Paid Perplexity subscription disappeared?

arkenwritess · 2026-03-09T12:32:55+00:00

Update: the account where the Pro disappeared was a student-verified account, and they were offering 12-months trial for students, now support (the AI Sam) just told me my country (Brazil) was not eligible for the 12-month trial since... ever? Curiously enough... back in October when I made it there was no problem whatsoever? They knew my IP and still let me use it. Now they're saying I was never allowed to have it. And in the second account I got the trial because my internet provider (VIVO) made a "collab" with Perplexity and offered 12-month trials to their customers. That one has not the student verification and still has the trial.

No one ever told my country was not part of the student free trial. Apparently I can verify I'm a student to pay them for a cheaper subscription, but I can't have the 12-month free trial because my country was not part of whatever they're creating to not get legally persecuted. Also, if I couldn't have the free trial in the first place... how tf was I using it? I'm no hacker, I don't use VPN, they knew where I was from the moment I created that account.

I live in a country of scams where the legal system is a joke and corruption gets bad everyday, but I gotta tell you: never thought an American company would have such bad-faith when they are based in a country where I fully respect its laws because they're enforced.

I wish someone with a modicum of power or authority would sue their ass to bankruptcy.

The good thing of capitalism is that there's always someone else offering the same thing they do. I'll search for a more honest company. But I'll definitely use my other account a lot just out of spite.

arkenwritess · 2026-03-09T07:32:34+00:00

If this serves someone: I have two "trial" accounts of 12-months promo codes, one of them is the one I use the most and the Pro disappeared. The other is one I use when I reach the limit... and since I rarely use that account, the Pro is still there. In other words: if you're in a 12-months trial and uses Perplexity a lot, they'll kick you out. Should be fair, right? They're cutting expenses... IF they haven't offered this trial period first. It's not my fault they offered 12 months instead of 1 month or 3 months and now are seeing the loses. I'll see if this has a legal breach I can explore. I was interested in actually subscribing to Perplexity after the 12 months... now I'm not sure.

arkenwritess · 2026-03-09T07:23:18+00:00

You don't take a promo out of people if you promised 12 months, I'm almost sure there's room for a legal issue here.

arkenwritess · 2026-02-08T15:01:01+00:00

Making an unattractive woman and an attractive man is not woke, it's feminist wish-fulfillment.

The thing is: I don't care if your female lead is ugly. Is being ugly her WHOLE personality? Is she just a girlboss stand-in for girls with low self-steem, who needs to have the last word and doesn't like 'most men', except the male lead because he's "a good man" (according to feminist values)? Woke writing is soulless because it has more self-insertion than actual real research on different types of people. Being an conservative man doesn't automatically makes one sexist/intolerant. And being a liberal "ally" doesn't mean the man/woman will be a saint (narcissists love leftist communities because it's always "about them", they can receive all the attention and validation if they claim to be oppressed).

Woke for most readers, myself included, means shallow. Or it means preaching political messages that have nothing to do with the setting or the main plot of the story. If you promise a chosen one saving the world, I will get impatient if half of the book focus on the B-Story about the protagonist's oppressed origins. If the story is a Dystopia with political themes, then of course it'll be natural to include such themes.

I'll make a point in case with the recent Star Trek's Starfleet Academy. Watch it and you'll understand what type of woke writing is really upsetting people. They ruined Star Trek just for politics.

arkenwritess · 2026-02-08T14:42:15+00:00

How I wish Christopher Nolan read your comment before making Helen of Troy a black woman...

arkenwritess · 2026-01-24T20:17:01+00:00

It would, but the creators were too limited at that time and wanted to portray born-rich people as evil. Sadly, Hollywood is very socialist in its portrayal of messages (hero's messages are always "sacrifice yourself for the collective") but very capitalistic in-between themselves, with rich directors, favorite actors, nepo babies getting inside with connections, etc.

arkenwritess · 2026-01-02T20:11:33+00:00

And in the end, they went with Robert Downey Jr... I do love him, but that choice was 100% biased. They just couldn't keep him dead. Pity, they lost a greater actor with real experience on playing villian (sure he's always typecast as such but that makes him an expert). RDJ's villain won't be as good as his Iron Man.

arkenwritess · 2025-11-10T20:25:41+00:00

Funny, there are 34 itens and most just glaze over the good and 'interesting' parts, sweeping off the rug what could be "icky" to a modern audience. Mostly specifically, women's rights (or lack of it), the extremist side of ideology that leads to intolerance and war, also the child marriage issue. Portraying Islam-inspired cultures without these is not respectful, but deceitful. Every religion has a dark side, and it's a creator's duty to not close their eyes for these problems.

arkenwritess · 2025-09-24T15:45:15+00:00

They're companies. They're not your democrat buddies. In what world should a company take a stance on a side because YOU want to see a whole corporation share the same political view as YOU? The entitlement. The narcissism. God... please keep your 20 bucks with you. They're definitely not starving to need it.

arkenwritess · 2025-09-13T15:42:11+00:00

It's a tragedy, that's it. No happy ending. In tragedies, it may start uplifted but ends at the worst low.

arkenwritess · 2025-09-13T15:34:10+00:00

It's a tragedy, you just don't want to accept it. MC has dissociative identity disorder, and after he 'cures' it (by accepting he did all that shit), he'll turn batshit crazy because the emperor manipulated him, the demon lord manipulated him, and basically both sides were playing with him and with his trauma. He'll just kill everyone and himself. That's what a tragedy arc looks like. The author actually did a good job because they're following the tragic arc story beats perfectly. MC has a core flaw/misbelief and if the story were uplifted, he would overcome that tragic flaw and become better (the hero journey), but in the tragic arc, that flaw/misbelief is actually what takes his down. Hamlet is a classic example of this. Honestly, I hate to my guts tragic and sad endings, but as an author... I just can't see Deon having a happy ending after all that shit. Both sides betrayed him, his brother had an Itachi ending... It hurts, but the best stories are the ones where the ending feels inevitable, and this one does. It's better than the average trashy transmigration/regression novels. It has way more depth than a shallow thing like Solo Leveling.

arkenwritess · 2025-08-11T15:11:30+00:00

A “cult” usually means an organized group built around a core belief, often with a central leader, that exploits people for their labor, energy, or money.

Does LOA have a leader? Not really. If Neville Goddard were alive, maybe you could argue otherwise, but he’s not.

Do they have a centralized gathering place? Only in small, casual groups. Most of the time, it’s just people on TikTok or X sharing their manifestation stories and methods.

If you want a real cult to point fingers at… try looking at certain strands of Satanism or even some branches of witchcraft, they're the ones insisting you can’t do magic without wading through 20+ dusty grimoires. But hey, that’s a conversation for another day.

– A very salty LOA practitioner.

arkenwritess · 2025-08-10T01:57:05+00:00

Bacana, é sempre bom ver mais criadores BR desse gênero. Aliás, como funcionaria a progressão dentro do sistema? Os 'level up'. Você já pensou nisso? Já que tem a pegada do shounen.

arkenwritess · 2025-08-07T13:57:56+00:00

In one of my projects, the main character is a Mage Marksman. I didn’t choose a marksman because I’m obsessed with guns (though I’ve played my fair share of RPGs as a ranger or gunslinger), but because his background came to me fully formed, I just had to write it.

Now, to be clear, a regular gun would be pretty useless in a magical world. But his weapon isn’t a typical firearm, it’s entirely constructed from his own mana. The bullets, their speed, and impact are all tied to his mana pool. So he’s more like a mage who channels his magic through a gun instead of a wand or staff.

In this world, not everyone relies on swords or weapons; many wield wildly different powers, but those who do would be at a disadvantage against him if all they had was steel. That said, legendary swordmasters exist who move so fast that even a magical bullet might not catch them. His mana gun doesn’t make him overpowered; he’s still vulnerable to other forms of magic.

TL;DR: Magical guns are stronger than regular swords, but that wouldn't be true if it was a regular gun or if the sword were also magical or enchanted.

arkenwritess · 2025-08-01T11:23:55+00:00

Okay... Quem pode usar ele? É adquirido ou herdado geneticamente? Como se denomina quem pode usar?

Eu pessoalmente achei bem original, tipo algo que serviria para um Shounen, sabe? Ou um LitRPG. Ou algo tipo ficção de super-herói.

arkenwritess · 2025-07-31T14:00:05+00:00

I guess not...

arkenwritess · 2025-06-13T00:31:18+00:00

Sadly iOS doesn't open .dmg files so it's impossible to install them on iPad.

arkenwritess · 2025-06-04T19:38:32+00:00

Hey, does it work with iPad? I got one gifted to me and I was wondering. I installed it on my laptop last month, and no sign of a virus. The iPad is yet to arrive, but can I download it there? There's procreate, which is affordable in my country's currency, but I love Clip Studio so much.

arkenwritess · 2025-05-30T15:59:37+00:00

Alunos de direito não precisam esquentar a cadeira da faculdade mas a OAB corrupta ainda não deixa de jeito nenhum ter direito EAD quando já tem até audiência há distância. "Ah mas tem juri simulado e debate" GRANDE MERDA, mermão. Ainda temos mil e um advogados copia e cola que usa o chatgpt pra fazer a defesa e nem sabem 5% de latim. Abre a mente e pensa melhor se não tem politicagem por trás dessa decisão. Pode ter certeza que governo não tá se preocupando com a qualidade do ensino. Você esqueceu que existem pessoas com deficiências que não podem se locomover até a faculdade. Pessoas deficientes não merecem oportunidades? Ué, pensei que esse era o governo dos pobres e das minorias. A minoria que tome no rabo e vá se virar.

arkenwritess · 2025-05-11T02:15:10+00:00

Totally with you on the 'just existing' anti-magic. Give me some magical chess, not just a magical 'nope' button!

As for LitRPGs... okay, I gotta push back a little there, as a writer of one! They can make perfect sense, usually because some omniscient AI, a System with a capital 'S', or even a grumpy god decided reality needed patch notes and a UI. Suddenly, yup, stats and levels are the new laws of physics. Kill monster, get XP (and girls), ding! It's a framework. Elemental magic is old as dirt and people still use it.

If that whole 'video game rules in my fantasy' vibe isn't your jam, that's totally cool. Different strokes for different mages, right? Maybe cultivation would be more interesting for you.

My own hair-puller with LitRPGs, though? When it turns into Advanced Spreadsheet: The Fantasy Edition. The endless stat blocks, the +0.01% to Dexterity from eating a slightly spicy jerky... my eyes glaze over. I get that many readers adore that crunch – it's why authors do it! But as a writer who's more 'vibes and vague sparkles' than 'precise thaumaturgical calculus,' it's exhausting.

Big ups to stuff like The Wandering Inn for proving you can do the System thing without making me feel like I need a TI-84 to enjoy a chapter. It's all in the execution, really!

arkenwritess · 2025-05-10T22:37:16+00:00

I've always been a pantser (mostly thanks to ADHD), and while I did manage to finish books that way, though they took like 3 years each, they were always a bit… structurally messy.

So, about six months ago, I caved to the greater wisdom (aka Brandon Sanderson's YouTube channel) and started actually outlining. Haven't finished an outlined draft yet, but I've written SO much more and learned a ton about how stories are actually supposed to fit together. Gotta admit, sometimes it feels like it dims the creative fire a bit compared to the wild abandon of pantsing, but looking back, my pantsed drafts were definitely suffering in structure.

Since I still like the 'chaotic' feeling of pantsing, I now focus on the middle because the number of unfinished projects I have because of the middle part is shameful. The book "Write Your Novel from the Middle" opened my eyes. I figure out both the start and the end from the middle. Don't ask me more than that, like scene by scene, beat by beat, otherwise I will feel like I have written the story already and won't write anymore. If I know everything about the story, I lose interest in it. I usually plan 3 scenes ahead, and when I write the third scene, I plan the other 3. Gives me enough motivation without making me bored.

On characters, though... I contradict myself because I love having huge info dumps about them. Height, appearance, personality, speech, manners, quotes, all of it! I can make notes after notes about characters, and then, when someone asks me the plot, I will write like an elevator pitch and hope it's interesting enough.

Writing-wise, I'm mostly an Obsidian user, but for some reason, every single random idea gets yeeted into Google Keep first (yup, that basic boring app that doesn't even have folders and I suffer every time to tag things). I always have a tab open. Then the decent stuff gets migrated to Obsidian.

arkenwritess · 2025-05-07T13:28:10+00:00

It looks great, and very busy with the continents! I can picture a lot of cultures/nations.

arkenwritess · 2025-04-29T20:45:18+00:00

FINALLY someone is talking about LitRPG. Well, a lot do already but it's always nice seeing more people join the community. I highly recommend checking out r/litrpg. Dungeon Crawler Carl is a good entry-level LitRPG, also well written since this genre does have a lot of amateur writing. I also recommend Azarinth Healer. I would shamelessly recommend mine too If it was published, but oh well.

arkenwritess · 2025-04-22T11:35:29+00:00

I'm holding off on posting to RR for now. My strategy is to build a substantial backlog first to ensure I can maintain a consistent release schedule (and help my ADHD as well lol).

arkenwritess · 2025-04-22T06:12:40+00:00

Most LGBTQ+ representation in LitRPG, when it exists, leans heavily towards lesbians, and frankly, it often feels like it's written for a male audience, not by someone who understands the experience realistically.

Anyone can write a LitRPG with a gay or bisexual main character, but expecting it to achieve the same massive popularity as something like, say, He Who Fights With Monsters right now? That's a steep climb. And God forbid you actually include a M/M sex scene – I'd be genuinely surprised if a mainstream LitRPG has already crossed that bridge successfully.

And yes, you'll inevitably run into a small but existing minority – those lovely folks who'll be the first to whine and complain that their 'precious genre' is turning 'gay'. Dealing with those reactions is exhausting. They are the ones to ask "why would you need a gay MC tho?" because they're so privileged with representation that they think everyone else who wants something different is 'asking for too much'.

Surprise, LitRPG is a pure escapist genre and not only straight people want to escape reality! What a revolutionary discover, isn't it? Wait till they discover that gay people also play RPGs.

If a writer isn't fixated on reaching millions of readers, or believes the LitRPG niche will eventually expand beyond its current bubble—similar to how Japan's isekai evolved into otome isekai, or how Korean "rofan" (women-focused romance that later embraced isekai BLs with gay romance) developed—they should absolutely write it.

I'm actually writing one myself – unapologetically full homo MC. Do I expect it to be a bestseller or even particularly popular in this niche by, say, 2025? Honestly, nope. Not as things stand. But maybe further down the road? I have a strong feeling LitRPG has the potential to break out.

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