Hi @nickboraine.bsky.social!
Dragon Age fans across the internet put together a collection of messages to say thank you for bringing our favourite necromancer to life, and for all your kindness to the community. It’s meant a lot to us 💜
Get fuckin' loved!!
www.kudoboard.com/boards/08wsy...
crow at my window #emmrichvolkarin #lucanisdellamorte #emmcanis
omg omg omg omg this is so important I share with you:
LUCANIS HAS TO GET ONTO HIS TIPPY TOES IN ORDER TO KISS EMMRICH!!!!!!
#LucanisDellemorte #EmmrichVolkarin #emmcanis
Dear Fade Discord Server! Happy birthday! Or as you like to say - happy Shenaniversary! A special shout out to Deny for bringing it all together. Thank you for existing at all and including me in all your shenanigans. It’s been a delight to get to know you! Get fuckin’ loved!!
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)
Hope this is not a fail~
Think this is also going to be my valentine picture for Liam this year!
#nsfw since it feels suggestive
After a long silence, I’m quietly returning to art. 🖌️
Looking for a calm place — 🙏
to share drawings, observe, and create at my own pace.
This is part of that return.
Hello, Bluesky. 🥺
#digitalart #digitalpainting #dragonage #fanart
Helping Nick with the tags over on here! Winner images can be found on his Streamily: streamily.com/nickboraine
And the Artists (in order by the listing)
@svanha.bsky.social (Both the hourglass painting and the manfred hug!)
@riadoodles.bsky.social
@lineupmu.bsky.social
@sh00kspeared.bsky.social
I have no self control. This is all your fault, Linny! (Affectionately) Also influenced by that pesky desire demon in her amulet. 😜
(Labeled just to be safe.)
#dragonage
