#exploited in the wild

[svtskneecaps]

FUCK IT!!!! I MISS WHEN MY MINECRAFT SERVERS HAD CULTURAL EXCHANGE IN THEM!!!! I MISS WHEN MY MINECRAFT SERVERS HAD LANGUAGE BARRIERS IN THEM!!!!! I MISS WHEN WE WERE ALL CRAMMED IN A PIT TOGETHER SCREAMING AND SHAKING AND SOBBING AND CONFUSED AS ALL HELL SITTING IN THE TUMBLR LIVEBLOGS HOLDING HANDS AS WE ALL EXPLAINED WHAT THINGS MEANT, WHAT THE REAL WORLD CULTURAL CONTEXT WAS, WHAT WAS GOING ON IN BITS THE TRANSLATOR COULDN'T GET!!!!! FUCK IT!!!!!!! I'LL TAKE ANOTHER GODDAMN PURGATORY!!!!! GIVE ME A BUNCH OF PEOPLE FORMING SIX PERSON FAMILIES OVER THE SPAN OF THREE TO FIVE DAYS!!!!!!!! GIVE ME THE EVIL SHADOW GOVERNMENT THAT NEVER MADE ANY GODDAMN SENSE, GIVE ME THE STUPID FUCKING EYE WORKERS THAT WERE AGGRAVATINGLY UNBEATABLE, GIVE ME THE CONFUSING ASS BLACK CONCRETE STRUCTURES THAT WENT BASICALLY FUCKING NOWHERE!!!!!! I'LL TAKE IT ALL IF IT MEANS I GET A FRENCH MAN AND A GUY FROM LUXEMBOURG AND A WOMAN FROM SOUTH KOREA SHOOTING THE SHIT IN A MINECRAFT PIT STARTER HOUSE AGAIN!!!!!!!!!! I'LL TAKE IT IF I GET BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE AND FRENCH AND ENGLISH AND SPANISH SITTING AT A FUCKING TABLE IN A SECRET UNDERGROUND MEETING ROOM THEORIZING ABOUT A MINECRAFT CHARACTER WITH AN APPEARANCE BASED ON A JOKE ABOUT A GUY'S DOG BEING AN AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE!!!!!!! GIVE IT BACK!!!!!!!!! GIVE IT BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!

[vaguely-concerned]

the fact that irving canonically survives through the end of asunder to be at wynne's funeral is so fucking funny to me. nothing but love and respect for MY unstoppable cockroach morally grey machiavellian mage dad!!! he's survived in his position through multiple attempted rites of annulment and blood mage plots popping up left right and center around him. the chantry keeps trying to stamp him out but his dodge game is simply out of this world, divine. civil wars, political machinations and minefields, chantry atrocities, this wily old motherfucker is dodging and weaving his way through it all, not-quite-no-hits-taken-running-it-but-honestly-close-enough-under-the-circumstances style. if solas does succeed in tearing down the veil I would fully believe that one of the like three people still alive at the end of it all would be a very weary 90 year old first enchanter irving going 'oh this shit again huh'. the maker has cursed him for his hubris and his paperwork is never finished (affectionate, it's fine he canonically loves paperwork)

[nerdyqueerandjewish]

Saw a post being like “if a fundraiser is a scam who cares if some people lose $15 to a scam anyway” and it really has me caught off guard because it’s like ?? Any genuine concern is not for a few people losing out on some money - it’s that people in need, the intended recipients, don’t get the money. And they are not losing out on one donation, they get the cumulative effect of however many donations are instead scooped up by grifters. There’s only so much money people are able to give.

[herigo]

[videoreligion]

Happy #FrancoFriday ! Girls in the Night Traffic (1976)

[salemoleander]

I completely understand the annoyance with this series having such an obtrusive cascade of gimmicks

My extremely biased personal hunch is that Grian was using this season to test a bunch of frameworks for gimmicks at once. Not These Exact Gimmicks but different levels of RNG; if knowledge/skill/etc-based gimmicks were acceptable or equitable; how players & viewers would react to obviously intentional assignment of 'random' traits.

If the next series rolls around and its also crazy & unbalanced, or doesn't take any lessons from this series¹, I'll be annoyed. but rn im like Okay Sure. One wack season to avoid the drip-feed of one mechanic at a time that keeps a whole season locked into Obvious Game Structure Problems is a fine sacrifice.

¹ the key lesson imo being EVERYONE LOVES NON-RANDOM SHIT not that we want a plot on rails, but assigning things to suit players is fine and extremely interesting!! The players' superpowers were THE most interesting session of the whole series, please Grian it's okay to play to the strengths & interests of your friends on purposed

[vettelcore]

it's insane that kids "influencers" have been a thing for such a short time, and yet we're already starting to learn how insidious and fucked up those poor children's lives are..... imagine the kind of stuff that will come out in a decade when they're all grown up jfc

[roukabi]

...they changed the way seikret feathers look in mhwilds... my beautiful tobi lost his sprinklings of golden feathers...

before vs after

[faunandfloraas]

I don't think there is any chance of skz slowing down until military enlistment starts up. They are going to want to take full advantage of their momentum while they can

I am well aware. Tbh though taking a month off a year isn't even slowing down, really? Like, they literally did that last year, and it seemed to do them well, but its not as if they weren't everywhere last year still. Mostly, I just think there should have been bigger moments of rest between tour legs, tbh. Like I dont actually agree with the people who think they would even want to have a massive break bc its pretty evident they wouldn't, but it'd be good if things were planned out a little better and they had more gaps of doing nothing. It's a difficult line to straddle- you're right about the momentum thing but also that kinda only makes me more worried about members like Seungmin 😬 all of them, obviously, but specifically with seungmin hes so consistent with going to his vocal lessons, planning the next song by, always, always singing- him sending that bubble like 'we haven't had a concert in a while" when they had one like 3 weeks before made me go Hmmmm... Ah, well, it's a difficult line, and I will just have to hope they're alright in the long run

[arkangalcomics]

Ha ha imagine using 4chan ha ha. Imagine. Morons getting hacked ha ha

[kraniumet]

culture report; children, interacting with art that speaks to them because of its cuteness, that they honestly ideally should not be in contact with. they are aware there is something "bad" about it that makes most people uncomfortable, but they do not have the capacity to understand the severity of the transgressions present in the thing they're interacting with yet. so they try to synthesize and make up strict yet arcane rules about how you can still interact with it, to their best ability, in an attempt to take charge of the whole situation. with the side effect often being that the people who want to "distance" themselves are still interacting with it under the guise of "fixing it" or warning others about it. and the people who don't are straight up spreading misinformation out of discomfort.

[videoreligion]

Happy #FrancoFriday ! Girls in the Night Traffic (1976)

[hippolotamus]

(Way more than) Seven Sentence Sunday

Thanks for the tags @jesuisici33 @daffi-990 @diazsdimples @tizniz @spotsandsocks @wikiangela @fortheloveofbuddie @wildlife4life @indestructibleheart @steadfastsaturnsrings @elvensorceress @honestlydarkprincess @spaceprincessem I haven’t gotten to all of your snippets but I will and already know they’re amazing and everyone should check them out 💖

Mirrorball (aka pole dancer Buck) won the poll yesterday so here are some sentences from that (prev snippet here) Unsurprisingly, he is producing as many feels (if not more) as I expected. So, uh, sorry about that (but also not sorry at all).

The pole – warmed by the house lights, previous performers, and heat from the three hundred something bodies legally allowed by the fire marshal – presses through his black mesh shirt, around the vegan leather chest harness, finally grazing his spine. He applies more pressure, allowing it to bear more of his weight, raising his arms and caressing the brushed stainless steel like a lover. A gentle touch he’s never experienced but aches with longing for anyway.

Just after the first musical bridge, a series of twangy guitar riffs and soulful keyboard notes, a member of the bachelorette party – maid of honor according to her hot pink sash – approaches the stage. There’s a bit of a wobble to her gait, but she’s still holding her own as she confidently struts forward to offer some bills she not so subtly clenches in her teeth.

If Buck was interested in her, he would make a show of crawling on all fours and take the proffered cash between his lips. But he’s not, so he holds onto the pole as he swings around, dipping low to pluck it from her with his fingers, giving her a wink as he does.

It’s possible she’s familiar with his act because she pouts a bit at that, even as the rest of her group cheers and wolf whistles, tugging up her cutoff short shorts to further reveal the swell of her ass as she flounces back to her seat. As if she’s daring him to reconsider lest he miss out. And maybe he will, if the offer’s still there at the end of his shift and he’s feeling lonely enough.

Buck tucks the money into a hidden pocket between the waistband of his royal blue hotpants and his dance belt. The stuff is loaded with enough germs, he’s not particularly interested in having it touch his sweat beaded skin before redistributing it out in the world.

When he resumes his routine, letting his gaze drift to the back of the room, he works to quickly recover as his breath catches in his throat. Dark eyes suddenly look impossibly darker – hungry and possessive – as lips wrap around the mouth of a beer. It’s tilted back in such a way that they never break eye contact. Maybe it should scare Buck, make him consider asking Bosko or Williams from security to see him to his jeep. But, strangely, it doesn’t.

The opportunity to let that process or sink in passes when his music ends and he begins collecting stray cash that’s been tossed on stage. In the time it takes him to stand back up, and throw a flirty kiss to the audience, he realizes the back table is empty save for a bottle and a chair sitting askew as if the occupant left in a hurry.

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[an-ruraiocht]

sometimes you spend years being mad at Thing A and then a slightly altered version of it comes along, let's call that Thing B, and you're also mad about that, and because that one is topical or goes viral somehow, people see you being mad about that and they're like "wow, fascinating how Thing B is suddenly a problem, wait until you hear that Thing A sucked the whole time too, just say you hate [group tangentially connected to the Thing B variant]" or even "Thing B isn't a problem, it's just Thing A in a different hat" and you're there like. what the fuck are you on about. i was also mad at Thing A for like the last fifteen years. Thing B is just the one happening right now that i'm talking about

[teatimemols]

No, no, I didn't feel like reading more about one of the (potential casual) LIs' sexual adventures. Like, the scene was super odd. There seemed to be like two guys, and the woman was interested in the other guy, and then she realized the demon was there, so she went...for him instead? And they talked about it being casual, and then they started making out, and she seemed to be laying with people to have a better life....

Ehhhhh

Nah, thank you, but no. I was kind of interested in him, but it really turned me off. I don't really enjoy asking and hearing details about ex relationships of people I'm interested in, I mean these sort of details.

[sharada-n]

Not the @whumptober mods actually deleting replies speaking out against AI and how using AI that scraps (fan)art without consent is bad like, that's a REAL good look on top of the throwing disabled people under the bus because "scrapping AI is definitely the same as accessibility features" and "we don't care if people use exploitative tools, because we want them to have fun".