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[victoriadallonfan]

I posted my second original story snippet!

The Newborn Elf - A lone child grows up under the care of their creator in a fantasy world that has moved on from wonder and awe.

Ridtom's Ko-Fi Anthology

The Newborn Elf ◈ "My love. Take..." Her breath rattled with pain. When she exhaled, the harsh winds brushed away the fog of warmth, "...c

[maneaterwithtail]

More likely than think

H.B.M.C. said: ↑ Oh yeah, the holographic face things. No way would they ever be legal. EVER. Err... why not? Covering one's face isn't a crime in most jurisdictions, and multiple religious groups use much more concealing facial covers than what the hologram projects.

Now, it is definitely an open question as to if they would be allowed to use it on official photo IDs. I'd expect not for things like Drivers Licenses... but a Student ID? They probably could get away with it on that.

Vaermina said: ↑ Why are the imagine inducers run off of a cloud system that allows remote control? :headdesk: If I had to guess, it's likely because the image inducer itself is just a holoprojector and single program to sync movements of the hologram to that of the underlying features. It likely doesn't have the computational power to say, make adjustments to the hologram that a person might want to make. As such, there's likely an App on a person's phone or on a webpage you log into, put in your login information, and update your hologram settings, and then the holoprojector syncs to those new settings from the server.

And before you flip out about easy alterations, there's actually quite a few simply alterations that one would need to make regularly to fit in, especially if female. Lipstick, eye shadow, etc. For males you might want to sometimes have it showing five o'clock shadow, sometimes clean shaven. There would be a lot of little settings like that to help an alien pass as human that people would want to customize, and the simplest solution for that, logistically, would be a cloud set up. This would also make the end user devices cheaper too, as they wouldn't need as much computational power on the actual holoprojector.

Once you have this system in place, a high level developer's computer, like which was stolen, would have both the access and need to access those core systems and to make updates and alterations. This is one thing I'll grant them, the computer stolen for remote access wasn't just some rando's laptop, it was THE head developer's laptop, someone who very likely had all the access to all the systems and need to access those systems. Further, as lead developer, he'd be high enough ranked that he would be allowed certain privileges like teleworking (and also have a need to be able to remote access the servers in case of emergency). Speaking as someone who actually WORKS in IT Security and knows the US Federal Government's requirements better than most (since I, yanno, actually work on documentation explaining HOW State Department systems fulfill the NIST requirements), this hack is honestly one of the most legit ones I've seen on TV. The biggest issue I had was not with the hack itself, it was with LINA being the one to have to shut down the person's access to it... she, quite literally, should have an entire department dedicated to doing that job! Of course... she's also a Luthor, and they tend to be very hands on, so her having access to and knowing how to do that kind of thing is more excusable than most other corporate executives.

That said, glad they finally acknowledged the Constitutional issues with the former President. Honestly, the entire "in blatant violation of the Constitution" aspect of this entire thing severely undercut the entire message they were going for.

[luckystarchild]

At the risk of appearing gauche, today I learned “Lucky Child” was recommended on a Spacebattles forum. (*flaps hands, makes raptor noises, cries a little*) This really made my day and I’m so thankful people like the story enough to recommend it by name. Big thanks to Selias for reccing my story!!!

[tumblingxelian]

Ugh, ya know one thing that bothers me about a lot of people on a certain other site? Its their complaints about Jacques Schnee, or their desires to see him be “Morally grey” because, ya know selfish, abusive business exec aren’t “realistic” (Cough, Tr*mp! Cough!).

But what’s worse and makes it feel very much like just straight up sexism to me, is that no-one ever made the effort to do the same for Raven. Even before we knew she was a bandit leader it was all “worst mum ever!’ and “Raven’s a bitch.” 

So just to clarify the double standard, a man can be a an abusive buisness executive and its somehow terrible, unrealistic, unfair writing. But if a woman is the leader of a bandit gang, she’s just a bitch who doesn’t deserve anyone’s interest. 

I seriously hate that place sometimes. 

[agagr280]

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[maneaterwithtail]

Warning negativity and eeyore-ism about future

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“ I'm also kind of suffering from 'too much too late' with regards to Steven Universe Future. I like the fact that we are actually getting the nitty-gritty of what it means to be a Crystal Gem now, adaptations to the changes in the status quo, changes in the lives of humans in how they're going to progres and what their goals are and how they change with time or circumstance. Hell, I like them having lives outside of Steven and things in order to teach and impart on him as opposed to apparently just being NPC's for him to meddle and then get Social Links from that allow him to unlock or get EXP for stuff that he does off screen. Before a single episode specified that Stephen had no actual Peer friends, this feels like a series that's actually addressing that in a more substantive way “

@mambocat @tothineownelfbetrue

“ The only thing else they probably need is a Ronaldo Redemption story where he might be still quirky but he's balanced out  completely. Show him on medication if people will never believe that new status was possible.  Or if you want to get really controversial? a lot of people have been suspecting that the debut of Connie or perhaps a heart-to-heart with Greg will help Steven more come to grips with the difficulty of puberty and Adolescence and PTSD and changing identity and all of that. But if it turns out Ronaldo strikes that once in a blue moon Cosmic convergence of actually giving good life advice born out of personal experience? Maybe that would be something. “

“ I mean we've had the equivalent of "what is a school" already- with regards to Amethyst's lying about how in the past Steven had a better work-life balance.  There WAS No work-life balance. Life was all play interrupted with Cosmic crises that would ultimately fall apart the moment he  self asserted just enough. Or in two egregious incidents gained literal psychic brain changing Powers, with the cluster and when the diamonds directly attacked. “

“. . .The only one I buy so far is amethyst because her surprising Success as a school teacher is the obvious end of all of her character progression from the last series. . . she was always a bit more social, such as going out to eat, her wrestling career, improv theater with peridot,Or forming the shorty Squad “

“ Basically this is Steven Universe. where he's kind of viewed as a poochie and the shows taking the easy things to mock about either itself or the character and actually addressing them as flaws. With the issue of now that he's not a perfect little angel anymore (succeeding by self assertion) how is he going to grow up and face the world. Especially as he's not perfect just by simply being himself “

“ it's possible that Steven is going to hook back up with PD at the end of the series. Like he breaks up with Connie and ends up with him and honestly I think that's a Twist that can actually work. Cuz I always viewedhim as the show's biggest missed opportunity for giving Steven an appropriate peer of his age and of comparable responsibilities and issues. In fact if PD has sort of evened himself out then he could probably be the perfect person to help Steven start to come to grips with the stuff that he's struggling with cuz a lot of what Steven is going through now is stuff that PD was towards the beginning of the series “

[maneaterwithtail]

https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/56338424/

@wedgekun @sunder-the-gold

"Term definitions for those who may not be familiar.

Noob - player who continues to make mistakes that an experienced player would be expected to avoid

Bopped - player who is consistently taken out easily by other players

Smurf - experienced player who creates a new account in order to be matched with a new and inexperienced opponent who can be easily defeated

Bot farm - players uses scripts to play the game while they are not at their computer, thus taking up a slot in the game that would otherwise be filled by a more useful player

The there are two overall points that the poster is making. First, there is no way to design any multiplayer game that will protect the dumbest players from being food for the better players without destroying the game. The second point is that even if you can successfully provide rewards for the poor players that allows them to progress, you now introduce a system that can be easily farmed by bots, thus filling the game with non-players, furthering the decline of the player base."

You know what this is something I did not know or understand I completely missed online gaming and voice chat as an experience. And I never got formal definitions of terms at least once that emphasize this kind of Distinction. I may not even agree with the conclusions or the idea but at the very least it recontextualize is what some people mean by get good noob or scrub.

[swagdazetree-blog]

From  a thread on the spacebattles.com forum .(thread is here)

@whatbigotspost