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Pop culture and narcissism, not necessarily in that order. I try to be one of the good randos.
Most posts self-destruct eventually.
Pop culture and narcissism, not necessarily in that order. I try to be one of the good randos. Most posts self-destruct eventually.
I am not a person who makes computers do useful things for other people (or even myself, more often than not). I know there are infinite reasons why software (like so many things) seems so much worse on average than How It Used To Be.
Still, as a mere User, I sometimes cannot resist nursing my secret belief that mantras like "programmer time is more valuable than [CPU/bandwidth/user time]" and "the code is the documentation" are somehow to blame for (waves vaguely) How We Live Now.
Pop culture and narcissism, not necessarily in that order. I try to be one of the good randos. Most posts self-destruct eventually.
Thought I'd try listening to the venerable (and venerated) History of Rome podcast and…it's kind of terrible? Pop history through an uncritical military/political Great Men of History lens that butchers the Latin like Romans sacking Carthage.
Apparently "it gets better" after the fall of the Republic, but I'm not grinding 40+ hours on a podcast like it's a dang JRPG when the underlying approach seems so weak.
Pop culture and narcissism, not necessarily in that order. I try to be one of the good randos. Most posts self-destruct eventually.
Spring allergies plus summer heat equals mood falling and an early winter of my discontent
Pop culture and narcissism, not necessarily in that order. I try to be one of the good randos. Most posts self-destruct eventually.
I deleted my Kickstarter account years ago (blockchain bandwagon was last straw). Something like a third of my backed projects never materialized but I never could be too mad about it. (My favorite was the solo-dev rhythm video game that never shipped because God had called on him to abandon it.)
Pop culture and narcissism, not necessarily in that order. I try to be one of the good randos. Most posts self-destruct eventually.
Grimwild being the Deal of the Day on DTRPG when the creator has rather infamously ghosted the project feels weird IMO.
I've purchased digital access to open-licensed #TTRPG PDFs for convenience where the original stakeholders are defunct/deceased (e.g., OpenD6) but this feels like a step too far in the circumstances, given that the Community Edition exists and is actively being worked on:
Pop culture and narcissism, not necessarily in that order. I try to be one of the good randos. Most posts self-destruct eventually.
Figured out I should probably take the night off from work when I realized I was verbalizing my symptoms like Leeloo from The 5th Element.
"Fatigue. Faa-teeegue. Faaaaaaateeeeeeguuuuuh."
Pop culture and narcissism, not necessarily in that order. I try to be one of the good randos. Most posts self-destruct eventually.
Being reminded today, as so many in my peer group celebrate a crewed spaceflight, that my formerly hypersensitive sensawunda receptors have atrophied, possibly beyond repair. I simply do not give a shit about anything beyond the blue marble, except insofar as it can benefit the blue marble, which it mostly won't.
Pop culture and narcissism, not necessarily in that order. I try to be one of the good randos. Most posts self-destruct eventually.
Me, a normal, neurotypical film enjoyer: I like the way the posters for this three-film series have similar composition, typography, and a recurring design element, but the third one is red when it should be magenta, my disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.
Pop culture and narcissism, not necessarily in that order. I try to be one of the good randos. Most posts self-destruct eventually.
Buying a stack of gauze, antiseptic and gloves at a convenience store at a quarter to three in the morning while dressed head to toe in black like a sadsack straight to video Tarantino knockoff protagonist.
Pop culture and narcissism, not necessarily in that order. I try to be one of the good randos. Most posts self-destruct eventually.
D&D would not be my choice of #TTRPG for Traveller (for me the appeal is the classless 2D6 part, not the OTU), but unironically happy if it means folks can play a system where their starting characters' elaborate backstories are actually plausible for once.
Pop culture and narcissism, not necessarily in that order. I try to be one of the good randos. Most posts self-destruct eventually.