Finished this year (so far)

• Stray (review)
• Oxenfree II (review)
• Tails: the Backbone Preludes (review)
• Not sure if it counts, but I finished the “Hot Wheels” DLC of Forza Horizon 5

Unfinished (yet) or not finishing

• Tunic - got absurdly hard at some point, dropped it (review)
• Hot Wheels Unleashed - was fun, but got bored of it
• Lapin - started it, but dropped, maybe I’ll finish it at some tine. Too much dialogue and speed running it you lose the story.
• Need For Speed Underground (the OG one). Installed it and made it work as a lul on the SteamDeck, but eventually stuff gets too fast and too small for the SD screen and it makes it hard to play. Fun trip down memory lane tho.

I’m subscribed to the RSS of most travellers in the webring, and while some write very well, I sometimes start some reading when I’m in the train, or taking a shit and after two-three phrases, I realize it’s a well-thought, well-written, hard-worked article. And out of respect for them, I mark it back as unread and take my time with it.

Blogging (or posting on forums or whatever) is basically transposing your thoughts into writing (but sometimes in an edited and filtered way), as most people let their articles simmer a bit before hitting “post”, even if for a minute to re-read stuff.

Thinking, in essence, is just a long inner conversation with yourself. Sometimes you monologue when you need to keep a train of thought, sometimes you have a dialogue with yourself, sometimes you just ask yourself rhetorical questions. Staying on one subject for more than three seconds or jumping from idea to idea varies from an individual to the next one, but can also apply to the same person on different moments of the day. And even if you have only single sentences or a monologue, it’s still a part of a greater “work of art” which is another chapter written by your mind.

Unless, of course, [you have Dr. Dre to be your conscience].

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andreixyz: ok, so i went full nuclear
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andreixyz: if you need the full css, i basically nuked the animations and transitions and cpu usage pretty much flatlined and fans are fairly idle

I know it’s generally frowned upon to do victim blaming, but the lusers (how the BOFH calls them) have a part in this. The internet corporation did the same thing old-school corporations did, and that’s taking a product and squeezing the most money possible out of it. The current state of the internet is just a product of what the userbase wanted and the corporations delivered.

I’ve spoken before with people in offline about the state of the internet. People like me with similar background. People who are now in their late thirties, and discovered the internet at the turn of the millenium when they were teenagers and avid for knowledge. Internet was very limited back then. Technology was fairly expensive, internet connections were limited not only by speed and duration of access (remember dial-up?) but also by the lack of content and ways to access the existing content. This meant that people that managed to become on line were fairly smart. People that created on the internet were smart and creative. With the natural progress, the technology got cheaper, access got way easier for the common people. And common people is neither smart, nor creative. They easily became the most populous part of the internet and theif focus switched from creating to consuming data. I was tempted to say “knowledge”, or “information”, but people online don’t look for these, mostly merely look for entertainment. Big companies saw that, and understood that even the act of consuming internet actually creates something. It creates metadata, it creates a breadcrumb trail just perfect for Big Data and AI to crunch their bytes on and create monetary value.

It’s easy to throw the blame on the big corporations (and they surely are to blame), but keep in mind that the state of the internet was decided when we gave cheap internet access to every creature with opposable thumbs and a quarter of a brain.

PS: Reaction tiktoks are not fucking content, go and do something useful, like wash some dishes at a McDonalds.