The Internet is awesome. It’s the web that sucks.
Artist,
Linux user,
programmer,
lifelong learner.
/notes
Notes. Random thoughts, ideas, links, musings, short and unstructured.
The Firekeeper doing a little spin when you use certain emotes is the most adorable shit I have ever seen in any fromsoftware game. 10/10 darksouls 3 is the best game.
The chief task in life is simply this: to identify and separate matters so that I can say clearly to myself which are externals not under my control, and which have to do with the choices I actually control. Where then do I look for good and evil? Not to uncontrollable externals, but within myself to the choices that are my own.
~ Epictetus, Discourses, 2.5.4-5
https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/39c3/#the-new-coalition
Cory Doctorow delivered a speech entitled “A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet” for 39C3, the 39th Chaos Communications Congress in Hamburg, Germany.
The door is open a crack, the wind is blowing, the post-American internet is upon us: a new, good internet that delivers all the technological self-determination of the old, good internet, and the ease of use of Web 2.0 so that our normie friends can use it, too.
Fuck yeah let’s go!
Douglas Adams:
I’ve come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:
- Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
- Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
- Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.
The darkest of nights passes and the sun is reborn.
There are no heroes.
That was a reaction I had to some news. Meditating on this phrase for just a moment I take the meaning to be: men are faliable and flawed and are not to be worshiped. We should look elsewhere for inspiration and guidance in our lives.
While we shouldn’t perform any hero worship to these flawed people, we should aspire towards the idealized hero myth. Those myths exist for a reason. We see the potential for greatness in ourselves.
We should aspire to be like Hercules.
everyone wants a dollar, goddamn.
My favorite way to play a soulslike is to become hilariously over-leveled and steamroll through every boss.