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My fucking fish script broke, please hmu if you know of a fix or replacement for it . :(
abowman fish script my beloved...
Last updated: Aug 2 2022
the lazy river at water parks was made to appeal to relaxing adults and possibly accidentally those who like to pretend to be otters, sharks and various water type pokemon
Mr president we have reason to suspect their is a masquito in the oval office
Reading guide
“Mr president” = me
“The oval office” = my room
“Their”, “masquito” = errors for comedic effect
Behind the scenes
This post was inspired by the Mosquito Bite that appeared at or around 1:30 AM on my right elbow. As of 1:39 AM, the culprit remains at large. Some say a faint buzzing can still be heard
The really hilariously ill-conceived part of the Twitter rate limiting thing is that comments and retweets are the same kind of entity as tweets in the back-end database, they’re just “parented” to whatever tweet they’re commenting on or retweeting, and the rate limit they’ve placed on the API simply counts how many of those entities you’ve requested without checking a. whether they’re the children of another entity or not, nor b. whether you’ve already seen that particular entity today.
Thus, the limit isn’t really “600 tweets”. A tweet, each comment on that tweet, and each retweet of that tweet all count against the limit as you view them. For example, if a quote-retweet crosses your dashboard, the quote-retweet itself and the little preview of what it’s responding to that appears above it each count separately against the limit. Click into that quote-retweet to read the comments? They both get counted against your limit a second time, as does each individual comment you read – and heaven help you if any of those comments were themselves commented upon!
The upshot is that if your account isn’t verified, using Twitter in the manner that its own monetisation model assumes – and, indeed demands – it will be used can easily exhaust your entire daily allocation of tweet views in as little as a couple dozen engagements.
so that’s why i ran out in like two hours
If anything, two hours reflects a very restrained usage pattern. Owing to the way that tweet views are counted, somebody who’s using the site the way its user experience “wants” it to be used might readily burn through their daily 600 views in five to ten minutes!
Wait, wait, wait, so, Twitter now works like those mobile games that give you free “lives” and once you’re out, sorry! Wait til tomorrow… or pay!
It’s a bit worse than that, because the verified limit is only 6000 views, and there’s presently no way to increase it beyond that. That might feel like a big number, but for the reasons outlined above, even a paying user with an ideal usage pattern will be able to use site for perhaps 60 minutes a day before they get put on hold, too.
I’ve been seeing some people getting a bit confused and getting some stuff wrong in the comments of that one post telling the story about the creator of Neopets throwing a hissy fit (Hissi fit lol) over people disliking his idea of a game “that’s just like Neopets but with crypto” and I don’t want to add anything to it to not bother the OP but Neopets has been a hyperfixation of mine since I was 13 and I physically can’t stop myself from going “Um, ackshually ☝️🤓” so I’m gonna do it in my own post. Here’s what happened:
The guy who got super pissed off and started badmouthing Neopets users, ending his tirade with a selfie of him giving Neopets users the finger, Adam Powell, did create Neopets, yes, but he doesn’t own it anymore since it was sold to Viacom in 2005. He has been involved in a few game ventures since but they haven’t been very successful.
His idea wasn’t to “implement NFTs in Neopets”, he’s developing (or planning to) another game that’ll apparently be free to play with some extra paid features, and said features would be paid in some sort of cryptocurrency.
Sadly, the parent company of Neopets, JumpStart, already tried to implement NFTs by partnering with Metaverse back in 2021, with disastrous results, both in the eyes of Neopets players (who hated the idea because NFTs are a scam and terrible for the environment and all) and in the eyes of NFT bros (because the NFTs in question were VERY overpriced given their poor quality and made using stolen assets from Neopets fan sites). The project is apparently still underway but it’s hugely unpopular and tweets made by the official Neopets Metaverse account mostly only gets engagement from NFT bots, if they get any at all.
Back to Adam. He apparently thought people would be “excited about his new game because of the Neopets Metaverse thing”, without knowing how much the fanbase hated the whole thing, and tried to peddle it in the Discord server of the r/Neopets subreddit, a subreddit that has always been VERY vocal against the Neopets NFTs. And well. You can guess how much people weren’t interested in his game. Then, just to make matters worse, people went on the Discord server of his game and saw that it was badly moderated and chock full of homophobic comments made by cryptobros.
Adam gets pissed off at people disliking his game idea and not taking kindly to his comments that “they just don’t understand what crypto is about” and goes on an angry tirade, saying stuff such as how much he wished he never made Neopets because the fanbase sucks, saying he’s going to buy it back just to destroy it and ending in the aforementioned middle finger selfie, all while people clowned on him like crazy. This ended in him getting banned from the Discord server AND from the r/Neopets subreddit. He then started trying to defend himself and demanding to be unbanned in… the comment thread of a news article relating the incident in the Neopets fan site Jellyneo. Last time I checked he was still at it.
He blamed his outburst on “having drunk alcohol while on Sertraline” and has said he wasn’t aware of the homophobic comments in his server and claimed that he doesn’t have anything against LGBT+ people, but he has also made it very clear he doesn’t think he’s in the wrong and won’t apologize for anything.
Also, this isn’t related at all to this event but I’ve also seen some people repeat that whole “Neopets was created by Scientologists” thing and that’s also not true. Neopets was created by two college students, Adam Powell and his then girlfriend and now wife Donna Williams. The site was BACKED by a Scientologist investor very early on after it’s creation during, like… the early 00s but he pulled out from the project when he pitched the idea to add some “Scientology for kids” material in the website and the staff was vehemently against anything of the sort.
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