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mostlysignssomeportents · 6 months

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Amazon Alexa is a graduate of the Darth Vader MBA

Next Tuesday (Oct 31) at 10hPT, the Internet Archive is livestreaming my presentation on my recent book, The Internet Con.

If you own an Alexa, you might enjoy its integration with IFTTT, an easy scripting environment that lets you create your own little voice-controlled apps, like "start my Roomba" or "close the garage door." If so, tough shit, Amazon just nuked IFTTT for Alexa:

https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/25/23931463/ifttt-amazon-alexa-applets-ending-support-integration-automation

Amazon can do this because the Alexa's operating system sits behind a cryptographic lock, and any tool that bypasses that lock is a felony under Section 1201 of the DMCA, punishable by a 5-year prison sentence and a $500,000 fine. That means that it's literally a crime to provide a rival OS that lets users retain functionality that Amazon no longer supports.

This is the proverbial gun on the mantelpiece, a moral hazard and invitation to mischief that tempts Amazon executives to run a bait-and-switch con where they sell you a gadget with five features and then remotely kill-switch two of them. This is prime directive of the Darth Vader MBA: "I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further."

So many companies got their business-plan at the Darth Vader MBA. The ability to revoke features after the fact means that companies can fuck around, but never find out. Apple sold millions of tracks via iTunes with the promise of letting you stream them to any other device you owned. After a couple years of this, the company caught some heat from the record labels, so they just pushed an update that killed the feature:

https://memex.craphound.com/2004/10/30/apple-to-ipod-owners-eat-shit-and-die-updated/

That gun on the mantelpiece went off all the way back in 2004 and it turns out it was a starter-pistol. Pretty soon, everyone was getting in on the act. If you find an alert on your printer screen demanding that you install a "security update" there's a damned good chance that the "update" is designed to block you from using third-party ink cartridges in a printer that you (sorta) own:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/11/ink-stained-wretches-battle-soul-digital-freedom-taking-place-inside-your-printer

Selling your Tesla? Have fun being poor. The upgrades you spent thousands of dollars on go up in a puff of smoke the minute you trade the car into the dealer, annihilating the resale value of your car at the speed of light:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/23/how-to-fix-cars-by-breaking-felony-contempt-of-business-model/

Telsa has to detect the ownership transfer first. But once a product is sufficiently cloud-based, they can destroy your property from a distance without any warning or intervention on your part. That's what Adobe did last year, when it literally stole the colors from your Photoshop files, in history's SaaSiest heist caper:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/28/fade-to-black/#trust-the-process

And yet, when we hear about remote killswitches in the news, it's most often as part of a PR blitz for their virtues. Russia's invasion of Ukraine kicked off a new genre of these PR pieces, celebrating the fact that a John Deere dealership was able to remotely brick looted tractors that had been removed to Chechnya:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/05/08/about-those-kill-switched-ukrainian-tractors/

Today, Deere's PR minions are pitching search-and-replace versions of this story about Israeli tractors that Hamas is said to have looted, which were also remotely bricked.

But the main use of this remote killswitch isn't confounding war-looters: it's preventing farmers from fixing their own tractors without paying rent to John Deere. An even bigger omission from this narrative is the fact that John Deere is objectively Very Bad At Security, which means that the world's fleet of critical agricultural equipment is one breach away from being rendered permanently inert:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/23/reputation-laundry/#deere-john

There are plenty of good and honorable people working at big companies, from Adobe to Apple to Deere to Tesla to Amazon. But those people have to convince their colleagues that they should do the right thing. Those debates weigh the expected gains from scammy, immoral behavior against the expected costs.

Without DMCA 1201, Amazon would have to worry that their decision to revoke IFTTT functionality would motivate customers to seek out alternative software for their Alexas. This is a big deal: once a customer learns how to de-Amazon their Alexa, Amazon might never recapture that customer. Such a switch wouldn't have to come from a scrappy startup or a hacker's DIY solution, either. Take away DMCA 1201 and Walmart could step up, offering an alternative Alexa software stack that let you switch your purchases away from Amazon.

Money talks, bullshit walks. In any boardroom argument about whether to shift value away from customers to the company, a credible argument about how the company will suffer a net loss as a result has a better chance of prevailing than an argument that's just about the ethics of such a course of action:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/28/microincentives-and-enshittification/

Inevitably, these killswitches are pitched as a paternalistic tool for protecting customers. An HP rep once told me that they push deceptive security updates to brick third-party ink cartridges so that printer owners aren't tricked into printing out cherished family photos with ink that fades over time. Apple insists that its ability to push iOS updates that revoke functionality is about keeping mobile users safe – not monopolizing repair:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/22/vin-locking/#thought-differently

John Deere's killswitches protect you from looters. Adobe's killswitches let them add valuable functionality to their products. Tesla? Well, Tesla at least is refreshingly honest: "We have a killswitch because fuck you, that's why."

These excuses ring hollow because they conspicuously omit the possibility that you could have the benefits without the harms. Like, your tractor could come with a killswitch that you could bypass, meaning you could brick it at a distance, and still fix it yourself. Same with your phone. Software updates that take away functionality you want can be mitigated with the ability to roll back those updates – and by giving users the ability to apply part of a patch, but not the whole patch.

Cloud computing and software as a service are a choice. "Local first" computing is possible, and desirable:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/03/there-is-no-cloud/#only-other-peoples-computers

The cheapest rhetorical trick of the tech sector is the "indivisibility gambit" – the idea that these prix-fixe menus could never be served a la carte. Wanna talk to your friends online? Sorry there's just no way to help you do that without spying on you:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/11/08/divisibility/#technognosticism

One important argument over smart-speakers was poisoned by this false dichotomy: the debate about accessibility and IoT gadgets. Every IoT privacy or revocation scandal would provoke blanket statements from technically savvy people like, "No one should ever use one of these." The replies would then swiftly follow: "That's an ableist statement: I rely on my automation because I have a disability and I would otherwise be reliant on a caregiver or have to go without."

But the excluded middle here is: "No one should use one of these because they are killswitched. This is especially bad when a smart speaker is an assistive technology, because those applications are too important to leave up to the whims of giant companies that might brick them or revoke their features due to their own commercial imperatives, callousness, or financial straits."

Like the problem with the "bionic eyes" that Second Sight bricked wasn't that they helped visually impaired people see – it was that they couldn't be operated without the company's ongoing support and consent:

https://spectrum.ieee.org/bionic-eye-obsolete

It's perfectly possible to imagine a bionic eye whose software can be maintained by third parties, whose parts and schematics are widely available. The challenge of making this assistive technology fail gracefully isn't technical – it's commercial.

We're meant to believe that no bionic eye company could survive unless they devise their assistive technology such that it fails catastrophically if the business goes under. But it turns out that a bionic eye company can't survive even if they are allowed to do this.

Even if you believe Milton Friedman's Big Lie that a company is legally obligated to "maximize shareholder value," not even Friedman says that you are legally obligated to maximize companies' shareholder value. The fact that a company can make more money by defrauding you by revoking or bricking the things you buy from them doesn't oblige you to stand up for their right to do this.

Indeed, all of this conduct is arguably illegal, under Section 5 of the FTC Act, which prohibits "unfair and deceptive business practices":

https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/10/the-courage-to-govern/#whos-in-charge

"No one should ever use a smart speaker" lacks nuance. "Anyone who uses a smart speaker should be insulated from unilateral revocations by the manufacturer, both through legal restrictions that bind the manufacturer, and legal rights that empower others to modify our devices to help us," is a much better formulation.

It's only in the land of the Darth Vader MBA that the deal is "take it or leave it." In a good world, we should be able to take the parts that work, and throw away the parts that don't.

(Image: Stock Catalog/https://www.quotecatalog.com, Sam Howzit; CC BY 2.0; modified)

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/26/hit-with-a-brick/#graceful-failure

#pluralistic #alexa #ifttt #criptech #disability #drm #revocation #nothing about us without us #futureproofing #graceful failure #darth vader MBA #enshittification

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crevicedwelling · 11 months

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Can you tell me some slugs that have very unique patterns or body shapes?

some Athoracophoridae:

some Veronicellidae, like my slugs:

Testacella has a shell, but it’s not really doing anything:

Gaeotis is another (entirely unrelated) semi-slug with a wonderful appearance:

and something from the most “typical” family of slugs, Limacidae. probably Europe’s prettiest land gastropod:

#slug #bugs #inat collection #Gastropoda #mollusc

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lurksunderthebed · 6 months

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Ghoap Analysis/Meta (1?)

The Evolution of GhostSoap Redux

Continuing thoughts on how Ghost and Soap's relationship has changed over the course of mw(19), mwii(22) and mwiii(23)

Spread out amongst several posts. This will be long 😅

(Part 1)

BEWARE SPOILERS TO MWIII(23) !

I've had time to settle my thoughts on Ghostsoap in mwiii (23) and this will go more into depth of the re-contextualising of Ghost and Soap's relationship in mwii (22) from the verdansk mission: "Flashpoint".

Flashpoint is set 4 years to mwiii(23). The game places it as April 6, 2019. This is important to us because it sets a different potential first mission (meet cute lmao) between the two and thus changes the tone of their interactions in mwii (22)

So let's set up a timeline with the available dates. Thankfully, the game sets some very concrete dates for us. Not all missions are included.*

2019

Flashpoint - April 06, 2019

First canonical appearance of SAS Ghost and Soap

Ghost provides sniper cover for Soap

Price/Soap capture Makarov and transport him to a helo with Ghost and Shepherd

There's a failed interrogation by Ghost and Soap.

Makarov implies he has met Ghost before and thought him dead at an airport

2019 Mw(19)

Piccadilly - Oct 25, 2019

First canonical appearance of SAS Gaz

Gaz is attached to Met Counter Terrorist Police. This implies he has worked largely in his career in conjunction to the Police. It's unknown whether he met Soap or Ghost before.

First meet of Gaz and Price to combat terrorists in London

Old Comrades - Oct 31, 2019

Gaz meets Nikolai

Interrogation scene. Arguably strengthens Gaz and Price's relationship

Into the Furnace - Nov 03, 2019

Last mission, they kill general barkov

Credit Scene - Nov 03-04, 2019* (hypothetical)

Laswell and Price form task force 141

Price seconds Ghost, Soap, Gaz. This implies that Price has worked with Soap and Ghost on missions for x amount of years. It's Gaz who was the surprise recruit.

2020 Cod Warzone

Season 2 - Mar 2020

First appearance of 141 Ghost

Unknown amount of 141 stationed in Verdansk. Ghost asks for backup.

Season 3 - Apr 2020

Armistice dissolved

Price and Gaz show up to help Ghost

Implied- unknown amount of 141 to Verdansk (possible meeting of Soap and Ghost)

Season ? - Dec 2020

Price kills Zakaev

First appearance (via call) of 141 Soap asking for backup in Verdansk

Price, Ghost, Gaz, Farah etc backup Soap who is somewhere else in Verdansk getting pinned down by enemies

2022 Mwii(22)

Strike - July 15, 2022

Ghost calls an airstrike on Ghorbrani with the aid of Shadow Company

Hindsight - Aug 12, 2022

Shepherd/Shadow Company loses American missiles to terroists

Kill or Capture - Oct 28, 2022

Ghost gets assigned Soap as his sergeant for Al Mazhrah mission to kill or capture Hassan

They find American missiles instead

Cartel Protection - Oct 30, 2022

Ghost/Soap meet Ale/Rudy in Las Almas

They fight the Mexican army under control of the cartels

RV with Graves/Shadow Comp.

El Sin Nombre - Nov 01, 2022

Soap infils cartel mansion

Valeria is revealed as El Sin Nombre

They take her into custody

Dark Water - Nov 02, 2022

Boat/oil rig mission with Shadow company

Missile launch averted by Ghost, Soap and Graves

Alone - Nov 03, 2022

Graves and Shepherd betray 141/mexi bros

Ghost and Soap get out of Las Almas

RV at ale's hideout with Rudy

Prison Break - Nov 03, 2022

Ghost, Soap, Rudy break out ale from prison

Meet up with Price/Gaz

Ghost Team - Nov 03, 2022

141 with mexi bros take back mexi bros base

Soap and Rudy "kill" Graves

Countdown - Nov 04, 2022

Stop missile launch in Chicago

Ghost and Soap kill Hassan

2023 Mwiii (23)

Operation 627 - Oct 13, 2023

Makarov breaks out of prison

Reactor - Nov 10, 2023

141 find out that Makarov escaped

141 assaults konni base

Price finds chemical weapons (almost died)

Payload - Nov 11, 2023

141 split up to stop missile launch of chemical weapons

They fail to stop 2 missiles to Russia

Oligarch - Nov 12, 2023

Ghost/Soap island mission to find Makarov's financier

Interrogation of Milena for Makarov's location

Frozen Tundra - Nov 14, 2023

141 ambush konni convoy

Find Shepherd was Makarov's prisoner

Interrogate him on Makarov's location

Gora Dam - Nov 16, 2023

Ghost/Soap split up to stop chemical weapons in Verdansk

Trojan Horse - Nov 21, 2023

141 split up in London tunnels to stop Makarov from using chemical weapons in subway system

So now that's done. I've mostly ignored Farah and Alex and focused on Price, Ghost, Gaz, Soap and Nikolai as it pertains to relationships within the core group of Price/Ghost/Gaz/Soap.

What can we make of this ?

Well, a couple things.

We can now say that from 2019 to the events of "Kill or Capture" in 2022, Ghost and Soap have most likely worked together on missions before. The timeline shows that they at least had to have met in Dec 2020 in Verdansk as Soap had called for backup to Price and group.

That makes it actually at least 3 years of knowledge of each other prior to mwii(22). So a total of 4 years + potentially at the start of mwiii(23).

It also shows us how quickly their relationship changed from the Alone mission in '22 despite the 3 years of prior knowledge they had since '19.

Let it be said that it took 1 week, ONLY 7 DAYS!! to change Ghost and Soap's relationship. 7 days out of a total at least 3 years total.

Ghost started at not even bothering to name Soap in 2019, to presumably basic Soap/Mactavish/sergeant for the next 3 years.

Cut to the events in mwii(22). Lets say beginning at "Kill or Capture" and finishing at "Alone" and suddenly Ghost ends up having made up his own personal nickname that no one else can use for Soap in just those 7 days.

I posit that this was in part due to "Kill or Capture" in '22 being the first mission that Soap has directly worked under Ghost's command.

This is all hypotheticals and guesswork so take it as you may.

Assuming Ghost was mainly a solo mission sort of guy, let's also assume he mostly helped as sniper overwatch if he ever had team missions (like in Flashpoint). Most 141 missions have him taking that position as well, so it's safe to say he is support most of the time.

Given that assumption, it's also likely that Soap and Ghost had to have interacted mainly on comms and any physical meeting would be restricted to transport via heli or otherwise.

It's possible Soap and Ghost have worked together on a more physical basis (aka Ghost leading Soap on a squad), but given how much Ghost seemed to be testing Soap in "Kill or Capture" I find that somewhat unlikely.

In 2019 we see how brusque Ghost is with Soap. It's very likely that Ghost was largely monosyllabic with Soap pre or post missions to Flashpoint.

Considering Soap's propensity to chatter in 2022 and 2023, it's also very likely Soap annoyed the hell out of Ghost on comms. Lol.

This could explain why Ghost was so dismissive of having Soap as his sergeant in "Kill or Capture", despite working together 3 years ago.

I, and arguably most of fandom had theorised that "Kill or Capture" was the first mission that Soap and Ghost ever had together. And we weren't quite right, but we weren't completely wrong either.

With Flashpoint, it's obvious now that was not quite true. It even suggests in it that Ghost and Soap had worked together prior to even that, as there was no formal introduction between the two.

This dramatically changes how Ghost's dialogue and Soap's to a lesser degree can be read in mwii(22) and implies much much more if you consider how they interact with each other in '23.

So why does it matter when Ghost and Soap's relationship started?

With mwiii(23) we can now definitively tell when Ghost and Soap's relationship changed. We now have a rough basis of a timeline and we can track down the differences between '19 -'22 and then '22- '23. Its important because we can see how their relationship deepens and how it changed within a span of 3 years, 7 compelling days and 1 heartwrenching year later.

For all that mwiii(23) was lax with explicit Ghostsoap moments, it's rich in how much context we gain to their relationship. We see how Ghost changes and how his relationships differ between 141. It's an interesting and compelling look at both Ghost and Soap's characters.

In this discussion I separate this analysis into 3 parts. Part 2 will cover the implications of "Flashpoint" on mwii (22), with discussion line by line. Part 3 will most likely go over comparisons a year makes from the events in '22 to '23. (This might be subject to change as I get further into the analysis)

Onto Part 2.

#ghostsoap #cod mw3 #cod mwiii #john soap mactavish #simon ghost riley #soapghost #ghost x soap #simon riley #call of duty #meta #analysis #soap x ghost #soap mactavish #soap cod #mw3 spoilers #cod mwii #call of duty modern warfare

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pressnat · 1 year

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lindalofbroome · 7 months

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Roddacember 2023!!

Roddacember runs during December to celebrate all of Emily Rodda’s books. With a new prompt every day, make a piece of fan content of your choice. You can draw some art, write fic, make a playlist, rant about something, or whatever you vibe with! Remember to tag it #Roddacember 2023 so we can check it out <3 I’ve also created an AO3 collection for those who would like to write fics!

Update

This is my attempt at taking the best of the past years and bringing something for everyone. What I've come up with are three levels of abstraction that (hopefully) serve as different levels of difficulty. The first week-ish draws more from 2019's style, and the last couple weeks are the more recent style, with the middle being a segue between them. (i kinda struggled to make questions, but you're welcome to use the prompts as keywords for your own!)

Notes

A reminder that you don’t have to commit to every day. Take care of yourself. You can make it more manageable by skipping days. It’s also okay to alter the prompt slightly for grammatical purposes, if you so wish (e.g. growth –> growing) or to cut out irrelevant words (e.g. animal or monster -> animal). Feel free to interpret the prompts as metaphorically or as literally as you want! If there’s anything you are confused about, feel free to ask me in the notes or DMs or whatever. You can also check out what the fandom did previously at #Roddacember 2022, #Roddacember 2021, #Roddacember 2020 and #Roddacember 2019.

Prompts in text below:

Your Favourite

01. Character 02. Place 03. Animal or monster 04. Something you wish was real 05. Magic 06. People, culture, or tradition 07. Filli❔ 08. Relationship of any kind 09. Symbols or signs

Memorable Moments:

10. Epic 11. Courage 12. Deception 13. Power 14. Foreshadowing 15. Playful 16. Envy 17. Solution

Abstract:

18. Ripples 19. Design 20. Trade 21. Nurture 22. Technology 23. Intricacy 24. Mend 25. Twisted 26. Pathway 27. Watch 28. Growth 29. Time 30. Unity 31. Essence of Rodda

#roddacember 2023 prompts #roddacember 2023 #roddacember #roddacember prompts #postlyn #emily rodda #roddaverse #deltora quest #rowan of rin #star of deltora #the three doors #and all the other rodda books <3 #//#lads im so sorry i meant to post these earlier but life just hasnt been It lately :)#(sarcastic smiley face)#alas rejoice for prompts arrive #we got red left so at least one more roddacember and we have a colour set

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mistercrowbar · 4 years

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Ryybyn definitely has some disordered eating and Alison goes to great lengths to encourage them to eat! But sometimes you need a less academic brain to piece together the data... 2020-04-25

#crowbart #unbound dnd #doodle comic #c:ryybyn #c:alison #c:flynn

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vvvvivi567890 · 2 months

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Chinese LeoKlein & KleinLeo Fic Recs

(Last Updated: Apr. 11. 2024)

I was gonna put this in a huge post but apparently theres a limit to the number of links you can have in a post here you go

One Shots:

How to Act as a Midnight Poet by star-farming

Deacon Mitchell has a Crush by cherishqiao

Mr. Star is so Scary! by yuzhanbiluo

Can Stalking Be Considered a Chance Encounter? by huankonglongying

Incident of Image Collapse of Poet Classmate by wokeyicaiddanwocpbixutietie

Tingen, Klein trades his sexuality for money

My Former Colleague is Now My Summoning Spirit by fengju840

I Recognize Your Breath When We Kiss by woodyo

Pallez Wants to Change Parasite by gulyer

Leonard, Are You in Love? by burklend160

Looking at the Mountains and Missing Them by smallskywww

Post-book 1, when Klein is sleeping

Leonard Just Wants to Fall in Love by smallskywww

Tingen, s8 Leonard x s8 Klein

Klein Wants Leonard to Learn to Say No by cielianx

But Parents on Both Sides Can't Stand It Anymore by 2014today

Possession Beyond the Line by ws40423

All chapters of the series are integrated into the final chapter linked above (i spent hours trying to find the previous ones on their account and then pondering if it was deleted before just reading it and realizing that its all in one post hahahaha ha ha...)

Family Banquet by beijishouweizhe

AU where there weren't any casualties during the Megose incident; Melissa is worried about Klein coming home late and tired so Klein lies and says he's seeing someone

To Klein Who Will Eventually Wake Up by genkimori

After Klein wakes up, he follows Leonard's letters to regain his humanity

The Pros and Cons of Fate by beijishouweizhe

Leonard's Bucket List by beijishouweizhe

A Secret by xinjinjumin741787426675

Tingen; Klein moves in with Leonard after joining the nighthawks so Leonard can monitor him

Encounter on a Narrow Road by zhujianqingjiu

If Gehrman’s vest had not been taken off

A Sincere Confession by zhujianqingjiu

Gehrman gets caught by the Red Gloves after infiltrating Chanis Gate

You Must Kill the Opponent 100 Times by annlova

That Deacon is Paid to Fish by ailikesitudou

Although a certain senior deacon is sitting at his desk seriously, seemingly immersed in writing a report, in fact he is just writing a love poem

Complete:

The Goddess Suddenly Doesn't Want to Let Cats Go Anymore by kapuayi: 1, 2, 3, 4 (END)

Before Klein is promoted to s5, red gloves catch Gehrman

Klein Became a Spirit?; Gehrman Abducted Back to the Church (END) by qinglinyanyu

Delusion; A Cup Sweet Ice Tea Just For You (END) by genkimori

A World Without Leonard by cherishqiao: 1, 2, 3 (END)

Double Crisis by zhujianqingjiu: 1, 2, 3 (END)

Leonard thinks that Klein is in an abusive relationship with Dwayne

Incomplete:

Take Your Tears to Gently Embrace Those Colors by hanpeiwen: 1 (Last Updated: Jul. 04. 2020)

When you fall in love with someone, you will see colors

A Kind-Hearted Adventurer Passing By by bethel614882: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 (Last Updated: Jan. 14. 2024)

Will Former Colleague Red Glove Dream of the Crazy Adventurer of the Five Seas by zhuomeng518: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 (Last Updated: Sep. 09. 2023)

Body swap with Leonard and Gehrman

Benson's Troubles by bingjingming: 1, 2, (Last Updated: Mar. 10. 2024)

Is There Anything Wrong With the Lover I Thought Was an Ordinary Person but Turned Out to Be a Extraordinary Person? by kuailedantuiren: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 (Last Updated: Oct 25. 2020)

The Cat Caught Naked Behind Chanis Gate by lossdragonluosi: 1 (Last Updated: Feb. 15. 2024)

It's a Secret by heilangbushilang: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 (Last Updated: Jan. 11. 2024)

Before Dawn by renaissance92629: 1, (Last Updated: Mar. 20. 2024)

After facing numerous attacks as Gehrman because of a bounty on him, Klein looks for a place to stay until things calm down and accidentally moves in with Leonard

Brother, We are a Bit Ambiguous by xinjinjumin4545033: 1, (Last Updated: Mar. 21. 2024)

Does Mr. Red Glove Keep Cats in Captivity? by xinjinjumin4545033: Preface, 1, (Last Updated: Feb. 29. 2024)

Gehrman gains the weakness of fearing lies from death knell, loses his disguise, and gets caught by Leonard

#lotm #lord of the mysteries #leoklein #诡秘之主 #fic recs

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jordi-gali · 6 months

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Rebecca Morris, Untitled (#02-16), oil and spray paint on canvas, 48 x 48 inches, 2016. https://newyorkarttours.com/blog/2020/04/25/rebecca-morris-at-bortolamigallery-com/

#rebecca morris

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mementoboni · 11 months

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[topics & time marks] DIR EN GREY WOWOW Interview & Document (2020)

The whole video is one hour long and divided into 8 topics.

The translation is divided into 4 parts.

Excerpts from this interview → #excerpt: diru wowow 2020

🧩 English Translation:

🔗 part 1. → topic 1~2 🔗 part 2. → topic 3~4 🔗 part 3. → topic 5 🔗 part 4. → topic 6~8 ( It's all done! )

🧩 中文翻譯 (My Blogger)

🔗 (上) part 1. → topic 1~4 🔗 (中) part 2. → topic 5 🔗 (下) part 3. → topic 6~8

🧩 Topic:

01. Band Formation ~ Debut (01:18)

► The Formation of DIR EN GREY (01:53) ► Origin of the Band Name (02:53) ► Looking Back at the time of Debut (04:04)

02. Expression (05:10)

► Awareness in the Creative Process (05:43) ► Things want to Convey through Music (08:32) ► The Motivation for Expression (10:45)

03. Performance (13:23)

► About Stage Performance (13:43) ► The Unforgettable Stage (16:28) ► Moment of State Switching (19:11) ► Stand on the Stage (22:13)

04. Music Clip (25:10)

► The process of producing Music Clip (25:32) ► Differences between "Video" and "Music" Expressions (28:02) ► Things want to Convey through Video (29:59)

05. Member Feature (31:25)

[ Kaoru ] (31:32) [ Shinya ] (34:12) [ Die ] (36:59) [ Toshiya ] (39:23) [ Kyo ] (41:39)

06. Overseas (43:40)

► Opportunity to Go Overseas (44:30) ► About Overseas Fans (46:46) ► Life on the Overseas Tour (48:11) ► Future Approach to Overseas (50:03)

07. Transition (52:50)

► The way to convey music in the future (52:53)

08. What does DIR EN GREY mean to you? (57:00)

[Kaoru] (57:05) [Toshiya] (58:06) [Shinya] (58:24) [Die] (58:33) [Kyo] (58:42)

#dir en grey #kaoru #薫 #kyo #京 #die #toshiya #shinya #interview #interview 2020 #translations #video translation #diru translation #translation by yinfu #index post #diru wowow 2020 #WOWOW interview

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Private equity ghouls have a new way to steal from their investors

Private equity is quite a racket. PE managers pile up other peoples’ money — pension funds, plutes, other pools of money — and then “invest” it (buying businesses, loading them with debt, cutting wages, lowering quality and setting traps for customers). For this, they get an annual fee — 2% — of the money they manage, and a bonus for any profits they make.

On top of this, private equity bosses get to use the carried interest tax loophole, a scam that lets them treat this ordinary income as a capital gain, so they can pay half the taxes that a working stiff would pay on a regular salary. If you don’t know much about carried interest, you might think it has to do with “interest” on a loan or a deposit, but it’s way weirder. “Carried interest” is a tax regime designed for 16th century sea captains and their “interest” in the cargo they “carried”:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/29/writers-must-be-paid/#carried-interest

Private equity is a cancer. Its profits come from buying productive firms, loading them with debt, abusing their suppliers, workers and customers, and driving them into ground, stiffing all of them — and the company’s creditors. The mafia have a name for this. They call it a “bust out”:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/06/02/plunderers/#farben

Private equity destroyed Toys R Us, Sears, Bed, Bath and Beyond, and many more companies beloved of Main Street, bled dry for Wall Street:

https://prospect.org/culture/books/2023-06-02-days-of-plunder-morgenson-rosner-ballou-review/

And they’re coming for more. PE funds are “rolling up” thousands of Boomer-owned business as their owners retire. There’s a good chance that every funeral home, pet groomer and urgent care clinic within an hour’s drive of you is owned by a single PE firm. There’s 2.9m more Boomer-owned businesses going up for sale in the coming years, with 32m employees, and PE is set to buy ’em all:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/16/schumpeterian-terrorism/#deliberately-broken

PE funds get their money from “institutional investors.” It shouldn’t surprise you to learn they treat their investors no better than their creditors, nor the customers, employees or suppliers of the businesses they buy.

Pension funds, in particular, are the perennial suckers at the poker table. My parent’s pension fund, the Ontario Teachers’ Fund, are every grifter’s favorite patsy, losing $90m to Sam Bankman-Fried’s cryptocurrency scam:

https://www.otpp.com/en-ca/about-us/news-and-insights/2022/ontario-teachers--statement-on-ftx/

Pension funds are neck-deep in private equity, paying steep fees for shitty returns. Imagine knowing that the reason you can’t afford your apartment anymore is your pension fund gambled with the private equity firm that bought your building and jacked up the rent — and still lost money:

https://pluralistic.net/2020/02/25/pluralistic-your-daily-link-dose-25-feb-2020/

But there’s no depth too low for PE looters to sink to. They’ve found an exciting new way to steal from their investors, a scam called a “continuation fund.” Writing in his latest newsletter, the great Matt Levine breaks it down:

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/mergers-and-acquisitions/matt-levines-money-stuff-buyout-funds-buy-from-themselves

Here’s the deal: say you’re a PE guy who’s raised a $1b fund. That entitles you to a 2% annual “carry” on the fund: $20,000,000/year. But you’ve managed to buy and asset strip so many productive businesses that it’s now worth $5b. Your carry doesn’t go up fivefold. You could sell the company and collect your 20% commission — $800m — but you stop collecting that annual carry.

But what if you do both? Here’s how: you create a “continuation fund” — a fund that buys your old fund’s portfolio. Now you’ve got $5b under management and your carry quintuples, to $100m/year. Levine dryly notes that the FT calls this “a controversial type of transaction”:

https://www.ft.com/content/11549c33-b97d-468b-8990-e6fd64294f85

These deals “look like a pyramid scheme” — one fund flips its assets to another fund, with the same manager running both funds. It’s a way to make the pie bigger, but to decrease the share (in both real and proportional terms) going to the pension funds and other institutional investors who backed the fund.

A PE boss is supposed to be a fiduciary, with a legal requirement to do what’s best for their investors. But when the same PE manager is the buyer and the seller, and when the sale takes place without inviting any outside bidders, how can they possibly resolve their conflict of interest?

They can’t: 42% of continuation fund deals involve a sale at a value lower than the one that the PE fund told their investors the assets were worth. Now, this may sound weird — if a PE boss wants to set a high initial value for their fund in order to maximize their carry, why would they sell its assets to the new fund at a discount?

Here’s Levine’s theory: if you’re a PE guy going back to your investors for money to put in a new fund, you’re more likely to succeed if you can show that their getting a bargain. So you raise $1b, build it up to $5b, and then tell your investors they can buy the new fund for only $3b. Sure, they can get out — and lose big. Or they can take the deal, get the new fund at a 40% discount — and the PE boss gets $60m/year for the next ten years, instead of the $20m they were getting before the continuation fund deal.

PE is devouring the productive economy and making the world’s richest people even richer. The one bright light? The FTC and DoJ Antitrust Division just published new merger guidelines that would make the PE acquire/debt-load/asset-strip model illegal:

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2023/07/ftc-doj-seek-comment-draft-merger-guidelines

The bad news is that some sneaky fuck just slipped a 20% FTC budget cut — $50m/year — into the new appropriations bill:

https://twitter.com/matthewstoller/status/1681830706488438785

They’re scared, and they’re fighting dirty.

I’m at San Diego Comic-Con!

Today (Jul 20) 16h: Signing, Tor Books booth #2802 (free advance copies of The Lost Cause — Nov 2023 — to the first 50 people!)

Tomorrow (Jul 21):

1030h: Wish They All Could be CA MCs, room 24ABC (panel)

12h: Signing, AA09

Sat, Jul 22 15h: The Worlds We Return To, room 23ABC (panel)

If you’d like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here’s a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/20/continuation-fraud/#buyout-groups

[Image ID: An old Punch editorial cartoon depicting a bank-robber sticking up a group of businesspeople and workers. He wears a bandanna emblazoned with dollar-signs and a top-hat.]

#pluralistic #buyout groups #continuation fraud #pe #pyramid schemes #the sucker at the table #pension plans #continuation funds #matt levine #fiduciaries #finance #private equity #mark to market #ripoffs

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is there color in your world?

so many colors suna's never even heard of. so many colors [name] admires every day. so many colors to choose from, but his favorite color is still her.

pairing — suna rintarou x fem!reader

01. gainsboro 02. rhythm 03. 100% 04. byzantium 05. 83% 06. amaranth 07. zomp 08. caput mortuum 09. nyanza 10. 66% 11. 50% 12. catwaba 13. chartreuse 14. 34% 15. razzmatazz 16. 17% 17. heliotrope 18. flirt 19. coquelicot 20. puce 21. jonquil 22. persimmon 23. eminence 24. harlequin 25. smitten 26. granny smith apple 27. phlox 28. alabaster 29. 0% 30. bittersweet 31. [name]

"what's your favorite color?"

[ originally written: 14/09/2020 - 26/11/2020 ]

#is there color in your world?#Masterlist #Haikyuu #Suna Rintarou #Suna Rintarou x Reader #Suna x Reader #Haikyuu x Reader #Fluff #note from sake: OUGHHHHHGGG #fan favorite on ao3 #i dont have fans #this mc keeps me up at night sometimes #idk how i did that but good for her #i love the twins i love writing the twins

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I… how does she even have enough life lived in these short release periods to live, experience, write and record new music. Just how?!

I literally made a timeline of releases because the way she’s churning out albums now compared to her normal release window is horrendous.

Taylor Swift 2006/10/24

>> 355 DAYS

The Taylor Swift Holiday Collection 2007/10/14

>> 275 DAYS

Beautiful Eyes (EP) 2008/07/15

>> 119 DAYS

Fearless 2008/11/11

>> 713 DAYS

Speak Now 2010/10/25

>> 728 DAYS

Red 2012/10/22

>> 735 DAYS

1989 2014/10/27

>> 1110 DAYS

Reputation 2017/11/10

>> 651 DAYS

Lover 2019/08/23

>> 336 DAYS

Folklore 2020/07/24

>> 140 DAYS

Evermore 2020/12/11

>> 119 DAYS

Fearless TV 2021/04/09

>> 217 DAYS

Red TV 2021/11/12

>> 344 DAYS

Midnights 2022/10/21

>> 260 DAYS

Speak Now TV 2023/07/07

>> 113 DAYS

1989 TV 2023/10/27

>> 176 DAYS

The Tortured Poets Department 2024/04/19

Not to mention we still have her debut TV and Rep TV to be released as well. Can she just stop for five seconds so we can breathe.

girl can’t slow down bc then she’d have to think about how fucked her life is, probably. it’s definitely oversaturation but it’s kind of nice knowing her music won’t be on tiktok until UMG comes to an agreement. hoping that means we won’t be hearing the first single.

#Asks #anonymoose #anti taylor swift #swifties dni #long post

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witness me trying to cull the regene related asks down to the useful ones by summarizing any new info i found lol. avoided this one so long cos there were so many of them ;___; list ahoy under the cut

Regenes are given codes and codenames (08 may 2018)

regene rights (09 may 2018)

industrial tattoos (03 june 2018)

blugenes colourrange (16 aug 2018)

regenes get older + organic bodies (20 sept 2018)

cyborg definition (10 nov 2018)

ai minds clarification, genitech can't build minds (11 nov 2018)

regenes have genitals (12 nov 2018)

regene making process (12 nov 2018)

emp shielding AI chips (12 nov 2018)

regene enhanced power classes (15 nov 2018)

regenes have unique faces (21 nov 2018)

periods (25 nov 2018)

regene numbers/nicknames (26 nov 2018)

development in other countries? (27 nov 2018)

regene making process (1-3 years) (03 dec 2018)

reconditioning (13 dec 2018)

organic? transplants patents etc (15 dec 2018)

general regene literacy training, handlers (15 dec 2018)

regene culture nicknames (15 dec 2018)

install regene ai chips in humans? (18 dec 2018)

teenager decant (18 dec 2018)

lifespan? kia too early to test (22 dec 2018)

specific decanting teenage range 14-15 (22 dec 2018)

regene bonding (25 dec 2018)

regene vulcan culture (25 dec 2018)

organic brains but need need ai chip (28 dec 2018)

pain (28 dec 2018)

no chip swapping between regenes (28 dec 2018)

higher calorie intake than humans (boost-related) (7 jan 2019)

regenes can get sick (08 jan 2019)

tattoo design styles are the same, patterns and colours differ (10 jan 2019)

tat barcodes (10 jan 2019)

why not make them identical? (17 jan 2019)

programmed life skills (21 jan 2019)

few hundred regenes (01 feb 2019)

nails eyelashes nails grow (04 feb 2019)

lifespan studies? (11 feb 2019)

viability > "minor imperfections" (16 feb 2019)

hacking/captcha pass (28 march 2019)

lowlight vision regene eyeshine (27 apr 2019)

healing others (more a boost q) (03 may 2019)

regenes have fingerprints/sometimes removed (04 may 2019)

step's batchmates (05 may 2019)

bellybuttons (16 may 2019)

overwhelmed etsy store production (01 jun 2019)

regene book 3 topic (21 jun 2019)

regene death, avo'd (21 jun 2019),

androids? (02 jul 2019)

family units/parent regenes? (15 jul 2019)

sib relationships (any relationships outside teams discouraged) (15 jul 2019)

cuckoos and human mission working (unaware) (15 jul 2019)

cuckoo solo operatives (15 jul 2019)

can have extra organs/limbs (presumably via boosting) (21 jul 2019)

seeded with boost drug in tube stage (01 aug 2019)

ai chips counteract the vegetable brain growth speed issue (01 aug 2019)

cancer, boost drug casualties (01 aug 2019)

ranger interactions (01 aug 2019)

high maintenance (01 aug 2019)

control mechanisms (15 aug 2019)

rebirth regene team age/older ones trusted on us soil (18 aug 2019)

thought-voids feeling (24 aug 2019)

sex and pronouns (16 sept 2019)

boost-related miscarriage/procedures to prevent procreation (30 sept 2019)

fully compatible w/ human germs/disease (29 oct 2019)

power stacking (30 oct 2019)

training templates (25 nov 2019)

handler knowledge of sibling bonds? (25 nov 2019)

codename designated by handlers (25 nov 2019)

handler favourites (25 nov 2019)

mod augmenting powers (25 nov 2019)

regene:handler ratio (avo'd) (25 nov 2019)

selfawareness/autonomy (25 nov 2019)

reggies. (25 nov 2019)

legal classification (03 dec 2019)

finch giving step psych meds? (avo'd) (05 dec 2019)

10% survival -> 10% useful (1%) (08 dec 2019)

regene power scale? (10 dec 2019)

regene v rangers: step's opinion (10 dec 2019)

friendly regenes characters? (11 dec 2019)

tattoo process (14 dec 2019)

brain chip size (18 dec 2019)

tracking chips (19 dec 2019)

on regene vs human boosts (22 dec 2019)

farm makes all kinds of regenes (27 dec 2019)

some premature aging (30 dec 2020)

double dipping (05 jan 2020)

aiming for more reliable process, some progress but still a crapshoot (06 jan 2020)

bellybuttons (placental organ) birthmarks (20 jan 2020)

power maturity/corrections/ai chip surgical insertion at neck #VERY USEFUL(31 jan 2020)

ai chip can't be removed (or....?) (31 jan 2020)

kill switch standard issue(31 jan 2020)

decanting/training/etc process timeline stages (31 jan 2020)

"supposedly sterile" (04 feb 2020) (contradictory?)

rebirth regene (farm not above doing frankenstein arms but mods easier. um.) (15 feb 2020)

powers important for viability >>> minor "defects" (18 feb 2020)

research centres (20 feb 2020)

tattoo meanings? weren't codified at the time (20 feb 2020)

vaccines for abroad deployment!!! + germ susceptibility (23 feb 2020)

morality is for handlers (28 feb 2020)

regenes sweat (11 apr 2020)

chip reboot (16 apr 2020)

#fh codediving #kinda.#archival adventures

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Time Stamps Part Three

Part One

Part Two

Part Four

January 7th, 2020: Doctor Glitch

What Happened to Jacksepticeye…| 3 Scary Games

Second Title: These Scares Almost Killed Me

New Title: Scary Tales Vol 1.

Page Source: Nothing

Description: “What happened to Jacksepticeye? He played 3 scary games and was never seen again. Was it the jumpscares that got him or the weird creepy stories one tells in the dark. He was last seen before the riverside incident on the night shift.”

30:52-31:42 (Extended Glitch)

47:08-47:14 (Extended Glitch)

47:36-47:53 (Extended Glitch)

January 16th, 2020: “What Happened to Jacksepticeye?” to “These Scares Almost Killed Me”

News Bloopers Gone Wrong

Page Source: Nothing

Description: “Censorship has taken over and this video is Not For Broadcast”

11:41-11:46 (Extended Glitch)

Don’t Trust This Game

New Title: Sentient

Page Source: Nothing

Description: “It's time for 3 scary games again. These ones are legitimately amazing! From disobeying orders in Don't Trust This Game to being terrified in the mortuary assistant and finally an extremely surprising and really unique game called Sentient.”

Comment: Anti is in the thumbnail

0:15-0:26 (Extended Glitch)

17:44-17:55 (Extended Glitch)

36:18-37:00 (Extended Glitch)

Genuinely REALLY Scary | Locked Up

Page Source: Nothing

Description: “I'm not lying when I say this game was actually really scary! I didn't expect the horror gameplay to be as good as it was but Locked Up was really cool!”

0:00-0:31 (Extended Scene)

19:33-19:55 (Extended Scene)

We Went Back

Page Source: Nothing

Description: “We Went Back…”

7:32-7:34 (Momentary Glitch)

April 12th, 2020: “Don’t Trust This Game” to “Sentient”

TERRIFYING BLAIR WITCH GAME | 3 Scary Games

Old Title: WARNING: YOU WILL BE UNCOMFORTABLE WATCHING THIS | 3 Scary Games

Page Source: Nothing

Description: “Tapes found in someone's house. A house in the woods. Scares lurking behind every corner. It's time for 3 scary games…”

0:00-0:25 (Extended Glitch)

34:07-34:37 (Extended Glitch)

April 19th, 2020: “WARNING: YOU WILL BE UNCOMFORTABLE WATCHING THIS | 3 Scary Games” to “TERRIFYING BLAIR WITCH GAME | 3 Scary Games”

I COMPLETELY BROKE THE GAME TO BEAT IT | Night Of The Consumers

New Title: I FOUND A SUPER SECRET ROOM | Night Of The Consumers

Page Source: Nothing

Description: “I may have completely glitched and broken Night of the Consumers by ACCIDENT to beat it”

16:36-17:12 (Extended Glitch)

DO NOT WORK AT THIS BURGER PLACE | Happy's Humble Burger Barn

New Title: Happy’s Humble Burger Barn

Page Source: Nothing

Description: “Whatever you do, do NOT take a job at this burger place. You will really regret working at Happy's Humble Burger Barn”

30:18-30:21 (Momentary Glitch)

April 27th, 2020:“I COMPLETELY BROKE THE GAME TO BEAT IT | Night Of The Consumers” to “I FOUND A SUPER SECRET ROOM | Night Of The Consumers”

DON'T COME TO THIS HOUSE (please stay away) | The Open house

New Title: WELCOME TO MY HOUSE (please stay away) | The Open House

Page Source: Nothing

Description: “Whatever you do, do NOT come to this house. Please stay away, no matter what anyone tells you. it's not worth it to come to the open house”

Comment: In the comment section Anti wrote “Offer Accepted” to the game offering Jack

6:58-7:12 (Extended Glitch)

7:39-7:47 (Extended Glitch)

14:25-14:27 (Momentary Glitch)

23:26-23:40 (Extended Glitch)

Reacting To The Scariest Videos On The Internet

New Title: Scariest Videos On The Internet #1

Page Source: Nothing

Description: “I asked you guys for the scariest videos on the internet and here's what you came up with!”

1:06-1:11 (Extended Glitch)

29:26-29:35 (Extended Glitch)

May 3rd, 2020: “DON'T COME TO THIS HOUSE (please stay away) | The Open house” to “WELCOME TO MY HOUSE (please stay away) | The Open house”

SO SCARY IT BURNED MY EYES | 3 Scary Games

Page Source: Nothing

Description:“The horrors, the scares and the terrifying things I saw made my eyes burn. What could it be?”

32:04-32:23 (Extended Glitch)

You Don't Even Know What You're Participating In!

Page Source: Nothing

Description: “You don't even know what you're participating in... I'd like to play a game”

0:00-0:42 (Extended Glitch)

14:12-14:40 (Extended Glitch)

34:29-34:53 (Extended Glitch)

Reacting To The Scariest Videos On The Internet #2

Page Source: Nothing

Description: “Are you ready to see more of the scariest videos on the internet? This one is honestly terrifying”

0:15-0:31 (Extended Scene)

19:10-19:35 (Extended Scene)

June 18th, 2020: I will try to do Marvin justice for all of you when he returns

STONKS

New Title: 20 Memes That Will Raise Your STONKS

Page Source: Nothing

Description: “S T O N K S”

13:54-14:19 (Extended Glitch but the glitches are extremely subtle)

Argentum Inanis

Switched: “Don’t Make Eye Contact” back to “Argentum Inanis”

Page Source: Nothing

Description: “Please use Argentum Inanis with caution.

Inform an AIMC immediately!

Don't make eye contact.”

0:00-1:08 (Extended Scene; the whole video is Marvin and bits of Anti)

(Date Unknown): “What Happened to Jacksepticeye…| 3 Scary Games” to “Scary Tales Vol. 1”

JIMMY GOT ME SCREAMING MY HEAD OFF | At Dead of Night

Page Source: Nothing

Description: “Jimmy got me screaming my head off in At Dead Of Night”

0:06-1:02 (Extended Glitch)

YOU GOT OFF ON THE WRONG FLOOR | 3 Scary Games

Page Source: Nothing

Description: “3 Scary Games! 3 Scary Games! 3 Scary Games!”

25:43-26:08 (Extended Glitch)

43:40-44:05 (Extended Glitch)

Reacting To The Scariest Videos On The Internet #4

Page Source: Nothing

Description: “These are the Scariest Videos On The Internet”

11:26-11:34 (Extended Glitch)

21:07-21:25 (Extended Glitch)

GENUINELY TERRIFYING I ALMOST CRIED

Page Source: Nothing

Description: “Happy Halloween! Mortuary Assistant WILL scare you 100%.”

0:00-0:30 (Extended Glitch)

23:05-23:47 (Extended Glitch)

‎WARNING: STAY OUT OF MAPLE COUNTY

New Title: AVOID AT ALL COST | 3 Scary Games

Page Source: Nothing

Description: “If you encounter an alternate use the T.H.I.N.K principle”

0:00-2:20 (Extended scene; within the static morse code “Miss me?” appears)

34:05-34:15 (Extended glitch)

December 6th, 2021: He changed “WARNING: STAY OUT OF MAPLE COUNTY” to “AVOID AT ALL COST | 3 Scary Games”

The Mandela Catalogue

New Title: Why Is This So SCARY | The Mandela Catalogue

Page Source: Nothing

Description: “The mandela catalogue is one of the coolest horror shorts I've seen”

3:02-3:06 (Momentary Glitch)

3:31-3:36 (Momentary Glitch)

25:53-26:09 (Extended Glitch)

Scariest Videos On The Internet #7

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Description: “The Walten Files are some of the scariest videos on the internet”

0:00-0:36 (Extended Scene)

38:00-38:12 (Extended Scene)

(Date Unknown): “Can You Figure Out Who DID IT? - Jameson Jackson's Jolly Jaunts” to “JJ’s Jolly Jaunts” with another thumbnail change

April 11th, 2022: Happy 5th birthday Chase Brody (I have no idea where these 5 years went but I’m gonna try not let the next 5 pass so fast)

April 12th, 2022: “Argentum Inanis” to “Don’t Make Eye Contact” back to “Argentum Inanis”

Why is he just standing there…

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Description: “We continue down the rabbit hole of Chilla's Art games. Up this time is the terrifying”

0:00-1:51 (Extended Scene, believed to be Anti and Chase)

May 13th, 2022: IRIS Symbol Animation

May 19th, 2022: At I.R.I.S. we believe in helping create a better world for all of humanity

May 19th, 2022: We make the impossible, possible!

May 20th, 2022: What new scientific discoveries have got you guys excited?

May 21st, 2022: We’re going to be hiring soon, watch this space

May 23rd, 2022: We’ve got our EYES on the prize! Or should we say Irises?

May 23rd, 2022: Night Watcher Advertisement

May 24th, 2022: We received reports of our systems going down today. We have located the problem and services should be up and running again. Sorry for the inconvenience

May 24th, 2022: “Dark Silence” to “What do you want from me?

May 25th, 2022: Making huge discoveries day after day at I.R.I.S. We’re very excited to share them with the world

May 26th, 2022: Are you an aspiring explorer? Have a penchant for the unknown? We want to hear from you!

May 29th, 2022: There’s been lots of talk of the multiverse recently in pop culture. It’s an incredible space to explore that might be more than fiction

May 30th, 2022: If you could have one superpower, what would it be?

June 1st, 2022: Happy Pride Month 🏳️‍🌈

June 3rd, 2022: Shoutout to our tech team for making some of the most groundbreaking progress in recent years!

June 6th, 2022: Big things are coming!

June 7th, 2022: We will soon be approaching IRIS’s 100th anniversary 🥳

We have something planned that we cannot wait to show you!

WORLD'S SCARIEST BABY | The Baby In Yellow

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Description: “Do not trust the Baby in Yellow”

0:00-1:00 (Extended Glitch)

June 10th, 2022: What would you like to see us do for our 100th anniversary?

June 13th, 2022: Imagination is more important than knowledge

June 19th, 2022: If you don’t try to create the impossible, you’ll never know where the limits can be pushed!

June 22nd, 2022: People only say “Reach for the stars” because they think it’s impossible to do so.

What if we reached even further??

June 23rd, 2022: Science is like magic!

June 26th, 2022: 👁

👀

They Are Here…/ 3 Scary Games

New Title: 3 Scary Games

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Description: This might be one of the scariest alien abduction games I've played”

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3:51-4:00 (Momentary camera view)

5:07-5:24 (Extended camera view)

20:29-20:34 (Momentary camera view)

39:42-39:55 (Extended camera view)

50:38-50:54 (Extended camera view)

June 26th, 2022: “They Are Here…/3 Scary Games” changed to “3 Scary Games”

July 5th, 2022: In the run up to 100 Years of IRIS, we’d like to share with you some of IRIS’s proudest achievements throughout years! We’ve surfaced the archives and found some astonishing photos of our earliest prototypes of our company’s greatest inventions.

July 7th, 2022: The Computer’s Aid! With a simple bone-conduction implant, this little device increased a person’s mental arithmetic skills by 76%! (Has been Deleted)

July 8th, 2022: A much earlier prototype was far more cumbersome and could only do one ear at a time (Has been deleted)

July 10th, 2022: Happy Birthday Jackieboyman!

July 16th, 2022: A year after the first commercial microwave was launched in 1947, IRIS took cooking one step further. The Retrowave! Not only could it cook frozen meals to perfection, it could return a stale meal back to its freshest state! Here the lab boys are testing a chicken dinner

July 31st, 2022: The pictures being taken with the James Webb Space Telescope are marvelous. Now everyone at home can see how truly beautiful our universe really is.

August 11th, 2022: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic

August 11th, 2022: A lot changes in 6 years!

August 12th, 2022: The wondrous Lite-R device! This nifty little quantum mass displacer turned humanly unliftable objects as light as air! Just make sure that construction beam doesn’t go floating away in the breeze!

I Like Hearing Their Breath

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Description: “3 scary games that will make your bones shiver”

0:00-0:52 (Extended Glitch)

August 15th, 2022: We have made great strides in understanding the effects of our science by utilising the Dr. Louis Hopkins assessment at key moments. Without his work at IRIS we would still be in the dark in many ways. This is a Dr. Hopkins appreciation post

#jacksepticeye #jackieboy man #marvin the magnificent #henrik von schneeplestein #antisepticeye #chase brody #jameson jackson #iris #altrverse #JSE Time Stamps

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