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sourceyes YES YES YES 1 MILLION PERCENT YES ONLINE FRIENDS ARE REALif you happen to be one of the 5 people reading my microblog youd know but likei have an absurd amount of difficulty making any friends in real life everi have exactly one irl friend at the moment, and that was something i kinda stumbled intoat a art jam event at collegediscord might have a LOT of problems, i know, but like it basically saved me from doing absolutely nothing everbefore that i basically never talked to people…

i ironically read this article by antonio on my rss readerand im pretty conflicted on this one!on one hand, i agree that blog customization is fun and i like doing it(i hope my blog has a semi unique style lol)and obv having the recipt that someone read my stuff in the apache log makes me happyand reading it in the rss feed not sending a recipt IS a feature, not a bug, i just dowish that more people would like reach out then i guessbut on the other hand, i see reading an article off an rss…

unattributed wrote about clickbait listsand how theyre damaging to the blogging spacei think the ending is a bit redundant and repetetive buti really do agree that like just filling out a list isnt really expressing yourselfits more of a laundry list, or one of those forms you fill out at the doctorsand can you REALLY tell a single thing about a person by their facts?the "why" of why an item is important is so much deeper than just the item itselfwhether its a silly story or sentimental or…

jottednotes put out this short essay about people staggering their speechand i personally feel called out lolfor one id like to believe my typing styleof like breaking up sentences by newlines helpsit to stand out more and feel more stream of consiousnesslittle fragments of ideas being built up to a larger wholeadmittedly though, its more of a technical issuethe editor i use for these is "ed" since its the only onethat seemed to work under a ruby script under ssh andsince its a line based…

sentfrom me wrote a reply about the discussion of aiand i absolutely agree with itit really does feel like the endpoint of polarization, everyone is eithershouting from the rooftops about how itll revolutionize everything or rightfullypushing back, yes, but the anti ai stuff is equally as annoyingits like people being warned about not smoking, you either already arent smokingand have heard it a thousand times or are too far gone for a random advertto make you drop cold turkey, regardless of all…

about like fitting into a box and having a label you can describe yourself withim reminded of some advice ive seen elsewhereabout how you shouldnt base your identity on hobbiessince it leads to either doing it out of obligationor having to scramble to find a different identifieri think having that fluidity is really important and stuffbeing able to just go with the flow and not worry about thingsworrying about being a "real" artist or "real" musicianwould hepl a lot of people find their own…

for those who dont know, july is when artfight happensits basically like a little web game where you draw other peoplescharacters for points for your own teamand i admittedly get very invested in making drawings for it(25 drawings down in the 5 days its been running so far)af is a more extreme example of something i always strugged with though, andthats trying to have multiple hobbies going at oncelike its tricky to "balance" doing multiple projects and i end upfixating on one for a few weeks…

hi ho sorry its been so long ive been sorta down igwell like not always emotionally down justive been sleeping well enough but im still tiredanywaysin the newsplaystation removing 500 movies from paying customersanother story about lack of ownershipim really starting to get tired of theseripping my own dvds ftwin my lifewell ive been trying to hang out with friends at least a little moremostly rn its just playing video games butits been funive been streaming zeroescape: 999 with gs, and theyve…

this time on stealing links from bubblesjamesg made a post on blogger archetypes (i got explorer and author)and it made me think about personality quizzesand when i start thinking oh boy do i get to ramble(sorry in advance if this is incoherent)but like as someone with a lot of anxiety and not much ability to describe myselfpersonality quizzes and the like are absolutely fascinating and stuff to meas like a way to see what my tendencies make people think of methis one was relatively good i…

i mostly wanted to reply to this one to make the title joke :Panyways, there was a post here that discusses blog post titles and boy do i have thoughtsfirst of all, the prebuttal, i do think *some* people might be submitting their blogs to be more connected to thespace they care about and possibly get some replies and general attention and stuffthe problem might kinda be the sheer volume making it difficult to find the majority of peoplebut anywaysdescriptive titles, i sorta agree, but i can…

im not EXACTLY sure if tumbr counts as small web but its considered a dying platform, it offers native rss support, andthe blog im reading this from submitted theirs to a blog aggregatorso i think it counts ish even if i hate the site itselfanyways, i came across an article talking aboutthe inherent differences of game remakes and movie remakes, and questioning why movie remakes are frowned oni do agree that part of it is simply the lack of evolution in the movie space, since fundamental…

guess this is just going to be done on saturday now igoopsiein the newsi dont knowin my lifeit really does seem like i simply cant let myself be happy sometimes, huhlike if things are going good i just HAVE to find something new to stress on and ruin my entire moodujhh in other news gs and i have been calling more and streaming spike chunsoft games to each other which is funalso summer school is going ok ish besides HISTORY CLASS IS AWFULLblog postsi am not in the mood to do this rn ok i…

to add onto the pile of back and forth posts of coffee posts on bubblesi honestly dont think that the buy me a coffee stuff is super offensive?like i have one on my own site and stuffi dont expect to make a career off of this obviously, i dont get nearly enough attentionbut even having the option is nice, and supporting independent creation directly is importantin this age of AI and all, so yes please buy me a coffee

spoilers for the entire podcast up to season 2the onion is a publication i am sure you have at least heard of in the pastbut if not, theyre a saterical news site that has been running a publication and youtube for 10+ yearsback in 2020, they had their first go at a podcast in "The Topical", using a daily news formatand i followed it from the first day it released until the day it shut its doorstherefore, i was extremely excited at the announcement of a new podcat, AND its second seasonA Very…

last week before i go back to school yayyy...im pretty wiped out from the convention last weekin the newsrsync dev moves to aiwell this one stingson one hand i sorta get it because of like people not contributinginsert xkcd dependecies pagebut like still, its ai, and rsync is a cornerstone of a LOT of projects (including mine!!)and im pretty worried i thinkneocities taken downseems like neocities was taken down for a while earlier todaysomething about an indian company sending a shutdown notice…

so i went to my yearly convention over the weekend and fridaythats why this one is being written on the following mondaythanks for waiting to whatever fans i have lolin the newssteam deck sells despite price hikesteam decks had a massive price increase because of youknowwhatdespite that it still managed to sell out completelyreally goes to show how much goodwill steam has with its customersin my lifethings are finally starting to swing back around to being positive slowlygs unblocked me which i…

i know a few people have already replied to this and id probably get drowned out butthere was this post about writing in lowercaseand well being another lowercase-writer i thought maybe i should respond to it?this is going to be much less structured since im just putting my thoughts out into a void butwell i think partially the reason i got the habit is from like playing online gamessince that was my only online interaction for years, and nearly everyone uses lowercase for thosepartially it…

SPOILERS FOR THE ENTIRE GAME INCLUDING THE SECRET FIGHTalso sorry for accidentily posting this early :(isat is a fascinating game, often heralded as one of the indie darlingsone of the greats, like omori and undertalewhich makes you wonder why it took so long for me to actually play it...just like everyone else whos played it, this game really affected me and now i have to share my feelings about itsynopsisdue to the nonlinear nature of the game, the plot is a bit tricky to talk aboutbasically…

SPOILERS FOR THE ENTIRE GAME INCLUDING THE SECRET FIGHTisat is a fascinating game, often heralded as one of the indie darlingsamong the ranks of omori and undertalewhich really makes you wonder why it took so long for me to actually play it...just like everyone else whos played it, this game really affected me and now i have to talk about my feelings about it

sorry i havent updated here in a bitive been going thru hell againin the newsgoogle tripling down on ai searchim SURE you know my opinions of ai at this point, but this is even worse than normalwhy do people unironically trust the machine that has been proven to lie constantly over acctual peopleare we seriously this distrusting of others that we would rather have it regurgitatedi am sick of this and seriously cannot wait for the day that this finally shattersgooglebookschromebooks were already…

theres something magical about hanging out at a job or class with a chill boss, you're "supposed" to be working but you or them are simply not paid enough to care, so everyone is just occasionally doing any work and half the class is off making goofy little things imagine if that carefree attitude was captured in a sandbox where you had the tools to do so many more goofy things to annoy or make other people laughthe basic premisespace station 13 is a community run roleplaying game running on…

its technically officially summer now, yipee!im tired again but here goesin the newscopyfailit really sucks that this happened, but it ESPECIALLY sucks that it happened because of ai...windows h11seems like another shortterm grab to keep people on their platform after the disaster win11 has been so far, lolin my lifeSUMMER!!! well not yet technically i have 2 exams left but then SUMMER!!! i am so glad to leave linear algebra behind8mb submissionthis weeks 8mb submissor was a really cool black…

like every other tech person, i commonly read xkcd pagesthe page that was posted this monday was pretty funny, but i feel like it also kinda has a deeper meaningthe whole thing about people not seeing the mistakes and taking their own meaning out of stuffits something ive been trying to work on myselfidk im probably projecting my thoughts onto a silly comic page but yea

responding to a buisness tip is silly, i know, but it works really well as general advice outside of the contextobviously, most short term descisions are detrimental, phone usage, slacking off, etccontextualizing it in the concept of a contract though, really makes those short term descisions clearly wrongso like, optimize to create a life contract that doesnt "seem too good to be true"or something

well it seems like half the posts i see now are responding to this question, so i might as well follow suit.as for whether i tell people irl that i blog, uhi would be absolutely terrified tothe main thing driving me to be so open with this blog is just that its so fire and forget and allits set up so i can just fire out a entry in a couple seconds and share my thoughts to whoever caresthe responses are sparse and since its all online, i can take my time to read it and not feel confronted and…

hi again! im still pretty tired but ill try to write out one of thesetheres always next week if this sucks :Pin the newsubuntu linux goes aiit makes sense that those guys would go ai, i just really hope it doesnt spread further. you all know how i feel about aii told you i dont keep up with this stuffin my lifeim done with one of my classes, with a 84% overall! im pretty happy with it tbhi still cant sign up for community classes bc my mom refuses to reset her password so i have no idea what im…

have you ever heard the thing about how in final fantasy games, damage numbers for the player are artificially inflated, to make the player feel more powerful?those games have to be designed around that explicitly, since otherwise it would be boring and unbalanced to constantly be dealing far higher than the required amountthat would ruin the gameanyways theres a little mod for balatro called cryptidthe inciding articlei came across a pretty well written article from brennan talking about how…

ive been coding for QUITE a long time at this point, i was basically forced into a CS career from when i was youngbasically every coding language has some bit of annoyance tied to it making me not want to mess with it for small projectsc and java have the annoyance of compilation and compilation switchesphp requires a server and all that to just get a script running, and is more designed for server stuff (like this page is rendered with it :))lua is a pretty strange language and supposed to be…

hi! ive seen a lot of people do this kinda weekly roundup thing and wanted to join the bandwagon(sorry for being uncreative)if you havent seen my stuff before, my names candycane and im a artist and coder (i handcoded this site ^^)also if youre wondering why the title is "17" i wanted to use the iso week number to organize these so its easy to script away creating the title IF i want to continue doing thisin the newsi dont really pay attention to world news and stuff buttim cook steps down as…

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