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How To Make A Discord Bot
Once you’ve been on Discord long enough, you’ll encounter a Discord bot. Perhaps 0 T welcomed you to a new server, or booted someone who violated the rules. Maybe 0 T spouted off quotes from Zero Wing whenever anyone typed the word “base.” Some powerful variants of Discord bots have kept users in a given…
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GameStop’s New Discord Haunted By Gamers, Stonk Bros
GameStop decided to meet the gamers where they live today, opening a new Discord server where thousands are coming together under the enriching banner of a video game retailer. The community launched without a filter, as evidenced by a torrent of the n-word flooding chat on Tuesday night. The moment I first peeked into the…
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Discord Blocks All iOS Users From Accessing NSFW Servers
If an iPhone is your main window into Discord’s cacophonous void of yelling gamers, your options just got a lot more limited.
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Discord’s r/WallStreetBets Ban Wasn’t A Conspiracy, Just A Demonstration Of Platforms’ Power
After a wild ride that took it off the tracks and onto the goddamn Rainbow Road from Mario Kart, the GameStop stock train appears to finally be pulling back into the station. People are blaming market manipulation from stock trading apps like Robinhood for this, but they’re also lumping in a name day traders might…