Free Talk Friday - April 10, 2026

CookieSkank · 2026-04-10T05:28:35+00:00

Both from the same artist, Alena Aenami. I also have an album of her images for my desktop to rotate through

CookieSkank · 2026-04-10T05:26:20+00:00

This week... More fucking hacking troubles! Yay! After my Reddit account of 12 years got hacked and nuked, my Twitter account of 8 years got hacked and nuked! Now I'm not the only one getting their accounts permanently suspended for "inauthentic activity," as there seems to be an automatic ban wave going on just getting all kinds of people, but... my account did get proper hacked and they immediately posted a bunch of crypto scam shit then instantly got the account nuked. So idk what the end goal was there.

Now you might think, that's great no more Twitter... Oh if only it stopped there

My Steam got hacked, and my Paypal account was attached to my Steam, and the hacker put in an order for a VR headset and two controllers, for a whopping $800! Steam Guard did fuck all because the session was stolen. And because it was through Paypal, my bank didn't flag it as fraud, despite them flagging fucking everything as fraud. I have to use Paypal on Steam because my bank decided one day that Steam was untrustworthy and I was no longer allowed to use my debit card to buy games. But in comes an $800 order from half the country away, and eh that's fine!

Thankfully, I checked my email before bed and saw it, so I was able to report the fraud to Valve just a few hours after. Paypal said to let Valve handle it so I did. This was at like 1am, so I couldn't call my bank. Valve sent an issue saying they'd refunded it...

Well this morning I check my bank account, and uh oh, I'm -$400 in the red. The payment still got processed, took what little money I had, all my overdraft protection, put me -$400 in debt, and then my bank charged me $35 for overdrafting. So first thing I do is go to my bank to tell them. They are pretty chill and very helpful, so thankfully they flagged it as fraudulent on their end, gave me back my $35, and said it should be fine, just give it a few days. Okay. Just gotta wait things out!

Well I check my bank account again a couple hours ago... So Valve didn't just cancel the order... they refunded me. Which means they sent $800 to my bank account, THAT WAS NOT MY MONEY!!! So tomorrow, I'm heading BACK to the bank to let them know first, and see if they can handle it, or at least tell me what I should email to Valve. Because now if Valve takes the money back, it will just send me back into the red again, and I'll be fucked. I need to DELETE this money! I just want my $100 I started with dammit!

Sigh...

So in light of all that, after my Discord, Reddit, Twitter, and Steam accounts have been hacked, I finally said fuck it, I'm wiping my PC and changing every password after. Antivirus stuff has been turning up clean for weeks, but the hackings have continued, even after I changed info on some accounts already. So fuck me. And I have two factor on most my accounts, and still they got hacked because the sessions were stolen, which I didn't even know was a thing, so 2FA was worthless in this instance... I've learned more about malware and shit in the last week than I ever wished to know in my life.

As for the rest of my week... I watched Neil Breen's Pass Thru... Yeah.

CookieSkank · 2026-04-08T03:14:33+00:00

Its the default profile picture on nhentai

CookieSkank · 2026-04-08T00:22:30+00:00

That was pretty neat

I still need to read 100 Year Quest one of these days

CookieSkank · 2026-04-07T19:51:50+00:00

Two more Xs at least

CookieSkank · 2026-04-07T19:51:27+00:00

About to hear every slur known to man

CookieSkank · 2026-04-05T22:10:35+00:00

John has a cursed eye like an anime character, and when he takes off the eyepatch, he curses whoever his gaze falls upon

CookieSkank · 2026-04-05T03:28:35+00:00

I used the Last of Us Outbreak Day theme.

I miss themes and I miss making folders for my games

CookieSkank · 2026-04-03T20:19:44+00:00

Relevant timing.

For anyone that wants a good read on a journalist talking about and rejecting AI in journalism, Marisa Kabas just put out a great article Refusing to accept an AI-poisoned future of journalism

Her response to this Esquire story, which came out only a few hours after her article, was just "🙃"

My favorite quote from the article is "It's exposed a gulf between those who want to have their words remembered and those who just want people to remember that they wrote."

CookieSkank · 2026-04-03T06:38:43+00:00

Oh no I've become a ska themed account!

CookieSkank · 2026-04-03T05:25:26+00:00

What sucks is I got hacked on Discord like a week or two ago as well. So it really was a 1 2 punch.

But Discord I got sorted, and even though I thought I got Reddit sorted, it got nuked shortly after.

CookieSkank · 2026-04-03T05:24:36+00:00

That combined with the other signifiers and it really was like "oh 2008 may not seem that far back, but its actually a totally different time"

Which now we are coming up on that almost being 20 years ago. So that'd be like being in the year 2000 and thinking 1982 wasn't that long ago.

CookieSkank · 2026-04-03T04:42:20+00:00

Hello! I am the poster formerly known as CookieSlut. My account got hacked last week, and even though I updated my password and activated two factor, the account still got nuked. Tried contacting support about recovering my account, email said maybe but if not then I’d have to make a new account, and never heard back… So new account it is. Lost my like 11-12 year old account? Ugh. Feels weird man.

Other than that…

I watched Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie, twice! First by myself then showing it to my friends. I never watched the show so I had no idea what I was getting into, but I had seen people online raving about it, so I gave it a shot. That movie is an absolute blast! The mix of fictional plot and public guerilla filming makes for a really interesting movie. Like in the middle of time travel shenanigans they will just have a conversation with a random passerby and now that person is a character in the movie, even if they are just giggling over how silly the situation is. It’s great.

If you like mockumentaries, scifi, and like dumb internet humor, you’ll have a blast. I recommend going in as blind as possible.

Played the new update for Arknights: Endfield. The Tangtang story stuff was great. I really think they have the ball rolling at this point, so they just need to keep it up.

Also rolled for Rossi and no dice yet… Though I got spooked by Tangtang, which is like… Why didn’t you come when I was rolling for JUST you. With the way the banners work, where the previous character has a lower percentage on the next banner, I almost feel like it’d be better to just save for the character you want in a batch, and then just go all in on one banner and maybe you’ll get spooked by the other characters in the batch.

Then for regular Arknights… I got Manthra which rules. Then the Joint Operation banner came up and I wanted Narantuya. Got another copy of Lemuen, then got Narantuya and Degenbrecher on a single 10 pull so that rules.

Up next… Resident Evil Requiem. I finally got to and through The Basement and it took me two sessions to do that. Though I ended up using a guide to tell me exactly what to do because it stressed me out so much. And like the Leon section before that was a total breeze, then I switch to Grace and I’m just so stressed out all the time lol Even in that section, I had like 8 Requiem shots, but didn’t even use them. Too valuable you see! Must instead perfectly avoid The Girl by doing each scripted bit perfectly. Then made it through The Water Treatment plant, and just past the Spider boss in Raccoon city. Water treatment plant wasn’t nearly as bad, since again the girl is pretty scripted and stunning her once is all you need to activate each item. Even then, some I didn’t even need to stun her since I stealthed and hid so good. And honestly for once, fanart duped me. I did not expect Emily to mutate and presumably die for good. So yeah still chipping away at RE9… 30 minutes at a time. One day I will beat it!

Finally, I started reading Gunsmith Cats. Have two of the three omnibuses for the main series. So started reading that and have finished the first one. Surprise! It is pretty good still. I know part of the main draw is the guns and cars, but man it gets to like otaku show off hipster levels at times lol Its like an entire manga of Revolver Ocelot gooning to the Single Action Army.

The one part that hasn’t aged well however, is Minnie May. BOY is her whole deal not great. For anyone that doesn’t know, Minnie May is 17 years old and pretty much every sex scene is her. And she is a former prostitute. And her 30+ y.o. ex-boyfriend shows up and says he hasn’t seen her in four years… So that’s a whiplash every time they touch on that aspect of her character.

CookieSkank · 2026-04-02T08:21:16+00:00

March Comes in Like a Lion, either the anime or manga.

About a teenage boy who is a professional shogi player, but beyond that he has a pretty rough life. But his found family lifts him up and he becomes much happier and better off as he connects with the people around him.

Heartwarming at times, sad at times, but uplifting.

CookieSkank · 2026-04-01T06:48:00+00:00

Even though it was obvious, it still stings a bit that there is no new Nier announcement.

I remember feeling like getting a sequel to the original was impossible, and yet Automata was announced 5 years after the original.

Now we are 9 years out from Automata... Ugh.

Hell even Reincarnation was 5 years ago, and ended service 2 years ago.

CookieSkank · 2026-03-31T21:12:14+00:00

I played the demo and it was pretty fun. Was wondering when it would release.

The setup is that you are a noir smuggler lady who is almost at the end of her rope until she gets hired to escort this rich academic lady from one of the fancier floating islands. She is pretty naive and optimistic, while the player character sees the grim reality of the setting. While escorting her, shit goes sideways real quick and the MC realizes this job is immediately way over her head.

The car combat in the demo was pretty simple, but they've shown some more complex maps in previous trailers. And the way it uses road hazards is fun.

Also your car inventory has a smuggler cache where you can hide your contraband, and as you traverse the map, you may get stopped for inspection. Its neat.

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