I'm about to move out of California at long last, to restore an old house in a distant land, start the initial planning phases of growing my own food on a larger scale around it, and a while after that, experience fatherhood for the first time.

I won't be completely off the grid, but I really don't like using my phone for anything but phone calls, and posting here while I have so many other things that take priority would be a really annoying and counterproductive distraction that I might get pulled into anyway if I got carried away or got into lurking and then saw someone proverbially wrong on the internet. I know very well how that tends to go by now.

I may return someday, probably when I have time to complete my next novel. It is currently a work in progress, and I will almost certainly want to share it here when it is done.

Until then, may you never stop posting, comrades!

I HATE MODERN MOVIE TRAILERS

I HATE MODERN MOVIE TRAILERS

Even if I actually wind up liking the movie, like 90% of the trailers are THUMPTHUMPTHUMP jumpcutty pretentious nonsense and make the movies look like shit.

The only good that can come of this is the likely Screen Rant Movie Pitch treatment on Youtube.

If it is somewhat like chess in mechanics, that's one thing.

What I mean is the "MMA grappling is like chess" or "Overwatch is like chess" or even "crypto day trading is like chess." What they mean is it's a big boy very serious very smart interest for big boy very serious very smart people.

I hate that, especially because I've recently noticed just how silly and chuddy the largest and loudest parts of the chess community, especially its fandom, really are. The pretenses of detached gravitas really ring hollow when some jerkoff like Kasparov runs his mouth about how he read The Gulag Archipelago and became enlightened.

I actually read the full lyrics of the song and I'm actually startled by the whiplash of it. The way Tiktok bazingas used the first few lines for their videos really threw me off.

That won't matter to the bazinga billionaire blasting out how the screaming prisoner is now "trying to beat the stage while collecting cooooooins" though.

I hinted at it before but I may as well say something now before the actual moving day: I'm probably going to be on here a lot less after a few weeks. In the near future, I'm going to be restoring an old house in a distant land, starting the initial phases of growing my own food on a larger scale around it, and experiencing fatherhood for the first time.

I admit I'm scared because change is scary and moving sucks so bad that it was a primary plot driver in the film Inside Out, but these are lifelong goals that I've been shooting for for a long time and I am the metaphorical dog that finally caught the car.

I won't say I'll never return here but the new focus should take priority. That said, I highly doubt that all the proverbial grass I'll be touching out there in the months and years ahead will suddenly make me like Gambo or Richard and Mortimer, contrary to what I've been told before.

I may lurk a little bit but that may run the risk of getting pulled in again if I do that; I know my weakness there. I admit I like posting here and I like a lot of the people here on Hexbear. What may stop me is that moving out of state is a bit like a reset on my location and livelihood in a way that may make it a bit harder for people to find me for those that I don't want to find me, be they or just toxic internet people. That's a nice thing and I effectively forfeit that perk if I get pulled in while lurking.

Maybe this is a pointless thread, especially because I'm not leaving quite yet, but I wanted to get it out there anyway because I'm abuzz internally about it. Even if it's scary and my nerves are a bit frayed in the final stages of signing papers and getting travel arrangements booked in advance, I have to remember that in some ways I'm very lucky and fortunate to get this far, and if I don't blow this I'll be living off of the land in ways that would make some of my ancestors proud.

Not the chud ones, but fuck them.

What would happen if @Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net succeeded in peddling NFTs to the Republic of Hexbear? There would set in an era of the blackest reaction in all the capitalist and colonial websites, the working posters and the oppressed lurkers would be seized by the throat, the positions of international communism would be lost.

This is an impressively in-depth look at a game I was once very fond of until I decided I didn't want to give the corrupt Randian assholes that ran it any more money, time, or attention.

How are you supposed to play this "any way you can?"

How are you supposed to play this "any way you can?"

Diggles: The Myth of Fenris is one of the most unique games I've ever played. It has a well-crafted world, an interesting premise, and a core gameplay loop that really hasn't been seen any time since this released over 20 years ago. The game sold rather poorly at launch, and it didn't get very good reviews either. While Diggles has an EXTREMELY innovative premise and style of gameplay, it ultimately failed to execute on this is almost every way besides presentation. The game is riddled with bugs, crashes, and even when it is working properly, it still falls flat. Everything is far too slow, and the AI and pathfinding systems are so dysfunctional that the game could be considered as having released in an unfinished state.

Next time someone says that unfinished, broken new releases are a new problem of the 2020s, just show them Diggles. It's always been a problem, it's just that these unfinished games get far more media coverage today than they did back in the pre-social media era.

It's still nice when Jauwn reviews obscure weird stuff that isn't NFT or "play to earn" grifter trash.

When whine about games being too "political" these days, this is what they apparently want.