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FlashMobOfOne

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Artist, theatrical performer, roller derby announcer, and former derby skater in the Midwest.

Single, childless, and married to my my freedom and sense of adventure.

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I picked Baldur’s Gate 3 back up two weeks ago.

Last summer I played Act 1 of the game and found myself thoroughly satisfied, and decided to wait to play the rest.

Act 2, like Act 1, is just as awesome. We’ll see if I decide to take another break before the third act, haha! This game is nothing short of a masterpiece.

Other than that I’ve been taking a lot of 10-15 minute breaks while working from home and enjoying the minigames on Meta Horizons.

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Fun!

I’ll probably pick it up in a few weeks. I’m having a lot of fun with BG3 right now.

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Reminds me of how vociferously the Right raged against Obama when his DOJ released its report on domestic terrorism and rightly attributed to right-wing interests. Obama, as the good corporate lap dog that he was, apologized for saying the correct, factual things, which is weird, because that report’s one of the few good things Obama ever did.

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I’m about 2/3 of the way through backing up my ‘Liked’ songs to MP3 files, at which point I’m ending my sub.

It’s a bummer because I actually really like Spotify’s algorithm and it suggests great music for my tastes, but, I can have that for free without feeding their stupid insatiable greed.

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LOL

US agencies will take their bribes and do jack shit. As with everything else, Europe will lead on the regulatory front.

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The billionaires are enshittifying everything.

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Brave’s native adblock works better than anything else I’ve tried.

Give Brave a look, folks.

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False.

They sold data from Brave search, which you don’t have to use. (and I don’t.)

Also, the crypto thing is also opt-in. You don’t have to use it either.

It works better than Firefox, especially if your aim is blocking ads.

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I think that, if you’re going to pretend to know what you’re talking about, you should know what you’re talking about.

I think it’s a good thing that a person as to willingly opt-in to data collection.

It’s really that simple.

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That’s fine. Do what you like.

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They still sold user data without being upfront about it until caught,

And then they did better, as a business should. It’s all in their FAQ.

I’m not sure why there has to be a circle jerk of trolls any time someone mentions Brave, but here we are.

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I switched to Linux this week. I highly recommend it.

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Never got into it myself, but I know very well how popular it is, so it must be an objectively good game.

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Picked up Slay the Spire on sale on Friday and I’ve put 30 hours into it this weekend.

Not an easy game, but fun.

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Man, I love VR.

I watched a lot of the live events they had on Meta Horizons in April and May, planning to watch more this summer.

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And the enshittification of everything marches onward.

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Nothing crazy.

I’ll take myself out for barbecue somewhere here in KC over the weekend for sure, but I’m anti-war, so my feelings on this holiday are complex.

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Still playing Jedi Fallen Order.

It’s an excellent game. It’s suitably epic and I’m enjoying the heck out of it.

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I’m going to pick it up later this year for sure.

It’s a fun game. I just found I like story mode more than playing a Dark Souls game in the Star Wars universe.

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Modern problems require modern solutions.

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the real winner will likely be Apple and Macs

I’m sure they will find a way to enshittify in a equally intrusive manner.

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I don’t hate anyone in particular.

I do, however, hate “everyone”.

There are just so many small ways that people are insufferable.

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Very.

The major social media sites were programmed to feed people content that convinces them that their opinions are fully valid while also keeping them perpetually angry, all to keep their eyeballs glued to ads.

When content synthesized by AI gets more sophisticated, we won’t be able to tell the difference.

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I’m about 1/3 of the way through Jedi Fallen Order.

It’s a lot of fun.

I’ve also been in VR a lot this week, watching The Faceless Lady in the creepy cabin on Meta Horizon, and last night I went to a Doja Cat concert in VR too.

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I disliked the batmobile sequences so much it ruined the game for me.

Kind of a bummer since I played all of the other three Arkham games and loved them.

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Gave up Dragons Dogma 2 at 120 hours.

Played a shit-ton of Vampire Survivors this week and I’m thinking I may pick Jedi: Fallen Order back up. Jedi: Fallen Order was hard for me to get into because, while it has a fantastic opening act, normal difficulty was too hard and easy was way too easy, which made it tough to get into.

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I would be shitting my pants in terror if Boeing were trying to take my body anywhere.

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Yup. I got a grip accessory for mine to mitigate it.

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This is going to go the same way Napster did.

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Really, I just mean ‘in the courts’.

When American business interests just decided to unite and collectively steal all of the IP on the Internet, it was always going to end up in the courts. Neither Congress nor the President will act because, by and large, the people doing the thieving are their golf buddies and fund their campaigns.

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After 120 hours, I finally got bored with Dragon’s Dogma 2.

So I’m picking back up Solasta: Crown of the Magister. I also dusted off my VR rig and I’m playing the Affected: The Manor, a horror/haunted house game.

It’ll be fun.

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LOL

Because giving people the option to opt-in to the platform that birthed the resurgence of Fascism worked out so well. I’m good with not hearing your weird uncle’s incoherent rants about chemtrails and lizard people, thanks.

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Define ‘better’. I’m not sure that word means what you think it means.

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I’ve been using ChatGPT in conjunction with search engines just to find things I need. For instance, I did an April Fools presentation for a work meeting and needed humorous real-life legal stories, so the AI was able to provide suggestions.

I also use it to for simple tasks, like organizing info into a table.

Mainly, though, my reason for using it is that, since I work in tech, I’m going to need to know how to use it well, and the best way to do that is being hands-on.

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Agreed. I love using ChatGPT for content suggestions.

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I love that the top comments are all “I don’t”, as if that’s helpful in any way.

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I love that this and more funding for other countries’ wars are a higher priority than the housing crisis.

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I would accept that as an excuse if the Democrats did anything meaningful when they have a majority, but they don’t.

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First, you should put this in air quotes: “a major healthcare reform”. It’s only a reform if you the consumer can absorb the price gouging required to access our health care system in the first place.

Secondly, Obama had a supermajority for a time. He could have done anything if he’d have been willing to do the work.

Americans can’t eat excuses, and for me at least, it’s no longer acceptable to simply be slightly less conservative than the other conservatives.

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Respectfully, the “fight them there so we don’t fight them here” and “help them stand up so we can stand down” nonsense is straight out of the chickenhawks’ war branding guide. Our government wasted tens of trillions on these meaningless platitudes in Afghanistan and Iraq, and those boondoggles led to the rise of ISIS.

Meanwhile I can look over the border and see Mexico spending a mere 8 billion a year on war and Canada a mere 26 billion. Meanwhile we’re up to a trillion and a half this year, but sure, it has nothing to do with the housing crisis or the standard of living in this country. We’re definitely not neglecting our own people to feed an insatiable war machine.

Frankly, I’m sick of watching our government impoverish our people to pay for more super yachts for warmongers.

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That’s shitty, but thankfully, we have the emulation community.

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I remember throwing my controller as a kid whenever one of those bubbles attached to Samus.

Great game.

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After 110 hours I’m still playing Dragon’s Dogma 2, but am starting to be ready to move on to something else.

I’ve barely explored the third major zone in the game. There is a metric ton of content for people who like exploring in games.

Definitely a good value for the money.

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While I’m skeptical anything would come of it, I’ve made it a ritual to wait for the $20 ticket sale every year because the fees have gotten so insane.

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I mean, it’s legitimately a bright spot.

But with November of this year likely heralding the legitimacy of fascism in the US, it’s incumbent upon us to try enjoy the silly shit before that comes along.

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You speak as if it’s already decided.

I think it is. Trump won in 2016 because people were largely impoverished and Democrats didn’t do anything about it. The impoverishment is worse now.

BUT, that does make it more important to enjoy the silly shit. Absolutely.

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Fair enough. Enjoy your awesome Neopet!

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Fandomwire wants clicks, clearly.

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