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Steven 🎃umpkin @silent0siris.bsky.social · 1h

Yep, salt water gargle. I’ve also heard tea with honey, lemon, and cayenne pepper, from my old music school days.

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Mr. Chau @srirachachau.bsky.social · 4h

Long story short, an actual Nazi doxxing ring. Enough people reported them that they went away for like 12 hours and then Elon personally brought them back. The site is dead. If you’re still on there, go lock your account right now

chris @knightscrest.bsky.social · 4h

what even happened on the other site this time

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Steven 🎃umpkin @silent0siris.bsky.social · 5h

Infuriating that so many platforms have been banning erotic art, and payment processors have been pressuring that; only for the Mass Plagiarism Machine to turn around and say “we’ll do erotica.” I wonder (I don’t) if they’ll receive the same treatment.

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 1d

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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Stellaween? @antlervel.vet · 20h

WHEN THERE’S TREASURE BEHIND THE WATERFALL: Oh wow. Yes, very clever! Waterfall treasure! No one’s ever done that before. Lazy jackass

WHEN THERE’S NO TREASURE BEHIND THE WATERFALL: Wow. Too stuck-up to put treasure there huh? Too much of a fucking ICONOCLAST for that? Piece of shit. FUCK you

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Steven 🎃umpkin @silent0siris.bsky.social · 1d

Happy to inform you that this shit slaps

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Steven 🎃umpkin @silent0siris.bsky.social · 1d

Yo that’s big!! I’m still at about a 12, but looking forward to getting faster!

Steven 🎃umpkin @silent0siris.bsky.social · 1d

it’s important to celebrate local cultural holidays!

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Steven 🎃umpkin @silent0siris.bsky.social · 1d

I’m drinking a pumpkin spice espresso with breakfast

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Steven 🎃umpkin @silent0siris.bsky.social · 1d

I shall intone the sacred mantra of my adopted hometown:

“We really needed this rain”

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Steven 🎃umpkin @silent0siris.bsky.social · 1d

They were! We do it like this every time, it’s great. Thin layer of dark chocolate on the bottom of the pie!

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Steven 🎃umpkin @silent0siris.bsky.social · 1d

Oh baby

A golden crusted, rich red-brown pecan pie, it’s filling caramelized at the edges where it meets the flaky pie crust.

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Steven 🎃umpkin @silent0siris.bsky.social · 1d

Protopie

Chocolate chips in the empty pie shell, making a chocolatey bottom layer

Pecan pie filling filling up most of the pie shell

Well arrayed pecan halves decorating the top of the pie filling in a radial pattern, a pecan pie ready for the oven

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Steven 🎃umpkin @silent0siris.bsky.social · 1d

Makin a pecan pie for canadian thanksgiving!

An incredible looking handmade raw pie crust, I’m talkin’ just the most beautiful, light gold dough, with ruffled folded edges. A few brown specks peek through the dough, which we will forgive, as a single coffee bean had fallen into the food processor prior to our hero’s crust making. It probably won’t hurt.

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Steven 🎃umpkin @silent0siris.bsky.social · 2d

Launching alongside the long awaited, fan requested, Bluepoint-studios executed remake of From Software’s instant classic….

… Dark Souls 2! 😭

VGC @videogameschronicle.com · 2d

Both PS6 and the next Xbox are planned for a 2027 release, according to separate reports.

www.videogameschronicle.com/news/ps6-and...

PS6 and next Xbox console are both aiming for 2027 release, separate reports claim | VGC

Both companies are reportedly planning to release their next-gen consoles within two years…

www.videogameschronicle.com

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Steven 🎃umpkin @silent0siris.bsky.social · 2d

If you like Inquisitor stuff I hear the Ravenor novels are similarly excellent, and I’ve also heard high praise for Gaunt’s Ghosts (imperial guard)!

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Steven 🎃umpkin @silent0siris.bsky.social · 2d

I saw OP and was LITERALLY going to reply “Tony Soprano”

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dr. hazel 🐝 @hazelmonforton.com · 2d

James Gandolfini

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 2d

name an italian more worthy of an american holiday than columbus

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 2d

Pretty sure I say this every Columbus Day, but getting hauled back to Spain for excessive brutality in 1500, just as the Inquisition was really getting fired up, is some genuinely Evil Guys Hall of Infamy material

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Steven 🎃umpkin @silent0siris.bsky.social · 2d

Did our 1h20m LISS walk/hike again today for the first time in a few weeks! Feeling accomplished!

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Casey Lucas @bimbo.phd · Jan 16

Similar to my post about "liberation means even for that annoying guy you hate" - weird art includes art you personally don't get, don't like, wouldn't spend money on, find unsettling. Games you wouldn't play. Books you wouldn't read. Decommercialise your preconceptions of what art deserves to exist

shaydh 🩸FLEDGLING MANOR OUT NOW🩸 @shaydh.bsky.social · Jan 16

Everyone saying "make weird art!" you better fucking mean it. There better not be an unspoken "but not too weird" tacked on at the end.

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Steven 🎃umpkin @silent0siris.bsky.social · 3d

better motivation than most 😅

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Steven 🎃umpkin @silent0siris.bsky.social · 3d

The process is something like:

- Get the party’s next objective
- Increase detail in hexes near it
- Preroll likely random encounters
- Play!

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Steven 🎃umpkin @silent0siris.bsky.social · 3d

even with sword!!

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Steven 🎃umpkin @silent0siris.bsky.social · 3d

For DCC Gamedev West Marches, I’ve now got:
- 7 hexes fully detailed
- 3-4 hexes that just need a little extra
- 3-4 hexes that have some very high level suggestions that need a lot of work

And It’s becoming pretty easy to run after only 3(? I think?) overland sessions so far!

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Steven 🎃umpkin @silent0siris.bsky.social · 3d

This is why D&D

Dr. Katharine Dickson @metaomicsnerd.bsky.social · 3d

have a meme

screencap of Utena Tenjou from the Revolutionary Girl Utena opening lunging forward in the arena with the Sword of Dios. superimposed on this is a tumblr post by user visit-ba-sing-se that says "hate how most of my problems are abstract or systematic i wanna fight more of them with a sword"

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