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- Cardio remains on point. Hitting at least 3 miles a day. Running is slowly getting better/easier, just need to keep focusing maintaining consistent performance.
- Reading keeping me sane. Reading more and more sci-fi classics. I'm gonna try and tap into the modern stuff but I feel like you should read the stuff that has influenced you like
- Failed an exam in my master's program. Didn't study. That was 420% my fault. Won't happen again.
- Programming/Game Development streak is only three days, but if I do it today it'll be four and if I do it again it'll be five. I keep reminding myself that 1 is infinitely closer to 100 than 0. I am focusing on building the habit and skills, rather than trying to "build my dream game".
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It would also be a shitty stable diffusion re-rendering of the urinal model.
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Exactly! EXACTLY! It's really just plain saddening that katz still buy into that after its been proven time and time again once the way they mistreat people over "there" (whereever that may be) is exactly how they will justify mistreating you.
It's ***REALLY*** bad on Steam, but on many online platforms (sadly even itch.io) there is so much damn shovelware. Not even "slop" something below "slop", sludge is the only word I can think of (no disrespect to Sludge Life 1 & 2, great games go play them). It clogs up online storefronts and really ruins searching games by tags. It's really annoying that my personal favorite genre, "immersive sim" has been utterly flooded with these shovelware games. Unless I know exactly the name of a game, I cannot find anything worthwhile. Good games, small games, gems of yesteryear, all that sort of stuff is just hidden by this layer of sludge. I like to browse storefronts (digital and physical) and just check stuff out, get a feel for what's out there, but you can't do that when there is "XYZ simulator: prologue" every other item. It fuckin' sucks. I really do think many real good games get lost in the sludge pit and have to hope that some internet video essayist/review or something discovers it by chance. I'm not saying everything is an undiscovered legend but I am saying, I can't even find games on most of these storefronts because the whole thing is flooded with effectively spam games. (I then feel bad that these scumbags can get a game on steam and i can't even hack together a playable game jam thing, but that's a different post)
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I think it's really sad there are still BIPOC in America and "The WEST™©®" as a whole that don't see what's happening in Palestine as nothing but a more modern and extreme version of what happened to us. To me it just shows are a real lack of historical understanding. It just bums me out that there still BIPOC who buy into idea they will get into :"The club" if they just parrot what white liberals tell them.
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It's true. So much of modern apparel is way more expensive now and has never been of poorer quality.
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Part of me still mad that Javik was technically a "DLC" character when he ought to have been in the base game from the jump. Then again that's part of the problem (even at the time, not even in retrospect) pre-orders and all sort of stuff. It needlessly fragmented games. Regardless I thought Javik was rad him basically saying "Are you people for real right now? Like seriously?" to everything was great.
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I read i think the first couple volumes in college. I liked some of the humor and some of the themes, but I always find the "oh no I'm tied up all sexy like" sorts of jokes in comics/manga to be sorta lame. The comic has a surprisingly good supporting casts. I think the lover/boyfriend "Thugboy" was pretty good character in that there aren't a lot of good depictions of solid and generally supportive boyfriends in comics.
But Empowered was it's sorta like a "One Punch Man" before there was "One Punch Man". I think Empowered is fine. It was not for me but then again I tend not to like superhero comedies, but that's just me. Empowered is fine-ish overall, I do really dig the artstyle. Very manga meets superhero before things like My Hero Academia or One Punch Man.
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I'm still trying to find more ways to reclaim my attention and free time. I have deleted a lot of the apps on my phone. So many of them serve ZERO purpose and do nothing for me in the short term or long term. I'm not see any real changes or impact yet but I'm thinking that all of those little "micro-interactions" with my phone will add up to lets say 3-5 per week.
I'm trying to find a better "routine" as far as cooking and cleaning as well. Keeping my domain orderly is a big help for me but finding a pattern that works still hasn't really settled for me. I'd rather keep it clean and orderly rather than having to clean and order things when they are in disarray.
Finding time to really lock in and do my game development was rough last week. I didn't make much progress on anything, I'm even trying to log my work in a journal/blog but it really highlights how little I have done and how far i have to go. Making even tiny micro lame-o games is far more demanding on my time than I would like. But still I want to make games as a hobby so I gotta find a pathway to fulfill this desire, because I'm worth the effort.
Diet and exercise remain on point. Doing more cardio, slightly less weight training and I'm seeing improvement in body composition. Still making sure to do regular heavy resistance days but I'm really hopeful to see my cardio endurance improve.
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Exactly dude! It has never made more sense to have split-screen/same screen co-op games. Shooters, beat 'em ups, Platformers, party games whatever (also lots of great accessibility features for those who need them), we finally have enough screen space to do really co-op properly and we all gotta just get in VOIP. Ugh, this future sucks man.
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I will never forgive the gaming executives for killing couch co-op. We have never had better TV's and monitors in history and it's shame I can't share the space with the homies. Inviting people over for a game session ought to be a normal way for grown-ups to kick it in the modern age, but no. We all gotta hop on Discord and pretend to be together rather than just actually being together.
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Reading the top 20 podcast list is fascinating. I'm rather surprised by the amount of pop psychology meets hustle-grind culture on there. The true crime stuff was expected, but the pop psychology/"Master your mindset bro™©®" is concerning but also explains a lot of the normie/mainstream stuff I hear and see online these days.
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I think I mixed "Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors" and "Night Warriors: Darkstalkers' Revenge" into one game. My bad dawg.
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The best we can do is get sold way overpriced DLC cosmetics in SF6. It hurts my arcade youth soul to see NightStalkers be done dirty like this.
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I really do hope ladybird can do something substantial, but even the most optimistic outcome is maybe half a decade away. I really do hope the techno wizards of the net do something about meaningful alternative browsers and do it soon
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Pack it up boyz, goin' back to books now. The internet is a fuck and everything will be an ad. uBlock Origin in all of its zeal and strength may not be enough to protect us from the endless and ceaseless onslaught that will be the internet to come.
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I need this to anti-trend. Please.
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Finally, a president pick i can trust.
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Self improving Hexbears is what the systems fears the most. That and organized citizens crossing over social/racial/Religious/cultural barriers to come together to defeat the vampires at the top in order create more equality and equable world
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I’m wholehearted agreement. Some teachers are really putting the work to enlighten young minds in spite of institutional opposition, and others are sadly just guards at the checkpoint for the school to prison pipeline. Which is of course really saddening and generally a bummer. It’s really a shame so many modern classrooms are preparing kids for a MEGACORP overlords ruling over them and not equipping them with problem-solving, curiosity, creativity, and reasoning skills. Because of course the overlords don’t want that sort of shit in their underlings
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I genuinely cannot imagine what it's like being a teacher these days. Don't get me wrong I think teachers are one of the truly great public workers and ought to be venerated like other public workers. However, I can't even begin to think about how to teach young people in the modern age. The overlap of social media, accessibility of information, generative AI that could do homework, parents totally disengaged and expecting teachers to raise their kids, all that stuff seems super damn hard.
Build your strength in whatever way you may but remember to properly repair and recover. Get your rest, keep your diet on point, that you may train again and go even harder. Keep training friends, let us all become our strongest selves (in every way one can be strong).
This kind of a public self-reminder, but I just want everyone to remember that fitness is literally a journey. It may not feel like to today or tomorrow, hell not even next month, but you're going to see positive changes and improvement. I mean this in the least "hustle culture" way, but keep grinding everyone.
After doing my budgeting for the upcoming month I was pretty saddened by how little my income seems to cover these days.  . I was curious and checked the existing inflation. It's not looking good. It's insane to me that over the last four years the cost of living has gone up approximately 22%. I think four years is a good period to examine, as whenever I hear "inflation is going down actually, it's gone down 2.9% since July! We are in a "cooling" period"  " those people are usually referring to like maybe six month period at best. Also shut your dork-ass up man. I checked a couple of different sites, some newspaper, some official US Government sites, and an economics site I'm like 96% certain some evil GOP-backed SuperPAC probably funds and they all seemed to say the same thing.    I'm not an economics guy, but one thing I have a vague understanding of is stuff like the Vampires and their ghouls thought COVID-19 conditions would extend forever. I'm not exactly sure of what they did or the mechanisms behind it, but it seems uniquely bad to have everyone's paying power reduced by ~22% (that's numbers probably higher for people who already in a bad spot). I'm sure it gets worse with interest rates and other fancy economic terms and devices I don't understand. What is a person to do? I'm not even talking about hip and cool leftists of various stripes like us who at least have a framework for understanding why this everything sucks ass, but what about regular "normal™©®" people? I don't understand how people are making it these days. People with kids or dependents, people with medical needs for themselves or loved one, or people with any real complications in life? Just regular people trying to have a decent and upright life, how they supposed to make it man? I think about my younger cousins who are graduating high school or are in college right now and I think how are supposed to even get started? How are people supposed to survive let alone thrive, when they have 1/4 less than they did four years ago? Also they didn't have enough four years ago to be frank. I'm also sure that this was like a zillion times worse for people nations under US sanctions, as I while I'm a US citizen I don't want to think we are the only people who exists, cause that's not a very cash-money thing to do. Like what the fuck? I'm not on some doomer-shit, more so on that "How do i find optimism in these dire times"-shit.
I just watched "Vampire Hunter D" for the first time. It rules, I can also see its influence in a lot of other anime, scifi, and other cool nerd shit. It's really a shame I have never sat down and watched it until now. It fuckin' rips!. I need more animated films of that era that aren't made for the selling of toys. Doesn't have to be anime but really any sort of sleeper/underrated animated films from the 80s and 90s. I need more animated cinema.
What's the mindset behind forcing a user to create an account to view the media on a page? For example an artist I like posts their art on Instagram and Twitter but I can't look at it unless I create an account. What's the dumb corporate rationale behind this? I have seen this on so many sites you can't even see what's there without an account? Doesn't it just scare users away? I know it certainly does for me. If I have to log in just to view a page I don't want to view the page.
They are objectively on the highest of tier public workers. If you make a bracket of public worker they are automatic S-tier
romero.com
I'd really recommend it to anyone interested in the super early days of PC gaming. John Romero has a rather interesting tale, there is a lot of pathos surprisingly. Romero is one of the few katz I think is humble enough to actually talk about his flaws and shortcomings rather openly. I learned a lot about the 90's, game development, and was kinda inspired in a weird way. I was pretty lucky my library had a copy.
Not even a "Start Here", "Locations", or something super basic like that. They really want you to deputize yourself and the local "Big Brother" super snitch.  It really got me heated  , slamming away on the keyboard helping a less then tech-savvy person input their information and upload their documents. At the very least I think I got them squared away, and helping others is cool. The supposed vigilance against "Welfare queens" is so goddamn stupid. If we really actually wanted to protect local and state budgets, we would y'know at the very least do something about tax avoidance/evasion. Of course this isn't about budgets at all, just making public services as punitive as possible. The bandits of Neoliberalism attempting to coarse people into the workforce while simultaneously robbing the public wealth. It just gets me so mad, katz are out here struggling and even trying to do the "right thing" and they are "supposed to do" and we go and it so fuckin' difficult to do so. Be sure to check out the c/mutal_aid channel to help out some strangers, cause I'm pretty damn sure their local government isn't gonna do it.
It's very frustrating watching knowing that quite literally everything bad that they said would happen in this hearing does in fact happen. They even directly point out that more cops will not reduce crime. I know 1994 and 2024 are two radically different time periods but goddamn. This bill has was fundamental to the expansion of the carceral and surveillance state. It's a really long watch but I think it's worth watching. It's very long and dry and boring, but it's very insightful. I have seen clips of this C-SPAN broadcast in many different video political essays and such and never have I seen it in its entirety. I think about this not just as it's an election year, or not even really about the DNC; Instead, I think about this is respect to all of the people who were hurt when they cranked up the police machine to 11. ( Just a reminder this isn't just a POC issue either. "Funny fact about a cage, they're never built for just one group...")
I recently had the displeasure of going to the doctor's office. Totally routine check-up. No aches or pains, no fever, nothing particularly ailing me at the moment. I just try to go the doctor twice a year because I have "good insurance™©®" through my employer. The amount of legwork I had to do just see a doctor was awful. I found doctors that were covered but their practice was not. I found a clinic in my area that the doctor's were covered but the labs they sent their results to were not. Having to navigate through websites and compare them against my insurance coverage felt like I was trying to min-max a character sheet in an RPG. I can only imagine this being 9999% worse if I needed some real deal medical care. I eventually found a clinic, doctor, and lab trio that worked with my insurance through their website. I drove (thanks American Car Culture) to the doctor's office I kid you not, I spent MORE time in the lobby talking to the nice dude at the desk then I did with the doctor lady. Some clinic aids took my blood pressure and weight and stuff, but I spoke to the doctor-person about seven minutes before they bounced. Again, I know this is just a check-up but damn, seven minutes of face-to-face with a healthcare professional seems pretty bad. I spent maybe two hours doing all this legwork for seven minutes of actual care. I don't blame the doctor-lady either, I'm sure she was stacked to her eyeballs with papers and forms and other patients. This system is so fuckin' wack. I want to live in a world, where I pay my taxes and I get healthcare (and I want to know my taxes go to covering other people, not the endless war machine). All the shit in life that doesn't actually matter is pretty frictionless and easy, but something as important getting medical care is a goddamn dungeon crawl. There is so much obfuscation between patients and doctors it's absurd. Also reminder, private insurance is forever and always a business venture. Maximizing shareholder value is the ONLY goal of a business. Also the amount of bullshit jobs  in MEGACORPS is absurd. They are tons and tons of layers of obstructions built into these companies by design. They even hire folks whose role is to find reason to deny claims. Just really rotten stuff. I want single payer healthcare because it's a rational and simple system. I want to go a clinic and get care. That simple. I want medical professionals to make choices about what sort of care i need, not some ghoul an a phantom office in Delaware. It's a real actually existing policy that would make people's lives better. I know we live belly of capitalism, and the DNC and RNC are lapdogs for these companies but fuck I will still want it. TL;DR - Private Insurance does nothing but get in the way. Insurance companies hinders healthcare providers ability to provide their services, and hinders people from getting the care they need. For-profit private health insurances are fundamentally bad.
addons.mozilla.org
I hate the current YouTube thumbnail meta. I found this extension and it just takes a frame from the content of the video and displays that. I believe that is fair and more representative of the video. I have been using this extension for a while and I find myself paying more attention to the names of creator and then considering if I want to watch the video; rather than being enticed by some intentionally inflammatory image. I find it just make YouTube more enjoy in combination with [Ublock Origin](https://ublockorigin.com/) and [YouTube Search Fixer](https://phoennix.gitlab.io/youtubesearchfix/). Just wanted to share this extension with any Hexbears who aren't liking YouTube's thumbnail arms race of increasingly distracting images. I didn't know if I should have put this in c/videos or c/technology. I rolled a D6 and odds was c/videos and evens c/technology. I rolled a two. 
It can be time consuming due to the sheer length and duration, but I have found fat falling off in the places I have most issues (lower abdomen, chest, and back). It's free, it's super chill, and I have found it clearing my mind too. In combination with more intense regime, I think it is a a necessary supplemental exercise. I think walking outside is probably better (it feels more natural to me at least), but just a plain ol' treadmill or other cardio machine will probably get those steps up. Its super low-impact, easy, and do-able. I'm dropping weight and I'm finding my brain rebooting in some places as well. It's overall super great and I encourage every Hexbear to increase their step count. 
apnews.com
America can't build houses. America can't fix roads, bridges, dams, pipes, or power grids. America can't provide high quality education for students of all ages and stages. America can't build libraries and parks. America can't provide medical care to all citizens. America can't provide childcare. America can't support public arts or media. America can't provide public transportation. American can't feed the hungry. America can't better the lives of its people. America is powerless to do anything, other than expand the military industrial complex. $14.5 billion is some COVID-19 level wealth extraction from working people. American oligarchs and plutocrats stole all our collective wealth yet again. 
If you're overwhelmed by the bundle try to [use this site to help find games for you](https://randombundlegame.com/). Support a real and meaningful charity and play games.
theanarchistlibrary.org
Remember you deserve to be idle. You should be able to do things for their own sake.
www.talesofalethrion.com
Not exactly anime, but I still think this is one of the best animations online.
I have been teaching myself more programming stuff for c/gamedev over the last several weeks as my ambition is to make a using Godot to share with people. Just making a game for the sake of trying my hand at a creative work, no real "profit motive" just wanna make a thing . However, but I was feeling like I wanted to get back into the old-school C++ programming rather than using a game engine and was looking for a primer as it's been a bit since I have done it. In my quest I discovered [Academic Torrents](https://academictorrents.com/), I found a ton of great computer science courses and the last weakened synapses of academic rigor in my internet poisoned brain to fire once again. I have always been for open-information (most just downloading .pdf files of textbooks during college) and stuff but I didn't really know about the concept of a [Shadow Library](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_library). I'm finding myself interested in just learning more computer nerd shit for the sake of learning. I like the idea I have access to pretty much every computer science department that has a webcam and torrent link, I think that's good. This idea applies beyond not just for tech stuff of course, but just about anything. I think it's really weird that knowledge creation is soloed away behind nations, institutions, and IP laws. Everyone everywhere should have access to knowledge for the sake of knowledge. I don't know much about the actual process of knowledge creation but the created knowledge itself should be assessable to everyone in a library sense. Knowledge is one basic things that makes us human and should be free and open to everyone. Discovering a website reminded that learning is just cool and worth doing for the sake doing (if that's your thing of course, if you don't wanna learn that should be considered cool too). The promise of the internet still exists outside the walled gardens and I think that's pretty dope. So long as people wanna learn I'm glad that these sorts of Shadow libraries are there to help people. Also support your actual local library. Light and Shadow Libraries are cool and lefty and good.
Vent your rage and or employment woes. I am having a bad time looking for a job as an employed keyboard-jockie. Hate my current job can’t find another. The employment process sucks, the ghosting sucks, the endless automations and inhuman interactions just to find a job. The quantification of every part of the job process is bonkers. Reading all of this fluffy nondescript job profiles is a job in and of itself The meta-game of having to “optimize” your resume to be read by an A.I. or to having to use an A.I. for the application itself just sucks. All this work for an entry to middle level job that barely covers your bills is just soul draining. All these employers want you to have 2-5 years experience and a masters degree for a starter position. It’s all just terrible. It feels like “finding a job” is a skill in and of itself in a way it should not be. “Job hunting” is also a deeply solo thing, even using your professional and/or social network pits you against the “The Market”. It sucks so much. “The Market” is so bad at everything. We could all more easily organize work and finding work if we all weren’t alienated independent nodes all forced into battle. Yet another reason planning and democratic processes are better than this weird tyranny of “the free market”. Jump in this thread and be mad with me. Big mad.
I recently discovered these two terms, [Fordism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fordism) and [Post-Fordism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-Fordism). I have recently been on the David Graeber tip,[, [re-reading Bullshit Jobs and some of his other essays on the Anarchist library](https://theanarchistlibrary.org/category/author/david-graeber). Dude was and still is 420% right about modern work and how/why it sucks, however I didn't really have that sort of deeper theory based framework of understanding why it sucks and how it came to suck so much. I'm generally anti-work as the next leftie. However, I do think there is a lot of work that needs to be done and we should all do, but we should all not have to do it all the time for all of our lives. In general most jobs that need to be done can be done collectively or through a shared and equitable fashion. That said 93.7% of modern jobs don't needs to exist and the remain 6.3% of jobs could be radically re-imagined to be fairer and better for the worker. Reading about Fordism and Post-Fordism I'm really understanding that capital-M "Management" in just about every industry all want to see a workforce strongly resembles that of a factory churning out repeatable products. Everything a process, that can be measured, and repeated, and traced, even the works themselves become a collection processes. I'm also listening to a podcast on Gramsci  and learning more about a theorist I never knew about. While I knew of this sort of sentiment before I didn't really parse it through a Marxist lens until reading about it more thoroughly and experiencing it now that I'm "moving up" in my current bland MEGACORP job. I'm experiencing people around me trying to internalize this ideology in a weird modern way, like it's somehow "progressive™ ® © " to want to become a better cog. To self optimize your cog-y-ness, and to want to hyper specialize your cog-y-ness. The worst part of it all is that it's seen as "self-actualizing" and generally a good thing to want to turn yourself in to the cog. The manufactured desire of you wanting to debase yourself for your boss is just vile to me. I guess I just want to share his discovery, and prove yet again Marx was right.