Posts - page 30

A listing of all long-form posts published to-date. Herein, you'll find my thoughts on concepts, ideas, politics, and more.

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Social Media, Empathy, Caring About Other People?

I feel like this is something I want to write about here on the Nova Prime, not because it’s a joyful topic, or something that makes me happy, but because it’s an overall larger issue that I think’s been carried over from a website that’s trained a lot of people...
published September 4, 2024
#social-media
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So I Beat POOLS

You remember a while back when I wrote that post on POOLS about how awesome and good I thought the game was? Well, I got to chapter two around that time, and decided to stop playing for a while. Not because the game was bad or anything, but just because...
published September 3, 2024
#gaming
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NaNoWriMo Weaponizes Social Justice Language in Endorsement of AI

It’s the second day of my little tiny vacation, and I’ve woken up at the bright and early hour of 11 in the morning. I log onto social media to check my notifications and see what’s happening, and … I’m immediately alerted that those behind NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)...
published September 2, 2024
#tech
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Embrace, Extend, Extinguish (Repeat)

I’ve written on here before about Threads and how: I think it’s totally fine for people to join if they’re too bamboozled by the process of a picking an instance on Mastodon, or some other piece of ActivityPub software (even though I still can’t really fathom just exactly how it...
published September 2, 2024
#social-media
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Available Today at the Progeny Mall Event!

For the first time since 2016, [REVOSA] is actively participating in a shopping event! Starting today, the Nano Nexus OS95 Edition shorts are available exclusively, here, and until the end of the month! Progeny Mall is an event created by the Progeny team, which helps designers mingle with the Progeny...
published September 1, 2024
#second-life
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Is Today Blog Day?

I shouldn’t even really ask the question, “Is today blog day?” Because the day has passed us by. It is now 11pm. So, if today was a blog day, I’ve mostly missed it, but that’s only because I was at work the whole time. Though, I did look at some...
published August 31, 2024
#thoughts
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Neo Machina Goes Offline

It’s hard to believe I built a city in Second Life, and spent months, and months, and months putting together one of my biggest projects, ever. And then it stood for a year and eight months. It was my virtual home, my little piece of metaverse space with which I...
published August 30, 2024
#second-life
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Tumblr to Move to Wordpress

Everyone’s heard of Tumblr. Most know it for its 2010s fandoms, and sometimes extreme politics. Others know Tumblr for “that place that banned porn, which caused a huge influx of those same fandom loving people to suddenly invade Twitter.” And then Twitter got bought out by a megalomaniac, and then...
published August 28, 2024
#social-media
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Overwatch Doomed Us All

This is probably going to be an unpopular opinion, but: I really don’t like “hero shooters”, especially as live-service games. From Overwatch, to whatever that failed hero-shooter was at Amazon (I forget the name), to Concord, and Deadlock. There’s just, to me, absolutely nothing fun about having to fight with...
published August 28, 2024
#gaming
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Now available at [REVOSA], Nano Nexus (McFly Edition) Shorts!

It’s been a long year. Maintaining my sim in Second Life, deciding to take it down a few times when I feared I couldn’t support the costs anymore, and bringing it back each time. Switching positions in my job, and then subsequently dealing with a nonstop cycle of random shifts...
published August 26, 2024
#second-life