Moonside

Moonside OP wrote

I read too many US news for my good and also know some peeps in Canada so I'm clued in to the continent save for Mexico, so it's a reasonable guess! But my origin and surroundings shall remain as mysterious as the fog shrouded Finnish town I post from.

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Moonside OP wrote

Reply to comment by musou in Ambien trip thoughts by Moonside

Yeah it did - I slept marvelously - though I'm surprised that I told you about that lady who wanted to cyber with me. lmao. I don't regret spilling the beans but I'm not that open usually. I had no idea she was attracted to me so it was a big adjustment.

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Moonside OP wrote

She uses the time effectively, imho. Though it could have been an actual essay, I think the format suits the content quite well. (It's commenting social media on a social media platform, which I think is relatively justifiable not only through audience overlap - people willing to watch an hour long video on social media beef are going to be invested in social media - and given that Sarah Z does not have a platform in legacy media and couldn't reach audiences in similar way through other media.)

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Moonside wrote

I have yet to read this piece, but let me just say how much I appreciate the availability of book piracy nowadays. I'd be trapped in a prison of unaesthetic ignorance without it, for sure.

It's almost conventional to write about how I still buy books and want to support authors etc. after admissions like these, but eh, why bother? It will take a long time to come up with alternative systems of supporting creative labor.

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Moonside wrote

I honestly do prefer the problem solving process on Linux. Solving problems on a Windows desktop is finding a tutorial with instructions to click (as the best case scenario), which may or may not be up to date. Clicking the right fields takes up a lot of attention, somehow. I find command line and text file stuff to be clearer a lot of time and you can build up some conceptual understanding over time, even if the tools could be better without legacy cruft. E.g. bash is not a fine programming language, Unix commands are needlessly cryptic ('cp' instead of 'copy' and 'mv' instead of 'move' or 'rename' kinda suck. But learning basic command line usage made me way more efficient and it was also fun.

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Moonside OP wrote

I'm very ok with newer titles, I'm just impossibly out of date with gaming! Just didn't have the machines to stay up to date for 10 years. But my pov is that late 90's to early 00's was a special period for stories, especially in RPG's. Maybe it's parochial but it's my pov.

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