Aether (moved) @Taylor@awoo.space

Raarar.

dragons.

Idly thinking about the fact I sometimes mess up grammatical syntax or use old fashioned terminology, oft for sarcastic effect, but instead about ways it could be used to give off an old-fashioned draconic dialect.

Shame about that character limits on social media mean I usually have to curtail a few words.

A retweet of a Twitter conversation, for context.

"You don't have to make things work that way, but you get more users."

The use of "users" reveals that these ghouls are only interested in profit and engagement. The nebulous ideas of how their JPG receipts could improve video games is just an excuse to placate actual players.

"Eventually most will have to."

Also they're a cult.
Like this is the same bull-headed single-mindedness behind the techno-religious that think we're in a simulation - the deification of technology.

To be more specific: there's a certain inevitability that I feel from both kinds of people. When it comes to "we live in a simulation" the justification is "there would be more simulated universes than real ones, therefore it's more likely we live in a simulation".
By what metric? Where are you getting the idea there's more simulations? By your own logic?

And yet it's used in their worldview without doubt, passionately, like a spiritual faith. That same vibe comes from those pushing crypto as a future.

Honestly wondering how feasible it would be to just drop everything and hide out on IRC forever.
... none of the people I wanna chat with would follow, and my brain worms would get upset at the silence.

I had a dream last night where I had a giant inflatable toy of myself. It was in a sitting on all fours pose, and the torso came up about to my head. I don't remember how accurate it was. It was also leaking with a split across a seam so I was trying to tape it up as a temporary measure. D:

... there was also piles of various plushies everywhere and I had three cats instead of one.

Not sure what this dream was trying to tell me.

jesus christ that toot hit it off huh

I have personally noticed how recurring this sentiment this is nowadays online - the desire to be our real selves - even amongst "mainstream" furries, as it were.
Either this says a lot more people are deeply non-human than we realise, or we're all just really tired of the human condition.

I went chilling in some apocalyptic VR worlds as a big dragon. Here are some photos.

• I tried making the update to 21H1 easier on myself by using an ISO, because I expected the update to be huge. Said installer tried checking for updates, which seemed weird when it ought to just install what it has.
• I tried doing the update the normal way and in the end it was only 5MB.
• Firefox has been having trouble with youtu[.]be links lately, giving EOF errors. Even fresh profiles weren't changing things. Finally found a post that said to toggle the DNS/proxy settings, and it worked.
• For whatever reason, Twitter videos don't pop up their volume control on my Surface, but they work fine on my desktop. This is regardless of Firefox profile, addons, or anything, so this is beyond me.
• I learned that Windows 11 is absolutely not worth going anywhere near: https://www.pcworld.com/article/539183/windows-11-review-an-unnecessary-replacement-for-windows-10.html

In the very least, I found this addon that should help clear off tracking junk - not just for Twitter, but perhaps elsewhere too.
https://github.com/ClearURLs/Addon

It doesn't delete the new nonsense, but it at least gets rid of s=XX, which should mean the tweets under posts are actually the replies.

Twitter's URLs have got worse about garbage data on the end, and no one sharing cute art on Discord bothers to delete it from links, hlarglblarghl.

Does everyone use default apps, live on their phones, and use the share buttons now? I thought furries were knowledgeable about this stuff. I'd expect it more from normie humans.

Terrible game idea: game where mechanics are named things like "Build", "Exploit", "Speedrun", and "Proc".

If the final Smash DLC is actually Amaterasu (though it seems somewhat unlikely) I'm almost certainly going to go all Amaterasu again.

I just wanna be a dragon today. Maybe I'll do VR later...

Raaaar.

I'm looking at GPUs online to help a friend with something, and now I'm imagining synthetic creatures upgrading their own GPU to improve their eyesight.

why am I not a goddamn dragon, huh

Living in a pre-transhumanism pre-post-scarcity planet-locked era is exhausting.