The Kraken Guard

Also me.

... It... Just gives me MaliHoKi ship feels. Which is really unfortunate because the Horned King isn't in the game.

The Horned King finally making it into the valley. And just running up to him *in tears* and *hugging* him. And he wouldn't have a clue why.

But... That... Would honestly genuinely be the mood just with this character alone. Bursting out in tears of joy. And it'd be fitting just based off the premise of the characters forgetting and being forgotten.

But it's... Not even a certainty that he will make it in.

Uh-oh! Dr. N. Tropy is at it again!

Well that sums up the plot for Flight of Dragons!

So we currently have... 14 doors in the castle presently and they lead to different worlds. First row we have: WALL-E, Moana, Ratatouille... Second row we have: Toy Story, Frozen, Lion King... Third row we have: Monsters Inc. Beauty and the Beast, Mulan... Fourth row we have: Lady and the Tramp, Inside Out, Alice in Wonderland, Aladdin, Hercules...

... But then there's these other areas roped off with a total of 16 doors which presently don't go anywhere. So that's 30 doors altogether, just that 16 of them are not in use. Whether they intend on doing anything with them, I don't know! Like, the doors really could mean nothing, because I know we have characters from, like, Tangled(Mother Gothel, Rapunzel and Flynn), and they don't have any doors that lead off into their respective realms.

... But we're looking at, like... 65 Franchises so far -- which yes, the Black Cauldron is featured among them. Among the others that stick out(to me at least) are: Dinosaur, The Great Mouse Detective, and Atlantis.

And, by god they have very little stuff in the game that actually represents those franchises -- both Dinosaur and The Black Cauldron have one piece of furniture that reference the series. And that's the Cauldron itself, and Aladar's egg.

Um... Sleepy Hollow's got the same problem too(one statue of the Headless Horseman).

But... Yeah, like on one hand: the doors really could mean nothing. Because we have characters in the game who's realms aren't represented on these doors(Tangled for instance.)

This game that makes a huge note about Forgetfulness is stressing me out and it's all because they've FORGOTTEN things!!!!

...

...

*A memory stirs in the back of my mind. Visions of flower...*

Nope!

It's Ursula!

As I said before: I'm a Villains Gal, Merlin.

Also me.

... It... Just gives me MaliHoKi ship feels. Which is really unfortunate because the Horned King isn't in the game.

The Horned King finally making it into the valley. And just running up to him *in tears* and *hugging* him. And he wouldn't have a clue why.

But... That... Would honestly genuinely be the mood just with this character alone. Bursting out in tears of joy. And it'd be fitting just based off the premise of the characters forgetting and being forgotten.

But it's... Not even a certainty that he will make it in.

Uh-oh! Dr. N. Tropy is at it again!

Well that sums up the plot for Flight of Dragons!

So we currently have... 14 doors in the castle presently and they lead to different worlds. First row we have: WALL-E, Moana, Ratatouille... Second row we have: Toy Story, Frozen, Lion King... Third row we have: Monsters Inc. Beauty and the Beast, Mulan... Fourth row we have: Lady and the Tramp, Inside Out, Alice in Wonderland, Aladdin, Hercules...

... But then there's these other areas roped off with a total of 16 doors which presently don't go anywhere. So that's 30 doors altogether, just that 16 of them are not in use. Whether they intend on doing anything with them, I don't know! Like, the doors really could mean nothing, because I know we have characters from, like, Tangled(Mother Gothel, Rapunzel and Flynn), and they don't have any doors that lead off into their respective realms.

... But we're looking at, like... 65 Franchises so far -- which yes, the Black Cauldron is featured among them. Among the others that stick out(to me at least) are: Dinosaur, The Great Mouse Detective, and Atlantis.

And, by god they have very little stuff in the game that actually represents those franchises -- both Dinosaur and The Black Cauldron have one piece of furniture that reference the series. And that's the Cauldron itself, and Aladar's egg.

Um... Sleepy Hollow's got the same problem too(one statue of the Headless Horseman).

But... Yeah, like on one hand: the doors really could mean nothing. Because we have characters in the game who's realms aren't represented on these doors(Tangled for instance.)

This game that makes a huge note about Forgetfulness is stressing me out and it's all because they've FORGOTTEN things!!!!

...

...

*A memory stirs in the back of my mind. Visions of flower...*

Nope!

It's Ursula!

As I said before: I'm a Villains Gal, Merlin.

Also me.

... It... Just gives me MaliHoKi ship feels. Which is really unfortunate because the Horned King isn't in the game.

The Horned King finally making it into the valley. And just running up to him *in tears* and *hugging* him. And he wouldn't have a clue why.

But... That... Would honestly genuinely be the mood just with this character alone. Bursting out in tears of joy. And it'd be fitting just based off the premise of the characters forgetting and being forgotten.

But it's... Not even a certainty that he will make it in.

Uh-oh! Dr. N. Tropy is at it again!

Well that sums up the plot for Flight of Dragons!

So we currently have... 14 doors in the castle presently and they lead to different worlds. First row we have: WALL-E, Moana, Ratatouille... Second row we have: Toy Story, Frozen, Lion King... Third row we have: Monsters Inc. Beauty and the Beast, Mulan... Fourth row we have: Lady and the Tramp, Inside Out, Alice in Wonderland, Aladdin, Hercules...

... But then there's these other areas roped off with a total of 16 doors which presently don't go anywhere. So that's 30 doors altogether, just that 16 of them are not in use. Whether they intend on doing anything with them, I don't know! Like, the doors really could mean nothing, because I know we have characters from, like, Tangled(Mother Gothel, Rapunzel and Flynn), and they don't have any doors that lead off into their respective realms.

... But we're looking at, like... 65 Franchises so far -- which yes, the Black Cauldron is featured among them. Among the others that stick out(to me at least) are: Dinosaur, The Great Mouse Detective, and Atlantis.

And, by god they have very little stuff in the game that actually represents those franchises -- both Dinosaur and The Black Cauldron have one piece of furniture that reference the series. And that's the Cauldron itself, and Aladar's egg.

Um... Sleepy Hollow's got the same problem too(one statue of the Headless Horseman).

But... Yeah, like on one hand: the doors really could mean nothing. Because we have characters in the game who's realms aren't represented on these doors(Tangled for instance.)

This game that makes a huge note about Forgetfulness is stressing me out and it's all because they've FORGOTTEN things!!!!

...

...

*A memory stirs in the back of my mind. Visions of flower...*

Nope!

It's Ursula!

Also me.

... It... Just gives me MaliHoKi ship feels. Which is really unfortunate because the Horned King isn't in the game.

The Horned King finally making it into the valley. And just running up to him *in tears* and *hugging* him. And he wouldn't have a clue why.

But... That... Would honestly genuinely be the mood just with this character alone. Bursting out in tears of joy. And it'd be fitting just based off the premise of the characters forgetting and being forgotten.

But it's... Not even a certainty that he will make it in.

Uh-oh! Dr. N. Tropy is at it again!

Well that sums up the plot for Flight of Dragons!

So we currently have... 14 doors in the castle presently and they lead to different worlds. First row we have: WALL-E, Moana, Ratatouille... Second row we have: Toy Story, Frozen, Lion King... Third row we have: Monsters Inc. Beauty and the Beast, Mulan... Fourth row we have: Lady and the Tramp, Inside Out, Alice in Wonderland, Aladdin, Hercules...

... But then there's these other areas roped off with a total of 16 doors which presently don't go anywhere. So that's 30 doors altogether, just that 16 of them are not in use. Whether they intend on doing anything with them, I don't know! Like, the doors really could mean nothing, because I know we have characters from, like, Tangled(Mother Gothel, Rapunzel and Flynn), and they don't have any doors that lead off into their respective realms.

... But we're looking at, like... 65 Franchises so far -- which yes, the Black Cauldron is featured among them. Among the others that stick out(to me at least) are: Dinosaur, The Great Mouse Detective, and Atlantis.

And, by god they have very little stuff in the game that actually represents those franchises -- both Dinosaur and The Black Cauldron have one piece of furniture that reference the series. And that's the Cauldron itself, and Aladar's egg.

Um... Sleepy Hollow's got the same problem too(one statue of the Headless Horseman).

But... Yeah, like on one hand: the doors really could mean nothing. Because we have characters in the game who's realms aren't represented on these doors(Tangled for instance.)

This game that makes a huge note about Forgetfulness is stressing me out and it's all because they've FORGOTTEN things!!!!

...

...

*A memory stirs in the back of my mind. Visions of flower...*

Nope!

It's Ursula!

Also me.

... It... Just gives me MaliHoKi ship feels. Which is really unfortunate because the Horned King isn't in the game.

The Horned King finally making it into the valley. And just running up to him *in tears* and *hugging* him. And he wouldn't have a clue why.

But... That... Would honestly genuinely be the mood just with this character alone. Bursting out in tears of joy. And it'd be fitting just based off the premise of the characters forgetting and being forgotten.

But it's... Not even a certainty that he will make it in.

Uh-oh! Dr. N. Tropy is at it again!

Well that sums up the plot for Flight of Dragons!

So we currently have... 14 doors in the castle presently and they lead to different worlds. First row we have: WALL-E, Moana, Ratatouille... Second row we have: Toy Story, Frozen, Lion King... Third row we have: Monsters Inc. Beauty and the Beast, Mulan... Fourth row we have: Lady and the Tramp, Inside Out, Alice in Wonderland, Aladdin, Hercules...

... But then there's these other areas roped off with a total of 16 doors which presently don't go anywhere. So that's 30 doors altogether, just that 16 of them are not in use. Whether they intend on doing anything with them, I don't know! Like, the doors really could mean nothing, because I know we have characters from, like, Tangled(Mother Gothel, Rapunzel and Flynn), and they don't have any doors that lead off into their respective realms.

... But we're looking at, like... 65 Franchises so far -- which yes, the Black Cauldron is featured among them. Among the others that stick out(to me at least) are: Dinosaur, The Great Mouse Detective, and Atlantis.

And, by god they have very little stuff in the game that actually represents those franchises -- both Dinosaur and The Black Cauldron have one piece of furniture that reference the series. And that's the Cauldron itself, and Aladar's egg.

Um... Sleepy Hollow's got the same problem too(one statue of the Headless Horseman).

But... Yeah, like on one hand: the doors really could mean nothing. Because we have characters in the game who's realms aren't represented on these doors(Tangled for instance.)

This game that makes a huge note about Forgetfulness is stressing me out and it's all because they've FORGOTTEN things!!!!

...

...

*A memory stirs in the back of my mind. Visions of flower...*

Nope!

It's Ursula!

Last week, the Trump administration quietly released a sweeping new federal rule that would use funding threats to force institutions across the country to reject transgender people. The 400-page proposed regulation would codify the administration's anti-trans executive orders into binding federal policy, imposing a blanket prohibition on federal funds going toward "gender ideology"

The proposed rule, formally titled "Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance," rewrites the government-wide framework governing all federal grants across every agency. Among its most consequential provisions, it requires that before a federal grant recipient can receive money, the award must pass a "pre-issuance review" conducted by a political appointee—not a career expert or peer reviewer—to ensure it is "consistent with applicable law, Federal agency priorities, and the national interest." The regulation explicitly instructs these appointees to screen for "denial by the recipient of the sex binary in humans or the notion that sex is a chosen or mutable characteristic." [...] An institution that acknowledges transgender people exist—through its policies, its training, its healthcare, its bathroom access, its HR procedures, its name-change processes—could be deemed to "deny the sex binary" or to “support the notion that sex is mutable” and have its federal funding blocked.

This torches everything. And I do mean everything.

A very abbreviated list of its ramifications include (but are not limited to):

ending funding for ALL DEI related initiatives

allowing the government to terminate grants at any point for any reason

preventing researchers from publishing, going to conferences, and being part of academic societies

requiring that topics must support the president’s agenda.

What this means, and if anything I’m under selling it, is the death of science and research in America. It allows the government to restrict any topic they please at a whims notice, putting officials who have no background in the topic in charge of deciding funding continuity. It controls what gets researched and if/how researchers are allowed to share their discoveries. There are no books to burn if the government never allows them to be written. This is fascism plain and simple.

Also me.

... It... Just gives me MaliHoKi ship feels. Which is really unfortunate because the Horned King isn't in the game.

The Horned King finally making it into the valley. And just running up to him *in tears* and *hugging* him. And he wouldn't have a clue why.

But... That... Would honestly genuinely be the mood just with this character alone. Bursting out in tears of joy. And it'd be fitting just based off the premise of the characters forgetting and being forgotten.

But it's... Not even a certainty that he will make it in.

Uh-oh! Dr. N. Tropy is at it again!

Well that sums up the plot for Flight of Dragons!

So we currently have... 14 doors in the castle presently and they lead to different worlds. First row we have: WALL-E, Moana, Ratatouille... Second row we have: Toy Story, Frozen, Lion King... Third row we have: Monsters Inc. Beauty and the Beast, Mulan... Fourth row we have: Lady and the Tramp, Inside Out, Alice in Wonderland, Aladdin, Hercules...

... But then there's these other areas roped off with a total of 16 doors which presently don't go anywhere. So that's 30 doors altogether, just that 16 of them are not in use. Whether they intend on doing anything with them, I don't know! Like, the doors really could mean nothing, because I know we have characters from, like, Tangled(Mother Gothel, Rapunzel and Flynn), and they don't have any doors that lead off into their respective realms.

... But we're looking at, like... 65 Franchises so far -- which yes, the Black Cauldron is featured among them. Among the others that stick out(to me at least) are: Dinosaur, The Great Mouse Detective, and Atlantis.

And, by god they have very little stuff in the game that actually represents those franchises -- both Dinosaur and The Black Cauldron have one piece of furniture that reference the series. And that's the Cauldron itself, and Aladar's egg.

Um... Sleepy Hollow's got the same problem too(one statue of the Headless Horseman).

But... Yeah, like on one hand: the doors really could mean nothing. Because we have characters in the game who's realms aren't represented on these doors(Tangled for instance.)

This game that makes a huge note about Forgetfulness is stressing me out and it's all because they've FORGOTTEN things!!!!

...

...

1. The court holds Google responsible for statements made by its AI, considering them Google's statements (search engines have limited liability for results in their engine as they're the words of other sites/companies/people), meaning when their AI lies/hallucinates they're liable for the defamation/harm resulting from those statements.

2. Google's defense that customers are generally aware of the lack of reliability and are responsible for fact checking was dismissed. As the court pointed out, that would "significantly diminish" AI Search's stated purpose and it can't be distinguished from Google's business practices/statements as a search tool.

3. Studies have found about 91% of Google's everyday AI responses are accurate, leaving millions of searches per HOUR with potential liability for falsehoods. 56% of correct responses weren't supported by the sources the AI listed. Both of which mean Google is now liable for a LOT more AI "errors."

4. Google was held liable for 80% of court costs in this case and this precedent is expected to reverberate around the world. This is a massive shift from the 3rd-party search provider role Google has previously played and it comes right as they've tied ALL searches to their AI search.

For all the reasons above AND ALSO because this particular lawsuit is a defamation case

Privacy lawsuits are hard because most privacy laws are super super weak, and there's very rarely a lot of money or enforcement backing privacy laws for...twenty million reasons, really...

But defamation suits? Those have teeth.

(In large part because, at least in some countries and including in the US, defamation laws protect public figures the least - and "public figures" legally includes most if not all politicians, and a hell of a lot of other rich ppl too)

A German court has ruled that Google can be held directly liable for false claims made by its AI Overviews, a decision that could put a serious legal dent in the whole “the AI made me do it” defense. According to The Next Web, the Regional Court of Munich issued a temporary injunction after Google’s AI Overviews wrongly tied two Munich publishers to scams, subscription traps, and dubious business practices. The court treated those AI-generated summaries as Google’s own statements, not just ordinary search results pointing to third-party pages. That distinction matters. Search engines have traditionally had more protection because they index and link to other people’s content. AI Overviews changes the machinery. Google is not just showing the web anymore. It is summarizing it, rewriting it, and sometimes apparently hallucinating a tiny legal grenade into the results page.

For years after 9/11 we were constantly told “NEVER FORGET” and the idea was basically “keep feeling sad and afraid and especially ANGRY forever; don’t let time dull your emotional response like it’s naturally supposed to; continue to justify the injustices by feeling this way all the time.” And the 3000 deaths were constantly pointed to as this huge deal that justified any lengths to go to.

And then Covid hit. And there were several points during the height of the pandemic (because fun fact, according to the actual definitions of a pandemic, *it’s not technically over yet!* ) where we were having a 9/11’s worth of deaths every week or so. And suddenly 3000 deaths were not a big deal at all. Instead of being enough reason to go to war far away and strip us at home of many rights too, they weren’t even enough justification to make people wear a damn piece of fabric over their face.

3000 people died once and now the government can legally wiretap anyone without a warrant, and hold people at Gitmo under suspicion of terrorism (no need for due process)… 3000 people dying every week but we should all still be going out to brunch and concerts and who cares about the disabled and immunocompromised?

Also me.

... It... Just gives me MaliHoKi ship feels. Which is really unfortunate because the Horned King isn't in the game.

The Horned King finally making it into the valley. And just running up to him *in tears* and *hugging* him. And he wouldn't have a clue why.

But... That... Would honestly genuinely be the mood just with this character alone. Bursting out in tears of joy. And it'd be fitting just based off the premise of the characters forgetting and being forgotten.

But it's... Not even a certainty that he will make it in.

Uh-oh! Dr. N. Tropy is at it again!

Well that sums up the plot for Flight of Dragons!

So we currently have... 14 doors in the castle presently and they lead to different worlds. First row we have: WALL-E, Moana, Ratatouille... Second row we have: Toy Story, Frozen, Lion King... Third row we have: Monsters Inc. Beauty and the Beast, Mulan... Fourth row we have: Lady and the Tramp, Inside Out, Alice in Wonderland, Aladdin, Hercules...

... But then there's these other areas roped off with a total of 16 doors which presently don't go anywhere. So that's 30 doors altogether, just that 16 of them are not in use. Whether they intend on doing anything with them, I don't know! Like, the doors really could mean nothing, because I know we have characters from, like, Tangled(Mother Gothel, Rapunzel and Flynn), and they don't have any doors that lead off into their respective realms.

... But we're looking at, like... 65 Franchises so far -- which yes, the Black Cauldron is featured among them. Among the others that stick out(to me at least) are: Dinosaur, The Great Mouse Detective, and Atlantis.

And, by god they have very little stuff in the game that actually represents those franchises -- both Dinosaur and The Black Cauldron have one piece of furniture that reference the series. And that's the Cauldron itself, and Aladar's egg.

Um... Sleepy Hollow's got the same problem too(one statue of the Headless Horseman).

But... Yeah, like on one hand: the doors really could mean nothing. Because we have characters in the game who's realms aren't represented on these doors(Tangled for instance.)

This game that makes a huge note about Forgetfulness is stressing me out and it's all because they've FORGOTTEN things!!!!