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i very seldom hear anyone say IM or IMing or similar, but in ye olde days that was a whole thing with AIM, MSN, etc

and multiple comments were asking what an IM is

which, i mean, reasonable i guess — we are long beyond the point where "instant" is impressive

• before super reacts launched, discord told me several times about super reacts and encouraged using them, without any indication of which guilds were in the testing cohort (it was virtually none of them)

• mobile recently showed me a huge popup encouraging me to use the new spring-themed nitro avatar frames, despite that i was already using a new spring-themed nitro avatar frame

• now mobile is repeatedly showing me popups about trying out clyde, their new LLM bot. the popup seems to be triggered by switching guilds, but it has consistently and only happened when switching to a guild that does not have clyde yet

• their plan seems to be to just dump an LLM bot i.e. garbage generator in every channel of every guild by default, which is fucking bananas

• if you ask the bot how to disable it, it gives you the wrong answer (talking about roles and permissions). the correct answer is that it's under server settings → integrations

• since the bot is not a real user, you can't block it

• since the bot is not a real user, i don't think permissions apply to it either? which would mean you can't even corral it into particular channels? but i've been unable to confirm this

• again i don't understand why you'd want this. LLMs largely produce noise and i always feel like i'm getting dumber for having read their output. and even if it's something some folks want, why not make it an opt-in instead of this fucking gradual A/B rollout where i have to keep checking whether i've even gotten access to the checkbox that lets me turn it off yet

• addendum: you can't block pluralkit either, which means anywhere that has pluralkit enabled is basically just a block circumvention paradise. this isn't discord's fault exactly since they didn't make pluralkit, but it's the same kind of problem as not being able to block clyde, so actually it is their fault

i finished writing the fucking climax of this fucking VN and it took me a god damn month and it is like 8000 words of girlfriends talk about why they are sad. in gameplay terms it is kind of like the world's dumbest litmus test to judge whether you are worthy of the shameless pornography that follows

try blazing through THIS and then refunding it within two hours, suckers

the trouble with the "cutting off mid-word" gag is that sometimes the last word is something that could be read as an abbreviation no matter where you cut it, which makes it look less like a gag and more like you're a teen trying to make new shorthand happen. this is why i've submitted a unicode proposal for a new combining character that cuts the following glyph cleanly in ha

The thing about a combining character that identifies the midpoint of a glyph is that there's no universal strategy for dealing with the lopsidedness of various symbols within unicode. In this essay, I will change the subject immediately to instead express concern that cohost, as a community, is insufficiently concerned about the danger posed to users and to chosts by the wrath of biblically accurate eggbug. Its polyphonic voice resonates in my ears, and I cannot sleep for fear of its gaze falling upon me while I am unconscious and vulnerable.

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