Posts - page 9

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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Bloodlines 2: Flopping in October

As someone who’s been gaming since 1989, and whose introduction to RPGs in the early 2000s (yeah, I didn’t really play RPGs much in the 90s, for some reason) were titles like Anarchy Online, Oblivion, and Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines … I’m quite a bit disappointed in what I’m seeing...
published August 21, 2025
#gaming #bloodlines
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Bluesky: Part 8, the Enshitification Will Continue Until Moral Improves

I’m calling this “part 8” because I’ve written about Bluesky, so many dang times now. And every single time I do, it’s because they’re either protecting someone who is profoundly hateful, or because they’ve banned someone without good reason. Heck, I’ve been banned twice now for vague mentions of ill...
published August 19, 2025
#social-media #bluesky
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The Sims 4 is Very Much Broken on Linux

As some may know, I’ve been playing around with The Sims 4 since around 2016, after I reluctantly stopped playing The Sims 3 (which, for all intents and purposes, also is extremely broken on Linux). For the longest time, the game was mostly fine via Pop!_OS and Proton on Steam,...
published August 17, 2025
#gaming #the-sims
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Should Your Indieweb Site Be Mobile Friendly?

Earlier yesterday, I was shown a post by someone who resides on Nekoweb (I won’t get into how flippant and annoying the devs at Nekoweb have been toward me), talking about this … apparent growing movement in certain sections of the “indie web.” The specific movement who design their websites...
published August 13, 2025
#webdev #thoughts
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How and Why Do I Blog?

For part of 2023, a good amount of 2024, and all of 2025, so far, I’ve been blogging. In that, I’ve been writing down my thoughts on random things, or talking about topics I find important, or imperative. Originally, I was doing this across Wordpress blogs, and even successfully imported...
published August 8, 2025
#thoughts #blogging
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Fart Knuckleburger Wants to Sell You on the Idea of AI Glasses

In an extremely long, and inaccessible Wall Street Journal article, that you cannot read unless you pay (that I can read, because I’m subscribed to Apple News), it’s detailed that Mark Zucklenuts wants to convince you that the world will soon be run by a pair of glasses you wear,...
published August 4, 2025
#tech #meta #ai
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Beyond the Blackwall: Gaming on Linux

Maybe “beyond the Blackwall” isn’t the greatest metaphor for a revolution regarding the rising movement of people abandoning Windows for Linux. But, the way I see it, the rogue AI, in comparison to Cyberpunk 2077 versus the real world, is far from contained, and everything on the other side, is...
published July 24, 2025
#gaming #linux
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Returning to EVE Online with a Bang

It’s been years since I seriously played EVE Online, at all. So long, that the systems have changed to the point where you can’t even train skills on an old character, unless you pay monthly. Which, for the longest time, turned me off. But, when it comes to space MMOs,...
published July 22, 2025
#gaming #eve-online
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Thoughts on Dune Awakening, and the History of Funcom

So, Dune Awakening has been out for a little bit now, and, initially, I was real excited to jump in. Keyword there is, “was.” I have a long history of buying into Funcom games, and then playing the hell out of them until the playerbase decides they want to go...
published July 17, 2025
#gaming #dune #funcom
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The Sad State of Rift

If you’ve spent any time being alive before the age of everything being live service and children aging you by saying things like, “What’s a Mass Effect?” Or, “Minecraft was my entire childhood.” And, let’s not forget, “The Xbox One is retro.” You aren’t alone, and I feel your pain,...
published July 14, 2025
#gaming #mmo #rift