They confused it for Target?

The children’s images were used by Meta after their parents had posted them on Instagram to mark their return to school.

STOP POSTING PICTURES OF YOUR CHILDREN ON THE INTERNET. Even IF Meta weren’t going to use the photos for advertising purposes, that shit is still public. Even if you set it to “friends only”, you don’t know everybody on your friend list as well as you’d like to think.

What an absolute badass.

For what it’s worth, ChatGPT has gotten better at citing its sources, so it’s easier to fact-check it.

Shut the fuck up, Elon. We’ll be celebrating your death, as well.

There was some Michael Jackson rhythm game for the DS that would, when it detected it was a pirated copy, replace all the normal midi instruments with vuvuzelas.

Arkham Asylum would disable Batman’s glider ability, making pirates plummet to their deaths unexpectedly. Somebody reported this “bug” on the developer’s forums, and a dev replied back “It’s not a bug in the game’s code, it’s a bug in your moral code” before explaining that it was an intentional anti-piracy hook.

One of the ARMA games (2 or 3, I think) would start playing bugles at random intervals and would make your guns’ accuracy slowly get worse over time.

Some developers are pretty damn clever at it lmao

The skin on your body isn’t uniform; it’s at varying textures and thicknesses in different parts, and its absorbency varies in different parts, as well.

The skin around your anus is very resistant to infection due to its particular mixture of these properties.

There was no special chip on the cartridge either, not sure where you heard that from.

Hmm, I may be conflating or misremembering some details, possibly involving the Earthbound Zero prototype cartridges that were floating around for a while. It’s been a long time, but I do distinctly remember that very early in SNES emulation on PC, that there was a bit of a struggle getting Earthbound (Mother 3) to pass the piracy checks, though every emulator for the last ~20 years handles it just fine now.

It may have been a different Nintendo console that did a voltage check. But I’m pretty sure I didn’t just make that up out of nowhere. Now it’s gonna drive me crazy figuring out what I’m trying to remember. :(

Earthbound is notoriously difficult to emulate accurately, partly because the cartridge had a unique chip on it used to detect if the code was running on an authentic cart, for piracy detection. The game will run a check on this chip to read its voltage; if it’s not at the correct reading or if it returns a null value, the game would know it was running on a bootleg cartridge.

What it did then was kinda sinister. It didn’t stop you from playing the game. But it GREATLY increased the spawn rate of enemies, making the game significantly harder. Then, if you managed to make it through the antipiracy hard mode and get all the way to the final boss, the game would intentionally crash itself as soon as the battle begins, and it deleted your save file. You couldn’t finish the game. It let you get 99.99% of the way there, uphill, and then says “get bent” and wipes all your progress.

Elon tried to get CDPR to add him as a character in Cyberpunk 2077, not realizing that he’s literally Saburo Arasaka.

You mean the liars lied? Wow!

Nothing that comes out of this admin should be taken at face value. They are incapable of telling the truth. Even if it benefits them to tell the truth, they will embellish the truth with lies out of pure habit and/or spite. This is the biggest gaslighting operation in human history.

Imagine being so triggered by the existence of children that you completely forgot to say anything relevant to the article.

This is usually the biggest clue that somebody’s full of hot air. Anybody who tells you that they’ve contacted a lawyer, has almost certainly not contacted a lawyer, because the first thing a lawyer will tell them is “Shut the fuck up, do not contact these people ever again, let me do all the talking from here on out”.

From my experience in the industry, these situations are most commonly caused by a driver getting kicked off the app. They’re not allowed to sign back up, so they’ll buy a stolen identity and use that to register a new account and evade detection from the background checks. Or they may be undocumented and using a stolen ID to work, but this can be harder to determine.

Other times, it could just be that the driver has somebody riding along with them. Which is generally not allowed on most apps, because the friend won’t have had a background check submitted, and may now be handling your food.

How do you know?

I didn’t expect him to come back with gallons.

The site has several pretty bad design issues. Aside from not having an image of the thing they’re trying to convince you to support, the page is unreadable in dark mode, and uses a laggy mouse cursor that feels like I’m back on Geocities.

You’d think that, given the nature of this project, that these sorts of optics would be something that team would be more capable of handling.

For every action, there is an equal yet opposite reaction.

Also wtf is the “Abused child forgive abusive parent and reunite happily ever after” trope, fuck that shit. Abusers do not deserve forgiveness.

Not to invalidate any experiences you or anyone else may have gone through, but this can get complicated in some situations. For instance, much of what my mom did to me as a kid would be considered emotionally/physically abusive. At the time, I definitely hated her for it. But as we’ve both grown and changed over time, I’ve learned that she had a lot of her own problems and was dealing with abuse in her life, as well. She took it out on me, and while it’s obviously unacceptable, I don’t still hate her today like I did then.

I don’t forgive the abuse she put me through, but I understand why she did it. She couldn’t break the cycle, and I can’t hold that against her; it’s fucking tough to get out of an abusive feedback loop like that. But she eventually did, and she’s a much better person now than she was then, and we’re on much better terms now. For what it’s worth, I’m also aware that my acceptance of this may also be a symptom of abuse. Again, it’s complicated.

Obviously, not everybody’s situation has a positive turn like mine did. I’m lucky enough that my mom knew what she was doing was wrong, and was able to change her ways. Some people aren’t as fortunate.

Thanks! I was thinking that this was some VR game with really good graphics for a moment lol