It's always discouraging to see businesses or local governments that use "AI" images in their branding. I think it looks lazy, like "whatever, nobody cares." Plus, there's lots of talented artists in Denver who'd be happy to work on a company's signage or advertisements.

Good to see other writers and artists keeping the focus on the human.

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This is purely my speculation, I don't have data to back this up.

There's an idea that these scammers are just working stiffs trying to make a living. While that is probably true for many, I think there is a sizable percentage who do their job with maliciousness. I think some of them enjoy the idea of scamming people.

If you have ever seen the streamer Kitboga, he plays elaborate, hours-long pranks on scammers. Many of the scammers who call him get pretty vicious when they lose their patience.

Anyway, to answer your question, I think they are caught off-guard when someone answers and is deliberately messing with them. They sense that the tables have turned, and the aggression comes out.

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    This is the first time I've used a Lettera 22, and I can see what the hype is all about. It is a true pleasure to type with this machine. This one is even better than I expected, since it has a Spanish keyboard with n-tildes, accents, and umlauts. The cent/@ key is used for semicolon/colon, so I won't be writing any email addresses with this Lettera.

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    If anyone has a catalog of Olivetti typewriters they could share, I am curious about their name for this chrome/silver finish.

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    Here is the fall 2025 issue of Quarter Up, a free online magazine about pinball and retro arcade gaming.

    In this issue, AT Gonzalez interviews Luke "Launch" Tran, a tourney organizer and a fixture of Houston's fighting game community.

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    Later, Lee Tursi goes over Namco's ill-fated ShiftyLook, an attempt to popularize their more obscure titles.

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