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2026-02-23 08:30:11 CET

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I'm hoping that beta decay will deliver on some of what I wanted this game to be.

2026-02-14 05:11:35 CET

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Maybe a little.

2026-02-12 21:59:00 CET

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Nothing worse than having an opinion that somehow aligns with opinions espoused by (out-group). I frequently audit my own opinions to ensure that they match the emerging in-group consensus.

2026-02-12 08:35:19 CET

Holy, what did you guys do?
#note14qv…xuch

2026-02-10 03:12:43 CET

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I'd have no idea who this guy was if it wasn't for your updates. The "I'm only allowed to leave the cuck room to use the kitchen after she's gone to bed" post sucked me right in ngl. There's no way this arc doesn't end in total disaster though let's be real.

2026-02-10 01:58:22 CET

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Mindless.

2026-02-10 01:41:34 CET

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The intent is to ever further segregate the privacy-minded minority from the go along to get along majority. As we're corralled into ever more obscure online spaces the voices raised on the normienet against this endless assault on privacy will also become ever fewer and fainter.

2026-01-29 05:16:02 CET

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My one attempt at reading Joyce plunged me into the blackest depression I've ever experienced. I'll probably get over it and try again some day.
"I had not though to pick up any of Maguire's work thinking it would be lacking substance."
Possibly so. I find there's a lot of emotionally difficult material lightly touched upon or encased in easily digestible prose, the change in style is a welcome relief after hammering myself with McCarthy for years. Maguire writes in a style that offers a kind of quiet encouragement to brush past the parts the reader doesn't really want to deal with, I think. The slower and more intentionally you read the darker things become.
Then again, I'm generally hesitant to recommend fiction to anyone. People's literary palates are so varied, after all. [i]In Watermelon Sugar[/i] was a revelation to me when I first read it and I still think about it all the time. Most people I've met that have read some Brautigan have been beyond negative about it. As time has passed I've become less convinced that they just don't like, get it man, and more inclined to believe that I just have acutely shit taste in literature. Lol.

2026-01-29 02:21:43 CET

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I've been re-reading [i]The Wicked Years[/i] tetralogy by Gregory Maguire, which I first read around 2012. If you're not familiar, it's a re-imagining of the Oz mythos which inspired that [i]Wicked[/i] musical that I've never seen that then spawned that grotesque Hollyweird assault they call a movie.
It's an excellent series of novels in my view, easily his best work. The author builds out a queasy magical realist playground through which he pursues an unrelenting exploration of pessimism; the series is heavy with themes of absurdism, psychosis, abandonment, the destruction of innocence and self-nullification. So you know, just the fun stuff.
How about you?