I am the journeyer from the valley of the dead Sega consoles. With the blessings of Sega Saturn, the gaming system of destruction, I am the Scout of Silence… Sailor Saturn.

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Cake day: June 29th, 2023
  • Sailor Sega Saturn@awful.systemstoTechTakes@awful.systems•Grimes defends Musk’s gaming honor, for “personal pride”English
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    1 day ago

    I’m pretty sure it’s impossible for a TV show called Cadillacs and Dinosaurs to suck even if they tried.

    Like here look at me trying to come up with a bad episode idea

    Two people out for a picnic on the mesa. They are eating their sandwiches when suddenly one of them hears the distant but unmistakable sound of a dinosaur stampede. She thinks maybe it’ll be fine. The dinosaurs don’t tend to venture this far north. But they look and the stampede is heading right for them.

    To make matters worse their 1959 Cadillac Coupe de Ville’s is having trouble running due to an improper gasoline mixture (in an emergency they had to make their own gas from a dinosaur). They have no choice but to get some anti-dinosaur weapons out of the vehicle’s spacious trunk. They manage to fend off some of the dinosaur scouts with some pre-1994-ban assault rifles. But can they make it to the garage to warn them, and tune up their Cadillac, in time?

  • Sailor Sega Saturn@awful.systemstoTechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th January 2025 - awful.systemsEnglish
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    2 days ago

    (oh no it’s politics)

    Trump’s new cryptocurrency scheme is surprisingly forthright about being a pump & dump:

    CIC Digital LLC, an affiliate of The Trump Organization, and Fight Fight Fight LLC collectively own 80% of the Trump Cards, subject to a 3-year unlocking schedule. CIC Digital LLC and Celebration Cards LLC, the owners of Fight Fight Fight LLC, will receive trading revenue derived from trading activities of Trump Meme Cards.

    Essentially according to their own website, they started by selling 20%* of the tokens to the public, and over the next few years will… sell another 80% of the tokens to the public. To the moon!

    * half of that they describe as “liquidity” instead of public distribution – whatever that means.

  • Sailor Sega Saturn@awful.systemstoSneerClub@awful.systems•Dress for the jobEnglish
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    2 days ago

    ‘Many of the groups that we are concerned about disappearing – gay couple couples, lesbian couples – from a traditional organs-bumping-together standpoint, can’t have kids… that are genetically both of theirs,’ says Simone.

    No no they’re super smart and unless we come up with some sort of way for gay people to have children they’ll disappear entirely (gay people of course first came to earth from space in the year 1952, but the starship’s egg chambers were damaged in the crash landing)

  • Sailor Sega Saturn@awful.systemstoTechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 12th January 2025English
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    10 days ago

    SEOs match quality websites to those users trying to find them. As much as Google and Bing like to pretend that they’re perfect there are very real indexing issues that crop up and need experts to debug, mitigate, and prevent; so in a very real way the SEOs do make the web better for users.

    [comment continues below the ad]

    For example let’s say there was a user who wanted to read a website full of LLM written articles and ads but they keep stumbling across low quality websites with poor SEO practices like Wikipedia instead, why that would be terrible. In order to prevent this terrible possiblity it is the noble duty of SEOs to buy well respected high ranking domain names so that users get a brand they can trust. Like Forbes. Or Radioshack.

    [comment continues below the ad]

    Sincerely, the myseonews.now “staff”.

  • Sailor Sega Saturn@awful.systemstoTechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 12th January 2025English
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    13 days ago

    An update to my post about facebook from yesterday; turns out it’s much worse:

    https://transparency.meta.com/policies/community-standards/hateful-conduct/

    [Do not post} Insults, including those about […] Mental characteristics, including but not limited to allegations of stupidity, intellectual capacity, and mental illness, and unsupported comparisons between PC groups on the basis of inherent intellectual capacity. We do allow allegations of mental illness or abnormality when based on gender or sexual orientation, given political and religious discourse about transgenderism and homosexuality and common non-serious usage of words like “weird.”

    You can see the full diff from last version if you click “Jan 8, 2025” and yeah it’s a doozy.

    Like many here on awful.systems I have a pretty thick skin, but reading the above put me in a really weird mood all day. I couldn’t really concentrate on work. It’s hard to believe that they published this with a straight face, and harder to believe that the media isn’t dunking on them for it.

    On the bright side the policy technically lets you go around calling people insane for being straight or cisgender* if anyone is still on there and wants to get banned from that platform in a blaze of glory.

    * or indeed simply having a gender and I’m not sure fascists know how to use words right.