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i've thought about Stilwaterian tongs so much. Sleeping Dogs really did a number on me

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Wong better get to the point, he talks too much. This is gonna be about Akuji, I just know it. At least the tongs are getting ready to do something. Wong's waited a long time to make his move. Hope the old woman doesn't show up. We haven't acted in too long.

an interesting set of lines from a random ped that sheds some light on Mr. Wong's role in Stilwater's criminal underworld

#i don't know the context in which these play i've never heard them in-game. i just came across them randomly #Saints Row #sr2 voice clips #sr Deep Lore

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gonna make Erandur say "Keep your distance. Marriage has made me fear and resent women"

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"Saints Row n'wahs" or some shit idk

#dammit Keith Silverstein has only worked on srtt it would've been so funny to hear his voice in sr2

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fuck i love sr there's always something new to discover

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what was grandpa up to. did V actually have bigger plans for him than what we got. Wong continues to be one of the more intriguing minor characters of old school sr

#theres this ped who tells Boss ''if i were you i wouldn't trust Wong'' #but he continues by saying that his opinion probably isn't worth much because he thinks the same of ''all foreigners'' #racist dude still got me good with that first part the one time ive heard that line in-game

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been gone for like a month and when i looked into the sr2 ped persona Szarabajka voiced i immediately found an interesting set of lines he did about Wong (same persona too):

"Wong better get to the point, he talks too much"

"This is gonna be about Akuji, I just know it"

"At least the tongs are getting ready to do something"

"Wong's waited a long time to make his move"

"Hope the old woman doesn't show up"

"We haven't acted in too long"

i don't know where these would play. it sounds like some kind of a meeting but these lines are for freeroam? and who's the "old woman"? ive been back for 30 minutes and i already have so many questions

#cant believe my original the character Lilian ''Rotmouth'' Chou is real #no i think it's just his wife this ped persona's One Thing is some boomer ''i hate my wife'' shit. V sure loved that trope #anyways Stilwaterian tongs confirmed but What Does It Mean???

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i have like combined 4k+ hours in sr2 and skyrim and i only just now managed to pinpoint Keith Szarabajka as both the base game male dunmer voice in skyrim (Erandur, Ambarys Rendar etc.) and also that one ped persona in sr2 who you can always hear barking "when you asked me if you've put on weight I thought you wanted an honest answer!" at his wife

#the actor is illinoisian In Fact #i havent accumulated another 100+ hours in skyrim ae in the past few weeks or anything. no way

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did anyone else like a year ago get hounded by this guy in the sr fandom who spontaneously went on furious rants about the community at large and demanded that you yes You Personally must answer for all its sins and beg for their forgiveness because phew

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Loser!!!

hey. be nice

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looks nice n grody already idk how much more you could really add at this texture size without it turning into pixel mush

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meat balls

new developments

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new developments

#sr2 mod stuff

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Sam lake behaving badly

#sami pistää ranttaliksi

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AI Scraping Isn't Just Art And Fanfic

Something I haven't really seen mentioned and I think people may want to bear in mind is that while artists are the most heavily impacted by AI visual medium scraping, it's not like the machine knows or cares to differentiate between original art and a photograph of your child.

AI visual media scrapers take everything, and that includes screengrabs, photographs, and memes. Selfies, pictures of your pets and children, pictures of your home, screengrabs of images posted to other sites -- all of the comic book imagery I've posted that I screengrabbed from digital comics, images of tweets (including the icons of peoples' faces in those tweets) and instas and screengrabs from tiktoks. I've posted x-ray images of my teeth. All of that will go into the machine.

That's why, at least I think, Midjourney wants Tumblr -- after Instagram we are potentially the most image-heavy social media site, and like Instagram we tag our content, which is metadata that the scraper can use.

So even if you aren't an artist, unless you want to Glaze every image of any kind that you post, you probably want to opt out of being scraped. I'm gonna go ahead and say we've probably already been scraped anyway, so I don't think there's a ton of point in taking down your tumblr or locking down specific images, but I mean...especially if it's stuff like pictures of children or say, a fundraising photo that involves your medical data, it maybe can't hurt.

If you do want to officially opt out, which may help if there's a class-action lawsuit later, you're going to want to go to the gear in the upper-right corner on the Tumblr desktop site, select each of your blogs from the list on the right-hand side, and scroll down to "Visibility". Select "Prevent third party sharing for [username]" to flip that bad boy on.

Per notes: for the app, go to your blog (the part of the app that shows what you post) and hit the gear in the upper right, then select "visibility" and it will be the last option. If you have not updated your app, it will not appear (confirmed by me, who cannot see it on my elderly version of the app).

You don't need to do it on both desktop and mobile -- either one will opt you out -- but on the app you may need to load each of your sideblogs in turn and then go back into the gear and opt out for that blog, like how you have to go into the settings for each sideblog on desktop and do it.

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at some point i'd love to release Julius Little's Baby Gangster BBQ proper but instead of just being a burn scars mod like i initially envisioned it i'd like to make it into a whole collection of scars and scuffs and "imperfections". i've made the freckles and the bruises and stuff already i'd love to do like bloodied knuckles and open wounds

shoutout to Singa who's already done an excellent mod based on this very theme AND the og freckles mod though, what a machine

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game can't look ugly if you can't see it

#this is why i dont share my presets lmao