🏳️‍⚧️Kyra🏳️‍⚧️ @kyra@awoo.space

that cheap technology has given many more people access to versions of expensive and inaccessible tools is obviously good materially. but that commercial expressly emphasized, intentionally or not, the recent homogenization of those disciplines and the standards we expect from them, and their takeover by a handful of corporations who seem to want to sell you a fake, sanitized, and quite mediocre version of a real, weird, dangerous world, over and over until you forget what the original was like

that apple ad where they crush everything right. it was an abominable mistake on their part, it's given everyone a clear visual metaphor for what's wrong: smartphones can do everything, but as a jack-of-all-trades they can't do anything particularly well. whenever you're using a phone you're having a constant low-level, subliminal feeling of disappointment, a nagging feeling that if you were using the actual proper device to do the thing you want to do, you'd be having a better time

*tech news headline voice* tech billionaire and visionary thought-leader dr. braincrime has invented a revolutionary new brain that cannot commit crime

Do you like immersive sims? Do you like #GameDev? Do you like #GodotEngine? Well good news for you, we're working on an Imsim Toolkit add-on for Godot, and we wanna hear your thoughts and suggestions!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evX2nwLPBks

3rd june. the sky is a patchwork of light grey and lighter gray. the air is soggy. there is no crisp warmth nor a cool breeze. someone outside is using a hedge trimmer. that's right. it's time to celebrate the season: christmas, british-style. you put three unopened cans of Heinz Baked Beans directly into the microwave, placing them neatly on the glass rotating plate, and then turn the timer dial all the way round to '60 min'