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The Best Thing About Amazon Was Never Going to Last | If shopping on the site feels different now, that’s because it is

The last handful of paragraphs: The decline of Amazon is closely tied not just to its size but to how it has chosen to grow. Amazon is now less of a store than a mall, or maybe a sprawling bazaar. Last year, nearly 60 percent of units sold on Amazon came from third-party sellers rather than from Amazon itself. Want to set up a booth? There’s a nominal monthly fee to reserve the space. From there, though, the charges add up quickly, according to a report from the ecommerce-intelligence firm Marketplace Pulse. Amazon takes a cut of every transaction, typically about 15 percent. For front-and-center placement, you’d better pay for one of those sponsored slots. According to the FTC, advertised products are 46 times more likely to get clicks. Call it another 15 percent of revenue. Oh, and if you want to qualify for Prime—and if you want any shot of making a sale, you do want to qualify for Prime—you’ll need to use Amazon to fulfill your orders. That’s another 20 to 35 percent off the top. All of a sudden, half of your revenue is in Amazon’s coffers. Amazon itself has reported that all of those fees amount to a big business; the revenue generated from them has tripled since 2017, totaling $117.7 billion last year alone. But although it’s been great for Amazon, it hasn’t been great for consumers. When sellers are nickeled-and-dimed, not a lot of savings are left to pass on to you. Amazon denies that it squeezes its third-party sellers at the expense of shoppers. “The FTC’s allegation that we somehow force sellers to use our optional services is simply not true,” David Zapolsky, Amazon’s general counsel, wrote in a lengthy response to the charges. “Sellers have choices, and many succeed in our store using other logistics services or choosing not to advertise with us.” That is technically true, but in a world where so much of online retail runs through Amazon, choice is an illusion. Dare to offer a cheaper product elsewhere online, and Amazon might bury your listing on its platform. A heavily redacted portion of the FTC suit claims that the company “deploys a sophisticated surveillance network of web crawlers that constantly monitor the internet” for such sellers. (In his response, Zapolsky says that the FTC “has it backwards” and that the company doesn’t “highlight or promote offers that are not competitively priced.”) Of course this is where Amazon wound up. The company spent years sacrificing profit for scale, until it had so many customers that sellers couldn’t ignore it. Now that it extracts billions each month from those sellers, it can afford to ignore those customers—or at least prioritize them less. Amazon gets paid by all of its vendors, no matter which products go in our cart. Shoppers are not privy to any of these machinations while browsing Amazon. We can’t know which third-party sellers have been banished to the shadow realm, or how tightly their margins are squeezed. Even knowing this might not get us far, considering how entrenched Amazon is now in American life. On Monday, I went ahead and bought the Linfairy Kids Child Purple Dye Wig Halloween Costume Cosplay Wave Wig, for $19.88 plus tax. My daughter liked the curls. It’ll be here by Thursday, which is no small relief. After all, it was my only option.

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ICE Lawyers Are Hiding Their Names in Immigration Court

“Judges” I say that in “scare quotes” because they are literally not judges and it is not a court. They are not part of the judicial branch. They are bureaucrats of the ~~administrative~~ Executive branch that started cosplaying a couple decades ago to project an impression of legitimacy and finality.

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lemmynsfw.com has been defederated

the same community (adorableporn) is also on reddit btw with 2.2m subscribers. i have no grand moral opinion on this type of content. for me it is the same as femboy content for example, where people also push for a youthful, girly aesthetic. as long as the content is made by consenting verified adults, i don’t care. it’s like adults cosplaying with japanese school uniforms or calling your partner “mommy” or “daddy”. probably not the best move in terms of sexual morals for sure, in the grand scheme of things tho this is just how people express their sexuality i guess.

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[DCSS] A plant lady cosplays a wolfie for her Demon-God

(DCSS = Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup) Morgue file for those who can read it. Reasons Vine stalkers spread any damage they take between their health and their mana. Losing mana from big damage spikes is horrible on most gods as you need mana to cast your “save me” abilities. Some of the gods don’t care about mana at all but they also give you no incentive to train skills that will raise your mana in the first place. And then there’s Makhleb. Their abilities cost health instead of mana (and their costs take a percentage of your maximum health so frail Vine stalkers are on discount!) and they love high Invocations skill that will bring your mana to respectable levels. To add to this, Vine stalkers have a naturally fast health regeneration so they can spam Makhleb’s abilities more often. How it went So, after brainstorming this build, I wanted to win with it. And, after 3 unsuccessful attempts, I did exactly that. This build has two central points: Unleash Destruction and Antimagic Bite. Unleash Destruction is Makhleb’s ability that costs a fraction of your health and… nothing more! It’s completely spammable - as long as you can survive spamming it of course. And oh just how spammable it is on Vine stalkers! Why fight enemies one by one when you can destroy them with your burning/freezing/draining/corroding hatred? Get your ~~enemies~~ victims in a hallway and shoot your hellish lasers or whatever! As it is a full range penetrating beam, it can manage summoners and the shining eyes very well too. So, while it’s usefulness caps at Shoals and Swamp, it will still be useful all the way to Zot. Antimagic Bite is a Vine stalker’s special. You hit an orc wizard with a swift but weak dagger and they lose half their health and their voice can’t cast the spells anymore for some reason. This is the reason Vine stalkers rule. Naturally, you want to maximize bite’s damage potential by triggering it more - thus the need for a fast weapon. I started this run with an assumption that I will go with short swords and rapiers but the game had its own plans… 8096 | D:9 | Encountered Amaemon Demon whip is no joke. While it’s not as fast as a quick blade it has a higher base damage and it scales with strength which is exactly what we need. Also no “20 skill to reach mindelay” nonsense lmao. And this is a big deal as Vine stalker’s aptitudes aren’t great… take a look at our main skills: Fighting (-1) and Evocations (-1) Armour and Dodging (-2), Shields (-1) Invocations (0) Maces&Flails or Short blades (-1) Sure, it’s not Mummy-level bad but still quite meh. What do you mean “you have 10 Dodging in Crystal armor”?? That’s… that was very important… So anyway, some other stuff this build has or should get online: Infernal Servant: Makhleb’s second ability and a glorious “meh whatever” from me. Demonic friends are nice early on but they don’t scale well into late-game. Wow, a green death?? Well thank you it’s poison will surely help deal with liches and orbs of fire! I HAVE MAX INVO MAKH YOU HAVE NO EXCUSE!!! …If you see a mark that replaces Infernal Servant don’t hesitate you won’t miss it. Marks: while we’re at it, let’s talk marks. Makhleb gives you a choice of three marks once you reach their final rank. Marks can never be rerolled so you’re stuck with what you’re given for the entire run. Here’s my thoughts on the four marks I’ve gained on my attempts: Mark of Atrocity: the obvious. Makes Unleash Destruction extremely strong… and extremely costy. The moment you get it, you must stop spamming it. It proved to be too hard to manage for me so I splattered because of it. Mark of Execution: as if your bite wasn’t enough. You were already great at melee but now you’re a beast. The mark has no downsides too so you can pick it if you’re afraid of others’ costs. Mark of Annihilation: no more demonic friends. And now you have Orb of Destruction with explosions! Pretty nice I’d say. Highly situational as it doesn’t do well with hallways but it can deal with crowds just fine. Mark of Celebrant: what enables the stupid (me) to win. The closest you get to a panic button on Makhleb. If it activates you are in trouble and must figure out how to survive. I won with this one. Lupine talisman: this build rests on two tenets: spend health and hit really fast. Being a werewolf makes you regain your health quickly and stack up a fixed bonus to each of your attacks. C’mon 50 damage per whip’s swing, you don’t wanna? You aren’t even risking much with your Will already being so high. Footwear is overrated anyway… I still hate guardian spirit btw :)

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The Department of Temporal Investigations is on the case

It would make way more sense for Stargate cosplayers to be at a renfaire since every single planet they went to on that series seemed to have villagers at about the renaissance level of technology (gotta wonder, did they have access to a bunch of medieval/renaissance sets for cheap lol?). Of course, if you went as Stargate cosplayers you would have to basically dress up as para military wannabe chuds who’s personalities revolve around owning useless guns (like sword person who is obsessed with swords but way less fun) and being a bigot. People might not even recognize you are in costume and just assume you are a bunch of losers who express their freedom by going to renfaires carrying around murder weapons and dressing in tactical gear. sigh …better to go as the Star Trek cosplayers lol.

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EXCLUSIVE: Naomi Wu and the Silence That Speaks Volumes

She developed a new form of 3D printer for printing extremely long objects. The printer can effectively print a chain forever if given enough filament, as it prints at a 45 degree angle on a belt. Good for cosplay swords, poles, staffs, belts, lamp posts, other long and hard things.

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[DCSS] A plant lady cosplays a wolfie for her Demon-God

(DCSS = Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup) Morgue file for those who can read it. Reasons Vine stalkers spread any damage they take between their health and their mana. Losing mana from big damage spikes is horrible on most gods as you need mana to cast your “save me” abilities. Some of the gods don’t care about mana at all but they also give you no incentive to train skills that will raise your mana in the first place. And then there’s Makhleb. Their abilities cost health instead of mana (and their costs take a percentage of your maximum health so frail Vine stalkers are on discount!) and they love high Invocations skill that will bring your mana to respectable levels. To add to this, Vine stalkers have a naturally fast health regeneration so they can spam Makhleb’s abilities more often. How it went So, after brainstorming this build, I wanted to win with it. And, after 3 unsuccessful attempts, I did exactly that. This build has two central points: Unleash Destruction and Antimagic Bite. Unleash Destruction is Makhleb’s ability that costs a fraction of your health and… nothing more! It’s completely spammable - as long as you can survive spamming it of course. And oh just how spammable it is on Vine stalkers! Why fight enemies one by one when you can destroy them with your burning/freezing/draining/corroding hatred? Get your ~~enemies~~ victims in a hallway and shoot your hellish lasers or whatever! As it is a full range penetrating beam, it can manage summoners and the shining eyes very well too. So, while it’s usefulness caps at Shoals and Swamp, it will still be useful all the way to Zot. Antimagic Bite is a Vine stalker’s special. You hit an orc wizard with a swift but weak dagger and they lose half their health and their voice can’t cast the spells anymore for some reason. This is the reason Vine stalkers rule. Naturally, you want to maximize bite’s damage potential by triggering it more - thus the need for a fast weapon. I started this run with an assumption that I will go with short swords and rapiers but the game had its own plans… 8096 | D:9 | Encountered Amaemon Demon whip is no joke. While it’s not as fast as a quick blade it has a higher base damage and it scales with strength which is exactly what we need. Also no “20 skill to reach mindelay” nonsense lmao. And this is a big deal as Vine stalker’s aptitudes aren’t great… take a look at our main skills: Fighting (-1) and Evocations (-1) Armour and Dodging (-2), Shields (-1) Invocations (0) Maces&Flails or Short blades (-1) Sure, it’s not Mummy-level bad but still quite meh. What do you mean “you have 10 Dodging in Crystal armor”?? That’s… that was very important… So anyway, some other stuff this build has or should get online: Infernal Servant: Makhleb’s second ability and a glorious “meh whatever” from me. Demonic friends are nice early on but they don’t scale well into late-game. Wow, a green death?? Well thank you it’s poison will surely help deal with liches and orbs of fire! I HAVE MAX INVO MAKH YOU HAVE NO EXCUSE!!! …If you see a mark that replaces Infernal Servant don’t hesitate you won’t miss it. Marks: while we’re at it, let’s talk marks. Makhleb gives you a choice of three marks once you reach their final rank. Marks can never be rerolled so you’re stuck with what you’re given for the entire run. Here’s my thoughts on the four marks I’ve gained on my attempts: Mark of Atrocity: the obvious. Makes Unleash Destruction extremely strong… and extremely costy. The moment you get it, you must stop spamming it. It proved to be too hard to manage for me so I splattered because of it. Mark of Execution: as if your bite wasn’t enough. You were already great at melee but now you’re a beast. The mark has no downsides too so you can pick it if you’re afraid of others’ costs. Mark of Annihilation: no more demonic friends. And now you have Orb of Destruction with explosions! Pretty nice I’d say. Highly situational as it doesn’t do well with hallways but it can deal with crowds just fine. Mark of Celebrant: what enables the stupid (me) to win. The closest you get to a panic button on Makhleb. If it activates you are in trouble and must figure out how to survive. I won with this one. Lupine talisman: this build rests on two tenets: spend health and hit really fast. Being a werewolf makes you regain your health quickly and stack up a fixed bonus to each of your attacks. C’mon 50 damage per whip’s swing, you don’t wanna? You aren’t even risking much with your Will already being so high. Footwear is overrated anyway… I still hate guardian spirit btw :)

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male voters

The left wants leftists not conservatives cosplaying as liberals

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I did 500ish invasions over 30 hours in Elden Ring Seamless Co-op. These are my multiplayer insights

Many people have reservations against multiplayer invasions in souls-like games. I wanted to record the kinds of no-mic interactions I have with other players to hopefully encourage more people to try them and to show how active the Seamless Co-op server is. Among the reasons that a person might not do invasions are • Invading is intruding on others free time. I don’t like the idea of violating their play • I have limited free time and don’t want invaders interrupting my experience of the game • People online are mean and will be unpleasant • People on Seamless Co-Op will use cheat engine or other exploits to make the game uneven The following reasons also can also play a role but I don’t think I can collect data that will affect them • People online act in ways that disrupt the artistic vibe of From Software games • I just enjoy soloing stuff. I don’t want help and I’m not sufficiently interested in PvP to use the taunter’s tongue • When co-oping I feel a pressure to not waste the other person’s time, and I often want to just screw about trying to get up to a ledge or similar if I see something interesting • I am aware that co-op has an etiquette that I don’t know and have not taken the time to learn Hopefully with this data I gathered you will be able to see for yourself what Seamless Co-op invasion experiences are like, and it may dispel some conceptions about multiplayer in From Software games. Invasions are a vibrant and complex experience that I think more people may find they can enjoy in a less restricted environment like Seamless. The players: I’ve grouped the largest demographics of invasion encounter types according to how the hosts were playing and whether they seemed to want to be invaded. Co-op Group 1 are players who I conceptualize as the most common type of multiplayer interaction. They probably did not particularly wish to be invaded on their playthrough, but they left the setting turned on that allows invasions. Almost all invasions on standard From Software servers are upon players of this type, but who cannot opt out of the interaction. Co-op Group 2 are players who intentionally express their intent to be invaded or their enjoyment of the experience. I read indications of this through interactions such as dancing/cordial greetings, intricate and creative character cosplays, and use of the Taunter’s Tongue multiplayer item which invites multiple invaders to attack simultaneously Fight Clubs are a spontaneous player-initiated armistice of traditional invasion gameplay where a single host summons multiple invaders who instead of collaborating to kill the host take turns dueling the host or each other in single combat. They are the second most common on standard servers. Solo hosts inviting multiple invaders are rare. It is a single host usually with a high amount of dueling experience seeking to fight as many other players as possible at all times. Group 1-B are co-op players who undeniably did not wish to be invaded and were able to nonverbally communicate so. This takes some effort to accomplish. I feel they deserve their own category since if you don’t want to intrude on people’s playthrough this is the group of players who will expressly ask you not to. Ganks are rare and often misunderstood. They definitively are when a group of 3 or more co-op players invite single invaders to a world with no living enemies to kill them in a 3v1 fight. I’ll be only using this strictest definition for my data because anything less than what I mentioned is standard invasion gameplay and to initiate these on either Seamless or standard servers requires intentional and focused effort Avoidants are players who so expressly did not wish to be invaded that they immediately cease gameplay in order to interrupt it. The methods to do so include closing the game, using various means to kill their character such as leaping off ledges, or simply becoming passive until the invader kills them. In all cases they did not realize Seamless allows you to turn off invasions. I only recorded players as avoidant if they did one of these behaviors without trying to fight back or communicate at all. Factors I tracked separately: they are represented as part of the above groups, but I have tallied them for your consideration •Players using dropped gear: a “soft” exploit that I hear many people do not wish to encounter in multiplayer. I have them tallied for people who consider them an annoyance •Instances of multiplayer jank: gameplay bugs that affected online play. Seamless set out to correct these but one I still encountered was myself or hosts being invisible to other players •Use of cheat engine: a program that hooks on to a video game and alters the code in real-time to perform exploits such as preventing player death or giving bell-summoned ash creatures infinite health. From Software standard servers protect against this but Seamless Co-Op does not Further considerations and connection time Over the course of the 30 hours I logged 2 hours and 26 minutes waiting for matches. However, they all occurred during the night and morning hours 10 pm to 7 am. I didn’t record how much time I spent at what times of day, but I’ll assume most people want to play in the day hours of their time zone. During day hours at time of writing there is no wait to connect to a host. Three things I did not record are times that I connected to a host right as they were • walking into boss fog wall (which ends the match) • times that the connection failed right as I connected • my victories/losses (I’m not posting that, I got my ass beat) The dropped connections could possibly represent players who did not wish to be invaded and were turning off their internet, but I have no way to verify Hopefully if you’ve had reservations about playing Elden Ring online that are rooted in fears about interacting with the community this helps. People are surprisingly receptive to invasion mechanics when they have a way play with their friends and still to opt out. Seamless Co-op also removes the in-game barriers to the world that normally appear during an invasion which also reduces hostility. There are still obviously people who don’t read the settings ini when setting up multiplayer but nothing is preventing you from leaving those people alone if you ever do find yourself in their game. Alternatively if you are the kind of person who would rather fend off invaders and help Tarnished reach their goals in the lands between, this shows there’s never been a better time to get out there and try to protect them from me 😁 Thanks for reading. Thank you to @Skua for your insights and feedback in making this

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Female Despotic Tyrant from the Dominion of Darkness cosplay

This is Joanna Szatecka (Instagram) (photo: Fine Art Wiktor) and her vision of the female Despotic Tyrant player character from my CYOA game Dominion of Darkness - Dark Lord/Lady Simulator: https://adeptus7.itch.io/dominion She is a LARP organizer: https://www.facebook.com/BialyGryfLARPY I thank her very much!

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Do liberals adopt leftist personas to avoid confronting the consequences of liberalism?

I believe it is primarily a result of ignorance and self-denial. At least in the USA, a lot of people went their entire lives unaware that there is any difference between liberals and leftists, and used the labels interchangeably for themselves. Then, at some point along the way, they encountered actual leftists online and were told differently, so rather then confront that they’ve been accepting and perpetuating a falsehood about themselves all this time, they find some “legit” leftist label they can cosplay as instead. Engaging deeper with their new adopted costume label is something that hasn’t happened yet for them.

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Dune

It’s the cheap cosplay guy making a big decision

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LARP Joins Piefed

Aloha Piefed! I have created this community for all things LARP (Live Action Role Play). I’ve been playing Amtgard, a battle fantasy combat LARP game since late 2025. I am from the shire of Skyfire Bay which is a part of the Kingdom of Westmarch. I will be using this community to post about my shire and amtgard but also invite anyone else to post about their cosplays, arts & crafts, battle games, etc. This will be a fun place to nerd out about this hobby. I hope to bring this niche hobby to the fediverse and share and learn from eachother.