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So, I’ve been continually working on VAAK. I think … it’s been around two months now? I don’t know, it’s hard to tell time anymore. Just yesterday I was waking up for school with a running nose and watching the Price is Right on a TV next to my bed. A TV that was about 10 inches horizontally and vertically, with bunny ears antennae and everything. Man, I sure do miss those days. Those days of thinking real hard about what I wanted to do: Go outside and run around, uh, practice drawing things on…

I’ve been talking about this stuff for a while, ever since the extreme backlash against LLMs grew into a new sect of right-wing and left-wing mindsets, where both have begun to look so similar you’d almost think there’s an entirely new political party forming in the United States. I’ve been talking about it a lot, because, when this backlash grew into constant death threats all over the timelines, wishes of death, and murder, and then the tamer stuff: People basing everything they know about…

This is a test post to make sure Pages CMS is working, and so that I can finally write posts on a web app instead of in VSCode.

It’s been a tumultuous couple of months, between online-ing and developing VAAK, work, and deciding that I do want to dedicate more time to my OpenSim grid, I’ve been busy! Needless to say, I have some announcements that I should put into a blog post so that they’re more easily reachable/readable, for people who haven’t decided to act like I no longer exist for using current technology to make the things I want to do, faster, and easier, as a normal person with a full time job. First…

In continuing work on VAAK, which has been progressing each day, every day. Sort of, kind of going over a lot of the same issues until the wrinkles are flattened out, while others spring up for the first time, or once again (the fediverse being tons and tons of different software is a huge blessing and a horrible curse), I’ve come pretty much to the point where it’s generally usable and not hugely and entirely a glitch-fest that was originally designed as a page where I could view incoming…

A while back, I shut my Minecraft server off, and moved onto other projects. Mostly because I needed to save some money. But, that was before I shuffled my bills around and canceled a bunch of stuff I didn’t need. Even so, it remain pretty much gone for a while, there. And gone, as in, I had backups of the mods, plugins, and server files … but not the world itself, for some reason. This fact alone kept me from bringing it back for a while. But, now it’s back. All the same features: random…

Welcome to the world of using Mastodon, Akkoma, GoToSocial and deciding that none of them do all of the things I’ve always wanted to do with software on the fediverse. All of them having strengths, and also weaknesses, and taking years to implement features. This goes doubly hard for Mastodon. I see you, post queues, hanging out in the background non-implemented! But, now we live in a world where you can take the things you know, your experience, and knowledge, and explode it like a nuclear…

Recently, I wrote about how I was “shutting down” my store and moving on from Second Life, potentially, indefinitely. That much was basically true, and my store still exists as something you can find on the marketplace website (REVOSA)… where all of its sales happen, anyway. And, as my vacation away from my offline job comes to an end, I kind of find myself looking back to how it all started in 2014. How I was pushed out of a job, because I came out as a trans woman in the workplace … naively.…

It was wild, it was nuts, it was the most ambitious project ever! It was refined urani–er, I mean. The backend of this website is now running, and you read that correctly, running, ActivityPub. What the hell? What the heck? What do you MEAN this website is running ActivityPub? This ain’t no Mastodon! I don’t see a timeline! Where’s Johnny 2 Fingers talkin’ about Linux Mint?! Lemme stop you right there, Billy Bob. This is accomplished, not with Mastodon, not with Akkoma, not with GoToSocial, but…

Although many people still call “X” by its birthname, the … original rightsholders? Or, something? Have decided to launch a new app by the name of “twitter.now,” promising that we’re about to “take back the town square” and that it belongs to us! A familiar line of branding that you’ve probably heard once or twice, or ninety seven times before. And, if you take a glance at their homepage, their entire identity is, “We’re not Elon Musk.” And they want 20 bucks so that you can be their guinea…

I listen to a lot of true crime. Most of the time while I’m driving. Occasionally, Youtube will toss some content of a similar nature into my “suggestions” (if you can call them that), and suddenly it’ll have me watching police interrogation videos of numerous types of criminals. And then, yesterday, its algorithm showed me something so close to home it filled me with anger. While the case has been solved for quite some time, it’s only really started to enter public thought … maybe, last year,…

As one or two people may know, along with others that have seen it in passing, I’ve been trying to make it a regular thing to start streaming my gameplay on stream.place. Why? Because it makes gaming feel like it’s less “by myself”, you know? And I wanted to set it up to multi-stream to my Peertube account, but, for whatever reason, I was having errors with my accounts on infosec.exchange (errors I probably could have fixed or figured out, looking back on it lol). Fun fact: My…

The Sims has been a franchise that’s been with me since the mid to late 90s. A thing that started, for me, with one of the very first SimCity games, on a school PC in a computer lab. This was before The Sims was even a glimmer in anyone’s eyes, and if you would have said, “I wish I had a life sim to play,” people would have had no idea what you were talking about. It didn’t exist. Other memories I have involve watching a friend play SimCopter with a joystick on his much better PC that I was…

So, I’m sure a lot of people, or at least some people, remain apprehensive. Some probably angry, banging their fists against a wall, plopping some deuces on the ground, or what-have-you. That’s fine, as long as I don’t have see it. But as someone who’s been making music for eleven years, and has seen some of the worst of the music scene and also the industry as a whole, and as someone who most definitely knows what I’m doing: Let’s talk about VAL3R1E. VAL3R1E kind of started out as an…

First it was Sony’s announcement that they’d be phasing out discs for their games completely, and then it was their doubling down on this straight from an out-of-touch suit, saying something along the lines of, “This is what gamers want.” Because nobody knows the thoughts and feelings of regular people more than executives who do nothing for the development of platforms for gaming aside from sit around and collect profits. And now it’s Rockstar, instead of advertising their next game like a…

Welcome to a new era of my website, mkultra.monster. Before, this was mostly just a little blogging site running through Jekyll where you could come and see stuff I’m working on, and read about my thoughts on random topics. That is, and will continue to be, the main function of the site. More recently, I introduced my own Stripe subscription link, wherein you could subscribe to my website for a couple of bucks and support my writing, and/or other things that I do. Well. Now, you actually get…

If you know me, you know I’m the “misandry isn’t real” and offline closeted trans woman whoms’t doesn’t know if I’ll ever return to transition, unless by some miracle I fall into a supportive circle again. A supportive circle that doesn’t dissolve or abuse and then mulch me for having opinions like, “Trans men being denied entry into spaces for trans women isn’t oppression, or the mythical concept of ‘misandry’, you dolts.” Or, “I like to mess around with LLMs, and I am quite aware this pisses…

All over the socials I frequently see (and I gather that part of this is due to algorithms from the corpo socials) people pining for either the early 2000s, or even the 90s. Some of this is targeted at me, because the algorithm knows I’m a 90s child. Other times it’s because other people in their 30s and 40s wish they still had a gameboy, and so on, and so forth. But I do also see a lot of, “I wish we could go back.” But you don’t want to go back. I remember the late nights on cable TV, the…

Nowadays, at least online, across the internet, and pretty much any social platform you can fathom, bullying is a virtue. It’s funny when someone does something that isn’t socially acceptable, or morally impure, because it gives you a target. Somewhere to point your aggression. And as you recreate high school over and over again in ways that you can feel superior to others for no other reason than to compensate for the inferiority you’ve probably felt your whole life: It makes me think of my…

Since 2015, I’ve run a store in Second Life under the name, “REVOSA”, and for a semi-shorter amount of time, “Ayashi Systems”. And over that time, the stores have made continuous sales, every month, for around the same amount, even eleven years later. Most of those sales come from the marketplace website, because, I guess, that’s where everyone does their shopping. Never-the-less, these will remain. That aside, over the past five and a half years, I was maintaining a city on a region I was…

I’ve had a MacBook Air with the M5 and 32 gigs of unified memory since the beginning of the year, and while I’ve been dealing with seventh months of feeling pissed off at Pop!_OS COSMIC I’ve also been trying to figure out if I prefer the Macbook over it, or not. It’s real for what it is: My whole life is in the Apple ecosystem at this point, and I’ve so all sorts of work saved in the cloud, and also my laptop. But is it worth using over an otherwise extremely powerful desktop that could be so…

There’s this weird new consensus forming on the left (or so it would seem): AI is coming for the artists, the creators, the makers, therefore copyright must be defended at all costs. The same people who spent years dunking on Disney for locking up the public domain are now acting like the DMCA is a progressive institution. It’s embarrassing. Copyright does not protect regular people. It never has. It is the reason you can’t stream on Twitch with music playing in the background without risking a…

Gacha games have been blowing up lately, and if you’re even a little into anime-style action, story, or collecting cool characters, they’re worth checking out. At their core, these are free-to-play games built around pulling random characters, weapons, or upgrades from banners (think digital loot boxes on steroids). You grind for resources, build teams, tackle story missions or events, and chase that next big power spike. They mix RPG elements with live-service updates that keep things…

(Post written while electricity was still out) Upon waking up for work on Saturday evening, or, as many will remember it, the worst 4th of July ever, I shoved myself out of bed to the sound of rain pounding the windows and my air conditioner while random Minecraft horror ARGs played via Youtube on my TV. As I sat down onto my couch to remove my watch so that it could charge, the power flicked off. It did not come back. I heard a loud one-off bang outside as if something had exploded, and…

Who even BUYS physical media anymore? Asked the guy whose experience with gaming is exclusively on his phone and a PlayStation 5, whose only interaction with music as a medium is via Spotify and Walmart radio. Who buys physical media, anyway? A question I’ve been seeing a lot lately, ever since Sony announced that they’re killing the medium and experience of owning things, now, and forever. But we’ve been through this song and dance before. Many times, actually. Spotify has been slowly killing…

There’s been a lot of bad news lately, from Rockstar trying to push the cost-of-a-game envelope even further, to Bandcamp firing most of their engineers only a few months after pledging to ban any and all music that even so much as hints at the existence of AI (whose got money on Bandcamp running AI internally as a replacement for their engineers?), and to Sony announcing that physical discs will be discontinued entirely… I find myself continually slipping into nostalgia for the early 2000s.…

Hello, once again, and welcome to my fediverse hi-jinx! This is going to be somewhat of a shorter post, mostly because I need to make sure the couple or handful of people on my Mastodon instance at null.mkultra.social see this, but my Mastodon instance is “moving” to cmplxdecay.space! Why have I done this? Because I like to be annoying? No! Actually … I have quite a handful of servers currently. One that’s running my OpenSim grid, another that’s basically handling my bot-net, the server that…

My discontent with Second Life has been growing for a long time, and this is definitely something I’ve probably spoken about recently, but, you know how it is: In Second Life it used to be about creating, meeting, being social, hanging out, and all that. But now? It’s about the latest shopping event, rent-seekers looking to score as much profit off of as many people as possible, at all costs. To add insult to injury, Linden Labs has only created more ways to extract money from its users. As if…

I keep writing about these little (or not so little, almost 200 gigs??!!) gacha games I play that are more like if you said, “Okay, so how about Breath of the Wild but with nearly all women and also anime and a gachapon machine?” And it seems they’re evolving faster than Anthropic can lie about the capabilities of Claude. Wuthering Waves is one of them, which you already know. Because I wrote about it just recently and how blown away I was by the Lahai-Roi story arc. Well, they did it again.…

So, you went to the theater and you saw the legendary Backrooms film from the mind of Kane Parsons and A24, and you can’t get it out of your head. The claustrophobic feelings, the pulsing silence as the walls close in around you, and the way even regular people within the Complex themselves become something of an “entity” all on their own. You want more, and you want to experience it yourself! Well, good news, buddy. This is my shortlist of games that will absolutely blast the crap out of your…