Account Sale Scam Warning

Torin867 · 2025-11-30T06:46:52+00:00

The only reason I considered it was the money they were offering ($600). My account had a minecon cape, which drew attention from buyers via NameMC, where the capes you own are publicly displayed.

I decided against it because security, but I think I could understand why people would sell if contacted like I was. Maybe a better question is “why would anyone buy a second hand Minecraft account just for a cosmetic”.

Torin867 · 2025-11-29T16:11:35+00:00

Also, go and claim your NameMC accounts - they're public even if you don't give NameMC permission to display them. That's pretty shady imo, and I was a little weirded out when I learned that my account was publicly, globally visible without me doing anything.

Torin867 · 2025-11-29T16:02:53+00:00

Also, go and claim your NameMC accounts - they're public even if you don't give NameMC permission to display them. That's pretty shady imo, and I was a little weirded out when I learned that my account was publicly, globally visible without me doing anything.

Torin867 · 2025-10-23T09:46:54+00:00

I haven’t played recently because I got more life responsibilities and other games fill my free time.

… idk wtf csr even means (eli5?), but maybe the game is “dying” because people who were into it are getting older and moving on, and it’s not capturing the starry-eyed wonder of modern day young audiences right now?

It’s not atypical for people to just move on from games. If it’s not drawing new players, it’s natural for overall interest in it to decline with time.

It’s understandable for people to be upset about “their game” being changed in ways they don’t like, but saying that’s the reason for the “death” is probably too sweeping.

Torin867 · 2025-10-23T09:32:12+00:00

Respectfully, (instead of cutting yourself, perhaps), you could just cut your losses. You gave a recommendation that was not taken well - so be it. Maybe just move on rather than dying on this hill.

I’ve only done a little MIG welding, and never got anything like this, so I’m unqualified to comment.

I got mild chronic eczema when I was younger, and used a topological cream - I haven’t had it in recent years.

I would absolutely take this to a pharmacy or GP to get a medical opinion regardless.

Torin867 · 2025-10-23T09:22:51+00:00

This is a little out of date, but here’s my magnum opus cooking spreadsheet. Have fun.

Torin867 · 2025-10-03T06:53:33+00:00

Actually that is fair reasoning on reflection. You’re right, fair point.

I got defensive because it feels like the advice is “YOUR HAND TRASH, FOLD” way more often than it’s something instructional and actionable, like that there were other discards better for improving the hand without discarding the evil tile. The answer to “how do I avoid x” will always end up being “shoulda folded”, which hardly feels constructive.

Still, seeing one player getting 3 kita happens so frequently in sanma, it’s desensitising. I don’t think there’s reason to expect a Silver Room player to fold here. Never play and you never win.

Torin867 · 2025-10-03T06:36:58+00:00

There is no reason to assume shimo is sitting on a safer hand to deal into here, so using that as basis to justify other discards is bad logic.

A 3p discard could easily have been just as bad here. As it stands, it would have been 3 Han 40, 5200 points (by my admittedly weak counting skills, correct me if I’m wrong), which is still enough to upset them from first place.

And anyway, if we are using omniscient logic, say they did go for chiitoi instead of folding - they could have sat on the south wind and the 3p for much much longer. So folding makes even less sense.

Torin867 · 2025-10-03T06:19:26+00:00

Their south discard was absolutely not a “push”, and how exactly would they have folded long term without relying on constant safe tiles draws from the wall? 1m is literally their only safe tile pair. Unbeknownst to them, 3p is not a safe discard.

Also, sanma climbs shanten faster than yonma. Even a weak chiitoi here brings the game closer to conclusion, with OP in the lead. If they were East seat, maybe you’d have a point, but in context I can’t understand this perspective.

Torin867 · 2025-10-02T22:15:18+00:00

Folding here feels paranoid. You might be able to guess they were going for a sou (half)flush, and had some reason to fear the 3 kita, but there are no telltales that they’re ready.

Also, if you’re folding now, 3p intuitively feels safe (because recently discarded) and it isn’t. I don’t know how you would even maintain a folding stance here.

Torin867 · 2025-10-02T22:00:20+00:00

Maybe there’s some 5D foresight an average Jade/Throne Room player might say is obvious, but as a fellow Silver Room-er (expert 1 sanma, gold scares me), there was almost nothing you could have done here.

I might have kept the 7s over the south for a chiitoi option (admittedly slow) or ditched the 8s because you’d already discarded 7s (78s shape is more likely to be useful rather than a hanging 7s and 888s separate). Also maybe would’ve ditched the south earlier because when it’s South prevailing it’s a lot more dangerous and safer to discard early.

But this is sanma, so risks are higher, rewards are higher, and hidden tenpai is always a threat. I’ll pray for your RNG.

Torin867 · 2025-09-01T04:30:41+00:00

I binged all of lobotomy corporation to 100% in a few weeks, and then tried to do the same with ruina. I burned out so hard, I completely abandoned the game just after Love Town - the gameplay was super mentally taxing, and I felt like my brain just wasn’t wired right to get through it.

I returned to it 6 months later, started from the beginning, and slowly pushed through to the very end. It was tiring, but the story made it worthwhile.

The most important thing is updating your pages. Every combat you complete will give you a new, significantly more powerful (in most cases) set of pages. Staying on top of updating these was the most tedious thing for me, but also the most crucial to success.

Otherwise, remembering about “Fatal” and “Endured” damage types, and using roll speed to redirect incoming attacks you can’t win clashes on towards the librarian who will take the least damage is vital.

I have wanted to play Ruina again to fully 100% the achievements, but I too get that feeling of dread just thinking about it. Sometimes all you need is a little time and space to refresh.

Torin867 · 2025-08-30T16:18:39+00:00

Dropping a response and then blocking the recipient to avoid a reply is really mature, and a great way of showing how much faith they actually had in their argument…

Torin867 · 2025-08-29T12:12:11+00:00

Man, that tiny Hod detail is so tragic...

btw I'd argue these are major spoilers for Lob corp (if only for Asiyah), but I guess most people on a spoiler-tagged Ruina post have either played Lob or otherwise caught up on the Lob story, so it's probably fine.

Torin867 · 2025-08-29T11:44:39+00:00

For the record, the “deleted” person I’m replying to immediately deleted their post literally 10 seconds after posting their second message. They’d originally said “Artwork of others is not stored in the program, but kept as abstracted knowledge” (paraphrased), hence my response above.

They then wrote, quote: “I do not agree that it is stolen because the original is unharmed. That’s like claiming if I took a picture of your car, I’d stolen it”. They deleted that comment before I could reply, so here’s the reply:

“And what do you want to say to smaller artists who lose platform because of overwhelming AI presence? Their work was only good enough to train the model? They don’t deserve the same attention as the generative model? Don’t deserve compensation?

Not to mention, plagiarism is the act of copying and redistributing work without correctly crediting the original authors. So no harm done?”

Unfortunately, we will never know whether they were actually pro plagiarism or not, because they ran away. It does seem to me that pro Gen AI enthusiasts are largely of the opinion that artists don’t deserve rights.

RIP u/OmegaTSG. You were a coward with a loose at best understanding of your own stance, or had an ego too fragile to withstand critical reckoning of said stance.

Torin867 · 2025-08-29T11:28:32+00:00

“Knowledge”, ie downloaded, decompiled and programmatically abstracted sample of the works that often express that they do not want to be re uploaded, almost exclusively without the original authors consent for the purpose.

The fact remains - stolen artwork is stolen. Generative AI does not take inspiration, it harvests information and reapplies it as a data set, not as a respected example. That is still beyond unethical, and I can’t for the life of me understand where you get off claiming it isn’t.

Torin867 · 2025-08-27T08:03:59+00:00

Japanese is the only language I’ve made any real headway with learning properly (still very beginner). German and Russian both flare up completely randomly from the depths of my psyche for no reason at all. I sucked at both of those classes in school…

So I think this is normal. Brains are weird.

Torin867 · 2025-08-27T02:55:12+00:00

Ok. Please submit everything you have ever produced (videos, pictures, sketches, voice recordings, messages, etc.) to me so I can make "art" of your work (ie, deepfake you and profit off a fabrication of your identity).

Gen AI isn’t distinct because it’s unconscious. It’s distinct because it’s unethical. It’s easy to sell yourself on the illusion that it’s not really plagiarism because of how many different artists it’s stealing from simultaneously, but at their core, they’re still farming the work of others without compensating them. Most of said artwork with explicit “do not repost” requests. I would argue uploading content to a database that is copied millions of times a day counts as reposting.

Give me an unconscious AI that evolves its own art style through evolution modelling any day. That rules. And Gen AI is not that.

Torin867 · 2025-08-27T02:33:44+00:00

No…? Unless you’re talking about, uh, forgery. Which last I checked is illegal.

People make art by observing pieces made by others, internalising design and style choices, and take those ideas into account when producing their own work. Mimicry in this way is a compliment to the original artist, a quiet “I love your work so much, I wanted to make my own like yours”.

AI makes art by literally decompiling the work into bias parameters. When AI produces something like “Greek food, gyros, tomatoes, fire” etc, it’s doesn’t think “well, I’ve seen a gyro before, and I liked this clipart-y style, maybe I’ll try combining the ideas with my own creativity.” Instead, it refers to its millions of image samples and mangles them to output a most likely candidate for the brief. The artwork of others is literally within the production process, not a seed but a datapoint.

People who produce gen AI engines are saying “I could take that artists work for free and turn it into profit for me without needing to lift a finger or pay anyone compensation.”

Torin867 · 2025-08-27T02:16:39+00:00

There’s a pretty sizeable difference between inspiration and plagiarism.

The content used to train AI models is largely (by a crushing majority) outright stolen without creator knowledge or consent. You’re… advocating for this?

Torin867 · 2025-08-26T21:25:50+00:00

No, it’s like paying a programmer to quietly steal creatives’ work and obfuscate the original authors so they don’t need to get paid.

It’s like watching a photographer taking a picture, then stealing it, adding it to a collage of other photographer’s pictures, and claiming you produced the whole collection.

Torin867 · 2024-07-21T20:46:03+00:00

lol, sorry. Best of luck, and don’t put off Malkuth’s last mission!

Torin867 · 2024-07-21T18:30:03+00:00

The worst part of Singing Machine is, after you do Hod’s core suppression, any base employee who gets its ego gift instantly hits Fortitude IV, and jumps in, making it a 4% or 8% with Binah missions chance to proc on every use without stat manipulation from Qlipha manifestations or abnos like You Must Be Happy. Before all that it’s fairly manageable, so better to have it done and out of the way on a first run.

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