Audacious Ness

OPINION - Gen Z are eating dinner at 6pm — and it's because they're losers

please, please get some real problems

I prefer 5, but I'll take 6 in a pinch.

So they used alt text appropriately on their posts on the other sites? Or you're just spouting off?

You mean like this one?

title: A statement to the community addressing our announcement of the new licensed version of Codenames & our next steps. We are all devastated that the project we were so excited to share with you caused harm instead of joy. We have been working to bring you the best possible games for years, and just like our other titles, we worked diligently to bring you this latest title, too. In our excitement about creating a game within a universe many of us still treasure, we failed to see how that universe no longer brings joy to others. Over time, the harmful views of the story's creator have escalated into harmful actions. We apologize unreservedly for not doing more to consider that possibility, and for subsequently announcing the game without taking preemptive actions to mitigate the pain it would cause.

Many of you have expressed your understandable anger, pain, and disappointment through a variety of platforms. Frankly, we were not prepared for the volume of the response. As a result, multiple accounts and comments were blocked or muted that should not have been. We would never want anyone experiencing the pain this situation has caused to then feel like they are being silenced. So for that, too, we want to sincerely apologize. Like the world we live in, CGE is made up of individuals with various backgrounds, gender identities, sexual orientations, and belief systems. None of us would ever want to take actions that would hurt or restrict the rights of another human being. We commit to remaining supportive of an inclusive and welcoming community of gamers. We believe in the rights of all people to have their own identity, and we reject hate and bigotry in all their forms. Trans rights are human rights.

With the above in mind, and after many heartfelt and vital discussions both internally and with members of the affected community, we have decided to donate 100% of the profit from this game to appropriate charitable organizations. We will ensure that an amount equal to or greater than the fee paid to license this product will go directly to organizations that provide support for the trans community. We evaluate profits and make charitable-giving decisions each December, and we will continue using this annual process to direct the game's profits. We will listen to recommendations from the community to help guide our choices of organizations that provide support for the trans community. Our goal is to select those that offer direct, practical help to people in need — for example, services similar to the emergency hotline that was recently discontinued.

At CGE, we are committed to making decisions that come from the heart in everything we do. We opened discussions with members of the affected communities and we came together as a whole company to find a way forward that was a genuine reflection of our values and desire to do the right thing. We are sorry for the time it took us to communicate our path forward, but we hope you see that we did so with the care and consideration that you all deserve.

Before anyone asks, here's a version with alt text:

If only @czechgames.com cared about accessibility.

Thanks, @snepshark.itch.io

"We're just asking questions."
— The Spanish Inquisition

Please stand up for accessibility and use alt text whenever you share an image.

To be fair, humans are bullshit machines, so trying to make the computer indistinguishable from humans means turning the computer into a bullshit machine.

Anyone remember why people wanted that?

(And Bluesky may legitimately not be for everyone, and that's OK!)

Sounds like you're Beyond™ Beef and full-on ready to revolt.

But at least you haven't yeeted yourself into space for a brief intermission yet.

Wild wild wild how folks claim that a politician saying there are “legitimate concerns” about trans girls playing sports isn’t transphobic.

The only way you can see that as NOT transphobic is if you are transphobic.

There are no “legitimate concerns,” just a hate-filled propaganda campaign.

These uninterrogated views are ripe breeding grounds for racism, misogyny, etc.

*taps the sign*

New level of dystopia achieved: A state Supreme Court has announced a death sentence ruling via an AI spokesman

If only @petebuttigieg.bsky.social could take trans folk seriously (you know, the vulnerable people being actively harmed) instead of the shrieking banshees who are in no way impacted by trans folk existing.

Frosthaven is pretty long.

Weirdly, I don't tend to care what the average lay person thinks about things that can be examined and proved.

I have literally never used ChatGPT to do anything. Gonna start a chastity club.

Thanks. I gave up waiting yesterday and installed without flatpak

And maybe a protection order. WTF

It's also a whole new level of better be sure you're on the site you think you are. Phishers gotta love people getting used to uploading personal info and live photos of themselves.

walking out into the woods behind my house and screaming THERAPY BUT NOTHING SERIOUS at the owls and bugs until I pass out

She's lost any guise of pearl clutching concern about women instead of trans people.

If people are needing to try on bras because they have tits so they need bras they're clearly not "some man pretending to be trans to invade women's spaces", she can't explain away her transphobia at this point

Also, who cares who uses which changing room? Why are these gendered spaces to start with?

Worth noting that no payment need be involved, either. It's still plagiarism if you get a guy to volunteer to brainstorm in front of you (and you don't properly cite that guy as the source of any ideas you use).

Harvard Guide to Using Source has a pretty decent guide.

I heard it’s so bad in DC that a convicted felon was spotted on the roof of the White House today

Indeed: How does it matter if you're paying tech execs, your neighbor, or an anonymous person online?

I still hold to my "pay a guy" principle of AI plagiarism in the classroom. Is it plagiarism to pay a guy to brainstorm for you? Is it plagiarism to pay a guy to summarize your sources for you? Well, then it's plagiarism to make a chatbot complete those tasks.

the brain that can see a face in a wall outlet was always doomed to hear the voice of God in a markov chain