A Mini-Rant About Deleting and Corrupting Pokemon Data
Pokemon delete/corrupt data screens scare me. I know they're delete data screen and you REALLY don't want to see them after clocking 300 hours (i.e- me). But like. Gens 3-5 had the scariest nightmare delete screens in the franchise.
Here's what a modern delete screen looks like (aka- any game on Switch)-
Honestly not all that terrible. Having a corrupt file on some modern games is borderline funny. Like this Let's Go screen, complete with cutesy Pikachu and Eevee.
Ah, perfect for the kids of today. But my generation had MONOCHROME HELL.
I think it's the bright toxic neon colors and the music cutting out and the multiple screens of slowly crawling "arE YOu suRE?" text and being a Pokemon fan for so long that combine to send shivers down my spine. And the data corrupt screen? It doesn't even try to to be funny. It scares the shit out of you.
Like if 10 y/o me saw this I'd cry and pee myself. It's amazing how absolutely nothing is scarier than. Like. That trend of anti-piracy screens.
Ocassionally you'll get little glimpses of disassociation... That's normal, it's called reality peeking through your conceptual delusion of "normality"
last night was making me all nostalgic for the older ego content (like "S.ay Goodb.ye" and the cryptic chaos from May 2018), so naturally I started to think about the YouTube AU and what it would be like if me and Anti made a video for Halloween like the older ego stuff. Except I'm not entirely sure how it would play out as far as what would be the cause of the horror, because the glitch entity in question is already starring in the video. It can't exactly be the entities causing trouble and technical issues when they're already here. But I'm sure we'd figure something out.
Our seemingly-innocent base for the video is that we're trying to make some spooky Halloween crafts/desserts, and yes we're in costume of course. I do a simple but creepy-cute grim reaper look (thank you black hooded cloak I bought from Spirit Halloween a couple years ago) while Anti steals a black cat ear headband to go with his usual all-black attire. Most of the video is normal enough: banter, chaos, messing up simple instructions, hip-bumping each other with a deadpan "move" when the other person is in our way, Anti cracking open the m&ms and immediately dumping half the bag directly into his mouth, stealing kisses when the other least expects it/as a distraction, all good stuff. I'm sure he tries to playfully sabotage me at several points. We have so much fun making the video and goofing off/being chaotic with each other that we nearly forget about making it spooky.
Dr. Tess Lawrie, on her attempts to share Ivermectin studies with the FDA, the NIH, the WHO and how it was ignored. Listen for the adverse effects numbers? 🤔
So hard to know how to deal with this! When’s the last time you got a hug (or were touched at all) and when’s the last time you got BITTERLY BETRAYED BY YOUR CLOSEST FRIENDS
Early works with mpeg compression corruption, 20 years ago, during my 2003/2004 journey of experimentation with new forms of visual decay in the digital age that would lead me to the Nine Inch Nails With Teeth aesthetic. Some of this stuff made its way into parts of the large body of With Teeth artwork, but some of it is liminal inspirations in accidents, spawning ideas and techniques that I still carry with me today in my works across all mediums.
See my previous post for more thoughts from this unique era of early digital glitch art.
You can read more about my digital glitch art processes for With Teeth, and download a full tutorial, on my Patreon.
Go back to the top of this article and reread that transcript of Rep. Buddy Carter grilling TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew. Now, Carter is a dunderhead, but he’s dunderheaded in a way that illuminates just how bad COPPA enforcement is, and has been, for 25 long years.
Carter thinks that TikTok is using biometric features to enforce COPPA. He imagines that TikTok is doing some kind of high-tech phrenology to make sure that every user is over 13 (“I find that [you aren’t capturing facial images] hard to believe. It is our understanding that they’re looking at the eyes. How do you determine what age they are then?”).
Chew corrects the Congressdunderhead from Georgia, explaining that TikTok uses “age-gating”: “when you ask the user what age they are.”
That is the industry-wide practice for enforcing COPPA: every user is presented with a tick-box that says “I am over 13.” If they tick that box, the company claims it has satisfied the requirement not to spy on kids.
But if COPPA were meaningfully enforced, companies would simply have to stop spying on everyone, because there are no efficient ways to verify the age of users at the scale needed for general operation of a website.
-How To Make a Child-Safe TikTok: Have you tried not spying on kids?