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[Ihtesham Ali @ihteshamali]

Companies make deleting your account harder than getting a divorce.

So, a guy named Robb built a directory of direct links to delete your account from web services.

It is called JustDeleteMe.

You type in a company name. It gives you the exact URL that kills your account, plus a color telling you how much of a fight they're going to put up.

🟩 Green means two clicks.
🟨 Yellow means you'll have to dig.
🟥 Red means they've made it deliberately painful.
⬛️ Black means you literally cannot delete it, ever, no matter what you do.

That last category is the part that gets people.

There are companies sitting in the black tier right now holding your name, your email, your photos, your search history, and there is no button anywhere on their site that removes any of it. Not hidden. Not hard. Just absent.

Most people have somewhere between 100 and 300 accounts they've forgotten about. Old forums. That one shopping site from 2014. The app you downloaded once for a coupon.

Every single one is still sitting on a server with your data in it, waiting to show up in the next breach headline.

JustDeleteMe turns a weekend of misery into an afternoon.

Its sister site, JustGetMyData, does the reverse. Direct links to request everything a company has collected on you before you pull the plug. Download it first. Then delete.

Nobody is going to clean this up for you.

[The Legend of Pirates Online @LegendofPirates]

Millions of former players still believe Pirates of the Caribbean Online (2007) closed forever in 2013. Yet, this nostalgic game has been back for years and years.

The hardest part hasn't been rebuilding the game. It's been letting people that we did.

You can do everything from the original game, no stone was left unturned! Create your pirate, captain your ship, command your crew, battle fierce enemies, and so much more.

And the game did not stop where the original left off.

TLOPO has grown through years of new quests, enemies, weapons, stories, locations, and adventures that never existed before the shutdown.

The development team has even released content the original game never finished, such as the Kraken Boss Battle and the Headstone Quest!

Hundreds of thousands of pirates have already returned. But many former players still have no idea any of this happened.

Some searched for the game years ago, found nothing, and assumed it was gone.

Others still remember the friends they made, the ships they sailed, and the nights they spent in the Caribbean, but have never heard of TLOPO.

One of them may be someone you used to play with.

So many former players have spent years believing that world was gone. Help us bring them home.

#pirates #piratesofthecaribbean #piratelife #gaming #nostalgia

[Talita Dospaço is my Wife @Lucayou7]

SCP-8980 is an extremely well-written article and a horror masterpiece. That being said, for my own mental health, I never want to read or experience it ever again.

[Howling Fleshulator @Mile35934527774]

How an ICE agent feels when he walks into a Home Depot

[Bethesda Game Studios @BethesdaStudios]

A NOTE FROM BETHESDA GAME STUDIOS

We love making these worlds as much as you love playing in them. Today, we want to share what's next for Bethesda Game Studios and what you can expect from us in the years ahead.

For forty years, we've built games that have entertained almost half a billion players. More than just games, these are worlds. Worlds for you to explore, shape, and make your own. Worlds we return to together.

That's what's driving us forward. We're investing more deeply in the worlds players love, giving creators a bigger role in shaping their experiences, and bringing our teams closer together so we can get our games into your hands sooner, support them longer, and continue building them alongside you for decades to come.

STARFIELD CONTINUES

With over 17 million players logging almost a billion hours to date, Starfield remains an important part of our future. As we enter Year 3, we'll continue expanding the Settled Systems with new stories, targeted gameplay improvements, and additional updates, while preparing for the launch of new Starborn content next year. More than 40% of players already customize their experience through Creations, and we'll continue investing in creators and giving players new ways to make Starfield their own.

CREATED BY PLAYERS

We've believed from the beginning that our worlds belong not only to the people who make them, but also to the people who play them. That's why we've long provided players with the tools to create their own experiences, dating back to the Morrowind Construction Set. This year marked another major milestone for Creations with its expansion to Fallout 4, joining Skyrim and Starfield. We're proud to say Creators have already earned more than $10 million in royalties from their work.

THE FUTURE OF FALLOUT

Fallout is one of our biggest priorities today. Fallout 5 remains our long-range destination, and we have multiple Fallout projects in active development right now.

Fallout 76 continues to be home to millions of players exploring Appalachia together. With nearly 70 free updates released to date, the journey is far from over. In fact, we have a major Fallout 76 expansion planned for next year: Raven Rock, a prequel story to Fallout 3.
Fallout 4, the most award-winning game in the franchise, just celebrated its 10-year anniversary and recently passed over 35 million copies sold, continuing to attract a new audience every year.

We also know many players want to revisit previous Fallout experiences. While we're not announcing any dates today, we have been working on remasters for both Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas.

Fallout Shelter continues to be the most popular way to experience Fallout on the go, with more than 250 million players. There’s more ahead for Fallout Shelter, including new Seasons. An unscripted Fallout Shelter television project is also in the works with our partners at Amazon Studios and Kilter Films.

We'd like to congratulate Kilter Films and Amazon Studios on the 10 Emmy nominations for Fallout Season 2. Production on Season 3 is already underway.

And while we won't host a traditional Fallout Day broadcast this year, we're already planning something special for Fallout's 30th anniversary in 2027, when Fallout Day will be celebrated live in Washington, D.C.

STUDIO COLLABORATION

The wasteland continues to expand as we team up once again with our longtime friends at Obsidian Entertainment. We're happy to confirm they're working with us on a new Fallout project. We'll have more to share in the future.

We're also bringing our teams closer together across Bethesda. ZeniMax Online Studios will partner closely with Bethesda Game Studios on The Elder Scrolls franchise, while continuing to deliver incredible new experiences for The Elder Scrolls Online. Season One: Return of the Thieves Guild recently launched, and the team has more planned for the future. By aligning more directly across the franchise, we can create even better experiences for players.

Bringing our teams closer together is helping us build a stronger foundation for everything we create next.

THE ELDER SCROLLS AND BEYOND

That foundation extends beyond our teams to the technology, tools, and systems that will power the next generation of Bethesda RPGs.

Our teams are now developing The Elder Scrolls VI and Fallout 5 on Creation Engine 3, a shared technology platform we've been building since Starfield's launch. It allows our teams to support multiple projects simultaneously with new tools, rendering, and systems that define our games.

Fallout 5 is currently in preproduction. The Elder Scrolls VI is our primary development focus today, with the majority of our team currently working on the next chapter of the franchise. With over 65 million copies sold, players are still exploring Skyrim 15 years later, but we know it’s been a very long wait for the sequel.
The next chapter is on the way. We’re where we planned to be, loving how it looks, and playing it every day.

THE ROAD AHEAD

Across Bethesda Game Studios, we're building for the future of Fallout, The Elder Scrolls, and Starfield. We're investing in our technology, bringing teams closer together, supporting our live games, expanding into new forms of entertainment, and developing the next generation of Bethesda RPGs.

We couldn’t be more excited for what’s ahead and wanted to share as much as we could today. We can’t thank you enough for all you’ve given to us and these worlds. And we can’t wait to continue them together.

–Bethesda Game Studios

[偏見で語る兵器bot @heikihenken]

画像は志布志城の模型らしいけど、日本であんま攻城兵器が流行らなかった理由が何となく伝わってくる。

投石機なんか持ってきても割とどうしようもないもんなこれ…

[GameStop @gamestop]

What’s your excuse for buying digital now?

[Negative Creep @7Negative_Creep]

in awe at how canadian these men sound I've never heard someone with accents this thick before

[Gus @Banjo761]

17th century British explorers watching the world discover how absolutely retarded Indian people are

[SiKthY @SiKthYEXP]

Sonys now after our Anime Physicals are you freaking kidding me.

Boycott Chrunchyroll
Boycott PlayStation
Boycott Sony

No Disc No Buy

We gotta go into overdrive now people

[Pelagius 🦁 @pelagiusreborn]

I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Ellen Page speaking in a ridiculous put-on deep voice. I watched a black guy call himself a Greek from Ithaca with a straight face. I’ve seen a Helen of Troy I wouldn’t fuck with a gun pointed at my head.

[Jason Sawyer @foilmanhacks]

You'd think "Network" Chuck would know SSID's leak your location down to a metre.
I am just baffled as to why he'd post this.

[Pombon Propaganda 🔥🐶 @Pomboganda]

Crazy how over 50% of the videos in this playlist have been lost to time

[zupa grochowa @Grochowa2]

points around occupational health and safety, climate change, pipelines, data centres, etc. aside, the Canadian accents in this are so perfect, just immaculate

[Barnaby Breaks History 🇺🇸 @BarnabyHistory]

🇺🇸 During the Mexican-American War, Lieutenant James Longstreet of the 8th U.S. Infantry was carrying the colors as they charged up the slopes of Chapultepec Castle outside Mexico City in 1847.

He was shot in the thigh and fell. He then handed the flag to his friend and fellow officer, Lt. George E. Pickett.

Pickett took the flag, carried it through fire, and eventually planted the Stars and Stripes atop Chapultepec Castle in one of the most iconic moments of the war.

The castle fell, Mexico City was soon taken, and the war effectively ended.

Longstreet’s wound was severe, but he survived. Pickett’s gallantry earned him a brevet promotion.

The two young officers forged a bond that day that would last for decades.

Pictured is a young Longstreet and young Pickett in their pre-CSA uniforms.

[Collin Gross @CollinGrossWx]

Startling satellite loop showing numerous intense, fast moving wildfires tonight from far northern Minnesota and into Ontario.

Extreme heat signatures and thick smoke plumes are visible, with one fire even producing a pyrocumulonimbus cloud, a fire-induced thunderstorm.

[Sam Connor @criprights]

Give that judge a fucking medal.

@ShereleMoody

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

Sam Neill has sadly passed away at the age of 78.

[Voices of WW2 @VoicesofWW2]

On this day in 1944, Theodore Roosevelt Jr. died in his sleep in a stone farmhouse in Normandy. He was 56 years old, and he had spent almost his entire adult life trying to be worthy of a famous last name.

He was the eldest son of President Theodore Roosevelt. In the First World War he went to France and was gassed and badly wounded at Soissons leading his men. That same summer his younger brother Quentin, a pilot, was shot down and killed over France. Ted came home with lungs and a leg that never fully recovered, and before he even left Europe he helped found the American Legion so that ordinary soldiers would have someone looking out for them.

Between the wars he did almost everything. Governor of Puerto Rico. Governor General of the Philippines. Businessman, explorer, writer. He could have spent the Second World War safe behind a desk. Instead, at 54, arthritic and walking with a cane, he talked his way back into uniform and into combat.

By 1943 he was fighting in North Africa and Sicily under Terry Allen, and their loose, unpolished, soldier-first style rubbed General Patton the wrong way. Patton had them both relieved of command. Roosevelt didn't sulk. He asked for another job, any job, as long as it kept him near the fighting. They made him assistant commander of the 4th Infantry Division.

Then came D-Day. He hid a heart condition from the Army doctors. He wrote to his commander three separate times, in writing, begging to go in with the very first wave rather than watch from a ship. He was the only general to land in the first wave on any beach that morning, the oldest man in the invasion, walking through machine gun fire with a cane in one hand and a pistol in the other.

The boats came in a mile off course. Officers froze. Roosevelt limped up and down the beach under fire, studied the ground, and said, "We'll start the war from right here." Then he spent the morning waving men forward and sorting out the chaos so calmly that terrified 20 year olds looked at this old man with a cane and decided that if he wasn't scared, they wouldn't be either.

His son Quentin, named for the uncle killed in the last war, landed at Omaha Beach the same morning. They were the only father and son to come ashore together on D-Day.

He died a month later. A heart attack in his sleep. And here is the part that gets me. On the very day he died, the orders had just come through promoting him to major general and giving him his own division. He never saw the paperwork. He never knew he'd earned the Medal of Honor either.

At his funeral his pallbearers were seven of the most famous generals of the war, Bradley, Hodges, Collins, Barton, Huebner, and George Patton. The same Patton who had fired him. Patton wrote in his diary that Roosevelt was one of the bravest men he had ever known.

Years later Omar Bradley was asked to name the single most heroic thing he witnessed in all of World War II. He didn't pause. He said, "Ted Roosevelt on Utah Beach."