The writer

There’s moving the goal post and there’s pointing to a deflated beach ball and declaring it the new goal.

Lest we concede the point, LLMs don’t write. They generate.

Is this a personal spiritual successor, or is this there some thread connecting these two games that I’m missing?

They do both rule.

Having grown up on the MUDs and MMOs that release before WoW I think I was thankfully inoculated against its more gamified, addictive formula.

That sinking feeling

Who the fuck is signing off on the braindead mergers!

This applies to the different social medias too. Like i need a mini briefer before I can understand an Instagram meme

Definitely. Another similar trick I used to do was to write down the objects in my agenda under “things I wanted to buy.” Sometimes just the act of writing it down gave me the feeling of having fulfilled the desire in some weird way.

… when the need exists.

Like you already said, it’s much easier to separate needs from wants when you just don’t go to Amazon. It was a real eye opener for me, how I could just add a tiny bit of friction to my “customer journey” (just don’t automatically start my search on Amazon), and my desire for the object would usually just … evaporate.

Like a fey mood had overtaken me, but I managed to shake it.

I guess that’s consumerism.

That’s vertical integration, and the end result for a virus like Amazon is that, left unchecked, they own everything.

Doesn’t “Link” literally also mean a link to the player? Maybe apocryphal, but I’ve heard it for years

This summer…

BEAN
IS
LINK

Thanks, I love the list

Oh it didn’t even occur to me to subscribe to webcomics. Thanks for this!

I don’t buy that implicit part. I’m sure they want to find feeds they’d also enjoy, but there is a genuine joy in finding out what other people are into, even if it doesn’t all appeal to you.

I take their question at face value.

I’m using QuiteRSS and like it a lot. Taskbar applet works with i3 too, which is nice.

Whoa, like exactly like

It’s so much free speech that it loops around and becomes censorship. 🤷

I resent the implication that I know anything about anything