After this game dev shared her prototype online, it took less than 5 hours for someone to post their vibecoded knockoff "It kinda disincentivizes me from sharing progress when there are slop ghouls around every corner."

#VideoGames #Tetris #AI #ripoffs

'The brain yearns to rotate blocks that rotate other blocks. Hell, even Tim Schafer thinks it looks sick.

It took less than a day for someone to post a knockoff.'

www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...

#auspol #HECS #RipOffs 👇🏼

#auspol #RipOffs 👇🏼

Cauchemar

J’ai reve que la wiiU que j’ai acheté etait un rip off miniature et que j’avais pas vu le #ripoffs dans la description et c’est pour ca que je peux pas me faire rembourser

Vinted me donne des cauchemars

How the US blackmailed its trade partners into creating anti-circumvention laws in their countries or face a trade boycott and tariffs. Features John Deere tractors and the Apple App Store. All to protect the interests, monopolies, and huge profits of US oligarchs.

#jailbreaking
#ripoffs
#fascism

Inside the Private Equity Scam—and the Livelihoods It Has Destroyed Financiers have bamboozled the public for years about their expertise in “fixing” companies. Yet they often—and sometimes deliberately—run them into the ground.

Ya think? #banprivateequity #ripoffs #scam #liars #theft #greed #corruption #taxcheats #hypocrites #corporatedoublespeak #corporateaccountability

#Church #Churches #TheChurch #Preach #Preaching #Preachers #Grift #Grifters #ConMen #ConArtists #Scam #Scammers #Family #Life #Living #Gullible #TheGodCon #Bible #Biblical #BibleStudy #Congregation #PsychologicalWarfare #RipOff #RipOffs #Robbers #Criminals #Felons #Pedophiles #Abuse #Abusers #Belief

20 Wrestling Gimmicks That Got WEIRD Rip-Offs #igloouk #i #r #w #fan #bluewrestle #wrestling #wrasslin #wrass #prowrestling #grapplefans #wrestlingonbsky #lovewrestling #wrassling #indiewrestling #bluecrew #wrestlingcommunity #jointheblueorder #ripoffs #wrestlesky

“Why mining has ransacked Australia while the press looked away” #auspol #ripoffs #social&humancost #economicbetrayal

These types of #Ripoffs is what the #CFPB is for?

⚫️ Wrestling With Wregret! 🤯🤯🤯
#++ #igloouk #r #wrestlingwithwregret #bigfan #wreslin #wrestlingonbsky
#lovewresiling #wrassling #wrestling #prowrestling #wrestlesky #tapout
#wrassler #wrass #best #ripoffs

Ah well. I'll find a free stream. Bollox to you.

No more shirts. No more tickets. No more subscriptions.

No more #ripoffs

Patricia Velasquez

How people rip other people's content and do not even realize the obvious: that her second picture is from 2011. 12 years later, not 25.

www.flickr.com/photos/45873...
#RipOffs

Photo of a life-sized figure of a winking cowboy, in hat, red shirt, jeans and boots. The figure has an old-fashioned, one-armed-bandit style, chrome slot machine imbedded in its chest. Taken at the Las Vegas Mob Museum. Original photo by J. Steven York, all rights reserved.

So, I keep seeing these ads for a gamer map package. It's pitched like software, but actually it's just a brush and assets pack for GIMP or Photoshop or whatever. Looked scammy, so searched and found a long Reddit thread where the company "representative" […]

[Original post on mastodon.social]

Another day, another scam, another rip-off affecting the American public. On January 20th, 2025, the White House became Donald J. Trump's 'Corruption HQ'. #TrumpCorruption #RipOffs #Scams #CorruptionHQ #WhiteHouse

Another day, another scam, another rip-off affecting the American public.

On January 20th, 2025, the White House became Donald J. Trump's 'Corruption HQ'.

#TrumpCorruption #RipOffs #Scams #CorruptionHQ #WhiteHouse

Another day, another scam, another rip-off. #TrumpCorruption #RipOffs #Scams

Another day, another scam, another rip-off.

#TrumpCorruption #RipOffs #Scams

Pulp Fiction: Tarantino's Biggest "Homages" or Rip-Offs? (Side-by-Side) ... youtube.com/shorts/w7cGL... #PulpFiction #Tarantino #QuentinTarantino #Homages #RipOffs #Filmmaking #ReelTalk #NoRulesFilmSchool

This is amazing research and a stunning report on the ridiculous cost of some living-saving drugs. Shame in #Celgene and shame on the pharmaceutical industry for not stopping this shit. Well worth a read. #PharmaceuticalIndustry. #Ripoffs

Live-Action 'Little Mermaid' Trailer Released — But Not the One You're Thinking Of The first trailer has been released for a live-action 'Little Mermaid' movie, but it may not be the one you'd expect.

#Twitter #X #Disney #LittleMermaidRipoff #Ripoffs

My tweet from March 28, 2017:

#TheLittleMermaid2017 #TheLittleMermaid ew.com/movies/2017/...
Shouldn't the title be changed?

How the Biggest Crypto Hack Ever Nearly Destroyed the World’s No. 2 Exchange Bybit survived, thanks to emergency loans from its peers, but questions over the crypto industry’s security linger.

Hacks, scams and rip offs are integral parts of crypto.

www.wsj.com/finance/curr...

#crypto #Bitcoin #cryptocurrency #money #finance #scams #ripoffs #hack #hacks

Original post on soc.octade.net

My cellular carrier won't let me send email to my own SMS email. They will of course offer a paid service that will allow me to email my own phone.

I also have a paid, parked, Internet SMS number. The entire industry got together, decided that we are not allowed to send SMS messages anymore […]

Project 2025 co-author shuts down operations at consumer protection agency “If you have a bank account, or a credit card, or a mortgage, or a student loan, this is a code red," Elizabeth Warren said. "I am ringing the alarm bell."

Project 2025 co-author shuts down operations at consumer protection agency www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo... via @msnbc

#Project2025 #CFPB #ElizabethWarren #ripoffs #Money #RussellVought #OMB #consumers #TrumpMusk69 Fuck #billionaires piss on them! #Treasury #Trump #WallStreet

A photo of Queen Vee’s LoyalFans livestream tip goal, the total reading $1057.96. She holds her middle finger up beside it.

#findom #losers love #ripoffs! 💋

Rest in peace Vark Shorts you will be missed! #varkshorts #ripoffs #greed #corporateshill

Today on ShortFormBlog, we learn about imitation & flattery archive.shortformblog.com/about/shortformblog-siga... #ripoffs #dontstealourdesign