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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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