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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Look. I’ve been a Pop!_OS user for years. I defended it. I recommended it. I even put up with the long, painful wait for COSMIC because the promise was real: a modern, Rust-based, Wayland-native desktop that System76 actually owned and could ship on their own hardware without waiting on GNOME’s...

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The extremely cool and awesome villain in Farcry 3 once said, “Do you know the definition of insanity?” Doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting different results. And I feel like I’ve been doing that with Bluesky over the past few years that it’s been a platform....

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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...

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(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...

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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...

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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...

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