Caffeinated Otter
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Author of short and episodic fiction: fantasy, SF, smut — http://brain-implant.tech/writing/ he/him
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Do y'all get that the only way out is through, yet?
Nothing is going to get better unless there's a whole lot of unspeakable violence directed at Certain Structures
Nothing is going to get better unless there's a whole lot of unspeakable violence directed at Certain Structures
December 3, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Do y'all get that the only way out is through, yet?
Nothing is going to get better unless there's a whole lot of unspeakable violence directed at Certain Structures
Nothing is going to get better unless there's a whole lot of unspeakable violence directed at Certain Structures
All I'm saying is, y'know, Steam wouldn't sell it, Epic said they would and then went "nuh-uh" 24 hours before launch, Humble yanked it *after* launch — if you want a copy of that videogame, it's on Itch *now,* but Itch has preexisting "fold here" origami lines for Mastercard to lean on,
December 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
All I'm saying is, y'know, Steam wouldn't sell it, Epic said they would and then went "nuh-uh" 24 hours before launch, Humble yanked it *after* launch — if you want a copy of that videogame, it's on Itch *now,* but Itch has preexisting "fold here" origami lines for Mastercard to lean on,
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you die on the hill of defending controversial art, porn, and unpopular speech. if you wait for an easier hill to die on your opponents will have consolidated that much more power, established that much more precedent that their authority to censor anything they want is the norm.
December 3, 2025 at 6:47 PM
you die on the hill of defending controversial art, porn, and unpopular speech. if you wait for an easier hill to die on your opponents will have consolidated that much more power, established that much more precedent that their authority to censor anything they want is the norm.
I think there's no better illustration that fandom is a relationship to capital — an absurd relationship of willing parasocial submission to capital — than the notion of "comic book canon".
December 3, 2025 at 6:23 PM
I think there's no better illustration that fandom is a relationship to capital — an absurd relationship of willing parasocial submission to capital — than the notion of "comic book canon".
"we haven't seen you at DriveThruRPG in a while!"
yeah, that's because you're shit
yeah, that's because you're shit
December 3, 2025 at 6:08 PM
"we haven't seen you at DriveThruRPG in a while!"
yeah, that's because you're shit
yeah, that's because you're shit
Now, either a wave of videogame storefronts are refusing to sell a title because they're a flock of easily-spooked sheep, or—say it with me—Mastercard are threatening them behind the scenes and, as previously established, they're all too scared of being debanked to refuse *or* point the finger
December 3, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Now, either a wave of videogame storefronts are refusing to sell a title because they're a flock of easily-spooked sheep, or—say it with me—Mastercard are threatening them behind the scenes and, as previously established, they're all too scared of being debanked to refuse *or* point the finger
I have nearly finished Q3 of 14 on this paperwork, but of course it's disability paperwork from the British government, so all of them are "write a mandatory essay detailing your LIES which we'll use to cut off all income and maybe throw you in jail if we feel like it, you subhuman drain on society"
December 3, 2025 at 5:13 PM
I have nearly finished Q3 of 14 on this paperwork, but of course it's disability paperwork from the British government, so all of them are "write a mandatory essay detailing your LIES which we'll use to cut off all income and maybe throw you in jail if we feel like it, you subhuman drain on society"
I am filling out paperwork for the DWP and I kinda want to die instead
So the system is working as intended,
So the system is working as intended,
December 3, 2025 at 3:49 PM
I am filling out paperwork for the DWP and I kinda want to die instead
So the system is working as intended,
So the system is working as intended,
Basically every mainstream conversation about media consumption founders on the fact that the loudest voice, and the one listened to by the handful of corporate entities with total power over what gets made,
December 3, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Basically every mainstream conversation about media consumption founders on the fact that the loudest voice, and the one listened to by the handful of corporate entities with total power over what gets made,
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Been having real good discussion about this off-site, wanted to hit a Lap 2 and mention some observations I made on my tumblr earlier today as a sort of amendment to an ask I received talking about this subject (both shown here in a single post so I don't clog up the TL with a thread)
December 3, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Been having real good discussion about this off-site, wanted to hit a Lap 2 and mention some observations I made on my tumblr earlier today as a sort of amendment to an ask I received talking about this subject (both shown here in a single post so I don't clog up the TL with a thread)
Wishing every piece of software using GTK a sincerely sympathetic "wow, you're gonna have to redesign your entire app every time the GNOME desktop people smoke enough weed and start going Have You Ever Really, Like, THOUGHT About Converged Phone UI, Maaaaan"
You have to understand that one source of the terrible experience of using open source software is because the devs are constantly dealing with shit like Oops! The User Interface Toolkit You Innocently Used Has Decided Buttons Are Ideologically Suspect And Removed Them As A Feature
December 3, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Wishing every piece of software using GTK a sincerely sympathetic "wow, you're gonna have to redesign your entire app every time the GNOME desktop people smoke enough weed and start going Have You Ever Really, Like, THOUGHT About Converged Phone UI, Maaaaan"
When I say "modern": this is a game that launched in, I think, 2015? And targeted Ubuntu as its "look, we need a fixed point in this sea of chaos" Supported Linux Platform.
The system it wouldn't run on was Ubuntu circa, iirc, 2020.
The system it wouldn't run on was Ubuntu circa, iirc, 2020.
My favourite illustrative story about Simply providing linux binaries is the game Victor Vran, which *did.*
You can't run them on a modern system.
You can't run them on a modern system.
December 3, 2025 at 12:49 PM
When I say "modern": this is a game that launched in, I think, 2015? And targeted Ubuntu as its "look, we need a fixed point in this sea of chaos" Supported Linux Platform.
The system it wouldn't run on was Ubuntu circa, iirc, 2020.
The system it wouldn't run on was Ubuntu circa, iirc, 2020.
Oh wow, there's a bit of history I didn't know: so many labour songs are set to the tune of hymns because the fucking Sally Army would turn up to disrupt union organising by playing loudly to drown them out
As always, fuck the Salvation Army
As always, fuck the Salvation Army
December 3, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Oh wow, there's a bit of history I didn't know: so many labour songs are set to the tune of hymns because the fucking Sally Army would turn up to disrupt union organising by playing loudly to drown them out
As always, fuck the Salvation Army
As always, fuck the Salvation Army
"Steam's Proton wouldn't even need to be a thing if not for lazydevs, who Simply need to build linux binaries!!!!"
Ah, a Gamer with an Opinion. Truly the world's infallible authority on what developers could Simply Do
Ah, a Gamer with an Opinion. Truly the world's infallible authority on what developers could Simply Do
December 3, 2025 at 12:21 PM
"Steam's Proton wouldn't even need to be a thing if not for lazydevs, who Simply need to build linux binaries!!!!"
Ah, a Gamer with an Opinion. Truly the world's infallible authority on what developers could Simply Do
Ah, a Gamer with an Opinion. Truly the world's infallible authority on what developers could Simply Do
Sincerely considering writing to be a craft skill leads me to have very strong and possibly unhinged opinions, like "the fanfic subcultures which centre works featuring the textual device 'Y/N' are moral voids which produce anti-writing"
December 3, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Sincerely considering writing to be a craft skill leads me to have very strong and possibly unhinged opinions, like "the fanfic subcultures which centre works featuring the textual device 'Y/N' are moral voids which produce anti-writing"
I know the aggressively non-interoperable silos of the corporate internet have spawned whole cottage industries of "you made this? I made this :3" screenshots-of-funny-posts-on-other-sites Guys,
December 3, 2025 at 12:49 AM
I know the aggressively non-interoperable silos of the corporate internet have spawned whole cottage industries of "you made this? I made this :3" screenshots-of-funny-posts-on-other-sites Guys,
My timeline is spackled with people dunking on some centrist fuck chin-stroking "oh of *course* we should support disabled people But, not at the expense of what if hypothetically people were only pretending to need help?" and y'all are being kind.
That's Nazi talk.
That's Nazi talk.
December 2, 2025 at 10:18 PM
My timeline is spackled with people dunking on some centrist fuck chin-stroking "oh of *course* we should support disabled people But, not at the expense of what if hypothetically people were only pretending to need help?" and y'all are being kind.
That's Nazi talk.
That's Nazi talk.
Torment
Drew is having regrets about vampirism, to be honest.
brain-implant.tech
December 2, 2025 at 9:13 PM
If you thought this was going to be a situation where you had to hand it to fucking *Epic Games,* I don't know what to tell you
December 2, 2025 at 6:09 PM
If you thought this was going to be a situation where you had to hand it to fucking *Epic Games,* I don't know what to tell you
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Yesterday, the Epic Games Store decided at the last minute not to distribute the game, after having previously approved a release build. HORSES is otherwise now available on GOG, Itch, and Humble for $4.99. www.horses.wtf
December 2, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Yesterday, the Epic Games Store decided at the last minute not to distribute the game, after having previously approved a release build. HORSES is otherwise now available on GOG, Itch, and Humble for $4.99. www.horses.wtf
Dot Quixote
yes dorothy your laser cannon is very impressive, now please stop destroying the town's beautiful windmills
December 2, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Dot Quixote
"It's been invented, so it has to exist and you have to use it" lies class of guy actively killing off swathes of working tech in order to strongarm you into using genAI
December 2, 2025 at 1:24 PM
"It's been invented, so it has to exist and you have to use it" lies class of guy actively killing off swathes of working tech in order to strongarm you into using genAI
Oh, that? Yeah, picked it up at a flea market. Wood needed reconditioning, but at least it saves it from fucking upcyclers throwing a goddamn paint wash on it, right?
Yeah, must have been a witch's, you know—
Oh, because of the noises it makes when you take the knives out. Or, uh, put 'em back in
Yeah, must have been a witch's, you know—
Oh, because of the noises it makes when you take the knives out. Or, uh, put 'em back in
knife-block doll, doll you store knives in
December 1, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Oh, that? Yeah, picked it up at a flea market. Wood needed reconditioning, but at least it saves it from fucking upcyclers throwing a goddamn paint wash on it, right?
Yeah, must have been a witch's, you know—
Oh, because of the noises it makes when you take the knives out. Or, uh, put 'em back in
Yeah, must have been a witch's, you know—
Oh, because of the noises it makes when you take the knives out. Or, uh, put 'em back in
We're a few years, at most, away from being able to do "I remember firsthand the window of human history *after* the invention of the search engine and *before* the companies that ran them deliberately destroyed them over an investor-scamming fad for replacing working things with SEO spambots"
December 1, 2025 at 6:46 PM
We're a few years, at most, away from being able to do "I remember firsthand the window of human history *after* the invention of the search engine and *before* the companies that ran them deliberately destroyed them over an investor-scamming fad for replacing working things with SEO spambots"