thinking about an au where the watchers initially kidnapped the lifers and forced them into the games etc. but then around limited life (maybe in the session hes not there??) grian manages to take control of the games for himself. cue internal struggle where he knows he should send his friends home but.. its so fun here. grian who has been repressing his watcher powers for so long finally starts to use them. its why a lot of little rules changed, like keep inventory or players replacing missing lifers (idk the lore explanation for why that happens yet lmao). i think in secret life the statue was a last ditch effort from the watchers to exercise their power over the games once they realised grian was continuing them on their own. its also why grian has been SO blatant about being in control of the gimmick in the past two seasons, because he wasnt really before. and idk maybe his watcher stuff is leaking onto hermitcraft because we havent had a new season in a while, theres no outlet ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
for a while the lifers had no idea control had switched, but grian got more and more obvious that he Knew things they didnt, and the absolute glee he took from that <3
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old wip from when i first started thinking about bloodymary
the idea was that grace and simon start falling asleep next to each other (as a "we're the only 2 humans for a scary amount of distance" thing or to make watching easier) and the cosmic horror-ness following simon makes them start dreamsharing
give me grace wearing ilyukinha's skirts and dresses. give me grace wearing eridian jewlery like earings, bracelets, necklaces and rings that make him sound pretty. give me grace allowing himself to feel pretty. give me grace wondering why this feminine name feels more natural than "ryland" ever did. give me grace feeling happy, relieved and for the first time not feeling boxed in by people because eridians don't have gender - for them, grace is just grace. give me grace playing around with pronouns - she, they, she/he? - and rocky accapting whatever pronouns grace is using for themselves too, because rocky always wants to match with grace. give me grace experimenting with gender. give me grace letting go of earth stereotypes about gender because, well, he's in space. who is gonna judge him?
give me grace finally feeling at home in their body and in who they are.
First beach day in the dome, Rocky not being able to focus on anything Grace is saying because he is witnessing first-hand all the stupid poses humans do when standing still in water
Hey. If people aren't aware, Microsoft admitted they know who you and where you are at all times and will give your info to the police.
They have a Global Device Identifier (GDID) Tracker that functions as a fingerprint for your PC that can surpass VPNs, proxy servers and countries. Although it can't survive a clean reinstall of Windows (it can survive updates), because Microsoft forces you to go to the internet and log in into a Microsoft account, they will be able to get to you.
Microsoft kept it secret and it was only found out when the FBI tracked a hacker thanks to the information Microsoft gave them.
You should be paying attention to this, and possibly consider moving away from Windows. If a government, especially the US government, doesn't like you for some reason, this could be seriously concerning.
This article specifically notes:
For journalism, activism, or domestic abuse situations, skip Windows and use Linux routed through Tor instead of a commercial VPN. A GDID doesn’t care which VPN you use, only that it’s still the same Windows installation.
GDID is the persistent Windows ID that helped FBI trace a Scattered Spider hacker despite VPNs. Here's how it works and how to limit it.
Other important quotes:
What has researchers uneasy is everything else the case reveals. Costin Raiu, a well-known malware researcher, asked on the Three Buddy Problem podcast how much of this exists on other platforms, and whether it is linked more permanently to hardware. Matthew Hickey, another security researcher, called Windows “surveillance software”.
Two things back that up:
There’s no consent screen. A GDID gets assigned when you sign into a Microsoft Account. Apple’s advertising identifier needs an App Tracking Transparency prompt and a visible reset; Android’s works the same way. GDID has neither, and a Windows reinstall only gets you a new number Microsoft can still get back to the same account.
Then there’s activation. Massgrave, the group behind Microsoft Activation Scripts, notes that Windows setup sends hardware info to Microsoft and gets identifiers back, the same tokens later used for Store access and licensing: “It’s impossible to prevent Windows from getting a GDID without breaking activation and UWP app[s].” Anyone who lost a license after swapping a motherboard has already met a smaller version of this.
Here's the complaint filed to the court, the primary source for the case mentioned in the article. You can find mentions of GDID on page 30 of the document or 34 of the PDF.
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