I’m not trying to exonerate them of any blame

I’m not trying to exonerate them of any blame, I’m just saying “knowingly” implies a human looking at something and making a decision as opposed to a machine making a mistake.

So now we know that Brandshield is knowingly making false accusations that have potentially serious consequences for their victims.

They said their platform is “AI driven” which could very easily imply this was an automated process with no human making a decision. It’s still bad, but a different kind of bad than “knowingly” making a decision.

Those subdomains are not managed or controlled by the registrar

I might be getting the terminology wrong, I’ve not had to work too closely with the specifics of subdomains in my career, lol. But you can definitely have blah.itch.io points to a different IP than itch.io and that’s done through DNS. So if they suspected blah.itch.io to be a phishing site imitating Funko’s site, it makes sense that they’d report it to the people controlling that.

And yeah, it looks like Itch does use sub domains for user pages instead of URL paths. https://xk.itch.io/ So if some user’s page was trying to imitate Funk’s site then I could see this line of thought. I’d need to see the page that was supposedly imitating and what it was imitating to really make a judgement call though.

I have a theory that what we refer to as retro doesn’t advance by a year every year. In the same way words like “antique” and “vintage” bring about specific time periods and aesthetics, “retro” does as well. I’m just pulling a number out of my ass here, but say it’s like every three years that go by one year is added to what we call retro. That would mean it would take 15 years from the time we begin viewing SNES as retro to view PS1 as retro because they were released five years apart. So, if we say PS1 is retro now, that would mean we began to view SNES as retro in 2009. This sounds right, maybe? It’s hard to put myself back in that time period, but I definitely would’ve called NES games retro in 2009, but SNES it’s harder to say.

This methodology is flawed because of “retro” is tied to an aesthetic or time period then at some point nothing new will ever be considered “retro” and we’d eventually begin using a different term to refer to things from later.

A good example is “oldies” on the Radio. Nothing newer is really entering the group of songs we consider oldies.

How does “I’m not sure if it was planted” equate with suggesting evidence was planted? It feels like a linguistic stretch.

It’s a common misunderstanding, sadly. Here’s a Wikipedia article on a relevant supreme court case. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_v._Johnson

Talk about burying the lede!

Hey, so if BrandShield is being honest, what’s Itch’s registrar? What do they have to say? 🍿 This keeps getting deeper.

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Makes me wonder if the report was for something like itch.io/blah but it took the whole site down. If they’re not being dishonest, I could see going to registrar about a site imitating to be yours for phishing.

Funko still deserves some flak for, at least, using an automated tool (or a setting) that is so insanely aggressive. Maybe the registrar holds some blame too.

An easy shorthand is to treat it like the word female. “A queer” and “queers” is offensive, “queer people” is not.

It was so much better than I thought it was going to be.

I watched The Substance via streaming alone on my birthday night because my wife and partner aren’t into body horror. I loved it! It was really good. Definitely one of the better movies I’ve seen this year.

By leaving your answer as the first comment it still sets an example for people who find the thread. It also prevents top level comments from being responses to your opinion instead of answers to your question. As it stands, many of the top level comments here are about what qualifies as gangsta instead of what makes them cringe.

Go back to Reddit.

This made me cringe.

What’s wrong with liking feet?

As someone who is queer and knows queer people who use the word queer to identify themselves, many people use it as a form of shorthand to mean some variety of LGBTQ without going into more detail.

OP putting their answer in the body instead of as the first comment.

Reuters has previously reported that Trump is planning to kill a $7,500 consumer tax credit for electric vehicle purchases

Noooo! My friends just bought EVs and they’re gonna be so smug if I don’t get the credit!

One of my top artists is “Ape Escape”, which is apparently the artist for the first Ape Escape game’s soundtrack. You wanna know what the AI podcast said it’s genre was? Italian Synth pop.