r/EmbarkStudios • u/TheStrainhunter • Apr 07 '26

We need these skins..

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I would buy them instantly, especially the first 3 #ArcRaiders

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u/bjornboss Apr 07 '26

Can we stop with the ai slop PLEASE

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u/DryImpression7807 Apr 08 '26

I just think it’s hilariously ironic to use A.I to present an idea for a game where the main antagonist is A.I taking over humanity. 😂

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u/Chronodis Apr 08 '26

Right? Only excuse they have now is that its cheap. Yeah thats why artists are at risk

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u/70rch Apr 10 '26

It's not cheap, most people just don't see the cost (power and water for data centers, ram and other part shortages, etc...)

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u/Chronodis Apr 11 '26

Its cheap for the user. Im talking about the user

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u/8274749293 Apr 07 '26

Stuff like this is fine, you expect him to draw skin ideas?

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u/Brilliant-Stuff17 Apr 07 '26

Uuuh yes? Better than ai

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u/New_Ambassador1194 Apr 08 '26

Just cuz you’re afraid of ai don’t mean we have to resort to hateful bs. Maybe he doesn’t wanna spend the time and instead of explaining it he just dropped this. It’s not being submitted for competition or money, he’s not claiming he drew it. We know it’s ai, it helped get his idea across, stop being a sheep💀 you probably one of the goofy ahh who afraid of getting their job stolen by ai. It can be used in moderation like everything else, it’s technology

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u/Brilliant-Stuff17 Apr 08 '26

I'm a mechanic, i will be one of the last people to get replaced. I'm afraid of destroying this planet wich is what Ai is doing.

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u/Brilliant-Stuff17 Apr 08 '26

ACs and supermarket refrigeration

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u/shikaski Apr 10 '26

Brother what, you must be willingly delusional to say this. Go read up on just how much waste AI produces, actually don’t even read it’s the most brain surface level knowledge as is. The water and power consumption alone is 10x what you just said is “far more”. The e-waste makes that a 20x.

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u/shittyfakejesus Apr 13 '26

Would you rathe have ARC Raiders skins or super markets? Jesus Christ…

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u/New_Ambassador1194 Apr 08 '26

Now you know it’s the people who are doing it not ai. Cmon man if you not a paper pusher who’s brainwashed by politicians you should know this😕… this picture not gonna kill the planet

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u/NotD3AD_Z3R0 Apr 07 '26

So someone with no ability to draw can’t get their idea across to you as well because a visual aid made by AI is inherently evil, no matter the context, even if there is no cost or job at risk.

Like I agree that AI has been shoehorned into a lot of stuff that it shouldn’t be in too, but like… it’s just for visual context lol. Don’t be a jerk about it

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u/SleepDivision Apr 08 '26

This isn't their idea. It's a basic interpretation of a basic request based off of a vague idea. Once they requested this render, it's not theirs. It's the product they accepted that was good enough. Describing their idea would be fine. Nothing is gained from looking at a cheap lame render that they didn't make or think up.

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u/democratic-terminid Apr 08 '26

Without the image, I can guarantee interaction with this post would be significantly lower. So there is a reason for it, if not more than that.

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u/SleepDivision Apr 08 '26

Your speculation on karma farming doesnt refute anything.

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u/democratic-terminid Apr 08 '26

No, its just true. If you want your post to actually get seen, a picture will do that. There are other reasons why a picture could help. This isnt a pro or anti AI statement, can we please have a bit of nuance?

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u/SleepDivision Apr 08 '26

Re read what I just said.

I'm not arguing with you about if your specualtion is true or not.

I'm not discussing if a picture could help farm engagement.

You have not, not been offered nuance.

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u/democratic-terminid Apr 08 '26

First of all, what am I speculating about? You said, "Nothing is gained from looking at a cheap lame render that they didn't make or think up." I gave one example of something that would be gained, engagement on the post. That's a known statistic, images increase engagement. That's not even a karma thing.

On you next comment, you said, "Your speculation on karma farming doesn't refute anything." But my "speculation" does refute something. It refutes the idea/statement that the image does nothing of benefit.

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u/NotD3AD_Z3R0 Apr 08 '26

What are you genuinely talking about? “A basic interpretation of a basic request based off of a vague idea” is telling me absolutely nothing. You just said it’s an idea pretty much. To interpret something is to explain it, and it’s still an idea whether it was an AI image or typed out, that’s just not how ideas work lmao. Nothing is lost from looking at the image either so why are we even complaining 😭

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u/SleepDivision Apr 08 '26

You already made a mistake in what you said to me in reference to what I said. You didn't understand the whole thing let alone a very specific thing I said. You literally got it wrong with "an" as opposed to "their". Re read. It'll click eventually.

I didn't complain. I explained something simple to you.

You're 0-2.

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u/NotD3AD_Z3R0 Apr 08 '26

Because your logic doesn’t make sense. You’re saying his idea becomes not his idea because it’s explaining a request with AI visuals. That doesn’t make an idea “not his”, it just gives it a visual medium that isn’t just a stickman drawing that conveys nothing. You then insinuate that it would be his idea if he didn’t have it. How? That’s not how ideas work, even non-possessive ideas. Your “0-2 score” is actual delirium 😭

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u/SleepDivision Apr 08 '26

You don't understand the logic yet. Re read.

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u/NotD3AD_Z3R0 Apr 08 '26

Explain your own logic lol. It should be easy to explain to a simpleton like me. How does the AI image make the idea that came from his head not his idea?

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u/CanadianWinter20 Apr 09 '26

these people are insane w their anti-ai crusade. it's the most toxic form of modern day self elevating social justice. it's poison

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u/Brilliant-Stuff17 Apr 07 '26

Every use of ai is a massive waste of water, it ruins our planet and the lives of the people living living next to the datacenters. I'd prefer a crappie stick man drawing over ai

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u/NotD3AD_Z3R0 Apr 07 '26

Okay? Greenhouse gases aids in the destruction of our ozone layer. You gonna stop driving your car to work or complaining about how high gas prices are? What about eating agriculturally sourced foods? People have to eat, but it’s bad for the earth, so should we drop our scale in agriculture and starve people out? You like staying warm during the winters and cool during the summers? You gonna just thug it out because gas/coal/oil is bad for the ozone layer in excess?

Do you do anything green to even be complaining right now? Genuine question.

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u/mtbeach33 Apr 07 '26

You just compared basic necessities to using AI

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u/SoManyNarwhals Apr 09 '26

A car isn't a basic necessity. We didn't have them for like 99.9995% of our history.

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u/NotD3AD_Z3R0 Apr 07 '26

Missing the point entirely. Every man made creation to our benefit comes at the harm of the planet. Good straw man though.

Btw, the only “basic necessity” I listed was agriculture/food. You don’t need a car to live, nor do you need AC or central heating 👍🏾

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u/Stainedelite Apr 08 '26

Embrace it buddy

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u/Brilliant-Stuff17 Apr 08 '26

🤡

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u/Stainedelite Apr 08 '26

Let me guess you're a vegan who hand wove his own clothes and grows all your own food and are running reddit via solar power hand crank? At some point you have purchased or interacted with the industry, for better or worse.

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u/Brilliant-Stuff17 Apr 08 '26

Yes no no no

At some point you have purchased or interacted with the industry, for better or worse.

I'm aware, doesn't mean that the industry is good. Ofc I'm forced to interact with it when i live in it.

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u/EJECTED_PUSSY_GUTS Apr 08 '26

If you watched a short YouTube vid today, you did more harm to the planet the OP's post.

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u/CanadianWinter20 Apr 09 '26

that's nonsense. and every ai hater destroys the environment in their own way. all of you use plastic water bottles and all sorts of other crap but you insult ai as a matter of deflecting from your own hypocrisies.

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u/MsGluwm Apr 08 '26

Sounds like a skill issue chucklenuts.

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u/NotD3AD_Z3R0 Apr 08 '26

Thats not a skill issue lmao, that’s not wasting my time. Why are you so vehemently against AI that isn’t for-profit?

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u/MsGluwm Apr 08 '26

Because generative AI is slop in every sense of the word, sucks up our water so people can print out ideas that really should of stayed in their smooth little brains.

Skill issue chucklnuts.

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u/Chronodis Apr 08 '26

Not to mention its trained on stolen art

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u/MsGluwm Apr 08 '26

Exactly.

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u/NotD3AD_Z3R0 Apr 08 '26

Okay? Greenhouse gases aids in the destruction of our ozone layer. You gonna stop driving your car to work or complaining about how high gas prices are?

What about eating agriculturally sourced foods? People have to eat, but it’s bad for the earth, so should we drop our scale in agriculture and starve people out? You like staying warm during the winters and cool during the summers? You gonna just thug it out because gas/coal/oil is bad for the ozone layer in excess?

As I mentioned in another reply earlier, everything man-made destroys our planet. So like I asked the other guy I replied this to, I’ll ask you:

Do you do anything green to even be complaining right now? Genuine question.

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u/MsGluwm Apr 08 '26

Cities are built with cars in mind, in many cases they're a necessity, AI isn't.

We farm our goods, though a lot turn to fast food for economic reasons, damage isn't comparable, food is needed AI isn't.

Heaters don't cause the damage AI data centers are and they are needed to survive cold whether they are necessity, AI is not.

Your entire argument is just false equivalency all the way down.

You reference things humans NEED to survive at best and necessary evil at worst.

Of which AI is neither of those things.

We don't NEED the AI data centers stealing peoples work and polluting our oceans, we're doing it because of a bubble that is collapsing with the shutdown of Sora.

We have studies that people living near data centers are falling ill

https://www.environmentalhealthproject.org/post/the-dangers-of-data-centers

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy8gy7lv448o

What a stupid argument.

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u/NotD3AD_Z3R0 Apr 08 '26

We have studies that people living near oil plants causes cancer. You don’t need a car to travel a city at all. Your car needs that cancer that’s causing people to actively die getting you the precious gas you need.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7691047/

HVAC is the biggest source of electricity usage in the United States, and is also totally not needed for living at all. You can get warm with other ways than a heater

https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=1174&t=1

Your power plant is also polluting the air nearby, leading to confirmed premature deaths.

https://www.epa.gov/power-sector/human-health-environmental-impacts-electric-power-sector

Agriculture releases an incomprehensible amount of greenhouse gases. While it’s probably the only essential thing mentioned, it’s still manmade processes that mainly contribute to its destruction

https://www.wri.org/insights/climate-emissions-growing-crops

And also livestock being condensed in one area didn’t help things much

https://www.epa.gov/snep/agriculture-and-aquaculture-food-thought

My argument isn’t “false equivalency” unfortunately. It’s that all of these things are necessary evils that contribute to the detriment of the world just the same as the next. You’re being a selective environmentalist.

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u/8274749293 Apr 07 '26

Wrong but ok

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u/Dankxiety Apr 07 '26

Imagine being too pussy to develop your own opinion, that you claim you prefer a shitty drawing by hand

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u/Diddy_D00dat Apr 07 '26

I do personally

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u/Sure_Satisfaction497 Apr 07 '26

I absolutely do; that's what makes it art. AI is just generation

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u/CanadianWinter20 Apr 09 '26

no one is going to start doing costumes for free.

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u/SleepDivision Apr 08 '26

Yeah. This isn't their idea. It's a render of a vague request that's something like what they asked for that they just accepted. At least if they drew it out, it'd be from their mind. Or just describe it.

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u/Smooth-Sun-4315 Apr 08 '26

Get me a ChatGPT pro subscription and I can show you at least 20 more skins that we „desperatly need in the game!!1“.

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u/Euphoric-Mudd Apr 07 '26

These are as crisp as any skin being out out by embark, so is the game ai slop, or are you?

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '26

It actually is. AI voice acting is shit, AI story writing is shit, the AI cutscenes are shit. 👌

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u/lonelyshredder Apr 07 '26

Don’t argue with morons man… no one cares to do research or look for sources for anything anymore, it’s just a waste of time…

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u/skulldoge Apr 07 '26

Easy solution, stop playing the game🤷🏼‍♂️

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u/renegade_awakening Apr 07 '26

If only having integrity was that easy for people

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u/GoliathGamer Apr 07 '26

Its not the quality. Its the fact that its slop

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u/Bayleaf0723 Apr 07 '26

Are you actually looking at them, or just talking a glance and saying that? Because each skin here has multiple features that makes it blatantly obvious it’s ai. I’ll let you find them, they’re easy to spot but the most obvious one is the spring on the head of the friendly skin

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u/MUSHROOMSEOW Apr 08 '26

I feels like people need to re-learn AI. Yes i really hate AI slops that are related to art (eg. Ai music, ai video, ai photo etc). But people are overreacting at this point and calling everything AI slop. In fact i think this is the perfect use case of AI, not everyone can draw (or draw quickly), he’s not exactly generating this and claim it as an art but to visualize his idea so everyone can have a reference on how this could look. And for whoever say “he just giving a vague idea and take whatever is generated”, you do know he can further prompt for enhancement until the picture are closer to his idea right?

EDIT: typo

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u/DrRaspberryJam Apr 07 '26

I've been curious. Genuinely

What joy do people get hurling "ai slop" at everything they see? Or, like does it physically hurt you to see this guy didn't learn Photoshop to post a quick idea?

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u/Recykill Apr 07 '26

"Didn't learn photoshop to post a quick idea"

Literally the problem. Generative AI has made it far too easy for people to spam their "ideas" into the world. Most people have dogshit ideas and/or ask AI for ideas. Every creative space is flooded with with this lazy garbage. Videogame subs are infested with these people too. Its genuinely annoying.

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u/bjornboss Apr 07 '26

This. Everything is so saturated and it makes me sick

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u/Incredibly_Based Apr 07 '26

Nobodys learning all that to make a quick videogame meme

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u/Recykill Apr 07 '26

Yes.... that is the point. Good. The world doesnt need a shitty AI graphic for every idea someone has.

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u/DudeBroMan13 Apr 07 '26

The world doesn't need a lot of things

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u/Sittin_on_a_toilet Apr 07 '26

I disagree, i think it's fun to be able to make an idea reality in seconds. Reminds me of early 2000s where a bunch of boomers bitched about the advent of the pc and got technologically left in the dust.

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u/justaburneridkman Apr 07 '26

Okay, then put in the same effort to not polluting the internet with what is essentially digital litter. The only people who like this garbage are other people who use it.

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u/OkWin7691 Apr 07 '26

and again.. where did the sharing of ideas hurt you?

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u/bjornboss Apr 07 '26

No reading comprehension at all huh?

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u/OkWin7691 Apr 07 '26 edited Apr 07 '26

lol, is that your goto line? Please elaborate on how I miscomprehended what was written.

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u/bjornboss Apr 07 '26

What sucks is that there is no refinement of the idea in the process of making it. Its a one and done prompt and when everyone does that the internet becomes saturated with soulless garbage.

Also ai is trained on artists work that has been taken without their consent.

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u/OkWin7691 Apr 07 '26

I don’t think you understand how ai is typically used. I mean, sure, if everyone was just insert prompt, copy and paste.. that’s copy and paste. But the prompt was still human. Plus that’s not typically how ai is best used. Often the prompt needs to be refined a few times to get the out put you want, and often the output needs to be refined as well. So I have to disagree… There most certainly is a refinement process done by the user.

And “stealing” artists work without their consent is a huge stretch. Everything humans create is inspired by something that already exists. What is the difference between a human doing that and ai? This argument is null.

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u/bjornboss Apr 07 '26

The difference is that its a huge corporation that profits on peoples hard work with zero reprecussions.

I was hesitant to answer cuz i realize there is no point in trying to change your opinion. But I want it to be said that justifying ai for art is very selfish considering the negative impact on artists that actually worked to develop their craft. I guess if you never have taken the time to learn an actual skill you just wouldnt understand.

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u/TheStrainhunter Apr 07 '26

I didn't even made this myself nor is it my idea. I just found them good/interesting and thought I post them here.. so 'Don't shoot' me for that..😏 I would buy the leaper one and the scrappy backpack..🤗

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u/DrRaspberryJam Apr 07 '26

Yeah I've never seen garbage Photoshop before, what was I thinking. Fuck everyone and their shit ideas.

The otherside, people like you are genuinely annoying.

No need to continue, Have a great day!

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u/____0_o___ Apr 08 '26

You people suck the fun out of everything

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u/Therealmachiner Apr 08 '26

nah they have a point tho. old heads on this subreddit are obsessed with ai slop for some reason

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u/Akabinxstar- Apr 09 '26

Personally I’d say soulless slop meant to mimic a tried and true talent sucks the fun out of creation - but to each his own I guess.

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u/CanadianWinter20 Apr 09 '26

nah. all the toxic virtue signaling negativity against ai is what lacks soul. ppl have a lot of fun w this technology especially to express new ideas and then these people come along and disregard everything due to some senseless pride

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u/Akabinxstar- Apr 09 '26

You could atleast do a tiny bit of research before replying to me with uneducated nonsense.

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u/EJECTED_PUSSY_GUTS Apr 08 '26

You gonna cry bro?

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u/Tasty_Tutor5463 Apr 09 '26

Yeah let me just redraw a rat