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@geranium.pink

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She/her HQ Shitposter
Also I edit videos, my account is slowly morphing into an anti-ai stan 😅

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Re: the #discord ban and me being stuck in baby face jail due to the Australia under 16 ban

Panel 1: In december the under 16 ban went into affect Discord mandated age verification. Between Face-scan and providing a photo ID, I thought I was safe with a scan
Panel 2: My account was insta-suspended in under a minute, I am over 30 years old and it identified me as under 13
Panel 3: Discord gave me an ultimatum:
give them a photo of me holding my ID or never use my
account again
Panel 4: I tried arguing I feared for my privacy; they have leaked ID before, I tried arguing I'VE BEEN PAYING THEM FOR 8 YEARS. They didn't listen
Panel 5: I couldn't talk to most of my overseas friends for a month
Panel 6: Looking for advice online: Turns out victims of the UK/AUS ban had it better than the norm; at least a person saw my complaints. Most suspension tickets are auto declined by bots; I cannot envision Discord scaling this for worldwide fairly
Panel 7: I eventually complied, I'm pretty luck;
I could get away with an expired license
Panel 8: Currently discord is being hammered by people cancelling
nitro subscriptions, I'd cancel mine if they hadn't had done it for me already
Panel 9: my advice is this: Ensure Discord isn't your only point of contact with your friends

February 9, 2026 at 11:33 PM

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@wooliewoolz.bsky.social @patstaresat.bsky.social For the bit

February 8, 2026 at 12:15 PM

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I don't think I should be advertised to while installing a driver :T

February 5, 2026 at 3:19 AM

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Retraction:

So, just for the sake of clarity, the emails are about using games as a learning tool, not as a money extraction tool. Even the snippet that people are going around with doesn't even mentions microtransactions either.

Emails 1 and 2 (https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00960328.pdf)

Epstein says he's meeting with someone and asks Pablos Holman to name some edutainment games. Holman responds saying edutainment doesn't really work unless you mask the learning (example being Call of Duty and Medal of Honor teaching war history and another hypothetical example being a game that teaches you Japanese by rewarding you with attractive women when you learn a new word).

Emails 3 and 4 (https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00695633.pdf)

Epstein forwards Holman's message to Bobby Kotick asking for critique of what Holman is saying. Bobby Kotick (Activision CEO at the time) says it's a good idea but the key is real world rewards. You learn to read you get rewarded with cell phone minutes -or- iphone credits -or- virtual items in games

Email 5 (https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2010/EFTA01762201.pdf)

Epstein forwards Kotick's response to Holman, Holman mentions indoctrinating kids into an economy and Kotick's example of real world rewards being virtual items in games.

None of this relates to microtransactions at all really (unless someone stretches and say the learning to spend money = cool in-game items is what they are getting at, but judging by the emails that would wrong since that's not what they are talking about).

Not only that but at least in CoD's case there was already an DLC framework in place with map packs and microtransactions in the form of gun camos in Black Ops 2 prior to these conversations.

February 5, 2026 at 1:32 AM

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@wooliewoolz.bsky.social @patstaresat.bsky.social Fork Found in Kitchen

February 4, 2026 at 12:22 AM

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Nevermind 🤡

February 3, 2026 at 2:29 AM

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speaking of software that you just fucking buy & own;
might be time for me to finally bite the bullet on Davinci Resolve studio, even though they didn't have the black friday discount last year this is probs equivalent :T

1 US dollar is equivalent to 1.44 Australian dollar, this is a result of a downward trend for the majority of last year

February 3, 2026 at 1:13 AM

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Oh...

February 1, 2026 at 11:17 PM

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@patstaresat.bsky.social on depression

January 29, 2026 at 11:18 AM

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@wooliewoolz.bsky.social @patstaresat.bsky.social Misery Franchise

January 28, 2026 at 7:16 AM

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For example here is two examples of why google/youtube would choose to kill .ytt/.srv3; gemini doesn't summarize videos without AI auto-sub, and the fact these formats can be nightmarish on mobile

January 18, 2026 at 9:57 PM

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My hoya serpens bloomed 🥹

January 14, 2026 at 8:03 AM

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addendum:

January 14, 2026 at 12:49 AM

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May I also add this one from Velocipastor:

January 14, 2026 at 12:29 AM

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@patstaresat.bsky.social The Stardew Streaming Experience™️

January 12, 2026 at 9:52 PM

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Oh boy

January 8, 2026 at 10:10 PM

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@wooliewoolz.bsky.social @patstaresat.bsky.social Microslop

January 7, 2026 at 4:33 AM

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Fuck the AUS/UK government I DO NOT WANT TO GIVE MY PHOTO ID TO A STARTUP TECH COMPANY ONLY FOR IT TO BE INEVITABLY LEAKED

December 25, 2025 at 1:26 PM

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I'M OVER 30 YEARS OLD

December 17, 2025 at 6:22 AM

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did @discord.com face scan because i'm Australian and it insta-gibbed my account

like I know I have a baby face but jfc I've been paying for nitro for over half a decade at this point