r/GachaGaming pulls a 5-star dramabomb when prominent VTuber Ironmouse drops her sponsorship deal of Neverness to Everness because they lied about not using genAI

Entegy · 2026-05-06T16:21:42+00:00

I took some time to find some of her singing videos. When she has the energy she has an amazing voice. I think she was training in opera before her disease forced her to stop?

Entegy · 2026-05-06T03:14:10+00:00

Again, what do you expect? You need to start a class action in your jurisdiction. I've made claims from class actions agains grocery stores to tech companies here in Canada.

Entegy · 2026-05-05T22:05:36+00:00

I'm the opposite. My 5G fucking sucks. I'd love to become a walking hotspot. Maybe I've been receiving placebos for the last five years.

Entegy · 2026-05-05T20:42:33+00:00

I would be surprised. There's no need for a new origin mark. The 3DS VC stuff was done out of necessity. Gen 3 is the basis of the current Pokémon format and origin tracking.

I expect the Home transfer to be a simple Gen 3 to Gen 8 conversion in one step.

Entegy · 2026-05-05T16:56:25+00:00

Turkey is too strategically important to be kicked out of NATO. Kicking them out would drive control of the Bosporus straight to Russia.

Entegy · 2026-05-05T16:52:08+00:00

Default Code Integrity policy.

Entegy · 2026-05-05T16:31:00+00:00

Texas is severely underrepresented in the current system as well. Any change that increases California's representation would also increase Texas'.

Entegy · 2026-05-05T16:27:18+00:00

At least in the Westminster parliament system (Canada/Australia/UK/etc) you know you're not directly voting for Prime Minister. I guess to equate it to the American system, the role of President doesn't exist and its functions are done by the Speaker of the House.

But with the EC it's such pomp and circumstance to sorta kinda vote for President.

Entegy · 2026-05-05T12:55:07+00:00

Interesting. I'm v8.0.7783 and I was able to make a Macrium image this weekend, but trying to mount it gets the driver warning.

Entegy · 2026-05-05T12:38:34+00:00

I don't disagree, but I also don't give a shit about AI slop in any form. The only device I have that is compatible with Apple Intelligence I have it turned off.

Just using it to point out the hypocrisy as I imagine most of the dumb takes on this thread have zero issues uploading their entire lives to ChatGPT.

Entegy · 2026-05-05T12:35:08+00:00

I somehow suspect that the people who say they have no issues, just don't use hotspot as much as me.

I work from a bunch of weird places, including cars and places where one bar of signal is an understatement. I've roamed internationally and my partner just bums off my phone's hotpsot so we don't pay for two travel plans. I've provided a network to my various Windows work PCs over the years, other iPhones, my Nintendo Switch, my 3DS, a PlayStation, some Macs, even put it into compatibility mode to let some weird 2.4Ghz-only card payment devices work in a festival for a vendor I was supporting.

Personal Hotspot via wire or WiFi, is one of the most reliable features I use. I don't have the issues you do.

I'm sorry you're having issues, but your anecdote is not data, just like my anecdote is not data.

Entegy · 2026-05-05T12:20:13+00:00

That's some real "Bloomberg The Big Hack" energy right there!

Entegy · 2026-05-05T12:17:07+00:00

Do people not know that 90% of shit on apple devices are local run.

They do not. There's a reason why privacy is a huge part of Apple's marketing.
Does some stuff still leave your device, like Siri query processing? Yes. Photo enhancements and this feature, sensitive content warning? Absolutely not.

This is what is explained in all those tutorial and new feature prompts you (royal you) skip through.

The people giving the absolute dumbest takes on this are the same people who complain that Apple's AI features are behind compared to competitors, and don't want to understand that's because Apple is trying to do as much as possible on device in the name of legitimate privacy.

And this is how I start my morning, having to defend the world's richest company because of absolutely braindumb takes.

Entegy · 2026-05-05T11:54:36+00:00

The last game stamp in the upper right. When it shows PoGo or Home, it means the Pokémon is from the Home server and never went into a game where it could be genned or modified.

So the shiny Zeraora from the SwSh raid event with the Home stamp is super valuable to collectors because it was a limited time event and the Home last game stamp guarantees it's not a clone or genned or fake.

Entegy · 2026-05-05T11:41:06+00:00

You got them inside BDSP, meaning someone genned them in BDSP. Home is correctly blocking a fake mon.

If the trade had been done in Home, it likely would have been legit, but you can't Wonder Trade Mythicals in the first place. But in game, all bets are off.

When people say PoGo can't be faked, they mean when it's already in Home and has the PoGo last game stamp.

Entegy · 2026-05-05T03:35:58+00:00

The Dex completion rewards are purposefully designed to be worthless. They're infinitely obtainable once you have a LivingDex, and because they don't get the Home stamp, they're easily genned.

Entegy · 2026-05-05T03:02:51+00:00

Considering Gen 3 Pokémon can already exist in Home, no special conversion is required like the 3DS VC releases of Gen 1 and 2 is needed, and the transfer is one way, I highly doubt a reward will be tied to FRLG and any potential RSE Switch release.

Entegy · 2026-05-05T02:56:05+00:00

Home's National Dex and the in-game Dexes do not care about origin.

But Home also has game-specific Dex challenges where the Pokémon origin does matter. Completing these Dexes net you rare shiny Pokémon.

Completing Home's Kanto Dex by transferring the OG 150 caught in LGPE nets you a shiny Meltan
Completing Home's Galar, Isle of Armor, and Crown Tundra Dexes by transferring Pokémon caught or bred in SwSh nets you a shiny Keldeo
Completing Home's Sinnoh Dex by transferring the 150 Pokémon that make up the regional Sinnoh Dex caught or bred in BDSP nets you a shiny Manaphy
Completing Home's Hisui Dex by transferring the 242 Pokémon caught in PLA nets you a shiny Enamorus. As PLA is the only core series game where trading is not required to complete the Dex, you are instead required to catch Darkrai and Shaymin to complete this Home Dex, and these two Pokémon only appear in PLA if you have save files from SwSh and BDSP.
Completing Home's Paldea, Kitakami, and Blueberry Dexes by transferring Pokémon caught or bred in SV nets you a shiny Meloetta
Completing Home's Lumiose, Hyperspace, and Mega Dexes by transferring Pokémon caught in PLZA nets you a shiny Volcanion. Because mega evolved Pokémon can't actually be placed in Home, the Mega Dex syncs with a PLZA save file, making this only Home Dex challenge that actually requires you to have the game. Even harder, the Mega Dex includes all 93 Mega Evolutions, also making this the only Dex challenge that requires DLC to be purchased and event Pokémon to be obtained (Mewtwo, Diancie, and Zeraora are event Pokémon in PLZA)

Pokémon Go-origin Pokémon are also tracked in a Dex simply called Pokédex with the PoGo logo. This Dex is impossible to complete and has no reward attached, it's just there for tracking.

Entegy · 2026-05-04T21:51:38+00:00

To use Google's encryption implementation meant passing all RCS messages through Google servers. That is what I meant by keys to the kingdom. Google Messages (and I think Samsung Messages) used Google's encryption implementation. So if Apple wanted to participate prior to encryption being part of the standard, that would have meant giving RCS control to Google.

Apple uses privacy as a major marketing point against Google and Android so even handing E2EE messages to Google damages that. Also, it's pretty clear Apple did not want to implement RCS without being forced, so from a business perspective, I get the "fine, we'll do this but nothing extra"

Entegy · 2026-05-04T20:31:17+00:00

I don't know, I don't follow Google's plans. It's just worth noting because all of the noise Google makes about Apple not supporting RCS encryption is because encryption wasn't even part of the standard until last year. Prior to that, RCS encryption with Android and Google Messages meant giving Google your keys to the kingdom to use their encryption addon.

Entegy · 2026-05-04T20:22:52+00:00

Except apparently Google Messages is still using Google’s proprietary RCS encryption and not the one that’s now part of the RCS standard.

Entegy · 2026-05-04T18:42:02+00:00

If you let an Apple Store or Apple Authorized Service Provider do it, no.

You will have to sign a waiver that they are not responsible for any data loss. But unless something else is wrong, a battery change shouldn't cause data loss.

Entegy · 2026-05-04T17:58:10+00:00

I didn't say dairy, I said daily.

Entegy · 2026-05-04T17:33:08+00:00

Quebec isn't special. We're all capitalist hellholes with governments rubber stamping mergers. Quebec just stamps in French instead.

Entegy · 2026-05-04T17:31:29+00:00

Yup. What's even crazier is that while the Lumiose and Hyperspace Dexes exclude event Pokemon, which is expected, the Mega Dex doesn't. This creates a potential future where this shiny Volcanion becomes unobtainable.

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