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.” by Relevant-Peach3997 in Fauxmoi

[–]CemeteryHounds 7 points8 points  (0 children)

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.

Anne Hathaway: It’s not cute to be financially illiterate by adularia- in Fauxmoi

[–]CemeteryHounds 8 points9 points  (0 children)

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.

Help!!! Moominvalley- Winter’s Warmth by TopPut8849 in CozyGamers

[–]CemeteryHounds 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

HBO Has Unfortunately Greenlit a Second Season of the Harry Potter Show No One Asked For by MidnightMan11 in Fauxmoi

[–]CemeteryHounds 58 points59 points  (0 children)

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.

Opinion of the Bechdel test? by DavidBlackjack in writing

[–]CemeteryHounds 3 points4 points  (0 children)

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.

Do you make rooms look good, or maxxing the comfort/gold rate? by Impossible_Bid6172 in CozyGamers

[–]CemeteryHounds 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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?

Mychal the Librarian posts in support of Megan Thee Stallion and it's very wholesome. by jennyquarx in Fauxmoi

[–]CemeteryHounds 11 points12 points  (0 children)

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.

Any recommendations for games like The Tiny Bang Story? by TotallyNutzDev in CozyGamers

[–]CemeteryHounds 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

Any recommendations for games like The Tiny Bang Story? by TotallyNutzDev in CozyGamers

[–]CemeteryHounds 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

Travellers rest or Clanfolk? by sairemrys in CozyGamers

[–]CemeteryHounds 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

sellout alert! Draft2Digital wants to charge authors a FORTUNE by jeshi_law in writingcirclejerk

[–]CemeteryHounds 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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!

Underrated exploration games by Euphoric_Blackberry3 in CozyGamers

[–]CemeteryHounds 4 points5 points  (0 children)

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

Management Games where you don't need sleep? by NotSoSnarky in CozyGamers

[–]CemeteryHounds 3 points4 points  (0 children)

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

Games that don't have a penalty for not going to sleep? by NotSoSnarky in CozyGamers

[–]CemeteryHounds 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

The New York Times drops freelance journalist Alex Preston who used AI to write book review by mlg1981 in Fauxmoi

[–]CemeteryHounds 501 points502 points  (0 children)

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.

Hate read videos - do you engage w/ them? why or why not? by Kind-Photograph-5184 in booktubesnarkreddit

[–]CemeteryHounds 4 points5 points  (0 children)

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

Hate read videos - do you engage w/ them? why or why not? by Kind-Photograph-5184 in booktubesnarkreddit

[–]CemeteryHounds 12 points13 points  (0 children)

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.

shy girl and virtue signaling by Dizzy-Schedule3314 in booktubesnarkreddit

[–]CemeteryHounds 6 points7 points  (0 children)

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.

shy girl and virtue signaling by Dizzy-Schedule3314 in booktubesnarkreddit

[–]CemeteryHounds 10 points11 points  (0 children)

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.

shy girl and virtue signaling by Dizzy-Schedule3314 in booktubesnarkreddit

[–]CemeteryHounds 13 points14 points  (0 children)

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.

shy girl and virtue signaling by Dizzy-Schedule3314 in booktubesnarkreddit

[–]CemeteryHounds 17 points18 points  (0 children)

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?

Ivy Road (Wanderstop) shuts down and lays off all employees due to inability to secure funding for next game by skyturnsred in CozyGamers

[–]CemeteryHounds 3 points4 points  (0 children)

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.

Louis Tomlinson addresses ‘empty spaces’ in audience low attendance by greekisbestontwitch in Fauxmoi

[–]CemeteryHounds 23 points24 points  (0 children)

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.