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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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
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To Grind, or Not to Grind?

The topic of toxic grind culture has come up before on my site, but, as it does, it comes up again and again on social media, especially in places where there’s a lot of focus on tech and entrepreneurship. As someone whose been doing a multitude of things, for multiple...
published July 12, 2025
#thoughts #lifestyles
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Is it Now the Year of Linux?

The “Year of Linux” has been pretty much every year, ever, since its inception. At least, that’s what I’ve been led to believe. But, due to recent developments with Windows becoming more and more an unusable garbage-land full of malware and spyware, that “year” seems to be inching closer and...
published July 11, 2025
#tech #linux
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The Conundrum of Second Life and its Landlords, vs. A Free Platform Where Nothing's For Sale

So, it’s been about a week since I jumped into OpenSim, and took it all in as if slamming a shot of tequila. I made some judgments right off the bat, and a little bit of an angry, now deleted post, where I decided I wasn’t thinking about things correctly....
published July 6, 2025
#second-life #opensim
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OpenSim, the Decentralized Second Life?

Update: Per Jupiter’s post via AcitivityPub Little nitpick: OSgrid is not "the OpenSim grid". It is not even "the official OpenSim grid". There is no such thing as an official OpenSim grid, only 4,000+ big and small grids that are independent from both each other and OpenSim's development. Read more...
published June 30, 2025
#second-life #opensim
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Recuperating What Was Lost, and Rebuilding: Part 5

Quite some time ago, we’ll say … around 2018, I think? I had a very active Discord server, specifically centered around facilitating a space for trans people to gather, chat, and game. This lasted for months and there were zero issues. But, with having a community of any sort related...
published June 25, 2025
#thoughts #community
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Degoogling the MegaGoogled

As I sit here listening to dudes yelling on another World of Warcraft Hardcore Moments upload, I’m just hours past further degoogling my life a little bit more. And, for all intents and purposes, it was a massive pain in the nards. Ridding yourself of Google is a lot more...
published June 23, 2025
#tech #web