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🎗️ Stop the war. Bring them home. 🏳️‍🌈 Infosec software developer and really-bad-puns guy (he/him) 🌐 https://smileybarry.com

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Smiley @smileybarry.com · Sep 23

If it's anything like Homicide: Life on Sesame Street, count me in
youtu.be/Mh5pAtgubMY

bert and ernie on family guy

YouTube video by felix randall garcia

youtu.be

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · Sep 23

Target: ACQUIRED. This is Tom Foolery and he's available for adoption in South Burlington, VT! He's very sweet and loves people ,but he's prone to overstimulation so he will need a cat-savvy adopter who understands kitty body language. www.hsccvt.org/Cats#sl_embe...

Photo of a shorthaired grey tabby cat looking at a feather toy that is sitting on top of an ottoman. He's peeking over the edge about to pounce.

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Smiley @smileybarry.com · Sep 23

Is it available on TormentHub?

Smiley @smileybarry.com · Sep 23

this is all I could think of when I read that

a cartoon of a family guy in a bathtub with the caption it insists upon itself yarn

Alt: A Family Guy quote in episode 27 of season 4: "It insists upon itself", said by Peter. The family is shown floating at head height in a flooding safe room.

media.tenor.com

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furby hancock @furbyhancock.bsky.social · Sep 22

Too late, Batman. Once this Tylenol floods the city's water supply, my wiki won't run out of editors ever again

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Smiley @smileybarry.com · Sep 16

don't forget the teeny tiny tasting plate

Smiley @smileybarry.com · Jul 25

Watching Black Mirror with subtitles, I think I’m gonna start counting how many times it says “[ethereal music playing]”.

Also, didn’t Netflix say they were going to add English subtitles that aren’t closed captioning?

Smiley @smileybarry.com · Jul 14

Update: they've silently raised the price for me too, I've just noticed in account settings when I went to skip this month.

No email, no notice, nothing.

TITLE: Payment Information

CONTENT: You're skipping July 2025 Choice. Your next bill is for US$14.99 on August 26, 2025.

Smiley @smileybarry.com · Jul 11

If you mostly use the “Discover” feed, you can customize it by tapping “…” on a post and choosing “Show more like this” or “Show less like this”. Tapping “Show more[…]” on @catsofyore.bsky.social posts will, over time, populate your Discover feed with more of their posts.

A screenshot of Bluesky, showing the “More”/“Options” menu of a post, highlighting the option “Show more like this”.

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Stella Sacco @antlervel.vet · Jul 11

Oh sure. Ask @aftermath.site three or four times to publish your explicit lesbian personal ads and they tell you no, but get a bizarre ChatGPT rejection email from a game studio and suddenly they’re interested,

Aftermath @aftermath.site · Jul 11

If you're going to reject someone's video game job application, you don't have to be a dick about it
aftermath.site/video-game-ind...

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Smiley @smileybarry.com · Jul 1

(Here is the same text-photo but with the text added as alt text, read with OCR. Posted in two parts because it’s over the limit of 2000 characters.)

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We've seen a wide range of accusations regarding the use of Al-generated content in The Alters, and we feel it's important to clarify our approach and give you more context. Al-generated assets were used strictly as temporary WIPs during the development process and in a very limited manner. Our team has always prioritized meaningful, handcrafted storytelling as one of the foundations of our game.

During production, an Al-generated text for a graphic asset, which was meant as a piece of background texture, was used by one of our graphical designers as a placeholder. This was never intended to be part of the final release. Unfortunately, due to an internal oversight, this single placeholder text was mistakenly left in the game. We have since conducted a thorough review and confirmed that this was an isolated case, and the asset in question is being updated. For transparency, we've included a screenshot to show how and where it appears in the game. While we do not want to downplay the situation, we also want
to clearly show its limited impact on your gaming experience.

In addition to that, a few licensed movies that the alters can watch in the social area of the base were added at the final stage of development. While those were externally produced, our team was not involved in the creative process, and these required additional last-minute translations. Due to extreme time constraints, we chose not to involve our translation partners and had these videos localized using Al to have them ready on launch. It was always our intention to involve our trusted translation agencies after release as part of our localization hotfix, to ensure those texts would be handled with the same care and quality as the rest of the game. That process is now underway, and updated translations are being implemented.

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To give you a better understanding of what a small part of the overall scope of the game's narrative layer they are, those few external movies are approx. 10k words out of 3.4 million across all languages in the game, or just 0.3% of the overall text. The alternative was to release those specific dialogues in English only, which we believed would be a worse experience for non-English-speakers. In hindsight, we acknowledge this was the wrong call. Even more so, no matter what we decided, we should have simply let you know.

As Al tools evolve, they present new challenges and opportunities in game development. We're actively adapting our internal processes to meet this reality. But above all, we remain committed to transparency in how we make our games. We appreciate your understanding and continued support as we work towards that goal.

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Smiley @smileybarry.com · Jun 25

I wonder if it's still rolling out or if it's really region-based, because I pay 12 USD but I'm *not* in the US, and the Humble Choice panel still says my next payment is $11.99. 🤷‍♂️

Smiley @smileybarry.com · Jun 9

they will not survive the silly

Smiley @smileybarry.com · Jun 9

It’s rude to stare #MarioKartWorld #NintendoSwitch2

Smiley @smileybarry.com · Jun 5

I thought she had an eyepatch and sailed the seven seas

Smiley @smileybarry.com · May 28

I gotta say, the current administration eroded my trust in separation of powers so much that my first reaction to this ruling was "they can do that??"

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · May 24

Every Harry Potter book or shirt you buy directly funds the persecution of trans people.

There's absolutely no excuse to support anything Harry Potter anymore unless you hate trans people.

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Smiley @smileybarry.com · May 20

That one month a year C’Thun becomes C’Thong 🏳️‍🌈🦑

Smiley @smileybarry.com · May 16

It’s such a cutie patootie little device, I want one but I don’t think I have a use for it

Smiley @smileybarry.com · May 16

The ATM ate his card

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Smiley @smileybarry.com · May 16

Okay MUBI, I’m not sure I’m the target audience for that but alright

A subscription promotion notification from MUBI, saying:

Title: 10.99 a month. For 4 months.
Content: Watch more great films, like PUSSY. For a lot less. No strings. No ads.

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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · Apr 23

beloved poster will stancil has been struck dead by a truck… only to be reborn as the 19th century german philosopher karl marx?? watch “help me engels-kun! i’ve been reborn as the father of communism” airing on toonami this friday

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Smiley @smileybarry.com · Apr 23

I’m waiting for the sequel:

Goonergate 2: Goon with the Wind

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Smiley @smileybarry.com · Apr 23

Currently resisting the urge to play the Oblivion remake so I could play @expedition33.bsky.social (while my mid-playthrough Atomfall sits in a corner, staring at me)