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to be honest i think most of the actual real-world appeal is the social dimension, which is almost entirely separate from the mechanical process of getting a ding for jumping on a goomba 100 times

fyi somewhere in microsoft’s hellscape i hear there is a way to sign up for another year of extended support security updates for win10

do you always just carry a quest 64 cart around in your back pocket or smth?

mad respect if yes

Super Metroid: X-Fusion 2025 Total Conversion hack for SM by Metaquarius (Rating: 4 orbs)

xfusion dropped last month f y i

metroidconstruction.com/hack.php?id=...

oh goddamnit i have to redo my equalizer plugins, don’t i

picture alt text: a microphone from some company named fifine

got given a mic from a friend who swapped to headset. i don’t recognize brand, but i’ll be astonished if it’s worse than my venerable blue snowball.

also, after over a month, i finally have the rma replacement for my dead primary monitor.

signs may be pointing to a stream towards the weekend??

and the part that really pisses me off is the assertion that focusing on impact reduction is 'politics of scarcity' and that's actually just helping conservatism. in the end, the authors are just spoiled brats mad that they might not get all their toys for christmas.

'we NEED to have all this to have the future we want'
is basically the key point of the book.

the book honestly makes some pretty legit points about the housing market and academia but holy shit, all of its marshaled in favor of a guileless guilt-free utopianism that i just cannot support

'solar panels might take up a lot of room, but we'll have fusion someday.'
oh? will. we. now.
'but we won't take up that space because we'll have a gazillion oodles of free energy, so we'll have skyscraper farm towers instead of ""horizontal"" farming'
o.k.

its just fucking ostrich head-in-sand politics all the way down

summary of a section towards the beginning:
"one of the easiest ways to cut emissions is eating less meat. but people like eating meat, so that's impossible. well, what can you do? let's change nothing, and eventually someone will mass produce lab meat so i don't have to think about it anymore"

this book isn't specific about anything. it paints so many pictures of a utopia, then throws up its hands and says if we just cut red tape and don't make any hard choices, we can have it all. this is just the leftist version of conservative free-hand-of-the-market ideology.

why are you tantalizing me with rewilding talk if you're gonna presume we cover 500 thou sq km in solar panels, not even counting the land we'd have to clear for transmission? nevermind how harmful to the environment manufacturing all these panels would be?

these people do not live in reality

finished the book. my main takeaway is that, yes, i suppose it would be very easy to imagine a society where everything is 'abundant' if you just assume we will find some way to invent limitless guilt-free energy generation. god, this shit just doesn't add up

Humanity impacts the world too much already. Their solution: impact it more, but because it's Good Thing instead of Bad Thing, it's ok.

Spoilers: it is entirely possible for us to collectively commit total ecocide and ruin the planet without any further global warming at all

Ah yes, of course. This transitions into a discussion about how much land area we'd need for new solar and wind installations ("one plausible path": 590,000 km/sq). Why am I not surprised? I loathe these kinds of conversations, where Thought Leaders just do a find+replace (bad thing) w/ (good thing)

“We drive. We heat homes. We cook food. We dry clothes. These activities require millions and millions of machines, most of which now run on fossil fuels. To decarbonize, they will all need to run on electricity”

i was nearly cracking up at this comically-written passage, like, what do you _think_ you’re doing when you plug your dryer in, bro? but then i realized they were implying gas powered dryers. i must admit, i’ve never heard of one before. are these actually commonplace elsewhere?

to be 100% fair, this is the opening fantasy about what life *could* look like. it’s also got shit like all meat being lab grown and nuclear fusion power. they do use footnotes eksewhere

a quote from the book: “Thanks to higher productivity from AI, most people can complete what used to be a full week of work in a few days, which has expanded the number of holidays, long weekends …”

hatereading the new ezra klein / derek thompson book ‘abundance’. just three pages in and i already found the stupidest thing i’ve read all year

is there a single website that will respect me enough to not roll the dice each day on whether to log me off for no reason

a treasure chest in a weird-ass area

restarted void stranger and found a neat area. this game rocks. i think i'm hooked.

eagerly awaiting the upcoming karl jobst expose video about *checks notes* karl jobst

ghost trick owns

But here you go: two of @breakdown777.bsky.social 's old 106% pb/wrs. I got something out of rewatching these while working on them, and I hope you do too

1:53:19 on July 15, 2012 www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

1:41:41 on Jan 1, 2013 www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

I mention this because I've finally had occasion to re-upload a couple. This took absolutely forever; twitch exports were Weird back then, and nowadays Youtube crushes the raw vods to bits w/o upscaling. I spend multiple weeks trying to stitch multi-parters together, only to give up in the end

Turns out I've got a bunch of old Super Meat Boy speedruns archived, just chilling on a disk drive. It's been a hot minute since, and many if not most extant times from when I started running the game are now just dead links. Maybe I'm a bit of a packrat, but I'm glad I saved them

still mourning cohost, but hi