Aether (moved) @Taylor@awoo.space

Went through and deleted a *lot* of toots.

It's not like they needed to stay up. Metrics aren't important, and some of that personal stuff doesn't need to remain on a pseudo-public archive.

I'm still not sure about making a second more public account or not. Again: it's not like I should worry about a curated public image, but I still want an accessible account sometimes... hum.

I should try to remember to repost my tweets here too.

on that note;

I'm conflicted about whether I should continue to watch the Extra Credits channel.

It's not even anything to do with the harassment. (Unless Dan's departure was due to that.)

The new narrator's exuberance just doesn't work most of the time, the inclusion of the cat character is cute but the jokes are forced.

There's been a noticeable uptick in paid promotions.

And more recently the subject choices have either been weak, and not fully explored. Also they had a "Games You Might Not Have Tried" last month, and they had another one this week?

I haven't even really been watching Dan's Play Frame because I've seen KH's story enough times, I'd be more interested in just hearing his thoughts on design/direction in the games.

While I've mostly moved on from EC's horrendously misguided lootbox videos, and I disagree with Portnow's theory about making lootboxes better (tldr his suggestion would make them not lootboxes), there still remains that part of me that wonders if they regret those videos now that more regulations are being pushed.

It would suck to have to drop their channel, because they do have interesting things to say here and there, and the Extra Scifi has been interesting, but... the quality hasn't been consistent for a while.

People are jumping for joy about Evangelion on Netflix and it's just... I'm expecting it to not be licensed for streaming outside the US, and I would rather buy discs/download it so I actually own the damn eps than rely on some third-party to keep my purchases in existence.

What if I learned Japanese, just to be more authentically kitsune; I ponder, realising that would be absolute ヘル.

I now need to commission enough art to counterbalance that one (well, actually three) people I've commissioned in the past are no longer good people.

My only requirement is that they aren't falling for this bullshit fake woke attitude.

Social media sucks, it turns people into those that feed off of the adrenaline of shittalking those they hate rather than trying to make a difference.

It's fake-woke - like the mystification of spiritual enlightenment in the western world - an appearance of knowing the truth, getting metadata responses ego-stroking this truth, without confronting the actual truth.

To be fair this comparison falls apart a bit when the internet is about personal privacy and safety, while the shop stuff is more about ... I dunno, consumerism?

Though you could make a comparison again both are about status. Going to the mall's fancy store is about status. Posting about something on Twitter is about status. The locally owned smaller shop or your personal Livejournal... less so.

We have this issue where the Big Congregation Places keep squandering over the Small Particular (and Personal) Places.

They both have their uses, even if some maybe don't like one or the other. But when you *only* have the choice of the Big Place or the Smaller Places, the Big Place is more harmful alone than lots of Smaller Places.

I have been away on a family thing in the town I lived in until I was five. We were walking around earlier, and my parents were commenting how the smaller shops are largely closed down, and everyone would rather go to the malls and stuff. (Or order online.)

I found myself drawing parallels to social networks and the state of the internet.