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Paul C

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A man of few words, unless those words are about Godzilla • 日本語が少しだけ話せます • he/him

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Paul C

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Screenshot of James Bond from No Time to Die, with Wile E. Coyote's "Yikes" sign added.

November 11, 2025 at 11:40 AM

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Screenshot from No Time To Die, with Wile E. Coyote's "Yikes" sign added.

November 11, 2025 at 11:39 AM

Paul C

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Finally, some *good* news

Guardian headline: "Dick Cheney, voice-president and giant of Republican politics, dies aged 84", above a picture of Cheney from 2000

November 4, 2025 at 1:00 PM

Paul C

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This reads like a bad joke. How is it a ceasefire if Israel is still bombing Gaza anyway?!

Guardian headline: Israeli strikes in Gaza kill at least 104 overnight as ceasefire looks increasingly fragile

October 29, 2025 at 11:07 AM

Paul C

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I am, apparently, boring as f—k

October 28, 2025 at 11:05 AM

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I wanted to like this, but couldn't bring myself to click the button.

October 3, 2025 at 2:53 PM

Paul C

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Aren't *all* eyes technically edible..?

September 19, 2025 at 10:35 AM

Paul C

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Me rn

Ogami Tsumiki from Ogami Tsumiki's Not-So-Everyday Life manga, eyes closed, saying "Oh no… The sleepies just hit…"

September 18, 2025 at 11:16 AM

Paul C

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It's one of the less sensible dye jobs in the game, but I can't go back from the Passion Fruit Split fur in Bananza.

DK Bananza screenshot. DK has purple and yellow fur and a hard hat, standing on a wooden platform overlooking DK Island.

September 16, 2025 at 1:09 PM

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September 10, 2025 at 10:31 AM

Paul C

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Glib answer: I hope so.

Serious answer: THEY'RE NOT AI! THERE IS NO INTELLIGENCE! IT'S JUST A FANCY PROBABILITY ENGINE!

Partial Guardian Technology headline: Can AIs suffer?

August 26, 2025 at 9:16 AM

Paul C

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My Steam purchase history only goes back to 2008, but I KNOW I first got it along with Half Life 2 in 2004. Did I just not buy anything for four years?

Perhaps worth noting that I've never finished any of these.

22 Apr, 2010 Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition
26 Mar, 2010 Torchlight
26 Jan 2010 Psychonauts
27 Nov, 2009 STAR WARS™ Knights of the Old Republic™
5 Nov, 2008 Audiosurf

August 15, 2025 at 4:15 PM

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August 11, 2025 at 1:20 PM

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The Online Safety Act is only going to make the internet a MORE dangerous place, and a much easier arena for malicious actors to get a hold of users' personal data.

A serious (and seemingly obvious) problem with the implementation of the Online Safety Act is that it requires malicious actors to not exist.

Since the UK govenment in any form hates paying for things, especially things required for their goals, the current situation is that websites have to work out to do age verification themselves. There is no government-approved or provided service for this - it's a free-for-all of third-party verification providers.

Now, some people are pointing out that depending on how these companies handle the data given to them to perform verification, it's possible this data could be stolen or leaked. This is a worrying possibility. This danger is primarily one of passive incompetence, although if your driver's licence gets leaked, you won't be happy either way.

But passive incompetence probably isn't going to hurt anyone before active malice does.

Normalising showing your face or identity documents to random websites is an incredibly stupid thing to do. You know who benefits from this? Actual criminals! Phishing attacks continue to be successful because people will put their banking details into websites that are very much not their banks. And while random websites asking for your banking details is suspicious, the OSA makes it so that random websites asking for your driver's license or passport or other such things will now be expected.

Meaning an enterprising criminal can set up a website, stick a fake age verification pop-up on it, and harvest a whole bunch of things that come in useful for committing identity theft. Or blackmail perhaps.

The overall point here is that in this respect, the Online Safety Act is going to make the internet more dangerous, in a way that should be obvious if you actually think about the potential negative consequences.

August 10, 2025 at 8:38 AM

Paul C

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You see this, quote with a title screen that’s iconic to you

August 6, 2025 at 10:43 PM

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July 29, 2025 at 6:42 PM

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Sad Wolverine meme. He's looking at the Meeples stretch goal from the Land of Eem Underlands Kickstarter.

July 19, 2025 at 4:08 AM

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65 hours to go on the @landofeem.bsky.social Underlands kickstarter, they've just announced that all physical backers will be getting this adorable little bat-guy meeple.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/exa...

Flitterfolk meeple. A little purple bat guy holding two daggers.

July 16, 2025 at 10:12 AM

Paul C

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This manga needs an anime right now. Ever wondered "what if John Wick was a cute anime girl and also Cupid?" WONDER NO MORE

Panel from Love Bullet by inee. A Cupid's bullet passes through a customer and a cashier at a fast food restaurant counter. It looks cool as hell.

July 4, 2025 at 11:58 AM

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Oh my GOD Josh

I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the Trump administration has dispensed with the work of manufacturing consent (another manufacturing sector he’s failed to bring back to U.S. soil smdh).

June 23, 2025 at 2:23 PM

Paul C

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@unexploredcast.bsky.social @cprevas.bsky.social It's here! Looks incredible, of course. Gonna brew some tea and take some time to digest the rules and admire the cards.