[GIF of Walter White saying "I won"]

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2 messages from eris "I knew you did it", and "You win 😅"

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ZBB: gotta log in

If you are smart enough to check here for updates on the ZBB, here is an important one: I’ve had to turn off read access for guests and bots. This is because we’re swamped with “guests” at all times, which causes errors for the actual humans reading the board.

I’m open to better solutions, but phpBB doesn’t provide many. These are not actual users, so things like captchas don’t work. There may be some htaccess magic, but someone would have to provide me the exact change needed.

If you want an account just to read, contact me. I’m assuming the signup process is still accessible.

So this is how Newgrounds is apparently handling age verification RE: UK's Online Safety Act.

Their ultimate solution is... unique.

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Regarding age verification, here is our current plan for UK users: 1. If your account is more than ten years old, we will assume you are currently over 18. This is in line with one of the methods of effective age assurance, which involves paying a third party to match your email address against some sort of database of scraped data, which determines if your email has been in use for a long time. We have our own long-term data, so we'll use that instead. 2. If your account ever bought Supporter status with a credit card and we can confirm that with the payment processor, we will assume you are over 18 because you need to be 18 in the UK to have a credit card. 3. If your account ever bought Supporter status more than two years ago, we will assume you are over 18 because you need to be at least 16 to have a Paypal or debit card in the UK (assuming we are right about this). 4. If none of the above applies, you will have the opportunity to pay a small one-time fee via credit card as confirmation of your age. We are not planning to offer things like ID checks or facial recognition because these require us to pay a third party to confirm each person. Because Newgrounds runs at a loss and doesn't monetize users very well, this is not an option for us. As Wired noted, Big Tech is the only winner of the Online Safety Act because smaller websites can't afford to keep up with this sort of regulation.

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so basically the answer is it should be way higher in some of these and some are completely inapplicable

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RE: https://yearning.gay/objects/2e04d570-e481-4d08-b21b-95bf826aaca7

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ukko sitting on a bed wearing a bad copy of ellie's outfit, there's also a small snorlax plushie named daye, tell daye how gorgeous he looks, he's a bit too conscious about his body weight

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OK but to be fair I do this too. Only I want my husband to come and look at how cool the bug is. Maybe that's what your cat is doing.

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