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[criticalrolo]

HARK. YOU CAN TURN OFF AI IMAGES ON PINTEREST

go to settings, then Refine Recommendations, then turn off all the GenAI tabs

[mercury101]

Old Capa's Forest 5

[polarmoon]

back home in moonlight falls 🍂

[orteil42]

if you're in Europe PLEASE consider signing the Stop Destroying Games initiative. the deadline is July 31st 2025. i've posted about it before; it aims to create legislation for publishers to stop killing the games you pay for and to provide an end-of-life plan for live-service products. thank you!!!

European Citizens' Initiative

Give your support !

[afrolatinotrait]

people using chatgpt because they can't come up with ideas or names for sims on their own

[venriliz]

fantasynamegenerators.com has been my friend for years lol

[waaneco]

[pinkyjulien]

Nexus Mods was acquired by Chosen, a company focused on growth and monetization of gaming startups.

Reddit thread

Dark0ne, creator and ex-owner of Nexus Mods, stepped down today in an update post:

NexusMods post

Users on Resetera were able to found out more about this sudden change of ownership:

Resetera thread

Victor Folmann, CEO of Chosen, published this "Gaming Startup Monetization Cheat Sheet" on his LinkedIn

Link to the post

Users are already sharing their fear of NexusMods allowing more bigoted mods in the future, and taking down inclusive ones to follow the current "anti-woke" trend in the gaming industry

Reseta threada bout their change in moderation concerning bigoted mods following Oblivion Remastered launch

Another User, this time on NexusMods forum, noticed queer and inclusive mods being removed following Dark0ne's post

Link to the forum post

It is also worth mentioning that Chosen and its CEO are seen using AI generated images on their website (including generated images depicting Tracer from Overwatch) hyping up ChatGPT on his Linkedin account, and are including "rewarding gamers with crypto money"

Users speculate that Chosen buying out NexusMods is to potentially train an AI model that generates mods

More about Nvidia's AI "RTX Remix" and future projects

[hollowedskin]

Are you fucking kidding me

[lucidicer]

List of every game company under Microsoft for boycott reference.

arkane studios (dishonored, prey, death loop, blade, redfall)

bethesda (fallout, elder scrolls, starfield)

blizzard (WoW, starcraft, diablo, overwatch)

compulsion (we happy few, south of midnight)

the coalition (gears of war, halo infinite)

double fine (psychonauts)

halo (....halo)

id software (doom)

inXile (wasteland)

machinegames (wolfenstein, quake)

mojang (minecraft)

ninja theory (devil may cry, hellblade, bleeding edge)

obsidian (the outer worlds, pentiment, avowed)

playground games (forza, fable)

rare (donkey kong country, bango-kazooie, conker, sea of thieves)

the initiative (perfect dark)

undead labs (state of decay)

worlds edge (ages of empire)

I didn't include the companies developing for franchises already mentioned. PLEASE support indie devs, there are even so many more game companies out there with great games to play.

this is NOT about "just pirate". don't promote them, don't post them, avoid them.

If you're unaware of the involvement of Microsoft in the Palestinian genocide I highly suggest doing your research, BDS has described the company as "perhaps the most complicit tech company in Israel’s illegal apartheid regime and ongoing genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza". Microsoft uses AI to help Israel conduct their war crimes and murder of Palestinian civilians.

CLICK FOR PALESTINE

ALSO SEND A LETTER TO URGE MICROSOFT TO END ITS PARTNERSHIP WITH ISRAEL

[seanconneraille]

BAN ON CONVERSION PRACTICES IN THE EU. GO SIGN IT. DEADLINE IS FUCKING MAY 17. WE'RE STILL MISSING 800.000 signatures. FUCKING DO IT.

European Citizens' Initiative

Give your support !

[petruswine]

Please sign this if you are a citizen of an eu country

[prideknights]

Everyone(!) please also reblog this so we can reach as many EU citizens as possible!

[suffer-louder]

Something incredible might be happening with this initiative. I've been keeping up with it over the course of the year it's been up and slowly losing hope (50% of time elapsed and only 17% of signatures, etc.) but this week has gotten more signatures than the previous 11 months combined.

First to establish the rules: to get an official reply from the commission and possibly legislation, an initiative needs 1 million signatures within 1 year AND at least 7 different countries need to hit their threshold which is calculated based on population (idk how it's calculated but a little more than 1 in 1000 adult citizens of the country need to sign to hit its threshold). This is to ensure that not all the support for an initiative comes from one or very few countries.

Ok so here's the graph for signatures that the conversion therapy ban got over time according to the wayback machine:

The deadline is in 2 days as I write this and there's a MASSIVE last minute push! 415,223 signatures to go still but the last update to the website added about 360,000 all at once. I think it might still be possible after all.

With that newest update we now also have hit 7 different country thresholds (up from 3 before this spike). Shoutouts to France, Finland, Spain, Belgium, Ireland, Netherlands, and Slovenia!

[suffer-louder]

Found a figure that gets updated more often! Since my last post, we gained 67,883 signatures in just shy of 8 hours. At this pace we should hit 1 million in 40 hours from now. So whether or not the initiative succeeds is going to come down to the minute of when exactly the deadline is (i dont know how to look that up, it just says May 17th)

[seanconneraille]

i reblogged my post with an update when we reached the 600K like 5-6 hours ago and we're now at 660K so we actually have a pace of something like 10K per hour since. which is so freaking awesome. we can do it!!

[prideknights]

KEEP SHARING EVERYONE! WE GOT THIS!!!⚔️🌈

[ranidspace]

Overwolf (Who owns Curseforge) is an israeli company which is supporting the genocide in palestine and funding the IDF

Dont use curseforge anymore.

For downloading game mods: If it's Minecraft, use Modrinth instead, for any other games use gamebanana or nexusmods.

The original tweet appears to have been deleted. and im unable to find it on Archive.org, but the tweets are still indexed by google.

They're still openly raising money for Israel, though instead of the IDF in specific its just general "those affected by the Hamas attacks"

[peacheryy]

Happy black history month to all my black simmers, ily ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽

[presidentalpaca]

reminder that EA is still a struck company

in light of the sims 1 & 2 re-release, i wanna make sure others know that SAG AFTRA has requested that nothing be purchased from EA until they negotiate and come to a contract agreement with the union.

you can check this page for more info and any news updates that come up. when the contract is voted on by union members, there will likely be notices here and on sag aftra's social media.

[procrasimnation]

Unless their website is out of date, they haven’t called for a purchase boycott at this time. The only situation in which promoting (which would include streaming) a struck video game would be in violation of the SAG-AFTRA strike order is if you had rendered services as a performer in that struck game. Rules do not prohibit others from promoting/playing etc that game - however, the organisers are keen for support from players! So it’s good this is coming up!

While people can certainly participate in ad hoc consumer boycotts, this is not part of the strike order at this stage and the organisers are focusing on support and solidarity - on a practical level, this makes sense because if they are keeping calls for a boycott up their sleeve as part of negotiations, they will want any drop in demand to be directly traceable to the moment they called for that boycott. I personally wouldn’t boycott something I’d otherwise buy until the Union calls for it in the hope of maximising the impact, but I’m not going to discourage others from taking a different view. There are certainly lots of reasons why you might not want to give EA money.

You can find their toolkit (which includes FAQs for streamers/fans, which will include many here) here:

Video Game Strike FAQs | SAG-AFTRA

[moth-wizard]

Spin this dang wheel of every 5e subclass. You are hit by a truck and end up on the Sword Coast as that class, at the level you select that subclass.

How well do you do?

Beyond fucked. I'm trapped in Avernus within the week

With a little luck i might be ok. if i keep my head down. maybe

Yeah I'd probably be fine

Doing good! Great even!

I'm cleaning up as an adventurer, this rules!

I will die soon but by god I will have a blast until then

Voting ended onFeb 4, 2025

[moonwoodhollow]

Unité D'Habitation Oasis Springs - a modern midcentury build. I still need to figure out what kind of shop I'll add on the ground floor, but there'll be 4 apartments. Each one has 2 floors, as shown by the four different colours. The layout will look similar to this and will be ideal for 1-2 sims. / DL: tba

[nonetoon]

[nonetoon]

I made this in reference to comic/game stuff but I’m glad to see this one’s going over well with all the writers

[sarroora]

Reblog to give your followers and mutuals the strength to continue

[lamontarte]

moonlight falls

[tau1tvec]

For those still on the fence about using the DirectX 11 version of The Sims 4, like myself, it will still be opt-in following today’s update.