tacticianlyra

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nobuddy feels like they have a sharp attention span these days, right? and we all just click “agree on terms of service” because its hard to love yourself sometimes, well

enter Terms of Service, Didn’t Read: a website and a browser addon that streamlines the terms of service of many popular web services to be read by the tech sunday drivers.

It’s graded from A (great) to E (awful) and if you have the addon you have access to the info about the website on your bar

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The Dichotomy.

#Rain World

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avmar if i had anything to say about it (if i put my headcanons on his textures)

(the white parts are mahanan body paint!)

#I need to play this again #I enjoy keeping Avmar on my team as dedicated ailment-afflictor

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About the AO3 "No Guest Comments for a while" warning

If you're not following any of AO3's social media accounts you might be in the dark as to what kind of "spam comments" have engendered this banner at the top of the site:

These spam comments have been posted about a great deal on the AO3 subreddit for the past couple of days. Initially they comprised a bunch of guest (logged out users) bot comments that insulted authors by suggesting they were using AI and not writing their own fics. Some examples, from the subreddit:

But it then escalated to outright graphic porn images and gifs being posted in comments, again by logged out 'Guest' accounts. Obviously, I'm not going to give examples of those, but between these two bot infestations, AO3 has clearly decided to act and has temporarily closed the ability to post comments for users who are not logged in with an AO3 account.

Unfortunately, this means that genuine readers who don't have an AO3 account won't be able to leave comments on fics that they enjoy.

If you are a genuine reader who doesn't yet have an AO3 account, I strongly suggest getting yourself on the waiting list for one. More and more AO3 authors are now locking their fics down to registered users only - either due to these bot comments or concerns about AI scraping their work - which means you're probably missing out on a lot of great stuff.

Hopefully guest commenting will be enabled again at some point soon, but I suggest not waiting until then. Get yourself on that list.

Wait times are going to be longer than usual at the moment, due to the current Wattpad purge [info on Fanlore | Wattpad subreddit thread], but if you're in line, then your invite will come through eventually.

Update: There's now a Megathread about this on the AO3 subreddit.

#ngl I suspect guest comments are going to get taken away permanently #AI's here to stay and so are the disgusting shits who get kicks out of doing this

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Well, looks like AO3 bots have evolved once again.

Just had a flood of comments that were literally just graphic pornographic images.

I'll be locking my account/fics to registered users for now, but putting the message out there so other users are aware when checking their inbox.

#oh so THIS is why they shut off guest comment privileges #...ew

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saw a poll about dry/humid heat and like OBVIOUSLY everyone preferred dry heat but. would love to know what everyone considers to be “too hot”

me personally it’s a hard cutoff at 75°F. don’t need anything more than that thank you 🫶🫶🫶

#60-70F #70 and higher makes me lightheaded

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One thing you've got to know about guinea pigs is that they love tossing shit around.

Hides? Flipped.

Food? Scattered.

You can't win with these guys. Anything not bolted down will be knocked over.

#'tis the truth

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EXCUSE ME THERE IS A PLANT THAT CAN MIMIC FAKE PLANTS?????

IT'S CALLED A BOQUILA TRIOFOLIOLATA AND IT'S FUCKING WITH MY BRAIN

IT APPARENTLY CAN MIMIC OTHER PLANTS AND AT FIRST I WAS LIKE "oh cool man it must take it's genetic code and copy it or feel the roots or something like that!! :3"

AND THEN I READ AN ARTICLE ON IT AND THESE FUCKING PARAGRAPHS HIT ME LIKE A BUS

LIKE READ THIS SHIT

WHAT THE FUCK MOTHER NATURE

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you know what really gets my goat?

#W H A T

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I was expecting anything but not Bard

#huh. paladin. #2nd place was druid #followed by sorcerer and barbarian

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enough fighting;

#Snoopy would either freak the frick out or have a complete freeze response #but so long as he realized he was not in danger of being munched he'd probably be okay with it

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yveltal yveltal yveltal /chants/

They better give the Aura Trio megas in Z-A

#now realizing that I'll be able to get my hands on Yveltal as part of the story again after the unfortunate disappearance of my copy of Y

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anyone else been getting this lately? on firefox

#noticing really slow load times too

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#my favorite game tends to change every few months but I would recommended ASA...so long as you stick to singleplayer. #and are okay with Early Access buggyness

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you know i don’t think we often talk about how difficult it actually is to suddenly realize that a belief you thought was good and moral and correct was actually really fucking toxic. how you have to look at something and go ‘oh shit, oh i fucked up. oh this is going to take probably years at minimum to deprogram from my brain because of all the little ways this shit pervaded the rest of my beliefs’

so. to all the people picking up all the pieces of a recently shattered world-view and trying to figure out what is safe to keep and what has to be thrown away and started over

to all the people having to relearn how to even listen to other people

to all the people putting in the work to do better while struggling with the guilt that comes from finding out you were the asshole

i’m proud of y’all.

it’s hard to admit being wrong and even harder to change in the aftermath. just keep doing the best you can and just know that the effort is appreciated. everyone can change. everyone can do better. keep fighting.

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Please tell me other people can relate I’m having a crisis