giwake

yeah. apparently there's just games on youtube. no one cares about them because 1: the menu to access them is hidden in the sidebar with literally no advertising and 2: they are all preexisting mobile games or google doodles ported over. they also play and run like dogwater.

and also that they are horribly designed and will slam you with several thousand requests in the span of a minute

anyway a hearty "fuck off" to amazonbot for giving us a brief downtime event¹ while everything scaled up. enjoy being blocked

1. many such cases

how the hell does this even happen. why dont they just use internet-wide breadth-first search or something so the next request is always on a different site or something. are they stupid?

If you click through the link Jae left, you get taken to a question and answer page about AmazonBot. One guy said his site had a bug where it was appending garbage to the url that wasn’t actually changing the page at all, and every new request from AmazonBot would create a group of these connecting to the various pages on his site with the same garbage string, thus trapping AmazonBot in an endless loop on his site. It wouldn’t ever notice it wasn’t getting any new content. Literally who the fuck coded this piece of shit?

We exist in an era of paranoia. It is only inevitable—when you squeeze people beyond their limits, when you drive them to the depths of desperation, when you seek to exploit every crevice of their lives and pinch every penny from their pockets, there is no telling how any given person on the street may act. When the great smoke-belching furnace of your society is fueled by the bodies of the downtrodden, you know in your heart of hearts that you are incurring a kind of debt of violence, which could be repaid at any moment, to anyone. International media machines fuel the fire to their own ends, playing on people's deepest fears and anxieties, telling them to call the cops on their neighbours and to regard everyone they meet as an agent of some malicious conspiracy. The alienation of modern life makes everyone a stranger, to be regarded with distrust and fear.

To a certain kind of person, overly plugged-in and easily filled with propaganda, it must seem as if there's a killer around every corner. It must seem as if there's a killer in every room. And yes, as you noted, I was on the maintenance deck when the salvage crew was reported missing. I promise that I have nothing to do with them, or with the gestation sacs in the vents above the hydroponics lab. I can tell you everything I know. Just untie me from this chair, please.

I needed to get out more Disco Elysium brainrot. Sorry. I don't know how anyone makes comics. Comic artists u crazy.