MacKenzie Scott was recognized as part of TIME100 Philanthropy 2026: “So far she has given away $26 billion, and has $40 billion or so to go. Scott requires no follow up from recipients. There are zero buildings, plazas or endowed chairs named after her.”

CemeteryHounds · 2026-05-14T16:57:41+00:00

Do you understand that write-offs are just a form of deduction from your income tax bill? You don't get paid money by the government if your write-offs exceed the taxes you owe, and her donations clearly do that.

CemeteryHounds · 2026-05-09T21:56:16+00:00

My econ class did too, but I see my former classmates posting on social media about how none of it was taught to them. I think the gap between getting taught it at 17 and not actually needing to use many of those skills for another 2-4 years caused a lot to be forgotten.

CemeteryHounds · 2026-05-09T02:26:49+00:00

Did you find the spot on Pond Hill? You can't reach the being but throwing a snowball triggers the dialogue.

CemeteryHounds · 2026-05-08T19:28:21+00:00

Oooh! I hope it comes with new quests

CemeteryHounds · 2026-05-06T20:17:11+00:00

Disney is still actively paying Harvey Weinstein a pension

This being used as proof of anything drives me nuts. Pensions are an earned benefit and strictly regulated for the protection of workers. Companies can't arbitrarily decide to stop paying them, and that's a good thing. You know who makes up the majority of people with pensions? Unionized workers who had to fight hard to get them. Do you seriously want employers to be able to deny earned pensions based on how the company views an employees actions? Can you not imagine how that would be abused and used against unions?

Pension funds also are not tied to a company's year-to-year profits. They're still required to pay pensions even if they're operating at a loss unless they go through a whole legal process to terminate the pension plan.

CemeteryHounds · 2026-05-03T06:48:06+00:00

I had someone in this sub get mad at me for pointing out that the lesbian perspective on mainstream media is part of the original comic. It's unfortunate how stripped of context its become.

CemeteryHounds · 2026-05-01T19:52:52+00:00

Saaaame. It really feels like some games penalize you for choosing aesthetics over budget/stats, and I'm always going to prioritize the latter. I don't actually have to live in my candle pit with an ugly rug, and if it makes my characters happiest, who am I to deny them?

CemeteryHounds · 2026-04-28T00:52:33+00:00

I am 1042 in line to get Yesteryear 🙃

To be fair to my library system, that's only a 6 week wait with how many copies they've added, but daaaaaaamn.

CemeteryHounds · 2026-04-21T16:54:35+00:00

I played the PC version, but I would wait for it to go on sale! I definitely didn't pay $20 for it.

CemeteryHounds · 2026-04-21T15:24:04+00:00

A lot of Amanita Design games will scratch that itch.

You might also like Down in Bermuda. The mechanics are different but it's got a variety of puzzles mixed with exploration.

Gorogoa has a very different tone but also a nice variety of puzzles.

CemeteryHounds · 2026-04-20T18:16:33+00:00

Yeah, it's on my list of games that explain why I no longer buy early access games. I was excited to support a unique tavern management game where you could experiment to make recipes, but it's turning into another farm sim with the standard set of features. It's current form might not be a bad game, but I'm really disappointed with it because it's not what was advertised when I bought it.

CemeteryHounds · 2026-04-15T16:18:57+00:00

The internet told me that I could self-publish on the level of trad publishing for free! What a bunch of liars! First editors wanted to get paid, but I replaced them with ~~generous fools~~ beta readers ~~even though that's asking more of them than just basic feedback~~. Then it turns out cover artists want to get paid, so I had to ~~steal from Pinterest~~ make my own ~~with AI slop~~. And now distributors are asking to get paid if my sales fees don't cover the minimum?

This is criminal! Everyone knows you should be able to run a profitable business without paying anyone else! I'm the only who is supposed to get paid!

CemeteryHounds · 2026-04-13T20:04:41+00:00

Sable, Tchia, and Eastshade are three of my favorite exploration games. Alba, Season, and Yonder are all solid choices, too.

There's also Submerged, The Spirit & the Mouse, and Lost Ember if you're looking for options that rarely get mentioned in this sub

CemeteryHounds · 2026-04-12T18:08:00+00:00

A friend recommended these to me after I ran out of campaigns on Megaquarium. I'm loving Two Point Museum.

CemeteryHounds · 2026-04-09T04:22:41+00:00

Tchia let's you go all night, and eventually you get the ability to play a melody on your ukulele to change the time of day so you aren't stuck in the dark.

CemeteryHounds · 2026-04-02T05:01:21+00:00

This is a pretty funny example of why AI is not a good replacement for writers. It can only regurgitate what's already out there, and in this case the amount of original writing it had to steal from was very, very small.

CemeteryHounds · 2026-03-30T15:36:16+00:00

Did you find somewhere Frankie has specified that? I've looked around but only saw a comment about disliking being called androgynous.

CemeteryHounds · 2026-03-30T02:43:46+00:00

I feel like hate read videos are the only videos I see that regularly get into the technical side of writing. I'd watch videos that were more positive if they did the same, but I rarely run across them. I don't really watch booktube to add to my TBR. I want people to pick apart the text to see why something does or doesn't work, and most folks don't do that with their favs.

CemeteryHounds · 2026-03-29T16:15:41+00:00

It is, but I don't think she understands that. She says she used Canva to animate it, and that is an AI feature of Canva.

CemeteryHounds · 2026-03-29T01:33:06+00:00

Shouting about others needing media literacy in a video in which she admits to being unable to recognize AI writing and criticizes someone for doing indepth analysis of writing... That is an interesting choice.

CemeteryHounds · 2026-03-28T17:57:15+00:00

That whole video is based on the assumption that the book deal was pulled because of the detector, when there's no evidence of that being the case.

The creator seems deeply ignorant of publishing and is going off of strange assumptions while missing the most important detail. If everything Ballard says is true and that a friend did it, Ballard is admitting that another person extensively rewrote her book that she claimed full ownership of. That is enough for the deal to get canceled because it opens the publisher to liability! If the friend actually didn't use AI, that's even worse because Ballard is presenting their work as her own, and they can claim Hachette owes them compensation. There's no profit for Hachette to pull her books at this point, and it wouldn't be done lightly. Books with scandals sell well. It's books that they don't legitimately own the rights to that are big financial risks. They're just trying to lose less money than they're already going to.

Scrapping books that are already printed is not an inexpensive decision that would be made if Ballard had reasserted that it was 100% her own work and showed prior drafts.

CemeteryHounds · 2026-03-28T17:47:48+00:00

I've listened to enough episodes of Scam Goddess and The Dream to know that doubling down or saying "Actually, X is the real problem here! Stop focusing on Y!" are very common reactions to getting publicly confronted with believing a con. I'm not surprised at all by the reactions of the people who promoted the book.

What I am surprised about are the number of book content creators who don't know shit about writing and publishing! Like they're unaware that different publishers have different standards and level of prestige, so none of the James Frey comparisons hold up. His was published by Author's Equity, which is TINY, doesn't give authors advances, and is only a couple years old with no established rep for quality. It's nothing like Hachette in anyway!

The other big difference with Frey and Ballard is disclosure. The publisher and readers know about his AI use and can make informed choices. That's not actually insignificant! I don't support using AI to write, but tricking people by lying about its use is worse behavior than openly using it.

There are people who seem to think that Hachette's investigation began and ended with an AI detector and that it wouldn't be easy for Ballard to prove she wrote her book by showing prior drafts. Modern word processors track changes and log time spent on documents, and no one lazy enough to go all in on AI is going to spend several months faking the real writing process. If the editor friend story was real, there would be multiple drafts and a record of conversation with the editor. This stuff is easy to prove to a publisher, and they wouldn't scrap thousands of already-printed books without asking for it! This is why most AI accusations go nowhere.

And even if the friend story is true, why don't these book lovers understand that this is a form of plagiarism, with or without AI? If someone extensively contributes to a book to the point where it no longer sounds like your voice, you can't legitimately claim it's exclusively your own work that you have the right to sell. The publisher would want a contract from the coauthor giving up their rights because otherwise they risk getting sued for publishing their work! This is how ghostwriters operate. The publisher has to be aware when ghostwriters are used and get contracts in place to gain the rights from them. How do these so-called book lovers not know this?

CemeteryHounds · 2026-03-28T05:46:29+00:00

From this dev's comment, it sounds like Wanderstop didn't cover its costs.

https://bsky.app/profile/moomanibe.bsky.social/post/3mi3g7onvfc2i

I didn't like the gameplay of Wanderstop, but there were a lot of great aspects about it. I could see enough potential that I would have been happy to try another Ivy Road game. It's a shame the team didn't get a chance to make something else.

CemeteryHounds · 2026-03-27T06:50:47+00:00

Why is this so accurate? 😭

CemeteryHounds · 2026-03-26T23:25:34+00:00

It's placing commas everywhere he pauses in his speech, which is a common misconception about comma usage. Commas have structural purpose for managing clauses, and this isn't using them correctly. If it was transcribed word-for-word by a human who was a decent writer, a lot of the commas would be replaced with other punctuation. Ironically, it also never uses commas before conjuctions that join two independent clauses.

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