i thought this was a decent anti-Trump meme but it's actually real lmfao

the game design orthodoxy is truly an abhorrent creature. almost everybody is obsessed with minimizing player friction, designing around the worst playtester experience, and simplifying all encounters and undermining their artistic vision in order to """respect your time"""

Linux distributions should not be aiming for entirely mainstream appeal, and they should learn the value of niche marketing. here is the essential problem with 'noob-friendly' distros that install a billion packages for you: they have to manage a heterogeneous space that respects

i'm not at all convinced that strong rather than moderate/weak automatic anti-cheat is necessary for multiplayer games to be generally playable. nor for e-sports to have integrity. (after all, post-hoc revocation of rewards is a solid incentive structure.)

Jaime's confession is one of those few instances where GoT does a scene better than the ASOIAF book counterpart, but one detail it critically lacks is the fact that Jaime doesn't just stop the Mad King in one swift act. he spends three days hunting down all the pyromancers,

economic regulatory questions are always intrinsically hilarious. what is an economic regulation? for the most part, a set of incentive structures. where lie incentive structures? endlessly substitutable across many possible social forms.

one thing that's interesting about my online brand is that i fulfil multiple niches at once. do you want fiery FOSS rants? i've got you. do you need that dark woke edge? i'm working that corner. do you want heterodox analytic philosophy takes? done.

reintroducing alcohol into my life has been an unironically healthy and beneficial thing. when you're not a child, the urge to compulsively redose is less — or perhaps that's just a permanent effect of LSD therapy — so i can effortlessly avoid hangovers and negative effects.

can pewdiepie's sins be forgiven due to shilling for linux and degoogling, even on the level of doing rabbit hole stuff like using zsh, a tiling window manager, self-hosting all his data, graphineos, et al? probably.

'enjoy your botnet' is ageing like fine wine

using the retard word is actually punching up because the singular man setting a path dependency sending our civilization into destruction might be highly overrated when we say his IQ is a generous 90, for he has plausibly degenerated to the level of medical disability now.

the dot com bubble was a necessary market correction that landed too softly because technocrats have discovered ways to delay (but not ultimately prevent) economic crisis. the same applies to 2007, and, yes, i'm aware of the dire consequences of letting 2007 burn and rebuild.

it sucks that there is something like technocratic “DEI” worth critiquing but since the neofascists are obsessed with a meaningless variation of it they see everywhere in a paranoid fashion, and it's a dog whistle for “my IQ struggles to be even 100”,

i can make a snarky comment on how it took China oppressing gay people for a certain kind of leftoid to cease apologizing for a cartoonishly totalitarian and hyper-capitalist regime, instead of the Muslims they pretend to care about when critiquing religious violence, but i won't

the late 2010s to early 2020s meme about living in a society is pretty ironic because one thing many people don't understand is that /we live in a society./ they can scarcely conceive of basic concepts like path dependencies, second-order effects, emergent orders,

semiotic autism has gone so far that if you don't signpost explicit allegiance to your own beliefs you'll be interpreted as a threat who holds the exact opposite values that you just expressed. e.g. it's hard to speak generically of leftoids and rightoids,

remember when bare minimum socioeconomic literacy won out and we couldn't do COVID-19 lockdowns until 2027 because COVID-19 literally lives in a society and you need movement, activity, productivity to even have things like vaccines, food, and PPE?

one thing that's incredible about X11 in contrast to Wayland as well as the Windows experience is how easy it is to control screen recording and streaming setups. have you noticed that a lot of Windows users are using full screen capture instead of exact window captures?

day 3650 of using X11 instead of Wayland: i awake to horrible sights before me where i've built concentration cramps in my sleep. i am losing my soul to 'fascism' despite fascists having trouble surviving mere contact with me unscathed.

if i ever fully recover from ME/CFS, i'm getting into the audio engineering world. when i saw Born of Osiris, i got a seat right behind their setup and was mentally analysing and critiquing their every choice. but understood that such gigs are nonetheless timelessly cool.

~ Ubuntu replacing sudo with sudo-rs the first piece of information i got this from was a cybersecurity specialist who has, naturally, learned to viciously optimize for the goal of security. since he wants to design all boo boos away in a meta-programming lab, he is, of course,

every single prediction and anxiety about the faults of centralized means of providing internet access has come true. and is getting worse. this is because when you abandon the mind rape lenses of abortive concepts like intellectual property, you are given the gift of prophecy.

this should be considered a legally relevant document in a natural law interpretation of constitutional order www.eff.org/cyberspace-i...

the .dom crash was the best market correction to ever exist. it stopped the rape of the digital commons by Capitalist Mordor for half a decade. we need another round.

since we didn't listen to the cypherpunks the internet is going to become cyberpunk (unusable unsearchable botnet trash)

The Last of Us Part II: so 'Zionist' that a Palestinian [Yara] killing Bibi [Isaac] is intertwined with Abby's personal redemption arc. the real problem here is that leftoids, as always, do not understand liberal pluralism in storytelling.

it's alright. you've stilled collected less 'fell for it again' awards than Colonel Tobin and Sion.

this is the FOSS equivalent of libertarians becoming fascists because they hate gay people. i can't wait for the first time i install xlibre so that it becomes the linux leftoid equivalent of getting a swastika tattoo. do not become polarized into adopting proprietary mindsets.

now streaming Part I of my commentary series on Planescape Torment < 3 www.twitch.tv/atheopagan_gab

i will be doing a late stream tonight, starting the first episode of a Planescape: Torment commentary series. i just need to install the Unfinished Business content restoration mod, ensure everything is streamable, etc. however, i need to comment on why this series will be done.

video games have always had 'a mental health focus.' Planescape: Torment and KotORII similarly involve resolving personal traumas in order to prevent events from spiralling into destructive on a much larger scale. the writing was just less obvious and less plagued by therapyspeak

if the YouTube algorithm incentivizes a lack of autistic 'conciseness' and robotlike hyper-effective communication, then the YouTube algorithm is the greatest alt-modernist achievement one could ever realistically hope for.

streaming RNG things can be like trying to make fire out of ashes. having a billion things to say every second during my KotORII commentary series was thrilling. as a result, expect more commentary live features in the future: like Planescape Torment, Legacy of Kain, etc.

will likely be stance dancing between Baldur's Gate 3 and Phantom Liberty. the KotORII commentary series has finished, and will be later supercut into a gigantic video. leave your troubles behind and vibe out with the resident dark woke e-philosopher www.twitch.tv/atheopagan_gab

[me, as i try to create a maelstrom of drama around you and your character traits specifically] “stop ego-attacking me”

the Canadian government has a genius plan to reduce permanent and temporary immigration rates at a time when GDP contraction is likely due to supply chain distribution problems caused by Trumpism. all because the population is economically illiterate.

alright. so what en masse conspiracy is being done by software companies & webdevs to further worsen the user experience? because as a person with a highly customized web browser, everything constantly is logging me out, asking me to reset passwords, captcha checking me, etc.

supporting intellectual property rights is the intellectual-economic equivalent of being a flat earth theorist.

i am better than classical music midwits. listen to Periphery

as a friend of mine once said about bipolar people: “you can't argue with a disease.” it's all fun and games until it gets unignorably ugly and laser-focused on you. such a waste of people's potential. to have an RNG bomb in their head that causes one to lose friends, jobs, etc.

me when X has multiply realizable explanations for it, like Q and R, but since i've been complaining that it's Q in the shadows it's impossible for it to be closer to R: 'welcome to the truth. to disagree is to try impression-manipulate me into believing you're always insightful'

today i learned that disagreeing with a person about substantive matters like mutual psychologies is trying to 'police' one's impressions of them. which is Tumblrite psychosis sourced from those quite opposed to that. unbelievable. ah, well, i can only hope it's a passing mood.

“Answer: It means you will *never* understand. When I kill, when I dispatch a target, it is not about wanton slaughter. About body count. It is about finesse, function. Doing more with less. It is *art*.” www.twitch.tv/atheopagan_gab

streaming the next KotORII commentary series in about an hour. which will be a sprint that likely ends the game and, with it, the series. pressing a preemptive F for a real one. will quote tweet this message when the stream is live and counting down. www.twitch.tv/atheopagan_gab

~apathy is death~ www.twitch.tv/atheopagan_gab

~apathy is death~ www.twitch.tv/atheopagan_gab

have you ever carried within you the geological pain of countless genocidal atrocities, born of necessary yet terrible wars, sending out its semiotic screams and destabilizing the galaxy? no? then you're a lil' bitch. stream is live but begins in 15m <3 www.twitch.tv/atheopagan_gab

we ended up doing a ~15 hour stream. lots of fruitful exegesis & conversations with talkative viewers. the crazy thing is: i'm doing it all again today: let the 15 hour “work” days begin. shall be streaming in ~1 hour. will quote tweet myself with Wit & Grace upon its happening 🫡

doing Part 6 in my year-spanning and, due to abating health issues, long-running KotORII commentary series. we've already covered a lot of conceptual ground in previous episodes. i'ma need to dig into the blazing maelstrom where matter and ether are torn. twitch.tv/atheopagan_gab