005 | No Such Thing As Humility

Sep. 5th, 2025 09:13 pm
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[There's only one line in the netbook. That's it. That's all. You'll probably recognize Verso's dumb, French handwriting. What is French handwriting? Whatever Verso has. Anyway.]


I WARNED YOU ABOUT THE DAMN CLOWNS.

accidental netbook post

Sep. 4th, 2025 06:44 pm
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[ There's really no reason for Tex to know offhand that writing in the notebook she has arrived with will transmit her notes to others. After her experience exploring the house she found herself in, though, she feels she needs to get her bearings. She doesn't need to do this, of course—as an AI she could remember all this easily on her own. But she's a visual person, and she likes checking things off of lists.

The post she makes opens with a crudely-drawn map, showing the place in the woods where she arrived and the path she took to get to the house she'd then explored. On the facing page, she writes the following notes: ]


inventory:
- UNSC BDE
- kukri knife

house:
- completely trashed
- claw marks on walls
- seems familiar in some way (?)
- portrait of Director's family on wall (?!)

clowns:
- flyers for Cyclamen circus
- easily escaped (transported away?)

voice samples used: Director, Carolina, York, North, myself

to do:
- get a compass
- find out current date
- distance to signs of civilization
- route back to house

from there:
- investigate who brought me here and how
- find out way to take notes electronically

New player and character

Sep. 4th, 2025 11:54 am
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Hi! This is Data, coming in with a new character to the game, Agent Texas from Red vs. Blue. She's an AI (if you only saw the first 5 seasons of RvB that's a spoiler to you; whoops, sorry) who is closely tied to memories carried by other characters in the show. For this reason she struggles with issues about her identity and independence. She's going to arrive humanized in-game, rather than her canon appearance in a robot.



Tex is caring and fiercely loyal, but is the sort of person who shows it via sarcastic quips and her actions rather than through words. I thought she'd be a good addition to the cast here for this reason, and I look forward to having her interact with existing characters in the game!

Code deploy happening shortly

Aug. 31st, 2025 07:37 pm
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[staff profile] mark posting in [site community profile] dw_maintenance

Per the [site community profile] dw_news post regarding the MS/TN blocks, we are doing a small code push shortly in order to get the code live. As per usual, please let us know if you see anything wonky.

There is some code cleanup we've been doing that is going out with this push but I don't think there is any new/reworked functionality, so it should be pretty invisible if all goes well.

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[staff profile] denise posting in [site community profile] dw_news

A reminder to everyone that starting tomorrow, we are being forced to block access to any IP address that geolocates to the state of Mississippi for legal reasons while we and Netchoice continue fighting the law in court. People whose IP addresses geolocate to Mississippi will only be able to access a page that explains the issue and lets them know that we'll be back to offer them service as soon as the legal risk to us is less existential.

The block page will include the apology but I'll repeat it here: we don't do geolocation ourselves, so we're limited to the geolocation ability of our network provider. Our anti-spam geolocation blocks have shown us that their geolocation database has a number of mistakes in it. If one of your friends who doesn't live in Mississippi gets the block message, there is nothing we can do on our end to adjust the block, because we don't control it. The only way to fix a mistaken block is to change your IP address to one that doesn't register as being in Mississippi, either by disconnecting your internet connection and reconnecting it (if you don't have a static IP address) or using a VPN.

In related news, the judge in our challenge to Tennessee's social media age verification, parental consent, and parental surveillance law (which we are also part of the fight against!) ruled last month that we had not met the threshold for a temporary injunction preventing the state from enforcing the law while the court case proceeds.

The Tennesee law is less onerous than the Mississippi law and the fines for violating it are slightly less ruinous (slightly), but it's still a risk to us. While the fight goes on, we've decided to prevent any new account signups from anyone under 18 in Tennessee to protect ourselves against risk. We do not need to block access from the whole state: this only applies to new account creation.

Because we don't do any geolocation on our users and our network provider's geolocation services only apply to blocking access to the site entirely, the way we're implementing this is a new mandatory question on the account creation form asking if you live in Tennessee. If you do, you'll be unable to register an account if you're under 18, not just the under 13 restriction mandated by COPPA. Like the restrictions on the state of Mississippi, we absolutely hate having to do this, we're sorry, and we hope we'll be able to undo it as soon as possible.

Finally, I'd like to thank every one of you who's commented with a message of support for this fight or who's bought paid time to help keep us running. The fact we're entirely user-supported and you all genuinely understand why this fight is so important for everyone is a huge part of why we can continue to do this work. I've also sent a lot of your comments to the lawyers who are fighting the actual battles in court, and they find your wholehearted support just as encouraging and motivating as I do. Thank you all once again for being the best users any social media site could ever hope for. You make me proud and even more determined to yell at state attorneys general on your behalf.

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Who: Wolfwood, Ain, and Ezell
What: Wolfwood moves into the Bunnkery and is Sad and Wet
When: Late August/Early September
Where: The Bunnkery
Warnings: Weed will be consumed during this log
My shallow heart's the only thing that's beating )
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