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Alkorin 🇨🇦 🫎 🎸

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🇨🇦 moose* music/gaming Twitch affiliate. I play bass, and prefer playing metal. 🤘 48yo. Unflinching 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ ally. Husband/dad. He/him. AuDHD/type 2 diabetic. [email protected] All socials at: https://linktr.ee/alkorin *Not a real moose.

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Alkorin 🇨🇦 🫎 🎸 @alkori.net · Oct 20

It turns out that there are plenty of people out there who are willing to be jerks to you. Don't do their work for them. You're giving them a free pass. Make them do it, and when you laugh them off, you're just pissing them off that much more, because they had to try AND fail.

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Alkorin 🇨🇦 🫎 🎸 @alkori.net · 2d

FINALLY, after -Y E A R S- of farming this.

I will never do Siege of Orgrimmar again. Never.

Alkorin 🇨🇦 🫎 🎸 @alkori.net · 4d

I'M OFF WORK FOR 2 WEEKS OMG

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Alkorin 🇨🇦 🫎 🎸 @alkori.net · 5d

Canceled my trip next week to TwitchCon in the US. Part of me still wants to go, but after talking with my wife, we decided that this is for the best. Too much uncertainty, too much craziness, and my family comes first.

Folks who are going from outside the US, please be safe, and stay mindful.

Alkorin 🇨🇦 🫎 🎸 @alkori.net · 6d

As if to mock me, the "enterprise" NVMe drive with ALL my games on it died sometime between last night and whenever I got home from work today.

That's all my Clone Hero songs, all my Rocksmith charts, all my game UI files gone.

I can't catch a damn break these days, I swear it.

Alkorin 🇨🇦 🫎 🎸 @alkori.net · 8d

If it ain't one thing, it's another. They just can't seem to behave for long, can they?

Guess I better dust off the ol' Mastodon account, then.

Alkorin 🇨🇦 🫎 🎸 @alkori.net · 8d

I haven't logged in over there in... a very long time. Is there an uptake in interest in Mastodon again for some reason? I always found it next to impossible to discover anything over there, so I didn't bother trying to integrate much.

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 8d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
, just so
other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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Alkorin 🇨🇦 🫎 🎸 @alkori.net · 8d

Rush is touring again.

RUSH IS TOURING AGAIN!

I neeeeeed to get tickets.

Alkorin 🇨🇦 🫎 🎸 @alkori.net · 11d

Specifically captured for @tatsuyainc.bsky.social ~

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Alkorin 🇨🇦 🫎 🎸 @alkori.net · 13d

Amorphis, Borderland, released last week.

Listening on repeat. Particular favourites: The Circle, Dancing Shadow, The Strange.

Honestly, these guys can do no wrong.

Alkorin 🇨🇦 🫎 🎸 @alkori.net · 17d

Expensive day. My CPU finally died (original 13900K, it was just a matter of time), so I replaced it with a (hopefully post-microcode-update) new 14900K. Ugh.

Alkorin 🇨🇦 🫎 🎸 @alkori.net · Sep 4

It's barely even a challenge anymore. Running out of things I can do on my own that actually make me pay attention. lol.

Alkorin 🇨🇦 🫎 🎸 @alkori.net · Sep 2

Well, after YEARS of farming... there's one down. Not the one I wanted, but it's a good start.

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Tatsuya_inc @tatsuyainc.bsky.social · Sep 2

TFT shenanigans!!! AWKIE/TATTY TUESDAY!! #bg3 #baldursgate3 #tft #teamfighttactics #roguepartner #chronicillness #bestfriends #crazy #chill #love #chaos #rage #cozy #fishing #fanaticalaffiliate #razeraffiliate #twitchpartner Twitch.tv/tatsuya_inc @@dragons-nest.bsky.social

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Alkorin 🇨🇦 🫎 🎸 @alkori.net · Aug 31

Whew. Back home. Took a trip this weekend with my 3 favourite people and my 1 favourite doggo to go visit family in London, ON. That's a heck of a long drive with 3 people and a doggo, no matter how much I may love them.

Hope everyone is having a great (long, for most) weekend!

Alkorin 🇨🇦 🫎 🎸 @alkori.net · Aug 26

Another week, another 14 tries, still no Kor'kron Juggernaut or Tusks of Mannoroth.

The streak continues... I've lost count. Too many tries over too many years. It's thousands of attempts now.

Alkorin 🇨🇦 🫎 🎸 @alkori.net · Aug 23

When I die, I'm gonna get "Brann Bronzebeard yells 'Don't stand there!' on my tombstone. Oh, the people I'll trigger...

Alkorin 🇨🇦 🫎 🎸 @alkori.net · Aug 21

How do people stream with ultrawide monitors without making everything look tiny and horrible? I just got a new monitor (5120x1440) and I can already tell that this is going to be a pain in the ass on Twitch.

Alkorin 🇨🇦 🫎 🎸 @alkori.net · Aug 21

Yes. Always punch the hell out of Nazis.

Alkorin 🇨🇦 🫎 🎸 @alkori.net · Aug 21

This is 110% awesome and should be everywhere.

Dr. Jeremy Swist @metalclassicist.bsky.social · Aug 18

AI policy I'm putting in my Fall syllabi. Feel free to adopt & adapt it.

AI Policy 🤖

Generative AI is any artificial intelligence software, such as ChatGPT, that is used to generate ideas and content that are not one’s own. Beyond alarming environmental impacts, these programs operate by stealing the art and writing of others, and are on that basis unethical. Such programs prevent, and discourage, the development of human beings both into free and critical thinkers and into proficient and creative writers and communicators.

Therefore, the use of these programs to assist in any way with any assignments in this course constitutes a violation of academic integrity and is therefore strictly forbidden.

First offense = zero for the assignment
Second offense = failure for the course

If you are ever tempted to use AI because you ran out of time and energy to finish an
assignment on time, just email me for an extension!

Alkorin 🇨🇦 🫎 🎸 @alkori.net · Aug 16

HOLY SHIT SO THAT'S WHERE THIS ALL STARTED AHHHH

(I'm soloing Ny'alotha right now)

Alkorin 🇨🇦 🫎 🎸 @alkori.net · Aug 16

Okay, that... was not easy at all. And her hard mode makes everything SO MUCH FASTER, oh my god.

Alkorin 🇨🇦 🫎 🎸 @alkori.net · Aug 15

AI moderation at its best.