we are in for one hell of a future...
AT ALL TIMES IF POSSIBLE: please, PLEASE DO NOT VERIFY WITH YOUR ID OR FACE!!!
i am not trying to fearmonger, once you give that out youre at the mercy of verification companies and lackluster corporate network security.
stay safe people
In America I ordered a milkshake and the young man turned it upside down over my head.
I did not move. A samurai does not flinch, even when the ice cream is above him and gravity is the law.
Nothing fell.
The cup hung there, upside down, defying the sky, and the boy held it over me with the calm of a man who has done this ten thousand times and buried his fear long ago.
This is the Blizzard. This is Dairy Queen.
If it falls, they told me, you get it free.
I understood at once. This was not dessert. This was an ordeal.
The boy was not showing off. He was swearing an oath, with his own arm, that he had made the thing thick enough to hang against the earth, and he was betting the price of it on his honor.
The flip is not a trick.
It is a vow.
In my land a smith proved his blade by cutting.
Here a boy of seventeen proves his by turning it over a stranger's head and looking him in the eye while the whole line waits to see if he lied.
He did not lie.
He set it upright, handed it to me, and said "there you go, man," then turned to the next customer as if he had not just gambled his good name across a counter.
I tipped him everything in my pocket.
He tried to give it back. He said it was just a Blizzard.
I told him it was not just a Blizzard.
I could not explain the rest in English, and there was a line, and he was busy.
So I bowed instead.
He said, "You too, man."
That answered nothing I had said.
It answered everything I had felt.
i saw the pepsi tweet and rape was not the first thing that came to my mind. it just seemed like more corporate cringe trying to make a product sound more cool than it actually is.
@LVDaiabs i mean the ultimate animator managed to make everyone fall into spiraling despair or fruitless hope by just making some cartoons. ibukis music is questionable, but i imagine what she already plays has the ability to induce despair 🥹
Someone just managed to steal my ROBLOX account, bypassing the two step verification that was set on my account, by apparently submitting a support ticket request.
Ive had this account for 17 years and took every step to secure it...multistep two factor authentication process with a passkey enabled.
No idea how its possible for customer support to just upend all of that on the whim of a single request, but apparently these guys had enough information to convince them that they were me.
I'm genuinely unsure if @roblox uses AI in determining whether these support requests are legit or not...either way, this is a MASSIVE problem that needs to be solved FAST before more accounts get compromised. Just unacceptable on so many different levels.
@alyafemcelblaze part of kodakas design of kokichi was to be innocent and young looking, making him the shortest boy and not looking very mature.
with his entire theme and design being the duality of innocence and lies, i think kodaka and komatsuzaki hit it out of the park for the most part.