There’s a great quote “… the soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.” from Marcus Aurelius. With this in mind I’ve been regretting the kind of person YouTube has been dying my soul with.

I’ve unironically returned to books and writing/reviewing in notebooks to fill in the gaps of my time. You can get notebooks that fit in your pocket and can just pluck it out and review whatever ideas you’ve been chewing on lately instead starting up a video. I add to the notebooks as I read.

When I have more time in the evenings I can collate those notes into broader writing projects, which are mostly simple blog posts. This process has brought me a fantastic feeling of clarity.

This might indeed be comorbid with the end of something.

Shamelessness is said to be an expression of freedom which is ironically an admittance of repression.

The shameless actor is anxious about lost freedoms, and feels compulsion to perform. Unfortunately their performance is entirely dependant on a viewer, whether to take pleasure in their disgust or to justify further acts in others.

Ultimately if the shameless were truly free they would not have these extreme compulsions. It is said to be common in historical social decline, or when the future is uncertain.

This is an example of the internet facilitating anti-intellectualism

If you crop his face it looks exactly like Joe Biden’s

I also want to note that they’ve just:

Removed all pay to win elements

Removed all loot box and fomo purchases

Added the ability to toggle off other people’s cosmetics in the settings

Removed all “dailies”, “hourlies” and any content that would pressure you to log in or not do the activity you’d rather do

They overhauled the combat system last week to be more intuitive

Are releasing a whole new continent on the 28th to give new players a taste of endgame activities like bossing

The price increase is on the annual subscription, and as a new player I’m letting my monthly sub roll another month. Not saying it doesn’t suck for long-time players but it’s what, another $40 for a game you intend to play for a whole year and will get hundreds of hours out of?

I just started playing RuneScape last month as part of a “group Ironman” and have been having a blast. I want to note this is the new RuneScape and not “Old School”. I honestly think it’s going to surpass OSRS at this rate.

SILENCE BRAND 🦀

Wow you had so many of these ready to go 👀

The other day my wife was watching YouTube on the TV while I was doing some chores. Turns on a video titled something like “The boy love Trump administration chart - with evidence.”

The narrator begins, “First I have to make it clear, Trump is an OMEGA.”

And I’m like, “What the hell is an Omega?”

And my wife just slips in casually, “Oh it’s a common boy love term that means a tough guy who can get pregnant.”

Women do not fuck around when cooking up smut.

“He couldn’t solve the problem because deep state.”

There is no zinger, no matter how truthful, that will penetrate the average republican voter’s weaponized schizophrenia.

Don’t marry women too materialistic to accept this, loving diamonds is a big red flag imo

SILENCE BRAND 🦀

Surely police unions are among em right?

I’d say California should hold a referendum to join Canada in response, but then I discovered California’s economy alone has 4.3 trillion GDP compared to all of Canada’s 2.6 trillion. Amazing that the average Canadian still has better access to healthcare 😅

PLEASE give the Steam Deck a try if you haven’t yet and are thinking about a Switch 2.

I have bought every Nintendo handhold since the gameboy colour up to the switch, but now that I have a steam deck I don’t have a single drop of desire for the switch 2.

The deck feels incredibly liberating, especially since you are not paying $90 for games that aren’t even as fun as indies

You had your chance, it’s Bernie-Alex time now

In a Gmail client 🤮

Friendly reminder that progressive gamers are the norm and Chuds are just loud when they cry

https://www.psypost.org/contrary-to-stereotypes-gamers-tend-to-be-more-inclusive-than-the-general-public-study-finds/

Didn’t watch the video but isn’t it just authoritarianism in general?