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Watching Black Mirror with subtitles, I think I’m gonna start counting how many times it says “[ethereal music playing]”.

Also, didn’t Netflix say they were going to add English subtitles that aren’t closed captioning?

TITLE: Payment Information CONTENT: You're skipping July 2025 Choice. Your next bill is for US$14.99 on August 26, 2025.

Update: they've silently raised the price for me too, I've just noticed in account settings when I went to skip this month.

No email, no notice, nothing.

A screenshot of Bluesky, showing the “More”/“Options” menu of a post, highlighting the option “Show more like this”.

If you mostly use the “Discover” feed, you can customize it by tapping “…” on a post and choosing “Show more like this” or “Show less like this”. Tapping “Show more[…]” on @catsofyore.bsky.social posts will, over time, populate your Discover feed with more of their posts.

Oh sure. Ask @aftermath.site three or four times to publish your explicit lesbian personal ads and they tell you no, but get a bizarre ChatGPT rejection email from a game studio and suddenly they’re interested,

PART 1/2 We've seen a wide range of accusations regarding the use of Al-generated content in The Alters, and we feel it's important to clarify our approach and give you more context. Al-generated assets were used strictly as temporary WIPs during the development process and in a very limited manner. Our team has always prioritized meaningful, handcrafted storytelling as one of the foundations of our game. During production, an Al-generated text for a graphic asset, which was meant as a piece of background texture, was used by one of our graphical designers as a placeholder. This was never intended to be part of the final release. Unfortunately, due to an internal oversight, this single placeholder text was mistakenly left in the game. We have since conducted a thorough review and confirmed that this was an isolated case, and the asset in question is being updated. For transparency, we've included a screenshot to show how and where it appears in the game. While we do not want to downplay the situation, we also want to clearly show its limited impact on your gaming experience. In addition to that, a few licensed movies that the alters can watch in the social area of the base were added at the final stage of development. While those were externally produced, our team was not involved in the creative process, and these required additional last-minute translations. Due to extreme time constraints, we chose not to involve our translation partners and had these videos localized using Al to have them ready on launch. It was always our intention to involve our trusted translation agencies after release as part of our localization hotfix, to ensure those texts would be handled with the same care and quality as the rest of the game. That process is now underway, and updated translations are being implemented. END OF PART 1/2

PART 2/2 To give you a better understanding of what a small part of the overall scope of the game's narrative layer they are, those few external movies are approx. 10k words out of 3.4 million across all languages in the game, or just 0.3% of the overall text. The alternative was to release those specific dialogues in English only, which we believed would be a worse experience for non-English-speakers. In hindsight, we acknowledge this was the wrong call. Even more so, no matter what we decided, we should have simply let you know. As Al tools evolve, they present new challenges and opportunities in game development. We're actively adapting our internal processes to meet this reality. But above all, we remain committed to transparency in how we make our games. We appreciate your understanding and continued support as we work towards that goal. END OF PART 2/2

(Here is the same text-photo but with the text added as alt text, read with OCR. Posted in two parts because it’s over the limit of 2000 characters.)

I wonder if it's still rolling out or if it's really region-based, because I pay 12 USD but I'm *not* in the US, and the Humble Choice panel still says my next payment is $11.99. 🤷‍♂️

they will not survive the silly

It’s rude to stare #MarioKartWorld #NintendoSwitch2

I thought she had an eyepatch and sailed the seven seas

I gotta say, the current administration eroded my trust in separation of powers so much that my first reaction to this ruling was "they can do that??"

Every Harry Potter book or shirt you buy directly funds the persecution of trans people.

There's absolutely no excuse to support anything Harry Potter anymore unless you hate trans people.

That one month a year C’Thun becomes C’Thong 🏳️‍🌈🦑

It’s such a cutie patootie little device, I want one but I don’t think I have a use for it

The ATM ate his card

A subscription promotion notification from MUBI, saying: Title: 10.99 a month. For 4 months. Content: Watch more great films, like PUSSY. For a lot less. No strings. No ads.

Okay MUBI, I’m not sure I’m the target audience for that but alright

beloved poster will stancil has been struck dead by a truck… only to be reborn as the 19th century german philosopher karl marx?? watch “help me engels-kun! i’ve been reborn as the father of communism” airing on toonami this friday

I’m waiting for the sequel:

Goonergate 2: Goon with the Wind

Currently resisting the urge to play the Oblivion remake so I could play @expedition33.bsky.social (while my mid-playthrough Atomfall sits in a corner, staring at me)

oi mate, you got a licence for that wee?

Is he having a meeting or having a *meating*?

part of me wants to go to sleep,
part of me wants to stay up

if only I was a shark so I could do both

excuse me but I JUST bought it for $200 and it JUST shipped

bluesky announces tariff collection mechanism, where the 10% tariff is automatically charged to the reply’s character cou

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

that is NOT where I thought you were going with this

the nintentwo

“the nintendo”

jenny are you a baby boomer

SHE PASSED HER DRIVING TEST

It’s the pandemic console all over again, the only thing missing is a random Animal Crossing announcement — remaster a classic maybe? — for when the job market totally collapses