script, that isn't actually there.
  
  I think it's a kneejerk reaction against purists who only want overly literal translations without any creative liberties. And because this is the internet and nuance is hard while jumping to extremes is loud and easy, these people go with "any creative liberties, no matter how excessive, are Good Actually and make the localization better (because the japanese script is boring and bad)".
u/stringthing871427 de jul. de 2026, 10:27
Good morning, what creative work/play did you do this week? This week I actually did some knitting as a break from hand sewing and quilting. Pulled out my current sweater and have done some rounds and I got a good bit of knitting on a hat over the weekend during a road trip to the Quilt museum. The museum trip meant I didn't touch the sewing machine but I got a whole bunch of temperature quilt blocks done while watching TV in the hotel Friday night. This week I've decided to do a deep clean and sort out of the craft room which usually sparks some creativity.
- u/WillitsThrockmorton627 de jul. de 2026, 10:43
  
  Good morning, what creative work/play did you do this week?
  
  Built several models for Flames of War(FOW), which is a WW2 Tabletop game. I was at the LGS yesterday hoping to get a game of Battletech in and the owner mentioned that there was a big Anzio event coming up. I essentially only have some Soviet armies assembled, and he asked if I could bring an Axis force because lately there has been a real struggle with getting German players at tournaments and events. I had won a Panzer Lehr starter army box a few years back and he knew it. With some grumbling I agreed, and now I have to start building a German force from scratch.
  
  Built the Panzer IV/70 tank destroyer models last night, now all I need to do is build checks 15 half-tracks, two Panzergrenadier Platoons, an artillery battery, an observation post, and three Panther tanks over the next two weeks. If I finish them up early enough that I can at least paint and prime, I'm going to paint them up in West German colors because I am not a rivet-counter and I can pretend they are not Nazis that way. Hell, I have some East German decals from Team Yankee-maybe I'll have them be alt-history Germans where the Communists came to power in 1933.
- u/Notmiefault927 de jul. de 2026, 12:03
  There's a tabletop roleplaying / board game called Seven Part Pact that my friends and I are planning to play in a few months. The centerpiece of the game is the , basically a board game that influences every other aspect of the game. The game is still in Kickstarter, meaning there's no official materials to buy, so we have to prototype everything ourselves.
  
  I went really far down a rabbit hole last week designing a really intricate Orrery in CAD that I was planning to laser cut. It was going to be a lot of work and probably not work very well, but I was excited and put a lot of elbow grease into it.
  
  Then someone posted an image of their own laser cut Orrery they made, and it...was way better than mine. Like I'd been planning to do two layers that I'd have to very precisely fix together somehow, while they figured out a much simpler and more elegant solution.
  
  On one hand it's great because I can copy their design and have something way more acheivable than the madness I'd been concocting, but it does feel bad to realize my 'brilliant' idea was actually kind of just overdesigned nonsense.
  - u/stringthing87627 de jul. de 2026, 12:05
- u/Emptyeye2112727 de jul. de 2026, 12:30
  Still working on my Twine game (If you missed my Scuffles post last week, Twine is a Interaction Fiction (Think text adventures or point-and-click games) maker), and actually managed to make basic graphics for some of the puzzles! Very "programmer art", but still psyched about it.
u/Saedraverse12327 de jul. de 2026, 11:32
Drama in the Paleo/ Dino Community.

DinoCon is a new annual dinosaur-themed convention which combines the world of palaeontology, paleoart, natural history, and palaeo-news to celebrate all things prehistoric. That takes place in the UK, ran by palaeontologist Dr Darren Naish, who was advisor for Apples Prehistoric Planet series and palaeoartist John Conway.

Given a large focus on Paleo- art & artists. The Con is heavily anti AI, which is a sentiment shared by the larger paleo community. I mean say's alot that the biggest AI chud in the community is a person we keep trying to kick out, given they are practically a Nazi, support eugenics & if I remember right believes blacks are less intelligent.

I think ye can guess where this is going but for paleo fans it's just a bit worse. Anyone recognise the name Tim Haines. He was the man behind the much believed Doc series, Walking with Dinosaurs. Long time considered THE dino documentary until at least Prehistoric Planet (we don't talk ab out season 2 from last year, it was WWD in name only)

Haines was giving a talk at the con to much excitement to those involved. That was until he switched focus & brought out a video of a dinosaur, that no one seems sure what it was exactly. Probably because It was fing AI. He proceeded to then chat about AI being the future and how he will use AI for his new projects.

Yeah I don't think even the saying went down like a lead balloon does justice, I'd add several Blue fucking Whales to that. While some say he was booed off-stage, if u/bazerFish allows me to use what they posted over on r/Dinosaurs , that happened when he showed the AI vid. While they politely clapped as he was ushered off, there was an obvious difference to the enthusiastic welcome he got. I love the detail that he asked, Any questions & no one had any.

But wait it gets worse (I have no idea why, I just wanted to have that) as mentioned the con is anti AI, to the point it is even in policy and panellists were required to share with organisers what the panels will be about, meaning HE FUCKING KNEW.

He also apparently broke an NDA for a project. Which he also wasn't even involved in. (which ugh confuses me, why'd he have an NDA then)

So in the span of two weeks the Paleo world/ community is in mourning, the death of Sam Niell who inspired so many with Alan Grant (palaeontologists paid tribute) and now mourning of a different kind with Tim Haine, a man who's walking with series inspired a love & fascination of the prehistoric world, bringing these animals to life in a documentary purpose rather than movie. Who now seeks to promote a technology that steals from people that brought these animals to life & can only do that. AI is so counter to what is required to be a paleo artist. It cannot look to our modern nature world for influence on these creatures of the past. I'd like to quote u/BLARGEN69 from the r/Dinosaurs post.

Paleo Media is one of the most important fields to ensure does not have generative AI encroach into it.

Paleo is entirely built around no longer living animals, which means it's entirely up to the artists and scientists working together to ensure the public receives the most scientifically factual and accurate recreations that can be achieved.

Without living animals to compare to, the Paleo Media is gospel for how the world perceives and interprets these animals. You can compare an AI video of a Gorilla to a video of a real Gorilla, there are no videos of extinct animals to compare to.

Things like the Walking With series were foundational, and are important. They also cause longterm, lasting issues of falsehood when they get stuff wrong. Things like the Liopleurodon being kaiju sized in Walking With Sea Monsters and forming the basis of how the world thinks they looked for example. If AI is allowed to just start producing Paleo Media you get things like that constantly.

Not to mention searching for images and recreations of extinct animals now on the internet is already completely mired in garbage AI results that don't resemble anything close to what the animals would have looked like. We really can't let it proliferate, or be spread by people who should maintain professionalism.
u/Torque-A8927 de jul. de 2026, 12:17
I don’t know if this is classified as a full-on drama but I’m putting it here anyway.

The manga Daredemo Dakeru Kimi ga Suki (I Like You Who Can Have Sex With Anyone) is an adult manga by Takeda Super which has been running in Weekly Young Magazine since 2023. The plot is simple: Gotou is a high school boy who has a crush on Misaki Agawa, the friendly and outgoing girl in his class. Gotou’s mental image of Agawa is flawless until one day, when he witnesses Agawa having sex with another classmate after school hours. As he discovers later on, Agawa has the notoriety of being the biggest slut in school, with almost everyone in class having their way with her. Gotou slowly has to combine the image he has of her as a pure gal with her true salacious nature. That is, until Misaki offers to have sex with him.

From there, the manga goes on a massive roller coaster ride. See, after Gotou gives into his carnality and has sex with Agawa, he just… keeps having sex. Not only with Agawa, but with girls who normally would’ve never given him the time of day before. Notably, the last time I posted this manga in Hobby Scuffles, the controversy was that the author had a plotline where Agawa’s half sister, afraid that Agawa may be falling in love with Gotou, suggests a threesome together with him so he sees her as a friend with benefits only. Originally, Gotou refused, saying he only wants to have sex with Agawa… but then the author went “yeah, but I really wanted to draw that threesome scene” and then retconned the manga so that Gotou accepts the threesome and then they have hot sweaty but strictly professional sex.

Since then, the manga has consistently flown off the rails - any concept of character development or plot progression gets sidetracked by the author really needing to draw sex scenes. Which brings us to this week’s drama, chapter 108. As explained on the first page (NSFW), to celebrate DareDemo’s 100th chapter, Young Magazine hosted the “Agawa’s First Love” Contest. Any person could send photos of themselves (face and body shots included), and whoever won the competition would be drawn into the series as Agawa’s first high school sex partner.

You can see the chapter above, but the comments to the chapter are even more unhinged - topped off by one of the commenters claiming that they were the winner and therefore had sex with their waifu.
- u/Notmiefault5427 de jul. de 2026, 12:51
  Absolutely unhinged and hysterical, thanks for sharing. Is there there a difference between "adult manga" and hentai/pornography?
  - u/Arilou_skiff4227 de jul. de 2026, 13:04
u/Meloetta4527 de jul. de 2026, 13:07
For anyone who remembers/is following the Geekify Neopets TTRPG drama, it's inexplicably heating up in their discord again, the only place where the company shares any information. Some of the members kept accusing them of fraud and using the funds from this Kickstarter to fulfill another one, so the owner said

Side Note: There's a limit to how much conspiratorial conjecture and outright pot-stirring we're really willing to tolerate on the server moving forward. We get there's frustrations, and we're trying to keep these interactions productive.

Now people are acting like he's a dictator lol. Someone who's been trying to lead the upset people is trying to get people on their 40 person discord. The owner is now claiming that neopets is blocking them from making any public statement, which is wild if true since Neopets already made one. He also said everyone is guaranteed their shipping fees back, which he hasn't said before. So... progress?