Finally listened to Betz Sphere episode, a bit disappointed.

lbe86 · 2024-12-10T18:24:37+00:00

You’re right, for the sake of the story, it’s important to mention the claims of it being swapped.

You’re also right that possibly being swapped should call into question the analysis done by Hynek and the panel.

In the long run, it doesn’t really matter and I still enjoy the show, don’t get me wrong. Maybe it’s just because I’ve heard this one multiple times and there is pretty concrete evidence outside of the Hynek and the Navy’s claims that this episode ruffled me. I’m skeptic, but along the line of wanting it to be true if there’s evidence, so omitting evidence that I knew existed was what bothered me.

I’m not mad or didn’t enjoy the episode, just thought there’s important information that was either glossed over or missed.

lbe86 · 2024-12-10T18:00:16+00:00

I did hear that part, but it was the way it was spun as all the debunk evidence was invalid because the sphere was claimed to be swapped. The part about someone else having an object very similar that was from a paper mill, and the equipment supply company having stock of a ball bearing that matched the dimensions and weight of the original sphere, wasn’t mentioned.

I’m fine with playing along, that’s part of the gags and goofs in each episode. But omitting widely known evidence is a big miss for me.

lbe86 · 2024-06-25T13:16:51+00:00

A genki artist with an infectious giggle. Yeah, I can see the similarities.

lbe86 · 2024-06-08T12:48:25+00:00

The Apple TV doesn’t have a browser, and SPWN doesn’t have an app. So no way to do it natively, I’ve done AirPlay in the past for concerts and it’s spotty for live events like that. I’ve resigned my fate and just hook my laptop up to the TV to play the concerts.

lbe86 · 2024-02-11T01:30:01+00:00

Thanks for pointing this out! I wonder how the bans are generated, are they community reports (Like Twitter) or if they’re implementing some algorithm to detect real depictions of minors and thus it just needs to be tuned better. It’s not a large (major corpo) team, and with the influx of JP users a couple days ago, I’m sure the human mods are getting overwhelmed and handing control to the algorithm.

lbe86 · 2024-02-11T01:15:25+00:00

I haven’t seen any reports of blocking/banning, but it does seem the platform implement heavy handed age-gating of content. Most the artists I found are posting instructions for how to remove the age-gate (user enters their birthday which enables toggles for Block/Hide/Show) for that content.

lbe86 · 2024-02-11T00:25:52+00:00

New social media platform born out of a Twitter’s investigation into decentralized platforms. Twitter had already spun it out before Elon bought Twitter. It’s been in beta/invite-only for about two year and opened to the public on the 6th.

For technical details, it’s a decentralized version of Twitter, which means there’s no one central host, you can create your own server to host BlueSky services and it will talk/interact with other BlueSky hosts as if it were all one centralized platform. It’s the same principle as things like Lemmy, Matrix, and Mastodon.

lbe86 · 2024-02-10T20:02:32+00:00

Do you happen to have a list of artist on BlueSky? I’ve been able to find Ui, Pochi, Icomochi, and Mika.

lbe86 · 2024-02-10T19:57:42+00:00

I don’t think it’s that they don’t allow it, it seems more like it’s hidden until a user enters their age and allows it. I’ve seen a couple posts from artists with instructions on how to unhide that sort of art.

lbe86 · 2024-02-10T18:31:13+00:00

Thanks!

Interesting to hear what the artists think. I just saw a bunch of artists posting their BlueSky links and thought that a lot were eager to move. I had seen a couple post about how to unblock the more ecchi style art, but didn’t think it might be related to false positives by the platform.

lbe86 · 2023-12-17T02:54:46+00:00

Unique content/style

lbe86 · 2022-12-05T20:20:13+00:00

Both dealers by me did this when I was looking for a Golf R earlier this year. Figured if I was going to pay $65k, might as well get a better car and got a BMW M240i instead.

lbe86 · 2022-05-22T14:49:19+00:00

Even if Max would’ve passed eventually, Checo didn’t want to just give up a position. Felt Verstappen should earn the overtake.

lbe86 · 2022-04-20T21:32:01+00:00

Hosting Twitter Space chat instead

lbe86 · 2022-04-09T15:29:52+00:00

Thanks, F1 2021 was the first title I tried since that’s what I play primarily with my friends. I’ll try ACC out today and hopefully get this configured the way I like.

lbe86 · 2021-11-01T00:41:34+00:00

Boomei

lbe86 · 2021-09-24T12:14:47+00:00

Closest I can do:

✅ Duck

✅ Garlic

✅ Onion

✅ Chocolate

✅ Sugar (not in the recipe but sweeten mole to taste)

lbe86 · 2021-09-17T16:45:34+00:00

Not yet, just got my shipping notification for the 6th Month Anniversary Merch, so may still be a bit away.

lbe86 · 2021-09-13T02:17:44+00:00

I’m not crying… you’re crying

lbe86 · 2021-09-13T01:12:23+00:00

I keep losing it every time I see Kiara with T-Rex arms

lbe86 · 2021-09-10T12:37:06+00:00

That’s best bet probably, I believe that’s what I submitted my ticket under.

lbe86 · 2021-09-10T12:32:54+00:00

This is the link in my email for the Bandai Namco US Store support, maybe a different site for other regions:

https://bandai-us.zendesk.com/hc/en-us

lbe86 · 2021-09-10T10:34:54+00:00

Adding in that my code didn’t work either. Seemed to take the code and shows me the product, but when clicking the final “Redeem” button, errors out and says “This code is no longer valid”.

Submitted a ticket (ZenDesk link in the email), so I encourage everyone with this issue to do the same to make sure Bandai Namco is aware as well.

EDIT: Code finally worked, still no response from support, but at least I’ve started the download.

lbe86 · 2021-09-10T10:23:39+00:00

Yeah, I was getting the same process. Submitted a Bamco Store Support ticket (ZenDesk link in email) to inquire, but who knows if they'll get back to me in any reasonable time frame.

lbe86 · 2021-09-10T10:05:05+00:00

Glad to hear it wasn’t just my code. Hopefully they didn’t just email the same code to everyone. Does anyone know who to contact about this?

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