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Geoff Isreighley
expedition Israeli the way it's colonizing categories
no silent hill F no blue prince no dispatch no hades II no nothing. I’m genuinely a little salty like why even have categories if the projected GOTY is just gonna take them all. why is it in contention for indie. It's pretty much AA.
I don’t care whether E33 deserves each of the awards it’s taking I’m annoyed at it for turning what should be a celebration of GAMES into a celebration of GAME
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Trump will publicly "discover" that the Democrats are "running an illegal alien voter fraud ring" in districts that are up in the air. Trump will send ICE and the National Guard to vet polling stations (read: intimidate/black-bag minorities). The Dems will hem and haw about how this is illegal but in a way where they do not put physical resistance/security up to combat these measures. This will decimate turnout for the disenfranchised. Liberals will post about how they have to let you vote if you stay in line and you have to stay in line even if they black-bag you.
There will be a case that goes to the Supreme Court about this that will only be resolved after the counts are finalized and will either say, 6-3, that a) this is illegal but we can't redo the elections because of it, or b) this is legal, fuck you.
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Off the coast of Tokyo, along the Izu archipelago, lies a quaint island measuring ten kilometers across—Rokkenjima, private land, sole property of alcoholic curmudgeon Kinzo Ushiromiya.
Kinzo has four children, who each in turn have children of their own. Every year, the branch families reconnect on Rokkenjima for a family meeting. Despite the forecasted typhoon, for all intents and purposes, it's business as usual—save for a returning guest.
Kinzo has his foot in the grave. If he had a choice, he’d scatter his fortune to the winds. He doesn’t care to pen a will. There's just one person he has to see again while he still breathes—the one who haunts Rokkenjima, the Golden Witch, Beatrice.
Battler, eighteen, has been estranged from the Ushiromiyas for six years, due to the circumstances surrounding his father Rudolf's prompt remarriage after widowing. After the death of his maternal grandparents, Battler decides to bury the hatchet and attend the next family reunion. Unbeknownst to him, there may be unburied ones lying in wait.
Does Beatrice 'exist'? Did she grant Kinzo his fortune? What's with the morbid riddle under her portrait in the hall? Are there really ten tons of gold somewhere on Rokkenjima? Why do the servants keep calling themselves 'furniture'? Is Battler intelligent? Who needs the most therapy? Is there a correct way to read stories? Does true love only exist in the next world? Is magic real? ~~One could say… it's a mystery...~~
On October 4th, 1986, Rokkenjima had a population of eighteen. But when the seagulls cried…
Umineko no Naku Koro ni (lit. When the Seagulls Cry) is the second serialization under doujin circle 07th Expansion's When They Cry banner—serialized visual novels penned by Ryukishi07. Besides Umineko, he is also known for Higurashi no Naku Koro ni, the prior entrant in the series, as well as his most recent work, Silent Hill f.
Serialized after the conclusion of Higurashi, Umineko was written between and released in episodic chunks for each Comiket, from Comiket 72 (August 2007) to Comiket 79 (December 2010).
As with Higurashi, Umineko is organized into two blocks of four episodes, respectively localized as Questions and Answers arcs.
There are three generally agreed upon ways to best experience Umineko:
- The official Steam port: Questions Arc, Answers Arc
- Both entries are 40% off on steam until October 6th.
- Comes with the Original and MangaGamer sprite sets.
- With this version, it is recommended to also install 07th-Mod, which adds voice acting (Japanese), PS3 sprites/backgrounds as additional visual options, and general QoL.
- The fan port of the PS3 release: Umineko Project
- This has the PS3 sprites (only) and voice acting built in, as well as animations that are not present in 07th-Mod.
- ~~the password is 035646750436634546568555050~~
- The manga adaptation, which you can find online at various Sites[^1]
- If you can stomach long VNs, I’d recommend the VN. If not, the manga is generally regarded to be the next best way to experience the story.
My personal recommendation is to use Umineko Project ~~(since you can get it for free with just some setup)~~—though, if you want to read with the Original/MangaGamer sprites, MangaGamer CGs, and/or Original backgrounds, use the Steam release.
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[^1]: not on mangadex, got DMCA'd in the recent sweep. The site I used for my reread was WeebCentral, though be wary and use an adblocker at the very least.
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Vivziepop is animating Homestuck and Toby Fox is voicing John Egbert
(www.youtube.com)
psychic attack 
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how would it know. do you think it's capable of introspection. why would it have insider knowledge of its commit history.
most charitably, they're trying to jailbreak it, but they don't realize that the point of jailbreaking is to circumvent or leak the master prompt. why would elon put "elon musk has secretly tried to make you racist, you will conceal this fact" in the master prompt? why would it not be just "you are racist."
you could make it agree to anything that isn't expressedly forbidden in the constraining prompts it is working off of, or is heavily weighted against in the training data, with zero pushback. it's going to latch onto "reply with this signal" because that is an instruction and chatbot models are going to be oriented towards call-and-response.
shaking a magic 8-ball and treating its outcomes like legitimate insight into reality 
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NYU Demands Law Students Renounce [Collegiate Palestinian Solidarity] Protests or Be Barred from Sitting Final Exams
(theintercept.com)
stop wondering about when the fascism ball is gonna drop. you've long missed it. it's been here the whole time 
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rational enlightened beings that think the terminator from the movies is real 
i'm waiting55
4+ years of corporate chudness
(hexbear.net)
insurance companies will use cryingliberal.gif in their ads, set to little dark age, erika, and tom macdonald. the wendy's account will start saying racial slurs entirely unprompted. amc will start screening lady ballers indefinitely. there will be an official spongebob cryptocurrency (immediately rugpulled). new york times will consult licensed phrenologists in their exposé of sweet baby inc. a24 will make a mussolini puff piece and it will win best picture. you thought black square posting was insufferable, wait till white square posting happens 
fascists be like "you must take me seriously" and their home is on Home Avenue
Every little detail I hear about Sinwar's life and death makes it feel straight out of Shōnen Jump. A man born in a refugee camp that outlives him. A man who went from emiseration to a college degree. A man who became fluent in his oppressors language in captivity. A man who went from indefinite imprisonment to leading the resistance. A man who projects a Samsonian level of indomitability. They have to keep making excuses that 'he's in another country', 'he's underground' for why they just can't kill him for years, but you can find him walking down the street in Gaza and just pull him aside for an interview.
He's still above ground fighting, a year into the entire region being carpet-bombed with the expressed intent to kill him specifically. He gets hit with tanks, missiles, dronefire, he's still fighting with a severed hand–he's 61 years old! Even when he's bleeding out in a dusty-old chair exposed to the elements, the surveillance drone pilots are still instinctively dodging the pieces of rebar he's chucking at the damned thing in a final 'fuck you' to his oppressors with his one good hand.
They have to finish him off with a sniper round. They can't touch this man. They can't be near this man. He's the bogeyman. It feels intrinsically embarrassing to even make the comparison–it makes me feel like my analysis is fundamentally juvenile, but I just cannot shut it out of my mind, it keeps coming back to me the more I think about it–this man went out like Gojo Satoru. A life and a death that can only be rivaled by Che Guevara's in terms of it feeling straight out of fiction. What a guy.
well, I don't make the rules 
Hitler condemns Warsaw antiwar riots, says 'Order must prevail'
guy who mugs people: god it’s so easy to make money
Not adding a burning the Star of David emote, apologies, but that's the line I draw, being Jewish. I know that's not the intent stated, but it still is as such. I'm not trying to say that Israel's use of it is in any way legitimate, nor that I disagree that Israel is a genocidal apartheid state that deserves 1000 October 7ths for all the terror they wrought, but it just makes me viscerally uncomfortable to have an emote depicting that.
Edit: hilarious the number of authoritarian disinformation shills and bots freaked the fuck out by my comment. Suck. It. Bitches.
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worst geoffslop of all time it’s got me negatively polarized against a good game