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im emotional about food , music , human connection , the way the streetlights were orange in 2009. whatever
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"I beat the game in 30 hours" okay but did you explore the map to find spots that look pretty? did you put your characters in silly little outfits? did you try the mini games? did you let the characters become friends? did you have fun? did you have fun playing your game???
"you've played that same game 20 times" ah, yes, but it's a "choose your own adventure" narrative-driven game, so I'm never playing the same game twice. And I delight in finding new roads, new interactions, new endings. Even the smallest change give me something new I'm thrilled to explore. I enjoy my game. What so you even play for anymore?
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Don't be caught unprepared! Get your tabs in order!
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No, no, and NO.
AO3 does not live in “the cloud” because that is other people’s computers, and other people’s computers are vulnerable to censorship.
AO3 is on its own computers. It does still have to be housed somewhere, and I suppose a determined enough hater could try to find that place and go after it, but it’s a lot harder than sending spurious complaints to Amazon or whomever going “BadWrong things are hosted on your cloud service!”
Owning the servers is a core tenet of OTW/AO3.
Warming up a new database server….
When people involved with AO3 talk about “the cost of servers” they don’t mean “the cost to pay Amazon for space on their servers.” They mean, like, the cost to physically own them, and eventually replace them with new ones. And the operating costs to run them.
AO3 is not “in the cloud.” AO3 is stored on physical machines that the OTW owns.
While this is not a solution that can work for everyone who wants to deal with controversial content, it is why AO3ple sneer at alt-righters who complain about getting thrown off hosting platforms.
Because I want us to own the goddamned servers, ok? Because I want a place where we can’t be TOSed and where no one can turn the lights off or try to dictate to us what kind of stories we can tell each other.
AO3 is what a website looks like when you seize the means of production.
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no fucking awoo. no awoo right now. its late. its not awoo time. its sleeping time. go the fuck to bed.
well now he’s upset.
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no no that’s a bop, i love it
“Woman!” cried I, somewhat tearsome,
“Who are you to stand so fearsome
With your wavy locks of auburn hair and eyes of emerald green?”
Quoth the woman, “I’m Jolene”
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"Nazis killed people. ICE are only deporting people."
Well, now we see that ICE are killing people.
How much more evidence do you need that they're exactly like the Nazis?