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[Smoothie]

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Just a heads up. I checked my IG account, and sure enough it had me following both of their accounts.

That’s really bad. Zuck talking about making his platforms less biased while forcing users to follow one side’s political leaders.

I checked my account. Thankfully, I was not impacted. Still pissed that it even needs to be monitored, though.

 

[rockin_rod]

That’s really bad. Zuck talking about making his platforms less biased while forcing users to follow one side’s political leaders.

I checked my account. Thankfully, I was not impacted. Still pissed that it even needs to be monitored, though.

News outlets here reported that it was only followers of the winning pre-election candidates' accounts that were automatically changed over to followers of the official POTUS or VP accounts post Jan 20th, but maybe that's not so?

 

[Vixxen81]

News outlets here reported that it was only followers of the winning pre-election candidates' accounts that were automatically changed over to followers of the official POTUS or VP accounts post Jan 20th, but maybe that's not so?

Absolutely not true. The celebrities reporting it happening to them were very anti-TFG. It's possible they looked at those accounts at one point for whatever reason. If Elmo has access to voting machine counts...anything is possible.

It's like when itunes forced U2's new album on everyone with an itunes account.

 

[AmberCutie]

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Just a heads up. I checked my IG account, and sure enough it had me following both of their accounts.

My account might be too pleb to have it happen to mine.

I only have like 700 followers, and none of the 20 I follow are those fucks.

 

[yummybrownfox]

News outlets here reported that it was only followers of the winning pre-election candidates' accounts that were automatically changed over to followers of the official POTUS or VP accounts post Jan 20th, but maybe that's not so?

I have never intentionally followed Donald Trump or any of his minions on social media, and never will. I WILLINGLY followed Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, Joe Biden, and Kamala Harris’ accounts on IG.

 

[Vixxen81]

I have never intentionally followed Donald Trump or any of his minions on social media, and never will. I WILLINGLY followed Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, Joe Biden, and Kamala Harris’ accounts on IG.

Out of curiosity are they still in your followed list?

 

[yummybrownfox]

Yup.

 

[rockin_rod]

Apologies, I double-checked the local news outlet reports and believe I was wrong in the previous comment.
What the ABC here reported was that any followers of members of the outgoing administration were automatically switched over to the incoming one, while the outgoing accounts were archived and still followed.
That said, there are very conflicting reports of what allegedly happened, and I don't trust any of them one inch.

 

[Vixxen81]

Apologies, I double-checked the local news outlet reports and believe I was wrong in the previous comment.
What the ABC here reported was that any followers of members of the outgoing administration were automatically switched over to the incoming one, while the outgoing accounts were archived and still followed.
That said, there are very conflicting reports of what allegedly happened, and I don't trust any of them one inch.

 

[MarieElise]

"Free radicals" sound like they should be something cool from the 60s... but they aren't. I guess it's physics talk.
Antioxidants are the good guys, but they have the shitty name ???
I guess it all boils down to an extra electron... it's absolutely mind blowing!

 

[Marceline]

On my second Baldur's Gate 3 playthrough and I'm amazed at how much content I missed in my first 130+ hour playthrough, and I'm still in the 1st act and doing a similar run (first run was Tav with a good/neutral moral alignment, this time I'm doing a Durge/Resist Durge good/neutral run, both with the same build because I love playing any fantasy rpg as a wood elf ranger). Next playthrough will be evil Durge and then it will be on to the Origin characters. This game is legitimately one of the best gaming experiences I've ever had. Like, I have hundreds of games I still need to play sitting in my backlog and I don't have any desire to play anything else. BG3 has ruined all other games for me, hahaha.

 

[zippypinhead]

On my second Baldur's Gate 3 playthrough and I'm amazed at how much content I missed in my first 130+ hour playthrough, and I'm still in the 1st act and doing a similar run (first run was Tav with a good/neutral moral alignment, this time I'm doing a Durge/Resist Durge good/neutral run, both with the same build because I love playing any fantasy rpg as a wood elf ranger). Next playthrough will be evil Durge and then it will be on to the Origin characters. This game is legitimately one of the best gaming experiences I've ever had. Like, I have hundreds of games I still need to play sitting in my backlog and I don't have any desire to play anything else. BG3 has ruined all other games for me, hahaha.

I have a few games on rotation that are the same way for me; I just endlessly replay them, despite having access to a thousand games in my collection that I have no real desire to play because they don't hit the sweet spot. I've made peace with it. I know what I like, and I play what I play. Honestly, it's actually a bit freeing. I feel pretty impervious to the hype/disappointment loop of new games at this point, since I'm content to just be playing what I've already been playing forever.

Speaking of which, No Man's Sky just dropped another huge update today, that supposedly adds a ton of stuff. We'll see how different it makes the experience. We'll see if my laptop can even handle it. I do hope it'll be enough to see me through a good portion of February, which is truly the hardest part of the year for me.

I need to give BG3 another go. I put it down pretty deep into act 1, because I have this thing with contemporary party-based crpgs, where the combo of an unvoiced PC and being surrounded by a cast of very vocal party members makes me begin to feel like I'm a supporting character taking a tour through everyone else's stories, instead of playing my own story.

 

[Vixxen81]

I just endlessly replay them,

Castlevania Symphony of the Night is my game for this. I've reached almost total completion only to delete the cell and start over. I have never actually finished the game and I started playing it in 1998.

 

[Marceline]

I have a few games on rotation that are the same way for me; I just endlessly replay them, despite having access to a thousand games in my collection that I have no real desire to play because they don't hit the sweet spot. I've made peace with it. I know what I like, and I play what I play. Honestly, it's actually a bit freeing. I feel pretty impervious to the hype/disappointment loop of new games at this point, since I'm content to just be playing what I've already been playing forever.

There's a few games that I've played over and over (DQ 8 was my main go to game for a looooong time when I was younger, still wish there would be a PS5 remake), but no other game I have ever played has come even close to how I feel about BG3. The only ones that have come somewhat close is Dragon Age Inquisition and Oblivion and Skyrim (obviously I have a type haha). I played a handful of short games between my first playthrough and this one, but I couldn't stop thinking about how much content I missed, judging from videos I've seen on Youtube, and had to go back.

I need to give BG3 another go. I put it down pretty deep into act 1, because I have this thing with contemporary party-based crpgs, where the combo of an unvoiced PC and being surrounded by a cast of very vocal party members makes me begin to feel like I'm a supporting character taking a tour through everyone else's stories, instead of playing my own story.

You should really give it another try! Did you play as Tav (totally custom character)? Tav has basically no background, which can be a pro or con. Pro because you can come up with your own headcanon for your character, con because... you're just this random person thrown into the game and you don't have your own personal story to explore. I enjoyed my Tav run because I think almost all the companions have extremely interesting backstories and I had fun learning more about them while also progressing the game. You can actually play as any of the origin companions too, but the downside to that is that I don't believe they are voiced in their origin runs (biggest reason why I may never do an origin Astarion playthrough, because his voice makes me swoon hahaha).

Buuut, playing as The Dark Urge gives you a very interesting backstory that you get to explore throughout the game and connects to the overall D&D lore. Since I'm currently doing a Durge run, while also knowing the full storyline, I have to say that playing as Durge makes way more sense. Also, without spoiling anything, I find some of the Durge choices (specifically whether or not you want to give into the dark urges or not) hilarious.

That's just my, admittedly, totally biased opinion haha.

 

[rockin_rod]

Never really got into gaming, but I'm loving the energy and enthusiasm you're all showing!