Posts - page 35

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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Closet Redditors: Stigmatizing Not Being Famous

I remember when I first discovered Reddit back in 2010, and spent hours and hours basically living there reading things constantly. I also remember when I started wanting to find places to share my work as an author, and then suddenly finding out that largely, Reddit as a whole, is...
published June 27, 2024
#thoughts
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Threads vs. Mastodon: The Trilogy

Just recently, Threads initiated phase two of their federation with the fediverse. Now, users on Threads can finally see posts from those replying to them from, say, a Mastodon account. For the longest time, you were simply sending your Threads posts to the Fediverse, and never seeing much info about...
published June 27, 2024
#social-media
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The Saga of the Dr. Disrespect Twitch Ban

Warning: This post mentions acts of inappropriate interactions with minors. It was four years ago, everything was pretty normal, or as normal as normal could be on Twitter (or, at least, nearer to the end of Twitter's life, before it became an X). Maybe some people followed and watched Dr....
published June 25, 2024
#controversy
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Prompt: My Biggest Time Wasters

How do you waste the most time every day? In today's writing prompt, we're asked how we waste the most time every day. I feel like this can be really subjective, and it matters most what you consider a "waste of time." I feel like, if you're making progress toward...
published June 23, 2024
#writing-prompt
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The Life of a Content Creator

I actually really dislike the phrase, "content creator." It sounds like a bleached version of things creative people produce, made more easily digestible for the masses. But! That is the world and future we now live in, where everything is watered down in content, and also in language. Would you...
published June 22, 2024
#thoughts
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Prompt: My First Crush

Write about your first crush. I don't know how many people remember their first crush, or the first person they liked. I mean, I guess it depends on when it happened, or at what point in your life you started noticing those you were attracted to. But, come to think...
published June 19, 2024
#writing-prompt
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Embracer Group: Embrace, Destroy, Repeat

I'm sure most people didn't really know who Embracer Group was until they acquired Tomb Raider from Square Enix in 2022. And, although they have a long history, in the past three to four years, they only seem to be acquiring studios, and also killing studios. Before Embracer, there was...
published June 17, 2024
#gaming
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Prompt: How Would I Retire?

How do you want to retire? Today's writing prompt is actually a good one. Not because it's something logical that one would ask as a writing prompt, but because whoever generates these things must be at least a little tone-deaf. "How do you want to retire?" Huh? Retire? For anybody...
published June 16, 2024
#writing-prompt
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It's C O M P L E X, on Spotify & Apple Music

After confirming, and redoing some track art (I realized I uploaded it with the album art work instead of something custom for the track itself), c o m p l e x is out on the streaming platforms. Of course, you can definitely visit the bandcamp and preorder it, and...
published June 15, 2024
#music
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Hey It's Maven! Who's Maven?

So you're posting on Mastodon, enjoying your digital life away from most of the tech blunders of integrating AI into everything for no reason. Your words are your own, you've got your robots.txt files organized nicely in your root directories, and everything is peaceful. Life is good when corporations aren't...
published June 13, 2024
#tech