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"oh oopsie some intern used AI art for our spotify page! it was a lowly employee making a mistake! we would never!"

How's the garden looking with all that manure you've got piled over there, SSE? Probably smells about as good as that candle you had AI come up with.

This isn’t even a “but… but they prommy’d not to use AI!!!” thing. That would be valid, but this is worse. The guy in charge of music at SSE already considered signing a contract with Dj AI’s company when the social media team made the statement that SSE would never use AI. He’d known since 2023. It wasn’t a broken promise, it was just a straight up lie.

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yeah they signed a "record deal" with a digital human called DJ Dex (aka AI)

“I first encountered DJ Dex at Future Music Forum in Barcelona in 2023 and have been intrigued ever since,” said Jimmy Wahlsteen, Head of Music at Star Stable. “Dex’s collaborative approach with real producers and DJs, combined with her virtual identity, creates something uniquely engaging. Her sound is a blend of dance floor energy and emotional resonance that we know will resonate with our players. We’re excited to support Dex’s music career — from club tracks to live gigs.” As part of the agreement, DJ Dex’s upcoming music — including tracks titled Stay and Future Music — will be integrated into the Star Stable universe, available for streaming globally, and featured at Dex’s immersive live shows across Europe.

(just a snippet from the article)

do I write sso support a massive essay about why they're dumb for using AI or do I just

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do I write sso support a massive essay about why they're dumb for using AI or do I just

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HAPPY DARK CORE DAY!

Like Garnok, I too wish I was asleep for eons at the moment.

(Is that even still the current lore, that Garnok is asleep and Dark Core is trying to wake him up? Or have they fully swapped over to just trying to 'free' him with no references to him sleeping anymore?)

I don't have anything else gotta be honest this year has been kicking my butt. I haven't even had a chance to queue stuff up from previous years I'll get to that after I sleep.

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We're getting there, have you heard of Fling Golf? It is still played on traditional golf courses, but given you are flinging the ball (at least until you get close to the hole) it could be a vital evolutionary mid point to Golf 2.0 Hard Mode due to the additional method to moving the ball, which would add versatility to trick shots.

Also it's hilarious watching people just yeet golf balls around, I randomly caught a competition on TV and I loved all the names for the different swing/sling styles. I'm sad I only remember the "trebuchet" launch. They also already have trickshot-esque Fling Golf competitions to show off the sport (also something I caught randomly on tv)

(Not that traditional golfing doesn't allow for some epic trick shots. But we can evolve. We can expand. We can fling. We can accidentally throw the golf ball and our clubs)

The thing about golf as a sport is that there's like.... nothing Inherently evil about hitting a ball with a weird club. We've got several sports like that that DON'T require massive tracts of land kept mowed to within an inch of its life. To say nothing of the pesticides and water use.

Which is why I'm proposing Golf 2.0: Hard Mode! Where you just play Wherever, no high maintenance landscaping necessary. I want to see what kind of trick shots and weird modified clubs golfers can come up with if you need to get your ball out of knee-high grass and across a bog. Also you should bring back the all-plaid look. Give a lil boost to the Harris Tweed economy.

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June 11th Dark Core Day coming up fast

mark your calendars

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30 Days

Dark Core Day is June 11th, in a month, 30 days

I've been doing this for years you know what's up.

If you don't know what Dark Core Day is, it's one of the few dates specified from the original Starshine Legacy games (June 11th, 1890), dating when Deep Core (original Dark Core company name) was founded. Make something, post Dark Core stuff, take screenshots, whatever. It's for fun because it's funny

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Okay but what if for the championship seasons in SSO they made them more like the Trailblazers

What if they have bonus points (or double points, whatever) periods, like a week in the middle of the season and then the last week of the championship season bonus points? That'd be nice.

Also we've got a couple NPCs with champ dailies (I can not remember their names, one in Moorland and one in the Medieval area). They could give champ season points with their dailies, be the Championship season equivalent of the Trailblazer Daily Log In points.

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aw what? Well as long as it's COMPLETE gear sets and not "here are matching pants and a hat, and a different matching shirt and gloves and shoes, and a third matching hat and sunglasses and shirt"

Why does the new article give AI summary vibes... Like, I have no definitive proof, but after almost 10 years of reading the articles, I'd say I know the writing style pretty well, and this article just gives me some strange vibes. It's weirdly stilted imo?

To compare:

Trail of Embers (the new article)

Trail of Triumph article (the trailblazer track before this)

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Maybe they have someone different writing (or editing) the articles? I'm not sure who writes them (or edits), could easily be a job that gets kicked around. Nothing about it seemed off to me, and native english speakers regularly don't know the difference between active and passive voice. I didn't notice until I saw comments here, so non native speakers may also get fuzzy on that. Proofreading for people at work (not as an Editor, just a second set of eyes), I regularly explain active vs passive voice for announcements in emails, flyers, etc. (And I only have a solid grasp because of Latin hA)

It read to me like they are giving more details IN the article itself, possibly stretching out the article because the Trailblazer is the only thing happening this week. Fluff it with details so it looks longer, visually make it look like a 'normal' or 'big' update since there aren't multiple headers to give it the typical "this is happening AND this AND this ooo! So many things this update!"

But I'm operating on a few hours of sleep because of a late night sO.

(I wonder if they're listing how many gear items are in the track because there was speculation before that stuff was missing? Or that the phones in the winter (?) one were filler items that never got swapped out? I was happy to see how many gear items there were. 12 items is a full set for clothes and horse gear, isn't it? That sounds like enough items for a full set of clothes and tack, which will be nice after getting weird partial sets)

I'm sorry for rambling I get talkative when I'm this tired and low on sleep and I'm in for a loooong day

Why does the new article give AI summary vibes... Like, I have no definitive proof, but after almost 10 years of reading the articles, I'd say I know the writing style pretty well, and this article just gives me some strange vibes. It's weirdly stilted imo?

To compare:

Trail of Embers (the new article)

Trail of Triumph article (the trailblazer track before this)

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I gotta be honest because of how tumblr shows things the first thing I saw was your tags and you had me at "eagle endoscopy" and that is the ONLY thing I am interested in now I haven't even looked at your post I am just interested in the eagle now

Okay I have now read the actual post and WOW the articles my google alert sent my way did a terrible job covering what the investigation was actually diving into. So they DO have an issue with in game events, and marketing on instagram. Wonder why the articles I've been finding didn't mention the instagram marketing thing at all as an issue, that makes so much more sense than "people are confused by double star coin sales".

Time to read the rest of that pdf, thanks :D

swedish/maybe any european sso folks plz explain

I'm tracking the SSO legal stuff and "limited time offers" is one of the issues, which in my brain means "can't offer things only for a limited time in game like the halloween horses only available for the halloween event, pressuring the player to buy star coins to buy the horses/gear during that 4 week window"

But they mean double star coin offers or when lifetime is 30% off. Which I guess are 'limited time' deals?

I'm from the USA. Sales, buy-one-get-one, coupons, discounts, etc are normal for me. Is that NOT a thing in Europe??? I genuinely do not understand what the confusion is over a company having a sale is, or why that's worth freaking out and clutching pearls over in the EU.

Someone please explain like I'm 5 I'm assuming I'm missing cultural context here.

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I understand they can't advertise to kids period. But I guess my confusion was the distinction between "can't advertise to children at all" and "can't offer limited time sales to 'pressure' purchases" since advertising a 50% star coins deal is still advertising to children, so the first issue. It just read to me like Europeans had never heard of a sale before which didn't make sense.

I guess it's the "predatory" angle? Rather than advertising to kids

And here I was wondering if this meant no more event gear or horses and wondering if this would impact the trailblazer or championship seasons because that was all "limited time" content. Probably not for the trailblazer and champ ranks, since that's not money, that's just playtime.

swedish/maybe any european sso folks plz explain

I'm tracking the SSO legal stuff and "limited time offers" is one of the issues, which in my brain means "can't offer things only for a limited time in game like the halloween horses only available for the halloween event, pressuring the player to buy star coins to buy the horses/gear during that 4 week window"

But they mean double star coin offers or when lifetime is 30% off. Which I guess are 'limited time' deals?

I'm from the USA. Sales, buy-one-get-one, coupons, discounts, etc are normal for me. Is that NOT a thing in Europe??? I genuinely do not understand what the confusion is over a company having a sale is, or why that's worth freaking out and clutching pearls over in the EU.

Someone please explain like I'm 5 I'm assuming I'm missing cultural context here.

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swedish/maybe any european sso folks plz explain

I'm tracking the SSO legal stuff and "limited time offers" is one of the issues, which in my brain means "can't offer things only for a limited time in game like the halloween horses only available for the halloween event, pressuring the player to buy star coins to buy the horses/gear during that 4 week window"

But they mean double star coin offers or when lifetime is 30% off. Which I guess are 'limited time' deals?

I'm from the USA. Sales, buy-one-get-one, coupons, discounts, etc are normal for me. Is that NOT a thing in Europe??? I genuinely do not understand what the confusion is over a company having a sale is, or why that's worth freaking out and clutching pearls over in the EU.

Someone please explain like I'm 5 I'm assuming I'm missing cultural context here.

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SSO run two champs at a time again send tweet

(I miss those days)

Also SSO run champs every 15 minutes. If you're going to have events like the Equestrian Festival with dailies assigned to each champ, having the champs run WAY more often (like every 15 minutes instead of every 30) is just respecting your players time. There are what, 10 champs? 5 hours in game sitting around mostly afk (or logging in and out) is not a fun experience, and that's assuming all the champs run in order and you don't miss any. Also helpful for champ reputation factions, since like half the champs have factions now, and extremely helpful for those champ season rankings for the ribbons. If I'm on to champ I just want to be on to champ, and twiddling my thumbs for 25 minutes between champs is so aggravatingly boring for my ADHD brain.

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Real talk why is Sabine's Moorland race only 150 xp. All the other races for the event are 400 or 500 xp, but the most difficult race by far is a fraction of that?

Do people bother doing Sabine's race for the horse XP or do people just skip it because it's not worth the XP for how unforgiving it is?

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drake?

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