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8 people in a trenchcoat. We play DnD and stream video games and art! twitch.tv/dicefunctional | dicefunctional.carrd.co/ ⛔ No AI/NFTs/crypto here. If you're using AI in any way and you follow us, you will likely be immediately blocked. #TTRPG #TTRPGart

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Dicefunctional | TTRPG Nerds, Actual Plays, and Streamers | 🦀 @dicefunctional.bsky.social · May 6

New pinned post! Prone to updates, but these links at least should be fairly static.

IMPORTANT LINKS:
🎮 twitch.tv/dicefunctional
📺 youtube.com/@dicefunctional
👯 discord.gg/HnFSjA8u4U
📓 dicefunctional.carrd.co/
🚫TTRPG Anti-AI Blocklist: bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Dicefunctional | TTRPG Nerds, Actual Plays, and Streamers | 🦀 @dicefunctional.bsky.social · 1m

Not good. Got it

Dicefunctional | TTRPG Nerds, Actual Plays, and Streamers | 🦀 @dicefunctional.bsky.social · 9m

So basically a true chosen is basically someone like a saint.

Dicefunctional | TTRPG Nerds, Actual Plays, and Streamers | 🦀 @dicefunctional.bsky.social · 12m

A good ol' fashioned ritual sacrifice.

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Dicefunctional | TTRPG Nerds, Actual Plays, and Streamers | 🦀 @dicefunctional.bsky.social · 23m

YEAAAAAH LEADER OF A CUUUULT!

wait that isn't a good thing

Dicefunctional | TTRPG Nerds, Actual Plays, and Streamers | 🦀 @dicefunctional.bsky.social · 24m

Well...

Probably in ways that are pretty similar to real life eg, people with followings declaring themselves chosen, or a bunch of old men in funny outfits locking themselves in a building until they come to a conclusion on their Jesus popularity contest.

Creaper @creaperbox.bsky.social · 1h

I dont have an answer, but it gave me a thought.

If there arent any gods, how would one be chosen then and how can it be "proven"

Dicefunctional | TTRPG Nerds, Actual Plays, and Streamers | 🦀 @dicefunctional.bsky.social · 1h

Question for the GMs, writers, and worldbuilders out there;

What exactly does it mean to be "Chosen by a God" in your setting?

Is it a good thing? Bad? Either or?

Does it even actually have any ties to a God, or is it just a title given by religious groups?

#TTRPG

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Pank 🦑 @pankraru.bsky.social · 12h

How to Spot SORA AI Videos with Removed Watermarks.

That popular Video of a Possum being scared while eating Halloween candy, AI. That one has an extra tell, the time stamp numbers in the upper corner, are fucky wucky.

That is how I started to notice the edited out Watermark that is included.

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Dicefunctional | TTRPG Nerds, Actual Plays, and Streamers | 🦀 @dicefunctional.bsky.social · 16h

Damn so my phone is probably gonna be buzzing all day now huh.

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Scott Frerichs @kaiserneko.bsky.social · 17h

Between the power usage, the insidious nature in which it has incentivized the worst behavior in corporations all over the world, the mental anguish it's causing through misinformation and sheer ineptitude from both A.I. and its creators?

Fuck your ideals. Fuck your use cases. FIX. THIS. SHIT.

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Scott Frerichs @kaiserneko.bsky.social · 17h

When it comes to A.I., all of its ideal use cases are utterly moot until the underlying issues are first resolved.

The dangers is presents must first be tackled with unrestrained gusto and diligence. The power usage, the misinformation, the incentivization of dismantling industries.

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Dicefunctional | TTRPG Nerds, Actual Plays, and Streamers | 🦀 @dicefunctional.bsky.social · 18h

It strikes me very much as a "you've missed the point of the series" sequel

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Cas (Runic Press) - "What's My Foundation" Fully Funded! @caspi.bsky.social · 18h

Yeah, no shit. Do not. Validate. Your. Identity. These companies are shoehorning in untested solutions to this new legislative problem and promising more security than they can possibly back up.

404 Media @404media.co · 22h

BREAKING: A catastrophic breach has impacted Discord user data including selfies and identity documents uploaded as part of the app’s verification process, email addresses, phone numbers, approximately where the user lives, and much more.

🔗 www.404media.co/the-discord-...

The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare

A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

www.404media.co

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Dicefunctional | TTRPG Nerds, Actual Plays, and Streamers | 🦀 @dicefunctional.bsky.social · 19h

My apartment.

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-𝚖𝚘𝚡 ❆ ☃︎︎ ❆ @moxiest.art · 20h

neurotypicalism is stored in the foreskin

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 20h

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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Dicefunctional | TTRPG Nerds, Actual Plays, and Streamers | 🦀 @dicefunctional.bsky.social · 20h

Boy I sure like to assume that folks enjoy my loud mouth and willingness to shout about things that I feel deserve attention, instead of simply finding me annoying.

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Rayne Grimm ➡️Furpocalypse @raynegrimm.bsky.social · 20h

For real! Everyone is acting like every other social isn't doing the EXACT SAME SHIT! Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, tiktok, Mastodon, threads and all the others are all doing the same bullshit as one another.

We need to take stands here and now and show that we won't take this shit!

Dicefunctional | TTRPG Nerds, Actual Plays, and Streamers | 🦀 @dicefunctional.bsky.social · 21h

"I'll just go to a different site."

Where. Where mother fucker. What site are you going to use that isn't at risk of the exact same thing.

You guys need to learn that the way that people like this back down is by getting bullied and annoyed into giving up and backing down.

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Dicefunctional | TTRPG Nerds, Actual Plays, and Streamers | 🦀 @dicefunctional.bsky.social · 21h

Yeah you have summed up how most of our group reacted to that trailer.

Dicefunctional | TTRPG Nerds, Actual Plays, and Streamers | 🦀 @dicefunctional.bsky.social · 21h

That's not to say that the folks directly being affected don't try, mind you.

It's to say that most everyone around them doesn't speak up and stick to it.

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Dicefunctional | TTRPG Nerds, Actual Plays, and Streamers | 🦀 @dicefunctional.bsky.social · 21h

It's literally been the TERF and right-wing lunatic handbook for years, and it works for them because significantly less people will try to push back from the other side.

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Dicefunctional | TTRPG Nerds, Actual Plays, and Streamers | 🦀 @dicefunctional.bsky.social · 21h

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Dicefunctional | TTRPG Nerds, Actual Plays, and Streamers | 🦀 @dicefunctional.bsky.social · 21h

And another thing related to my last post?

Yall mfs were way too willing to just roll over and move past BlueSky and the censorship issue.

The moderators are still acting like children.

They're still planning on pushing guidelines that will censor artwork.

They're still not defending trans folk.

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Dicefunctional | TTRPG Nerds, Actual Plays, and Streamers | 🦀 @dicefunctional.bsky.social · 21h

This is a great time to remind everyone that you should in fact, still be calling MasterCard, Visa, Stripe, and other payment processors to annoy the shit out of them.

Because I'll tell you right now, that shitheel? Not gonna have to worry about them accepting payment.

*Artists will.*

Phone Numbers
• Stripe (California): +1 888 926 2289 (Say you're based in California before continuing.)
• Stripe (Headquarters): +1 (888) 963-8955
• Stripe (US): +1 (877) 887-7815
• Stripe (France): +33 805-11-19-67
Mastercard (Headquarters): +1 914-249-2000 • Mastercard (US): +1 (800)-627-8372
Mastercard (US): +1 (800)-307-7309
• Mastercard (Int.): +1 (636)-722-7111
• Mastercard (AUS): +61 1800 120 113
• Mastercard (UK): 0-800-96-4767
All region numbers for Mastercard Visa (Headquarters): +1 (650)-432-3200
• Visa (US+ Can): +1 (800)-847-2911
• Visa (AUS): +61 1800 125 440 All region numbers for Visa
• PayPal (US): +1 (888)-221-1161
• PayPal (UK): +44 (0203)-901-7000
PayPal Customer Service: +1 (877)-569-1116

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Errol 🦇 🏳️‍🌈 @eerieseymour.bsky.social · 1d

The Orphan Crusher is here to stay. If we don’t feed more Orphans to the Crusher the Orphan Crushing industry will die. It’s time to wake up to the reality of the Orphan Crusher. The Orphan Crusher is worth billions. We need to teach people to use the Orphan Crusher. It’s here to stay.

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Rine @rine.bsky.social · 21h

Also the COO of Bsky follows the Heritage Foundation, and when people pointed it out the person running the 'shitty follows' labeler decided to delete the labeler for.....reasons.

Pumpkin Spice Chicken @werechicken.bsky.social · 22h

The CEO of Bluesky is following a transphobe and when Link questioned them about it, the CEO banned them.

Hate to say it but Jay is a jerkass.

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