Hey So, Some Time Ago I Found A Piece Of Samus Art Showing Her Reacting With Despair To A 23andMe Letter

Rb if you were/are a gifted kid I wanna see how many of us ended up here

okay I am begging people to understand that it is not "planned obsolescence" or "corporate greed" for manufacturers to stop selling things because genuinely better technologies become available. I just had someone arguing with me that they should be able to buy a new nickel-cadmium battery for their 25-year-old cordless vacuum. NiCd batteries were outlawed a decade ago for very good reasons. if you really want to have the same effect as using one you can just go out and shoot 10 people with Bullets That Give You Cancer and then rip out your own kidney

samus the protector of space pride

the girlfriend in question:

Remember: physical media is way, WAY harder to lose permanently at the whims of random companies.

Digital media is cool, but physical media is YOURS.

I need to stop spending so much on dvds, I love em, but I probably should be able to enter a half price books without spending at minimum 20 bucks on films and TV shows

“i am a monument to all your sins” is such a fucking raw line for a villain it’s amazing that it came from halo, a modernish video game, and not some classical text or mythos

Hell, if the bots get better at handling it, you can just do it MORE! Layers of human-parsable obscurity that force bots to waste ever more time to do literally anything useful with this data! Use ã and é instead of a and e, use | instead of l or I, × instead of x...

Be ungovernable.

Ruin ai datasets.

Write yo shit.

You know how spammers use similar characters to replace actual letters to get by filters? Doing that to your writing would give a slightly bizarre visual and utterly annihilate any basic scraping tools, because visual interpretation of characters is wildly more time and resource intensive than plaintext ripping.

It might help or severely hinder dyslexic people, though.

Also some browsers/OS might have trouble loading them?

ɬɧıʂ ƙıŋɖą ɬɧıŋɠ. ɬơɬąƖƖყ ʄųƈƙ ῳıɬɧ ɬɧɛ ʂƈཞą℘ıŋɠ ɖɛ۷ıƈɛ.

None of that will at all register correctly to a scraper. It's in Unicode, so it'll work wherever.

Boldtext.io is the one I used, but there's plenty of ways to do it. You could even do multiple at once and make undoing it basically impossible, but still have it be readable to humans (auto readers or whatever for the visually impaired, not so much...)

ᏇᏂᎩ ᏕᏂᎧᏬᏝᎴ ᏇᏋ ᎷᏗᏦᏋ ᏝᎥᎦᏋ ᏋᏗᏕᎥᏋᏒ ᎦᎧᏒ ᏖᏂᏋ ᏰᎧᏖᏕ ᏖᏂᏗᏖ ᏒᎥᎮ ᏋᏁᏖᎥᏒᏋ ᏇᏋᏰᏕᎥᏖᏋᏕ?

Just gotta pick the style you like that's as clear as possible while also being literal gibberish to any quick digital scan method.

₱Ʉ₮ ₮Ⱨł₴ ₴Ɇ₦₮Ɇ₦₵Ɇ ł₦₮Ø ₲ØØ₲ⱠɆ ₳₦Đ ₳₴₭ ł₮ ₮Ø ⱤɆ₳Đ ł₮ ØɄ₮ ⱠØɄĐ.

Or

ᑭᑌT TᕼIᔕ ᔕEᑎTEᑎᑕE IᑎTO GOOGᒪE ᗩᑎᗪ ᗩᔕK IT TO ᖇEᗩᗪ IT OᑌT ᒪOᑌᗪ.

That second one is almost plain, and none of those characters should be used that way. It just produces gibberish where it can figure out what a particular character is technically displaying.

Some ai might be able to handle this. It will still be an extra layer of defense.

I'll take reduced reading speed for total digital obscurity and I'll be happy.

Randomizers

How to make a beloved game more replayable: Stick it in a blender and try to play whatever comes out.

Still not good enough? Mix in another game or two!

GitHub

GitHub - TheTrackerCouncil/SMZ3Randomizer: Tracker presents: a casual standalone version of the Super Metroid & A Link to the Past Crossover

Tracker presents: a casual standalone version of the Super Metroid & A Link to the Past Crossover Randomizer with built-in automatic ite

Pokemon randomizers make it harder to metagame your way past stuff, you end up having to actually play, this and other fusion randomizers turn games into much more involved things.

Imagine playing chess to determine which spaces your checkers can move on another board, all to figure out who gets to go next at jenga.

MIX ALL THE THINGS

samus’s dating woes

Don't you just love knowing something might hurt you, would be dumb to do the way you're planning to do it, and could be done differently with no danger, but doing it anyway because 'faster' is all you can focus on?

I've spent a week unable to sit upright, only stand or lie down, because I apparently pinched a nerve along my spine that gets aggravated by having my legs up.

Because I lifted some heavy bags while sore using my back, rather than my legs.

I've failed you, OSHA guidelines.

You know how spammers use similar characters to replace actual letters to get by filters? Doing that to your writing would give a slightly bizarre visual and utterly annihilate any basic scraping tools, because visual interpretation of characters is wildly more time and resource intensive than plaintext ripping.

It might help or severely hinder dyslexic people, though.

Also some browsers/OS might have trouble loading them?

ɬɧıʂ ƙıŋɖą ɬɧıŋɠ. ɬơɬąƖƖყ ʄųƈƙ ῳıɬɧ ɬɧɛ ʂƈཞą℘ıŋɠ ɖɛ۷ıƈɛ.

None of that will at all register correctly to a scraper. It's in Unicode, so it'll work wherever.

Boldtext.io is the one I used, but there's plenty of ways to do it. You could even do multiple at once and make undoing it basically impossible, but still have it be readable to humans (auto readers or whatever for the visually impaired, not so much...)

ᏇᏂᎩ ᏕᏂᎧᏬᏝᎴ ᏇᏋ ᎷᏗᏦᏋ ᏝᎥᎦᏋ ᏋᏗᏕᎥᏋᏒ ᎦᎧᏒ ᏖᏂᏋ ᏰᎧᏖᏕ ᏖᏂᏗᏖ ᏒᎥᎮ ᏋᏁᏖᎥᏒᏋ ᏇᏋᏰᏕᎥᏖᏋᏕ?

Just gotta pick the style you like that's as clear as possible while also being literal gibberish to any quick digital scan method.

₱Ʉ₮ ₮Ⱨł₴ ₴Ɇ₦₮Ɇ₦₵Ɇ ł₦₮Ø ₲ØØ₲ⱠɆ ₳₦Đ ₳₴₭ ł₮ ₮Ø ⱤɆ₳Đ ł₮ ØɄ₮ ⱠØɄĐ.

Or

ᑭᑌT TᕼIᔕ ᔕEᑎTEᑎᑕE IᑎTO GOOGᒪE ᗩᑎᗪ ᗩᔕK IT TO ᖇEᗩᗪ IT OᑌT ᒪOᑌᗪ.

That second one is almost plain, and none of those characters should be used that way. It just produces gibberish where it can figure out what a particular character is technically displaying.

Some ai might be able to handle this. It will still be an extra layer of defense.

I'll take reduced reading speed for total digital obscurity and I'll be happy.