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@Dustcan
Children of immigrants assimilate quickly, at least in this country. They speak English, they do crime, and they can’t pass the citizenship test to save their lives.

I remember someone saying that folks should have to take a good old “basic knowledge” test in order to be able to use the internet.

I’m split on that:

On one hand, keeping folks from sharing their voice is rarely a good thing but…

…if we could weed out the flat-earth believers and other incompetent buffoons that easily then we’d take a step in the right direction in making the internet a less idiotic place.

I can’t fucking do this.

I only have one data battle left to do, but I’m done with this shit. Xion broke me, and Xehanort is just kicking my corpse while it’s down.

These battles were not play-tested. There’s no way they could’ve been. They’re just throwing everything and the motherfucking kitchen sink at you. It’s like Nomura decided he wanted to make a goddamn Soulslike with these battles, but forgot that this was a game with a lock-on system that BARELY FUCKIN WORKS.

Was the base game too easy? I DON’T CARE, AT LEAST IT WAS FUN TO PLAY. At least I wasn’t being bombarded with attacks that are virtually impossible to avoid AND block.

So yeah, I’m done. I suppose I could POTENTIALLY stand a chance if I grinded out the materials for the Ultima weapon, or made a shit ton of defense boosts, but that would take a goddamn eternity, and there are other games that are more worth my time. If KH4 has these types of data battles when it comes out, I won’t be touching them with a 1 billion foot pole.

Haha these guys will offer you a special jacket if you pass 50 drug tests straight.

@ᎶㄖҜㄩ 乃ㄥ卂匚Ҝ
Apparently they’re learning hispanics are pointing out they’re so mixed up those questions are essentially trick questions for them. Hispanic is more of a nation/cultural aspect and not racial. Stuff like that isn’t really applicable in hispanic spheres the same way it happens in the USA. Mestizo in fact means “mixed race” and the fact hispanics are overwhelmingly mestizo actually meant we have no racial purity and such we don’t usually care.

What I don’t understand is why official papers require to check that kind of stuff, let alone english tests.

@𝐒𝐞𝐚𝐫
If they actually ran the tests and made the sub a lot more safe with stronger material, then hopefully they can go back to doing that

Not sure where to put this, but I was wondering if flair d’mare could get a proper character tag. We never see her in the show, but she is mentioned by name in Testing Testing 1, 2, 3 and in The Wonderbolts Academy Handbook.

@Zincy
I think the main point was that you need to share your findings and let other scientists test and replicate it for themselves for it to actually count.

Fuck man, these new Data Battles are really testing my patience.

So far, I’ve defeated Riku Replica, Larxene, Xigbar, Marluxia, and Terranort. Larxene and Terranort are fine enough, and Xigbar was actually pretty fun.

Marluxia, on the other hand, nearly made me lose every bit of sanity I had left. It’s all left to fucking luck. You can have a perfect run, but once the cocksucker casts Doom one last time, you gotta HOPE that the game allows you to take a swing at him. And if you can’t, then congratulations, you gotta do that shit all over again.

I also briefly tried out the Luxord battle, and it was pretty much the KH2 fight on crack. Because that’s what his fight needed, MORE FUCKING RNG.

So,

Makachev got awarded by USADA for having completed 50 consecutive tests without any issue. Also, he was cleared of the controversy back in his early days when his meds for his heart condition gave a positive.

Okay,

Idk what that was about but I guess that clears that up, at least on PEDs.
Didn’t say nothing about the IV allegations back in the Alex fight.

@𝐒𝐞𝐚𝐫
I’ve often thought that, especially in regard to commercial vehicles; trouble is such tests would be easy to foil.

@Megalobronia
I found this:
https://mlp-gameloft.fandom.com/f/p/4400000000000040384

first part:
To connect your account to social media, go to settings, and on the top left corner, click on connect, then select your preferred social media.

2nd part if optional:
Hmm… I just tested starting a new account but with two devices, and from what I can tell (forgive me for the long answer), if you are using Android and have Google Play Games already installed, and that you set your account age to above 13 (this can only be done when first starting your game for the first time), then the social connect feature would become available. If Google Play Games is not installed at the time you start a new account, the connect feature would not be available as the game couldn’t connect to Google Play Games (even though it technically should as games can run without the Google Play Games app itself).

For Apple, it should only be affected by what age you set for your account.

Now for this situation, the best course of action when transferring your account is either manually by physically backing up your device and then transferring to a new device.

Otherwise it may be best to contact Gameloft customer support and request an account transfer to your new device, and to enable the connect feature for your account.

@Dustcan
Might be alot simpler when you don’t have to test zombies and touting any quick solutions would be swiftly disproved.

It’s not a great comparison.

I don’t want to give microshaft or sony my money. fun fact back many years ago I used to use keyboard exclusively for PC games. so to that end I’m gonna put keyboarding to the ultimate test by doing the single most frustrating thing I can think of. the path of pain

I love dogs but these fuckers test that affection big time…

@Foiposop
Hi, after reading your reply I checked and I am also experiencing issues on the site you mentioned, and even others such as e621. I do also have Xfinity as my internet provider, and after a recent test, I’m now 99% certain they’re what’s causing the slowdown on these sites.

As a test, I used my phone which has Verizon as a personal hotspot, and connected my computer to it for Internet. Nearly immediately, the site is now loading at the incredibly fast speeds that of which it normally always did. I now think it is entirely a possibility that Xfinity is purposefully slowing down connections to popular NSFW image hosting sites.

@Ciaran
Thanks for the detailed response! I completely understand why it has to be viewed case-by-case view, I just want to develop a couple of simple “rules-of-thumb” for guidance. I understand that it could be wrong at times, but I’m hoping for getting it more of a “We think you have strayed outside the lines” rather than a “The line is not the start of a long jump sand pit” if I get it wrong.

I’ve got a couple more questions.

1: I have serval images I’ve posted to other sites that don’t follow rule #1, but I’m thinking about reworking them so they do. Is a simple img2img pass into an art style that is in compliance good enough, or is that just “laundering” the dirty image like dirty money? If so, would a txt2img generation using a controlnet be ok, or would it run into the same issue?

2: For “highly commercial” a quick test I thought of is if you mostly purchase/consume the artists work under their name vs. a products name. For example, Rumiko Takahashi is the lead art designer for several very popular animes and mangas, and you consume and enjoy her works via that commercial medium, rather than directly, and would likely be ok to use.

Compare that to Ayako Rokkaku, whos art you do not consume via another name, such as a TV show, game, comic, etc., but rather more directly.

In short, when you see Takashi’s art, you tend to say “That’s a image from Inuyasha” and when you see Rokkaku’s you say “That’s a Rokkaku piece.” Does this sound sane?

3: If there’s some indication that an artist is ok with the use of AI image generation, what would be the best way to convey that information to the mods? For example, I found this article that, amongst other people, has some quotes from Mike Winkelmann, a.k.a “Beeple.” While the cover image is a big giant anti-AI image generation image done by him, at the end of the article there’s a line stating “His advice to up-and-coming digital artists is to do what he did: use the system as much as possible, and lean in.” To me that sounds like he’s ok with people using his stuff for generation, but I don’t want to get it wrong here.

Once again thanks for your time, and sorry for the wall of text. I was very wrong once, and I don’t want to be again.

@JP
that’s good to know. I didn’t think to start with the plain editor. at least I know now that this bug is limited to when the fancy tag editor is used.

@Ciaran
it doesn’t seem that any of the tags starting with a minus sign are widely used, or particularily useful.
I just tested the fancy editor with images that contain tags starting with other special characters, only a leading minus sign breaks the editor so there doesn’t seem to be any other worries on that front.

Also chiming in from east coast US here to say, this site is being slow and another popular (adult) image site (rule34.xxx) is being extremely slow to load for me as well.

Just out of curiosity… does anyone else experiencing this issue have Xfinity as their ISP? I’m beginning to become suspicious. (I don’t have a VPN to test with)

Rule of thumb, always do an emotional response test on uncanny valley looking people like this who get way too damn close for comfort:

If this thing panics in response to having a weapon being pointed at it like this then it’s likely a normal fleshy person with an unfortunate facial deformity:

If it doesn’t have any kind of response or outright menacingly laughs then…

@Princess Celestia
I love you so much! I’ll test it later

@Princess Celestia
UPDATE: I have tested Chromium (Chrome) versions 67, 87, 84, 80 and 79 to determine the lowest-possible version where the JS doesn’t break. The results:

Chrome 84 (mid-2020) and 87 (late 2020) and newer = everything works perfectly, no errors in JS, no visual bugs
Chrome 80 (early 2020) = no errors in JS and normal site displays fine, but redesign layout is a bit derped as it uses some newer CSS features like gap in flexboxes
Chrome 79 and 67 = JS errors, site doesn’t work or load properly

Usually, my internet connection has been running at decent speeds.
However, for the past few days now, it has for some reason seemingly slowed to garbage speeds. So I checked by trying a speed test a few times, and it shows my connection’s results possibly reaching a maximum of around “2.28 Mbps download” and “0.78 Mbps upload” (which is apparently “very slow”).

(please do not respond to this topic unless you know what it’s about AND have seen the site, also don’t post the link to the secret testing site here)

Congratulations! You found the super secret redesign beta testing site. This topic is probably very confusing for anyone who hasn’t come from the place the link to this topic is intended to reside. Anyway, I’m here to put some of the concerns at ease:

Q: OMG redesign sucks, I hate it, everything looks broken and crappy!
A: …okay? Got it out of your system? Good. Now calm down and read this thread a bit further.

Q: Seriously, though, why does it look so broken?
A: The code is incomplete, simple as that. The base is only 40% or so finished, and I have had no chance to look closer at changing the actual HTML templates. I’ve been at work making a CSS framework (think something like Bootstrap or Tailwind, but of my own creation) that I am proud of.

Q: I hate the round corners! And what’s with the lack of borders everywhere! AND FORCED CENTERED LAYOUT??? THIS SUCKS!
A: All of these things (and many many more) will be configurable in redesign, since the new frontend code base lets us offer these customizations, while the old one didn’t offer this flexibility.

Q: Why are you doing this?
A: Because I like suffering. On a more serious note, though, redesign will allow us to offer more customization options to you, while also making it much easier to code the themes and frontend of the site. The current design has been made in 2015 and it was wonderful for the time, but as time passes we bump very painfully both into its shortcomings, as well as bloat it accumulated over the years of various updates and features implementations.

Q: OK but why not just keep the appearance the same? Why change the looks?
A: Because I think I can do better. I think the redesign, when finished, will offer you a better browsing experience, especially on phones (which are now the dominant source of traffic coming to our site, by the way). The desktop browsing experience will remain largely the same, just with some fresh coat of paint on top of it, while the mobile design will see a complete overhaul and the biggest layout changes.

Q: What will change?
A: Primarily the CSS stylesheets of the site. If you’re unfamiliar with what CSS is, think of it like a technical description of how the site is supposed to look. In conjunction with HTML, which determines what belongs where, it can make things more presentable for the end user.

Q: What else will change?
A: Some layouts of the site were hastily slapped together while we were making Philomena, while being on huge time constraints to move away from Booru-on-Rails. Those will be seeing changes, for example the UI of account settings page, or the entirety of the moderation tools.

Q: Will you add/change/remove X?
A: Maybe. Maybe not. I currently have an internal plan, and I’m sticking to it. When I’m through with my plan, I’ll see if I can make some of the suggestions I hear happen. Due to the scope of the redesign being entirely within the layout/looks of the site, I can’t do anything that requires altering existing controllers, or changing database.

Q: I have feedback about the current state of the redesign!
A: If something looks broken, chances are I know about it and simply haven’t gotten the chance to look at it yet. If something doesn’t look broken but you still have feedback about it, feel free to tell me.

Q: I have a suggestion!
A: Sure, I’d love to hear it!

The current featured image reminded me of the Rorschach test so I took an online test, apparently I’m “Mildly disturbed”.