#in app purchase

[skycotl-before-and-after]

If you haven’t received an item you bought, either with game currency or in-app purchase, head to support in the settings menu (the gear that appears when you tap the upper right corner on a touchscreen). There’s a chat icon in the upper right on the support screen. It’ll give you suggestions to push the purchase through. I’ve been waiting on the Mischief Withered Broom over two days and had to open a support ticket. Thankfully the process seems very straightforward. They’ll give you a ticket number (screenshot this just in case), and you can close the support chat and menu without losing the chat.

[fishing-lesbian-catgirl]

There’s a memory I think about regularly. One day in 2010 one of my friends at school, who was notably very popular in our grade, started talking about how he was forced to go with his family to watch Tangled in theaters because of his stupid little sister. He talked about how it sucked and was stupid and all the things you’d expect an 11 year old boy trying to look cool in 2011 to say. But then a while later he invited me to a sleepover at his house, and at like 10 pm he asked if I wanted to watch Tangled, which he had on dvd. I distinctly remembered him saying how much it sucked, and so I was very confused when he asked me, but I also secretly liked the movie when my family saw it in theaters so I said yes. And as the movie played he got really into it and I think he even sang along at some parts.

I think about that occasionally. Two grade school boys who had spent the evening playing games on their ipods and watching dumb YouTube videos, who end up watching a Disney princess movie together. I wonder why he decided to share that with me. I wonder what other girly things he might’ve lied about hating.

[cobra-creampuff]

the fact that they made it illegal to make ads louder than programs on tv in 2010 but haven't updated it to apply the same regulation to streaming. who do i have to call.

[thsc-confessions]

"do you think that henry would be a gacha game player" submitted by anon

[bonetrix-arts]

Still at the con but I just handed off these lil fellas to the drawfee crew :3

I considered doing all drawtectives but then I was like "but Luce though" so I pivoted. And you KNOW I had to include a rhino on Grendan's ;3

I also gave them this lil sketch

I'll have to post the print I made for Karina when I get back to my tablet hehehe

I'm so glad I came!!!!!!!! The panel was an absolute delight, I WILL be doodling some of the freaks presented in it later for sure.

I also got a couple of the gacha pulls, no Luce tho.... I will try again 💪💪💪

I need to go back anyways cuz I was shaking so much I forgot to have them sign the thing I brought. But it's fine because I got one of the risos >:3

[valentineramsey]

i just woke up and found out that the 100 💎 per day is GONE?! I AM DEVASTATED. PB really thought we wouldn't watch 100 ads for diamonds, well they underestimated how broke we are. Anyways, it was good until it lasted (I hope they'll bring it back)

[daisiesonafield-blog]

Don’t use Temu!

[square-enix]

if i ran the app store i’d make it mandatory for apps with “premium” features to accurately disclose what those features are, how much they cost, and whether they’re one-time or recurring payments on their store page. look potential users in the eyes and tell them you’re charging $18/month to unlock more than one alarm in your alarm clock app

[tangledinink]

clenches fist. finally sucked it up and ordered a new ipad...

[girderednerve]

Low quality books that appear to be AI generated are making their way into public libraries via their digital catalogs, forcing librarians who are already understaffed to either sort through a functionally infinite number of books to determine what is written by humans and what is generated by AI, or to spend taxpayer dollars to provide patrons with information they don’t realize is AI-generated.

With Hoopla, librarians have to opt into Hoopla’s entire catalog, then pay for whatever their customers choose to borrow from that catalog. The only way librarians can limit what Hoopla books their customers can borrow is by setting a limit on the price of books. For example, a library can use Hoopla but make it so their customers can only borrow books that cost the library $5 per use.

“Investigating these authors, their book covers, their social media, etc takes A LOT OF TIME, especially with the volume of questionable material increasing month to month (and that's not including the sheer amount of legitimate books published each month in adult fiction that I'm looking at),” one librarian who asked to remain anonymous so she could talk openly about her job, told me. “Is it the best use of my time doing this work on top of my other duties when customers may or may not care? And with the rising multitudes of AI generated content, will there come a point where it just ‘is what it is?’”

This type of low quality, AI generated content, is what we at 404 Media and others have come to call AI slop. Librarians, whose job it is in part to curate what books their community can access, have been dealing with similar problems in the publishing industry for years, and have a different name for it: vendor slurry. While the term now encompasses what seems like AI-generated content as well, it predates the rise of generative AI, and also refers to the glut of low quality, often self-published ebooks or book “summaries” that are common on Hoopla. As some librarians told me, the sheer quantity of books in Hoopla’s service makes it seem more valuable because it offers such a large number of books, but in reality that number is misleadingly inflated by this slurry.

Several of the librarians I talked to said that they are worried about discussing [the problems raised by Hoopla's weak, unclear selection policies, including the 2022 inclusion of explicitly white nationalist texts,] because of the growing hostility towards libraries and groups like Moms for Liberty demanding that books about LGBTQ rights, race, and ethnicity be removed from libraries. One the one hand, librarians want to curate their collections and make sure their patrons are getting access to quality information. On the other hand, they don’t want people to think that they are trying to censor what materials patrons can access in way that’s comparable to what organizations like Moms for Liberty want. None of the librarians I talked to suggested the AI-generated content needed to be banned from Hoopla and libraries only because it is AI-generated. It might have its place, but it needs to be clearly labeled, and more importantly, provide borrowers with quality information.

[bunny-bunny-boing-boing]

your daily dose of gratitude: pikmin bloom doesn’t have ads

[daincrediblegg]

Fucking god I hate ea

[heavens-secret]

So let me get this straight, RC FINALLY releases a Lucifer card… and I can’t even purchase it? I have to die an agonizingly slow death at the hands of the wheel or spend hundreds of dollars *trying* to get it? Do I have that right?

[swinging-stars-from-satellites]

my bank's app not consistently listing purchases chronologically is my villain origin story

[flutterbyfairy]

add me on animal crossing pocket camp: complete if you're playing it! you add people by going to the "cards" section and then scanning or uploading someones QR code.

[image description: the front and back of my 'camper card' from animal crossing pocket camp: complete, which is pink and on the front shows my character standing with fauna (a deer animal crossing character), and on the back shows a QR code. end description.]

[fictional-worlds-are-exquisite]

here to be ignorant but how much are you possibly spending on the google play store that results in this being necessary