The point of that is to allow risky projects the opportunity to succeed in comfortable financial circumstances.

Risky projects are risky because there’s a potential financial loss to funding them. This is one of those times

Cases like this abuse the system to scam people while using the ToS to skirt legal implications. So it is fraud, just dressed up as a gambling.

If they put all the KS money towards the game unsure how it’s fraud. The fact that they couldn’t finish with the funding they got from KS is the risk that all KS projects come with

Again, it’s not a preorder site, there is no guarantee that someone who pledges on KS will receive anything. I’m just saying to adjust your expectations and pledgers should think about the risk when they’re putting down money

Love seeing things come full circle with Asa grabbing Denji this time.

It’s interesting to see that Denji’s actions in the beginning of this story (saving the cat over humans) haunts him the same way the death of the Yakuza bosses did in part 1 with Katana Man. Fujimoto is great at making even seemingly throwaway moments pivotal

Those little dolls look so goofy, they’re amazing

Kickstarter is not a preorder site. The risk of Kickstarter is the same as investing in anything else, that whatever you’re funding goes belly-up and you lose what you invested

Need more places that sell this in the US

Yeah this screams “Let’s use AI for the sake of using AI”. If they wanted simpler summaries on complex topics they could just start an initiative to have them added by editors instead of using a wasteful, inaccurate hype machine

They want cultists though. Easier to exploit

I’m a sucker for bourbon, blackberries and balsamic so this cocktail sounds like a dream come true

Heh, almost missed that the initials are BFG

Amazing how all these billionaire apocalypse preppers think there’s gonna be a catastrophe and not only do nothing with their massive wealth to try and prevent it, but they’re actively making it worse

The only real source we have is the union, as TCGPlayer/eBay are not going to talk about it.

Their Bluesky account currently has the same info, but maybe more will come out

Oh it’s undoubtedly going to fail, but it should milk enough money out of their users to keep them going while their investors cash out

Historically baseball was more popular but nowadays it’s far behind American football. Basketball and soccer are more popular than baseball among younger people as well. Though this really only ranks Americans one favorite sport to watch, not sure how it splits up if all sports they watch or play are included

The card art for this one was only used for serialized Elesh Norns so the number is just whichever one Scryfall managed to get scanned

Except it seems like every time a major area ceases water fluoridation the caries immediately increases compared to nearby areas. Until we see some hard benefits from removing fluoride from water that exceeds the benefits of fluoridation there’s no point in giving in to the fearmongering of conspiracy theorists

What in the AI hell is that image?

Did some more messing around in Cassette Beasts after the update and worked on Neo The World Ends with You after not playing for a while

Though I’ve been seeing a lot of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and man does it like good. If I get some more free time this month I definitely want to pick it up

1. One moderator from fosstodon is not 100% aligned to the prevailing ideology on Fedi.

For clarity’s sake, the views the mod expressed were:

• Calling criticism of Mahmoud Khalil’s arrest and transfer to Louisiana “yellow journalism” for using the phrase “disappeared”
• Defending the striking down of a school privacy policy that requires teachers get consent from LGBTQ+ kids before outing them to their parents
• Removing posts about surveillance of LGBTQ+ people in r/privacy for contradictory or unexplained reasons

3. The mob went on to presume that someone that is not 100% aligned to their prevailing ideology is unfit to be considered human - let alone a moderator - so they went after the admins.

Is all criticism now a “mob” just because they don’t want people with anti-immigrant and anti-LGBTQ+ views to have the power to censor others?

4. The admins claimed to have reviewed said mod actions, didn’t find anything out of the ordinary, but still got rid of them.

From what I saw, the admins actually said that they were fine with keeping him on the moderation team and the mod deleted their own accounts

6. Less-principled users of fosstodon are now just leaving the instance, for fear of being associated with them.

Are they? The most I saw was that people were considering leaving because other instances were going to start blocking Fosstodon

What is with the concealing and downplaying of the mod’s views and then exaggerating the “outrage” of the “mob”? Yes the Fediverse can be drama-prone but most of the fanning of the flames seems to be coming from the people complaining about Fedi users genuine criticisms of the mods/admins on Fosstodon

I don’t think it’s unreasonable to remove mod privileges for these kinds of views if you’re trying to run an inclusive space. There’s supported suspicion that they’ve used their mod powers to censor information on minorities already, just because they haven’t done it yet on this platform doesn’t mean you let them lie in wait to do it. Makes me worry that Fosstodon admins don’t see any issues keeping someone like that around

Would this get the same kind of backlash had the mod been kicked out for tankie views?

In case you just want a spoiler instead of watching the video, Elemental Hero Air Neos, which Konami had conspicuously avoided reprinting or referencing for years, was found to be at the center of a lawsuit of alleged copyright infringement of an indie comics superhero called Ravedactyl