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Feb 26th:A new bill in Arizona is making its way through the Senate that would force sites like e621 to implement mandatory age verification for all users—or face potential lawsuits. This system would require third-party vendors to verify every user’s age through a government database. Not only is this a massive violation of privacy, but it also introduces serious risks, including identity theft through phishing schemes and other malicious methods. Worse still, we would have no control over ensuring that user data is permanently deleted after verification.

Since e621 operates out of Arizona, this law would almost certainly impact us if it passes. If you want to help ensure that we can continue serving you without being forced to collect personal information, we urge you to contact Arizona’s senators and ask them to vote NO on this bill.

Please help spread the word about this issue and encourage others to take action.
Further information on the bill itself can be found at the Free Speech Coalition: https://action.freespeechcoalition.com/bill/arizona-hb-2112/

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Kinda makes me frown a little when the first rating on a post of a trans character is a negative one.

In response to blip #134140

dba_afish said:
YouTube has started sending notifications to me whenever any of my comments get likes...

what an entirely pointless thing to be notified about. what am I supposed to do with that? it dosn't say who did it or even how my likes the comment has accrewed. it's literally entirely pointless. I could not care less about "someone" adding one like to one comment.

every time I see that little red dot at the top of the screen I think "oh, I wonder what someone said about a comment I made" but for the past week and a half _2/3rds_ of the times I've seen it it's a damn like notification, and for the past 3 days it's the only thing.

and I can't turn it off because the only option is to disable notifs for all comment activity.

Mood.

I’ve been getting nonstop notification likes every minute all because I made this comment

YouTube has started sending notifications to me whenever any of my comments get likes...

what an entirely pointless thing to be notified about. what am I supposed to do with that? it dosn't say who did it or even how my likes the comment has accrewed. it's literally entirely pointless. I could not care less about "someone" adding one like to one comment.

every time I see that little red dot at the top of the screen I think "oh, I wonder what someone said about a comment I made" but for the past week and a half _2/3rds_ of the times I've seen it it's a damn like notification, and for the past 3 days it's the only thing.

and I can't turn it off because the only option is to disable notifs for all comment activity.

In response to blip #134128

Dragonlord2328 said:
i guess chell and glados did have a kind of relationship throughout the series so it does make sense

yeah, that's apparently the intended reading (in Portal 2, at least). I guess I just never really got that. they never felt like peers, I think the age gap made them feel more like teacher and student than a sort of one-sided romance to me.
...thinking about it that might also kinda be the intention the other pair of female characters with one voiced by Ellen McLain from that other Valve title.


listening in order of Still Alive, Don't Say Goodbye, Want You Gone, You Wouldn't Know, it's pretty clear that they're about someone dealing with the end of a toxic relationship.

they're honestly kinda heartbreaking (if you ignore that the songs are from the perspective of a genocidal robot).

In response to blip #134126

dba_afish said:
how'd I never realize that the vocal songs for the Portal games were break-up songs?

Youre right i recently listened to the lego dimensions one too cause i forgot about it i guess chell and glados did have a kind of relationship throughout the series so it does make sense the songs are amazing though

In response to blip #134115

SNPtheCat said:
The mentions shifting needs fine tuning for each resolution, but everything else works without a hitch

it's based on font, actually, but there's still not much I can do about that since diffrent devices are going to have diffrent fonts with different character widths and kerning and whatnot.

CSS stuff regarding the profile changes over here. it's too long to send as a blip.

I'm not 100% sure this will all work right, the diffrences in diffrent users' stat pages might cause problems because I was forced to use individual nth-child() selectors, which is not ideal for this kinda stuff... or really anything, if I'm being honest.

after some additional testing I'll probably add it to my user about.

It is shocking to get flashbanged with a new UI update (again, in a short span of time) but it looks pretty neat! Thank you dev/s and hope your coffee mugs are brimming with brew of choice

In response to blip #134079

BeansBeanBeans said:
So if a law in Arizona (this time, and previously also in Arizona, and once in North Carolina preventing access for NC users) is once again threatening e621’s existence, have the site’s owners considered transferring the website and it’s ownership overseas? Maybe to somewhere in Europe with fast datacenter networking/CDN so it’ll still load fast in the US?

I know that’s not a simple undertaking by any means, but I worry the alternative is being drowned in lawsuits

I just want to say, this isn't something that's really guaranteed to not also happen in a country in Europe or, honestly, any other location the site might move.

in any case, it's not something that should be done preemptively, because it's not a cheap and easy process, and no one wants to go through that only to realize that there was no reason to.

So if a law in Arizona (this time, and previously also in Arizona, and once in North Carolina preventing access for NC users) is once again threatening e621’s existence, have the site’s owners considered transferring the website and it’s ownership overseas? Maybe to somewhere in Europe with fast datacenter networking/CDN so it’ll still load fast in the US?

I know that’s not a simple undertaking by any means, but I worry the alternative is being drowned in lawsuits

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