Still reeling at the existence of this honest to god bug, especially the opening gambit https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cupsys/+bug/255161/comments/28
from this day forward i will NEVER stay at a hotel without a Hot Breakfast Pool https://icosahedron.website/media/tIJ1NxwXPbq60T2QWFw
Cont'd, EU Pol
A lot of the crud in their ToS is hilariously illegal in the EU, so this is less worrisome & Discord have admitted it's utterly unenforcable for anyone in Europe, even with all the "You agree to settle all trials in the US only" clauses they stuffed in.
The UK has ostensibly agreed to keep the GDPR, but as with everything Brexit.. Who knows.
(the doc itself: https://discordapp.com/terms , warning that it's the classic "Make our wall of text as inaccessible as possible" style of EULA)
Internet Companies Being Terrible (Discord), PSA
Discord have updated their TOS to include various atrocious things.
Most of them, you can't opt out of. You can opt out of the Arbitration Clause
(arbitration-opt-out@discord.com), but to do so you have to before the 23rd of October.
The Arbitration Clause includes some of the most henious "You waive all right to a fair trial" parts, so anyone continuing to use Discord is strongly recommended to protect what rights they can, while they can.
Also I cannot take the Growly Trailerman Announcer in Duel Tournaments seriously, and he clearly can't either. His always-at-11 job enthusiasm for gargling roadsalt and then yelling procedurally generated team names out is just
I don't mind losing rounds because even when he sounds disappointed he's clearly enjoying himself
For Honor is a good counterpoint to marathoning history podcasts.
"Then, war. Then no war, & horrible internal social things reached a boiling point."
Mmmnnnhhh..
"Yeahbutwait what if a Viking Scotsman(🤔) fought a Knight Gladiator()? ..And then a Ninja appeared in a puff of smoke and backflipped them both into a fire ()!?!??"
Ah, thankyou, yes. that will do nicely as a chaser.
This is a graffiti-free zone.
Vandals will be ~PASTELBAT~