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What if we were both on the moon... and one of us killed the other with a rock 😳

one of my favorite interactions I've ever had is when a Japanese guy in like his 40s, asked me, with a slightly bewildered tone "where do you even hear about this shit? even Japanese people don't know this" in regards to me talking about some old untranslated game

the world is vast! many games!

Important to note that the reason RAM is more expensive isn't because OpenAI is ransacking store shelves and buying all the retail stock.

They aren't using those. Instead "AI" companies dumped an insane amount of money on RAM manufacturers to tie up their production lines with parts "AI" needs.

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Wild story, a font service was bought out by a US company and now they are absolutely dogshit and it'll particularly heavily affect JP games, especially service titles.

Execs are embracing AI more than their employees are, new research suggests Research from HR software company Dayforce suggests that executives are leaning into AI far more than their employees.

A study by Dayforce shows 87% of executives use AI for work, compared to 57% of managers and just 27% of employees.

I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?

Boo! (1932), a short film that my girlfriend described to me as a "proto-YouTube Poop", uses scenes from multiple movies, one of which is lost

Worth noting this was before the Payment Processor nonsense, so this is the normal dev-hating Valve actions. Same shit that dings VNs for years.

HORSES cover with a banned from Steam logo

Our upcoming game HORSES was preemptively banned from Steam, with no path to appeal. The game will still launch next week on December 2nd and will be available on EGS, GOG, Humble, and Itch for $4.99. Here is a detailed FAQ covering what happened: horses.wtf/BannedFromSt...

Feels like it should be bigger news that a journalist known for being loud about her investigations into banks/payment processors appears to be getting financially stonewalled by the entire industry unaminously right now.

Anyway I hadn't heard anyone talking about this, so I guess I'm gonna talk about it. Spread the word if you're thinking about doing an nsfw KS project, Stripe apparently might pull your funding at literally any step of the process, with zero warning!

Because SE's QA people are probably not in a position to defend themselves and their jobs in public, I want to spell out some of what it is they specifically do for us localizers, because nothing I've written here is rhetorical. SE QA acts as a final check on our work after translation and editing.

I'm seeing reports that "rude" is one of the labels that defaults not just to "warn" but to "hide", which is bonkers.

Be sure to go through the immediately visible labels, the ones where you have to click the "Bluesky moderation" labeler, _and_ the special "adult content" checkbox.

Fun fact: När samtalet kopplades vidare till banken ombads jag att använda BankID. BankID frågade om jag hade ringt upp banken, men jag hade ju ringt till MasterCard och inte till banken, så jag sade nej. Då sade BankID att det antagligen var ett bedrägeriförsök. De tänkte nog inte igenom det här

Well, it took a while for me to get around to it, but I finally called MasterCard about the itch.io situation rather than just emailing them

...aaaaand it turns out they just redirect me to my bank's "lost card" service, even if I choose an option that has nothing to do with lost cards. Great

Discord age-assurance data breach includes 68,000 Australian users Almost all of the users of video game chat platform Discord who were caught up in October’s data breach are located in Australia, making up 68,122 of the disclosed 70,000 users, Guardian Australia has confirmed. Discord informed in October that a third-party customer service provider that the company was using for age verification had been compromised, with approximately 70,000 users affected, and usernames, email, billing information, IP addresses, and a small number of government ID images. Discord began using facial age assurance to check the age for users in the UK and Australia earlier this year. The company said facial images and ID images “are deleted directly after” ages are confirmed, but Discord’s website noted that if verification fails, users can contact the trust and safety team for a manual review. Ahead of the introduction of age assurance measures on social media in Australia as part of the under-16s social media ban, the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner confirmed 68,122 Australians were affected by the breach. Discord had previously refused to break down the number of Australians caught up in the breach, when asked by Guardian Australia.

One month out from the under-16s ban and almost all of the users caught up in the Discord data breach caused by age assurance appeals were based in Australia, OAIC has finally confirmed. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Crunchyroll is destroying its subtitles for no good reason | Daiz.moe With the Fall 2025 anime season, Crunchyroll demonstrates zero respect for anime as a medium as the presentation quality of its subtitles reach an all-time low.

New article on ★ daiz.moe ★

Crunchyroll is destroying its subtitles for no good reason
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A ton of research and effort went into this one. This is the article to read to get to the bottom of Crunchyroll's subtitle changes!

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As a huge New York Style Hot Dog fan for years, felt compelled to recreate the poster in a high resolution and managed to find the original photo used in the texture

Many thanks to folks from VGPC for help with identifying blobs, especially Prominos and TBemme

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love when someone you're campaigning against is like "yeah, it's working"

In light of the PSF's recent loss of an NSF grant and attendant funding shortfall, I will be matching donations up to $5000. Send me your receipts.

Very happy if you've already donated for similar reasons but the point is to motivate *new* donations so be sure the timestamp is after this toot 😉.

dude

There are plosives! And aspiration is significant for them, unlike in English where voicing is significant instead. This is only one of the many challenges that await you in Chinese

Federal Judge Rules In Favor Of Public Schools In 16 States That Refused To Comply With Trump's Trans Ban The judge will block the Trump administration's attempt to restrict funding for sex education from schools that teach it in an inclusive way.

1. A federal judge has just ruled in favor of 16 states and schools that refuse to comply with Trumps trans ban demand.

The administration is threatening to pull tens of millions in federal sex ed funding.

Now, they will be blocked.

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The Android app got a lot more aggressive on upselling me a few months ago... There's this popup it keeps showing

At least they do still let you link to stuff online. You just have to manually create a public link for the file

I have it in Europe. The buttons are so... big

This is "debanking", and its a problem that has plagued sex workers for decades. It isnt right when its targetting sex workers and its not right when its targetting game devs and creators either.

Give paypros and your givt reps your grievances and demand that debanking of adult content stop

Trans health waiting lists are a political choice I’m just back from an awesome trans healthcare conference in Norway (blog on that to follow). Here I wanted to share information from a presentation by the founder of the transit trans health…

The ‘Transit’ gender clinic in Spain has a 3 WEEK waiting list! 😳😳😳

It covers a population of 8 million, (equivalent to the population of Scotland & Wales combined, or 1/7th of the population of England) It has a total of 43 staff, a majority of whom are part-time, working 6-7 hours per week!

@Inker_comics: I JUST GOT FUCKED UP REAL BAD [shared a screenshot of his suspension from PayPal] @MrQuessos: [quote tweeting @Inker_comics] If you are going to pay an artist via PayPal, please DO NOT include ANYTHING related to commission or nsfw in the payment description. Whether out of ignorance or innocence, you could screw up someone's job.

Mastercard Phone (US): 1-800-627-8372 1-800-307-7309 US option selection: 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 1 Phone (outside US): 1-636-722-7111 Aus: +61 1800 120 113 UK: 0-800-96-4767 All region numbers here (and here ) Stripe California: 888-926-2289 US: 877-887-7815 France: +33 805-11-19-67 Paypal Phone (US): 1-888-221-1161 Phone (outside US): 1-402-935-2050 UK: +44 (0203)-901-7000 Visa Phone (US): 1-800-847-2911 US option selection: 1, 1, 2 or 1, 1, 3 Headquarters: +1 (650)-432-3200 Aus: +61 1800 125 440 Phone (outside US): click here

This is a warning to every artists and clients using PayPal: Leave the note blank or send invoices. Apparently even saying "commission" makes them trigger happy. #SaveSpeech #StopPaypros

And continue the pressure by calling PayPal. Helpful link here: anti-censorship-campaign.carrd.co#phonescript

To get security updates, you need to pay *or* you need to be logged into a Microsoft account at least every 60 days. It's beyond obvious that Microsoft are using security updates as leverage to benefit themselves

You need to be signed into a Microsoft account to get the free Windows 10 security updates in the EU??? Guess I'll be scrambling to install Linux this weekend, because I did not know this before www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/wi...