Hey, you. Stop doom scrolling. If it's late, go to sleep. If it's early, go outside.

Would it be nice to play them for free? Yeah, especially since emulators already do that. But a game being half the price it was before it was ported is just straight up a good deal. I do NOT see why people are upset by this. If you wanna emulate it, just emulate it.

Seeing the reaction to FRLG on Switch made it sound like you had to pay $20 on top of the switch expansion pass (considering the expansion pass has the GBA games)

No, it's just a flat $20 to play them without the expansion pass. They were both $40 when they came out. That's 50% off.

And why the hell would I do that instead of making art myself?

"Sonic the Hedgehog?! Oh my god, I'm your biggest fan!"

"She's 17, Scott. That's no good."

"I GET IT!"

It came in from browtside

"Pokémon Winds and Waves but some funny stuff happens"

I think it's interesting how Pokémon "fans" are complaining about the idea of Winds and Waves getting DLC meanwhile any other franchise such as Sonic or Monster Hunter actually want their games getting DLC

Something tells me Pokémon "fans" aren't actually fans like they say they are

later

Why did I get a notif only 16 hours latee

SHE'S DOING THE >:3 FACE

If you're looking for an alternative to discord, I recommend checking out fluxer!

It genuine marks down a lot of things Discord is used for such as its servers, and it has a good roadmap too! It's currently web online though, they don't have an app yet

Bluesky. I can not stress enough how much I do not want to see porn when I am scrolling through my following tab. I do not care if it's from "Art: What's Hot" or "Art: New". I do not want to see porn, filtered or not, every single time I come to this site.

As for humans, Persona hopes to build identity profiles for each person using the hundreds of activities they do online over time, like ordering food or scrolling social media, so Persona can more quickly verify they’re human. Song said these profiles would be tamper resistant and reusable so that they can be submitted on any site during the verification process, which he thinks people will want to use despite the obvious privacy tradeoffs. “Today you're disclosing more and more about yourself. You're just giving up so much information,” Song said. “Our dream is this idea of a self-sovereign, personally-owned portable identity.” https://www.forbes.com/sites/rashishrivastava/2025/04/30/ai-is-making-the-internets-bot-problem-worse-this-2-billion-startup-is-on-the-front-lines/

This is who you are sending your data to when you use age verification with Discord or VRChat.

Because they aren’t using it for age, they legitimately want to track you everywhere, everyday and learn what you are doing.

Fall out of favor? They know everything to make your life hell.

It hurts so much to say this but yall need to pressure both Furality and vrchat themselves to change their system for age verification cause I'm not gonna give my personal data to Persona, a company run by a guy who has ties with Epstein and is contributing to the surveillance state of this country

This post genuinely made me realize why I like KH2's hud more than KH3's and it's literally just because you can see it better due to the bigger size

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Video games I think of when I hear the word "masterpiece"

keep cancelling your nitro

Meta is putting a "Name Tag" feature in Ray-Bans - facial recognition through the glasses' camera. You look at someone, AI tells you who they are.
In an internal document, the company wrote that the timing is good because civil society groups are busy with politics and won't cause problems.

a screenshot from the press release from discord which reads as follows: Privacy-Forward Age Assurance Age assurance is the foundation of this new experience and is designed to respect Discord users’ privacy and choice. Discord users can choose to use facial age estimation or submit a form of identification to its vendor partners, with more options coming in the future. Additionally, Discord will implement its age inference model, a new system that runs in the background to help determine whether an account belongs to an adult, without always requiring users to verify their age. Some users may be asked to use multiple methods if more information is needed to assign an age group.

this is a nothing statement and not a walk back, they're just repeating what was already in the initial press release and they said the same thing in the interviews they gave to certain outlets

Tl;dr: The vast majority of adults will never have to interact with our age assurance systems and their experience won't change, because we know Discord and how people use it, so we're designing to respect privacy and deliver a safer experience while minimizing friction for adults. Hey folks – I’ve been on Discord since very early 2016 and actually joined the company in 2017. Safety is one of my areas, so today’s announcement on our blog is something I’ve been pretty involved with. I’ve always cared about Discord's approach to privacy (E2EE for A/V was another of my projects here), so I figured I’d add some more context to today's news. I can say confidently that the vast majority of people will never see age verification. I say this because we launched age assurance in the UK and Australia in 2025, and we have some pretty good data on this now. The idea here is that we can pre-identify most adults based on what we already know (not including your messages!), and that looks to get us pretty far here. No face scans, no IDs, for the vast majority of adults.

And if you are one of the smaller subset of folks that we can't definitively pre-identify, then still, you only have to do it if you're accessing age-restricted servers or channels, or changing certain settings. That's really not most users. (Altho... might be more Redditors, tbh.) Last, I know that there is concern about privacy and data leaks. That's a real concern. The selfie system is built purely client-side, it never leaves your device, and we did that intentionally. That'll work for a bunch of users who aren't pre-identified as adults. But if you do end up in the ID bucket, then yeah, you're right that has some risk. We're doing what we can to minimize this by working with our range of partners (who are different partners than the data leak you read about), and if it's any help, we learned a lot internally from the last issue. But I get if that doesn't necessarily inspire more confidence. Anyway, we’ll be sharing more next month as we get closer to the global roll out about the system, including the technology behind it in March. I honestly wouldn't be happy if we didn't build something good and I am excited about what we’re launching, but please let us know what you think when we share more details. And I really appreciate everybody's feedback here today. We’re definitely reading it!

Discord is already starting to walk things back a little, so people should keep doing what they're doing (cancel Nitro, leave feedback/criticism, direct contact through support tickets/phone/email/etc)

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If you plan on getting it, PLEASE either do it on Series X or PlayStation (or PC) so you can have it set to Performance Priority and let it run at a minimum 60 FPS instead of 30

It wouldn't bother me if it was always 30, but it goes to 60 when there's no characters on screen

Visions of Mana is actually pretty peak, my only complaints are me not being a fan of Palamena's outfit and the fact that the game is majority 30 FPS on Series S because Microsoft decided not to let it have graphic settings in games

Two black-and-white cats sitting side by side on a light-colored floor, looking at the camera

The cutest girl and the strongest boy

Visions of Mana is so beautiful 🥹

Days and Re:Coded are right there, literally just for the sake of being able to play them legitimately 😭

I'm personally not the biggest fan of KH1 myself, but... It doesn't need a remake. Especially with how much they're putting into KH4, even cancelling Missing Link and reassuring us that KH4 is being worked on, I really doubt KH1 would get a remake.

Hell, Nomura's still on the FF7R games.