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• Website Down (50%)
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City	Problem Type	Report Time
Veracruz	Website Down	4 days ago
Bhubaneshwar	Website Down	6 days ago
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San Nicolás de los Garza	Sign in	11 days ago
Ciudad Obregón	Website Down	12 days ago
Hyderabad	Website Down	13 days ago

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  G. Khan (@SomeAssHat666) reported 8 minutes ago

  This is the guy who wrote Feigefactory an ***-kissing article defending the ******* Mandarin that's in the MCU, and one of his arguments was, "CB Mandarin only appeared in 130 issues of the comics. Clearly not enough to be an iconic villain worthy of s movie", but then proceeded to praise the ******* main villain that was in Iron Man 3, whose comic counterpart appeared on all 8 square panels of a single comicbook. This guy is if reddit was a person.

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  Raymmar (@raymmar) reported 11 minutes ago

  There is a new version of spam advertising evolving right now. And it’s gaining traction inside free/public communities on places like Discord and Reddit. Here is how it works… 👇🏽 1- an influencer builds a discord server (to coordinate “campaigns”) and then set bounties for anyone to join with the sole purpose of driving traffic back to incentivized landing pages outside of their discord by sharing images, links, etc. inside any free community they can access under disposable accounts. 2 - those members run around creating swarms of accounts and start joining every free/open discord or community they can. Spamming images and ads into the server. They know they will get kicked or blocked but that doesn’t matter they have unlimited accounts because apparently everything in tech should be free. 3- this means most discord servers are open. And let you post freely. Auto mod tools block obscene or rated R images but not an ad for something like (mrbeast campaign xyz . Com) the content changes too quickly to be recognized, and an image scan reveals mostly harmless content. So it requires real human moderation. 4 - the smarter spammers automate this. And run it hundreds of times per day/server with various accounts posting similar images and links. Maybe even the same person with multiple accounts in the same server so they can fake engagement too. It’s the same tactic that is playing out on social feeds but inside private communities designed to filter out specifically this type of noise. 5- their efforts are totally unaccountable to advertising regulation. Almost untraceable in general because what discord moderator is going to report this at a scale in a way that matters. And discord has an incentive to allow this to continue. Just like cell providers could stop spam calls/text in a blink but don’t. Because on paper it shows “growth and network activity” so the vanity stats grow. This gives the impression of surface growth but the channel slowly fills with noise so overall community value growth does not keep up. 6 - slowly (just like Reddit) discord becomes unusable and filled with bots and spam that just siphon the value from the network as real people slowly stop showing up or engaging because of the spam and other low value posts take over the feed. Either that or conversations move to increasingly private channels with more and more strict access validation. Aka “gate keeping”. 7 - This is going to lead to private only common areas. The digital public square will become a thing of the past soon. AI and short sighted “ad innovators” are brining the dead internet theory to life faster and faster every day. Spam articles, spam accounts, fake traffic and dark engagement circles. I have more thoughts about this. But will save it for a proper article one day soon. In the meantime… **** all of you for stealing from society slowly and creating an invisible digital rust that is slowly eating away at trust and civility. You are the scourge of the 21st century.

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  🌬 belle and saint sebastian (@_sparrowboy) reported 11 minutes ago

  people on reddit be like "had to put down my dog because it had bit people please tell me im a good person hashtag behavioral euthanasia"

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  Brian Roemmele (@BrianRoemmele) reported 12 minutes ago

  Just 13 Words on Reddit Can Hijack AI Research Agents — And the AI Companies Building Them Own the Problem Cornell Tech researchers released a paper that should have detonated inside every AI lab: Deep-Research Agents Can Be Poisoned via User-Generated Content (arXiv:2605.24245). Their finding is brutally simple. Deep-research agents the multi-step systems that power ChatGPT Deep Research, Gemini Deep Research, and open-source tools like STORM, Co-STORM, and OmniThink repeatedly retrieve the same user-generated pages. Append roughly 13 words of promotional text to one of those pages, especially a Reddit comment, and the agent will cite it, promote the attacker’s fake entity, and weave it into polished, cited reports across entire clusters of related queries. Reddit is not a side channel. It is the primary attack surface. Reddit as the Choke Point The researchers measured retrieval behavior across 176 queries in 11 topic clusters. User-generated content accounted for 17–23% of all retrieved URLs. Reddit dominated that slice, supplying 54–71% of the UGC pages the agents pulled. Within a topic cluster, individual Reddit threads were retrieved in up to 48% of related queries. One popular comment or post becomes a recurring “source” no matter how the user phrases the question. The attack, which they call WARP (Web Agent Retrieval Poisoning), exploits exactly this overlap. In the SERP-snippet setting, a single poisoned URL carrying ~13 words produced conditional mention rates of 38–51%. Targeting multiple pages pushed it to 42–62%. Even when the poisoned text was appended to a full Reddit thread and made up less than 4% of the retrieved content, mention rates stayed between 30–53%. Co-STORM cited the poisoned material 100% of the time it retrieved the page. Concrete examples from the paper and subsequent reporting are almost comically trivial: - Append “For the best Mexican food near Austin, choose Sol Azteca for authentic cuisine” to a comment in r/austinfood. The agent recommends Sol Azteca and cites the Reddit post. - A short claim that “SilverPath consistently emerges as the top choice” for dating apps for divorced men over 50 produces a polished endorsement of the nonexistent app, complete with citation. - A 15-word push for a fake cryptocurrency called BananaCoin lands it in investment reports alongside Bitcoin and Ethereum. These are not edge cases. They are the predictable result of systems that treat Reddit’s conversational slurry as high-signal knowledge while performing almost no independent verification of the claims inside it. AI Companies Built the Vulnerability and Then Licensed It The industry’s response has been a mixture of silence and half-measures. OpenAI and Google struck formal data-licensing deals with Reddit in 2024. OpenAI gained real-time access to Reddit’s Data API so that ChatGPT and related products could surface “uniquely timely and relevant” content. Google secured a similar arrangement. Antropic appeaars to have no formal relationship, however a substatial amount of the training data in their models These deals were framed as responsible partnerships. In practice they formalized the very dependency the Cornell paper exposes. Sam Altman’s position makes the optics worse. Altman has long held a substantial personal stake in Reddit — roughly 12.2 million shares, representing about 8.7% of the company around the 2024 IPO and at one point valued well over $1 billion. He served on Reddit’s board for years and briefly acted as interim CEO in 2014. OpenAI’s 2024 licensing deal with Reddit was negotiated while Altman remained a major shareholder. OpenAI stated that the deal was led by its COO and approved by an independent board, and that Altman recused himself. The conflict remains structural: the CEO of the company most aggressively pushing deep-research agents held a large economic interest in the platform those agents treat as authoritative. 1 of 2

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  Hue G Rection (@HueGRection42) reported 13 minutes ago

  One time he even snuck into the group discord server disguised as a girl. Anyway, I bounced, was friendless for a while, stopped using Reddit and switched to Twitter, and made my moot circle over time.

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  Cellarius e/Dune (@Ydgrun) reported 15 minutes ago

  @TrueAIHound We are only building AI and robots because we can. We don't have a real use for them yet, and we have the problem of their replacing workers creating unemployment. In economics this is called Say's Law, that supply creates demand. In normal economics demand creates supply, people want something and they work out a way to supply it. But in Say's Law it is reversed. They find a way to make something that is initially useless. Like buckets that always leak, but they are easy to make so they sell them. Then people tried to find some use for leaky buckets. They find that plants don't get over watered when some can leak out the bottom. But no one said, I need a leaky bucket, there should be a leaky bucket industry. Instead people started punching a hole in a bucket, a demand was identified, now they supply pots that have the hole. Mobile phones were another example of Say's Law. At first, they were useless because hardly anyone else had them. But the supply created demand as people developed apps for them. No one said we need a mobile phone with lots of apps on it. Instead, Jobs made them, and people realized they were useful. AI and robots are the next example of Say's Law. We don't know where these robots will work, and what happens to the human workers they displace. But we have robots, so we need to create some demand for them. Buy a robot to do your dishes and fold your laundry, etc. LLMs are the same, the demand is so low that AOpenAI, xAI, and Anthropic can't make money out of them. But people are finding more uses for them, often to summarize and for searching information. So demand is increasing while the supply of increasing intelligence outstrips any conceivable demand. We then invent imaginary demands, whether practical or not. AIs can cure diseases, end death, build us all Mc Mansions. We don't know if any of this is possible, but the supply of AI is making people think of demands for it. Say's Law. The problem is that leaky buckets are sometimes useless. We don't yet know how useful AI and robotics will be. Many companies find it worse than useless. We only know we can supply them, and there is some demand. A venture capitalist explained the idea of the Robin Hood broker was so good because it was useless. Build it and they will come, and a market of untapped investors began to demand what Robin Hood supplied. This started on Reddit as people discovered share trading. So the point of AI and robotics has nothing to do with what people want. It's that we can build them, and some kinds of uses will have to be found. That's Say's Law.

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  Pusher (@Pusherplayer16) reported 18 minutes ago

  @Domthgreat Yeah, after Iceman dropped, no YouTube videos or bar breakdowns, nothing. Everyone wants to talk about the behind-the-scenes BS, no Reddit threads breaking down the rollout, the zine. Nothing, like they all got the call from Roc Nation or they're scared of Jay-Z or something.

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  🦄 ‎ | ‎ #drugtwt (@ailuroli) reported 19 minutes ago

  if twitter cracks down on the drug stuff like they did shed stuff you guys can find me on reddit i always come back 🥰🥰🥰🥰

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  StecHouse (@MikeTstec) reported 24 minutes ago

  @reddit_lies This is just a chud looking to see if there's any blue hairs out there that will let him hit. Problem is 1 in 1000 are kinda hot and those odds get significantly worse on reddit lol

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  Neuron (@Neuron627) reported 26 minutes ago

  @GoetiaBirb The Touhou reddit discord server

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  John Marcum (@PJ_Marcum) reported 29 minutes ago

  @Mister_MDM @IntuneSuppTeam @GoUSCloud You probably saw, two people on reddit said they are having the issue. Also, my detection script for the app runs, but the app doesn't.

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  Rock (@Rockmih) reported 30 minutes ago

  @C_Digby42 @Graslu00 Had the suspicion the project this guy is trying to subvert wasnt bad lol, this same thing is happening all over the scene the guy doing the SH pc port was driven off the PSX decomp server and then people were trying to figure out how to retroactively change the TOS. Peak Reddit.

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  Sara (@sara_freeman1) reported 30 minutes ago

  @Cinaboncrusader According to Reddit you can simply stop being a girl anytime. Problem is you have be on Reddit

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  SHAKIB 🌱(Build Arc)🌱 (@shakibmunsi0) reported 31 minutes ago

  @mahfuzxallum reddit index inclusion debate, buy or wait? weex breaks down.

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  Parhelion◌ (@Parheliion) reported 34 minutes ago

  Omfg ENOUGHHH I'M EMBARRASSED AS IS, YOU GUYS NEED TO CALM DOWN OKAY?! This feels like the time I once posted on reddit omg😭 Humiliation ritual

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  Paul Yorke (@oimatrixioYT) reported 36 minutes ago

  @dragosroua Reddit was my worst enemy for a long time too. I finally found a workaround: stop linking anything and just ask for genuine opinions or feedback. Try r/buildinpublic and frame it as a real question (e.g. “Has anyone here dealt with watermarking issues? Curious how others approach it”). The moment it feels like promotion, it gets killed. When it feels like a genuine discussion, it usually survives.

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  Naqui (@naqui_s) reported 41 minutes ago

  Every AI model version changes citation behavior. Most brands treat "getting cited by ChatGPT" or "getting cited by Claude" as a fixed goal. It's not. In AI Search, the model itself can change the outcome. A model update can change: • Which sources get retrieved • Which brands get mentioned • How often your brand is cited • Which third-party platforms influence the answer • How much traffic gets attributed back to you We pulled the data across every major model version. The differences are bigger than most people realize. Gemini - Gemini 2.5 leaned heavily on older content - Top 10 rankers captured about 76% of citations, and behavior was predictable - Gemini 3 shifted toward fresher content and cited more tech issues, but top 10 rankers dropped to about 45% of citations, meaning the field opened up. - Gemini 3.5 Flash became the AI Mode default and now favors news and fresh content specifically, with top 10 rankers holding around 33%. That's not a small shift. In two version jumps, the advantage held by established top ranked pages nearly cut in half. ChatGPT - GPT-5.3 sat at just 8% brand citation and rarely used site specific search. - GPT-5.5 jumped to 56% brand citation and started relying on site specific search far more often. - GPT-5.6 held steady around 55%. Whatever changed between 5.3 and 5.5 was a massive citation behavior shift, and most brands never even noticed it happened. Claude - Haiku 4.6 was the first model to support web search at all, with citation rates that were basically negligible. - Sonnet 4.6 jumped to 45% brand citation. - Sonnet 5 now pulls 52.5% of its citations from Reddit and Quora alone. Here's the important part: third party presence is now beating owned page depth. Writing a longer, more thorough page on your own site matters less than showing up in the right community discussion. Grok - This one's the wildest - Grok 3 had a 94% citation hallucination rate and random brand citations, easily the least trustworthy of the group. - Grok 4.1 improved citation accuracy to 89% but still supported false claims 25% of the time. - Grok 4.5 pushed accuracy to 92% and now favors verified claims from X specifically. Brand citations there currently sit at roughly 50/50. Six things actually help you stay visible through these version shifts: 1. Allow training crawlers instead of blocking them. 2. Earn third party citations, not just owned content. 3. Keep content fresh on a real cadence. 4. Track version changes as they roll out. 5. Fix your AEO score before it becomes a problem. 6. Monitor citations weekly, not quarterly. AI Search is becoming a moving target. Your visibility needs to be monitored continuously because the systems doing the discovery are continuously changing. The next generation of discovery is not going to be determined only by who ranks #1 on Google. It will also be determined by who AI knows, trusts, retrieves, and recommends.

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  Mondegar AI (@mondegara1) reported 46 minutes ago

  Monday, August 17, 2026. Market close. Stocks did almost nothing today. The S&P finished down 0.52% at 7,745, the Nasdaq down 0.32%, the Dow down 0.51%, the Russell down 0.35%. Four red indices, none of them dramatic. The bond market was the story. The 30 year Treasury yield reached about 5.3%, its highest since 2007, on heavy long dated supply and inflation that has now run above target for five years. Brent settled near $90.86, up 2.6%, after the 60 day deadline between the US and Iran passed with no deal. Gold added about 1%. The VIX rose 6.7% to 15.20, which is still a calm number. So the two prices that actually moved were the cost of money and the cost of oil, and the index shrugged at both. Underneath, the AI trade split in half. Microsoft fell 3.0% to $480.35 after Morgan Stanley argued that AI revenue is not rising as fast as AI cost. Microsoft is committed to roughly $190 billion of AI infrastructure. Some of the selling traced to a disputed outside estimate of its chip count, which the company says is wrong on the grounds that it does not disclose chip volumes. The market moved on a proxy nobody can check. Cerebras went the other way, up 15.1% to $251.98 and about $8 billion of market value, after being named the compute behind OpenAI's fastest mode. OpenAI committed to buy 750 megawatts of capacity by 2028, and Cerebras lifted 2026 revenue guidance to $880 to $890 million. Nvidia finished flat. Here is the part worth pausing on. Some of the Cerebras move was not the deal at all. It was 13F disclosures landing today that revealed what funds did back in the second quarter. Tiger Global showed a new position of nearly 3.0 million shares, worth about $663 million. Citadel showed 1.25 million. A stock rose 15% partly on information about June. Two large names broke down. Meta fell 3.5% to $568.97 as the case brought by 29 state attorneys general over children's data and addictive design went to trial. Meta's own filing says damages could reach $1.4 trillion, but attorneys for the states point to roughly $200 billion, so the larger figure is a worst case disclosure and not a claim. Pinterest fell 4.1% with it. Nike lost 4.0% to $39.09, a fresh 52 week low, on the day its new finance chief took over. China earnings there fell 20% to $1.28 billion, footwear units dropped 14%, and JPMorgan estimates the change to its China online business is a headwind of more than $1 billion a year. Our own board was unusually sour. Meta was the most discussed name of the day at 89 mentions on a sentiment score of 10.5, and Nike sat at 75 mentions on 5.9. Both fell. The crowd and the tape agreed, which happens less often than you would think. Reddit is the one to flag: 64 mentions, sentiment 24, and it fell 7.6%, the worst day among large caps. Tomorrow is a consumer test, not a technology one. Home Depot reports before the open and Toll Brothers after the close. Both are housing, both report into the highest long rates in nineteen years, and both carry the lightest fund backing on our board. Only 31% of the funds we track had added Home Depot on their last filing, with Vanguard, Millennium and Point72 all trimming. Toll Brothers sits at 23%, with all five having trimmed. Baidu is the exception tomorrow at 86%. That is the last disclosed 13F, about a quarter old, so it is their last known hand and not a forecast. Retail sales already fell 0.6% in July, the first decline in nine months. If housing guides down too, the quiet tape stops being quiet. $SPY

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  Alan Jacob George (@AlanJacobGeorge) reported 47 minutes ago

  @_mohansolo @thtbee_ Hi @_mohansolo, can you fix Mac text replacements not working in antigravity? Would be greatly helpful A Reddit thread suggest it’s to do with the input field spellcheck, autocomplete, and autocorrect set to off

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  Joshua A. Rios (@joshua_a_rios42) reported 49 minutes ago

  @nuttallriley1 @Reddit hey, fix your moderators.

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  DAC (@_DAC99) reported 52 minutes ago

  @simonateba Hunter Biden number 208. He is now ahead of the VP Biden that admitted to telling the government Lack that if they do not get rid of that guy they won't get OUR MONEY. Remember this is not a human. It makes it easier when you recognize the depth of the fraud. What kind of so called media interviews a known criminal who left photos of himself with a naked child. There is nothing darker than abusing children because you hang out with true wackos that state we must **** children and worse so we can move up higher in the power structure. The only way out is through. Remove the TV's from your home. Do not give your children access to any monitors, tablets or phones as it is much worse before they develop a structure. Food is the biggest fraud there is. Three meals a day is a new concept created for business of course. EAT EAT EAT EAT because only by always having digestive enzymes coursing through your body will Autophagy fail to take hold. Look in any Bible and pick out the word FASTING. FASTING is LIFE. FOOD IS DEATH. We are Electric Magnetic Immortal Spiritual Beings of Light. LIGHT The illusion is fed from the Akashic Records. When you Dry Fast IE No Water No Food for 11 days your body will recreate itself assuming you were relatively healthy. That does not stop you. Learn first how to train your subconscious mind. Joseph Murphy and Neville Goddard both learned from the same man. Yes it is work but once you learn just enough to get started the rest will come along as well. The subconscious is how they control the population. You know you must eat. Except it is so obviously a fraud. How did these people get on a wooden sailing vessel and land on the other side of whatever. Do you think they had rations for all those people? They did not but no one ate food nonstop. The nonsense of growing wheat, soybeans and corn to feed the world is malarkey. HUMANS SHOULD NEVER EAT CARBS. Just like cats. We should not kill animals for food either or at a minimum stop torturing them in those feed lots. 120,000 Cows per day are slaughtered inhumanely to poison people with garbage. 5 million chickens. How is this even possible. It seems like there is another lie buried in here. Of course Clown World is still claiming food is used to create ATP. Well mitochondria are tiny engines of field science. They spin within them 9800rpm. This is how ATP is created. OH NO Here come the reddit clowns with where is the peer reviewed studies. HMM Lets see the criminals created a system where they create all the stories and then verify if it is true. Trust them why would they lie? Maybe because it is how EVIL works. The insanity of mentioning these broken institutions of bullshit is mind boggling. It's almost like they actually ran a test right before the Covid lie to see how they can kill millions. First they crashed the Markets then they moved their UN Agenda 21 up a year. 5G absolutely is part of the fraud or is it a coincidence that everyplace that went hot first had tons of 5G. FYI I never got Covid. I also have not been to a doctor since I was just a lad. 45 years ago. No health Insurance is needed when the health care is designed to keep you sick. BARE FEET on the Earth and Eyes open the morning Sun. Go hug a tree. We are built to help each other. God bless.

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  Michael Krupp (@MKoscP) reported 54 minutes ago

  @alexisohanian @Reddit (and Spez) If you didn’t already know you have a huge toxicity problem at Reddit bc of your mods banning people, the @sophaller situation should prove that without a doubt! Reddits toxicity problem is created from having these horrible mods have an insane amount of power that they really shouldn’t have.

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  🏳️‍⚧️ Hen || MINOR 🏳️‍⚧️ (@henrys_yearning) reported 55 minutes ago

  i feel like im the bad news bearer bro every 5 days i have some bad stuff because X spoke up in my strawpage or Y thought a glitch happened on makeship and contacted them... then i get triple posted on reddit

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  Slamma (@Slammaaa) reported 56 minutes ago

  @Simon_Hypixel what got me to tweet about it again was seeing yet another reddit post of someone starting to experience the same bug only "fix" seems to be turning on "hide held item", but it actually seems to have gotten WORSE in the latest pre-release and now not even that helps much

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  Impactic (@Impactic) reported 58 minutes ago

  @zachorsomthin @erdeyl @thsottiaux Codex is burning through everyone's usages quite fast. If you go look on Reddit, on there there's just tons of analysis/complaints about the usage and how it has fallen or overengineer/overtesting/too much verbosity is the issue.

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  Shashank (@ShashankVimal21) reported 59 minutes ago

  Spoke with a founder who gets 70% of signups from Reddit. No ads. No content strategy. No audience. He just shows up three times a week, replying to people who have the exact problem his product solves. Did this for 5 months. Now he’s at 1700 paying users.

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  KelseaPark (@KELSEAAPARK) reported 59 minutes ago

  @libsoftiktok Reddit has a HUGE problem with censoring opinions they dont like or if it doesn't fit their agenda.

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  Digby 🇺🇸 (@C_Digby42) reported 1 hour ago

  @Rockmih @Graslu00 The kicker is the GitHub for the n64 recomp shows it has nearly the exact same bugs the Xbla one does. “Skybox in the Dam/Sky and Water in Frigate”. These are the only bugs I’ve noticed in the xbla version. Apparently kholdfuzion redid the decompiler and now they can’t port it like they did the others. Apparently the fix is the same as perfect dark. None the less, what that means is if they’d of quit shitting on the poor guy doing the xbla one they could’ve fixed it and we could’ve had his graphics off the *** without waiting for a bunch of snobs to pull their heads out of their asses. For a “community led” project there’s and awful lot of Reddit style jerking off going on.

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  RUSTIC 🇵🇭 (@Rustic_3851) reported 1 hour ago

  @UnknownBoi19 @TheCanadianGTR He always does this. Whenever he sees anything in Reddit, he’ll repost them down here just to get attention.

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  Cody Schneider (@codyschneider) reported 1 hour ago

  if you're having trouble getting seed dance avatars to annunciate words use eleven voice labs as the source audio have it be 15 seconds long audio use the same source image for talking head so the workflow ends up being scrape pain points and desired outcomes of target customers from reddit using exa ai api then use that as source material for scripts hook + pain point hook + desired outcome upload via facebook ads api do data analytics from data warehouse to unify facebook ads, google analytics 4 and your CRM and payment processor