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Arianne ([personal profile] phibby) wrote in [community profile] colors_tcg2025-08-26 03:49 am

Lady Luck Slots 225



Come on down to the Lady Luck Slots, where every spin's a winner! The better the match, the better your prize!

Roll up, roll up! )

This round ends Monday, September 1, 2025.
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Arianne ([personal profile] phibby) wrote in [community profile] colors_tcg2025-08-26 03:32 am

Switch It Up 274

Out with the old, in with the new! )

The new week will start on Monday, September 1, 2025, and this round will close on Monday, September 8, 2025.

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Arianne ([personal profile] phibby) wrote in [community profile] colors_tcg2025-08-26 03:27 am

Coloring Book 362


Art by Moon!

What are we coloring this time? )

The new week will start on Monday, September 1, 2025, and this round will close on Monday, September 8, 2025.
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Arianne ([personal profile] phibby) wrote in [community profile] colors_tcg2025-08-26 02:25 am

Seiyuu Guess 720

Last week's answer was Meimi Haneoka from Kaitou Saint Tail, voiced by Tomo Sakurai! (RIP)



Hello everyone, and welcome back to Seiyuu Guess! Our host for this game is Shizuka, a rookie seiyuu who's still learning the tricks of the trade! She's been provided with a description, image, and clip of a certain character, and it's up to you to help her figure out who voices them.

Who do we have this week? )


Tell Shizuka both characters' names, both of their seiyuu, and what series they're from for thirty random cards and a random crayon!

This round ends Monday, September 1, 2025.
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Denise ([staff profile] denise) wrote in [site community profile] dw_news2025-08-26 12:24 am

Mississippi legal challenge: beginning 1 September, we will need to geoblock Mississippi IPs

I'll start with the tl;dr summary to make sure everyone sees it and then explain further: As of September 1, we will temporarily be forced to block access to Dreamwidth from all IP addresses that geolocate to Mississippi for legal reasons. This block will need to continue until we either win the legal case entirely, or the district court issues another injunction preventing Mississippi from enforcing their social media age verification and parental consent law against us.

Mississippi residents, we are so, so sorry. We really don't want to do this, but the legal fight we and Netchoice have been fighting for you had a temporary setback last week. We genuinely and honestly believe that we're going to win it in the end, but the Fifth Circuit appellate court said that the district judge was wrong to issue the preliminary injunction back in June that would have maintained the status quo and prevented the state from enforcing the law requiring any social media website (which is very broadly defined, and which we definitely qualify as) to deanonymize and age-verify all users and obtain parental permission from the parent of anyone under 18 who wants to open an account.

Netchoice took that appellate ruling up to the Supreme Court, who declined to overrule the Fifth Circuit with no explanation -- except for Justice Kavanaugh agreeing that we are likely to win the fight in the end, but saying that it's no big deal to let the state enforce the law in the meantime.

Needless to say, it's a big deal to let the state enforce the law in the meantime. The Mississippi law is a breathtaking state overreach: it forces us to verify the identity and age of every person who accesses Dreamwidth from the state of Mississippi and determine who's under the age of 18 by collecting identity documents, to save that highly personal and sensitive information, and then to obtain a permission slip from those users' parents to allow them to finish creating an account. It also forces us to change our moderation policies and stop anyone under 18 from accessing a wide variety of legal and beneficial speech because the state of Mississippi doesn't like it -- which, given the way Dreamwidth works, would mean blocking people from talking about those things at all. (And if you think you know exactly what kind of content the state of Mississippi doesn't like, you're absolutely right.)

Needless to say, we don't want to do that, either. Even if we wanted to, though, we can't: the resources it would take for us to build the systems that would let us do it are well beyond our capacity. You can read the sworn declaration I provided to the court for some examples of how unworkable these requirements are in practice. (That isn't even everything! The lawyers gave me a page limit!)

Unfortunately, the penalties for failing to comply with the Mississippi law are incredibly steep: fines of $10,000 per user from Mississippi who we don't have identity documents verifying age for, per incident -- which means every time someone from Mississippi loaded Dreamwidth, we'd potentially owe Mississippi $10,000. Even a single $10,000 fine would be rough for us, but the per-user, per-incident nature of the actual fine structure is an existential threat. And because we're part of the organization suing Mississippi over it, and were explicitly named in the now-overturned preliminary injunction, we think the risk of the state deciding to engage in retaliatory prosecution while the full legal challenge continues to work its way through the courts is a lot higher than we're comfortable with. Mississippi has been itching to issue those fines for a while, and while normally we wouldn't worry much because we're a small and obscure site, the fact that we've been yelling at them in court about the law being unconstitutional means the chance of them lumping us in with the big social media giants and trying to fine us is just too high for us to want to risk it. (The excellent lawyers we've been working with are Netchoice's lawyers, not ours!)

All of this means we've made the extremely painful decision that our only possible option for the time being is to block Mississippi IP addresses from accessing Dreamwidth, until we win the case. (And I repeat: I am absolutely incredibly confident we'll win the case. And apparently Justice Kavanaugh agrees!) I repeat: I am so, so sorry. This is the last thing we wanted to do, and I've been fighting my ass off for the last three years to prevent it. But, as everyone who follows the legal system knows, the Fifth Circuit is gonna do what it's gonna do, whether or not what they want to do has any relationship to the actual law.

We don't collect geolocation information ourselves, and we have no idea which of our users are residents of Mississippi. (We also don't want to know that, unless you choose to tell us.) Because of that, and because access to highly accurate geolocation databases is extremely expensive, our only option is to use our network provider's geolocation-based blocking to prevent connections from IP addresses they identify as being from Mississippi from even reaching Dreamwidth in the first place. I have no idea how accurate their geolocation is, and it's possible that some people not in Mississippi might also be affected by this block. (The inaccuracy of geolocation is only, like, the 27th most important reason on the list of "why this law is practically impossible for any site to comply with, much less a tiny site like us".)

If your IP address is identified as coming from Mississippi, beginning on September 1, you'll see a shorter, simpler version of this message and be unable to proceed to the site itself. If you would otherwise be affected, but you have a VPN or proxy service that masks your IP address and changes where your connection appears to come from, you won't get the block message, and you can keep using Dreamwidth the way you usually would.

On a completely unrelated note while I have you all here, have I mentioned lately that I really like ProtonVPN's service, privacy practices, and pricing? They also have a free tier available that, although limited to one device, has no ads or data caps and doesn't log your activity, unlike most of the free VPN services out there. VPNs are an excellent privacy and security tool that every user of the internet should be familiar with! We aren't affiliated with Proton and we don't get any kickbacks if you sign up with them, but I'm a satisfied customer and I wanted to take this chance to let you know that.

Again, we're so incredibly sorry to have to make this announcement, and I personally promise you that I will continue to fight this law, and all of the others like it that various states are passing, with every inch of the New Jersey-bred stubborn fightiness you've come to know and love over the last 16 years. The instant we think it's less legally risky for us to allow connections from Mississippi IP addresses, we'll undo the block and let you know.

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lex ([personal profile] admiral) wrote in [community profile] colors_tcg2025-08-25 08:30 pm

Most Wanted 185



Hi amigos! You ready for some bounty info? Colors' Most Wanted is coming your way!

Punch and Judy are dedicated to bringing updates on the latest bounties to all the bounty hunters in the star system. And they'd like you to help by reporting new bounties to them so they can get out the news! As a reward you'll get some special updates on those bounties.

How to Play:
Every round, each player can name ONE deck, character or special, that they would like to see added to the bounty pool. Repeat decks are allowed. At the end of the round, your rewards will be randomized from only the list of decks players have named for that round. Every player that participates will receive 5 random cards from that round's deck list.

Please write the deck names as they appear in the file names, e.g. Dragon Claw as dragonclaw.

This round ends Monday, September 1st. Happy hunting, all you cowboys!
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lex ([personal profile] admiral) wrote in [community profile] colors_tcg2025-08-25 08:29 pm

Pokeradar 440 - Special Round



Thank you for your help! Last week we were looking at Mey Mey from Wonderful Pretty Cure!!

Pokémon trainer Hop has run into some trouble. It would seem a strange phenomenon has caused new and strange creatures to appear in their world - especially in the Wild Area! He needs your help to identify these new creatures so he can make notes about them and return them to Sonia!

Read more... )

This round closes on Monday, September 1st!
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aru ([personal profile] magaru) wrote in [community profile] colors_tcg2025-08-24 11:37 pm

Deck Lover 485

Last round's answer is Cinephile!



Colette is known for her love of dogs. She especially loves to come up with names for them! However, after naming all the dogs across Sylvarant and Tethe'alla there wasn't much left for her to do so she's going to come up with deck names now. Help her name all the decks across Colors TCG?

With every round, there will be a picture of a character who has a deck on Colors. Tell Colette what their deckname is to be rewarded with 6 random special cards!

And who will it be this time? )
This round is open till Sunday, August 31st
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aru ([personal profile] magaru) wrote in [community profile] colors_tcg2025-08-24 11:33 pm

Scramble! 222



Ranger decided to "helpfully" rearrange the letters of the names on Safalin's list... Can you help her put them back in the right order?

This Round's Theme... )
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aru ([personal profile] magaru) wrote in [community profile] colors_tcg2025-08-24 10:41 pm

Shadow Watching 365

Last week's answer is Eru Chitanda from Hyouka.



A new silhouette has appeared on the Midnight Channel! But Rise needs more information before she can help locate the victim in the TV world.

Tonight on the Midnight Channel... )
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aru ([personal profile] magaru) wrote in [community profile] colors_tcg2025-08-24 10:36 pm

No Context Theater 434



Some of you might know Kamukura as the guy who was really into boats back in the day. Rumor has it he likes memes now. He's been trying to get into anime lately but sometimes he stumbles upon something that's hard to comprehend even with his numerous talents.

Today in No Context Theater... )

Come up with a possible explanation for the situation in the screencap! It can be anything and as silly or serious as you wish. Don't worry if you're unfamiliar with the series, the purpose of the game is not to guess what actually happened there! Same if you are familiar with the context - pretend that you aren't and make up something on your own!

Source of screencaps will more often than not be Anime Screenshots Without Context

For answering, you'll get 5 new release cards. Every answer is correct and feel free to comment on other people's answers! This round is open till Sunday, August 31st
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aru ([personal profile] magaru) wrote in [community profile] colors_tcg2025-08-24 09:57 pm

Natsume's Book of Cards 255



Natsume's no ordinary boy. Like his grandmother Reiko he has the ability to see youkai... who flock to him and demand to have their names that Reiko stored in the Book of Friends returned. At Colors, Natsume is visited by some of our past deck releases who would like to have their cards returned!

Rules
Every week, one of the releases is picked at random. You can exchange up to five cards from that release for choice cards from that release. You will lose the cards you turn in.

For example, if the chosen release is Release 001, you can turn in an Asobot card and get a choice Logic, Dragon or Optimist card in exchange. Specials can only be gained by turning in other specials!

To get multiple cards from one deck, you need to turn in multiples from another deck as well. You can't get two Logic cards but turning in an Asobot card and a Smile card, but two Asobot cards would work.

This week's release is Release 38

Deckname list:



Please use this form.


Since the prizes for this game are all choice cards and there's no need to pass them out, you can just log them after posting your comment!

This round closes on Sunday, August 31st!
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aru ([personal profile] magaru) wrote in [community profile] colors_tcg2025-08-24 09:52 pm

Little Spell Academia 378



Diana is a very good student, dedicated to learn as many spells as she can to bring glory to the Cavendish family. Let's help her spell some spells!

Rules
It's a spelling choices game! Every week a new word will be posted and you can take as many choice character cards as there are letters. Post your claims in a comment!
The card names don't have to start with the the letter, it just has to be present in the deckname. There will sometimes be an extra rule limiting your choices.
Unless extra rules state otherwise you can not take special cards but you can take more than one card from one deck.


This week's word is...


JURISDICTION


Extra rule: no rules


Since the prizes for this game are all choice cards and there's no need to pass them out, you can just log them after posting your comment!

This round closes on Sunday, August 31st!
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Arianne ([personal profile] phibby) wrote in [community profile] colors_tcg2025-08-23 10:41 pm

Release Roulette 065

Last round the roulette ball landed on Release 62! How close was your bet?



Can you guess which release the roulette ball will land on?

Place your bets! )

This round ends Saturday, September 6, 2025.
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Arianne ([personal profile] phibby) wrote in [community profile] colors_tcg2025-08-23 10:00 pm

Hi-5 Radio 318

Last round's winner was Rydeen!



Hello, dear listeners! 5pb-chan is in charge of the music toplist corner once again, and it's entirely up to you and your votes which song will make it this week!

Douze points! )

This round ends Saturday, August 30, 2025.
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Arianne ([personal profile] phibby) wrote in [community profile] colors_tcg2025-08-23 09:59 pm

Crazy Colors 357



Crazy Colors is an interactive game that you play with the cards you already have in your post! True to its title, it plays similarly to the real card game Crazy Eights. To earn prizes from this game, you'll have to not only be quick, but pay close attention to the comments above yours.
No Draw 4s in this version, luckily! )

This round ends on Saturday, August 30, 2025.
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Arianne ([personal profile] phibby) wrote in [community profile] colors_tcg2025-08-23 09:54 pm

Colors Concentration 129



Test your memory with three concentration games each week!

Matchmaker, matchmaker, make me a match! )

This round ends Saturday, August 30, 2025.
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your thirst princess ♡ ([personal profile] moes) wrote in [community profile] colors_tcg2025-08-23 07:43 am

An Idol's Acrostic Trading Post 309



The Three Lights need to buy words from you so that they can finish the lyrics to their next song! They'll give you a reward for every letter you sell to them and a bonus for every whole word you can provide.

Read more... )

This round ends on Saturday, August 30, 2025.
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your thirst princess ♡ ([personal profile] moes) wrote in [community profile] colors_tcg2025-08-23 07:39 am

C-C-COMBO BREAKER! WITH JOON & SHION 324


Welcome back to COMBO BREAKER everyone! The ever lovely Yorigami sisters have returned to count your combos.

How high has your combo managed to go? Joon is a brawler and and Shion is never far behind her in a fight (literally)! Joon is all ears for any new moves you might want to show her, especially ones where she can reap the benefits--because the two of them are misfortune goddesses and spending too much time around Shion might make your luck run out and end your sweet combo.
Rules
- Every week you will be able to pick a button, similar to how Pick a Color works. Every button can be either HIT or MISS.
- The number of HITs in a row you accumulate is the length of your combo but the moment you get a MISS, you lose all of it. This means if you accumulate 3 hits, then recieve a miss, you CANNOT turn in those 3 hits. If you receive 2 hits, a miss, then a hit, You now only have one hit in your combo, not 3 not 2.
- IMPORTANT NOTICE! For those of you who participated in Round 321, if you received a HIT and had any MISSes afterwards, due to the confusion of the round I will NOT be counting any MISSes that round, meaning that if you got a single HIT or a double HIT with any misses, you may count that as one or two HITs respectively without losing your combo. This only applies to those who tripled down that round. Those who received a triple HIT will be unaffected.

In the future, for special rounds that are not NO MISS rounds, I will clearly specify the ruleset and mechanics to help assist in your button press choices. Round 321's ruleset/mechanics were that each button press would equate to ONE controller. There would be THREE SEPARATE controllers to HIT/MISS from, each controller having 7 HITS and 3 MISSES.


- You don't have to play every week to build up your combo! Time that passes between your HITs doesn't matter as long as you don't get a MISS. Feel free to skip a round or two if you decide that it's too high risk or you just don't have time to play!


- You are able to turn in your combos for prizes. Longer combos yield much bigger prizes but you have a greater chance of being interrupted so it's up to you if you'd rather take the risk or play it safe.


- When turning in your combo, please provide links to all HITs that are part of it. Also, once you turn in a combo, you can't reuse these HITs for your next combo.


- Please redeem your combos in the COMBO REDEEMING TOP LEVEL. There will be one posted with every round of this game, and it will always be the first comment on the post.

In This Round
7 buttons are hiding a HIT!

3 buttons are hiding a MISS!



Rewards
HITx1 2 Cards
HITx2 4 Cards
HITx3 8 Cards
HITx4 16 Cards
HITx5 32 Cards
HITx6 64 Cards
HITx7 128 Cards
Submit
While claiming your rewards, please use this form




This round ends on Saturday, August 30th, 2025!

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cilice ([personal profile] unholyghost) wrote in [community profile] colors_trade2025-08-23 10:19 pm

1st post woo!

hi hi 👋 I've got 7 slots free for release 183. ideally I'll trade them for cards I'm collecting (buzzer, cerberion, pit, oneshot) or keeping (see on my card post!) but I'm happy to take randoms or even nothing lol I just kinda feel like it's a waste not to use them all.

no more slots!