Posts - page 20

A listing of all long-form posts published to-date. Herein, you'll find my thoughts on concepts, ideas, politics, and more.

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Sleeper Hits: Games With No Ad Revenue

Today, I wanted to write about some games that I enjoy that also appear to have no advertising, ever, for one reason or another. Either the studio just doesn’t spend any money on ads, or they have no money to spend. In the past, I firmly believe this has been...
published January 24, 2025
#gamingnews #gaming
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Fun Things To Do in Your Linux Terminal

I’m still sort of sick, but also actively participating in going to work (because I don’t have sick time to use right now), but! I wanted to write something on the blog here, despite being tired, and stuffy, and having pains in my body, and so I thought, “What about...
published January 21, 2025
#linux #terminal
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Tik Tok, Popular Sludge Content Platform: Banned

Yes, yes. It is absolutely a travesty and a violation of the first amendment for the government to ban a platform that the public uses to speak, and express themselves. Does that mean it was a perfect, and good platform? No. Just like Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and Twitter, there are,...
published January 19, 2025
#tiktokban #socialmedia #tik tok
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MKULTRA GAMING NEWS: Brought to You By Python

Today, I’m feeling a bit under-the-weather. I’ve got the aches, the pains, and the coughing fits. Never-the-less, I wanted to do something, regardless, and I thought to myself, “You know, there are a few gaming news related bots on the fediverse, and most of them kinda suck, because they have...
published January 17, 2025
#gamingnews #programming #bots
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So, It's Been Over 20 Years

It’s not a secret that I turn 40 in May. Not a secret, because I can’t stop talking about how conflicted and melancholy this makes me feel. It forces me to look back into the past, twenty some years ago when life was completely different. When things were simpler, and...
published January 16, 2025
#blogging #thoughts #aging
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To Build A Website, and Remain Invested

I was surfing the MelonLand forums, looking for interesting topics to read, or even reply to, and then I noticed one I had once replied to late last year, where a user was asking how to stay invested in their own website. And I posted in reply, where I talked...
published January 15, 2025
#webdev #indieweb #webmaster
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Ode to My Terminated Tumblr Blog

Twas a month before Christmas, and all through the web, not a creature was stirring, not even a pleb. When all of a sudden, and out of the blue, my blog was deleted, like a silent fuck you. No e-mail, no support, no response, and no word–They took all my...
published January 14, 2025
#tumblr #thoughts #banned #ode
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Eternal: Through Time and Space, Forever

Months, and months, and months ago, I started making a really simple space flight game that I wanted to be like Elite. And then I found out that making a game exactly like Elite is actually extremely hard, and takes a very long time (I work a full time job...
published January 14, 2025
#javascript-game #java #gaming #space
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Don't Just Ask AI to Stay Away, Block Them

If you’ve been on the internet in the past year and a half to two years, you’re probably very familiar with company’s like OpenAI, where Sam Altman argues that his bots must steal in order for his company to be profitable. And, you’re probably also very aware of the endless...
published January 14, 2025
#blockai #ai #block #htaccess #robots
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Fediverse Comments Have Returned

A while back, last year now, I briefly launched a Sharkey instance, and replaced my managed-host Mastodon instance, and since my fediverse comments on this blog weren’t completely compatible, I removed them and replaced them with an embedded comment section that makes calls to my VPS in order to store...
published January 13, 2025
#fediverse #mastodon #wafrn #sharkey