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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Neo Machina & Other Changes in Second Life

Ever since I started a store in Second Life, I’ve always wanted to own my own full sim. There were reasons that wasn’t possible in the past, and reasons that became possible in the now, or, at least, around the beginning of 2023. It was quite the chunk of money...
published August 10, 2024
#second-life
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The AI Bubble is About to Pop, But the Delusions Continue

I’ve already written on here, quite extensively about “AI”, and how harmful it is. But, sometimes you come across something so egregious, so disgusting, so malignant that you just have to record it. Record it so, a year from now, we can all look back on how hilariously bad this...
published August 10, 2024
#tech
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Warframe, Revisited: Again

A while back, I posted about The First Descendant and how, despite feeling clunky, and not really having satisfying gun play, it at least seemed to have the ability to satisfy more than Warframe. I may have been wrong about that. I may have sold Warframe a little short in...
published August 6, 2024
#gaming
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Criticism Doesn't Exist if You Don't Look At It

Over the past year, since I’ve started writing much more heavily online, and established a website (despite said website changing at least five times), I’ve written about quite a few controversies. Like how Microsoft is developing AI-fueled spyware, Reddit is copy/pasting Musk’s behavior in their structural decision making, Bluesky is...
published August 5, 2024
#social-media
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Game Informer Found Dead, Gamestop Top Suspect

Just yesterday, news swept through social media, “Gamestop has murdered Game Informer by blunt-force trauma to the head. The magazine’s body was found abandoned at the side of the highway, bloodied, and dismembered.” So maybe that’s overreacting, or maybe it’s not that far off from the truth. At least, not...
published August 3, 2024
#media
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MMOs in the Era of Subscription Everything

You’re you, in the current year, and you like to enjoy things. You listen to music, you watch your shows, you tune into your favorite podcasts. Maybe you also have some kind of cloud service where you store all of your photos and important files, just in case. Maybe you...
published August 1, 2024
#gaming
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Bluesky Part 3: All Your Data Are Belong to Us

It feels like I just got done writing about how Bluesky will probably never be it (when I was a lot more enamored with Nostr than I currently am), and then some news dropped a few days ago that initially went under my radar, but is apparently a little bit...
published July 31, 2024
#social-media
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Threads & Project 2025

I’ve written here and there about Threads. I’ve written about how I believe it’s a totally viable platform for federated social media users to dip their toes into the ocean of what it means to not be locked to just one platform. I’ve written about Threads suddenly posting some smarmy...
published July 30, 2024
#social-media
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Merge Complete

Today was a … day, at work. I mean, it’s always a day of sorts, but work is always, you know, work. But I got out, I drove, I arrived, I shoved food into my gullet, and then I sat down to reformat the front matter of over one hundred...
published July 29, 2024
#updates
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The Fediverse, For Those Who've Never Used It

Back on Wordpress, before I hit the nuke button, and was subsequently apparently locked out of my Digital Ocean account … just because my Github e-mail changed, I had a page dedicated to explaining the fediverse, and showing off the different ways you could interact with ActivityPub. I have put...
published July 28, 2024
#social-media