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   Reasonable Man (r000t@ligma.pro)'s status on Saturday, 26-Apr-2025 00:04:28 JST Reasonable Man

   Still haven't opened that modmail. Again, why would I? It can't possibly be anything good and if it was important, I'm very easy to locate.

   Meanwhile, even after I was told that it's expressly forbidden to imply that others don't actually like Ekko because they reject him in favor of a television parody, television fans are now, fully aware I cannot reply, telling me I don't like Ekko because I use AI and didn't like TV Show.

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     Reasonable Man (r000t@ligma.pro)'s status on Saturday, 26-Apr-2025 00:05:08 JST Reasonable Man

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     Anyway this is why I'm building an AI platform. Antis literally took Ekko from me.

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     Reasonable Man (r000t@ligma.pro)'s status on Saturday, 26-Apr-2025 00:36:54 JST Reasonable Man

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     Anyway, let's get today started.

     AGI is calling. It's for you.

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     Reasonable Man (r000t@ligma.pro)'s status on Saturday, 26-Apr-2025 00:45:39 JST Reasonable Man

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     @wowaname
     I say this to everyone: Show me any other place where I can discuss Ekko with other people who enjoy him. Go on. I dare you.

     In fact, me asking that very question is cited by the Reddit backend as the reason for my ban. Funny, that.

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     opal (wowaname@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Saturday, 26-Apr-2025 00:45:40 JST opal

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     @r000t it's reddit they're doing you a favour
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     Reasonable Man (r000t@ligma.pro)'s status on Saturday, 26-Apr-2025 00:55:09 JST Reasonable Man

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     @wowaname
     My only hope for ensuring he isn't forgotten is to ensure he is represented in those spaces.

     That's why the mods are absolutely desperate to be rid of me, and why they purposefully create an environment hostile to Ekko fans. They purposefully allow television viewers to pressure Ekko fans so that the latter leaves voluntarily.

     I don't respond to social pressure because I'm capable of making my own decisions. This is a problem for them. So they've been switching the rules up on me on essentially a daily basis.

     The only reason they want me gone is so that Ekko isn't represented in a space supposedly dedicated to him. In fact, when I called them out on this, they backpedalled ever so slightly.

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     opal (wowaname@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Saturday, 26-Apr-2025 00:55:10 JST opal

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     @r000t i have plenty of niche interests i want to circlejerk with others too, but the reality is it's sometimes better for me to bite it, shut up, and give a fuck about it alone. not trying to be dismissive, i'd rather have good platforms for this shit too, but until people realise that reddit is a shithole and we've been had open shit (such as newsgroups) for every obsession under the sun already, we're just riding solo in the dark. and by how much you've been talking about that sub specifically, it sounds like other ekko fans are generally dumbasses not worth your time in the first place
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     Reasonable Man (r000t@ligma.pro)'s status on Saturday, 26-Apr-2025 00:59:13 JST Reasonable Man

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     @wowaname
     Here's another clue as to what's going on: Me asking for rule clarification, me reporting people saying absolutely whacked out shit to me, response times are measured in days.

     When I said *anything* about them sexualizing a canonically minor child, **the response came in under 5 minutes** and the response was simply "He's an adult in the new canon"

     Funny, that.

     They're okay with the entire character being completely rewritten and destroyed so that they can imagine themselves fucking jinx. And that's why they need me gone. If Ekko is a child, they're sexualizing a child, so the solution is a retcon, and if anybody liked him as is? Well, lizard brain says to hell with them, get your rocks off!

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     Reasonable Man (r000t@ligma.pro)'s status on Saturday, 26-Apr-2025 01:11:13 JST Reasonable Man

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     • opal

     @wowaname
     I HAVE EXACTLY ONE FUCKING SHOT TO PREVENT THIS SHIT. WHY AM I NOT ALLOWED TO HAVE MY VOICE HEARD?

     Like do you not fucking get that? Are you fucking stupid? These are the spaces that the company looks at when making decisions. **They know this.** That's why they need rid of me.

     I don't want to be there. I *have* to be.

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     opal (wowaname@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Saturday, 26-Apr-2025 01:11:14 JST opal

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     @r000t i know the issues you have with their community, they're all valid issues, i think they're immature, but i'll say it more succinctly: don't cast your pearls unto those swine.
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     Reasonable Man (r000t@ligma.pro)'s status on Saturday, 26-Apr-2025 01:15:12 JST Reasonable Man

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     • opal

     @wowaname
     No.

     AGI development will continue until my favorite person is put back exactly the way Netflix found him, and until attitudes from coomer zoomers improves.

     If anybody is unhappy about this, they can either start helping me save my buddy, or they can contact the official r000t complaint line at 312-421-6700

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     opal (wowaname@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Saturday, 26-Apr-2025 01:15:14 JST opal

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     @r000t i'm gonna repeat what i said in https://freesoftwareextremist.com/notice/AtRhcEe4Ebc1JHJeOu but in a different context:
     >nigger, i am penniless and nobody IRL listens to me. shut the fuck up.
     i assume you still earn an income. i'm not gonna pity you over not getting your audience. i have been dealing with this issue to the absolute EXTREME and STILL nobody listens to me.
     
     sit down.
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     Reasonable Man (r000t@ligma.pro)'s status on Saturday, 26-Apr-2025 01:16:58 JST Reasonable Man

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     • opal

     @wowaname
     So um... Unrelated question, but what is it you do for a living?

     No particular reason for asking.

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     opal (wowaname@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Saturday, 26-Apr-2025 01:16:59 JST opal

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     • opal
     @r000t the only people i can appreciate the game with are a bunch of turks and arabs. the people who appreciate LoL continue to put up with ALL the shit in the community, riot isn't gonna ax ekko for another decade or two, and you say "this is your one shot"
     
     no it is not, virgin, lmao.
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     opal (wowaname@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Saturday, 26-Apr-2025 01:17:00 JST opal

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     @r000t i'm among the best players in a game LITERALLY NOBODY NORMAL CARES ABOUT, only a few dozen people take it seriously anymore, and you're here bitching about a game that has CONTINUED popularity and playerbase for decades now. literally sit.
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     Reasonable Man (r000t@ligma.pro)'s status on Saturday, 26-Apr-2025 01:19:09 JST Reasonable Man

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     • opal

     @wowaname
     And um... They already did. Wanna see the video evidence?

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     Reasonable Man (r000t@ligma.pro)'s status on Saturday, 26-Apr-2025 01:24:09 JST Reasonable Man

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     • opal

     @wowaname
     Would you like to see video evidence of them officially saying "TV Show is the only thing that matters now and the game will be updated to match"?

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     opal (wowaname@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Saturday, 26-Apr-2025 01:24:10 JST opal

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     • opal
     @r000t nobody cares about non-game adaptations when it comes to in-game lore. you are blowing this way out of proportion and i am gonna be the one to call you out for how counterproductive and unhealthy it is.
     
     but don't take my word, just get fucked in the ass about it.
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     opal (wowaname@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Saturday, 26-Apr-2025 01:24:11 JST opal

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     @r000t if you can log into the game right now and pick him in character select, then they didn't do anything.
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     Reasonable Man (r000t@ligma.pro)'s status on Saturday, 26-Apr-2025 01:26:07 JST Reasonable Man

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     @wowaname
     I'll be sure to automate that first, then. I'll put it up on the kanban board.

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     opal (wowaname@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Saturday, 26-Apr-2025 01:26:08 JST opal

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     @r000t dumbfuck if you can't read what i legit just told you about my financial situation then please shove your nose up my anus and breathe in deeply because i'm not putting up with your retardation right now. it's friday and i want to go back to sleep.
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     Reasonable Man (r000t@ligma.pro)'s status on Saturday, 26-Apr-2025 01:30:34 JST Reasonable Man

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     @wowaname
     You are literally doing the exact same thing as journos saying

     "Nobody is coming for x"
     "Okay some fringe people is coming for x, but they're few in number and nobody listens to them"
     "They're making drastic changes to x but you won't be affected in any way"
     "x is dead. Here's why that's a good thing."

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     Reasonable Man (r000t@ligma.pro)'s status on Saturday, 26-Apr-2025 01:31:27 JST Reasonable Man

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     • opal

     @wowaname
     Give up, you mean?

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     opal (wowaname@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Saturday, 26-Apr-2025 01:31:28 JST opal

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     @r000t no i'm not. i'm telling you to save your breath.
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     Reasonable Man (r000t@ligma.pro)'s status on Saturday, 26-Apr-2025 01:34:59 JST Reasonable Man

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     • opal

     @wowaname
     So, give up, then? Because that's where this happens. There are no other spaces. I keep asking where they're at and people either ignore the question entirely or ban me for asking (receipts available)

     I think one person on fedi (hoss?) immediately understood that.... The internet is silo'd now and these discussions that form actual decisions in actual companies happens on these silo'd platforms. Period, end of story.

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     opal (wowaname@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Saturday, 26-Apr-2025 01:35:02 JST opal

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     @r000t fight on a less-stupid battleground than reddit, dumbass.
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     Reasonable Man (r000t@ligma.pro)'s status on Saturday, 26-Apr-2025 01:38:08 JST Reasonable Man

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     @wowaname
     Yes, because game devs scour the internet for 7-user forums when making lore decisions.

     Friend, as much as I wish it was 2007 again, that era is so very over. The people now working there have never ever seen a page rendered by phpBB.

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     opal (wowaname@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Saturday, 26-Apr-2025 01:38:10 JST opal

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     @r000t
     >he can't make his own space on a platform he controls
     did you just forget about how many phpBB forums there've been over the years?
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     Reasonable Man (r000t@ligma.pro)'s status on Saturday, 26-Apr-2025 01:41:39 JST Reasonable Man

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     @wowaname
     Because that problem is not solvable. This is not a technical problem, it is a market problem combined with a cultural problem. Normies actively reject the open Internet. They won't be embracing it any time soon, especially when there's money to be made.

     Normies are who I need to message to and normies aren't ever going to leave these platforms no matter how beautiful the UX is on yours. Why? Because nobody is on them.

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     opal (wowaname@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Saturday, 26-Apr-2025 01:41:41 JST opal

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     @r000t
     >The internet is silo'd now
     yeah so why are you giving up on THAT battle when it's WAY more impactful than just one guy in one video game that 99% of the world doesn't care about? work on one thing to work on the next, retard
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     『g r e y』 :uv: ☦️ (grey@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 26-Apr-2025 01:42:17 JST 『g r e y』 :uv: ☦️

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     @r000t @wowaname "The problematic white supremacist X fandom something something GamerGate"
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     Reasonable Man (r000t@ligma.pro)'s status on Saturday, 26-Apr-2025 01:42:17 JST Reasonable Man

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     @grey
     Just wait, they'll hit me with that next. Watch it happen.
     @wowaname

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     Reasonable Man (r000t@ligma.pro)'s status on Saturday, 26-Apr-2025 01:51:24 JST Reasonable Man

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     @wowaname
     What happened was:

     - TV Show started getting written in like 2018 and was specifically meant to be alt-universe so that the writers could make sth that works with the format. Fair enough.
     - Season 1 comes out 2021. There are dozens of statements made by executives and others with direct involvement that it's not canon and won't be made canon.
     - People gush over the new design and express that they want it to be canon. I express that this new shit is entirely incompatible with the original story, in literally ecery conceivable aspect. I'm told, repeatedly, by multiple people, that I have absolutely nothing to worry about and nobody is taking anything away from me. It's all in my head. Everyone agrees.
     - In October 2023, executives appear on video and say that TV Show is canon now. You know, that thing that was literally impossible and would never ever happen and I was a bad guy for being worried about.
     - In January 2024, over 500 employees are laid off, mostly in narrative and writing
     - It's revealed they spent $250,000,000 on a fucking cartoon and sold it to Netflix for half that much.
     - And that's why this character who is all about authenticity and not selling out and being rebellious and distrustful of government and institutions is used to sell Red Bull energy drinks, Secret Lab gamer chairs, KitKat candy bars, NFL football, Netflix streaming subscriptions, $15 animated PNGs on Discord, and some fucking brand of bread in Korea.

     And I'm the bad guy for being sad about it.

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     opal (wowaname@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Saturday, 26-Apr-2025 01:51:25 JST opal

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     @r000t real question: do the devs have any bearing over what happens in the netflix adaptation or any other non-game media? like, if it's a writer's choice to ignore lore, why would the devs have any ability to force them to adhere to it?
     
     wouldn't it be better to take it up with the people actually getting their facts wrong?
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     snacks (snacks@netzsphaere.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 26-Apr-2025 01:53:29 JST snacks

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     @r000t arcane is somehow the worst thing to happen to league, i really did not expect that
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     snacks (snacks@netzsphaere.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 26-Apr-2025 01:53:47 JST snacks

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     @r000t literally made me quit, finally
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     Reasonable Man (r000t@ligma.pro)'s status on Saturday, 26-Apr-2025 01:54:24 JST Reasonable Man

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     @snacks
     I said this in 2021 and was told I had nothing to worry about and nobody is taking anything away from me.

     It's a curse, always being right.

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     snacks (snacks@netzsphaere.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 26-Apr-2025 01:56:00 JST snacks

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     @r000t i like how they keep pushing arcane shit into the game, fucking everything up, being endlessly greedy about it too. It became popular but didn't convert to new players and now they just want to pull arcane fans no matter the cost ig
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     Reasonable Man (r000t@ligma.pro)'s status on Saturday, 26-Apr-2025 01:59:15 JST Reasonable Man

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     @snacks
     That's right. You are 100% correct.

     Before I tell you precisely how stupid that was, let me drop some context: Netflix tells producers for its original programming that dialogue should describe what is happening because a very large number of viewers perform other tasks while video programming is on in another room.

     Anyway, they thought they were gong to get Netflix viewers to play their game with a 90 degree learning curve and lasts between 20-60 minutes per round.

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     Reasonable Man (r000t@ligma.pro)'s status on Saturday, 26-Apr-2025 02:02:48 JST Reasonable Man

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     @wowaname
     It's a direct answer to your question that includes answers to the follow-up questions you'd logically ask next.

     Tl;dr is: Writers *inside* the company were eliminated. That's outsourced now. The developer of the video game did a total 180 and said they would be bulldozing anything in conflict with TV Show, and that they would be replacing it with, you guessed it, TV Shoe's lore. They also said they would ensure everything is consistent and that there would be no deviation from this point forward.

     So these things are not separated. Nobody has the option of deviating. It's not an option. If someone deviates they would likely be replaced with someone who will.

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     opal (wowaname@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Saturday, 26-Apr-2025 02:02:50 JST opal

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     >What happened was
     no, i asked a straightforward question. not reading that wall of tangential shit. you mentioned talking to gamedevs. answer that.
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     Reasonable Man (r000t@ligma.pro)'s status on Saturday, 26-Apr-2025 02:14:41 JST Reasonable Man

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     @wowaname
     I want to state as plainly as I can that I have absolutely no plans to cause direct physical harm to any human being in pursuit of my goals. This means any act of violence is off the table, and will not be put on the table for any reason at any time.

     Not only would Ekko not approve of that (yet another difference between the correct lore and TV Show, ironically enough), but I've had a very long standing policy of only pursuing goals like this through legal avenues. This is so that people cannot use the state to stop me.

     This is why I'm building out this platform. The people who did this to Ekko and the people who are trying their hardest to erase him are upset about AI.

     So I'm going to give them some AI to be upset about. And not only will it be legal, but I'll likely be able to buy a house.

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     opal (wowaname@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Saturday, 26-Apr-2025 02:14:42 JST opal

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     @r000t idk all i can suggest is show up to their offices a la the youtube HQ shooter
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     opal (wowaname@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Saturday, 26-Apr-2025 02:14:43 JST opal

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     @r000t ok thanks for consolidating for my dumb ass, i understand now
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     Reasonable Man (r000t@ligma.pro)'s status on Saturday, 26-Apr-2025 02:21:51 JST Reasonable Man

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     @wowaname
     Riot corporate security has, since late 2017 (possibly early 2018), instructed staffers that they are not allowed to communicate with me for any reason at any time. That's an entirely different story and oddly enough it has nothing to do with lore.

     Anyway, that post was me taking the opportunity to get that message out clear as crystal so that nobody can whine to the feds saying "hurr durr he making threats"

     Like yeah, I'm threatening to write code. Code is free speech (Bernstein v. Department of Justice), and automating people's jobs isn't a crime.

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     opal (wowaname@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Saturday, 26-Apr-2025 02:21:52 JST opal

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     @r000t i was being hyperbolic for the funny; i wouldn't expect you to put yourself out there to land in federal prison shortly thereafter, but i was suggesting taking action that's more directed toward the people who are actually responsible. if riot doesn't listen to its fans, that's on them, but at least then you can tell everyone "i tried and here's what they said to my face"
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     opal (wowaname@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Saturday, 26-Apr-2025 02:29:06 JST opal

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     >riot corporate shitlisted you
     ok then you already have your money in the bank. they're sabotaging their own intellectual property. you're doing the right thing if, going forward, you carry on traditional lore through fan-made content of any sort.
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     Reasonable Man (r000t@ligma.pro)'s status on Saturday, 26-Apr-2025 02:29:06 JST Reasonable Man

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     @wowaname
     That's the goal of the FreePG Project. https://ekko.lol/

     And funnily enough, I accidentally stumbled across an open weights model that actually understands how his time machine works and gets his speech patterns relatively close.