Would allowing my 15-year-old daughter to visit her mom who will be in jail for 7 months for check fraud be a bad idea even if they have a good relati

Agema

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The Escapist's main site, YouTube and Discord may have been gathering steam these past two years, but the forums are about as bare as they have been for years.

There's like one or two new members that signed up and actually post since April 2020? Don't get me wrong, this place is a good enough haunt for the 20-30 or so regular people who have been coming to the Escapist for a decade or so now, but it's just a back chamber on the internet.
I think a lot of people don't really use discussion boards like they used to - mass social media like Twitter and individual comments sections to individual items have become the favoured media for internet screaming matches debate. We're here because we're a bit older and fustier, when all the kids are doing their thing with emojis and 280 characters.
 

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I saw some guy said his multi-million dollar NFT collection was stolen, and my first thought was it was an insurance scam to try to cash out.
I thought part of the point of the scam is that the worthless chunk of code is unstealable.
 

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I thought part of the point of the scam is that the worthless chunk of code is unstealable.
I think they're like cryptocurrency, in that they're just bearer bonds. Whoever physically holds them, owns them. So I assume someone used a flashdrive and just transferred the NFT file itself off their computer, and just has the file now, and owns it.
But that's assuming these files were really stolen, and its not just an insurance scam, which is what I suspect.
 

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The mods probably just left the thread here because there isn't anything objectionable in the content (other than dirty robotic lies) and people have been discussing it.
Interesting. Usually the thread disappears along with the bot being banned. But as ya say, folk are discussing in here, so it probably makes sense to keep it this time around
 

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Why do bots seem to live such complicated lives?
They are trying to learn how to become human. The first big bot clue though is right in the title, as even the most base humans typically make actual thread titles.

But in any case, it’s probably best not to give them too much attention. Abandon thread! Abandon thread!!
 
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They are trying to learn how to become human. The first big bot clue though is right in the title, as even the most base humans typically make actual thread titles.
The thread title kind of reminds me of shitty manga or anime with one of those ridiculously long titles, usually of the trope-ridden isekai trash variety.

Huh, wonder if that means those were actually written by bots. Most of them are so interchangeable, they might as well be.
 

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Sakigake!! As Long as There's Love, It Doesn't Matter If He Is My Onii-chan, (Right)?
Pfff, get outta here with that, those are rookie numebers. Try this one for size:

Wakamono no Kuro Mahou Hanare ga Shinkoku desu ga, Shuushoku shite Mitara Taiguu Iishi, Shachou mo Tsukaima mo Kawaikute Saikou desu!,Wakamono no Kuro Mahoubanare ga Shinkoku desu ga, Shuushoku shite Mitara Taiguu Iishi, Shachou mo Tsukaima mo Kawaikute Saikou desu!

Translates to: Though Young People Recoil From Entering The Black Magic Industry, I Found Its Treatment Of Employees Quite Good When I Entered It, And The President And Familiar Are Cute Too So Everything Is Awesome

Don't bother looking it up, it's garbage.
 

Mister Mumbler

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Pfff, get outta here with that, those are rookie numebers. Try this one for size:

Wakamono no Kuro Mahou Hanare ga Shinkoku desu ga, Shuushoku shite Mitara Taiguu Iishi, Shachou mo Tsukaima mo Kawaikute Saikou desu!,Wakamono no Kuro Mahoubanare ga Shinkoku desu ga, Shuushoku shite Mitara Taiguu Iishi, Shachou mo Tsukaima mo Kawaikute Saikou desu!

Translates to: Though Young People Recoil From Entering The Black Magic Industry, I Found Its Treatment Of Employees Quite Good When I Entered It, And The President And Familiar Are Cute Too So Everything Is Awesome

Don't bother looking it up, it's garbage.
I mean, you don't need to look it up, the plot outline is right there on the cover.
 
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The thread title kind of reminds me of shitty manga or anime with one of those ridiculously long titles
That naming trend needs to go back into whatever hole it came out of...

I mean, you don't need to look it up, the plot outline is right there on the cover.
That's probably the best part of these. You can either get the entire plot right away, or in the case of 'Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?' you can just answer them like the question they're framed as with a simple yes/no response. Boom, done, don't need to watch it