Balios

Neither do they have copyright of the stock art they used to purchase. The complete piece, however, including pip boy, is not AI generated. Someone put this together, put effort into it, which easily qualifies it for copyright protection, even if the background is AI generated instead of bought stock art.

Just say directly that you won’t buy it

The far right wants an successful invasion of foreign land.

I’m not sure, but let’s be honest, it was probably Zynga.

I was accused some years ago (like… 2012?) of “hacking” an alpha of an online game because I changed some urls to get items or move them between players… I actually documented all of this and sent them plenty of bug reports. It was an alpha, after all and we were specifically asked to report bugs.
They then literally sent me an email and told them that they can see my provider from my IP and will contact them to sue me for hacking…

The game never left their alpha state and soon after closed down completely over some drama where a mod got access to important keys and locked everyone out.

Fun fact: the programmer of that pile of shit then announced that they started working for a huge online game company.

Hehe, just like with the cannibal of Rothenburg.

🐸💚🐸

Nah.
Firstly, you no longer can buy coins and awards. Three days ago they posted this:

Starting today, you will no longer be able to purchase new coins, but all awards and existing coins will continue to be available until September 12, 2023.

So currently they can not make any quick bugs with coins and awards as they no longer are buy-able.
Additionally, since all coins/awards expire on that date, there is zero reason to get more. Right now you want to get rid of what you have, not stock up just so Reddit can delete your inventory of coins.

This would be different if they announced some beneficial exchange rate for real money or their new system or kept coins you own available indefinitely (or at least way longer), which indeed would trigger some people to stock up “just in case I want to award someone later on”.

This is a clean cut, meant to renew the system by first tearing down the old one completely, without leaving anything in place, and then introducing something entirely new. I don’t necessarily agree with their communication and deadlines but I don’t think there is anything foul at work here. They just want a new system and follow their current trend of rushing everything.

Hermione from “Harry Potter” saying it’s LeviOsa, not Leviosar"

My bubble disappointingly is still doing that on Twitter. Since they convinced themselves that Twitter is an essential networking tool it’s hard to ditch.
LinkedIn was more seen as “if you want to leave science go to LinkedIn, otherwise ignore that platform”. But it absolutely does happen there, too, just not to that extend, from what I am seeing.

When I was still using it for science we simply boasted about our achievements and called that “networking”.
My new paper is out in the International Journal of Unreproducible Science, cite me, I’m begging you!