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Somehow caught a cold. It sorta of just hit me like a truck earlier today. There goes my plans of getting out a song cover close to Valentine's Day.

Tl;dr: The vast majority of adults will never have to interact with our age assurance systems and their experience won't change, because we know Discord and how people use it, so we're designing to respect privacy and deliver a safer experience while minimizing friction for adults. Hey folks – I’ve been on Discord since very early 2016 and actually joined the company in 2017. Safety is one of my areas, so today’s announcement on our blog is something I’ve been pretty involved with. I’ve always cared about Discord's approach to privacy (E2EE for A/V was another of my projects here), so I figured I’d add some more context to today's news. I can say confidently that the vast majority of people will never see age verification. I say this because we launched age assurance in the UK and Australia in 2025, and we have some pretty good data on this now. The idea here is that we can pre-identify most adults based on what we already know (not including your messages!), and that looks to get us pretty far here. No face scans, no IDs, for the vast majority of adults.

And if you are one of the smaller subset of folks that we can't definitively pre-identify, then still, you only have to do it if you're accessing age-restricted servers or channels, or changing certain settings. That's really not most users. (Altho... might be more Redditors, tbh.) Last, I know that there is concern about privacy and data leaks. That's a real concern. The selfie system is built purely client-side, it never leaves your device, and we did that intentionally. That'll work for a bunch of users who aren't pre-identified as adults. But if you do end up in the ID bucket, then yeah, you're right that has some risk. We're doing what we can to minimize this by working with our range of partners (who are different partners than the data leak you read about), and if it's any help, we learned a lot internally from the last issue. But I get if that doesn't necessarily inspire more confidence. Anyway, we’ll be sharing more next month as we get closer to the global roll out about the system, including the technology behind it in March. I honestly wouldn't be happy if we didn't build something good and I am excited about what we’re launching, but please let us know what you think when we share more details. And I really appreciate everybody's feedback here today. We’re definitely reading it!

Discord is already starting to walk things back a little, so people should keep doing what they're doing (cancel Nitro, leave feedback/criticism, direct contact through support tickets/phone/email/etc)

The 2XKO situation really sucks cause I thought I finally got a fighting game that actually clicked with me that's not Smash, and now it's dying.

It's absolutely unbelievable that 2xko blew nearly a decade of work to release only to start downsizing their team 3 weeks into launch.

Runeterra had years before they had to bite the bullet, maybe 2xko would have had longer if they hadn't spent 9 years not releasing

Ah stout doesn't have screen sharing... Any other alternatives out there?

It keeps fucking happening...

Well, good thing we didn’t silo off a bunch of important game knowledge in individual discords instead of forums or wikis or gamefaqs for some reason

God dammit what do you mean Dr Pepper had an AI slop commercial last night? Not my comfort drink...

Welp, guess it's really time to jump ship. Time to start researching alternatives... I think Revolt wasn't bad...

A little late for expedition 33 fanart 😅but:

Round1 haul from today. Not bad, could have done better. Really hope this isn't a gambling problem lol

Played through Void Stranger but unfortunately it really wasn't clicking with me as much as I hoped it would have. There is a lot I liked, but I just didn't have enough patience to get through all the puzzles (and multiple playthroughs for the plot/endings).

Next is... sure, Spider-Man!

This is a pretty good example why, even outside of creative, if I find out your business uses AI at any point in your workflow, I lose 90% confidence.

It’s not an ethical concern, it’s a competency one. I assume you’re an idiot if you think these things can work reliably in any critical role.

sos brigade girls 🌈

#art #fanart #haruhisuzumiya

Was watching that new MagicMush video about G4 and I’m laughing my ass off at the fact that in Adam Sesslers final episode you can see him react to an executive calling him over to tell him he’s being let go right before the screen cuts to black like it’s the fucking finale to The Soprano’s

A picture of the built MG Guntank model kit. It's arms are thrown up in the air and it's shouting WOOOOOOOOO

Go get em, champ

Yeah that's what I've heard. Didn't know much about Oshi Push but now I'm not sure if I want to now lol

Hell yeah Weiss Schwarz Online AND the Umamusume sets are getting English releases! Glad I started getting into this game some more. Too bad none of my locals even bother with this game though...

I just learned that there are like 5 or 6 different VTuber TCGs out there. Besides the Hololive TCG, does anyone even play them seriously??

Ok yeah TF2 Classified is really fun lol

(Sorry @boredlamb-da.bsky.social!!!)

I'm still surprised 2XKO hasn't been announced for Switch 2 yet. Riot has released spin-offs on Switch before and the console is perfect for fighting games, so why isn't it there yet? If they do it then I can uninstall Riot Vanguard from my PC lol

Seriously can't wait for this one. @singingsamine.bsky.social we streaming this?

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Ok yeah The Muppet Show (2026) was really great. It captures that classic era Muppet humor and proves that they can still do their own thing in the modern era. Sure the new Kermit voice (that we've had for 10 years now) will take some getting used to, but it was a ton of fun and I hope we get more!

The Pilot Title of the first Muppet Show made out of stone carved by Crazy Harry. It says Sex and Violence

One act into the new Muppet Show and already it’s living up to the original pilot

The Persona 5 Collab Curse has been the death knell for many a FTP game.

Overwatch 2 went FTP and had a collab with Persona 5

Overwatch 2 dies and is reborn as just Overwatch again.

It finally happened.

A revival that celebrates what makes the Muppets great while bringing some welcome but subtle changes.

Our review: https://bit.ly/45NbVZL

One of the best announcements in 2026 so far