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She/her HQ Shitposter Also I edit videos, my account is slowly morphing into an anti-ai stan 😅

Someone leaning up from a couch saying "Oh shit, for real?"
Post Title: Your biggest "THAT'S WHERE THE MEME CAME FROM!?" moment? Post body: I thought the "Minor spelling mistake" old man meme was from World of Warcraft or something. I'm surprised to learn it's from Final Fantasy 14 from Pat and Woolie's collab. Oddly, I played FF14 years back and don't remember that scene in the intro, must've blacked it out. Top comment: So I only recently started playing Skyrim for the first time This has been me, non-stop, every 30 minutes or so
The family has called on New Zealand’s ministry for foreign affairs, and its minister, Winston Peters, to intervene. “Step up and do more,” Betty said. “One, do something about Everlee, there has to be something the New Zealand government can do; and two, train your people … because the help we are getting is not the best”. In a statement to the Guardian, the ministry said it could not comment on the specifics of the case due to privacy reasons but said it was providing assistance to the family of a New Zealander detained in Los Angeles. It said it could not influence the immigration decisions of other governments. The Guardian has also contacted Peters’ office. Speaking to reporters on Wednesday, Peters said Wihongi had not declared a prior conviction on her immigration paperwork. “When the form asks you to do things, complete the form accurately,” he said, adding staff had been working on the case “from day one”. “This is going through a process internationally. The process has got to be followed. We cannot intervene. We can do our best to help, but that’s all we can do.” The Guardian has contacted the Wihongi family and ICE for comment. Wihongi’s case is the latest in a growing list of foreigners facing interrogation, detention and deportations at the US border, including New Zealander Sarah Shaw and her six-year-old son, and more recently an Egyptian family of six, and an 86-year-old French widow. According to Guardian analysis, 60,310 people were in detention as of 4 April, and 468,450 people had been deported since Trump’s inauguration.
curious woolie critter
Comment by JohnRSoviet on Reddit British Nature Documentarian: *"FFXIV is a cunning ambush predator. It seeks to lure the Woolie in with the promise of an alluring experience. This may have worked on a younger, more inexperienced Woolie, but our Woolie is fully grown, and wizened by many years of experience. He knows bait when he sees it, and isn't tempted. But FFXIV will not go hungry, as another FGC player, drawn by the bright colors and pleasant sounds, falls into the trap."*
I am blocked by @why.bsky.team
Little jester cat plush with the caption "so true jestie"
So you're telling me people sequenced the entire Horsey Game genome before they figured out you can just click on the lights?
prokopetz: From the award-winning developer of Seduced by the Busty Elf and Ravished by the Burly Orc comes a brand new title, Made To Question Your Long-Held Assumptions About What Constitutes Sex by Some Kind of Fucking Goblin. tumblr user archpaladin appends an animated gif of someone furiously fingering a controller
Discord offering a new Beta feature where you can get 6 nitro memberships on one shared plan called "Nitro Squad"
So, just for the sake of clarity, the emails are about using games as a learning tool, not as a money extraction tool. Even the snippet that people are going around with doesn't even mentions microtransactions either. Emails 1 and 2 (https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00960328.pdf) Epstein says he's meeting with someone and asks Pablos Holman to name some edutainment games. Holman responds saying edutainment doesn't really work unless you mask the learning (example being Call of Duty and Medal of Honor teaching war history and another hypothetical example being a game that teaches you Japanese by rewarding you with attractive women when you learn a new word). Emails 3 and 4 (https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00695633.pdf) Epstein forwards Holman's message to Bobby Kotick asking for critique of what Holman is saying. Bobby Kotick (Activision CEO at the time) says it's a good idea but the key is real world rewards. You learn to read you get rewarded with cell phone minutes -or- iphone credits -or- virtual items in games Email 5 (https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2010/EFTA01762201.pdf) Epstein forwards Kotick's response to Holman, Holman mentions indoctrinating kids into an economy and Kotick's example of real world rewards being virtual items in games. None of this relates to microtransactions at all really (unless someone stretches and say the learning to spend money = cool in-game items is what they are getting at, but judging by the emails that would wrong since that's not what they are talking about). Not only that but at least in CoD's case there was already an DLC framework in place with map packs and microtransactions in the form of gun camos in Black Ops 2 prior to these conversations.
Panel 1: In december the under 16 ban went into affect Discord mandated age verification. Between Face-scan and providing a photo ID, I thought I was safe with a scan Panel 2: My account was insta-suspended in under a minute, I am over 30 years old and it identified me as under 13 Panel 3: Discord gave me an ultimatum: give them a photo of me holding my ID or never use my account again Panel 4: I tried arguing I feared for my privacy; they have leaked ID before, I tried arguing I'VE BEEN PAYING THEM FOR 8 YEARS. They didn't listen Panel 5: I couldn't talk to most of my overseas friends for a month Panel 6: Looking for advice online: Turns out victims of the UK/AUS ban had it better than the norm; at least a person saw my complaints. Most suspension tickets are auto declined by bots; I cannot envision Discord scaling this for worldwide fairly Panel 7: I eventually complied, I'm pretty luck; I could get away with an expired license Panel 8: Currently discord is being hammered by people cancelling nitro subscriptions, I'd cancel mine if they hadn't had done it for me already Panel 9: my advice is this: Ensure Discord isn't your only point of contact with your friends
So, just for the sake of clarity, the emails are about using games as a learning tool, not as a money extraction tool. Even the snippet that people are going around with doesn't even mentions microtransactions either. Emails 1 and 2 (https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00960328.pdf) Epstein says he's meeting with someone and asks Pablos Holman to name some edutainment games. Holman responds saying edutainment doesn't really work unless you mask the learning (example being Call of Duty and Medal of Honor teaching war history and another hypothetical example being a game that teaches you Japanese by rewarding you with attractive women when you learn a new word). Emails 3 and 4 (https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00695633.pdf) Epstein forwards Holman's message to Bobby Kotick asking for critique of what Holman is saying. Bobby Kotick (Activision CEO at the time) says it's a good idea but the key is real world rewards. You learn to read you get rewarded with cell phone minutes -or- iphone credits -or- virtual items in games Email 5 (https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2010/EFTA01762201.pdf) Epstein forwards Kotick's response to Holman, Holman mentions indoctrinating kids into an economy and Kotick's example of real world rewards being virtual items in games. None of this relates to microtransactions at all really (unless someone stretches and say the learning to spend money = cool in-game items is what they are getting at, but judging by the emails that would wrong since that's not what they are talking about). Not only that but at least in CoD's case there was already an DLC framework in place with map packs and microtransactions in the form of gun camos in Black Ops 2 prior to these conversations.
1 US dollar is equivalent to 1.44 Australian dollar, this is a result of a downward trend for the majority of last year
Elisa Rae Shupe is dead
Clip from F4mi's video: Poisoning AI with ".аss" subtitles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEDFUjqA1s8
Hoya serpens freshly bloomed
Microsoft CEO wants you to stop calling generative AI "slop" by Rob Beschizza 6:35 am Mon Jan 5, 2026 Microsoft's gone all-in on generative AI. The company boasts that 30% of recent code is generated by it. Satya Nadella, the CEO, now wants everyone to stop calling it "slop." Quote: "We need to get beyond the arguments of slop vs sophistication," Nadella laments, emphasizing hopes that society will become more accepting of AI, or what Nadella describes as "cognitive amplifier tools." "…and develop a new equilibrium in terms of our "theory of the mind" that accounts for humans being equipped with these new cognitive amplifier tools as we relate to each other." via BoingBoing
Bluesky Harvest saying my account put alt text on 21% of images I posted
Congrats on meeting Asgore, Pat! Remember, it's always a shock to meet your divorced heroes, because their real divorced self doesn't match up to their divorced image. That divorce is not their fault divorce. He's divorced doing the best he can divorced.