I sorta realized this a few years ago. The internet went from being a refuge from the miserable hell of common popular culture to being its most important extension. There's no real place to *hide* from the mudslide of braindead normies now.

it won't be long until they try doing this on windows too. bye bye open source software, bye bye game jams androidheadlines.com/2025/07/eu-age…

it's happened: a music video has used the unsharp mask effect to invoke 2000s nostalgia (an effect commonly used by the labels when youtube let them upscale their old music videos in the year 2019)

Our signature game mode, Take & Hold, takes roughly 1-2 hours to do a run of.

Go out and buy Terabytes of external drives and archive books, articles and relevant internet archive html pages. The entire planet is about to be gaslit before digital ID is implemented. Dont trust whats on the web post "restore" after the event.

Australian could easily relocate all ~11'000 Tuvaluans with the country barely noticing but are insisting on only allowing a pitiful 280 to move per year. Almost the whole population is applying. Preview of how the climate refugee crisis is gonna be handled

So is the plan to just ban as much media as possible so the kids start what? Having teen pregnancies again out of pure boredom to boost the breeding rates in western countries? What's the end-game here?

I get violent diarrhea every time I each from this place, and have friends try to warn me off with 'remember what happened last time?' every time I suggest going, and then I do so anyway, and inevitably....

Can anyone else not login to Autodesk forums? It just infinitely loads the main page, failing to sign in for me.

how is youtube going to use ai to detect if a user is under 18 when it can hardly detect when a content ID claim is false

Afternoon, already called the local Visa. About the same as yesterday so far, still getting them being more rude. I do feel sorry for them, and yet they are going after friends I value. Gum the lines, small vid later.

Chicago is asking residents to reduce water use to help prevent flooding & almost everyone in article comments are saying they’re gonna water their lawns/take even longer showers, etc. I don’t know how we combat this “I’d rather ruin everything than consider others” mentality.

Newgrounds' approach to verifying age is interesting and transparent.

If asked to confirm your age, don't. Move on and do something else. That's one less user. If millions of us don't, that's millions of lost users. If tens maybe hundreds of millions then billions of users don't verify their age no one will ever be asked to verify their age again.

Is...is that.....visual clarity? 🥹

Ooof

Spotify threatening me with a good time (deleting my account).

Rewatching Foundation now that Season 3 is going. I adore it even more on a 2nd watch. Season 2 is such a delight. Also Constant is so cute I might explode.

Anyone on here experienced with writing Maya extensions?