My advice, as a former call center supervisor, is to fish for ways to escalate your call to a supervisor. Upper management HATES when the supe call cue is long. We used to be in perpetual callback hell back where I worked and they constantly devoted extra resources to combating it.

Mastercard is bleeding, get in there. Make some calls. Get some cool family members in on it over thanksgiving

John Wayne as Duke Skywalker, "I'm just a humble moisture rancher."

@indiegameclinic.bsky.social What I like about the Indie game clinic is that it is actual teaching you and it not just expositainment what spits out about of information about the subject but doesn't teach you anything.

When I first join PFS I played a prebuilt with an ability take had you make a recall knowledge check on the target. Here's a character concept: a follower of the Green Faith that even ever an ability requires a recall knowledge check using Cooking lore, or as he calls it "The circle of life lore"

To all out armed force members out there, watch Valkyrie (2008) and remember Trump wants you to be more like Nazi officers.

I think it's deplorable that the Epstein to mock Trump's struggles to blow bubbles with Hubba Bubba.

@galileogb.bsky.social *hug* Hiya cutie. *rubs your back and rests his head against you* This world really sucks right now doesn't it.

Please continue making calls to Visa and Mastercard, because they are working alongside conservative legislators to crack down on free speech and expression! A dual pronged offense requires a dual pronged defense!

HFY in one line: Just enough humans exhibit enough normalcy to lull you into a complacency about the abilities of humanity.

@indiegameclinic.bsky.social "better safes than sorry" safes in a room are converted to monsters that turn back to safes when killed also deals with them waiting until they built a lot of rooms could converted when you reenter the room with stronger the monster the more rooms built

Know your subgenres, Cracking open a cold one with the fellas: buddy comedy Cracking open fellas with the Cold One: dark fantasy Cracking open one fella with a cold: medical drama A cold open with one cracking fella: sitcom One cold fella with the open crack: public solo porn in winter

K-Pop demon hunters music is actually pretty good! But not when you've been up 24 hours and are half asleep like the previous times I've heard it.

Where did you think that background music comes from?

I started the Indie Game Pharmacy to host example code. No code yet, still too busy working on my own games. Note: It will be GPL as the point is not for you to just copy pasta it into your project but to learn how to implement it yourself. github.com/indie-game-p...

Chutzpah is the type of person that claims, "My daughter boyfriend murdered her; because I had to honored kill her for dating him."

Discovered 'Chutzpah' the other day. Chutzpah is the type of person that claims, "We shouldn't normalize adults interacting with children, because adults interacting with children is so taboo that the only adults with abruptly no regard for what society deems acceptable will do it."

@indiegameclinic.bsky.social I turned the Game Dev sever I manage into a Dr. Joe fan club for people who are still getting thru the technical skills clinic = Your coyote times needs ... fan club = This is how you implement a good Coyote time. discord.gg/REm8sM3K

I think I found @indiegameclinic.bsky.social secret backstory www.youtube.com/watch?v=291E...

Do not punish the behaviour you want to see.

The most accurate recreation of DS9 I've seen.

No one has ever experienced food insecurity; You've ether never experienced it or you ARE EXPERINCING it; it's not something that ends when food returns.

I don't know what I'd do without @gaudipern.bsky.social they are the only person I have any meaningful conversation with.

Give me 45-minutes and I'll make you an expert on NSFW video game censorship (and the growing threat to your favorite hobby)

Here is something I originally posted on LessWrong Not this isn't just a rant but an actual mathematical argument. quiteunusual.substack.com/p/the-proble...

After struggles with the graphics part of Bevy for months I decide to go with Godot for the GUI. Here my work on designing the general layout.

A 'continuation' may represent the program's future, but what it actually contains is the program's 'emotional baggage'—the parts of its history that remain unfinished.

These paypros still need to be pressured over this shit! If you havent made any calls yet, now is a great time to start doing so because theyre only continuing to ramp up their shitty censorous behavior!

"Our prejudices are so deeply rooted that we never think of them as prejudices but call them common sense." George Bernard Shaw

They say hurt people hurt people. But it’s those who’ve been harmed yet never truly suffered who pass on the pain. Those who’ve truly suffered seek to keep others from harm.

@itch.io I understand they you don't have the resourced to resist being forced to resist the discriminatory practices. But explain to me why you should be allowed to steal the business from non-discriminatory businesses?

#SaveSpeech #CPBC As we near closer to 4 weeks of sustained pressure, I made this infographic to help focus our targets and to suggest a daily goal that is feasible for most people more info and phone numbers here: stop-paypros.neocities.org yellat.money find reps www.congress.gov/members/find...

good shit by @collectivesh0ut.bsky.social

@coinboxtees.bsky.social Someone is making a PDA called the Pocket Mage, I think you know what I found when googling it. The community really loved your Pocket Mage tee design. I hand pixel arted a 1 bit 320x240 version of it for the device

In Russia, you will find bricks for crossing the road, which you have to carry in your hands while crossing. www.youtube.com/shorts/yPOwO...

Every discussion with an artist about the ethics of copyright ends with the artist going "It doesn't matter if it's unethical the law allows it."

When did it become ok to do evil as long as you're doing it out of selfishness? When you join with the oppressors in the hopes of earning leniency with them you lose your status as 'oppressed'. Itch could have switched from Stripe, Stripe even suggested one when they refused me for being sex ed.

There is a bill right now in the US trying to pass It would make it illegal for any financial service provider to prohibit or inhibit any legal transaction It's called the "Fair Access to Banking Act, H.R.987 in the House, S.410 in the Senate" Call your representatives if you live in the US !!!!

itch could switch to a different processor; they chose to comply with Stripe rather than use someone else.

Remember "losing money doesn't cost you anything" These people don't get that money isn't just a status symbol and something you need to survive.

itch CHOOSES to use Stripe tell itch to tell Stripe to go fuck themselves and use another processor.

Stripe suggested another process to be me when they block my sex education product. itch doesn't have to use Stripe. I don't care is Stripe does have the best processing changer tell them to go fuck themselves itch and use someone else.

Forgetting that Prision are designed punish people and in Washington at least you do get trial for involuntary confinement

Having ideological minimum standards is not the same thing as prioritizing ideological purity, and some of you folks don't seem to understand that asking others to accept the necessary sacrifices is hypocrisy and an abuse of power unless you can explain to them how doing so costs you more first.

Remember when itch/Steam/etc say "We have too remove the content due to pressure from our payment processor" what that mean is "We're rather join the bigots than pay a higher processing fee with anther processor."

I have a new post on the OnlyFans for intellectuals open.substack.com/pub/quiteunu...

New long form post about 2D Visibility open.substack.com/pub/quiteunu...