Posts - page 34

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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Wuthering Waves: Genshin Impact, But For Adults

Wuthering Waves is another mobile game that crosses the boundaries between your phone, your console, and your PC. Much like the games that came before it via MiHoYo, it proves that a gacha can be so much more than a slot machine rewarding you with anime girls. For years and...
published July 19, 2024
#gaming
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The First Descendant: Bunnies & Guns Edition

Over the past week, I’ve spent a little time here and there checking out the latest game out of grindy, microtransaction game maker, Nexon. This is what I think about it. Hold up, haven’t I seen this before? Back in the olden days of gaming o’ yore, there was a...
published July 16, 2024
#gaming
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Why Bluesky Will Probably Never Be It

This is going to be a sort of long one (or maybe it won’t?), because I have a lot of thoughts as a tech and social media enthusiast, and some of those thoughts have to do with how I feel about the direction that social media is moving in. How...
published July 16, 2024
#social-media
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Nostr, the Strangest and Clunkiest Twitter Replacement

Nostr, the name of a social network that I really can’t pinpoint the theme of. Like something a disgruntled Twitter developer came up with after trying Mastodon, and thought, “Hey, there aren’t enough opportunities to pay for this?” And then there’s the name, like it was definitely something thought up...
published July 11, 2024
#social-media
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A Two-for-One Threads.net Sale! Transphobia and LLMs, Oh My!

I woke up on my day off like I usually do, basically just procrastinating for hours and hours. And then I logged onto Mastodon, and then Threads. I like to start off my day by doing some posting, like you do. And then I saw that, uh, well, the official...
published July 9, 2024
#social-media
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Let's Talk About Zenless Zone Zero

No, I’m not being paid by MiHoYo to write about, or stream Zenless Zone Zero (or ZZZ). I felt like I wanted to write about it, because, as an adult who has to work, a lot, and is always out and about with less time at home in front of...
published July 9, 2024
#gaming
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Threads vs. Twitter (the eX), One Year Later

As someone who is very much into Linux and open source software, and therefore by extension, the fediverse (Mastodon, Wafrn, etc), you might think it's weird that I'd write up an article about how I feel Threads is doing versus Twitter. Thing is, I understand there are people out there...
published July 6, 2024
#social-media
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SerenityOS and LadyBirds: Because These Things Shouldn't Hide in Closed Git Conversations

I push myself out of bed at the bright and early hour of nearly ten in the morning. My cat jumps at my chest and threatens to eat my keyboard wire unless I pour him a can of his favorite morning food. After slapping on some clothes and feeding the...
published July 3, 2024
#tech
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Corporate Social Media & Engagement Farming: Extended Special Edition Max

I wrote sort of recently about engagement farming, and how ridiculous, annoying, and bad it is. How there are people out there who will post things, not because they believe in it, think it, or like it, but because it's what will get them the most clicks and views. Either...
published July 2, 2024
#social-media
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Prompt: Have I Had Surgery?

Have you ever had surgery? What for? Today's prompt asks a very specific question, that should have a real clear-cut answer. I'm not even sure why I'm answering it, aside from the fact that I just need something to write about! So here we are. No, I haven't ever had...
published June 30, 2024
#writing-prompt