I just wanted to play with robots.

Got my hands on the Bunkers & Badasses beginner quest, abs have been itching to play, but things keep happening that stops me from running it, between irl friends catching the plague to online friends forgetting which day we were playing, so imma cast my net out onto the blogosphere.

anyone wanna play some of the greatestest game in the world?

sasswonfp:

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This joke came to me in a fit of laughter (ALT description provided :3!)

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pika-memes:

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mayflower-gal:

hater-of-terfs:

queeranarchism:

afraidofamericans:

37womenwieldingknives:

void-slvt:

void-slvt:

fyi the point of fucking up your data patterns isnt to avoid suspicion. it’s to make EVERYONE suspicious. same logic as the bloc, pals.  protect your comrades, be suspicious. ESPECIALLY if you aren’t doing anything likely to get you arrested.

the state is less omniscient and significantly more incompetent than you’d think. overextend their resources at every possible opportunity.  make them cry wolf repeatedly. run their data analysis agents fucking ragged.  and strike. attack.

YES

i’m a postgrad statistics researcher and i can tell you that the state honestly has NO IDEA what to do with the data it collects, it has an obsession with big data but it’s almost impossible to work with in practice. the traditional statistical approaches that are used can’t be scaled up, the adapted approaches are substantially weakened, and the machine learning approaches have the same problems and often tell them nothing. data scientists are only just coming around to these issues too, most still just push on with it anyway - incompetence is the word.

above all this though, like you say, the biggest issue for the state is at the point of data collection. they will NEVER get anything useful if they’re collecting shitty messy data. they will eventually figure out that the real solution is working how to collect accurate and meaningful data, we should make it as difficult as possible for them to do that

This makes me think that we need WAAAY more apps that generate junk data

Apps that generate junk data? tell me moooore.

Ooh I know this one!

Ad Nauseum is an adblocker that stores the ads it blocks and continuously generates fake clicks, fucking with analytics and costing the ad companies money

TrackMeNot automatically does randomly generated searches on a variety of search engines to obscure your real searches and fuck with analytics, and you can set it up to work with anything that has a search bar (including facebook, twitter, amazon, youtube, etc)

WhatCampaign replaces analytics parameters in links with the string “FuckOff”. I thought there was a similar extension that used random strings, but I can’t seem to find it

Privacy Possum is a fork of Privacy Badger with a focus on costing tracking companies as much money as possible, and idk if my limited tech knowledge is enough to understand what it does but the description does say it falsifies some data so that’s good enough for me

@afraidofamericans

Boy it SURE would be a SHAME if this were SPREAD AROUND for everyone TO SEE

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nudityandnerdery:

prokopetz:

dukeofriven:

prokopetz:

Proposals to refer to One D&D as “6th Edition” in order to spite Hasbro marketing don’t go far enough. We should retroactively assign full edition numbers to every major core rules revision for which the game’s publishers declined to do so, as follows:

• White box OD&D is now 1st Edition
• Holmes Basic is now 2nd Edition
• AD&D 1st Edition is now 3rd Edition
• BX/Moldvay Basic is now 4th Edition
• BECMI/Mentzer Basic is now 5th Edition
• AD&D 2nd Edition is now 6th Edition
• The Rules Cyclopedia is now 7th Edition
• The AD&D 2nd Edition Player’s Handbook redux with the infamous “This Is Not 3rd Edition” foreword is now 8th Edition
• Player’s Option is now 9th Edition
• D&D 3rd Edition is now 10th Edition
• D&D 3rd Edition Revised (3.5E) is now 11th Edition
• D&D 4th Edition is now 12th Edition
• D&D Essentials is now 13th Edition
• D&D Next (later informally rebranded as “5th Edition” due to consumer pressure) is now 14th Edition

Finally, this means the forthcoming One D&D is 15th Edition.

Make sense?

Oh boy I hate this.

The burning sensation means it’s working.

This is starting to feel like accidental Doctor Who lore.

battlecrazed-axe-mage:

battlecrazed-axe-mage:

“The producer of a major MMO gives cryptic clues about future content by way of what t shirt he wears to announcements” sounds like some hardcore tinhat shit, but in the case of critically acclaimed MMO FFXIV, it’s just true and established fact

Btw for reference: previously the shirt was Spider-man

The hint was for the release of the samurai job

because

Sam Raimi

so that’s the level of tinhattiness we’re bringing to this one

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inthetags:

Reblog and put the species of the nearest stuffed animal

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feen-feet:

parsleynsage:

BASHIR: You’re misunderstanding the point; yes, she’s a Barbie girl in a Barbie world, but her life is merely plastic. It isn’t real.

GARAK: Ah, but therein lies the paradox. If life is a creation limited only by imagination, then what is the difference between true or imagined happiness? Some, my dear doctor, would even call it “fantastic.”

QUARK: look you two either need to order something or get out

I really gotta rewatch DS9 again

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beardedmrbean:

I’m gonna need to remember this prompt for when I’m having a bad day

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